Plural Units Or Plural Paths Patents (Class 310/59)
  • Patent number: 11973406
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electric machine (25) which comprises a rotor support (2). The rotor support has cylindrical inner and outer shells (3, 4). A magnetic flux-carrying rotor component has first and second end faces (6, 7) and carries the cylindrical outer shell (4). A rotationally shaft section (8) is arranged in an inside space (9) of the rotor support and mounted coaxially with the rotor support. At least in the area of the first end face (6) the outer shell has first teeth which face toward the magnetic flux-carrying rotor component and a first tooth base between respective pairs of first teeth, and at least in the area of the second end face (7) the outer shell (4) has second teeth which face toward the magnetic flux-carrying rotor component and a second tooth base between respective pairs of second teeth. The invention also relates to an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Rayk Gersten, Stefan Spühler, David Wörzler, Martin Christians, Martin Jelinewski, Alexander Baur
  • Patent number: 11967879
    Abstract: A first bracket in an electric motor includes an inflow path through which outside air flows inside, and an outflow path through which the air having flowed in flows outside. A stator core included in the electric motor includes a first ventilation path that is coupled with the inflow path and a second ventilation path that is coupled with the outflow path. A second bracket includes a third ventilation path that forms a flow path from the first ventilation path to the second ventilation path positioned symmetrically to the first ventilation path with respect to a plane containing a rotation axis. The air having flowed into the inside of the electric motor through the inflow path passes, in order, through the first ventilation path, the third ventilation path, and the second ventilation path, and flows out to the outside of the electric motor through the outflow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ajioka, Kazuki Iwasa, Seiji Haga
  • Patent number: 11949317
    Abstract: A frame included in an electric motor has an inflow hole that allows outside air to flow in an interior of the electric motor and an outflow hole that allows the outside air having flowed in to flow out of the electric motor. The electric motor includes a first partition member forming a first ventilation path between the first partition member and the frame, and a second partition member forming a second ventilation path between the second partition member and the frame. In addition, the stator has a third ventilation path penetrating through the stator from one end to another end of the stator in a direction of a rotational axis and configured to communicate with the first ventilation path and the second ventilation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ajioka, Tetsuya Sakurada, Seiji Haga, Kazuki Iwasa
  • Patent number: 11909262
    Abstract: An electrical machine assembly includes a stator. The stator includes a core, windings assembled into the core, and a back iron heat exchanger mounted to the core. A first end plate is mounted at a first end of the core and back iron heat exchanger. A second end plate is mounted at a second end of the core and back iron heat exchanger opposite the first end plate. A coolant circuit passes from a coolant inlet in the back iron heat exchanger, through the back iron heat exchanger, into the first end plate, out of the first end plate, through the core, into the second end plate, and out of the second end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ashutosh Joshi, Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 11894750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor comprising: a motor housing; a stator which is provided in the motor housing and has a coil; a rotor installed in the stator to be rotatable about a rotary shaft; and a spray hole which is formed in the circumferential surface of the rotor by passing through the circumferential surface in a radial direction and which sprays a cooling fluid in the motor housing onto the coil according to the rotation of the rotor. Therefore, cooling by oil convection can be accelerated while minimizing resistance due to the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongsu Kim, Jungwook Moon, Changhum Jo, Minjung Kim, Taehee Kwak
  • Patent number: 11873826
    Abstract: An electric machine for a work vehicle including a housing, a stator assembly positioned inside the housing, and a rotor assembly rotatably connected to the housing via a bearing. The rotor assembly is positioned to form an air gap between the stator assembly and the rotor assembly. A front air dam is positioned at a first end of the housing and adjacent to the air gap. The front air dam includes an external barrier, an internal barrier, an opening in the internal barrier, and a passageway in the internal barrier. A fan is attached to the rotor assembly and positioned within the housing. The fan generates a first air flow towards the air gap and a second air flow through the passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald D. Bremner
  • Patent number: 11876419
    Abstract: An electric motor comprises a rotor and a stator having a yoke. The yoke includes a plurality of teeth mounted to the yoke and being aligned substantially parallel to an axis of rotation of the motor, each tooth including a first radial end adjacent to the yoke and a second radial end extending from the yoke, a plurality of field coils, each field coil being wrapped around a tooth, and a coolant circulation path including a first coolant channel defined between adjacent field coils and a second coolant channel defined between adjacent field coils and between the first radial ends of adjacent teeth. A third coolant channel may be defined between adjacent field coils and between the second radial ends of adjacent teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Wagner, Scott MacAfee, Hans Leuthold, Jeff Cortes, Martin van der Geest
