Dirt, Moisture Or Explosion Proof Patents (Class 310/88)
  • Publication number: 20130048891
    Abstract: A torque motor includes an armature support, a flapper, and a flexible metallic seal. The armature support comprises a base, an armature-flapper support, and a plurality of springs. The armature is coupled to the armature-flapper support. The flapper is coupled to the flapper support and to the armature, and extends through the first and third flapper openings, and extends at least partially into the second flapper opening. The flexible metallic seal surrounds a portion of the flapper, and has a first end, a second end, and a plurality of convolutions between the first end and the second end. The first end is disposed between and hermetically connected to the flapper and the armature, and the second end is disposed within the first opening and hermetically connected to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: David Druhan, Dan Carter
  • Publication number: 20130049503
    Abstract: A housing of an electric motor is fitted with an oil seal having the function of sealing an output shaft (rotary shaft) of the motor. The housing is provided with a hole for motor airtightness testing communicating with an internal space of the motor. A local or annular projection configured to close the hole for motor airtightness testing, thereby maintaining the airtightness of the internal space of the electric motor, is disposed on that surface of the oil seal which faces the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto FUNAKUBO
  • Patent number: 8378548
    Abstract: The present approaches provide a current control assembly with a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a drain for channeling contaminants away from the assembly and the rotor includes one or more slots that rotate with the rotor for outwardly slinging the contaminants. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes the current control assembly having a first ring including a first shaft opening and a first discharge opening. The current control assembly also includes a second ring having a second shaft opening and a second discharge opening, wherein the first and second rings rotate relative to one another, and the first and second discharge openings align with one another to discharge a contaminant. The current control assembly further includes a plurality of conductive filaments configured to transfer current between the current control assembly and a shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Hieyoung W. Oh, Jeffrey W. Richardson
  • Patent number: 8373323
    Abstract: A motor, including: a body, including a housing, a stator, and a rotor; and a controller, including a control box, and a control board. The body is disposed at the top of the motor. The controller is disposed at the bottom of the motor. The control board is disposed in the control box. A debug window is disposed on side wall or at the bottom of the control box. A sealing cover is disposed on the debug window. The sealing cover can be opened. The control board can be exposed for wire connection, adjustment of parameters of electronic components, and fixation of a rotating shaft according to requirements of users for installation and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Zhingshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Songfa Tang, Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 8357862
    Abstract: Pressurized rotary machine comprising a canned or sleeved assembly of which the electrical connections are connected to the outside of the machine by an electric supply duct, the electrical connections passing from the canned or sleeved assembly to the outside via the electric supply duct by passing in succession through first, second and third hermetically sealed bushings, none of these hermetically sealed bushings through which the electrical connections pass being exposed to a pressurized gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Societe de Mecanique Magnetique
    Inventor: Luc Baudelocque
  • Patent number: 8344584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stator of an electric motor and a washing machine having the same, wherein the stator includes a stator core of a stack of bases each with a plurality of poles, an insulator having an upper insulator and a lower insulator fastened to the stator core, a plurality of fastening portions each having a fastening hole for fastening the stator, and a plurality of connection portions each having a plurality of vertical ribs for connecting the insulator to each of the fastening portions, wherein the insulator, the fastening portions, and the connection portions are injection molded as one unit, with the stator core inserted thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: In Geun Ahn, Min Kyu Lim
  • Patent number: 8339004
    Abstract: A motor, including a body, including a housing, a stator, and a rotor, and a controller, including a control box, and a control circuit board. The body is disposed at the top of the motor. The controller is disposed at the bottom of the motor. The control circuit board is disposed in the control box. A rotary dip switch is disposed at the bottom of the control box. The control circuit board includes a power board, and a control board. The rotary dip switch is electrically connected to the control board. The rotary dip switch controls different functions of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Songfa Tang, Yong Zhao
