Patents Examined by Ahmed Elnakib
  • Patent number: 12381454
    Abstract: An embodiment may provide a motor comprising: a stator including stator teeth; and a rotor including a magnet, wherein the stator teeth include a first stator tooth and a second stator tooth disposed within the first stator tooth, wherein the first stator tooth includes a plurality of first teeth, the second stator tooth includes a plurality of second teeth, wherein the first teeth radially overlap the second teeth at the center of the stator in a radial direction, the motor further comprising: a sensor and a collector disposed between the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth in the radial direction, and the motor further comprising: a circuit board on which the sensor is disposed; and a housing accommodating the circuit board, wherein the collector includes a first collector and a second collector disposed within the first collector, the sensor is disposed, in the radial direction, between the first collector and the second collector, and the housing includes a first protrusion, wherein the first p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Chan Son, Se Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 12374966
    Abstract: A device for measuring the temperature of a coil device in an electric machine having a temperature sensor, a first section which produces a first restoring force, a second section which receives the temperature sensor, a third section which has a first fixing element, and a fourth section which produces a second restoring force. The first restoring force and the second restoring force act in a common direction, and the second section is arranged between the first section and the fourth section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technlogies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Silvery, Sven Derksen, Marie-Luise Anke
  • Patent number: 12352279
    Abstract: A rotor, a magnetic bearing, and a drive unit that rotationally drives the rotor. The magnetic bearing includes a bearing stator and a ring-shaped bearing rotor member. The drive unit has a drive stator and a ring-shaped drive rotor member. The bearing stator has a plurality of bearing stator cores consisting of a magnetic material, disposed on an outer peripheral side of the bearing rotor member. The bearing stator core has a first portion extending in a first direction orthogonal to a direction facing the bearing rotor member, and a pair of second portions extending to a bearing rotor member side from both end portions in the first direction of the first portion. The drive stator is formed so as to pass through a position between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and the first portion core and between the pair of second portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IWAKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Oniduka, Shinichirou Koreeda, Toshiaki Kamei, Hikaru Saitou, Masaya Ueno, Takuya Seki
  • Patent number: 12355372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a neuro-stimulator, and more particularly, to a rotational triboelectric nanogenerator for a neuro-stimulator providing, as a device that may directly utilize nerve stimulation triboelectricity generated by rotational energy for nerve electrical stimulation, a device that may adjust waveforms and stimulation parameters of electricity generated during frictional contact through a combination of various materials with triboelectric properties and patterns of materials and electrodes, implement various nerve stimulation parameters by adjusting an external rotational speed or a distance between friction layers, does not require complicated circuits or voltages and batteries to drive the batteries, and may be driven through relatively small volume, inexpensive materials, a simple structure, and a simple operation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Lee, Min Seok Kang, Hee Jae Shin
  • Patent number: 12354761
    Abstract: Provided are a perovskite betavoltaic-photovoltaic battery. The battery includes a first electrode, a first charge transport layer, a perovskite layer, a second charge transport layer, and a second electrode in sequence. The first electrode is a transparent electrode. The first charge transport layer is an electron transport layer and the second charge transport layer is a hole transport layer, or, the first charge transport layer is a hole transport layer and the second charge transport layer is an electron transport layer. The perovskite layer is doped with a fluorescent substance. At least one of the first electrode, the first charge transport layer, the second charge transport layer, or the second electrode is radioactive. When the first electrode and/or the second electrode is radioactive, the first electrode and/or the second electrode is an irradiated electrode formed by compounding a radioactive source and a conductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Changsong Chen, Weifeng Liang, Ling Xiang, Bao Tu, Yongsheng Guo, Guodong Chen, Chuying Ouyang
  • Patent number: 12348105
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine has a brush holder that holds brushes. A first cover through which a rotor shaft passes is provided on one end side in an axial direction. A brush holder accommodating portion that accommodates the brush holder is recessed in the first cover in the axial direction from an outer side of the first cover. The brush holder is disposed in the brush holder accommodating portion such that a distance between a lower surface of the brush holder and an inner peripheral wall of the brush holder accommodating portion is larger than a distance between another portion of the brush holder and another inner peripheral wall of the brush holder accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Hoshika, Karim Mikati, Hiroyuki Shibui
