Circulation Patents (Class 310/58)
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Patent number: 11973372Abstract: An electric machine (1) for driving a motor vehicle includes a stator (2) having at least one winding overhang (9, 10). Cooling fluid is flowable in the area of the at least one winding overhang (9, 10) to receive heat from the at least one winding overhang (9, 10). Air is flowable in the area of the at least one winding overhang (9, 10) to receive heat from the cooling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Martin Lang, Thomas Auer, Maria Lang
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Patent number: 11967883Abstract: Ceiling fans suspended from a structure have a motor to drive blades for moving a volume of air about an area. The motor, with a rotor and stator, can be electrically coupled to the structure. Blades mount to the rotor such that the blades are rotatably driven by the motor. A motor case can mount to the rotor and encase the stator.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Hunter Fan CompanyInventors: Charles William Botkin, Bobby Neal Norwood, Douglas Troy Mason
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Patent number: 11967887Abstract: The present invention provides a motor apparatus having a motor, comprising: a fan that is rotatably supported by a shaft member of the motor, and sends, in a centrifugal direction by rotation, gas taken from an axial direction of the shaft member; and a cover member that covers the fan so as to allow the gas sent in the centrifugal direction from the fan to flow along an outer surface of the motor, wherein the cover member has a blowout port that blows out some of the gas sent in the centrifugal direction from the fan in the centrifugal direction to cool an external mechanism of the motor apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Matsunaga, Kazuhisa Fujiwara, Hiroshi Mizuguchi
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Patent number: 11967867Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a field element that includes a magnet portion that includes a plurality of magnetic poles; an armature that includes an armature winding of multiple phases; and a power converter that is electrically connected to the armature winding. The rotating electric machine also includes: a plurality of electrical components that configure the power converter; and a housing member that includes a cylindrical portion that is provided on a radially inner side of a magnetic circuit portion that includes the magnet portion and the armature winding, and to which the plurality of electrical components are disposed. The cylindrical portion is provided with a coolant passage through which a coolant flows. The plurality of electrical components are arranged in the housing member on a radially inner side of the cylindrical portion, in a circumferential direction along the cylindrical portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa Sano, Yuki Takahashi, Ryota Tanabe, Yuta Hashimoto, Wataru Funatsu, Norihiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 11962188Abstract: An electric machine is provided herein that includes a stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator core having one or more lamination packages. The stator core can define an outer ring and a plurality of teeth extending from the outer ring. A cooling plate may be positioned adjacent to at least one of the one or more lamination packages. The cooling plate can define one or more channels therethrough. One or more windings can be arranged around one or more of the plurality of teeth of the stator core. A rotor can be operably coupled with the stator assembly. A cooling system can be fluidly coupled with the one or more channels of the cooling plate. The cooling system provides a cryogenic fluid through the one or more channels to cool the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Kupiszewski, Anil Kumar Tolpadi
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Patent number: 11955842Abstract: A permanent magnet machine includes a machine housing having an inner surface that extends between a first housing end and a second housing end along a central longitudinal axis. The permanent magnet machine also includes a stator disposed within the machine housing, the stator having a stator core having an exterior surface extending between a first face and a second face along the central longitudinal axis, wherein the exterior surface defines a discontinuous region that is arranged to minimize points of contact between the inner surface and the exterior surface. The discontinuous region is at least partially defined by at least one of a first perturbation and a second perturbation that is circumferentially spaced apart from the first perturbation.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, University of AkronInventors: Kenneth Webber, Delynn Streng, Iftekhar Hasan, Yilmaz Sozer, Alejandro J. Pina Ortega, Jeffrey T. Klass, Mohammed R. Islam
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Patent number: 11942825Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling an electric motor in an electric drive unit are provided. In one example, the electric motor includes a stator and an inverter power module positioned within a motor housing. The inverter power module forms an interface with a peripheral surface of an outer section of stator laminations of the stator, and the stator laminations include a plurality of cutouts forming axially extending oil ducts.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Joachim Druant, Steven Vanhee, Thibault Devreese
