Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
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Patent number: 11967878Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling channel for a winding head of an electric machine, where the cooling channel is formed to be annular for guiding a cooling fluid with at least one inflow and at least one outflow and for being arranged around the winding head With the aim of an improved sealing property, the cooling channel comprises an axially movable pressing member which is arranged such that a cooling fluid can flow onto the pressing member and a pressing force against the cooling channel can be generated.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: JHEECO E-DRIVE AGInventors: Andreas Iwaschtschenko, Martin Stöck
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Patent number: 11967876Abstract: An industrial heavy load electric linear actuator includes a gearbox (10), an electric motor (20), a lead screw (30), an extension pipe (40) and a load baring structure (50). The electric motor (20) is connected to the gearbox (10). A portion of the lead screw (30) is received inside the gearbox (10) and driven by the electric motor (20), and another portion of the lead screw (30) is extended out of the gearbox (10). The extension pipe (40) is movably fastened to the lead screw (30). The load bearing structure (50) includes a sleeve (51), a bearing (52), a fastening element (53), a fixation seat (54) and a rear supporting seat (55). The sleeve (51) is mounted to the lead screw (30) and holds the bearing (52) jointly with the fastening element (53). The fixation seat (54) and the rear supporting seat (55) hold the bearing (52) at outer perimeters of the sleeve (51) and the fastening element (53).Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 11962228Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11958948Abstract: A rotary member rotatable along a circumferential direction includes: carbon fibers wound in the circumferential direction; a matrix resin in which the carbon fibers are embedded; and a structure which includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes having a bent shape with a bent portion, forms a network structure including a contact portion where the carbon nanotubes are in direct contact with each other, and is provided on surfaces of the carbon fibers.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NITTA CORPORATIONInventors: Takuji Komukai, Maki Onizuka
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Patent number: 11962184Abstract: In the production of a non-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a steel slab having a certain component composition to a hot rolling, a hot-band annealing, a cold rolling and a finish annealing, the conditions of the finish annealing are controlled such that a yield stress of the steel sheet after the finish annealing is not less than 480 MPa. Also, when a motor core is produced by using the above steel sheet, there can be provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet capable of producing a rotor core and a stator core as the same raw material where the stator core is subjected to a stress relief annealing at a soaking temperature of 780 to 950° C. in an atmosphere having a nitrogen content of not more than 30 vol % and a dew point of not higher than ?20° C., while a motor core is produced with such a steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Zaizen, Yoshihiko Oda, Tomoyuki Okubo, Takaaki Tanaka, Yukino Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11962195Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present disclosure provides a rotary electric machine including: a rotor; and a concentrated winding stator arranged coaxially to the rotor, in which the number of teeth of the concentrated winding stator is set to be a value where an integer which is multiple of 3 between adjacent prime numbers in a prime number sequence is multiplied by 2 and the number of poles of the rotor is set to be a value where any prime number between the adjacent prime numbers is multiplied by 2.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11962199Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a cylindrical rotor core, a connector, magnets and a cover. The shaft extends along a central axis. The rotor core surrounds the shaft. The connector is provided radially inside the rotor core and connects the rotor core and the shaft. The magnets are provided radially outside the rotor core along a circumferential direction. The cover is provided radially outside the magnets. The connector includes a cylindrical body surrounding the shaft and a flange. The flange extends radially outward from one axial end of the body and faces the magnets in the axial direction. The cover includes a peripheral surface and an eave. The peripheral surface faces the magnets in a radial direction. The eave extends radially inward from an other axial end of the peripheral surface and faces the magnets in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Ueda, Toshiyuki Sasaki
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Patent number: 11955842Abstract: A permanent magnet machine includes a machine housing having an inner surface that extends between a first housing end and a second housing end along a central longitudinal axis. The permanent magnet machine also includes a stator disposed within the machine housing, the stator having a stator core having an exterior surface extending between a first face and a second face along the central longitudinal axis, wherein the exterior surface defines a discontinuous region that is arranged to minimize points of contact between the inner surface and the exterior surface. The discontinuous region is at least partially defined by at least one of a first perturbation and a second perturbation that is circumferentially spaced apart from the first perturbation.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, University of AkronInventors: Kenneth Webber, Delynn Streng, Iftekhar Hasan, Yilmaz Sozer, Alejandro J. Pina Ortega, Jeffrey T. Klass, Mohammed R. Islam
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Patent number: 11949292Abstract: A rotor including a magnet and a rotor core. The magnet includes a pair of shoulders and a housing hole configured to house the magnet such that the pair of shoulders are arranged in a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes an inner core, a pair of supporters, and a covering portion. The inner core is located radially inward of the housing hole. The pair of supporters is located radially outward of the inner core and arranged in the circumferential direction through the housing hole. The covering portion connects between the pair of supporters. The supporters are configured to support the magnet by holding the pair of shoulders. The covering portion is configured to cover the magnet from radially outside of the magnet and has a thin portion connected to at least the pair of supporters.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11949303Abstract: An object of the present invention is to efficiently cool a rotor coil even in a rotor provided with a wire connection plate. A stator of a rotating electric machine includes a stator core, a plurality of segment coils protruding from slots of the stator core and arranged in a radial direction, a connection conductor that connects the segment coils, and an insulating member that holds the connection conductor. The insulating member includes a through hole through which the segment coil penetrates and is accommodated. An opening through which a coolant can flow into the through hole is provided on an inner peripheral side of the insulating member.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Hiromitsu Okamoto, Satoshi Yamamura, Tomohiro Adachi