  • Patent number: 12337670
    Abstract: A drive module is employed for use in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) powertrain or in a battery electric vehicle (BEV) powertrain. The drive module serves to propel movement of the accompanying hybrid electric vehicle or battery electric vehicle. In an implementation, the drive module includes a housing, an electric motor, a gear assembly, a coolant sump, and a coolant passage. The electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The rotor has a shaft. The gear assembly has its movement driven by the shaft. The coolant passage resides in a wall of the housing. Amid use, coolant is drawn from the coolant sump via the coolant passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Attila Nagy, Andrew Dragon
  • Patent number: 12334782
    Abstract: A device may include a first end, a second end, and a coupler configured to extend through an aperture from a first side to a second side of a motor cover. The coupler includes a head portion, a conduit portion extending from the head portion towards the second end, and a first bore axially extending through the coupler. The device may include a brush holder extending through the first bore. The brush holder includes a cylindrical body, a socket at the first end, and a receptacle at the second end. The device may include a first lock nut including a first threaded bore axially extending through the nut. The device may be configured to enable a grounding brush to contact a motor shaft to provide a current discharge path to ground to reduce an erosion of the motor components including the motor shaft and rolling bearing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Elio Perigo, Stefan Rakuff, Rajib Mikail, Graham Medlin, Christopher Scott
  • Patent number: 12323034
    Abstract: An energy storage flywheel includes a housing; a flywheel rotor arranged in the housing and connected, at an upper end, to a self-bearing motor; a bearing rotor fitted over a lower end of the flywheel rotor and provided, at a lower end, with an annular rotor magnetic steel; and a bearing stator a arranged below the bearing rotor and provided with a cavity which opens towards the bearing rotor, in which the lower end of the bearing rotor is fitted, and at a circumferential surface of which is provided with an annular stator magnetic steel. At least part of the annular stator magnetic steel is opposite to and below the annular rotor magnetic steel in an up-and-down direction and is opposite to the annular rotor magnetic steel in a radial direction of the bearing rotor; and the annular stator magnetic steel and the annular rotor magnetic steel repel each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: HUACHI KINETIC ENERGY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Wang, Sen Su
  • Patent number: 12323027
    Abstract: A generator assembly for a high temperature environment that exceeds a seal temperature limit in operation can include a generator housing enclosing one or more generator components and one or more attached components sealed to the housing. The assembly can include one or more seals disposed between each of the one or more attached components and the generator housing and an oil circuit within the housing configured to circulate oil. The assembly can include one or more oil spray orifices within the housing and in fluid communication with the oil circuit. Each of the one or more oil spray orifices can be directed at an interior portion of the one or more attached components and/or an interior housing area adjacent the one or more attached components to provide oil spray thereto for cooling each of the one or more seals to maintain the one or more seals below the seal temperature limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr., Mark J. Franklin
  • Patent number: 12313120
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing device and a positioning system which includes the magnetic bearing device are provided. The magnetic bearing device comprises a stator and a moving member which are formed from a coil device with at least one coil body, magnets, and/or flux guide members, where the moving member is movable relative to the stator along a direction of motion and the stator and the moving member are configured such that a magnetic force can be exerted upon the moving member when electrical energy is applied to the coil device to form an air gap between the stator and the moving member. The coil device is arranged exclusively in the stator and the extension of the moving member in the direction of motion is smaller than the extension of the stator in this direction. The extension of the stator corresponds to the length of the at least one coil body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Goos, Daniel Geissler
  • Patent number: 12313049
    Abstract: A motor comprises: a housing including a partition wall for partitioning a first space and a second space; a stator arranged in the first space; a rotor arranged in the stator, a shaft rotating along with the rotor and having a sensor magnet arranged at an end thereof; and a printed circuit board arranged in the second space and having a position detection sensor arranged on a surface thereof, the position detection sensor facing the sensor magnet in the vertical direction, wherein the partition wall has a shaft hole penetrating therethrough from a surface to the other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Jin Kim, Ki Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 12272995