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Patent number: 11936277Abstract: A rotary electric machine system making part of a combined power system is equipped with a rotary electric machine having a rotor including a rotating shaft and a rotary electric machine housing in which the rotary electric machine is accommodated. In such a rotary electric machine, a first bearing and a second bearing are disposed between the rotary electric machine housing and the rotating shaft. The gas supplied from the gas supply source flows on an upstream side through a terminal casing in which electric terminal portions are accommodated, and on a downstream side through the first bearing and the second bearing inside the rotary electric machine housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
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Patent number: 11923748Abstract: An improved efficiency cooling plate apparatus for full-scale clean fuel electric-powered aircraft having a cooling body including a plurality of bores, apertures and interior chambers working together to process and circulate fluid coolant and function as a heat sink device, interconnecting with the cooling system of an electric motor and cooperatively functioning to transfer thermal energy away from the electric motor using conduction, convection and radiation, while transporting heated fluid coolant away from heated motor components and to other components of a vehicle for further processing, then returning cooled fluid coolant into the cooling system of an electric motor, effectively partitioning heated fluid coolant, cooled fluid coolant, and electrical circuitry in a space saving design formed from a single part or minimal number of parts to reduce modes of failure and reduce required fasteners or connections to improve robustness and reliability while maintaining suitable aerodynamic characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Alakai Technologies CorporationInventor: Brian D. Morrison
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Patent number: 11923755Abstract: A lubricant supported electric motor includes a stator presenting a stator raceway, and a rotor movable relative to the stator about an axis. The rotor presents a rotor raceway disposed in radially spaced and opposing relationship with the stator raceway to define a gap therebetween. A lubricant is disposed in the gap for supporting the rotor relative to the stator. The stator raceway includes a bearing structure comprised of a plurality of hydrodynamic surfaces aligned in parallel relationship along the stator raceway and a plurality of hydrostatic pockets disposed in radially recessed relationship relative to the hydrodynamic surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Neapco Intellectual Property Holdings, LLCInventors: Donald Remboski, Jacqueline Dedo, Mark Versteyhe, Bruno Lequesne
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Patent number: 11916463Abstract: An arrangement for liquid cooling of an electric machine with a stator and a rotor. The electric machine is enclosed over its outer circumference by a cooling jacket having an input and an output. In an installed position of the electric machine, the input is arranged spatially below a rotational axis of the rotor, and the output is arranged spatially above the rotational axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Gerald Viernekes, Linus Eschenbeck, Christopher Allnoch, Florian Model
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Patent number: 11912424Abstract: An electric engine for a vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft comprising an electric motor assembly including a stator and a rotor. The electric engine may comprise an inverter assembly, a gearbox assembly including a sun gear, and a main shaft including a length of the main shaft that extends from a first end of the main shaft through the gearbox assembly and through the electric motor assembly to a second end of the main shaft. The electric engine may include a hydrodynamic bearing located between the main shaft and sun gear, and a bearing including an inner race mechanically coupled to the main shaft and an outer race mechanically coupled to the rotor. The electric engine may include a bearing including an outer race mechanically coupled to an inner surface of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Archer Aviation Inc.Inventor: Scott Graves
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Patent number: 11916461Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for supporting a motor (1), which comprises two coaxial rings, these being an inner ring (3) able to receive one or more elements of the said motor and an outer ring (4) able to be fixed to a housing forming a structural element (2). The assembly comprises means for limiting the tilting of the inner ring (3) with respect to the outer ring (4), these means including an element (34) which projects from a first of the two rings to become housed in a housing (42) formed in the second of the two rings, and means (7, 22) for reducing the excursion of the element (34) inside the said housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Morgan Le Goff, Geoffroy Capoulun, Emmanuel Rudloff
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Patent number: 11916459Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for an electric motor of a vehicle, and particularly to an electric motor including a coolant spray ring. In one example, a spray ring for an electric motor comprises an outer circumferential surface including a plurality of axial grooves, an inner circumferential surface including a plurality of nozzle orifices in fluidic communication with the plurality of axial grooves, and a plurality of nozzle guide surfaces formed through the spray ring and extending from the plurality of axial grooves to the plurality of nozzle orifices in a direction toward a central opening of the spray ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Darren J. Ziskovsky, Steven Vanhee, Louis Lambourg
