Disc Patents (Class 310/268)
  • Patent number: 11888347
    Abstract: A core for use in an axial-gap rotary electric machine is annular and includes a plurality of core pieces into which the core is divided in a circumferential direction. Each core piece includes a yoke portion and a tooth portion that is formed integrally with the yoke portion and that projects from the yoke portion in an axial direction. Each yoke portion includes a plurality of protrusions provided on one side surface connected to the yoke portion of an adjacent one of the core pieces, and a plurality of recesses provided on other side surface connected to the yoke portion of another adjacent one of the core pieces, the recesses corresponding to the protrusions. An interval between the protrusions is 80% or less of a length of the one side surface of the yoke portion, the length being a direct distance between inner and outer peripheries of the yoke portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saito, Tomoyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11843334
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a magnetic field-producing unit, an armature with a multi-phase armature winding, and a rotor. The magnetic field-producing unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is located closer to a d-axis in a d-q axis coordinate system than the second position is. The second position is located closer to a q-axis in the d-q axis coordinate system than the first position is. The magnetic field-producing unit is magnetically oriented to meet a condition where an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the first portion makes with the d-axis is smaller than an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the second portion makes with the q-axis. The magnetic field-producing unit is configured to have an intrinsic coercive force of 400 kA/m and also have a remanent flux density of 1.0 T or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11804756
    Abstract: An active part of an electric machine includes electrical conductors which are additively printed in layers, and intermediate bodies respectively disposed between the electrical conductors and being additively printed in layers, wherein the electrical conductors are printed in a radially increasing manner, alternating with the intermediate bodies. A contact layer <=300 ?m of a third material is applied between at least one of the electrical conductors and at least one of the printed intermediate bodies, with a diffusion zone being embodied by the contact layer and a heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Brach, Jens Dahl Jensen, Hartmut Rauch, Jakob Schneck, Oliver Stier
  • Patent number: 11804763
    Abstract: In an axial gap motor including a rotor and a stator placed apart in a direction of a rotation axis with respect to the rotor, the stator is formed by combination of a plurality of divided pieces containing cores and yokes in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis. A first end portion in the circumferential direction of a first divided piece as one of the divided pieces has a convex portion projecting in the circumferential direction and a second end portion of a second divided piece in contact with the first end portion has a concave portion fitted with the convex portion, and the convex portion is provided in a position apart from a side portion of the first divided piece along the circumferential direction in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenobu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11799342
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of conductors. The plurality of permanent magnets are arranged radially around a rotation axis of the electric machine and spaced apart from the rotation axis of the electric machine. At least one of the plurality of magnets has a shape in a plane of rotation intersected by the rotation axis. The plurality of conductors are arranged relative to the plurality of magnets and spaced apart from each other circumferentially around the rotation axis of the electric machine. At least one of the plurality of conductors includes a trace having a polygon shape different than the shape of the at least one of the plurality of magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Isaac S. Frampton, Adam Larson
  • Patent number: 11671046
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a magnetic field-producing unit, an armature with a multi-phase armature winding, and a rotor. The magnetic field-producing unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is located closer to a d-axis in a d-q axis coordinate system than the second position is. The second position is located closer to a q-axis in the d-q axis coordinate system than the first position is. The magnetic field-producing unit is magnetically oriented to meet a condition where an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the first portion makes with the d-axis is smaller than an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the second portion makes with the q-axis. The magnetic field-producing unit is configured to have an intrinsic coercive force of 400 kA/m and also have a remanent flux density of 1.0 T or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11646622
