Patents Assigned to JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
  • Patent number: 10536054
    Abstract: A mounting structure includes at least one first hole formed in a first component of the gear motor, at least one second hole formed in a second component of the gear motor, arranged coaxially with the first hole, and at least one expansion member extending into the first and second holes. The expansion member has an interference fit with one of the first and second holes, and has a transition fit with the other of the first and second holes. The present invention can effectively prevent falling off of the expansion member, and reduce the assembly difficulties of the gear motor as well as the degree of deformation of the expansion member during the assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Jing Ning Ta, Wei Xing Mao, Qiu Mei Li, Zhi Qiang Wu, Lan Gui Xing
  • Patent number: 10530226
    Abstract: A stator for a linear stepper motor includes four stator sheets and two stator windings. The four stator sheets are oriented towards each other, provided with bent polar arms, and have two inner stator sheets each defining a sheet recess and two outer stator sheets that are arranged in an offset manner. THE four stator sheets are joined into an integral coil body by a stator overmold. One of the stator windings is wound onto the coil body between one inner stator sheet and one outer stator sheet and connected with connector pins. The four stator sheets and the stator overmold including a stator flange and a pin socket are integrally formed such that radial envelope surfaces of the at least four stator sheets are free from the stator overmold. A stator recess inside the stator is arranged centrically in the stator overmold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Gerd Howack, Daniel Gerhard Barthel, Andreas Kurtz
  • Patent number: 10527454
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor, a motor and an application apparatus are provided. The magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensing element, a chopping switch, a first discharging branch, and a second discharge branch. The magnetic sensing element includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, and a fourth terminal. The first discharging branch is coupled between the first terminal and the third terminal. The second discharging branch is coupled between the second terminal and the fourth terminal. Before the first terminal and the third terminal serve as power input terminals, the second terminal and the fourth terminal serve as output terminals of magnetic field detection signal, the second discharging branch is turned on; before the first terminal and the third terminal serve as the magnetic field detection signal output terminals, the second terminal and the fourth terminal serve as power input terminals, the first discharging branch is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Guang Jie Cai, Chun Fai Wong
  • Patent number: 10527302
    Abstract: A ventilation assembly for a heat exchanger of a motor vehicle is provided, which includes a main body with a main opening, an electric fan mounted in the main opening, a connector and a retaining structure arranged on the main body. The electric fan includes an impeller and an associated electric driving motor. The connector is connected to the electric motor via an electric cable, and includes a plurality of terminals. The retaining structure includes a cavity having an open side for inserting the connector and a closed side for preventing an external access to the terminals of the connector, and a retaining member to retain the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Giovanni Giangrande, Roberto Almondo, Andrea Carrer
  • Patent number: 10530286
    Abstract: An integrated electrical pump comprises a motor, an oil pump driven by the motor, and a pressure control system. The pressure control system controls a hydraulic pressure of the oil pump according to a motor speed of the motor, an oil temperature and a pressure command. An oil pressure control method of the integrated electrical pump is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Youqing Xiang, Xiaoyuan Hong, Huabo Li, Qingliang Lang, Xiaojun Yan
  • Patent number: 10530199
    Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator core, windings, and a permanent magnet rotor. The stator core includes an end portion and two spaced arm portions each including a connecting arm and a pole claw. Each pole claw has a long pole tip and a short pole tip, and forms a pole surface. The long pole tip of each pole claw corresponds to the short pole tip of the other pole claw with a slot opening formed there between. The slot opening causes the arc pole surface to be discontinued along a circumferential direction, and the arc pole surface is recessed inwardly to form a startup groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Chui You Zhou, Yong Wang, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10514089
    Abstract: An auxiliary oil pump system for a gearbox, comprising: an auxiliary battery; a controller electrically connected to the auxiliary battery; and an auxiliary oil pump driven by the controller using a self-adaptive process, wherein the self-adaptive process comprises: the controller receives current operational pressure signal and compared the current operational pressure signal to a pressure threshold; if the current operational pressure signal is bigger than the pressure threshold, the auxiliary oil pump keeps current rotational speed; if the current operational pressure signal is smaller than the pressure threshold, the auxiliary oil pump improves the rotational speed by a pre-determined speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Xiao Ming Wang, Ping Hua Tang, Hao Chen, Lei Jiang, Zhi Yang Zhong, Nian He Qu