    Abstract: Architectures or techniques are presented that can improve operation of permanent magnet (PM) motors, which can be part of a compressor or other heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) device. Such improvements can be achieved by integration of inductive filtering into the motor assembly. A higher overall inductance can reduce current ripple and can further result in a lower total harmonic distortion, reduced power loss, and reduced heat generated. For example a first architecture can include a ferromagnetic core element in the PM motor that can cause a non-torque-producing reluctance path to the shaft. A second architecture can integrate a signal filter, which is customarily external, into a housing of the PM motor. Such can significant reduce costs and provide other advantages. A third architecture can couple an inductor (e.g., of the signal filter) to the shaft. Rotation of the shaft can thus serve to provide additional cooling for the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Sykora, Seth M. McGill, Petri J. Mäki-Ontto
  • Patent number: 12270435
    Abstract: A rotor for a thrust magnetic bearing is a rotor (51) of a thrust magnetic bearing (50) supporting a rotary shaft (30) that is driven to rotate by a motor (20) in an axial direction, and has a rotor passage (93) that penetrates the rotor (51) and constitutes part of a refrigerant passage (Z) for sending a refrigerant to the motor (20). It is preferable that the rotor passage (93) includes an opening (93b) on one side in the axial direction and an opening (93a) on the other side in the axial direction, and the opening (93b) on the one side is located radially outside (Q2) of the opening (93a) on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Fujiwara, Satoru Yatake
  • Patent number: 12273007
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric drive (10) of an electrically driven vehicle. The electric drive (10) comprises a rotor (22) and a stator (24) which is enclosed by a housing (25). The housing (25) is formed by an outer part (48) and an inner part (50), each of which has an axial ribbing (62, 64) extending in an axial direction (78) of the housing (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Schuelin, Julius Georgemannan, Marie-Luies Schoeneck, Martin Kuehnemund, Peter Zweigle
  • Patent number: 12267026
    Abstract: A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) using a 3D-spacer fabric and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) shows great application potential for biokinetic energy harvesting and a multifunctional self-power device. In the present disclosure, a TENG with a fabric-PDMS-fabric structure is fabricated using diverse three-dimensional (3D) fabrics and PDMS. Peak-to-peak output voltages of the diverse 3D-spacer fabrics are compared. The output voltages are changed due to structures and vertical fibers. In addition, a coefficient of surface friction between PDMS and fabric improves the output voltage. TENGs using different 3D-spacer polymeric fabrics show different maximum peak-to-peak output voltage performances. This is due to the stiffness, lateral elasticity, and 3D morphology of the fabrics. It is considered that those factors including the stiffness, the lateral elasticity, and the 3D morphology influence the densities in vertical and lateral fiber-to-fiber interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Hyeok Kim
  • Patent number: 12247570
    Abstract: The CPAP device includes a blower. The blower includes a motor and a blower fan rotatable by the motor. The motor includes a stator assembly including a plurality of coils arranged in a circumferential direction, and a rotor assembly including a permanent magnet and disposed in an inner side portion of the stator assembly in a radial direction. An output shaft is inserted into the rotor assembly. The output shaft rotates together with the rotor assembly. The blower fan is fixed to a tip end of one side of the output shaft. Part of the output shaft is inserted into an insertion hole provided at a center of the base. A plain bearing is interposed between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzo Higashiyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12249875
    Abstract: An electric work machine can appropriately detect rotation of a rotor. The electric work machine includes a stator including a stator core, an insulator fixed to the stator core, and a coil attached to the insulator, a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis and including a rotor core and a magnet fixed to the rotor core, a stator base supporting the stator, a sensor board supported by the stator base and including a magnetic sensor that detects the magnet, and an output unit drivable by the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Inuzuka, Yusuke Ichioka
  • Patent number: 12237757
    Abstract: A stand mixer includes an outer casing and a mixing motor disposed within the outer casing. A motor shaft is coupled to the mixing motor such that the motor shaft is rotatable by the mixing motor. A heatsink is mounted on the motor shaft such that the heatsink is in thermal communication with the motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald Scott Tarr
  • Patent number: 12237719
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine includes slots for accommodating windings, the slots having a slot neck portion and a filling portion and extending radially between an inner circumference and an outer circumference of the stator, and including regular slots and misplaced slots. The slot neck portion of the misplaced slots has a dimension different from that of the regular slots. The plurality of slots and windings establish a plurality of phases, each phase occupying at least two adjacent slots, and the at least two adjacent slots include a regular slot and a misplaced slot resulting in reduced torque ripple and an associated reduction in vehicle NVH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Deng, Yigang Yuan, Guohua Du