Patents Examined by Tran Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9985507
    Abstract: To provide a permanent magnet type motor having reduced torque ripple, in which torque ripples for electric angle sixth order and twelfth order are both reduced with a small skew angle. Driving is performed such that phases of currents flowing in two sets of three-phase armature windings 26-1 and 26-2 are different from each other by 20 degrees to 40 degrees in electric angle. A rotor 11 is composed of m stages of rotor component units arranged in the axial direction. The m stages of rotor component units are skewed to have a stage-skew structure such that a skew angle ? (unit: degree) between the adjacent units satisfies 26/m???43.2/m (m is an integer equal to or greater than 2) in electric angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Yu Hirotani, Satoru Akutsu, Toyoaki Udo, Yuji Takizawa
  • Patent number: 9985505
    Abstract: A second core block is stacked on a first filler-vestige-accommodating steel sheet along a rotational axis and has a plurality of second magnet insertion holes. Each of the plurality of second magnet insertion holes is defined by a second inner wall. Each of a plurality of second permanent magnets is inserted into each of the plurality of second magnet insertion holes. Each of second spaces is provided between each of the plurality of second permanent magnets and the second inner wall. The filler fills the second spaces. The plurality of second magnet insertion holes have a plurality of second filler injection portions, respectively, via which the filler is injected into the plurality of second magnet insertion holes. The first filler-vestige-accommodating steel sheet has a plurality of first hole portions opposite to the plurality of second filler injection portions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Honjo
  • Patent number: 9979249
    Abstract: A bus bar unit may include a bus bar; and a bus bar holder comprising a resin material and configured to hold the bus bar, wherein the bus bar includes a plurality of members comprising a metal. The plurality of members may include a bent member including a radial branch, a circumferential branch, and a bent portion between the radial branch and the circumferential branch. The radial branch may include a terminal portion provided at a second end portion. The circumferential branch may include a first connection portion provided at a second end. A connection portion may be configured by connecting the first connection portion and a second connection portion provided in a second one of the plurality of members, and at least a portion of the connection portion of the bus bar is held in the bus bar holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9979260
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for liquid cooling of an electric motor of inner rotor type having a rotor of hub type and a stator provided with windings. The method includes supplying a cooling liquid for cooling to at least one end of the hub of the rotor, feeding supplied cooling liquid at least radially in the hub by means of the rotation of the hub, and by means of the rotation of the rotor throwing thus fed cooling liquid towards the stator. The invention also relates to a device and a platform to practice the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: BAE Systems Hägglunds Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Anders Söderholm, Viktor Lassila
  • Patent number: 9979248
    Abstract: A permanent magnet (PM) machine includes a rotor and a stator assembly. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed about an axis of rotation. The stator assembly includes a stator body, a plurality of coil sides and a plurality of sintered iron magnetic wedges. The stator body includes a plurality of stator teeth defining a plurality of stator slots, each stator slot having an inside position and an outside position, such that each of the plurality of stator slots includes a first plurality of inside positions, and a first plurality of outside positions. The first plurality of coil sides are disposed in each of the first plurality of inside positions and the first plurality of outside positions. The first plurality of coil sides correspond to a first power phase. The first plurality of coil sides are electrically coupled to one another by a first plurality of end-coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Galioto, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Nathaniel Benedict Hawes
  • Patent number: 9973055
    Abstract: An electric compressor including a compression mechanism, an electric motor driving the compression mechanism, a housing accommodating the compression mechanism and the electric motor, an inverter box located on an outer surface of the housing, an inverter substrate accommodated in the inverter box and having an inverter circuit supplying electric power to the electric motor, the inverter substrate having a first surface and a second surface that is a reverse surface of the first surface, a plurality of fastening members fixing the inverter substrate to the inverter box, and a reinforcing member having a first end fixed to the inverter box and a second end soldered to the first surface or the second surface of the inverter substrate. The reinforcing member extends toward the first surface or the second surface of the inverter substrate in the inverter box. The reinforcing member is not electrically connected to the inverter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ken Suitou, Kazuhiro Kuroki, Takuro Mizuno, Tatsuya Koide, Yusuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9973047