  • Patent number: 10516324
    Abstract: A step motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and stator windings. The stator core includes a ring shaped yoke and a plurality of teeth extending inwardly from the ring shaped yoke. The rotor is rotatably mounted with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a permanent magnet member surrounded by the plurality of teeth. The stator windings are wound around the plurality of teeth to form a plurality of stator poles. The stator core are formed from a core strip with High magnetic conductive, the core strip are bent to enable opposite ends of the core strip to be connected with each other. The step motor of the present invention has a simplified structure and enhanced efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Chui You Zhou, Yong Wang, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10508931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor and a resolver thereof. The resolver includes a resolver stator (70), a resolver rotor (80). The resolver includes (70) a plurality of resolver stator teeth (73) and resolver stator windings (75) wound around the resolver stator teeth (73). The resolver rotor (75) includes a resolver rotor core (81) received in a space surrounded by the resolver stator teeth (73) and capable of rotating around a shaft axis. The resolver stator windings (75) includes first output windings wound around each of the resolver stator teeth (73) by a first number of turns, second output windings wound around each of the resolver stator teeth by a second number of turns, and exciting windings wound around each resolver stator teeth by a third number of turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Cheng Shun Du, Ning Sun, Xing Liu
  • Patent number: 10504665
    Abstract: A switch includes a switch housing having a receiving space, a conductive fixed contact element and a conductive active contact element which are provided in the receiving space and being electrically connected to two terminals of the switch respectively, an actuating member reciprocating movable in a predetermined actuating direction between a rest position and an actuated position, and a conductive spring contact element movable with the actuating element. The spring contact element is in constant contact with the fixed contact element and switched between a state of being in contact with a conductive contact surface of the active contact element and a state of being disconnecting with the conductive contact surface of the active contact element. The actuating element is moved back from the actuated position to the rest position due to spring force of the spring contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Jaworek, Udo Balgheim, Jörg Gaβmann
  • Patent number: 10505434
    Abstract: A motor and an application apparatus are provided. The motor includes a stator having a stator core and a stator winding wound on the stator core, a rotor, a magnetic sensor configured to detect a magnetic field polarity of the rotor and output a corresponding signal, and a motor driving circuit configured to drive the rotor to rotate with respect to the stator based on the signal output from the magnetic sensor. At a rest position of the rotor, the magnetic sensor is arranged with an advance angle with respect to a polar axis of the rotor, to make the motor have a high starting torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Chiping Sun, Fei Xin, Shinghin Yeung, Xiuwen Yang, Shujuan Huang, Yunlong Jiang
  • Patent number: 10502323
    Abstract: A shut-off valve for integration into an intelligent gas meter for residential or industrial gas supply, has an inlet, an outlet and a valve seat having a lip seal. A shut-off body is longitudinally displaceable with respect to the valve by a motor driven transmission, using a nut-threaded-spindle drive, to engage with or disengage from, the seal to open or close the valve. The transmission of the valve remains largely unbiased in the closed state while maintaining the gas-tightness of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Sten Waehrisch, Sten Ritschel, Marcus Herrmann
  • Patent number: 10498181
    Abstract: A motor and methods for making and using same. The motor includes a stator having a first stator portion with first and second arcuate regions. The arcuate regions can receive a rotor with a magnetic pole and being concentrically arranged with the stator relative to a central axis. The stator can have one or more winding portions for being wound with a winding and extending from the first stator portion opposite the arcuate regions. When the winding is not energized, a first magnetic coupling between the first arcuate region and a selected magnetic pole is greater than a second magnetic coupling between the second arcuate region and the selected magnetic pole. A selected winding portion is angularly offset from the first arcuate region to advantageously enable movement of the rotor to initiate in either of two opposite directions relative to the selected winding portion when the winding is energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Baoting Liu, Chuiyou Zhou, Yong Wang, Ming Chen, Xiaoning Zhu
  • Patent number: 10495102
