Patents Assigned to JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
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Patent number: 11121606Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor, a circuit board and an engine cooling module including the motor. The motor includes a stator, the stator includes a control module and a heat sink, the control module includes a circuit board and a plurality of heat generating electronic components mounted on a top surface of the circuit board, a plurality of ceramic heat conducting members is embedded inside the circuit board at positions facing the heat generating electronic components, and the heat sink is attached on a bottom surface of the circuit board. The motor has improved heat dissipation effect.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Yue Li, Youqing Xiang, Xiaojun Yan, Nan Zheng, Minghua Xiong, Yun Chen
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Patent number: 11114919Abstract: An actuator is provided which comprises an actuator housing having an inside surface defining a stator-receiving portion and a stator. The stator-receiving portion comprises a rotor support element, and plurality of guide projections which are spaced-apart about the rotor support element, the plurality of stator-abutment projections being integrally formed with the inside surface. The stator has a plurality of locator recesses which are engagable with the plurality of stator-abutment projections when the stator is received at the stator-receiving portion of the actuator housing to locate the stator relative to the actuator housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Yvan Bourqui, Daniel Soncini, Frederic Haenni
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Patent number: 11101711Abstract: A brushless direct current motor, a stator part and its winding method are provided. The stator part includes a stator core and stator windings wound around stator poles. The stator poles and the stator windings are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence with each other. The stator windings are formed by winding a single conductive wire uninterruptedly on the stator poles. Two ends of the conductive wire are connected.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Chi Ho Fung, Kar Wai Lam, Yung Fai Tsui, Wei Liang Huang, Deng Zhi Huang
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Patent number: 11101712Abstract: An electric motor, an end cap thereof and a manufacturing method of the end cap are provided. The end cap includes an insulating body and a filter circuit board mounted to the insulating body. The filter circuit board includes at least two power conductors for receiving an external power source, an insulating support frame integral with the at least two power conductors, and at least one filter element. One end of the at least one filter element is connected to a corresponding power conductor, and the other end of the at least one filter element is grounded.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Yukwai Yeung, Chingsik Lau, Dawei Zhou, Siukin Tam, Tao Fu
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Patent number: 11095185Abstract: A motor assembly is provided, which includes a motor having a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a filter unit mounted to an outside of the motor. The filter unit includes an insulating housing and at least one filter element arranged in the housing and electrically connected to the motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventors: Hongwei Zhang, Lingdong Jin, Fosheng Zou
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Patent number: 11060531Abstract: A heating pump includes a pump body and a driving motor. The pump body includes a pump housing with a water inlet and a water outlet, a heating member fixed in an interior of the pump housing, and an impeller connected with the driving motor. The heating member includes fittings and a heating coiled pipe connected between the fittings and bent into an arc. The impeller is disposed at an upper part of the pump housing, one end of the driving motor is disposed adjacent the impeller, and the heating coiled pipe circles around a radial side portion of part of the driving motor. The heating pump has a rational design and high heat exchange efficiency. The safety auxiliary motor has a low requirement for power. The axial size of the water pump is significantly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Awade Badafem, Shao Peng Mo, Min Li, Jin Jin Wu
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Patent number: 11056958Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor core and a commutator fixed to the rotating shaft, and a first sleeve, a second sleeve and a third sleeve arranged around the rotating shaft. The first sleeve is located on a side of the rotor core away from the commutator and abuts against the rotor core, the second sleeve is located between the rotor core and the commutator, and the third sleeve is located on a side of the commutator away from the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Jingxin Shi, Sijun Zhao, Luyan Bi, Pingman Zhang, Xionghui Liu, Lang Dai, Cong Lv, Feifei Huang, He Chi, Baoqiang Cheng, Seungpun Ho, Dawei Zhou, Zhijun Li, Zhiyu Chen
