Patents Assigned to JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
  • Patent number: 12184155
    Abstract: The invention provides a power tool, a motor and a rotor assembly of the motor. The rotor assembly includes a rotating shaft, and a rotor body, a limiting member and a cooling fan fixed on the rotating shaft, the limiting member and the cooling fan are respectively arranged at both axial ends of the rotor body, the rotor body includes a rotor core and magnets fixed in the rotor core, the limiting member and the cooling fan jointly limit an axial displacement and a radial displacement of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Caiyong Zhang, Jinqiang Ju, Kar Wai Lam
  • Patent number: 12110905
    Abstract: A liquid pump includes a pump house with an electric motor housed therein, a pump cover connected to the pump house, an impeller housed in the pump cover and driven by the motor, and a sleeve disposed between the pump cover and the pump house. Two of the pump cover, the pump house, and the sleeve are respectively provided with an outer binding segment and an inner binding segment, the outer binding segment is made of polyphenylene sulfide mixed with glass fiber, and permeable to a laser light, the inner binding segment is capable of absorbing the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Ruifeng Qin, Yi Jing, Bensong Huang, Zhenzi Fang, Guanyin Liang, Guoyuan Zou, Denie Zeng
  • Patent number: 11955861
    Abstract: A stator of a brushless motor is disclosed which includes a stator core, an insulating frame arranged on the stator core, and a plurality of windings wound around the insulating frame. The stator core includes a ring-shaped yoke part and a pole part mounted to the radial inner side of the yoke part. The pole part includes a plurality of teeth spaced-apart from each other along the circumferential direction, and a ring-shaped portion arranged at and connected to the radial inner side of the teeth. The radial outer sides of the teeth abut against the radial inner side of the yoke part. The insulating frame is arranged on the pole part. A plurality of power terminals are fixed to one axial end of the insulating frame and respectively electrically connected to the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Ying Feng, Yick Kun Kenny Tsui, Ping Wo Poon, Kam Ting Ko, Siu Kin Tam, Da Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11764639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing cap (10) and an electric motor (M) utilizing the same. The bearing cap (10) has a first annular protrusion (18) configured for fixing to a corresponding annular groove (27) of an axial end of the bearing seat (13) by an adhesive. The first annular protrusion (18) has a plurality of first cuts (28). With the bearing cap (10), sand or other impurities can be prevented from entering the bearing seat (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Marco Mastrototaro, Nicola Re
  • Patent number: 11764646
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a pump casing, a motor connected to the pump casing, and an impeller driven by the motor. The motor includes a housing and a stator arranged in the casing. The housing is made of a non-magnetic material. The stator includes a stator iron core and a plurality of windings wound on the stator iron core. The motor further includes a sleeve having a cylindrical main body and a flange extending radially outwards from one end of the main body and fixed to the housing. An annular space is jointly bounded by the sleeve and the housing to accommodate the stator. A part of inner surface of the housing and a part of bottom surface of the flange facing the annular space are coated with a metal coating for electromagnetic wave shielding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Xiaoming Wang, Long Yu, Pinghua Tang, Yi Jing, Ruifeng Qin, Guoyuan Zou
  • Patent number: 11679646
    Abstract: A method for driving an actuator of an HVAC system having a region of mechanical play is provided, and which comprises the steps of: a] monitoring a position of a movable member of the HVAC system or at least one rotatable element of the actuator to determine when the region of mechanical play has been entered or exited; and b] ramping a drive power to the actuator between a zero-velocity drive power and a steady-state-velocity drive power during the region of mechanical play. The HVAC system implementing the above method is not only capable of reducing the noise produced by an HVAC system, but is also capable of reducing an over-powering of the actuator when there is a low load on the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventor: Yvan Bourqui
  • Patent number: 11649880