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Patent number: 11942844Abstract: A tooth-wound coil of a stator or of a stator segment of a dynamo-electric machine having two straight sections spaced apart from each other and running substantially parallel. Two 180° curves are located on the ends thereof, wherein the straight sections have an active part area, the axial extend of which is less than or equal to that of the straight section. The tooth-wound coil has a symmetrical extension plane running in the longitudinal direction. An insulation material is provided around the straight sections of the tooth-wound coil. The material effects groove isolation and/or phase isolation in the stator or stator segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Kevin Bodensiek, Robin Brenner, Klaus Schäfer, Norbert Schönbauer, Michael Weger
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Patent number: 11942833Abstract: An intelligent power generation module includes a motor having a motor housing; a cooling water flow path; a first oil flow path extending along a circumferential direction of the motor housing such that oil flows through one end portion of the motor housing; a plurality of first injection nozzles being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the first oil flow path and configured to inject the oil into the motor housing; an oil injection housing mounted at the other end portion of the motor housing; a second oil flow path formed along a circumferential direction of the oil injection housing such that oil flows inside the housing for oil injection; and a plurality of second injection nozzles being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the second oil flow path and configured to inject the oil into the motor housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., Ltd., AVL SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONS GMBHInventors: Hanbyul Kang, Kyunghoon Lee, Robert Poschl, Gernot Fuckar, Markus Preuss, Florian Bodensteiner, Deukhyun Hwang
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Patent number: 11932111Abstract: A rectifier and a vehicle AC generator that can suppress the cost, the rectification loss, and the leakage current from increasing are provided. A rectifier is configured in such a way that in each of n sets, one of a positive electrode side semiconductor device and a negative electrode side semiconductor device is a MOSFET, in such a way that in at least one of the n sets, the other one of the positive electrode side semiconductor device and the negative electrode side semiconductor device is a specific diode, and in such a way that the specific diode is a Schottky barrier diode or a MOS diode, which is a MOSFET whose drain terminal and gate terminal are short-circuited.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Minami, Katsuya Tsujimoto, Keiichi Komurasaki, Shingo Inoue
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Patent number: 11936247Abstract: A rotor of the present invention includes a rotor core, and a magnet press-fitted into a magnet insertion hole provided in the rotor core, the magnet has a hard magnetic body and a resin layer that is laminated on the hard magnetic body, that is disposed on an outward side of the rotor core in a radial direction and that includes a soft magnetic body, and the resin layer has a groove portion extending in a direction crossing an insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kubota, Tadanobu Takahashi
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Patent number: 11936245Abstract: An embodiment relates to a motor comprising: a shaft; a rotor connected to the shaft; and a stator disposed outside the rotor, wherein the rotor includes N rotor cores, and the number of holes formed through each of the N rotor cores is at least 2N. Accordingly, the motor allows the rotor to have a skew angle by using the multiple holes formed through the rotor cores.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Jung Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 11936259Abstract: A food processor and an electric motor for a food processor. The electric motor includes: a stator core having a ring-shaped stator yoke and a plurality of stator teeth provided at an inner peripheral face of the stator yoke, two adjacent stator teeth defining a stator slot there between, the plurality of the stator teeth defining a stator hole coaxial with the stator yoke, and an outer contour of a radial section of the stator yoke being substantially circular and having a maximum radial dimension D; and a rotor core rotatably provided in the stator hole and coaxial with the stator hole, the rotor core having a maximum radial dimension d, in which 0.4?d/D?0.55.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA CONSUMER ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiantang Liang, Liancheng Chen, Congshan Pang, Zhifeng Wang, Lei Xiao, Zhenfeng Yang
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Patent number: 11923749Abstract: A casing (10) is divided into a cylindrical first case portion (51) integrally having a partition part (54), a second case portion (52) connected to one end of the first case portion in an axial direction and configured to cover a second space (S2), and a third case portion (53) connected to the other end of the first case portion in the axial direction and configured to cover a first space (S1). A signal cable passed through a through hole (54c) of the partition part extends from a sensor (72, 73) to an external connector (81) provided in the second case portion or the third case portion, and is anchored to the first case portion (51) in the vicinity of a through hole (54c) of the partition part.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Aiko Myouki, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Shinya Taikou, Shiro Tamura, Naoya Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11923739Abstract: An electric motor includes an end turn ring and a cooling structure that is in a thermally conductive relationship with the end turn ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Dillon J. Thomasson, Kan Zhou, Rui Guan, Yateendra B. Deshpande, William M. Price
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Patent number: 11913421Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of energy harvesting, and in particular relates to an ocean wave energy collector based on magnetic force and triboelectric effect. The ocean wave energy collector includes a plurality of protective shells connected by flexible metal spring modules; a magnetic oscillation system is installed in each protective shell in a matched mode and includes an electric energy output module and a plurality of magnetic oscillators, and each magnetic oscillator includes a first supporting body, a dielectric capsule, first magnet units, second magnet units, a supporting shell, and an electrode unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Pengcheng Jiao, Ali Matin Nazar, Yang Yang
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Patent number: 11916452Abstract: A stator winding system for a stator of an electric machine is provided. The stator has a number of windings to be positioned on stator teeth of the stator. At least two windings that follow one another in a current flow direction of an electric current and are thus arranged in series are formed from an electric conductor that is continuous in the current flow direction, forming a winding chain.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KGInventors: Torsten Müller, Harald Müller