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Patent number: 11913473Abstract: A compressor device includes a coolant jacket cooperatively defined by a motor case and an outer motor housing. The coolant jacket includes a radial portion that spans about the motor case in a circumferential direction and an axial direction with respect to the axis of rotation of the motor. The coolant jacket includes an axial portion that spans in a radial direction across an axial end of the motor case. At least one of the plurality of flow passages fluidly connects the radial portion and the axial portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INCInventors: Carlos Chavez Castellanos, Adonis Spathias, Manuel Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11901774Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a coil slot, a sub-slot, and coil airflow paths arranged in the rotor axial direction. At least one coil airflow path among the coil airflow paths includes a first wall surface disposed on a core central portion side of a cooling gas inlet portion of the coil airflow path, a second wall surface disposed on the core central portion side of an inside of the coil airflow path, and located more on the rotor radially outward side and more on a core end portion side than the first wall surface, and a third wall surface configured to connect the first wall surface and the second wall surface, the third wall surface including a surface perpendicular to a rotor radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takashi Harakawa, Shinji Kubo, Yasuo Kabata, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Ryo Fuchimoto, Koji Ando
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Patent number: 11892007Abstract: An impeller is provided, including a metal housing, a shaft, and a plastic member. The metal housing has a shaft mounting hole. The inner surface of the shaft mounting hole includes three or more contact points, and the contact points are closer to the shaft than other portions of the inner surface of the shaft mounting hole. The shaft passes through the shaft mounting hole and is affixed by the contact points. The metal housing divides the shaft into an upper section, a middle section, and a lower section. The plastic member passes through the shaft mounting hole and is in contact with the middle section.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Wei-I Ling, Chao-Fu Yang, Chih-Chung Chen, Kuo-Tung Hsu
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Patent number: 11863052Abstract: A drive device includes a motor including a rotor rotatable about a central axis, a transmission connected to the motor, and a housing including a motor housing accommodating the motor and a transmission housing accommodating the transmission. A first fluid is accommodated in the transmission housing. The housing includes a first flow path through which the first fluid flows and a second flow path through which the second fluid flows. The first flow path includes a supply flow path that supplies the first fluid in the transmission housing to the inside of the motor housing, and a collection flow path that extends from the inside of the motor housing to the inside of the transmission housing. At least a portion of the second flow path is located radially outside the motor. At least a portion of the collection flow path is located radially outside the second flow path.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takamura, Hibiki Takada, Shohei Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11859623Abstract: A cooling system for an electric motor includes means for mixing water with cooling air applied to the motor. The water is preferably provided as a mist of water droplets sprayed into cooling air e.g. cooling air generated by a propulsive element being driven by the motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Sawata, Aaron Day
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Patent number: 11855495Abstract: A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLCInventors: Dean P. Williams, Mark A. Playford, Daniel J. Kernan, Lee Empringham, Liliana V. De Lillo, Christopher J. F. Tighe
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Patent number: 11837943Abstract: A rotor air cooling system including an outer housing and an inner housing configured to be inserted into the outer housing, the inner housing including an open backend. The system further includes a stator attached to an interior side of the inner housing, a main rotor body included in the inner housing, the main rotor body being arranged around a rotor shaft arranged to extend through the inner housing and the outer housing, wherein cooling air axially enters the main rotor body in an inlet end, passes through cavities of the main rotor body, and exits the main rotor body in an outlet end, and a water jacket arranged between the inner housing and the outer housing. Moreover, the system includes a heat exchanger for dissipating heat from the cooling air exiting the main rotor body.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Emil HÃ¥kansson, Johan Brunberg, Johan Andersson
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Patent number: 11831210Abstract: The invention relates to a non-cogging electric generator having at least one stator and at least one dual rotor, wherein the dual rotor comprises a plurality of primary magnet devices arranged in circular Halbach array. Non-cogging is achieved by having inner and outer rotor rotating synchronously. Concentration of magnetic flux is achieved by magnetic devices tapering into pyramidal shape, such that magnetic devices arranged on the inner rotor are facing magnetic devices on the outer rotor, whereas said magnetic devices are facing each other with the opposite polarity. Stator comprises electrical wire windings and is positioned between inner and outer rotor.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Inventor: Mirko Dusan Vojnovic
