Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
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Patent number: 11791682Abstract: A permanent magnet carrier, which could be a rotor or stator of an electric machine, includes a first non-magnetic ring and a second non-magnetic ring. Between the rings are soft magnetic pole elements. The soft magnetic pole elements each connect to the first and second non-magnetic rings and the soft magnetic pole elements are separated from each other by the first and second non-magnetic rings. Permanent magnets are disposed between the soft magnetic pole elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GENESIS MOTION SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: James Klassen, Damian Spasov, Bradley Pope, Jason Kum
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Patent number: 11791677Abstract: A rotor stack for connection to a shaft of a rotary electric machine includes a series of platters each centered about a centerline and including an opening for receiving the shaft such that the platters are stacked along the shaft. Passages extend through the platter and are arranged about the centerline. Permanent magnets are positioned in the passages. Hubs associated with the platters mechanically connect each of the platters to the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: LC Advanced Motor Technology CorporationInventors: Russel Hugh Marvin, Matthew Honickman, Dylan Broomfield
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Patent number: 11791676Abstract: A permanent magnet motor comprises: a rotor assembly configured to be rotatable relative to a stator, wherein the rotor assembly defines magnet pockets, a segmented permanent magnet comprising a plurality of magnet segments, which include one or more magnet segments of the segmented permanent magnet have different magnetic material from another or other magnet segments of the segmented permanent magnet, is disposed in each of the magnet pockets of the rotor assembly. The segmented permanent magnet is segmented in a circumferential direction. The one or more magnet segments of the segmented permanent magnet comprises magnetic material having higher coercivity, or operable at a higher temperature, than the another or other magnet segments of the segmented permanent magnet. The one or more magnet segments of the segmented permanent magnet comprise rare earth permanent magnet, high energy density magnet, samarium cobalt (Sm—Co) magnet or neodymium iron boron (Nd—Fe—B) magnet.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: Md Sariful Islam, Mohammad Islam
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Patent number: 11784520Abstract: A rotor structure of a synchronous motor includes: a stator; and a rotatable rotor on the inner side of the stator, in which the rotor includes: a rotor core fixed to a rotary shaft; and a permanent magnet on the outer side of the rotor core, the permanent magnet on the outer side of the rotor core includes a main magnet and an auxiliary magnet, the auxiliary magnet is provided in contact with the outer side of the rotor core, and the main magnet is provided in contact with the outer side of the auxiliary magnet.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Horiuchi, Keisuke Nagata
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Patent number: 11784524Abstract: A rotor includes an axially extending in an axial direction, a rotor core including a central hole through which the shaft passes and accommodation holes radially outside the central hole, and magnets accommodated in the accommodation holes. The accommodation holes include a pair of accommodation holes extends in a direction away from each other in a circumferential direction from a radially inside toward a radially outside when viewed in the axial direction. The magnets include a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The rotor core includes through-holes made at intervals in the circumferential direction, and is configured by laminating plates. The through-holes are located radially outside the central hole and radially inside the accommodation hole. The stacked plates are fixed to each other by a caulking portion in which a portion of the plate is caulked.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11784521Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including a pair of accommodation holes, and a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The pair of magnets extend in directions away from each other in a circumferential direction from the radially inside toward the radially outside. A flux barrier is radially outside the magnet. The rotor core includes a first gap between magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first gap is sandwiched between the flux barriers of the magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A radially outside surface of the rotor core includes a pair of core recesses provided in a portion located on the radially outside of the flux barrier and a core protrusion located between the pair of core recesses in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 11784519Abstract: A rotor applied to a driving motor may include a plurality of rotor cores configured to define a plurality of slots, into which permanent magnets are inserted, wherein each of the rotor cores includes a first zone and a second zone different from each other in terms of positions at which fixing protrusions configured to fix the permanent magnets are provided in the slots, and the rotor cores are stacked such that the first zones of some of the rotor cores overlap the second zones of some of the rotor cores.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyung Soo Park, Jung Woo Lee