  • Patent number: 11799350
    Abstract: An electric machine, characterized by two partial machines, each of which has a housing with a bottom-side end wall, in which in each case a stator and a rotor having a hollow rotor arm is accommodated, the two housings being arranged adjacent to one another with their bottom side end walls, with a common distribution device being provided in a cavity between the two housings for distributing a coolant that is used to cool the rotors and which is coupled with at least one housing-side inlet via which the coolant is supplied, and at least one housing-side outlet via which the coolant is discharged, and which is formed to distribute the coolant supplied into both hollow rotor arms and to guide the coolant flowing back from it to the at least one outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Jason Cox, Zsolt Bárány
  • Patent number: 11777353
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes: a winding formed of a bundle of conducting wires; a stator core including a slot in which the winding is disposed; and an insulating paper disposed between the stator core and the winding in the slot, wherein the conducting wires have a self-fusing property, the insulating paper has a foam layer, and a coolant channel is formed between the conducting wires of the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taku Ueda, Noriyuki Yagi, Fumiya Nishii, Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 11750060
    Abstract: An electric drive unit that includes an electric motor having a rotor with a rotor shaft and a heat exchanger that is received in the rotor shaft. The heat exchanger has a plurality of heat exchanger plates, each of which having a hub, a rim member, and disc spring portion that interconnects the hub and the rib member. Each disk spring portion defines a plurality of coolant apertures. The heat exchanger plates are press-fit to the rotor shaft such that each disc spring portion is deflected from a pre-installation state, and each rim member is engaged to an interior surface of the rotor shaft while being spaced apart from adjacent rim members along a rotational axis of the rotor. A first coolant passage is disposed through the hubs of the plates. The coolant apertures in the heat exchanger plates cooperate to form a plurality of second coolant passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Ronning, Paul J. Valente, Christopher D. Pump, Frederick E. Zink, Bangalore Lingaraj Yashwanth
  • Patent number: 11725649
    Abstract: A pump assembly and a high-pressure cleaning apparatus, the pump assembly includes a motor assembly, a motor housing for receiving the motor assembly, a transmission assembly driven by the motor assembly, a pump, and a pipe assembly connecting the motor housing and the pump. Mutually independent heat dissipation portions are provided at two sides of the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chunlin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11658533
    Abstract: An electric machine for an electrified vehicle includes a stator core configured to receive a plurality of windings and an overmolded midsection formed about the stator core. The midsection also defines a first interlocking feature disposed near an end face of the stator core. The electric machine also includes an end cap defining at least a portion of a coolant channel and a second interlocking feature configured to engage the first interlocking feature and create a fluid seal to retain fluid within the coolant channel. The coolant channel is further arranged to encase end portions of the plurality of windings and direct circulating coolant across the end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti, Myung Ki Sung
  • Patent number: 11652378
    Abstract: A laminated core for an electric machine has at least one cooling duct which runs within the laminated core and can be flowed through by a cooling fluid for cooling the laminated core. The cooling duct has at least one first throughflow opening which can be flowed through by the cooling fluid and penetrates an outer circumferential-side shell face of the laminated core, which shell face points toward the outside in the radial direction of the laminated core. The cooling duct further has at least one second throughflow opening which can be flowed through by the cooling fluid and penetrates an inner circumferential-side shell face of the laminated core, which shell face points toward the inside in the radial direction of the laminated core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dragoljub Duricic, Alexander Maier
  • Patent number: 11642992
    Abstract: A motor assembly for a vehicle seat assembly is provided with an electric motor having a motor shaft for rotation in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, a first fluid transfer device driven by the motor shaft to provide fluid flow therefrom, a one-way clutch assembly driven by the motor shaft, and a second fluid transfer device driven by the motor shaft via the clutch assembly to provide fluid flow therefrom when the clutch assembly is engaged. The second fluid transfer device is decoupled from the motor shaft when the clutch assembly is disengaged. A seat assembly having the motor assembly, and a method of controlling the seat assembly are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Hallock, David Abdella, Samuel Blair
  • Patent number: 11646613