    Abstract: A gearbox includes a sun gear, a plurality of planetary gears meshed with the sun gear, a rotating frame supporting the planetary gears, and a housing with an internal ring gear meshed with the planetary gears. The planetary gears include a first gear and a second gear coaxially connected to each other along an axial direction and rotating synchronously, the first gear meshed with the sun gear, and the second gear meshed with the internal ring gear of the housing. The rotating frame received in the housing has an upper frame and a lower frame with a central hole, each of the plurality of planetary gears is arranged between the upper frame and the lower frame by a mounting pin, the lower frame is supported by a flange connected to the housing, the sun gear is driven to rotate so as to operate the rotating frame. The gearbox of the present disclosure has low vibration and low noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Jingning Ta, Qiumei Li, Baofeng Ji, Yongjun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11636987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch including a switch housing, a contact system and a base disposed in the switch housing, a resistive element for diagnosing a state of a switch, and at least two terminals leading from the base. The resistive element has a specific resistance value. The resistive element is a conductive material formed on the base, the terminals being electrically connected by the conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Joerg Gassmann, Felix Weidlich, Jens Penning, Michael Doecker, Jörn Brennenstuhl, Alexander Kunz, Andrea Straniero
  • Patent number: 11629719
    Abstract: An electric coolant pump includes a pump house, a motor connected to the pump house, and an impeller housed in the pump house and driven by the motor. The motor includes a stator and a movable unit rotatably mounted within the stator. The stator is provided with a central shaft. The movable unit includes a support body, a bearing assembly fixedly embedded in the support body, a rotor core fixed to the support body, and a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the rotor core. The bearing assembly includes at least one bearing rotatably sleeved on the central shaft. The support body is formed by an injection-molding process to wrap the bearing assembly and fixed connecting bearing assembly and the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Guoyuan Zou, Hongliang Zhang, Daigang Li, Anbang Chen, Ruifeng Qin, Guanyin Liang
  • Patent number: 11606008
    Abstract: An electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter 32 is provided which is suitable for a DC motor 10. The EMI filter 32 comprises an EMI suppression circuit 34 having first and second DC-motor-terminal inputs 36a, 36b, and an MW-band power choke 44 coupled to one of the first and second DC-motor-terminal inputs 36a, 36b to increase the motor inductance in the MW frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventor: Bo Hu
  • Patent number: 11489375
    Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator corer and windings. The stator corer includes a yoke portion and stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a winding portion and a pole shoe connected to an end of the winding portion. Each pole shoe includes a pole face. The pole face defines a first positioning notch at a middle thereof. Each of the pole faces further defines at least one second positioning notch. Said at least one second positioning notches in one of pole shoe are located at the same side of the first positioning notch of the corresponding one pole shoe. The first and second positioning notches are configured such that an initial position of the rotor received in the space of the stator is offset from a dead point position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Tao Zhang, Jie Chai, Chiu You Zhou, Qiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11431234
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a DC motor is provided which includes a rotor having a rotor shaft, a commutator mounted to the rotor shaft, and a varistor which is connected to the commutator via an electrically-conductive solderless fixing means, such as an electrically-conductive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Cheong Wing Yuen, Chi Yan Tam, Chi Hung Jacky Chan
  • Patent number: 11384826
    Abstract: A multi-component gear for an actuator is provided. The gear includes a first gear portion having an engagement head and a gear stem axially extending from the engagement head, and a second gear portion having a gear body which includes a plurality of gear teeth at a circumference thereof, the gear body being received around the engagement head of the first gear portion. The first gear portion is formed from a first material and the second gear portion is formed from a second material which has a lower dynamic hardness than the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Michael Watzek, Daniel Riedo
  • Patent number: 11374451
    Abstract: A rotor assembly is provided for an electric motor. The rotor assembly includes: a cylindrical magnet member having magnetization in both axial and radial directions, the magnet member being formed from a moldable magnetic material; and an output shaft receivable within the magnet member. An inner surface of the magnet member and an outer surface of the output shaft have complementarily-engagable interface elements thereon to prevent or limit dislocation of the magnet member and output shaft, and at least one of the interface elements is formed by overmolding of the magnet member and output shaft with the other of magnet member and output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yvan Bourqui, Daniel Soncini, Bruno Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 11214121