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Patent number: 11050313Abstract: A stator and a motor including the motor are disclosed. The stator includes a number of windings and a number of guiding portions. The windings are formed by winding a single conductive wire under the guide of the guiding portions. The windings are divided into multiple groups, and the windings in each group are short-circuit connected with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Chi Ho Fung, Kar Wai Lam, Cai Yong Zhang, Yi Li
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Patent number: 11031204Abstract: A movable contact arm set for a switching contactor includes first and second movable contact arms which respectively carry first and second movable contacts. The first and second movable contact arms respectively include first and second engagement surfaces which are engagable with an actuation to permit displacement of the first and second movable contacts. The first and second engagement surfaces are asymmetric to one another to permit asynchronous displacement of the first and second movable contacts. A switching contactor, movable contact arm for use with a movable contact arm set, and a method of providing a lead-lag contact opening arrangement for a switching contactor are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventor: Richard Anthony Connell
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Patent number: 11025139Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a circuit board fixed to the stator, and a heat sink disposed on the circuit board, a side surface of the circuit board facing the heat sink has an insulating region and a metal heat dissipation region without solder mask. The thermal resistance between the circuit board and the heat sink can be reduced by the metal heat dissipation region, thereby improving the heat dissipation of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Yue Li, Youqing Xiang, Xiaojun Yan, Minghua Xiong, Bailin Bo, Zhanqi Zhang, Qingliang Lang, Yun Chen, Jian Zhao, Yanfei Liao
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Patent number: 11025110Abstract: A brushless direct current motor and a dual clutch transmission employing the motor are provided. The motor includes a stator including stator core and a winding wound around the stator core, and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft and includes a plurality of accommodations arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor. Each of the accommodations substantially extends along a radial direction and an axial direction of the rotor. The permanent magnets are respectively arranged at corresponding accommodations. A relationship of an axial length Lr of the rotor core, an axial length Lm of each of the permanent magnets, and an axial length Ls of the stator core is Lm>Lr?Ls.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventors: Yongbin Li, Hai Chen, Xianchun Fan, Guowei Zhong, Jinbao Sun
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Patent number: 11025144Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a support member, and a circuit assembly. The circuit assembly includes a plurality of electronic components. The rotor is rotatably mounted to the support member. The stator is received in the rotor. The stator is fixed to the support member, and the support member is at least partially received in an inner side of the stator. A portion of the support member received in the inner side of the stator defines a receiving space, and at least part of the electronic components of the circuit assembly is received in the receiving space of the support member. The support member is partially received in the inner side of the stator, and the circuit assembly is at least partially received in the support member, which makes the motor have a relatively smaller axial size.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventors: Yue Li, Mao Xiong Jiang, You Qing Xiang, Jian Zhao, Yong Wang, Yong Li, Yan Fei Liao
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Patent number: 11025124Abstract: A motor includes a mounting bracket; a stator mounted to one of opposite sides of the mounting bracket; a rotor is rotatably supported on the stator; and a control unit the other of the opposite sides of the mounting bracket away from the stator. The control unit includes a plate-shaped heat dissipating member fixed to the mounting to the mounting bracket, and a circuit board attached to a side of the heat dissipating member away from the mounting bracket. A seal is formed between a periphery of the heat dissipating member and the mounting bracket.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Yue Li, Maoxiong Jiang, Yingsong Ye, Haijun Hua
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Patent number: 11024986Abstract: A cable connector assembly for an electrical device, which includes a cable connector having a pressing-member receiver, the pressing-member receiver including an electrically-conductive contact or a receiver for an electrically-conductive contact and an opposed wall portion. A cable having a cable terminal which is positionable on the cable connector in contact with the electrically-conductive contact is provided as well. A pressing member, such as a spring element, is provided which is insertable into the pressing-member receiver to contact the wall portion and the cable terminal, the pressing member holding the cable terminal against the electrically-conductive contact.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Michael Watzek, Vincent Zanini, Michael Kaeser
