Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
  • Patent number: 11923739
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dillon J. Thomasson, Kan Zhou, Rui Guan, Yateendra B. Deshpande, William M. Price
  • Patent number: 11913421
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Pengcheng Jiao, Ali Matin Nazar, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 11916446
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor assembly having an outer surface and including a plurality of poles with permanent magnets. A solid layer is formed on the outer surface of the rotor assembly and has an outer surface with a first coefficient of friction that is lower than a second coefficient of friction of the outer surface of the rotor assembly. The rotor includes an outer sleeve. The rotor assembly is press-fit into the outer sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Michael Coppola, Alireza Fatemi, Derek Frei Lahr, Kestutis A. Sonta, Alan G. Holmes
  • Patent number: 11916437
    Abstract: In an IPM rotor, a first core sheet has a first sheet hole forming a part of an accommodation hole. The first sheet hole has an edge portion having a flat spring portion which is bent by a magnet through insertion of the magnet into the accommodation hole. A pair of recesses forming a clearance with respect to the magnet are formed at both side portions of the flat spring portion of the edge portion of the first sheet hole. A size of the clearance is set based on a relationship between a magnitude of a pressing force of the flat spring portion on the magnet and variation in pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Okazaki, Natsumi Sugi, Yu Hirotani, Akihiko Mori, Satoru Akutsu
  • Patent number: 11916442
    Abstract: A rotor may be provided with a rotor core that is fixed to a shaft and includes a plurality of through holes along an axial direction of the shaft. The rotor may be provided with a permanent magnet disposed in each of the plurality of through holes. The rotor may be provided with a functional fluid having a magneto rheological effect of fixing the permanent magnet in each of the plurality of through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Takei, Hiroshi Kimura, Atsushi Kubota
  • Patent number: 11916452
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Torsten Müller, Harald Müller
  • Patent number: 11901782
    Abstract: A magnetically active unit of an electric machine with at least two poles includes a laminated core with slots, and at least one winding for each of the phases. The windings have an electric conductor which forms coil groups in the slots. The coils of the coil groups are formed with at least two sections of the electric conductors of at least one of the windings and are arranged so as to be electrically insulated from each other in the grooves. At least one first coil group of the coil groups of one of the windings has a first number of coils which deviates from a second number of coils of a second coil group of the coil groups of the same winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Robin Brenner, Dominik Kohlmeier, Manuel Oberneder, Norbert Schönbauer, Karl-Heinz Senninger
  • Patent number: 11901772
    Abstract: A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine has interpole bridges each disposed on an outer circumferential side with respect to a permanent magnet in a non-magnetic portion between the poles, and interpole diameter bridges each surrounded by two permanent magnets and an interpole bridge. The outer circumferential surface of each interpole bridge is formed by a first flat surface. Thus, a path of a magnetic flux passing through a magnetic gap is lengthened, so that a q-axis inductance is reduced. In addition, a width in a radial direction of each interpole bridge and a width in a circumferential direction of each interpole diameter bridge are constant, and each interpole bridge and each interpole diameter bridge are disposed so as to be perpendicular to each other to form a T shape. Thus, the concentration of stress during press-fitting of the permanent magnet into a magnet hole can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai Okazaki, Kenta Motoyoshi, Yuji Takizawa, Hiroko Ikeda, Hidenori Sasaki, Yu Hirotani, Satoru Akutsu, Masafumi Okazaki, Natsumi Sugi
  • Patent number: 11901784
    Abstract: Provided is a stator coil, including: a coil conductor; a first insulating layer in which a first mica tape is wound and laminated around an outer periphery of the coil conductor; and a second insulating layer in which a second mica tape is wound and laminated around an outer periphery of the first insulating layer, wherein the first mica tape contains mica in a specific content, wherein 60 mass % or more of the mica contained in the first mica tape passes through a JIS standard sieve having a nominal opening of 250 ?m, wherein the first mica tape has a specific lamination thickness, and wherein 40 mass % or less of mica contained in the second mica tape passes through the JIS standard sieve having a nominal opening of 250 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Mabuchi, Xiaohong Yin, Tsubasa Mori, Makoto Tsukiji
  • Patent number: 11901773
    Abstract: This axial gap motor includes: a stator; and a rotor provided so as to be opposed to the stator in an axial direction. The rotor includes an annular rotor yoke, and a plurality of magnets provided to contact one surface of the rotor yoke so as to be arranged at predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction with magnetic poles thereof being different alternately. The one surface includes a plurality of facing areas facing and contacting the plurality of magnets, and a non-facing area not facing the plurality of magnets. The non-facing area includes partial areas each located between a pair of the facing areas adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction among the plurality of facing areas. The partial areas are formed to be recesses recessed in the axial direction relative to the facing areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nakamura, Tomoyuki Ueno, Tatsuya Saito
  • Patent number: 11901783
    Abstract: In a method for producing a winding overhang assembly for an electrical rotating machine, an insulating main body is produced at least partly from a dielectric material. Each of a plurality of conductors of a metal material is connected to the insulating main body via an intermediate layer, which is produced from a material which is different from the dielectric material of the insulating main body and from the metal material of the conductors and which is produced from silver, aluminum, antimony, magnesium, tin, zinc, lead, tantalum or from a mixture and/or from at least one alloy thereof. The conductors are hereby sprayed onto the intermediate layer by a thermal spraying method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Innomotics GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Brach, Jens Dahl Jensen, Horst Kümmlee, Hartmut Rauch, Olaf Rehme, Jakob Schneck, Frank Seibicke, Oliver Stier, Mark Tobias Zegenhagen
  • Patent number: 11901787