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Patent number: 11777348Abstract: A rotor core for an electric machine of an automobile includes a core stack including a plurality of lamination plates. Each lamination plate includes a plurality of apertures formed therein. The plurality of apertures of each of the lamination plates are axially aligned and define and a slot extending through the core stack and shaped to receive a corresponding insert. The rotor core also includes at least one insert received by the slot that provides radial structural stability to the plurality of lamination plates to prevent portions of the plurality of lamination plates adjacent the plurality of magnet slots from flexing due to radial forces exerted on the plurality of lamination plates during operation of the rotor core. The rotor core includes a load bearing polymer disposed within the aperture of the rotor core that provides contact between and the insert and the lamination plates.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Derek Frei Lahr, Alireza Fatemi, Anthony Michael Coppola
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Patent number: 11764626Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets positioned radially outside the rotor core, a rotor cover having a tubular portion surrounding the rotor core and the magnet, and a resin portion coupling the rotor core and the magnet with each other. The resin portion has a first lid portion positioned on one axial side of the rotor core and the magnet. The rotor cover has a flange portion projecting radially inward from the tubular portion on one axial side of the first lid portion. The first lid portion has a recess portion depressed from a surface on one axial side of the first lid portion. The recess portion is positioned at a position overlapping between the circumferentially adjacent magnets. The flange portion has a first swage portion swaged to the other axial side and positioned inside the recess portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Aono, Hideaki Uchise, Tatsuya Ito
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Patent number: 11764636Abstract: A motor according to the present invention includes: a stator having a stator core and a coil; a rotor having a rotary shaft and a rotation body; a shaft bearing rotatably supporting the rotor; and a molding resin covering the stator. The motor has a coil end that is the coil protruding from the stator core in a shaft center X direction, and has a non-combustible layer provided to cover the coil end. The non-combustible layer is a metallic cover made of, for example, metal. The metallic cover is disposed to cover a periphery of a coil assembly in which the coil is formed on the stator core through an insulator. The metallic cover is integrated with the coil assembly by a molding resin.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori Amaya, Akihiko Watanabe, Yoshikazu Yamagata, Yasuo Nanbu, Hisaaki Kato, Yasunori Wakamori
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Patent number: 11757317Abstract: A spoked rotor is rotatable about an axis. The rotor includes a core. The core includes a plurality of pole segments arranged arcuately about the axis. The rotor includes a plurality of arcuately arranged magnets alternating arcuately with the pole segments, such that each of the magnets is at least in part interposed between a pair of adjacent pole segments. Each of the magnets includes a curved section extending arcuately between radially inner and outer curved section ends. An effective rotor pole location is defined on each of the pole segments. Each of the pole segments has an end opposite the effective rotor pole location. A center point is defined at the pole segment end. Each of the effective rotor pole locations is arcuately offset from a corresponding one of the center points by between about five tenths (0.5) rotor poles and about two (2.0) rotor poles.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Ryan M. Bastien, Lunjie Lu
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Patent number: 11757379Abstract: A device for converting electrical energy from electrically charged particles, which includes a positive electrode, the positive electrode includes a composition arranged in a plate shape, the composition includes a binding agent and a filler, wherein the filler is dispersed through the binding agent, and the filler includes at least titanium dioxide and activated carbon particles. The device further includes a negative electrode, arranged in a plate shape, the negative electrode includes a metal alloy, wherein the metal alloy includes aluminium, and magnesium. The device further includes a gas permeable insulator. The positive electrode, the gas permeable insulator and the negative electrode are stacked into a laminated structure. The gas permeable insulator is arranged as an intermediate layer between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: ION-ENERGY B.V.Inventor: Sándor Kovács