    Abstract: A method of maintaining a position of an airflow-direction control element 16 of a HVAC system, comprising the steps of, a] determining a position of at least one movable member of an airflow-direction control mechanism of the HVAC system; and b] calculating whether the movable member is at a target position associated with a required position of the airflow-direction control element, and if not, activating an airflow-direction-controller actuator of the HVAC system to effect a change in the position of the movable member thereby bringing the airflow-direction control element to or towards the said required position. A HVAC system suitable for implementing such a method is also provided and capable of improving the overall efficiency of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventor: Yvan Bourqui
  • Patent number: 11202541
    Abstract: An outer rotor motor includes an inner stator and an outer rotor. The inner stator includes a stator frame and a stator unit mounted to the stator frame. The outer rotor includes a shaft and a rotor unit fixed to the shaft. The stator frame is integrally formed from plastic as an integral structure and comprises a base and a hub extending from the base, the hub forms a chamber therein, supporting components are installed in the chamber, and the shaft extends into the chamber and supported by the supporting components such that the shaft is rotatable relative to the stator frame. In the present invention, the stator frame has an integral structure made of plastic which simplifies the structure of the motor and reduces the cost of the motor. The present invention further provides a vacuum cleaner that employs the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Ronny Keil, Bhoopal Ponnuvelu, Kwong Yip Poon
  • Patent number: 11181119
    Abstract: An impeller includes a base plate, a hub protruding from the base plate, and a number of blades connected to the base plate and extending from a lateral surface of the hub toward an edge of the base plate. Opposite sides of each of the blades are a working surface and a non-working surface. The base plate is divided into a plurality of sub-plates by the plurality of blades. Each of the sub-plates is located between two adjacent blades and connected to the non-working surface of one of the two adjacent blades and the working surface of the other one of the two adjacent blades. A distance from an edge of each of the sub-plates to a center of rotation of the impeller is varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Chuanjiang Guo, Chuanhui Fang, Feng Xue, Hongguang Li, Shaopeng Mo, Guilin Li
  • Patent number: 11156289
    Abstract: A transmission shell is applied to an actuator, and an accommodating space for receiving a transmission assembly is formed in the transmission case, the transmission shell is provided with a first ventilation structure, and the first ventilation structure includes a venting hole and a blocking wall disposed around the venting hole; the venting hole is in gas communication with the accommodating space; the blocking wall is disposed on an outer periphery of the venting hole to form a buffering chamber communicating with the venting hole, and an opening is provided at an end away from the venting hole. The present disclosure also provides a transmission case and an actuator using the above transmission shell. The venting hole is effectively waterproof and moisture-proof without requiring a sealing element, and are simple in structure, easy to manufacture, and low in cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Weixing Mao, Fan Ouyang, Chuan Liu, Long Yan, Ming Zhang, Zude Bai, Selvakumar Periyasamy
  • Patent number: 11152841
    Abstract: A driving device includes a motor and a control unit for controlling of the motor. The motor includes a motor body and an end cap assembly disposed at one end of the motor body. The motor body comprises a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a motor shaft fixed to and rotated with the rotor. The end cap assembly is provided with two brushes. The control unit includes two connectors for connecting with an external power source. The two brushes are respectively electrically connected to the connectors through the control unit. Lengths of connecting routes of the two brushes to the corresponding connectors are substantially equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Qingbin Luo, Guihong Tian, Xinpeng Wei, Binwei Li, Yueju Zhao
  • Patent number: 11139706
    Abstract: An electric motor and a rotor thereof are provided. The rotor includes a shaft and at least one rotating body fixed to the shaft. The rotating body includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. An outer periphery of the rotor core has a plurality of spaced slots, each of which extends along an axial direction of the rotor. The rotating body further includes a plurality of axial arms molded to the corresponding slots and configured to fix the permanent magnets. Every two adjacent axial arms form an accommodation therebetween, and each permanent magnet is fixed to a corresponding accommodation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Ruifeng Qin, Ning Sun, Fang Zhang