    Abstract: An electric propulsion assembly for an electric aircraft propulsor including an integrated stator assembly including a mandrel having an outer cylindrical surface, an inner cylindrical surface, an upper edge, and a lower edge, the mandrel includes a plurality of electrically insulating guide walls disposed on at least a portion of the outer cylindrical surface and at least a portion of the inner cylindrical surface, wherein the electrically insulating guide wall forms a path across the outer and inner cylindrical surfaces. Assembly includes a plurality of copper windings wound upon the mandrel, electrically insulating epoxy, wherein the epoxy envelops at least a portion of the plurality of copper windings, a first cylindrical surface facing the inner cylindrical surface including a permanent magnet array, a second cylindrical surface facing the outer cylindrical surface including a back iron and a void disposed between the first cylindrical surface and the second cylindrical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Chenjie Lin, Manon Danielle Belzile
  • Patent number: 11621621
    Abstract: An axial flux motor includes: a stator having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the stator including: N stator core components on the first side, where N is an integer greater than two; and pole shoes attached to radial sides of the N stator core components, N slot openings between adjacent ones of the pole shoes, where each of the N slot openings extends in at least one direction non-radially on the first side; and a rotor including a third side and M permanent magnets on the third side, where the first side is parallel to the third side, and where M is an integer greater than two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan, Yusheng Zou, Alireza Fatemi
  • Patent number: 11594947
    Abstract: Improved magnetic rotor assemblies are provided. In one embodiment, a magnetic rotor assembly includes two or more rotor disks. The rotor disks may each contain corresponding sets of permanent magnets, which may be circumferentially disposed around the disks. The disks may then positioned near one another such that the disks are magnetically coupled. In certain instances, the N-poles of the permanent magnets may face one another. In other instances, the S-poles of the permanent magnets may face one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MATTUR HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Kris Kesler
  • Patent number: 11581789
    Abstract: In order to facilitate the production of coil windings in components of electrical machines a method and a device are provided for winding a wave winding mat for forming a coil winding of an electrical machine, wherein one or more wires are wound with a predefined wire spacing between wire sections, wherein the wire spacing is set differently for different regions of the wave winding mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Haggenmüller, Günter Dreier
  • Patent number: 11569717
    Abstract: An axial flux rotary electric machine including at least one stator and at least one rotor that are arranged along an axis of rotation of the machine, the rotor including a rotor mass and housings created in the rotor mass, the housings defining magnetic poles of the rotor, each of the housings being able to contain or not contain at least one permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Dany Prieto, Paul Akiki, Xavier Jannot, Benjamin Daguse
  • Patent number: 11502591
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor having at least one magnetic track, which has a plurality of magnet elements connected in a line in a longitudinal direction or in the shape of a ring, in particular in a Halbach array configuration, and having at least one coil assembly, which includes a support that is substantially electrically and magnetically non-conductive with respect to the magnetic track, which is configured such that the coil assembly and the magnetic track are capable of carrying out a guided movement relative to each other, and which includes at least one group of three conductive flat coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Haase, Tobias Serrer
  • Patent number: 11462980
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a ducted double-magnetic-circuit coreless motor special for electric aircraft, which is an open special motor with a hollow structure according to the technical invention and includes a housing, a main shaft, a coreless stator winding, an inner rotor structure and an outer rotor structure. The main shaft is arranged in the middle of the housing; the inner rotor structure is connected with the main shaft; the outer rotor structure is connected with the inner rotor structure; and the coreless stator winding is arranged between the inner rotor structure and the outer rotor structure. The coreless stator winding can generate an electromagnetic torque when current is applied; and the inner rotor structure and the outer rotor structure can fully induce the electromagnetic torque of the coreless stator winding and rotate about the main shaft simultaneously, thereby directly driving the electric aircraft to fly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Jirong Lu
  • Patent number: 11355974
    Abstract: An axial flux motor for an appliance includes a stator yoke. A plurality of stator teeth extend from the stator yoke in an axial direction and are positioned about a central rotational axis. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of laminations that extend in the axial direction and form a “T” shaped member. The plurality of stator teeth are overmolded with a polymeric material to define a plurality of axial stator poles. At least one winding extends around the plurality of axial stator poles. A ring-shaped rotor rotates about the central rotational axis of the stator yoke. The rotor is positioned proximate an axial end of the plurality of axial stator poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: James B. Hull