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Patent number: 11754426Abstract: A system that may include a bus bar that may include a mounting bracket configured to electrically couple the bus bar to a motor. The mounting bracket may also be configured to be removably coupled to the motor with at least one fastener. A transducer may be electrically coupled to the bus bar and have transducer elements. A dielectric material may be disposed between the bus bar and the transducer to prevent debris from contacting the active transducer elements and electrical arcing from occurring.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies CorporationInventors: Benjamin Richard Kundman, Jeffrey John Hritz, Samir Ganesh Kamat
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Patent number: 11757316Abstract: An electrical machine comprises a stator and a rotor having a plurality of poles. Each pole comprises a radial axis centrally through the pole. Each pole comprises a first slot configuration having a magnet located centrally within the slot with the radial axis passing through the magnet or the magnet being substantially perpendicular to the radial axis. Each pole comprises a second slot configuration having a pair of magnets located at spaced apart positions within the slot. The pair of magnets are located each side of the radial axis. The first slot configuration is located between the second slot configuration and an outer perimeter of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Alexandros Michaelides, Istvan Kiraly, Jose Malumbres Ruiz, Bonyadi Roozbeh
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Patent number: 11750052Abstract: A rotating electric machine rotor according to the present disclosure includes: a rotor shaft extending in a direction of an axis of rotation; and a rotor core fixedly fitted to an outer circumference of the rotor shaft and formed of laminated steel sheets. Further, an inner diameter of the rotor core is smaller than an outer diameter of the rotor shaft. Furthermore, an inner edge part of each laminated steel sheet is made thinner than an outer edge part thereof, and the inner edge part abuts on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft and is curved along the outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft in the direction of the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi Ono, Hiroaki Kodera, Keiichi Kaneshige
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Patent number: 11750051Abstract: A magnetic field coupling analysis and modulation method for a field-modulated permanent magnet motor based on a harmonic group is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITYInventors: Zixuan Xiang, Zirun Lu, Xiaoyong Zhu, Li Zhang, Deyang Fan, Li Quan
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Patent number: 11750049Abstract: A rotor has an opposing surface opposed to a stator, the opposing surface has flat surfaces extending in a tangential direction of a circle centered on an axial center of the rotor at a predetermined angular interval centered on the axial center, and a magnet is disposed on this flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroya Takahashi, Takafumi Kotani, Kana Miyagi, Wataru Matsuyama
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Patent number: 11742721Abstract: A rotor assembly for a permanent magnet motor, including: a rotor shaft comprising an internal cavity having an inlet and an outlet; and a rotor core disposed about the rotor shaft, comprising an internal channel having an inlet and an outlet; wherein the outlet of the internal cavity of the rotor shaft is coupled to the inlet of the internal channel of the rotor core; and wherein the internal cavity of the rotor shaft and the internal channel of the rotor core are configured to circulate a cooling fluid through the rotor shaft and the rotor core. The rotor core includes a plurality of permanent magnets adapted to interact with a stator assembly disposed about/adjacent to the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Dang Dinh Dang, Larry Xiong
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Patent number: 11742711Abstract: A unique rotor assembly for an electrical machine is disclosed herein. The rotor assembly includes a shaft having an axis of rotation extending within the electrical machine. A central support is connected to the shaft at an intermediate position and a pair of opposing end plates are configured to clamp a plurality of laminate plates therebetween. The laminate plates and a sidewall of the end plates have a non-linear cross-sectional shape such that radial loading due to centrifugal force is transmitted from the laminate plates to the end plates during operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Zafer Turgut
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Patent number: 11735965Abstract: A rotor assembly includes a plurality of segmented magnets on an outer surface of a rotor core, a metallic layer on the outer surface of the plurality of segmented magnets, and a plurality of segmented metallic bands on the outer surface of the metallic layer. The plurality of segmented metallic bands is configured to secure the plurality of segmented magnets to the outer surface of the rotor core, and each band of the plurality of metallic bands has an axial length less than an axial length of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Ellis Fui Hen Chong, Shanmukha Rama Krishna, Mark Boden