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Patent number: 11018547Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor with a rotor shaft mounted in at least one bearing bush of a friction bearing, a stator which surrounds the rotor, and at least one circular bearing plate which, relative to the rotor shaft, is mounted on the rotor shaft for co-rotation. An inner contour of the bearing plate surrounds a circumference of the rotor shaft by press-fit. The inner contour of the bearing plate is defined by at least two internal dimensions, wherein at least one internal dimension is smaller than the diameter of the rotor shaft. The at least one bearing plate is deformed in an axial direction when the bearing plate is in the pressed-in state on the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventors: Hong Jian Zhang, Bin Shi, Daniel Gerhard Pahner
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Patent number: 11006882Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure discloses a medical sensor to be connected to a monitoring device for vital sign monitoring. The medical sensor includes a flexible circuit layer having an electrode pattern, a foam layer laminated on the flexible circuit layer, a bonding layer sandwiched between the flexible circuit layer and the foam layer to bond the foam layer with the flexible circuit layer, and a gel sponge disposed on and electrically connected to the electrode pattern through the foam layer and the bonding layer. The area of the bonding layer is smaller than the area of the foam layer. A part of the foam layer adjacent the perimeter is not covered by the bonding layer, and not bonded to the flexible circuit layer by the bonding layer to provide the medical sensor enough conformability to a body.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Scott Nelson, Richard Kolenda, Libing Zhang
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Patent number: 11002375Abstract: A multi-channel disc valve assembly including: a first inlet chamber having a first inlet port; a second inlet chamber having a second inlet port; a multi-channel mixing chamber body having at least one first chamber opening fluidly communicable with the first inlet chamber and at least one second chamber opening fluidly communicable with the second inlet chamber; a first disc valve sub-assembly positioned between the first inlet chamber and the multi-channel mixing chamber body, the first disc valve sub-assembly including a first movable disc; and a second disc valve sub-assembly positioned between the second inlet chamber and the multi-channel mixing chamber body, the second disc valve sub-assembly including a second movable disc; the first and second movable discs being rotatable to respectively alter fluid flow pathways from the first inlet chamber to the multi-channel mixing chamber body and from the second inlet chamber to the multi-channel mixing chamber body.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Olivier Marchand, Emmanuel Vuichard
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Patent number: 10991642Abstract: An IC includes a bare die and a multiplexed pin. The multiplexed pin is electrically connected to first and second switch circuits, the first and second switch circuits are respectively connected to first and second circuit modules disposed on the bare die and control a connection between the first and second circuit modules and the multiplexed pin, the first switch circuit is connected to a first die pad by a metal layer trace within the bare die, the second switch circuit is connected to a second die pad by a metal layer trace within the bare die, and the first and second die pads are connected to the multiplexed pin through a bond wire respectively. The bare die with a larger number of die pads can be packaged into an IC package with a smaller number of chip pins.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Chiping Sun, Shinghin Yeung, Haibo Jiang, Qiubao Wang, Enhui Wang
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Patent number: 10983638Abstract: A multi-stage capacitive sensor is provided having a layered structure, including a user-contact surface, a first capacitive sensor for the user-contact surface, a second capacitive sensor which is spaced apart from the first capacitive sensor in a direction away from the user-contact surface, and a conductive member. The conductive member is positioned between the first and second capacitive sensors, and is engaged with the first circuit substrate and spaced apart from the second capacitive sensor. In a preferred embodiment, under the application of a force at the user-contact surface, the conductive member is deflected relative to the second capacitive sensor to alter a distance therebetween to create a detectable change in a capacitance at the second capacitive sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Alan Roger Morey, Alex James Cowcher
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Patent number: 10985623Abstract: An electric motor and a rotor thereof are provided. The rotor includes a shaft, a housing, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and received in the housing, and a plurality of permanent magnets placed between an outer surface of the rotor core and an inner surface of the housing. The housing includes a metal skeleton and a holding frame integral with and molded to the metal skeleton.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Fang Zhang, Ruifeng Qin, Ning Sun