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator has a coil end. The coil end has a plurality of lead wires. The plurality of lead wires have an inner lead wire with respect to the radial direction RD and an outer lead wire outside the inner lead wire with respect to the radial direction RD. The rotary electric machine includes a plurality of connection members. The inner lead wire and the outer lead wire are electrically and mechanically connected to the plurality of connection members. The plurality of connection members provide a heat transfer path from the inner lead wire. The inner lead wire and the outer lead wire demonstrate different vibration characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mai Goto, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Shigenori Yoneda
  • Patent number: 11894727
    Abstract: A rotor of the present invention includes a rotor core in which a shaft through-hole and a magnet insertion hole that form a plurality of layers in a radial direction toward a central axis of the shaft through-hole are formed, and a magnet press-fitted into the magnet insertion hole, and the rotor core includes a reinforcement part between the shaft through-hole and a first magnet insertion hole disposed on outermost side in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kubota, Teppei Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11888365
    Abstract: The conductor bar for a squirrel-cage rotor comprises at least one end which is partially slit such that a section of the end forms two symmetrical branches relative to the slit. The centre of gravity of each branch is arranged such that the branches flare towards the outside of the bar under the effect of centrifugal force when the rotor is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited
    Inventor: Christophe Galmiche
  • Patent number: 11888370
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having a plurality of slots in a circumferential direction about an axis and having an end surface in a direction of the axis, and a first coil and a second coil of different phases which are wound on the stator core in distributed winding. A winding factor is 1. Each of the first coil and the second coil has winding portions, the number of which corresponds to the number of poles. The winding portions include first and second winding portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first and second winding portions are inserted into one slot of the plurality of slots and extend from the one slot to both sides in the circumferential direction on the end surface. The first and second coils are annularly disposed in different positions in a radial direction about the axis on the end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuoka, Koji Yabe, Toshio Arai
  • Patent number: 11888354
    Abstract: A saturation portion which is magnetically saturated during no-load operation of the rotary electric machine is formed in the rotor core at a position facing at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the permanent magnet when viewed in the axial direction. When viewed in the axial direction, the saturation portion includes at least one core protrusion firmed between the wall portion of the magnet accommodating hole and at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the permanent magnet such that a part of the rotor core extends in a direction intersecting the first main surface or the second main surface, and at least one nonmagnetic portion formed between the wall portion of the magnet accommodating hole and at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kubota, Masashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11888369
    Abstract: A magnetic pole module and a rotor for a permanent magnet generator are provided. The magnetic pole module includes a base plate having a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to each other, the base plate has a first center line extending in the first direction and a second center line extending in the second direction, the first direction is intersected with the second direction, the first center line is parallel to the central axis of the permanent magnet generator; at least one pair of magnetic steel components is fixed on the base plate, and each pair of magnetic steel components is symmetrically arranged on the first surface with respect to the second center line, each magnetic steel component includes multiple magnetic steels arranged side by side along a side of the first direction from the second center line and arranged at a predetermined angle in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Peng, Yanhui Li, Bin Lan
  • Patent number: 11881746
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a rotor and a motor having the rotor. By providing a plurality of flux barrier groups and slot groups at intervals in a circumferential direction of the rotor iron core, it is possible to flexibly arrange the numbers of the flux barrier groups and the slot groups so as to meet the requirements for the number of poles of different products. In addition, by flexibly adjusting the quantity ratio between the flux barrier groups and the slot groups and/or the quantity relationship between the flux barriers in the flux barrier group and the slots in the slot group, it is possible to meet the requirements for motor efficiency and starting capacity of different products. Further, since the processing jig of the rotor only requires processing of the structures of the flux barriers and the slots, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsin-Nan Lin, Sheng-Chan Yen, Ta-Yin Luo, Guo-Jhih Yan, Yu-Wei Hsu, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Patent number: 11881747
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor configured to rotate about a central axis extending in an up-down direction, a stator located radially outside the rotor, a bracket located above the stator, a circuit board held by the bracket and disposed along a plane perpendicular to an axial direction, and a bus bar held by the bracket and connected to the circuit board at a terminal connection portion. The bracket includes a board support portion supporting the circuit board from below, and a wall portion protruding upward to be higher than the board support portion and surrounding the circuit board. The wall portion has a cutout portion extending downward from an upper end of the wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Yamaguchi, Takayuki Makino, Keigo Nakamura, Hisashi Fujihara
  • Patent number: 11881757
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing cooling to an electric motor via direct spray cooling. In one example, a system may include a shaft including an oil conduit extending axially therein and a plurality of openings fluidically coupling the oil conduit to an external surface of the shaft; a rotor positioned coaxial with the shaft, an inner diameter of the rotor greater than an outer diameter of the shaft; and a gas-filled chamber bounded by an inner surface of the rotor and the external surface of the shaft, the gas filled chamber fluidically coupled to the oil conduit via the plurality of openings, and a pressure of a gas in the gas-filled chamber lower than a pressure of oil in the oil conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.
    Inventor: Louis Lambourg