    Abstract: A stator for an electrical machine, with at least one laminated stator core, and with at least one end cap following the laminated stator core in the axial direction of the stator, at least one line element, which is formed separately from the end cap and separately from the laminated stator core and has at least one first cooling channel, through which a cooling medium for cooling the stator may flow, being provided, having a first length region, extending in the laminated stator core, and a second length region, which extends in the end cap, which has at least one second cooling channel, through which the cooling medium may flow and which is fluidically connected to the first cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Marek Lewandowski, Markus Hövermann
  • Patent number: 11637468
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, having a laminated core, which is arranged on a shaft and provided with magnets. Multiple individual adjoining plates pushed onto a shaft or of partial laminated cores having multiple plates have a central borehole accommodating the shaft. At least a part of the plates or partial laminated cores are pushed onto the shaft pivoted by a predetermined pivot angle (?). Every plate or partial laminated core includes multiple coolant passages arranged distributed around the center (Z) of the borehole. The angle offset of two adjacent coolant passages corresponds to the pivot angle (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Weber, Lars Wetterau
  • Patent number: 11613173
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a motor. The cooling structure includes a gear case, an inverter, and a cooling flow path. The gear case has an outer face and an inner face, and contains a gear mechanism and an oil. The inverter is provided on the outer face of the gear case, and configured to be electrically coupled to the motor. The cooling flow path is provided between the inner face of the gear case and the inverter, and configured to allow a refrigerant to flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11578658
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-speed turbo machine enabling cooling thermal equilibrium and, more particularly, to a high-speed turbo machine enabling cooling thermal equilibrium, the high-speed turbo machine maximizing the cooling efficiency thereof by compressing and discharging external air suctioned therein, cooling an air compressor in a suction air-cooling method, decreasing a flow path of air for cooling the inside of the turbo machine and the air compressor, and optimizing the flow path. Accordingly, the present invention uses the suction air-cooling method and guides the flow of air for cooling the turbo machine through a specific path, so that it maximizes the efficiency and durability of the turbo machine, the cost reduction owing to the structural simplification of the turbo machine, and the easiness of maintenance by preventing an increase in temperature of the inside of the turbomachine casing (100) and the air compressor (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TURBOWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11569706
    Abstract: An electric machine comprising at least one housing in which a rotor having coolant guide vanes provided at an end face is accommodated, and an annular cooling fin structure through which coolant conveyed by the coolant guide vanes is passed and having cooling fins which are axially covered by an annular cover section in such a way that there is an inlet area for the coolant supplied by the coolant guide vanes and an outlet area, wherein the cooling fin structure is formed on a side of an axial end wall of the housing facing the interior of the housing, on which an annular disk-shaped cover forming the cover section is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Jason Cox, Zsolt Bárány
  • Patent number: 11552523
    Abstract: Electrical generators having one or more conformal support and cooling devices for use in supporting and cooling rotating elements of the generator are disclosed herein. An electrical generator includes a housing, a shaft disposed axially through the housing, a rotor assembly including a plurality of poles that are disposed within the housing and mounted on the shaft, a support wedge disposed between two of the plurality of poles. The conformal support and cooling device includes an internal cooling channel in a helical configuration or a V-shape configuration that extends from a first length-wise end of the support and cooling device to a second length-wise end of the support and cooling device. Additive manufacturing processes are employed to fabricate the conformal support and cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Tom Phielix, Donald Godfrey, Erek Walker, Regina Lockard, Balwinder Birdi, Shreyas Iyer, Ben Wilson, Todd Coulam, Sean Byrnes, Kristen Van Osten
  • Patent number: 11515746
    Abstract: A cooling mechanism for a vehicle electric motor. The cooling mechanism includes: a coolant oil passage provided between a rotor core and a rotor shaft of the electric motor; an oil supply passage provided inside the rotor shaft and communicating with the coolant oil passage; and at least one first discharge port and at least one second discharge port provided in respective first and second end plates disposed on respective opposite sides of the rotor core. The coolant oil passage includes a first passage portion communicating with the at least one first discharge port, and a second passage portion communicating with the at least one second discharge port. Each of the at least one first discharge port is located in a position that is different from a position of any one of the at least one second discharge port as seen in an axial direction of the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takahashi, Junichi Yokota, Yasunari Furuta
  • Patent number: 11437888
