Patents Assigned to Moving Magnet Technologies
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Patent number: 12044588Abstract: A position sensor, in particular, intended for detecting the torsion of a steering column, includes a first magnetized rotor structure comprising magnets, a second stator structure comprising two rings extended by teeth that are axially oriented and interlocked, and a third stationary collector structure including two flux collection parts that define at least one air gap in which at least one magnet-sensitive element is placed. The flux collection parts and the ring gears define a magnetic permeance independent of the relative radial and angular position of the second stator structure with respect to the third collector structure. The collection parts comprise an angular collection sector and a primary collection zone continued by a prolongation having a secondary collection zone. The secondary collection zones end in flat extensions forming two poles of the air gap. The transverse median plane of the air gap intersects at least one of the prolongations.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventor: Didier Frachon
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Patent number: 11977406Abstract: A passive haptic interface includes a first element which is rotatably movable about an axis or translatably movable along an axis, the first movable element rotating or moving opposite a second fixed element. The first movable element has a first plurality of magnetic poles spaced periodically at a pole pitch Ps and in the direction of movement, and the second fixed element has a second plurality of magnetic poles periodically spaced at a pole pitch Pr and in the direction of movement, where Ps and Pr are different numbers. A periodic stress is created by the magnetic interaction between the first movable element and the second fixed element in a period Pt. The pole pitches Ps and Pr are chosen such that Pt is strictly less than the smallest of the pitches Ps and Pr.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Jean-Daniel Alzingre, Antoine Foucaut, Olivier Pajot
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Patent number: 11742737Abstract: A gear motor comprising a reduction gear train and a three-phase electric motor comprising a stator formed of a stack of sheets and 3*k electric coils and a rotor having 5 k*N pairs of magnetized poles, with k=1 or 2, the stator having two separate angular sectors alpha 1 and alpha 2, which are centered on the center of rotation of the motor and comprise an alternation of notches and 3*k*N teeth, which are regularly spaced and converge toward the center of rotation and define a cavity in which the rotor is arranged, the gear motor being characterized in that N=4 and in that alpha 1 is less than or equal to 180° and comprises all of the coils of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Damien Laforge, Lionel Billet
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Patent number: 11657943Abstract: An actuator for controlling the movement of an element between two stable positions with pulsed electrical control without a change in polarity comprises: a ferromagnetic mobile mass, at least one electrically controlled wire coil that is fixed with respect to the mobile mass, at least two ferromagnetic poles that are fixed with respect to the mobile mass and on either side of the mobile mass. The actuator comprises at least one permanent magnet that attracts the mobile mass in order to achieve the two stable positions. The mobile mass defines, with the ferromagnetic poles, at least two variable air gaps during the movement of the mobile apparatus. The magnetic flux of the permanent magnet opposes the magnetic flux generated by the at least one coil regardless of the position of the mobile mass.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Guillaume Loussert, Stéphane Biwersi
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Patent number: 11621659Abstract: A method for controlling a polyphase actuator includes supplying each phase with a periodically varying voltage having a periodic sequence of steps Pi that have a constant duration and an amplitude An,i, where n corresponds to the rank of the phase and i to the rank of the step. The method further includes determining a target position PCi of a rotor of the actuator, in order to define a sinusoidal voltage envelope. The actuator further includes a movable member, a stator equipped with electrical coils and a sensor detecting the mechanical position of the movable member with respect to the stator, as well as a microcontroller. The microcontroller determines, at times Tcapteur, a mechanical position of a mechanical member, the microcontroller calculates, at each of the times Tcapteur, a difference between the mechanical position and a target position PCi corresponding to the step Pi and the microcontroller calculates a coefficient k as a function of the difference.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Geoffroy Petrement, Guillaume Callerant
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Patent number: 11573099Abstract: A module for detecting a rotating handle intended to be attached on a tube of a handlebar of a vehicle next to the handle includes a cylindrical magnet, a probe for detecting the magnetic field produced by the magnet, a support for the probe, a printed circuit board whereon the probe is secured, a support for the magnet and a flange used as a housing for the module. The magneto-sensitive probe detects rotation of the magnetic field emitted by the magnet and is secured to the handlebar, with the magnet and magnet holder being secured to the handle. The magnet and magnet holder form a cavity so that the inner radial surface of the magnet is positioned outside and opposite the magneto-sensitive probe. The magnet has a continuously variable magnetization direction so that the total rotation of the angle of the magnetic field generated by the magnet at the measuring point during the mechanical rotation of the handle is greater than 180°.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Michaël Delbaere, Yannick Ronnat