  • Patent number: 11296562
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a stator element, a stator assembly, a motor, and an electromechanical device, the stator element including at least two stacked stator housing sheets, each of the stator housing sheets being a frame enclosed by a sheet periphery, at least two protrusions being disposed around the periphery of each of the stator housing sheets, the protrusion being directed from an inside of the stator housing sheet to an outside of the stator housing sheet, a groove being formed between adjacent protrusions, and protrusions of the adjacent stator housing sheets being alternately arranged in a direction in which the at least two stator housing sheets are stacked. Therefore, heat of a stator disposed inside the stator element can be dissipated with a strong heat dissipation capability at relatively low costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keng-Chang Wu, Guo-Jhih Yan
  • Patent number: 11260936
    Abstract: A human power conversion system incorporates two or more electric machines to aid in the powering of a vehicle through energy conversion. A first electric machine is coupled with the human powered input and acts as a generator when a human power input is not sufficient to produce electrical power that is provided to a second electric machine that propels the vehicle. The vehicle may be a bicycle and the first electric machine may be coupled to the crank. A bi-coupled electric machine including the first and second electric machines with a common rotor or stator may be employed and coupled to the crank and/or the driven wheel. Power produced by the first electric machine may be provided directly to the second machine or may be stored in a battery and used to propel the vehicle or power other electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: David Calley, Steve Purcell
  • Patent number: 11258317
    Abstract: The invention solves the issue of cooling of the power generator by change of its body. According to the invention the generator has a body in the form of open frame structure with polygonal base, made preferably of hollow profiles, connected removably with a clamp, where first stator segments are mounted on threaded pins, connected removably to the arms of the base and arms of the clamp, set on a circle larger than the diameter of a first rotor plate and further rotor plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Waldemar Piskorz, Tomasz Tadeusz Piskorz, Ireneusz Piskorz
  • Patent number: 11258323
    Abstract: Winding for an electrical machine having an inductor with pole pitch ?p, having a plurality of groups of turns intercepting a fraction of a magnetic field, each group comprising a first subgroup of turns and a second subgroup of turns of same phase at a distance equal to ?p, the turns of the first subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, the turns of the second subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, a turn of the first subgroup being connected to a turn of the second subgroup in such a way that the direction of said current in the first group is opposite to the direction of the current in the second subgroup. The winding is a wave winding comprising vertical shortcut connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Universite Catholique De Louvain
    Inventors: Bruno Dehez, François Baudart
  • Patent number: 11251683
    Abstract: A coreless rotating electrical machine for being operated under load exceeding rated load, driving method thereof, driving system including thereof; coreless rotating electrical machine for being operated under load exceeding rated load, driving method thereof, driving system including thereof, in which air space including air gap is formed by stator consisting of lid-type mount which fixes end face of energizable coreless cylindrical coil and rotor consisting of cylindrical mount or cup-type mount opposingly and rotatably positioned to lid-type mount with plurality of magnets equipped on inner surface of cylindrical or cup-type mount, wherein when load exceeds the rating, operation is enabled by adjusting supply amount of refrigerant liquid so the temperature of cylindrical coil does not exceed allowable maximum temperature at rated operation; refrigerant liquid supplied to air space including air gap to allow cylindrical coil to vaporize refrigerant liquid to cool by latent heat of vaporization of refrigera
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: M-LINK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Shuichi Omomo
  • Patent number: 11244782
    Abstract: An amorphous alloy magnetic core including a layered body in which amorphous alloy thin strips are layered one on another, the layered body having one end face and another end face in a width direction of the amorphous alloy thin strips, an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface orthogonal to a layering direction of the amorphous alloy thin strips, and a hole passing through from a part of the one end face as a starting point, the width direction corresponding to a depth direction of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kodama, Kengo Takahashi, Daichi Azuma
  • Patent number: 11239720
    Abstract: Winding for an electrical machine having an inductor with pole pitch ?p, having a plurality of groups of turns intercepting a fraction of a magnetic field, each group comprising a first subgroup of turns and a second subgroup of turns of same phase at a distance equal to ?p, the turns of the first subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, the turns of the second subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, a turn of the first subgroup being connected to a turn of the second subgroup in such a way that the direction of said current in the first group is opposite to the direction of the current in the second subgroup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Bruno Dehez, François Baudart
  • Patent number: 11223263
    Abstract: An axial flux rotary generator comprising: two magnetic annuli; a coil annulus; the magnetic annuli and coil annulus having a common axis; the two magnetic annuli defining a plurality of magnetic fields around the common axis extending across a gap between the two magnetic annuli and the coil annulus having a sequence of coils around the common axis in the gap such that lines of magnetic flux from the magnetic fields cut the turns of the coils and thus induce electric current in the coils as the magnetic annuli are caused to rotate relative to the coil annulus, means provided at or towards the central aperture of the coil annulus axial to resist flexure of the coil annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Time To Act Limited
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 11171533
    Abstract: Simple to manufacture electric generators or motors and methods of manufacturing such are disclosed. Such devices are preferably manufactured from 2-dimensionally cut, flat stock materiel. The generator or motor has two large diameter rotors to enable, for example, useful generation of electricity at low revolutions per minute. The frame of the device includes side walls with castellated stators on the periphery of the walls. Castellated end plates removeably interlock with the stators. The rotors drive magnets past the stators in the frame of the device. In preferred embodiments, rotors are driven by human legs or arms, low speed wind, or water with low or zero water drop distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventor: Francis Xavier Gentile
  • Patent number: 11139711
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine of the present invention comprises a rotor; a stator disposed facing the rotor with a predetermined gap, and including a stator core and a stator coil; a high voltage bushing that outputs electricity from the stator coil to the outside; an electric power line including at least a connection ring extending in a circumferential direction, and connecting the high voltage bushing and one side of a coil end which is an axial-direction end of the stator coil to form an electrical path; and a dummy ring including a metal as a main material, and disposed in alignment with the connection ring in the circumferential direction and in a same circumference as the connection ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Seijiro Muramatsu, Daisuke Ito, Miki Nishino
  • Patent number: 11121597
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor rotatable about a center axis. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets and a plurality of radially extending channels extending radially outward from an inner circumferential surface of the rotor to provide fluid to the magnets. A method of constructing an electric motor includes creating a rotor rotatable about a center axis to include a plurality of magnets and a plurality of radially extending channels extending radially outward from an inner circumferential surface of the rotor to provide fluid to the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Eric Ubelhart
  • Patent number: 11101714
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor fan is provided. The brushless DC motor fan includes a rotor and a stator module. The rotor has a shaft disposed on an inner side of the stator module and rotating relative to the stator module. The stator module has a coreless coil and a lead frame, wherein the lead frame includes six pins electrically connected to the coreless coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Lin, Chin-Chun Lai, Seng-En Mai, Kun-Fu Chuang
  • Patent number: 11043885
    Abstract: An actuator for high rotational speed applications using a stator which utilizes laminated features to reduce Eddy current losses in the stator. This construction allows high pole counts while providing the efficiency and high speed benefits of a laminated construction. Laminated construction is very challenging for a high pole count lightweight motor, but embodiments of the device provide structural strength, and rigidity, as well as other benefits such as low manufacturing cost, high heat dissipation, integrated cooling channels, and light weight construction. Many of these benefits result from the use of a laminate sandwich of non-magnetic, heat conductive material, such as anodized aluminum, as a structural member of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: GENESIS ROBOTICS AND MOTION TECHNOLOGIES CANADA, ULC
    Inventors: James Brent Klassen, Bradley Christopher Pope
  • Patent number: 11018537
    Abstract: A generator comprises as a first part a stack of disc-like annular rotors spaced one from the other and coaxially located upon and rotating with an elongate central member each rotor having an inner annular portion and an outer annular portion, the outer annular portion bearing and/or comprising a magnetic annulus, one or more spacers being coaxially mounted around the central member in between the inner annular portions of each rotor and abutting against them in such manner such as to brace them to remain orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the assembly as well as providing the required spacing therebetween, and as a second part, a stack of annular stators interposed between the rotors and mounted over the spacers but having an inner clearance diameter greater than that of the outer diameter of the portion of spacer over which they are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TIME TO ACT LIMITED
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 10879747
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting wireless power including: a plurality of coils; a position-sensing circuit that determines a position of an electronic device charged by the apparatus; and a control circuit determines at least one coil corresponding to the determined position of the electronic device from among the plurality of coils and transmit wireless charging power through one coil selected from the at least one determined coil. Other embodiments can be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Chul Hong, Kwang-Seob Kim, Dong-Zo Kim, Ji-Won Kim, Keum-Su Song, Min-Cheol Ha, Se-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10866121
    Abstract: A rotational angle sensor includes a stator element and a rotor element. The stator element has a stator transmitting coil, a stator circuit board with first and second planes, and at least two identically configured stator receiving coils arranged within the stator transmitting coil on the stator circuit board angularly offset from each other. The rotor element is mounted rotatably about a rotational axis relative to the stator element. The stator transmitting coil is inductively coupled to the stator receiving coils via the rotor element such that the inductive coupling is configured with reference to a rotational angle between the stator element and the rotor element so that the stator transmitting coil induces at least two angle-dependent alternating voltages in the stator receiving coils. The stator transmitting coil has coil conducting tracks positioned on the first and second planes of the stator circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Utermoehlen, Andreas Merz
  • Patent number: 10855129
    Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a first plurality of conductive paths having first ends at an inner radius of the PCB and second ends at an outer radius of the PCB. The PCB further includes a second plurality of conductive paths having first ends at an outer radius of the PCB and second ends at an inner radius of the PCB. The PCB further includes a first plurality of conductive vias that pass through the PCB at the outer radius of the PCB and couple second ends of the first plurality of conductive paths to first ends of the second plurality of conductive paths. The PCB further includes a second plurality of conductive vias that pass through the PCB at the inner radius of the PCB and electrically couple second ends of the second plurality of conductive paths to first ends of the first plurality of conductive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Samuel William Lenius, Paul Karplus, Alexander Danilo Zbrozek
  • Patent number: 10778071
    Abstract: Provided is a stacking-type stator including: a multi-layered substrate; coil patterns formed in a helical shape to form a plurality of turns on respective substrates of the multi-layered substrate and interconnected through conductive throughholes; a Hall sensor disposed in the multi-layered substrate and disposed at a position deviated from an interface of a magnetic pole of a rotor; and a dead point prevention yoke for setting the position of the rotor such that the Hall sensor is positioned at a position deviated from the interface of the magnetic pole of the rotor. The helical shape coil patterns include: radial direction pattern portions each disposed along a radial direction to generate a torque to rotate the rotor; and inner and outer connection pattern portions that interconnect the radial direction pattern portions and the coil patterns form a stator coil for a single phase motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Soo Kim, Jin Gwan Kim, Hong Geun Lee
  • Patent number: 10749409
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a first bearing. A housing of the stator has a top wall, a bottom wall opposite, a side wall and a first opening in the top wall. A rotating shaft of the rotor has a first magnetic unit having a first outer surface. The first outer surface includes first and second magnetic pole surfaces alternately arranged. The first and second magnetic pole surfaces have different magnetic poles. The first bearing having a first groove is disposed in the first opening. The first magnetic unit is located in the first groove having a first inner surface facing the first outer surface. The first inner surface includes third and fourth magnetic pole surfaces alternately arranged. The third and fourth magnetic pole surfaces have different magnetic pole. The first and third as well as second and fourth magnetic pole surfaces have the same magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Sheng-Lian Lin
  • Patent number: 10731627
    Abstract: The invention is a generator that will recharge its internal storage from as low as a five mile-per-hour wind without typical speed multiplying methods such as gears and pulleys. The invention creates alternating currents from rotating magnets by aligning the polarity of each magnet face in the same direction and wiring opposing sets of coils in series as a single phase. These series-connected sets are wired out-of-phase with each other to produce alternating currents. When mounted in a breezy location, the invention will silently provide reliable and consistent energy to power its internal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Inventors: Timm A Vanderelli, Rodney A Carter
  • Patent number: 10634905
    Abstract: A distance between the rotary shaft and the pressurizing position of the polygon mirror by the mirror fixing spring is shorter than a distance between the rotary shaft and a position at which the polygon mirror comes into contact with the seat surface. When a difference between an outer radius and an inner radius of the polygon mirror is defined as A, and a difference between the distance between the rotary shaft and the pressurizing position of the polygon mirror by the mirror fixing spring and the distance between the rotary shaft and the position at which the polygon mirror comes into contact with the seat surface is defined as C, the relationship of 0<C?A/4 is established. When a distance, in a direction orthogonal to the rotary shaft, between a position at which the inner diameter side of the polygon mirror comes into contact with the sleeve and the position of the seat surface is defined as E, the relationship of A/3?E?A/2 is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Fukui, Masahiko Anko, Koji Hiraguchi
  • Patent number: 10637338
    Abstract: A rotary generator comprising: at least one magnetic annulus pair comprising a first magnetic annulus and a second magnetic annulus with a gap therebetween; a coil annulus in the gap; the first and second magnetic annuli and the coil annulus having a common axis; the first and second magnetic annuli of the at least one magnetic annulus pair each having: a sequence of principle permanent magnets spaced around the common axis with alternating north and south poles facing the gap, corresponding principle permanent magnets of the first and second magnetic annuli of a magnetic annulus pair, with unlike poles facing the gap, facing each other across the gap such that lines of magnetic flux cross the gap between the corresponding principle permanent magnets, and a sequence of intermediate permanent magnets, each of the intermediate permanent magnets being positioned between two of the principle permanent magnets, each intermediate permanent magnet having adjacent the gap a north pole facing a side of the principle p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TIME TO ACT LIMITED
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 10630157
    Abstract: An axial flux machine (100) is provided, in which the rotor (104) is cooled via air cooling, provided by impeller blades (140) located on the opposite side of the rotor (104) to the stator (102). An impeller cover (142) covers the impeller blades (140) such that air channels are defined between adjacent blades. The air channels have an air inlet (146) at an inner radial portion of the rotor (104), and an air outlet (146) at the outer radial extremity of the impeller blades (140). As the rotor (104) turns, the air is drawn through the air channel from the air inlet (144) to the air outlet (146). The motor (100) may be enclosed within a housing (120), in which case air ducting (150,152) may be used to guide air to the air inlet (144), and from the air outlet (146) to the outside of the housing (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: YASA LIMITED
    Inventor: Christopher Thomas McCaw
  • Patent number: 10576501
    Abstract: There is provided a vibration generation device superior in responsivity compared to the related art. The vibration generation device includes a stator, a rotor provided to the stator so as to be able to rotate around the central axis, and having a weight having a gravity center at a position shifted from the central axis, and an air resistance reduction part provided to the weight, and reducing the air resistance to the weight when the rotor rotates. The weight is formed to have a semicircular shape viewed from the axial direction, and the air resistance reduction part has an arcuate part adapted to connect an end edge on the upstream side in the rotational direction of the rotor in the outer circumferential surface of the weight and an end edge on the downstream side in the rotational direction to each other so as to form a circular arc shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iino, Masao Kasuga
  • Patent number: 10570924
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an integrated motor-compressor assembly including a rotating impeller to compress a fluid passing therethrough, and diffuser vanes radially spaced from the impeller, each of the diffuser vanes including a stator winding therearound, the stator windings being supplied with current to generate sufficient magnetic flux for rotating the impeller. Embodiments provide an integrated motor-compressor assembly including a volute casing housing a rotating impeller to compress a fluid passing therethrough, a stator fixedly positioned in the volute casing proximate to the impeller, the stator including stator poles axially spaced from the impeller, each of the stator poles including a stator winding, the stator windings being supplied with current to generate sufficient axial magnetic flux for rotating the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Yilmaz Sozer, Jerald K. Cohen, Iftekhar Hasan, Tausif Husain