    Abstract: An impeller includes a back cover plate, and vanes and a hub disposed on the back cover plate. The impeller further includes a sealing ring disposed on one end of the impeller away from the back cover plate. A pump using the impeller includes a volute housing and a driving device. The volute housing includes a diffusor chamber, an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe. The impeller is rotatably received in the diffusor chamber and connected to the driving device. A baffle portion is disposed on an end wall in the diffusor chamber adjacent the inlet pipe. The baffle portion engages with the sealing ring to prevent back flow of the fluid. The pump has enhanced fluid delivery efficiency. The back cover plate may further define arc strip-shaped balance holes for reducing an axial force applied to the impeller, such that rotation of the impeller is more stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Chuan Jiang Guo, Chuan Hui Fang, Xiao Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10495206
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an internal ring gear, a driving assembly having the internal ring gear, and an application device employing the driving assembly. The internal ring gear includes at least two ring gears integrally arranged in parallel at an inner surface of a single housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Xiu Hua Zhu, Chang Qiao Wu, Xiao Hui Wang, Wan Hor Looi, Jing Ning Ta
  • Patent number: 10491058
    Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor relative to the stator. The stator includes a stator core with a winding wound therearound. The stator core includes stacked first and second stator core laminations. The first stator core lamination includes a plurality of first pole shoes. The second stator core lamination includes a plurality of second pole shoes. The structures of the first pole shoes and the second pole shoes are different. The first pole shoes and the second pole shoes are stacked substantially along the axial direction of the motor. The present invention reduces vibration and noise caused by the use of a single type of core laminations in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Chui You Zhou, Yong Wang, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10491080
    Abstract: A brush assembly for a brush motor includes a support member, brush holders, at least four brushes respectively mounted to the brush holders, and first and second motor terminals for connecting with an external power supply. A first filter circuit is connected between the first motor terminal and corresponding first brushes. A second filter circuit is connected between the second motor terminal and corresponding second brushes. The first and second motor terminals and the first and second filter circuits are mounted in a region defined by two corresponding adjacent brushes forming an angle greater than 60 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Ji Yu Liang, Kwok Kuen Tse, Xin Hui Guan, Shu Hai Yuan
  • Patent number: 10483829
    Abstract: A brush assembly includes a circuit board, at least two brushes, power connecting terminals for connecting with an external power supply, and a power supply branch circuit connected in series between a corresponding one of the power connecting terminals and a corresponding one of the brushes. The brush assembly further comprises an EMI suppressor connected between the power supply branch circuit and ground. The EMI suppressor is an axial capacitor formed by a conductor core, a cover, and a filling medium. The cover is attached around the conductor core, and the filling medium is filled between the conductor core and the cover. A motor utilizing the brush assembly is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Qing Bin Luo, Chi Wai Lai, Xin Peng Wei, Gui Hong Tian, Bo Hu, Xiao Lin Ren, Wen Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 10483830
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor integrated circuit and a motor component are provided. The integrated circuit includes a housing, a semiconductor substrate arranged inside the housing, input ports and an output port which extend out from the housing, and an electronic circuit arranged on the semiconductor substrate. The electronic circuit includes a magnetic field detection circuit configured to detect and output a magnetic field inductive signal corresponding to an external magnetic field, and a voltage detection circuit configured to detect a specific voltage and output, in a case that the specific voltage reaches a predetermined value, a control signal for controlling the magnetic sensor integrated circuit to perform a preset action. The voltage detection circuit and the magnetic field detection circuit operate simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Hui Min Guo, Shu Zuo Lou, Xiao Ming Chen, Guang Jie Cai, Chun Fai Wong
  • Patent number: 10480619
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ring gear and a gear reduction device. The ring gear includes a one-piece annular body made from powder metallurgy material, and a first ring gear part and a second ring gear part formed on a surface of the annular body. The first ring gear part and the second ring gear part are arranged along an axial direction of the annular body. The ring gear has a density that is less than 92% of its theoretical density and in the range of 6.0 to 8.0 grams per cubic centimeter. The present invention further provides a mold for manufacturing the ring gear. The ring gear of the present invention includes two ring gears integrally formed at once, and the two ring gears have improved concentricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Jing Ning Ta, Lap Wah Lo, Xing Ju Yi, Qiu Mei Li