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Patent number: 11824406Abstract: A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLCInventors: Dean P. Williams, Mark A. Playford, Daniel J. Kernan, Lee Empringham, Liliana V. De Lillo, Christopher J. F. Tighe
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Patent number: 11824426Abstract: The motor cooling member includes: an oil feed port to which oil is fed; a plurality of discharge ports that discharge oil toward a motor; a basis oil passage connected to the oil feed port; and a plurality of derived oil passages each of which is formed by branching from the basis oil passage so as to correspond to each of the plurality of discharge ports and is formed so as to connect the basis oil passage to each of the discharge ports, and which are formed in different shapes from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Terumi Nonaka, Daisuke Shikanai
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Patent number: 11817743Abstract: An electric machine including a stator and a frame, the stator is supported with support necks on the frame in at least two axially spaced support locations. The support locations include a first group of support necks and a second group of support necks. The support necks in the first group are positioned in connection with a vertical centre plane. The second group includes two side support necks positioned opposite to each other at an angular distance above or below a horizontal centre plane. The angular distance is defined by a first angle which is determined in degrees by the formula ?1=(90/P)±(?)*(90/P), where P is the number of poles of the electric machine and P>2.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventors: Timo Holopainen, Juha Pekka Jokinen, Carlos Chavez
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Patent number: 11811290Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electric-machine housing, which effectively solves the technical problem in the prior art that electric machines have high NVH level. The electric-machine housing is circumferentially provided with a plurality of axial tunnels, and the tunnels are empty or are filled with a damping medium. The structure in which the tunnels are empty or the tunnels are filled with the damping medium can weaken the excitation to the electric-machine housing by the stator vibration, increase the damping coefficient of the electric-machine housing, weaken the transfer paths of vibration and noise, and reduce the amplitude of electromagnetic force waves, thereby inhibiting vibration and noise, to effectively reduce the overall NVH level.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: JING-JIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ping Yu, Xinliang Ling, Baojiang Li, Haibin Wang, Minghui Zhang
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Patent number: 11804746Abstract: An electric machine can include a stator core having a plurality of core teeth that define a plurality of core slots in a surface thereof. A winding can be housed at least partially in the core slots. The winding can include a tube defining a channel through at least a portion thereof and one or more wires disposed along a surface of the tube that is opposite the channel. A cooling system can be operably coupled with the channel and configured to move a cooling fluid through the channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Karthik K. Bodla, Naveenan Thiagarajan, Mohamed Osama, John Russell Yagielski, David Allan Torrey, Vandana Prabhakar Rallabandi
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Patent number: 11804754Abstract: An electric motor system includes an electric motor, and a thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a two-phase refrigerant circuit circulating a flow of refrigerant through the electric motor, and a refrigerant-air heat exchanger fluidly connected to the electric motor via the two-phase refrigerant circuit, such that the flow of refrigerant is boiled via heat generated by the electric motor, and returned to a subcooled liquid state to cool the electric motor. A method of dissipating thermal energy from an electric motor includes urging a flow of refrigerant through an electric motor, thereby boiling the flow of refrigerant, directing the flow of refrigerant from the electric motor to a refrigerant-air heat exchanger via a two-phase refrigerant circuit, and cooling the refrigerant to a sub-cooled liquid state at the refrigerant-air heat exchanger via thermal energy exchange with a flow of air through the refrigerant-air heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Kimberly Rae Saviers, Abbas A. Alahyari, Aritra Sur, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
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Patent number: 11799364Abstract: Electric propulsion systems, and methods of operating and implementing same, are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, an electric propulsion system includes an electric motor, a motor drive coupled to the electric motor, and a thermal management subsystem. The electric motor is a permanent magnet synchronous motor, and the motor drive includes each of an inverter including a plurality of wide bandgap semiconductor field effect transistors (FETs), and a controller coupled at least indirectly to the FETs and configured to control the FETs by way of pulse width modulation (PWM) control. Additionally, at least a first portion of the electric motor and at least a second portion of the motor drive are cooled by the thermal management subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Kaney Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Waleed Said, Michael Andres, Adam White
