Patents by Inventor Wanzhen Liu
Wanzhen Liu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11955915Abstract: The present disclosure provides a variable-frequency compressor with adaptive heating power control and a method for operating the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the variable-frequency compressor includes: a compression unit, for compressing a medium entering the variable-frequency compressor; a motor, including a stator and a rotor, for driving the compression unit; and a controller, configured to adaptively control a heating power of a winding of the stator according to information of the variable-frequency compressor.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DANFOSS (TIANJIN) LTD.Inventors: Shizhong Ji, Wanzhen Liu, Yingke Sun, Li Yao
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Publication number: 20240056010Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting an initial position of a rotor of a motor includes: switching on or off respective switches in respective connecting branches connected to respective phase windings of the motor so as to obtain different switch state combinations capable of supporting different phase states of the motor, wherein the different switch state combinations support inputting voltages for different phases to the motor; for each switch state combination, injecting a voltage and recording a start time; monitoring respective phase currents of the motor, including: stopping the injecting of the voltage in response to determining that at least one of the respective phase currents is greater than a current threshold during the injecting of the voltage; and recording an end time in response to determining that the respective phase currents are all attenuated to zero after stopping the injecting of the voltage; and calculating a time difference between the end time and the start time; and determining theType: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Shizhong JI, Wanzhen LIU, Li YAO
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Publication number: 20230299624Abstract: A stator for a disk motor, a stator supporting ring and a compressor belong to the field of refrigeration technology. The stator includes a ring-shaped stator core including a plurality of ring-shaped or arc-shaped layers of magnetically conductive materials laminated on each other in a radial direction. In addition, the stator supporting ring is configured to fix a stator for a disk motor and has an inner wall fitted over a stator yoke of the stator. The compressor includes: a shell; a compression unit fixed within the shell; and a disk motor coupled with the compression unit. The disk motor includes: a rotor, and at least one stator fixed to the shell by the stator supporting ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Wanzhen LIU, Yusong SUN, Yan LIN, Li YAO
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Patent number: 11699969Abstract: A compressor and a control method thereof are provided. The compressor includes a motor with a rotor of a permanent magnet. According to embodiments, the method of controlling the compressor includes: applying a detection current to the motor in response to a command of starting the compressor; detecting whether there is demagnetization of the permanent magnet of the rotor according to a response of the motor to the applied detection current; resetting an operating parameter of the compressor if there is the demagnetization; and starting the compressor according to the reset operating parameters. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, when the compressor is to be started, demagnetization is detected first, and the operating parameter are set accordingly, so as to suppress or avoid performance degeneration due to the demagnetization.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Danfoss (Tianjin) Ltd.Inventors: Shizhong Ji, Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu
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Publication number: 20230119389Abstract: A rotor for an interior permanent magnet motor, an interior permanent magnet motor, and a compressor includes a rotor core, a plurality of U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating grooves, a plurality of first air grooves, and a plurality of first recesses, wherein the plurality of U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating grooves are arranged inside the rotor core at intervals; the plurality of first air grooves are provided outside the ends of the U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating grooves; and each first air groove is located on an extension line of the end of the corresponding U-shaped permanent magnet accommodating groove and is close to the outer contour of the rotor so as to form a plurality of first magnetic isolation bridges.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Wanzhen LIU, Yan LIN, Guangqiang LIU, Zhenyu WANG, Meng WANG, Shizhong JI, Li YAO
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Publication number: 20220186730Abstract: The present disclosure provides a variable-frequency compressor with adaptive heating power control and a method for operating the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the variable-frequency compressor includes: a compression unit, for compressing a medium entering the variable-frequency compressor; a motor, including a stator and a rotor, for driving the compression unit; and a controller, configured to adaptively control a heating power of a winding of the stator according to information of the variable-frequency compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Shizhong Ji, Wanzhen Liu, Yingke Sun, Li Yao