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electric machine, such as a dynamometer. The rotor of the machine comprises a circular row of resultant magnetic poles of which the polarity forms an alternation of opposed poles. The resultant poles each include a pair of permanent magnets in a “V”, each equipped with a north pole N, a south pole S, and opposed faces, where the magnet poles are located. In each resultant pole the magnets are disposed so as to have faces having identical polarities, which faces are oriented radially outwardly, facing towards one another, thus forming therebetween an angle ? between 90° and 110°, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency. The invention also relates to a turbomachine test stand equipped with a dynamometer enabling a recovery of electrical energy. The invention also relates to a hybrid motor vehicle propelled by the rotating electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters SA
    Inventors: Alain Lacroix, Quac Hung Tran, Benoit Meys
  • Patent number: 9963037
    Abstract: The earth's magnetic field has not been mined as a source of energy for electric vehicles. With average field strength of 0.5 Tesla around the world it is easy to understand why it has been overlooked. A disruptive technology is needed to mine the earth's magnetic field for powering electric vehicles. Such a technology, graphene, is now at an early stage of development with excellent properties in the form of high conductivity, low resistivity sheets that are durable, light weight, and low cost. Electrical properties of multiple sheets of graphene provide a significant multiplier to earth's weak magnetic field yielding a feasible source of ecologically clean power for electric vehicles. Graphene based EcoCharge systems can be mounted on a vehicles drive shaft and axles putting graphene in motion to mine the earth's magnetic field. Estimates show that EcoCharge can generate 15.1 kW at 60 mph while weighing only 10 oz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Dennis Drake McCrady
  • Patent number: 9964147
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing for the mounting of a shaft, in particular for a spinning rotor of an open-end spinning device, features several pole shanks of a stator for the active radial magnetic mounting of the shaft in two degrees of freedom, which in each case are surrounded by a coil and are radially arranged to each other, in such a manner that they define an opening for the shaft. In the area of the opening, the pole shanks are connected to each other. For the passive axial mounting of the shaft, at least one permanent magnet is arranged between the coils and the opening. The invention also includes a shaft for mounting with at least one corresponding magnetic bearing. The shaft is a composite component, which at least partially consists of non-ferromagnetic material. In the area of the radial and axial mounting, a component made of a ferromagnetic material is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Rieter CZ s.r.o.
    Inventors: Milan Moravec, Jiri Sloupensky, Siegfried Silber, Andreas Josef Pröll, Peter Dirnberger
  • Patent number: 9966809
    Abstract: A rotor of an electrical rotating machine includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core which overlaps the first rotor core in an axial direction, a non-magnetic substance layer which is interposed between the rotor cores, and a plurality of permanent magnet portions which are embedded in each rotor core. Each of the rotor cores includes a plurality of flux barrier portions and a plurality of effectual magnetic flux portions which are alternately arranged on an outer circumferential surface thereof. The flux barrier portion of the first rotor core overlaps both of a portion of the flux barrier portion of the second rotor core and a portion of the effectual magnetic flux portion of the second rotor core in the axial direction such that, in the adjacent rotor cores, the effectual magnetic flux portions do not overlap each other in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Ueda
  • Patent number: 9966824
    Abstract: A first stator core and a second stator ore are configured by arranging core block pairs into an annular shape, the core block pairs being configured by stacking together core blocks so as to be spaced apart axially, each of the core blocks including a core back portion and one tooth, and a permanent magnet is configured so as to be divided into a plurality of magnet blocks that each include: a base portion; one shaft portion that protrudes radially inward from an inner circumferential surface of the base portion; and flange portions that protrude on two circumferential sides from a radially inner end portion of the shaft portion, the magnet blocks being held between the core block pairs such that the base portion and the shaft portion are positioned inside the core block pairs and such that the flange portions protrude circumferentially from the core block pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ogawa, Hideaki Arita, Akihiro Daikoku, Taiga Komatsu, Yoshihiro Miyama
  • Patent number: 9954404
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator having 48 grooves and 48 tooth coils, and a rotor interacting with the stator. The rotor has eight magnetic poles along an external circumference of the rotor in an annular arrangement, with adjacent magnetic poles defining angular distances defined successively at 41.25°, 39.75°, 41.25°, 57.75°, 41.25°, 39.75°, 41.25° and 57.75°. The angular distances have a tolerance range of 0.4°. The electric machine has a pole arc between 0.6 and 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9954415