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Patent number: 11799361Abstract: This disclosure relates to thermal management for an electric machine, such as an electric motor, of an electrified vehicle. An example assembly includes a stator having a core and a jacket at least partially surrounding the core. The jacket radially encloses a slot and is configured to permit fluid to flow within the slot from a first face of the stator to a second face of the stator. The assembly further includes a first end cover covering the first face of the stator. The first end cover has an inlet port and is configured to direct fluid from the inlet into the slot. Further, the assembly includes a second end cover covering the second face of the stator and configured to direct fluid that exits the slot.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Man Prakash Gupta, Franco Leonardi, Alfredo R. Munoz, Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti
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Patent number: 11787275Abstract: An electric drive assembly for operation with a component of a work vehicle having an SAE standard hydraulic pump/motor mount includes an electric machine having a shaft and a mounting flange. An adapter housing defines an interior space between a component mounting flange and an electric machine mounting flange. The electric machine mounting flange is sized and configured to mate with the mounting flange of the electric machine. The component mounting flange has a bolt hole pattern and a mounting pad each of a complementary size and configuration to that of the SAE standard hydraulic pump/motor mount. A gear set at least in part disposed in the interior space of the adapter housing is configured to effect a gear ratio change and transfer power between the shaft of the electric machine and a drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Dwayne B. Watt, Randall L. Long
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Patent number: 11788552Abstract: An example rotary machine includes a motor including a rotor and a stator, and a cooling jacket disposed around the stator. The cooling jacket includes an inner body part being cylindrical and in contact with the stator, an outer body part being cylindrical and surrounding the inner body part, and a groove through which a cooling medium passes, the groove circling helically around an outer circumference of the inner body part at least once. The groove has a pair of side surfaces opposed in a direction of an axis of rotation of the rotor, and a bottom surface connected to each of the pair of side surfaces. Each of the pair of side surfaces is formed having a draft angle inclined away from each other, the draft angle inclined relative to a release direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventors: Kuniaki Iizuka, Yuji Sasaki, Tatsumi Inomata, Ryosuke Yumoto, Kai Iijima, Tatsuya Fukui, Hikaru Sugiura, Yoshihito Katsu
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Patent number: 11784527Abstract: A linear motor stator arrangement including a coil arrangement with conductive electrical coils arranged along an axis for generating a magnetic field, a convective cooling device with a fluid line extending along a pathway, a section of the fluid line exhibits as a cooling section outlet ports in a fluid line wall which faces the coil arrangement and are arranged along the pathway with a spacing therebetween, the stator arrangement having a conveyor device which is connected with the fluid line and for conveying a fluid in the fluid line and through the outlet ports to the coil arrangement, wherein the cooling section there are provided along the pathway outlet ports with quantitatively different outlet port cross-sections through which fluid can flow and/or the spacings between two outlet ports arranged immediately one after another along the pathway in different regions of the cooling section along the pathway are quantitatively different.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Intrasys GmbH Innovative TransportsystemeInventors: Arnulf Grimm, Dieter Kraus, Tobias Hollmer
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Patent number: 11781640Abstract: A drive device includes a housing, and a rotary electric machine and a transmission housed in the housing. A lubricating oil for lubricating a gear of the transmission is stored in a bottom portion of the housing. The housing includes a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant for cooling the rotary electric machine flows, and a storage portion adjacent to the refrigerant passage and configured to temporarily store the lubricating oil scooped up by the gear of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Matsuda, Takehito Harata
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Patent number: 11781641Abstract: Arrangement (1) comprising an electric machine (2), a gearbox (3), a shaft (9) coupling the electric machine (2) with the gearbox (3) and having an axial blind bore (18) extending from a machine-side end (19) of the shaft (9) into the gearbox (3), a coolant insertion element (21) configured to supply a coolant into the bore (18) and a coolant conduction element (22) extending inside the bore (18) from the machine-side end (19) into the gearbox (3) and defining a flow path (23) for the inserted coolant.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventor: Arnim-Sebastian Rottach