  • Publication number: 20120313469
    Abstract: A waterproof and salt spray-resistant fan motor structure includes a base, a stator assembly, a case, and at least one circuit board. The base has a bearing cup vertically projected from one side thereof. The stator assembly is externally fitted around the bearing cup, and includes a plurality of silicon steel plates having windings mounted thereon. The case is arranged between the base and the stator assembly and internally defines a closed space, and the circuit board is located in the closed space. With these arrangements, the case protects the circuit board against corrosion by water and salt spray, enabling a fan to have largely extended service life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen-Hao Liu
  • Patent number: 8314525
    Abstract: An electrical actuator comprising a housing of plastic with a reversible low voltage motor (2), electrical equipment for controlling and supplying the motor with power, where the electrical equipment (19,15) is enclosed in an enclosure (20) of fire resistant material. By this the housing (1) can be designed according to strength, hygiene and sealing, while fire prevention as a result of defect in the electrical equipment can be limited to the separate enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Linak A/S
    Inventors: Tom T. Kragh, René Sørensen, Finn Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 8314526
    Abstract: An engine generator is disclosed in which an engine drives a generator and causes a cooling fan to rotate to cool the generator. The generator includes an intake duct having an intake port provided in a lower portion thereof and oriented downward. Moisture-containing outside air sucked through the intake port impinges on a barrier plate disposed in the intake duct. The barrier plate is located above the intake port and faces the intake port. The moisture adheres to the barrier plate in the form of water droplets, which then fall toward the intake port after having separated from the outside air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Toru Fukuda, Yuki Satoh, Ryuji Tsuru, Kosei Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20120267967
    Abstract: A stator arrangement particularly suitable for use in an air-cooled generator or other such electric machine includes a stator with an outer stator surface, an opening therein defining an inner stator surface, and longitudinally opposed stator end surfaces. Conductive coils are supported by the stator, and include end turns overlying the longitudinally opposed stator end surfaces. In order to block out environmental contaminants and prevent conductive coil shorting, protective barriers are mounted over the end turns and secured to the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Kollmorgen Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley A. Trago, Stephen Mark Fields
  • Patent number: 8283823
    Abstract: A motor shield covered on a motor of a drainage device over a cooling vane is disclosed to include a shield body having an arched portion and a straight portion, a guide wall disposed in the shield body and having an arched segment and a straight segment connected to the straight portion of the shield body, an airflow zone defined in the shield body in an interference relationship relative to the cooling vane and surrounded by the arched segment and straight segment of the guide wall and the arched portion and straight portion of the shield body, horizontally extending air outlets and vertically extending air outlets respectively located on the arched portion and straight portion of the shield body, and air inlets located on the periphery of the shield body. During rotation of the cooling vane, a flow of air is induced to carry heat out of the shield body through the vertically and horizontally extending air outlets efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Holimay Corporation
    Inventor: Yu-Ming Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8269380
    Abstract: A brushless motor, to be used in a washing machine, includes a stator, a rotor, a magnetic sensor, and a drive circuit. The magnetic sensor and the drive circuit are accommodated in a case, and sealed with moisture-proof sealing resin, thereby forming a drive circuit unit, which is built in the brushless motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Amaya, Masahiko Morisaki
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8246329
    Abstract: A fan includes a bracket, a stator, a rotor, and a slanting portion. The bracket includes a tray, and a frame circling the tray. The stator is mounted to and circled by the frame. The rotor includes a shaft rotatably mounted to the stator, and a shell coupled to the shaft. The shell covers the stator, and the shell and the tray of the bracket cooperatively enclose the stator. An assembly clearance is formed between a bottom end of the shell and a top surface of the tray. The slanting portion circles the tray and extends down from the bottom end of the shell, slanting away and spaced from the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bing-Jian Li
  • Patent number: 8237318