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Patent number: 11431235Abstract: A rotary actuator with a moving frame includes an electrical coil that moves on an angular travel about an axis of rotation A, the shape of the coil being an elliptical cylinder and the axis of winding B being orthogonal to the axis of rotation A, the coil being placed in the magnetic field of a fixed magnet. The fixed magnet surrounds the coil and includes two semicylindrical portions, the generatrices of which are orthogonal to the axis of rotation A, the first of the semicylindrical portions having a north pole directed toward the coil, orthogonally to the direction of the generatrices and being positioned outside the coil, the second having a south pole directed toward the coil, orthogonally to the direction of the generatrices and also being positioned outside the coil opposite the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Guillaume Loussert, Stéphane Biwersi
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Patent number: 11362555Abstract: The disclosure relates to a rotor for an electrical machine having internal permanent magnets including a yoke consisting of a stack of sheets defining a plurality of recesses for receiving parallelepipedal permanent magnets, the recesses being surrounded by magnetically saturated external transverse isthmuses, by radial isthmuses, lateral isthmuses and oblique isthmuses, wherein the magnets are assembled in pairs of magnets magnetized in the same direction and perpendicular to the radial direction of the radial isthmuses arranged between the coupled magnets, the radial isthmuses having a thickness of less than 5% of the diameter of the rotor, and the perimeter of the cross section of the rotor is formed by a succession of curved profiles, between two consecutive pairs of magnets, and tangential linear profiles at the external transverse isthmuses. The disclosure also relates to the application of such a rotor for creating a motor, in particular a motor for a turbo compressor, or an electrical generator.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Stéphane Tavernier, Gaël Andrieux, Bastien Dolisy
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Patent number: 11329531Abstract: The disclosure relates to a valve for controlling the circulation of a fluid, having a valve body and a housing containing an electric motor composed of a stator and of a rotor, a needle, a sealing bell and also a fixed screw or a fixed nut. The fixed screw or the fixed nut is secured to the valve body, and the stator is secured to the valve body via the housing. The sealing bell is positioned at the interface between the rotor and the stator in such a way that the screw/nut, the rotor and the needle are within this bell and submerged in the fluid, the stator being isolated from the fluid. Furthermore, the rotor has the function of a nut or of a screw, and has a helical movement imposed by the fixed screw or the fixed nut and drives the needle axially. The motor is a brushless polyphase motor with radial principal magnetic flux.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Lionel Billet, Michaël Delbaere, Valentin Preault, Gaël Andrieux
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Patent number: 11264846Abstract: A stator for an electric machine having a plurality of radially extending teeth, supported by an outer annular yoke radial to the teeth, at least part of the teeth supporting a coil and the outer annular yoke having flutes of partially cylindrical shape opening towards the teeth, at least part of the teeth each having, at their end, on the side of the outer annular yoke, a protuberance of partially cylindrical shape, the protuberance being held in the flute by contact points so that at least one part of the teeth performs a relative movement having a degree of rotational and/or translational freedom relative to the annular yoke.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Gael Andrieux, Gilles Tonnelier, Pierre Marchal
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Patent number: 11190072Abstract: The disclosure relates to a high-speed electric machine, having a speed higher than 20,000 rpm, including a rotor having 1 or 2 pairs of magnetized poles, and an enhanced stator which has an outer diameter that is larger than 18 millimeters and which has 3 or 6 straight teeth extending radially and borne by a one-piece peripheral annular collar. At least a portion of the teeth bear coils, and the teeth are rigidly connected to one another and together form a one-piece planar assembly. The coiled teeth have a rectangular cross-section of width I and of length L, with formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Gilles Tonnelier, Gaël Andrieux, Jean Le Besnerais, Quentin Souron
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Patent number: 10756602Abstract: The disclosure presents a geared motor unit including a housing having an electric motor formed of a coiled stator assembly and of a magnetized rotor, the housing further including a printed circuit board for connecting and controlling the motor, a movement-reducing gear train, a sensor magnet and a magnetosensitive probe. The gear train includes a toothed movement output gear, the sensor magnet being ring-shaped and being rigidly connected to the output gear. An output gear is extended on either side of the sensor magnet by two guides cooperating with the two opposite walls of the housing; a ring-shaped magnet surrounds the axis of rotation of the output gear; a printed circuit board includes a controller controlling the motor and extends up to the vicinity of the output gear.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Moving Magnet TechnologiesInventors: Mathieu Watrin, Christophe Adler, Damien Laforge, Gaël Andrieux
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Patent number: 10643773Abstract: A linear electromagnetic actuator has a stroke c, with at least one stable position in one of the ends of the stroke, and includes: an armature made of a soft magnetic material, the armature being movable in an axial direction Y and having a length Hm in the direction Y, the armature having a symmetrical shape at the axis Y, and a stationary stator yoke made of a soft magnetic material and holding at least one electric coil. The actuator also includes at least one stationary permanent magnet that is magnetized along a transverse axis X perpendicular to the direction Y. The magnet is transversely placed between the movable armature and the electric coil. The magnet has a length Ha in the direction Y. The stationary yoke and the movable armature define therebetween at least one axial air gap. Ha+c is of the order of magnitude of Hm. The length Hm is such that 0.9×(Ha+c)<Hm<1.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Guillaume Loussert, Javier Rios-Quesada, Stéphane Biwersi, Michaël Delbaere