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Patent number: 11780319Abstract: A drive assembly for a work vehicle includes an electric machine and a transmission assembly, which has a gear set at least in part contained within a transmission housing and has a control orifice communicating with a transmission section of a cooling circuit for the drive assembly being at least in part within the transmission housing. The electric machine has a casing coupled to the transmission housing to be mounted fixedly thereto. The casing has a coolant inlet port and defines an electric machine section of the cooling circuit for the drive assembly that is at least in part within the casing. A controlled flow of coolant is transferred from the electric machine section of the cooling circuit to the transmission section of the cooling circuit via the control orifice.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventor: Randall L. Long
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Patent number: 11777379Abstract: A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLCInventors: Dean P. Williams, Mark A. Playford, Daniel J. Kernan, Lee Empringham, Liliana V. De Lillo, Christopher J. F. Tighe
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Patent number: 11777380Abstract: A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLCInventors: Dean P. Williams, Mark A. Playford, Daniel J. Kernan, Lee Empringham, Liliana V. De Lillo, Christopher J. F. Tighe
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Patent number: 11770082Abstract: An electric motor for viscous pumping, wherein the electric motor is a brushless DC motor configured to be driven by a low DC voltage of around 40-60 VDC, and includes: a rotor with permanent magnets; a stator with a stack of laminations and windings wound therearound; and a controller to provide electronic commutation of electric current flowing through the windings; wherein the windings and the stack of laminations are configured to handle at least 1 kW of continuous electric power from the controller, and the controller includes a feedback circuit including a rotation sensor coupled to the rotor and having an angular resolution of at least 1/500th of a revolution to allow the controller to control the torque generated by the electric motor to a corresponding extent.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Inventor: Lucas Robert Cant
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Patent number: 11764629Abstract: In a stator stack an in-slot cooling system that includes: (a) two or more conductors of a hairpin winding provided within each slot in a first group of the slots, each conductor running axially across the stator stack and being at a different predetermined radial distance from an air gap; and (b) adjacent each slot of the first group of slots at the end that is in the vicinity of the air gap, a bridge portion of the laminating material that closes the slot and forms in the stator stack substantially adjacent the conductor having the shortest predetermined distance from the air gap an axial cooling channel that allows a coolant to flow therein without leakage therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Changhong Liu, Ali Yousefzadi Nobakht, Raymond Ong
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Patent number: 11764652Abstract: Polyphase electrical machine with n phases, n?3, including a casing defining a longitudinal axis, a stator and a rotor including a mechanical drive shaft, the electrical machine being equipped with a power electronics and a coolant circuit and the power electronics is formed of n power electronic modules evenly distributed over an inner circumference of a longitudinal extension of the casing whose outer circumference is covered with a single annular DC bus decoupling capacitor electrically connected to the n power electronic modules, the coolant circuit including a plurality of U-shaped tubes with a tubular outgoing part extending over an entire length of the casing and including the longitudinal casing extension and a shorter tubular return part, extending over a casing length excluding the longitudinal casing extension.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Christelle Saber, Cyrille Gautier, Marwan Ali
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Patent number: 11757327Abstract: A motor (1) including a rotary shaft (2) and a bearing portion (53) including an inner ring and an outer ring and a magnet (51) and a balance adjusting portion (52). The balance adjusting portion (52) and the magnet (51) are fixed. The balance adjusting portion (52) is in contact with an inner ring of the bearing portion (53).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Jun Ohmura
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Patent number: 11757334Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for thermal management of an electric motor via a coolant flow around portions of the electric motor, where the coolant flow is disrupted by an arrangement of pin-fins. In one example, an electric motor comprises: a casing including a coolant inlet arranged opposite to a coolant outlet across a central axis of the electric motor; a stator housed within the casing and forming a plurality of pin-fins extending straight outward radially, relative to the central axis, from outer circumferential surfaces of the stator in a staggered arrangement around an entire perimeter of the stator; and a plurality of clearances formed between adjacent pin-fins of the plurality of pin-fins, the plurality of clearances adapted to flow a coolant from the coolant inlet to the coolant outlet.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Dana Belgium N.V.Inventors: Jaywant S. Pawar, Chetan Prashant, Amol G. Thakare, Steven Vanhee
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Patent number: 11737727Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a body, a plurality of wheels, and control circuitry. The body sends and receives ultrasonic waves to generate an ultrasonic image. The plurality of wheels supports and moves the body. The assist wheel is electrically driven, and assists movement of the body. The control circuitry is configured to control switching between grounded and ungrounded of the assist wheel to a floor.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Onodera, Shingo Toyoda, Shinichiro Kikuchi, Shuta Fujiwara, Yuji Kuwana