    Abstract: A motor positioning structure is constructed by providing a plurality of positioning pins 28, 29 for positioning a circuit board 22 on a case 21 of a circuit main body 3 and also providing receiving holes 35, 36 for receiving the positioning pins 28, 29 in a frame 4 on the side of a stator in a motor main body 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ikitake, Toshiyuki Umemoto, Kenta Hatano, Toshihiko Miyake
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8235688
    Abstract: A fan includes a bracket, a stator, and a rotor. The bracket includes a tray, and a frame circling the tray. The stator is mounted to the tray and circled by the frame. The rotor includes a shaft, and a shell covering the stator. The rotor shell includes a top board, and a cylindrical hollow sleeve extending down perpendicularly from the top board. The shaft extends down perpendicularly from a center of the top board, and is rotatably mounted to the stator. A lower portion of the sleeve bounds a circumference of the tray. An assembly clearance is formed between the lower portion of the sleeve and the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xu-Sheng Han
  • Patent number: 8227948
    Abstract: An electric motor includes an upper housing, a lower housing including a flange for mounting the upper housing thereon and a cone-shaped portion extending away from the flange and the upper housing. The electric motor further includes a stator assembly formed of a first core having a first height and fitted into the upper housing, a rotor assembly rigidly joined to a shaft to rotate therewith in the stator assembly and formed of a second core having a second height, and a hub connected to a lower end of the shaft to rotate therewith in relation to the cone-shaped portion. The hub is configured to secure an operable implement to the electric motor. The second height is greater than the first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Ivan E. Fox, Christopher K. Wyatt, Jim Hendershot
  • Patent number: 8227947
    Abstract: An electric motor is provided that is configured for operation in hazardous or other hazardous environments. The electric motor includes a housing for a rotor and a stator. The housing includes a pair of end caps and a casing positioned therebetween. The end caps and the casing are held together using internal tie bars extending between and connected to the end caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Stainless Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: John Christen Oleson, Andrew David Cook
  • Publication number: 20120183421
    Abstract: “Provided is a water pump motor that implements a waterproof structure of a motor using a cover to seal a stator, and a water pump using the same. The water pump motor includes: a lower case on top of which a cylindrical protrusion is provided; a stator whose lower portion is supported on top of the protrusion and is sealed by the lower case; a stator case that is formed of an annular trench shape that seals the inner circumferential portion; a rotational shaft whose lower portion is rotatably supported by a groove; a rotor placed at the upper-inner circumferential portion of the stator case and at the center of which the rotational shaft is coupled to thus rotate according to an action with respect to the stator; and an upper case coupled with the lower case in an inverted cup shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byoung Soo KIM
  • Patent number: 8217539
    Abstract: An electric motor comprising an annular stator core, a resin molding the stator core, a casing member housing the stator core, wherein the casing member has an opening, and the resin is filled into the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Ueta, Hiroaki Sagara, Takeshi Nagao, Takashi Uchino, Kenji Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8212443
    Abstract: A motor includes a motor body and a housing for covering and accommodating the motor body. The housing includes a seat and a cover. The seat has at least one first connecting portion disposed at the circumference of the seat, and the cover has at least one second connecting portion disposed at the circumference of the cover and corresponding to the first connecting portion. The first and second connecting portions are connected by the relative movement of the seat and the cover, so that the seat and the cover can be combined tightly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Ren Chen, Hung-Chi Chen
  • Publication number: 20120134792
    Abstract: A waterproof and dustproof fan motor structure includes a base, an annular enclosure, and a stator assembly. The base has a vertically forward extended bearing cup; the annular enclosure internally defines a closed annular space and is externally fitted around the bearing cup; and the stator assembly is disposed in the closed annular space of the enclosure. The waterproof and dustproof fan motor structure can be assembled to a frame and a rotor assembly to complete a fan. With the stator assembly disposed in the closed annular space of the enclosure, the fan motor is protected against damage caused by moisture and dust, and the stator assembly can be easily removed from the closed annular space for necessary maintenance and repair to thereby reduce the bad yield and the manufacturing cost of fan and fan motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bill Wu
  • Publication number: 20120104887
    Abstract: A resin protective cover is prepared so as to have a cup shape that is constituted by a floor portion and a tubular peripheral wall portion, and that can be mounted to a rear bracket so as to cover a rectifying apparatus and a voltage regulator that are disposed axially outside the rear bracket. The protective cover includes an engaging hook that includes: a shank portion that is disposed so as to extend from an opening end of the peripheral wall portion; and a hook portion that is disposed so as to project radially outward from a tip end of the shank portion, and the protective cover is held on the rear bracket elastically in an engaged state by the engaging hook being inserted into an engaging aperture that is formed on a casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori TANAKA, Toshiyuki OONISHI
  • Patent number: 8148861
    Abstract: A canned or sleeved rotary machine is equipped with a rotor (101) in contact with a particle-laden, acidic or corrosive gaseous atmosphere, and with a functional electrical assembly such as a magnetic bearing comprising a rotor armature (106) secured to the rotor (101) and placed in the gaseous atmosphere and a stator armature (104) secured to a stationary support (102) and positioned facing the rotor armature (106), the stator armature (104) comprising at least one winding (142, 143) and a ferromagnetic body (141) which are positioned in a protective metal enclosure comprising a solid part secured to the stationary support (102) or coincident therewith, a thin can or sleeve (103) and a hermetic passage (108) for wiring (108a) supplying the windings (142, 143).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Societe de Mecanique Magnetique
    Inventors: Luc Baudelocque, David Moulin
  • Patent number: 8136817
    Abstract: A tool holder plate (51) is fixed to a shaft end part (413) of a hollow motor shaft (41) of a brushless DC servo motor (1), and a cutting tool is mounted in a tool mounting hole (51a) formed in the tool holder plate (51) and a work is cut-processed by this cutting tool. In order to prevent intrusion of a cutting processing oil containing cutting powder into the inside of the motor from between the shaft end part (411) of the hollow motor shaft (41) and an end plate portion (22) of a motor housing (2), a labyrinth seal (55) including a double circular groove (553, 555) having a fine width extended in the axis direction (1a) is formed between a metal plate (53), the tool holder plate (51), and the shaft end part (411). The other shaft end part (414) is also formed with a labyrinth seal (56) of the same structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyoto Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120032542
    Abstract: A water-proof dust-proof and salty-mist proof cooling fan, comprising: a fan frame, which is provided with a fixing round stage inside, and a fixing sleeve is disposed in a center of said fixing round stage; a ring-shaped U slot is provided in a bottom end surface of said round stage, such that a sealing circle is provided in said ring-shaped U slot; a water-proof cover body, fixedly connected to said fan frame through said sealing circle; and a fan-blade hub, where an inverse cone-shaped fixing table is provided protruding from a cavity center of said fan-blade hub, and said fixing table is connected to a main axis. Said round stage is a blind hole, with its open end provided at a bottom portion of said fan frame, such that said round stage, said sealing circle, and said cover body together form a tight-sealing enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: ROTECHNIC COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: CHING-TANG LIU, TAI-YING LU, TUNG-SHENG YI
  • Publication number: 20120025646
    Abstract: An electrical motor has been developed having an epoxy, which encapsulates a stator winding to protect the stator winding from the humid and damp atmosphere associated with a cooling tower. The electrical motor includes a stator core, a stator winding configured about the stator core, and an epoxy encapsulating at least an end portion of the stator winding, the epoxy enabling the stator winding to be isolated from an atmosphere surrounding a fan within in a cooling tower operated by the electrical motor in which the stator core and the stator winding are positioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventors: Kent A. Sheeran, Charles J. Roessler, Ralph D. Furmanek, John H. Hussey
  • Patent number: 8106553
    Abstract: A spindle motor component of hard disk with composite coating layer and a composite coating method hereof. The spindle motor component of hard disk includes a motor component base (1) and the composite coating layer which is coated on the base (1). The composite coating layer consists of an electrodepositing coating layer (2) and a spraying coating layer (3). The composite coating method includes a step of coating the electrodepositing coating layer (2) on the surface of the motor component base (1) and coating the spraying coating layer (3) on the electrodepositing coating layer (2), wherein the weight ratio of tin in the electrodepositing coating layer (2) is between 60 ppm to 300 ppm and the weight ratio of tin in the spraying coating layer (3) is no more than 50 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Chengdu Galaxy Magnets Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinzhou He, Yan Dai
  • Publication number: 20120013212