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Publication number: 20210058019Abstract: A compressor and a control method thereof are provided. The compressor includes a motor with a rotor of a permanent magnet. According to embodiments, the method of controlling the compressor includes: applying a detection current to the motor in response to a command of starting the compressor; detecting whether there is demagnetization of the permanent magnet of the rotor according to a response of the motor to the applied detection current; resetting an operating parameter of the compressor if there is the demagnetization; and starting the compressor according to the reset operating parameters. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, when the compressor is to be started, demagnetization is detected first, and the operating parameter are set accordingly, so as to suppress or avoid performance degeneration due to the demagnetization.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Shizhong Ji, Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu
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Publication number: 20200244116Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a motor rotor and a motor. The motor rotor includes: multiple groups of laminations having inner bores and arranged alternately in an axial direction of the motor rotor. The motor includes a stator and the abovementioned motor rotor provided in the stator. The motor rotor and the motor according to embodiments of the present disclosure, for example, may reduce installation costs of the laminations and a rotor shaft in the motor rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Guangqiang Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Weiping Tang, Meng Wang
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Patent number: 10658891Abstract: Embodiments describe a motor. The motor includes a stator, and a rotor, which is arranged within the stator. An end part of at least one air-gap slot of the rotor has an offset with a predetermined distance and/or a predetermined angle relative to a main body part adjacent immediately to the end part. With the offset of a predetermined distance and/or a predetermined angle configured at the end part of at least one air-gap slot of the rotor, ripple torque of the motor is effectively lower down while complexity of the motor, stator or rotor will not be increased.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: DANFOSS (TIANJIN), LTD.Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Guangqiang Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Meng Wang, Weiping Tang
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Patent number: 10389216Abstract: A stator, a motor and a compressor are provided. The stator includes a stator iron core and a winding. The stator iron core includes: an annular yoke; multiple stator teeth, near ends of the stator teeth being fixedly adjacent to an inner surface of the yoke and projecting inward towards the center of the stator iron core along a radial direction of the yoke, remote ends of the stator teeth that face inward along the radial direction defining a center hole for accommodating a rotor, and the stator teeth being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction; and multiple stator slots, each stator slot being defined between two neighboring stator teeth. The winding is wound around the stator teeth and operable for generating a rotating magnetic field. The yoke has at least two cut edges at an outer periphery thereof, disposed asymmetrically relative to the center.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Danfoss (Tianjin) Ltd.Inventors: Weiping Tang, Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu, Guangqiang Liu, Yan Lin, Zhenyu Wang, Meng Wang
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Publication number: 20190207443Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a motor rotor and a motor. The motor rotor includes: multiple groups of laminations having inner bores and arranged alternately in an axial direction of the motor rotor. The motor includes a stator and the abovementioned motor rotor provided in the stator. The motor rotor and the motor according to embodiments of the present disclosure, for example, may reduce installation costs of the laminations and a rotor shaft in the motor rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Guangqiang Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Weiping Tang, Meng Wang
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Patent number: 10090793Abstract: An electric motor, a compressor including the electric motor and a method for controlling the electric motor or the compressor are provided. The electric motor includes: a stator; single-phase or multiphase windings disposed on the stator; and a rotor, where the rotor includes a permanent magnet, and at least part of the permanent magnet is ferrite. By using a permanent magnet synchronous motor in a variable-speed compressor, costs of the variable-speed compressor are significantly reduced, and the performance thereof is basically the same as that of a variable-speed compressor using a rare-earth permanent magnet synchronous motor. By controlling the electric motor or the compressor, costs of the electric motor or the compressor are reduced, and moreover, and the ferrite in the electric motor can be protected from irreversible demagnetization at a low temperature, thereby improving the reliability of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Danfoss (Tianjin) Ltd.Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Zhenyu Wang
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Publication number: 20170194845Abstract: A stator, a motor and a compressor are provided. The stator includes a stator iron core and a winding. The stator iron core includes: an annular yoke; multiple stator teeth, near ends of the stator teeth being fixedly adjacent to an inner surface of the yoke and projecting inward towards the center of the stator iron core along a radial direction of the yoke, remote ends of the stator teeth that face inward along the radial direction defining a center hole for accommodating a rotor, and the stator teeth being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction; and multiple stator slots, each stator slot being defined between two neighboring stator teeth. The winding is wound around the stator teeth and operable for generating a rotating magnetic field. The yoke has at least two cut edges at an outer periphery thereof, disposed asymmetrically relative to the center.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Weiping Tang, Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu, Guangqiang Liu, Yan Lin, Zhenyu Wang, Meng Wang
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Publication number: 20170187257Abstract: Embodiments describe a motor. The motor includes a stator, and a rotor, which is arranged within the stator. An end part of at least one air-gap slot of the rotor has an offset with a predetermined distance and/or a predetermined angle relative to a main body part adjacent immediately to the end part. With the offset of a predetermined distance and/or a predetermined angle configured at the end part of at least one air-gap slot of the rotor, ripple torque of the motor is effectively lower down while complexity of the motor, stator or rotor will not be increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Guangqiang Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Meng Wang, Weiping Tang
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Publication number: 20150188480Abstract: An electric motor, a compressor including the electric motor and a method for controlling the electric motor or the compressor are provided. The electric motor includes: a stator; single-phase or multiphase windings disposed on the stator; and a rotor, where the rotor includes a permanent magnet, and at least part of the permanent magnet is ferrite. By using a permanent magnet synchronous motor in a variable-speed compressor, costs of the variable-speed compressor are significantly reduced, and the performance thereof is basically the same as that of a variable-speed compressor using a rare-earth permanent magnet synchronous motor. By controlling the electric motor or the compressor, costs of the electric motor or the compressor are reduced, and moreover, and the ferrite in the electric motor can be protected from irreversible demagnetization at a low temperature, thereby improving the reliability of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Zhenyu Wang
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Publication number: 20150042200Abstract: A rotor (24) of an interior permanent magnet motor and an interior permanent magnet motor (20) are disclosed. The rotor (24) of the interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotor iron core (25); a plurality of permanent magnets (27), where the plurality of permanent magnets (27) are spaced apart inside the rotor iron core (25); and a plurality of air slots (30), disposed at end portions of adjacent permanent magnets (27) and close to an outer circumference of the rotor, and adapted to generate air gap flux density between the outer circumference of the rotor and an inner circumference of a stator of the interior permanent magnet motor, and the air gap flux density being in an analogous sinusoidal shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Yan Lin
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Publication number: 20150010414Abstract: The present invention provides a stator, a three-phase induction motor and a compressor. The stator is applied to a three-phase induction motor of a compressor. The stator includes: a stator iron core; a plurality of stator teeth extending inwards along a radial direction of the stator; stator slots distributed between the plurality of stator teeth; and three phases of windings wound around the stator teeth to generate a rotating magnetic field, where a coil of each phase of winding in the three phases of windings is made of a composite wire. The composite wire includes a wire core made of a first conductive metal material, and an outer layer wrapping an outer circumferential surface of the wire core and made of a second conductive metal material, wherein the first conductive metal material and the second conductive metal material have different electrical conductivities.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Weiping Tang, Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu, Guangqiang Liu, Yan Lin, Zhenyu Wang
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Publication number: 20150010412Abstract: A stator, a motor and a compressor are provided. A stator applied to a motor includes: a stator iron core; a plurality of stator teeth extending inwards along a radial direction of the stator; stator slots distributed between the plurality of stator teeth; and a winding wound around the stator teeth to generate a rotating magnetic field, where at least one phase of winding or a coil forming the at least one phase of winding is formed by different wires, and the different wires are connected in a serial or serial-parallel manner to form the coil or the least one phase winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Wanzhen Liu, Li Yao, Yan Lin, Guangqiang Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Weiping Tang