  • Patent number: 10545033
    Abstract: A multi-turn detector is configured to detect an amount of multiple turns of an input shaft using a plurality of resolvers. Each resolver includes a rotor portion and a stator portion. The rotor portion has a rotor core composed of a magnetic flux modulating component. The rotor portion rotates in accordance with rotation of the input shaft at a reduction gear ratio that is different from that of a rotor portion of another resolver. The stator portion has an excitation winding that excites an ac magnetic flux in a direction of an axis of rotation of the rotor portion and two detection windings that output ac signals that are obtained by performing amplitude modulation in accordance with a rotation angle of the rotor portion. The excitation windings and the detection windings of the plurality of resolvers are formed by conductor traces in a common multi-layer printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: OKUMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasukazu Hayashi, Koji Kitagawa, Yasunori Kawakami, Hiroaki Matsuura
  • Patent number: 10410998
    Abstract: A micro-LED module is disclosed. The micro-LED module includes: a micro-LED including a plurality of LED cells, each of which includes a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer; a submount substrate mounted with the micro-LED; a plurality of electrode pads formed on the micro-LED cells; a plurality of electrodes formed corresponding to the plurality of electrode pads on the submount substrate; a plurality of connection members through which the plurality of electrode pads are connected to the corresponding plurality of electrodes; and a gap fill layer formed in the gap between the micro-LED and the submount substrate and having a bonding strength to the micro-LED and the submount substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LUMENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daewon Kim, Eunsung Shin, Myungji Moon, Hanbeet Chang, Yongpil Kim, Jaesoon Park
  • Patent number: 10326325
    Abstract: Disclosed are a rotor that is capable of more efficiently using magnetic flux from magnets and a motor including the same. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores, a plurality of magnets magnetized such that magnetic flux is formed in the circumferential direction, the magnets and the rotor cores being alternately arranged in the circumferential direction, a coupler connected to a shaft, and a rotor frame including a coupler base connected to the coupler, an extension base extending from the coupler base in the radial direction, and a rotary base extending from the extension base in the axial direction of the shaft for supporting the rotor cores and the magnets while surrounding the rotor cores and the magnets, wherein the coupler base, the extension base, and the rotary base are integrally formed by injection molding, and the rotor frame is coupled to the coupler, the rotor cores, and the magnets, and wherein the extension base is provided with crossing ribs that cross in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jangwon Lee, Seungsuk Oh, Heon Lee, Junho Ahn, Jaemin Kim, Dosun Kim, Hyounguk Nam
  • Patent number: 10256687
    Abstract: A rotor element configured for movement relative to a stator includes a backing member formed, at least in part, from a ferromagnetic material; a first magnetic pole having a first polarity; and a second magnetic pole having a second polarity, opposite the first polarity. The first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole are coupled to a first surface of the backing member such that the second magnetic pole is disposed, relative to the first magnetic pole, at a distance defined in a direction of a width of the backing member. A thickness of the backing member is varied along the width of the backing member to form a plurality of alternating first portions and second portions. The first portions include protrusions extending from a second surface of the backing member, opposite the first surface, such that the first portions are thicker than the second portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Boulder Wind Power, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10250087
    Abstract: Disclosed is an asynchronous rotating electric machine in which none of the electrical windings is rotating, said machine having a homopolar compound structure. The machine comprises: a rotor including magnetic flux return parts; and a stator formed by a pair of armatures and a magnetic wedge connecting the armatures and providing the magnetic flux in the direction of the axis of rotation, an annular induction coil being supplied with alternating current and housed between the air gap and the wedge, and one or two armature coils being received by one or both of the armatures generating an alternating magnetic flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Francecol Technology
    Inventors: François Bernot, Victor Bernaola, Jonh Edwin Morales Morales
  • Patent number: 10230321