    Abstract: A fluid deflecting baffle is provided for use on an electric motor to be used in an environment where liquid may otherwise pass through a vent opening in an endshield of the motor. The baffle is secureable to the endshield and extends in a partial covering relationship with the vent opening. The baffle includes a vent passage therethrough and has at least one liquid flow obstructing louver that extends across the vent opening to deflect liquid away from the vent passage while allowing venting air to flow through the vent passage. The louver includes a generally flat liquid deflection surface that is disposed at an oblique angle relative to the axis of the motor and at least partially faces a venting direction of incoming air and fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: NIDEC MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jose L. Vadillo, Raymond D. Heilman, John G. Schrader, James D. Ellis, II, Patrick M. Jones
  • Publication number: 20110273038
    Abstract: A fan assembly includes a motor ring and an electric motor supported by the motor ring and including an output shaft defining a central axis, a brush assembly, and a motor end shield having at least one aperture and disposed adjacent the brush assembly. The fan assembly further includes a splash shield adjacent the motor end shield. The splash shield includes a rim having an inner surface in facing relationship with the motor end shield and configured to direct an airflow between the motor end shield and the splash shield in a substantially radial direction toward the central axis, and configured to redirect the substantially radial airflow through the aperture in a direction having both a radial and an axial component with respect to the central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Naman, Bhaskar Ray
  • Patent number: 8049386
    Abstract: A seal cartridge for a generator includes a housing which defines an annular cavity. An axial load spring and a seal ring within the annular cavity such that the seal ring is biased by the axial load spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Henry R. Vanderzyden
  • Patent number: 8040005
    Abstract: A housing assembly for an electric motor includes a sealed plastic enclosure having a body portion having a nose and an open end opposite from the nose. The open end provides access to an interior region of the plastic enclosure. The housing assembly also includes a metal sleeve located within the interior region of the plastic enclosure, and a magnet structure located within an interior region of the metal sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Irfan A. Bhatti
  • Publication number: 20110248586
    Abstract: A motor for use in a volatile environment includes a rotor exposed to the volatile environment, electronics for rotating the rotor, an impervious ceramic barrier separating the electronics and the rotor, and a flexible seal for preventing the volatile environment from contacting the electronics and for minimizing vibratory and twisting loads upon the barrier to minimize damage to the barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: George A. M'Sadoques, Michael R. Carra, Durwood M. Beringer
  • Patent number: 8026645
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric drive, particularly a windshield wiper drive for vehicles, comprising an electric motor (10) in a crucible-shaped, preferably metal, motor housing (14), a gearbox housing (16) that is attached to the motor housing (14), and an arrangement for the interference suppression of the motor (10). According to the invention, at least one choke coil (46, 48) for the interference suppression of the motor (10) is disposed in the transition region from the motor housing (14) to the gearbox housing (16), wherein in this transition region means (36, 56) are provided in order to shield the filtered coil end (47, 49) projecting into the gearbox housing (16) from the interfering radiation produced by the motor (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Stubner, Martin Heyder, Matthias Koesters, Norbert Martin
  • Publication number: 20110193436
    Abstract: The invention provides an electric motor (10), with a housing (12) and a cover (14) which closes the housing (12) at one axial end and carries a bearing (15) for a drive shaft (13) led through. The electric motor (10) is characterized by a partitioning (20), provided on the side of the bearing (15) facing the interior of the housing (16), of a functional part in the housing (12) to prevent media, for example liquid, from getting into the interior of the housing (16) from outside at the bearing (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Richter
  • Patent number: 7990005
    Abstract: An improved power tool system includes a power tool and an external power supply connected via a cable to provide utility and safety in a hazardous operation such as loading ammunition into a weapon in an environment of flammable materials and extreme environmental exposure. The power tool includes a sparkless motor, a sparkless controller and sparkless switches, in a sealed enclosure with improved heat transfer means. The power tool has improved torque controlling means to mitigate reaction torque to the operator and equipment when starting or stopping highly inertial loads. A sealed enclosure is provided to prevent liquids from entering the motor and controller cavity and includes a thermally conductive path to conduct heat from the motor and controller through the enclosure to cooling fins and a coolant path formed between the fins and an entrapment wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Atlas Dynamic Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Richard T. Walter, Michael L. O'Banion