    Abstract: A medium conveying and heat exchange device and a vortex flow separator for an iron core of an electromagnetic device is provided. The vortex flow separator includes a jet pipe and a vortex flow separation pipe, the vortex flow separation pipe includes a vortex flow chamber, a cold end pipe section and a hot end pipe section. Compressed airflow flows through the jet pipe to form spiral airflow and flow into the vortex flow chamber in a tangential direction thereof. A valve having a cone-shaped surface is arranged inside the hot end pipe section, central airflow of the spiral airflow passes by the cone-shaped surface of the valve and flows back, and is cooled to become cold airflow, and then flows out from the cold end pipe section, to serve as cooling and drying airflow of the input electromagnetic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengjun Ma
  • Patent number: 11424651
    Abstract: A rotor that includes a shaft; a rotor core that is attached to the shaft and that is configured of a plurality of electric steel plates that are stacked; and a permanent magnet that is embedded in the rotor core, wherein: a coolant supply port that supplies a coolant to the rotor core is provided in the shaft, and at least two electric steel plates of the plurality of electric steel plates each include a first portion that has a first thickness in a rotational axis direction and a second portion that has a second thickness in the rotational axis direction, which is thinner than the first portion, the second portion extending in a radial direction and configuring a flow path through which the coolant supplied from the coolant supply port of the shaft flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Ikemoto, Takefumi Komaki, Tsuyoshi Miyaji, Takamasa Takeuchi, Teppei Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11398757
    Abstract: An electric motor includes one or more channels or grooves for directing fluid along the rotor as the rotor rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawata, Andrew Page
  • Patent number: 11387693
    Abstract: A thrust assembly motor is described, which can be used in a distributed electric propulsion system. The thrust assembly motor may include a revolved-wedge shaped ring on a leading edge of a motor stator, with a row of axial stator blades extending therefrom. The revolved-wedge shaped ring provides a mounting surface for the axial stator blade row while also controlling the ratio of airflow mass entering the outer gap versus the inner gap. The axial stator blade row, mounted to the revolved-wedge shaped ring, is configured to convert tangential kinetic energy (i.e., associated with a velocity component of the airflow) in the cooling airflow aft of the cooling fan rotors into static pressure rise after interaction with the axial stator blade row, during flight of the hybrid-propulsion aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
    Inventor: Garrett Steven Hennig
  • Patent number: 11378080
    Abstract: In a compressor, a sufficient insulation distance is ensured between a motor and a compression mechanism, and the amount of lubricating oil that flows out with refrigerant discharged from the compressor is reduced, while the volume of the compressor is reduced. The compressor includes: a compression mechanism that compresses refrigerant; a motor unit above the compression mechanism to drive the compression mechanism; a shell that houses the compression mechanism and the motor unit; and a lower insulating member between the compression mechanism and the motor unit. The motor unit includes a stator fixed to the shell, and a rotor spaced from an inner circumferential surface of the stator by a predetermined gap. The rotor has a rotor passage that causes spaces above and below the motor unit to communicate with each other, and the lower insulating member is in a region outward of the inner circumferential surface of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Iyanagi
  • Patent number: 11380520
    Abstract: Rf power is supplied to a vacuum processing module in that in the plasma processing module a time invariant impedance transform is performed by an impedance transform network in the plasma processing module and a time variable matching is performed by a matchbox connected to the impedance transform network. The impedance transform network includes an inductive element of a hollow conductor. A cooling medium is flown through the hollow conductor of the impedance transform network as well as through a part of the plasma processing module to be cooled and not being part of the impedance transform network at the plasma processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: EVATEC AG
    Inventors: Stefan Rhyner, Martin Bless
  • Patent number: 11293456
    Abstract: An electric liquid pump includes a casing having a central portion, rear cover and front cover, having an inlet and an outlet for the liquid. The central portion has first and second compartments, with the second compartment in fluid communication with the front cover interior. The pump includes an impeller and an electric motor, for operating the impeller, a stator housed in the first compartment, a rotor, coaxial with the stator, housed in the second compartment and an electronic card for supplying the stator at least partly housed in the rear cover. The central portion includes a plurality of walls delimiting a plurality of gaps in fluid communication with the second compartment and the front cover interior such that the liquid circulates in the gaps. The walls at least partly face the stator such that the liquid circulating in the corresponding gap removes heat from the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SPAL AUTOMOTIVE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 11275000
