Patents Examined by A. Qureshi
  • Patent number: 12170460
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine comprises a stator core and a winding positioned on the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth defining a plurality of slots. The winding is comprised of a plurality of segmented conductors connected together to provide a plurality of parallel paths per phase for the winding, each conductor comprising (i) an end loop provided on a crown end of the stator core, (ii) two legs extending through the slots, and (iii) two leg ends extending out of the slots on a connection end of the stator core, each leg end having a twist portion. The legs of the conductors are arranged in layers in the slots, wherein the layers include a total number of layers (L), L being greater than five and L/2 being an odd whole number. Each leg end extending from each of the layers has a common twist associated with the layer from which said leg extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Neet, Cong Ma
  • Patent number: 12166382
    Abstract: A stator (2) for an electric machine (1) includes a laminated core (3) arranged axially between a first end plate (4) and a second end plate (5). A cooling line (6) for introducing a coolant into at least one distribution duct (7) at the particular end plate (4, 5) is arranged outside the end plates (4, 5) and the stator (2) and is fluidically connected to the at least one distribution duct (7) in the particular end plate (4, 5). The laminated core (3) includes multiple axial ducts (8) for guiding the coolant through the stator (2). The axial ducts (8) are fluidically connected to the at least one distribution duct (7) in the particular end plate (4, 5) for the inflow of the coolant. An outflow for the coolant is formed by at least one end-face opening (9) in the particular end plate (4, 5). The at least one opening (9) is configured for spraying the coolant out of the axial ducts (8) onto winding overhangs (10) of the stator (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Martin Jelinewski, Stephan Scharr, David Wörzler, Mathias Döring, Andreas Hölscher, Manfred Till, Eckhardt Lübke
  • Patent number: 12167509
    Abstract: A photonic heater is provided. The photonic heater includes a current source and a transfer circuit. The transfer circuit connected to the current source. The photonic heater further includes a heating element. The heating element is connected to the transfer circuit. The transfer circuit is operable to regulate an amount of current being transferred from the current court to the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hui Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 12158640
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display liquid crystal cell, a first polarizer, a switchable liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer. A first substrate and a second substrate of the switchable liquid crystal cell are formed of transparent flexible substrates which are substituted for glass substrates, and a first phase compensation film group including at least a first C-type compensation film group is provided, which is used to compensate the phase difference caused by the phase retardation when the polarized light passes through the transparent flexible substrates, thereby reducing the thickness and weight of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui He, Wenlong Ye, Xindong Mei, Wei Cheng
  • Patent number: 12160159
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine is disclosed, the machine comprising a stator comprising a stator core and stator end windings extending out of the stator core, a rotor arranged to rotate inside the stator, a rotor shaft, the rotor shaft having a hollow interior, a coolant circuit for circulating coolant through the machine, and a machine enclosure. The coolant circuit comprises an injection tube arranged to introduce coolant into the hollow interior of the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft is arranged such that coolant exits the hollow interior of the rotor shaft at each end of the machine and is propelled outwards towards the stator end windings. The machine enclosure comprises a passageway for supplying coolant to the injection tube. A coolant distribution channel may be provided for distributing coolant to other parts of the machine to allow the machine to be cooled at multiple locations using the same coolant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Matthew Barden, Krzysztof Paciura
  • Patent number: 12159884
    Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display panel. The method of manufacturing the array substrate includes: providing a substrate; sequentially stacking an active layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate on the substrate and patterning the active layer, the gate insulating layer, and the gate with a photomask to form an active portion, a gate insulating portion, and a gate portion stacked in sequence; and providing an interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, the active portion, the gate insulating portion, and the gate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xingqiang Dai
  • Patent number: 12153315
    Abstract: A display panel and an array substrate thereof, which include a plurality of sub-pixel groups arranged in a matrix on the array substrate. Each sub-pixel group includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along rows and columns. Two adjacent sub-pixels in the same row have different colors, and two adjacent sub-pixels in the same column have the same color. In two adjacent rows of sub-pixels, an odd-numbered column or an even-numbered column is set as a target column. Two sub-pixels of the target column in the sub-pixel group are electrically connected to two adjacent data lines located on both sides of the target column. Two sub-pixels in an adjacent column of the target column are electrically connected to two adjacent data lines located on both sides of the target column. Thus, a risk of crosstalk is effectively reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoonsung Um, Kaili Qu, Qi Zhang, Yihe Zhang, Jing Liu, Kunhuang Peng, Chuwei Liang
  • Patent number: 12153311
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a counter substrate and display panel. The counter substrate includes a base substrate, PS pattern layer and alignment film. A surface of the PS pattern layer away from the base substrate is a support surface, and the PS pattern layer includes: main PSs in a display area and a peripheral barrier wall in a non-display area. The peripheral barrier wall has an elongated-strip shape and has a same length direction as a corresponding display area side, the support surface of the peripheral barrier wall is closer to the base substrate than that of the main PS, and a distance between the support surfaces of the peripheral barrier wall and main PS in a thickness direction is a first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Ma, Jinliang Hu, Chengyong Zhan, Wenming Ren
  • Patent number: 12153301
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel includes a base material and a first metal layer and a second metal layer which are laminated on the base material in a thickness direction of the display panel. The first metal layer includes first metal lines, the second metal layer includes second metal lines, the first metal lines extend in a first direction, and the second metal lines extend in a second direction, the first direction intersects the second direction. The first metal layer or the second metal layer includes third metal lines, a third metal line includes at least two first segments extending in the first direction and at least two second segments extending in the second direction, and two adjacent first segments are connected by one second segment. The display panel further includes a heating control assembly electrically connected to the third metal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai AVIC Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huijun Jin, Jian Zhao, Anran Song, Tenggang Lou