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Patent number: 11728715Abstract: An electric motor is provided and includes inner and outer rotors, a stator supportive of back iron radially interposed between the inner and outer rotors and a winding structure. The winding structure includes first phase coils radially interposed between the inner rotor and a first side of the back iron, the first phase coils extending axially along the first side of the back iron, second phase coils radially interposed between a second side of the back iron and the outer rotor, the second phase coils extending axially along the second side of the back iron and end windings respectively extending radially between corresponding ones of the first and second phase coils.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventor: Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
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Patent number: 11722019Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a stator for an electric machine comprising a plurality of stacked laminations each including inwardly facing slots defining inwardly facing teeth configured to receive prewound coils thereonto. Each slot including a generally triangular projection configured and sized as to be in proximity of the prewound coils.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: DANA TM4, INC.Inventors: Ruisheng Shi, Martin Houle, Mohammad Adib Ghadamyari
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Patent number: 11722037Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor having controllable coolant distribution is provided. The motor comprises a motor housing and a rotary shaft connected to a rotor rotatably disposed in the housing. The motor further comprises a stator unit disposed in the housing and comprising conductive windings arranged about the rotor. The windings have a straight portion radially extending to an end-turn portion. The motor further comprises an oil sump disposed on the housing above the stator unit. The oil sump comprises a reservoir having an inner side and an outer side. The reservoir has at least one aperture formed therethrough over the end-turn portion. The motor further comprises a movable nozzle having a first open end extending to a second open end. The first open end is connected to the at least one aperture such that the movable nozzle and reservoir are in fluid communication.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: SeungHwan Keum, Insu Chang, Jun-mo Kang, Young J. Kim
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Patent number: 11715988Abstract: An electrical motor can be selectively configured to operator between a number of different configurations to alter the cooling arrangement. The electric motor can include an enclosure aperture disposed through the motor enclosure that can be selectively sealed or opened by a removable cover plate. When the cover plate is installed, the electric motor can operate with a TEFC configuration in which an internal cooling circuit is isolated from an external fluid source. When the cover plate is removed, the internal airflow can thermally interact with an external airflow from an external fluid source.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Matthew Truett, Christopher A. Stockton, Steven D. Browne
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Patent number: 11705781Abstract: A system and method of active endturn cooling of an electric motor of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises providing a motor having a coolant nozzle and a cam, and measuring speed, lateral acceleration, and road tilt angle of coolant due to road tilt. The method further comprises calculating coolant angle and coolant acceleration angle based on the road tilt angle and the lateral acceleration if the speed is greater than zero. The method further comprises comparing the coolant angle with a critical angle. The method further comprises calculating a first control angle and a first coolant distance based on the road tilt angle and the lateral acceleration of the vehicle if the acceleration angle is greater than the critical angle. The method further comprises determining a cam position based on the first control angle. The method further comprises moving the cam to the position to move the nozzle and compensate for the lateral acceleration such that coolant drops within a target area of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Insu Chang, SeungHwan Keum, Jun-mo Kang, Young J. Kim
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Patent number: 11699941Abstract: A method of electrically grounding a rotor shaft of an electric motor includes removing a first lockplate fastener from a motor endshield and an internal bearing lockplate. A second lockplate fastener remains coupled to the motor endshield and internal bearing lockplate such that the internal bearing lockplate stays secured along an interior side of the motor endshield. A mounting plate of a shaft ground assembly is positioned along an exterior side of the motor endshield. The mounting plate supports a shaft ground that includes a conductive element configured to electrically couple to the rotor shaft. The first lockplate fastener is replaced with a first mounting plate fastener coupled to the mounting plate, motor endshield, and bearing lockplate to secure the mounting plate to the endshield and to secure the bearing lockplate along the interior side of the motor endshield.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Steven R. Palmer, Jeffrey Scott Sherman, Chuck Roessler, Mark C. Dierkes