    Abstract: Variable temperature analytical instruments are provided that can include: a mobile component comprising a cold source; a substantially fixed analysis component; and an interface configured to couple the mobile component with the analysis component. Variable temperature analytical instruments are also provided that can include: a mobile analysis component; a substantially fixed component comprising a cold source; and an interface configured to couple the mobile component with the analysis component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Montana Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Josh Doherty, Jamesen Motley, William Baker, Joseph Evers, Ben Linkenhoker, Luke Mauritsen, Ryan Murdick, Anjan Reijnders
  • Patent number: 11261880
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor driven by a shaft and configured to compress air and a motor for driving the shaft. At least one bearing facilitates rotation of the shaft. A motor cooling loop is configured to provide motor cooling air to the motor. A bearing cooling loop is configured to provide bearing cooling air to the at least one bearing. A bearing support is configured to support the least one bearing, the bearing support includes an opening. A duct is configured to communicate air from the opening to an inlet of the compressor. A method for cooling a compressor is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Brent J. Merritt, Craig M. Beers, John M. Beck
  • Patent number: 11255215
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an electrical device and a microchannel cooling system in communication with the electrical device to remove heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Snyder
  • Patent number: 11245295
    Abstract: A rotor is provided. The rotor includes a main body, a plurality of magnets and a plurality of magnet-receiving slots. The plurality of magnet-receiving slots are disposed on the main body and disposed around a central axis. Each two adjacent magnet-receiving slots are symmetrical to each other. Each magnet-receiving slot includes a slot body and a first flux barrier connected with each other. Each magnet is contained in the corresponding slot body. Each first flux barriers includes a respective arc-cutting start point. A minimum arc-cutting distance is formed between the two respective arc-cutting start points. Each of the two respective arc-cutting start points is extended toward the central axis along an arc with a first arc length radius to define a first arc-cutting end point. The first arc length radius is greater than or equal to 0.2 times of the minimum arc-cutting distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsiang Liu, Ta-Chien Yeh, Hsiang-Yun Hsiao, Chia-Hsiang Yang
  • Patent number: 11201523
    Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, a reduction gear including an intermediate gear to rotate about an intermediate axis and connected to the motor, a differential including a ring gear to rotate about a differential axis and connected to the reduction gear, a housing including a housing space to house the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential, oil in a vertically lower region of the housing space, and an oil passage to lead the oil from the vertically lower region of the housing space to be fed to the motor. The housing includes a ceiling portion directly above the reduction gear and the differential. At least a portion of the ring gear is lower than a liquid surface of the oil in the vertically lower region of the housing space. The motor axis, the intermediate axis, and the differential axis extend in parallel with one another along a horizontal direction. Each of the intermediate axis and the differential axis is lower than the motor axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Yasuo Yamaguchi, Takayuki Migita
  • Patent number: 11183898
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine that achieves high motor efficiency with little loss. This rotary electric machine is equipped with: a stator core arranged opposing the circumferential surface of a rotor, and in which multiple slots, wherein openings opening toward the rotor are formed, are formed in the circumferential direction; and coils inserted into the slots. A mixture of a soft magnetic powder and a resin material is formed in the openings of the slots, and the relative permeability of the mixture is 5-35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Genzo Iwaki, Kazuo Nishihama, Katsuya Hirata, Atsushi Abe
  • Patent number: 11183907
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrical machine includes forming a plurality of laminations for a stator or a rotor, each lamination including a cooling aperture; stacking the laminations together, the cooling apertures being aligned to form a cooling passage; securing the stacked laminations together; and sealing the laminations together at at least one desired location by applying metal plating to the stacked and secured laminations at the at least one desired location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Chenjie Lin, Sheng Zhong, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 11171535
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electric motor assembly includes a stator assembly extending generally along the longitudinal axis and at least partially enclosing a rotor assembly also extending along the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly includes a rotating portion and one or more sets of rotor windings. The stator assembly includes a stationary housing having at least an inner wall and an outer wall, and one or more sets of stator windings in electromagnetic communication with the one or more sets of rotor windings. A heat exchanger is integrally formed into the housing, and includes a plurality of dividing walls extending between the inner and outer housing walls. The plurality of dividing walls are arranged at least partially circumferentially around the longitudinal axis to define, with the inner and outer walls, a corresponding plurality of integral heat exchanger channels arranged at least partially circumferentially around the one or more sets of stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge Lam-Ki, Roberto J. Perez
  • Patent number: 11152827
    Abstract: An end plate for a rotor assembly of an electrical machine includes a central through-opening for a shaft, a collar formed on an end face of the end plate on the radial outside in the circumferential direction and a plurality of elevations on the end face. The elevations and collar axially delimit a cooling channel, wherein the cooling channel forms a plurality of cooling channel sections on both sides by a respective elevation. Two elevations delimiting a cooling channel section are spaced apart from one another by a first arc length at a first radial position between the through-opening and the collar and are spaced apart from one another by a second arc length greater than the first arc length at a second radial position delimited by the collar. Each cooling channel section includes at least one fluid guide element between the first radial position and the second radial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Krais, Philipp Söntgerath, Sebastian Waider
  • Patent number: 11143203
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor driven by a shaft and configured to compress air, and a motor for driving the shaft. At least one bearing is utilized for facilitating rotation of the shaft. A motor cooling loop is configured to provide motor cooling air to the motor. A bearing cooling loop is configured to provide bearing cooling air to the at least one bearing. A bearing support is configured to support the least one bearing. The rotor includes an opening which is configured to communicate bearing cooling air into a cavity between the rotor and the bearing support. A method for cooling a compressor is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brent J. Merritt, Craig M. Beers, John M. Beck
  • Patent number: 11146145
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electrodynamic machine is provided. The rotor assembly comprises a lamination section and an end connector. The lamination section comprises rotor lamination sheets formed to define an annular array of axial cooling ducts mechanically supported by a plurality of radial and arched structural members that define an array of arched or angled supports to readily pass a magnetic flux via an optimal flux path. The lamination section further comprises rotor slots, with rotor conductor bars being disposed in the rotor slots. The end connector is supported by the rotor conductor bars. An axial space is formed in the lamination section by the annular array of axial cooling ducts for guiding a cooling fluid flow in an axial direction through the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Lang, Ryan Edward Queen
  • Patent number: 11047603
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft extending in the direction of an axis, and a rotor core including a central hole in which the shaft is inserted. The central hole includes a first central hole, a second central hole, and a third central hole in the direction of the axis. A distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the third central hole is larger than a distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the second central hole. The distance from the axis to the inner circumferential surface of the second central hole is larger than a distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the first central hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Takanori Watanabe, Ryogo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11038390
    Abstract: Electrical machine apparatus comprising: a rotor having an axis of rotation and defining a cavity therein; and a conduit positioned within the cavity of the rotor, the conduit comprising an inlet arranged to receive a fluid and an outlet arranged to exhaust the fluid, the inlet having a first radial distance from the axis of rotation and the outlet having a second radial distance from the axis of rotation, the first radial distance being greater than the second radial distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Rory D. Stieger
  • Patent number: 10985624
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor has a shaft and a rotor laminated core connected to the shaft. A coolant duct is formed in the rotor in order to enable coolant to flow through the coolant duct. The coolant duct has a first portion, which runs at least in regions in the rotor laminated core. The rotor laminated core has a sleeve on the outer circumferential surface in order to avoid coolant escaping at the outer circumferential surface of the rotor laminated core. In a method for producing a rotor, a material having glass fibers or carbon fibers and a resin are applied to the rotor laminated core, and the resin is subsequently cured in order to produce the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventors: Philipp Berendes, Bernhard Wiedemann, Stefan Oechslen, Jan David Schmitz-Hübsch
  • Patent number: 10938280
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a stator; a shaft; a rotor mounted on the shaft, the rotor having an end ring that is concentric with the shaft; and a flux shield around the shaft inside the end ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantinos Laskaris, Andrew D. Baglino, Chad Furey, David F. Nelson
  • Patent number: 10931173
    Abstract: A combined cooling and abrasion particles removal system and method for providing cooling and removing abrasion particles in a contact region between a brush and a slip ring of an electromechanical machine, the system comprising a passage for accommodating the brush and having a front opening adapted to face the slip ring, at least one supply tube with an outlet for blowing a gaseous medium at least partially into a direction towards a free space adjacent to the front opening, and at least one suction tube with an inlet opening for sucking off the gaseous medium and the abrasion particles from the free space. In order to pick up abrasion particles and provide sufficient cooling, the free space merges with a vortex chamber for generating a vortex of the gaseous medium carrying the abrasion particles in operation of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: GE Renewable Technologies
    Inventors: Stefan Baumeister, Sebastien Bruna, Jerome Hamburger, Thierry Auzolle
  • Patent number: 10903707
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance machine includes a stator and a rotor spaced apart from the stator by an air gap. The rotor is rotatably mounted about an axis and has laminations arranged axially behind one another. Each lamination has an anisotropic magnetic structure formed by flux blocking sections and flux conducting sections, wherein the flux blocking sections and the flux conducting sections form poles of the rotor. The flux blocking sections form axial channels, wherein in at least some flux blocking sections permanent magnets are provided that do not completely occupy the respective flux blocking section and thus allow axial airflow in all flux blocking sections. The laminated core of the rotor is axially subdivided into at least two component laminated cores, with radial cooling gaps formed between the poles in the region of the q axis as viewed in circumferential direction and between the component laminated cores as viewed axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Roland Zeichfüssl
  • Patent number: 10892667
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that has a motor shaft disposed along a central axis extending in an axial direction; a stator facing the rotor with a gap interposed therebetween in a radial direction; a motor driving inverter unit supplying electric power from a battery to the stator; a charger having a charger inverter unit that charges the battery; and a housing accommodating the stator, the motor driving inverter unit and the charger The housing has a cooling flow path through which a coolant flows, a stator accommodation unit accommodating the stator, an inverter accommodation unit positioned outside the stator accommodation unit in the radial direction, a charger accommodation unit positioned outside the stator accommodation unit in the radial direction, and an intermediate partitioning wall partitioning the inverter accommodation unit and the charger accommodation unit The cooling flow path is disposed in the intermediate partitioning wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Okuhata
  • Patent number: 10888965
    Abstract: A constant temperature water supply apparatus includes a temperature adjustment unit that circulates cooling water and adjusts the temperature of a spindle unit of a processing apparatus and a processing water temperature adjustment unit. The temperature adjustment unit includes a pump that sends the cooling water to the spindle unit, a cooling water cooling unit, a first pipe that connects the pump and the cooling unit, a second pipe that connects the cooling unit and the spindle unit, and a third pipe that connects the spindle unit and the pump. The processing water temperature adjustment unit includes a processing water pipe that has one end connected to a water source and supplies processing water from the other end side to a processing tool and a heat exchange unit on the processing water pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Jun Saito
  • Patent number: 10886819
    Abstract: According to various aspects disclosed herein, exemplary embodiments of an electric machine with direct winding heat exchange is disclosed, including a stator, a rotor, at least one coil positioned on a stator tooth of the stator, with the coil comprising one or more turns of a conductor and an insulator, where the insulator and coil form a monolithic body having at least one facet at an angle that corresponds to the geometry of a stator slot of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: J. Rhett Mayor, S. Andrew Semidey
  • Patent number: 10833553
    Abstract: An electric motor including a structure that prevents intrusion of a foreign substance into the electric motor, and a machine tool including the electric motor. A hollow tube that fluidly connects an inner portion of a terminal box and an outer surface of a front flange is provided, and a through hole extending from the outer surface to a front space is formed. The inner portion of the terminal box and the front space communicate with each other through a flow path that is fluidly cut off from an interior space of the machine or other such machine tool and air in the terminal box automatically flows into the front space through the flow path in accordance with rotation of a rotor as described above. Also, the terminal box is fluidly connected with an amplifier provided outside of the machine through an air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhito Mukai
  • Patent number: 10788050
    Abstract: An electric compressor for compressing a gas, particularly configured for use in a motor vehicle, comprising a control unit, an electric motor controlled by the control unit, a compressor wheel driven by the electric motor, and a housing at least partially surrounding the electric motor. The housing is produced by an encapsulation method such that a cooling structure is formed integrally with the housing, in particular within the housing, for ensuring cooling of the electric motor and of the control unit. A method for producing the electric compressor of this kind is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS EFP DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Back, Michael Hofer, Nicolai Schmolzer, Gernot Steinmair, Gerd Schlager