  • Patent number: 7990004
    Abstract: A reduction drive device is compact, hardly causes an electric motor thereof to vibrate, and has improved noise/vibration controllability. The reduction drive device includes the electric motor attached to a casing and capable of outputting torque, first and second reduction mechanisms supported by the casing, to reduce and transmit the rotational output of the electric motor, and a rear differential supported by the casing, to distribute the rotational output reduced by the first and second reduction mechanisms to a pair of axle shafts. Rotor, stator, and brush of the electric motor partly overlap the rear differential when seen in a rotation radius direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Torque Technology KK
    Inventors: Masashi Aikawa, Masayuki Sayama, Yoshiyuki Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 7976292
    Abstract: An inner-rotor-type heat dissipating fan includes a fan housing, a seal casing, an inner-rotor-type motor, an impeller and a circuit board. The fan housing includes an outer frame portion and a motor casing. The seal casing is a hollow housing made of magnetically conductive material. One end of the seal casing forms a connecting portion coupling to the motor casing. The inner-rotor-type motor is mounted inside the seal casing. The impeller is coupled to the inner-rotor-type motor and outside the seal casing. The circuit board is electrically connected to the stator. By this configuration, rotation stability of the impeller is enhanced by the inner-rotor-type motor, airflow generated by rotation of the impeller is effectively concentrated and guided by the fan housing, and a sealing effect for avoiding magnetic flux leakage is provided by the seal casing. Consequently, heat dissipating efficiency is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Tso-Kuo Yin
  • Patent number: 7972450
    Abstract: A magnet comprising grains of a ferromagnetic material whose main component is iron and a fluorine compound layer or an oxy-fluorine compound layer of fluoride compound particles of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements, present on the surface of the ferromagnetic material grains, wherein an amount of iron atoms in the fluorine compound particles is 1 to 50 atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20110156515
    Abstract: A structure of waterproof motor for an electric rotating axle of a roasting stove is disclosed, the motor can be installed on the roasting stove to allow rotation of the electric rotating axle for operating the roasting stove, the waterproof motor includes a housing composed of an upper cover and a lower lid, inside the housing there is a receiving space in which a fixing seat is provided on the lower lid; the fixing seat is provided thereon with a waterproof sleeve and a driving member which has a dynamic axle, the dynamic axle is extended through the waterproof sleeve to link with the electric rotating axle to rotate it; the structure is endued with an effect of avoiding invading of water vapor against the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: Kao Hsung Tsung
  • Patent number: 7960881
    Abstract: An electric motor comprises a stator, a rotor, and an interface plate. The interface plate is fixed to the stator and is configured to couple the electric motor to a pump. The interface plate comprises a shaft opening, a cavity, a ventilation passageway, a fluid discharge portion, a drainage passageway, and an upwardly extending surface. The rotor shaft extends horizontally through the shaft opening. The cavity is in communication with the shaft opening. The ventilation passageway extends upward from the cavity and is in communication with the cavity and with the ambient air. The drainage passageway is in communication with and extends downward from the cavity. The drainage passageway is configured to channel liquid downward from the cavity and to the fluid discharge portion. The upwardly extending surface is positioned where the upwardly extending surface will inhibit liquid from migrating from the fluid discharge portion to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen J. Burton
  • Publication number: 20110133585
    Abstract: A security-improved sealed electric machine includes a casing (2) housing a stator (3) and a rotor (4) supported by a rotor shaft (5) coming out from the casing (2). Between the casing (2) and the rotor shaft (5), seal rings (7) are provided for sealing the casing interior against the outer environment. Emergency seal rings (10) between the casing (2) and the rotor shaft (5) can assume a deactivated configuration during normal operation of the electric machine and an activated configuration in case of failure of the seal rings (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventor: Klaus Langenbacher
  • Publication number: 20110120073