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Patent number: 10389197Abstract: A linear electromagnetic actuator includes a stator excited by at least one electric coil arranged around an axis of symmetry and two ferromagnetic stator poles positioned axially on either side of the coil, as well as at least two independent moving members, each of the moving members being formed of a ferromagnetic material, where the linear electromagnetic actuator includes at least three magnetized poles arranged inside the coil, with respectively a first magnetized pole positioned in the vicinity of the median plane separating the two moving members and containing the axis of the coil, and a second and third magnetized pole arranged laterally on either side of the moving members, between the moving members and the coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Stéphane Biwersi, Javier Rios-Quesada, Michaél Delbaere, Guillaume Loussert, Gael Andrieux
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Patent number: 10164486Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mono- or polyphase electric motor including a stator carrying at least three coils and consisting of 12×N straight teeth extending radially, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1, and of an equal peak divergence alpha, measured at their end from the center of the motor, and a rotor exhibiting P pairs of magnetized poles such that P=5+2×R, P being a non-multiple of three, R being an integer greater than or equal to 0, alpha lying between 360°(12×N)/3 and 360°(12×N)/2.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Arnaud Hyppias, Stéphane Tavernier, Stéphane Biwersi
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Patent number: 10050487Abstract: An electrical machine includes a tubular rotor magnetised to have circumferential polar alternations, and a stator including a body that is traversed by a channel having an inner transverse section that substantially corresponds to the outer transverse section of the rotor, the body carrying a plurality of windings, the stator being surrounded by an outer ferromagnetic envelope, the body being extended by three, four or six radial projections made from an electrically insulating material having, in the transverse cross section, a longitudinal core for receiving a winding, the core being extended by a peripheral extension having an outer surface that matches the inner surface of the envelope and covers the wound area. A method for producing such an electrical machine is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Stéphane Biwersi, Lionel Billet
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Patent number: 10041780Abstract: The disclosure relates in particular to a method for parameterizing a system for measuring an absolute position, the system including a permanent magnet, at least one probe that is mobile relative to the magnet over a given path, and a controller providing position information calculated on the basis of the arctangent of the ratio, wherein a correction coefficient G is assigned, between the output signals of the probe, wherein the signals are pseudo-sinusoidal and squared. The method includes an optimization operation that involves selecting the value of the coefficient G that minimizes the errors of the measurement system resulting from the pseudo-sinusoidal character of the signals output from the probe.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Mickaël Delbaere, Thierry Dorge, Didier Frachon, Gérald Masson
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Patent number: 9935536Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electromagnetic actuator of the type producing a force due to the current that remains substantially constant over the entirety of its useful travel Y and that has a low force in the absence of current, including at least one stator structure, at least one electrical supply coil, and a moving member, the stator structure having, on the one hand, a central pole running perpendicular to the direction of the travel Y and having a width YC1 in the direction of the travel and terminating at its end in a width YC2 that is greater than or equal to the travel Y of the moving member, YC2 being greater than YC1, and, on the other hand, two lateral poles having widths YL1 in the direction of the travel and terminating at their end in a width YL2 greater than YL1.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Javier Rios-Quesada, Guillaume Loussert, Michaël Delbaere
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Patent number: 9016229Abstract: The disclosure relates to an indicator device that can be used on an instrument panel comprising two electric motors, two concentric shafts, a visual information member moved in translation by one of the shafts in a transverse direction relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, and a guide member that is rotatably linked to the other shaft, rotates the visual information member with itself, and guides the visual information member in translation in the transverse direction. According to the disclosure, the two shafts are concentric, the visual information member is self-supporting, and the visual information member is longer than the guide member in the transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventor: Daniel Prudham
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Patent number: 8970210Abstract: The disclosure relates to a magnetic position sensor in at least two directions, the sensor including at least one magnetized element and a probe including at least two magneto-sensitive elements located substantially on the same point and each measuring one of the components of the magnetic field generated by the magnetized element, the magnetized element being movable relative to the magneto-sensitive elements. The probe includes at least one processing circuit capable of carrying out angle and module calculations on the basis of algebraic combinations of the components of the magnetic field and providing at least two independent signals representing the position of the movable element along, respectively, one and the other of the two directions.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)Inventors: Gérald Masson, Thierry Dorge