    Abstract: A motor drive for driving a permanent magnet electrical machine includes an inverter having switches that are selectively operated to control current flow and terminal voltages in the electrical machine and a controller operatively connected to the inverter to control switching of the switches to control the current flow and terminal voltages in the electrical machine. The controller receives inputs regarding at least one of currents and voltages provided to the electrical machine on one or more phases, analyzes the voltages and currents to identify a fault in the electrical machine, and controls switching of the plurality of switches in the inverter to modify current flow and terminal voltages in the electrical machine based on the identified fault, with the modified current flow and terminal voltages in the electrical machine preventing demagnetization of the permanent magnets in the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Francesco Papini, Tiziana Bertoncelli, Mohamed Osama
  • Patent number: 10189051
    Abstract: In an exemplary preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, a vibration motor comprises a base portion, a magnet, and a vibrator portion, a cover portion, and an elastic member. The base portion expands perpendicular to a vertical center axis. The magnet is a single member which is fixed to an upper side of the base portion in the vertical direction. The vibrator portion is disposed around the magnet and vibrates in a vertical direction. The cover portion covers upper and side portions of the magnet and the vibrator portion. The cover portion is fixed to the base portion. The elastic member is disposed between an upper inner surface of the cover portion and a top portion of the vibrator portion. The vibrator portion includes a coil portion and a mass portion. The coil portion faces the magnet in a radial direction. The mass portion is fixed to the coil portion. The magnet includes a plurality of magnetic pole pairs and a non-magnetic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zendi Mori, Takayuki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10180818
    Abstract: A rotary fader apparatus includes a fader control knob that is directly attached to the rotor of a non-contact electrical motor. The apparatus may produce a fade effect based on the rotational position of the fader control knob and may be automated through signals to the motor. Such a rotary fader apparatus may be used, for example, in audio mixing applications to provide automated or manual rotary control of track fading. The motor may also be used to alter the feel of the movement of the fader control knob and/or provide tactile feedback in response to mixing parameters or signal properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sound Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Anderson, Steven Popovich, Paul Isaacs, Jason McDonald
  • Patent number: 10148198
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a high voltage direct current using electric-field generators are disclosed. The electric field generator can comprise a rotor member, rotor poles coupled to the rotor member, stator poles corresponding to the rotor poles, and a dielectric medium positioned between the corresponding stator and rotor poles. The method can comprise applying an electric field between corresponding stator and rotor poles, receiving a mechanical energy input causing the rotor member to rotate, changing an alignment of the corresponding stator and rotor poles as a result of the rotation of the rotor member, increasing the voltage of the electric field between the corresponding stator and rotor poles as a result of the alignment change of the corresponding stator and rotor poles, and discharging the electric field to place a charge on a DC bus when the voltage of the electric field reaches a predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Electric Force Motors, Inc.
    Inventor: Weston Clute Johnson
  • Patent number: 10135310
    Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include a housing having coupling structures configured to mechanically couple the housing to a second housing of a second module. In addition, the housing can include electrical elements configured to electrically couple the housing to the second housing. A rotor can be rotatably mounted to the housing. The rotor can include an axis and a magnet. A stator can be mounted to the housing coaxially with the rotor. The stator can include a printed circuit board (PCB) having a PCB layer comprising a coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Bernhard L. Schuler, Rich Lee, Jorgen Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10093062
    Abstract: The invention provides a building block for a mechanical construction. The invention further provides a bearing and a method of producing the building block. The building block provides a first printed material printed via an additive manufacturing process on or at least partially embedded in a second material. The first printed material is printed in a pattern configured and constructed for cooperating with a sensor for providing position information of the building block relative to the sensor. The sensor may be a magnetic sensor or an optical sensor. The first printed material may include magnetic particles. The method of producing the building block may include a step of adding the first printed material to the second material via the additive manufacturing process under the influence of a predefined magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Alejandro Sanz, Stellario Barbera