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a water resistant electric motor and method of assembly. The motor includes a housing with a main body having a rear endbell, a stator compartment with stator windings, and a first ball bearing. The motor includes a lid having a second ball bearing, and a rotor with a shaft having a first end positioned in the first ball bearing and a second end positioned in the second ball bearing. An epoxy coating is used to overmold the stator compartment, the stator windings, and the rotor. The motor includes a printed circuit board assembly treated with an adhesion promotor and positioned adjacent to the rotor and stator windings. A silicone sealant is used to encapsulate the printed circuit board assembly, the rotor, and the stator windings and reacts with the adhesion promotor. The motor includes a gasket between the lid and the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: Ron Flanary
  • Patent number: 7915773
    Abstract: A robot includes a plurality of motors that drive respective joint shafts and gas-tight chambers in which the motors are disposed. The robot is placed in a second ambience, and at least one of the joint shafts is provided with a hollow motor integrated with a reduction gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventor: Shingi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110031830
    Abstract: An electric motor is provided that is configured for operation in hazardous or other hazardous environments. The electric motor includes a housing for a rotor and a stator. The housing includes a pair of end caps and a casing positioned therebetween. The end caps and the casing are held together using internal tie bars extending between and connected to the end caps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: Stainless Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: John Christen Oleson, Andrew David Cook
  • Publication number: 20110031831
    Abstract: A housing attachment for an electric machine is constructed in compliance with protection class IP 23 and includes a first projected edge disposed at a first border wall such that water located in the middle section at the first border wall drips off no later than at the first projected edge and is led directly or indirectly to the first air inlet opening. Proximate to the first air inlet opening are first laminates which deflect incoming air flowing into the feed air channel to a second edge area. Proximate to the second air outlet opening are second laminates that impart to the flow direction of the outgoing air leaving the outlet air channel a component directed to the top of the electric machine. Third laminates are disposed in an end area of the outlet air channel to deflect the outlet air flowing in the outlet air channel away from the top of the electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Hümer, Ekkehard Ressel, Sebastian Weiss
  • Patent number: 7876012
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine comprising a stator having a plurality of slots and teeth, armature windings wound around the teeth, and a rotor disposed inside the stator, wherein an alloy member is disposed in the inner periphery of the stator and the magnetic compensator has its surface or inside thereof a high resistance layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Noriaki Hino
  • Publication number: 20110012451
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrical connection for an electric motor having a casing which houses a drive device, embodied especially a stator in a casing interior. The drive device is contacted via a conductor, embodied especially in the form of a pin. The conductor is guided from the exterior into the interior of the casing via a casing opening. A cylindrical sealing element is provided on the casing opening in the casing interior to seal the conductor from the casing opening. The sealing element is provided with a continuous collar and a through-opening through which the conductor extends and in which the conductor is sealed in the through-opening via at least one radial sealing lip that is formed in the through-opening on the sealing element and that rests on a surface of the conductor. The conductor is then sealed towards the housing via at least one axial sealing lip that is formed on the collar and that rests on an inside of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20110006623
    Abstract: A component housing in a motor-vehicle drive train is sealed by pressurization of the housing interior. The component is a hybrid module (1) comprising at least one electric machine provided between the combustion engine (VM) and the gearing (G) of the motor-vehicle drive train. The pressurization is achieved by a rotating component (R, RA, M, F) of the hybrid module. The rotating component is designed in a manner similar to an impeller of a centrifugal pump. Therefore, rotation of the component builds up a positive pressure (P) on the radially outer region of the rotating component in the region of the housing (GE) in the interior of the hybrid module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Werner Schiek, Nils Sauvlet, Immo Stache
  • Patent number: 7868497
    Abstract: An airtight-type electric motor capable of reducing vibration is provided. Inside ribs of a pair of end brackets and are respectively fitted into core end portions of a stator core. Outside ribs of the pair of end brackets and are respectively brought into contact against end surfaces of the core end portions of a yoke of the stator core. With this arrangement, the pair of end brackets and are fixed to the stator core, and a housing and the stator core are arranged, without being coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Miyairi, Ikuo Takeshita, Koji Nakatake, Hisayuki Miyajima