    Abstract: A permanent magnet of a rotor core of a rotor includes a first recess and a second recess, which are formed in an outer wall to correct a dynamic balance of the rotor. The permanent magnet is a bonded magnet that is formed by molding a mixture material, which is a mixture of resin and magnetic powder. The first recess and the second recess are formed at the time of molding the permanent magnet. Furthermore, the first recess and the second recess are formed at two axial ends, respectively, of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Hidaka, Masaya Ootake, Kiyoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9954403
    Abstract: A rotor yoke is rotatable about an axis, is adapted for a plurality of permanent magnets to be mounted therein, and includes a central section, a peripheral section, and a connecting section. The peripheral section is formed with a plurality of outer slots for respectively receiving the permanent magnets. The connecting section is formed with a plurality of inner slots, and a plurality of magnetic reluctance units adjacent to outer slots and each including at least two magnetic reluctance slots that are radially aligned relative to the axis. Each of the magnetic reluctance slots permits portions of magnetic field lines generated by the permanent magnets to pass around the magnetic reluctance slots so as to increase density of the magnetic field lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Inventor: Chien-Kuo Yen
  • Patent number: 9948150
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the construction of components such as laminations for the stator core of an ESP motor wherein particles of different materials are mixed and pressed together at an elevated temperature to form a composite material in the desired lamination shape. The materials are selected to provide characteristics such as high magnetic permeability from one material and high thermal conductivity from the other material. The particles of the different materials are pressed together at a temperature that is sufficiently high to fuse the particles together and form a composite material, but is also sufficiently low that the materials are not sintered. The individual materials therefore retain their original characteristics, and the composite material benefits from the high magnetic permeability of the first material and the high thermal conductivity of the other material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Deepak Kumar, Carlos A. Prieto, Zhiyue Xu, Michael H. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9941760
    Abstract: Conductor terminals of a plurality of conductor wires that constitute a stator winding each extend outward at a first axial end of a stator core, and among the conductor terminals, conductor terminals through which same-phase electric power flows are respectively connected by crossover wires, and circumferential regions that are occupied by the crossover wires are separated from each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9935533
    Abstract: This squirrel-cage motor rotor includes a plurality of conductor bars provided at regular intervals along the circumferential direction of a rotor core, short-circuit rings connected to ends of the conductor bars, and reinforcement covers having axial-direction surfaces being in contact with axial-direction-end surfaces of the short-circuit rings. The reinforcement covers are enclosed by casting in the short-circuit rings. Holding rings are attached to the outer circumferential surfaces of the flange portions of the reinforcement covers and the outer circumferential surfaces of the short-circuit rings by interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yoshiharu Takashima, Yoshiki Okada
  • Patent number: 9929613
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. The stator is operable to electromagnetically induce movement of the rotor and includes stator teeth and a motor-board. A stator tooth includes a core material, a plurality of winding segments, and a bobbin. The bobbin includes a core receptacle for mechanically engaging the core material, radial-orientated sections to support and electrically isolate the winding segments, and connectors for electrically coupling the winding segments. The motor-board includes electrical receptacles for electrically mating with the connectors for each of the winding segments and traces for coupling the winding segments to a power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew Sherman Hanson, Edmund Peter Henke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9929623
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a reluctance motor. The apparatus comprises a stator and a plate. The stator includes a plurality of electromagnetic coils having an overlapped configuration. Applying multi-phase current to the plurality of electromagnetic coils generates a magnetic field. The plate forms a virtual pole when a portion of the plate contacts the stator in response to the magnetic field. Rotating the magnetic field about a center axis through the stator rotates the virtual pole about the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Robert J. Atmur
  • Patent number: 9906085
    Abstract: Small coil groups are each configured by connecting a plurality of winding bodies in series by passing crossover portions that are formed by bending first conductor terminals radially outward axially outside a coil end and joining the crossover portions to second conductor terminals that are subject to joining, the first conductor terminals that constitute first ends of the small coil group are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially inner side of a circular arc-shaped region that extends circumferentially around the coil end, the second conductor terminals that constitute second ends of the small coil group are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially outer side of the circular arc-shaped region of the coil end, and a stator winding is produced by connecting the small coil groups within the circular arc-shaped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Atsushi Sakaue