  • Patent number: 12150901
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to darkening filters 10, 10? which are suitable for selectively darkening an optically transmissive window 20 for protection from light, in particular from high intensity light. The darkening filter 10, 10? is mounted in a forward-facing optically transmissive window 20 and comprises a non-uniform pattern 30 of switchable shutters 32 capable of being switching to at least a dark state and a light state by a shutter control system 40. The present disclosure also relates to a method of operating such darkening filters 10, 10?. The present disclosure furthermore relates to vision-protective headgears 100, 100?, welding shields 110 and panes 120 comprising the darkening filters 10, 10? according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Claire R. Donoghue, Britton G. Billingsley, Kristina M. Magnusson
  • Patent number: 12149147
    Abstract: An electrical machine assembly including a housing, a shroud, and a terminal box coupled to the housing. The terminal box includes a base having an outer wall extending therefrom, wherein the outer wall includes a distal edge that is correspondingly shaped with the housing such that the outer wall engages with the housing and with the shroud to form a seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey William Crosson
  • Patent number: 12140846
    Abstract: A fast spectral modulator for modulating intensity, phase, and spectrum of light beam, is described in the present invention. The spectral modulator comprises at least one liquid crystal composite and a photonic structure. Said at least one liquid crystal composite is made of a liquid crystal and porous microparticles infiltrated within said liquid crystal, wherein: (i) said porous microparticles have an average refractive index approximately equals to one of the liquid crystal principal refractive indices; and (ii) concentration of said microparticles in said composite is less than 0.1% for avoiding significant light scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Ibrahim Abdulhalim
  • Patent number: 12140306
    Abstract: An optical element includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell. The first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell are stacked. Each of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate on which a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode are alternately and repeatedly arranged in a first direction, a second substrate on which a third transparent electrode and a fourth transparent electrode are alternately and repeatedly arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate of the first liquid crystal cell and the first substrate of the second liquid crystal cell are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Kurokawa, Takeo Koito, Kojiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12143052
    Abstract: In induction motors, efficiency is improved and a maximum torque is increased. For a magnetic flux density of the stator pole for each phase of an induction motor, a circumferential magnetic flux density distribution is controlled to any distribution state, from a trapezoidal wave-like distribution close to a square wave to a sinusoidal distribution. In particular, motor efficiency in a range of low to medium rotations is improved. The motor structure is designed to reduce the leakage inductance of the rotor windings, and the motor and control thereof are optimized for each other. This increases the maximum torque of the motor more effectively. In addition, the high efficiency of the motor makes it possible to reduce the size of the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Masayuki Nashiki
  • Patent number: 12136856
    Abstract: A hairpin conductor includes two wire segments each having respective first and second ends and a respective middle region. The segments are disposed in a side-by-side orientation such that their first ends are proximate each other and their second ends are proximate each other. The first ends are welded to each other and the second ends are welded to each other, or the middle regions are welded to each other, thereby providing a welded wire assembly, which is bent such that the two wire segments are bent equally to form the hairpin conductor. The hairpin conductor has a primary bend in the middle regions to form an apex thereat and first and second secondary bends in the two wire segments nearer to the apex than to the first and second ends to form respective first and second shoulders thereat. A method of forming the hairpin conductor is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: John D. Campbell, Edward L. Kaiser, Elizabeth Pepper, Caroline Bolt
  • Patent number: 12135482
    Abstract: In a design stage of post spacers of a display panel, the present application generates a post spacer array pattern that meets requirements of a user according to a drawing layer data, a ratio data, and a positioning mode data of each of types of the post spacers determined by the user. This realizes an intelligent design of the post spacers of the display panel and eliminates manual judgments and modifications, thereby increasing efficiency and accuracy of a design process of the post spacers of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Siyang Liu, Zui Wang
  • Patent number: 12135405
    Abstract: An optical component comprising a planar metasurface arranged on a surface of a first substrate and a top layer arranged in a height direction Z above the metasurface, wherein the metasurface comprises a plurality of scattering structures, wherein a dielectric material is deposited on a subset of the plurality of scattering structures, wherein an active media is sandwiched between the metasurface and the top layer, wherein an incident electromagnetic radiation is transmitted or reflected by the optical component, wherein a phase profile modulation is induced on the incident electromagnetic radiation during the reflection or transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Laura Na Liu, Jianxiong Li
  • Patent number: 12132381
    Abstract: Systems for removing excess coolant oil and air from a radial air gap between a stator and a rotor of an electric motor are provided. In one example, the systems may include a ring covering the radial air gap, the ring configured to route coolant out of the radial air gap via one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DANA LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven Vanhee, Dolf Vandamme
  • Patent number: 12130437
    Abstract: Provided are: an image display apparatus that can display augmented reality in a virtual image is superimposed on a bright real scene; and AR glasses including the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes: a display element; and a reflective polarization diffraction element that reflects an image displayed by the display element, in which the polarization diffraction element has a region where a period of a diffraction structure decreases in a direction away from the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Katsumi Sasata, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 12132364
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, conductive portions of multiphase armature windings are arranged in a circumferential direction. Each of the conductor portions has a selected value of a radial thickness at which a product of a transverse sectional area of the corresponding one of the conductor portions and a value of an interlinkage magnetic flux of a magnet unit to the corresponding one of the conductor portions at a selected operating point of the magnet unit has a maximum value or a value adjacent to the maximum value. The selected operating point of the magnet unit corresponds to the selected value of the radial thickness of each of the conductor portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi