Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
-
Patent number: 12381427Abstract: The present disclosure provides a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor comprising: a double rotor comprising: an inner rotor and outer rotor secured to a rotor housing having a plurality of N-pole and S-pole magnets, a stator comprising: a stator base portion, a plurality of cooling structures distributed around the stator base portion, a plurality of stator teeth, each of the plurality of stator teeth being disposed in a slot and having a plurality of windings wound around the stator tooth; and a liquid distribution comprising: a liquid introduction module comprising: a liquid introduction base portion, and a plurality of fluid channels being secured to the liquid introduction top surface, and housed within the plurality of cooling structures, and a liquid injection portion configured to channel liquid into the cavity and the plurality of cooling structures; a liquid egress module comprising: a liquid egress base portion secured to the stator.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: RH Motor Industry, LLCInventor: Reza Norollahisomarin
-
Patent number: 12381432Abstract: An electric motor assembly comprising a rotor, a stator, first and second electromagnetic winding in first and second separate slot sets of a plurality of stator slots operatively configured to be selectively energized to exert a torque on the rotor, the first windings comprising first and second coils in first and second pairs of slots in the first slot set, the first coil comprising a first number of turns and the second coil comprising a second number of turns that is greater than the first number of turns, the second windings comprising third and fourth coils in third and fourth pairs of slots in the second slot set, the third coil comprising a third number of turns and the fourth coil comprising a fourth number of turns that is greater than the third number of turns.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Moog Inc.Inventors: Robert P. Gerbetz, Richard Fosdick
-
Patent number: 12374942Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes a plurality of stator teeth and a core oil passage extending in an axial direction. The stator winding is wound on the stator teeth, and a projection of the stator winding and a projection of the core oil passage in the axial direction of the stator are overlapped. The core oil passage includes a spiral first oil passage section, the stator core includes first and second laminations stacked with each other, the first and second laminations have first and second oil holes both passing through the respective laminations along the axial direction, respectively, the first and second oil holes are staggered in a peripheral direction and in partial communication with each other, and at least one first lamination is adjacent to at least one second lamination to define the first oil passage section.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: XIAOMI EV TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenhui Luo
-
Patent number: 12374967Abstract: Provided are a motor drive device that reduces the likelihood of mounting error during manufacture, and a method for manufacturing the same. The motor drive device is provided with: a substrate; a first mounting region for mounting first circuit component; a second mounting region for mounting a second circuit component; a first pair of connection points for connecting a first connecting wire member, constituting a first path for supplying electric current to the first circuit component, onto the substrate such that at least a part of the first connecting wire member overlaps the second mounting region; and a second pair of connection points for connecting second connecting wire member, constituting a second path for supplying electric current to the second circuit component, onto the substrate such that at least a part of the second connecting wire member overlaps the first mounting region.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Watanabe, Taku Sasaki
-
Patent number: 12374945Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine is disclosed. The rotor has a rotor shaft, a laminated core arranged on the rotor shaft and a plurality of stacked electrical laminations. The rotor also includes a first end plate arranged on an axial side of the laminated core and having radial protrusions arranged along its circumference, a second end plate arranged on the opposite axial side of the laminated core and having radial protrusions arranged along its circumference, a plurality of rotor windings which are each wound around a protrusion of the first end plate and around an axially opposite protrusion of the second end plate. A central cooling duct runs in the rotor shaft for supplying a coolant, and a radial cooling duct runs outwards from the central cooling duct in the laminated core. In addition, an electric machine and a vehicle having an electric machine of this type are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Carsten Siepker, Christoph Wieczorek, Regina Bach, Nico Wolf, Alexander Schlereth
-
Patent number: 12374949Abstract: A coil structure for an electromagnetic device comprising a conductor configured to provide a coil comprising one or more coil turns around a magnetic core to induce a magnetic flux in the magnetic core when in use. The conductor comprises one or more a first parts comprising a plurality of sub-conductors in parallel, and one or more second parts coupled in series with the first part(s), wherein the or each second part comprises a single sub-conductor or a lesser number of sub-conductors in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Technelec LtdInventors: Richard Pollock, James Nicholls, Peter Dackus, Abigail Cumming
-
Patent number: 12369753Abstract: A blender system is shown and described herein. In one aspect, the blender system includes a base with an interior and an exterior formed by a housing. The housing may include an air inlet port and an exhaust port. The interior of the base includes a motor bore forming an air pathway connecting the air inlet port to the exhaust port. The motor bore also includes an entry aperture fluidly connecting the motor bore to the air inlet port. The entry aperture is indirectly in line with the air inlet port. The exit aperture fluidly connects the motor bore to the exhaust port, and the exit aperture is indirectly in line with the exhaust port.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Vita-Mix Management CorporationInventors: Michael Arnett, Eugene J. Kozlowski
-
Patent number: 12368332Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing having an inner surface, an upper portion, and a bottom portion. The bottom portion supports a coolant inlet, and a coolant outlet. A stator is mounted in the housing. The stator includes a plurality of stator laminations having a first end turn and a second end turn. The plurality of stator laminations includes a coolant flow path having a plurality of coolant channels that extend circumferentially about the stator. A first portion of the plurality of coolant channels direct a coolant circumferentially about the stator in a clockwise direction and a second portion of the plurality of coolant channels direct the coolant circumferentially about the stator in a counter-clockwise direction. The coolant flow path includes a first outlet and a second outlet. The first outlet directs onto the first end turn, and the second outlet directs coolant onto the second end turn.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.Inventor: Michael Duane Bradfield
-
Patent number: 12358097Abstract: A power tool has highly airtight electrical connection between a controller and a switch to effectively prevent a short circuit. A grinder includes a housing, a motor accommodated in the housing, a controller accommodated in the housing and including a circuit board and a controller terminal located on a first facing surface and electrically connected to the circuit board, a switch accommodated in the housing and including a switch terminal located on a second facing surface facing the controller, being in direct contact with the controller terminal, and electrically connected to the controller terminal, and a seal located between the first facing surface and the second facing surface and sealing a periphery of the controller terminal and a periphery of the switch terminal with the controller terminal being in direct contact with the switch terminal. The first facing surface is a surface of the controller facing the switch.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Junya Ishikawa
-
Patent number: 12355326Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine includes a stator, a rotor disposed in the stator, a bottomed tubular case that accommodates the stator, an end cover mounted on an open end of the case, and a circuit substrate that controls driving of the dynamo-electric machine. The stator includes a core having portions that protrude toward a center of the stator, insulators mounted on the stator core, and a coil wound around each of the protruding portions with the insulators therebetween. The circuit substrate is disposed inward of an outer end of the case and is disposed between the stator and the end cover, and includes a first insulation sheet disposed between the circuit substrate and the stator to insulate the circuit substrate and the coil; and a second insulation sheet disposed between the circuit substrate and the end cover to insulate the circuit substrate and the end cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: HIRATA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Nishimoto, Hirofumi Kinoshita
-
Patent number: 12348100Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an apparatus for voltage equalization in square-wave voltages of electric motors. The apparatus may include: a terminal board circuit wherein phases U, V, and W each comprises input and output cabled conductors summing to at least 6 cables; and a bridge between two of the at least six cables connecting two or more of the at least 6 cable inputs and outputs. The bridge is partially conductive such that its electrical resistance markedly reduces above a threshold value. The partial conductivity results from filler particles in an embedding matrix determining a reduction of the resistance in the bridge above the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: INNOMOTICS GMBHInventors: Tobias Katzenberger, Bastian Plochmann
-
Patent number: 12341405Abstract: A bearingless rotating electric machine provides a rotor-stator architecture that decouples motor torque fields from motor suspension fields greatly simplifying field weakening such as affects torque fields, without detrimental effect on rotor suspension.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Bharat Ramadas, Eric Severson
-
Patent number: 12341394Abstract: A motor assembly includes a stator including a stator core, a stator coil, and an insulator, and a rotor. The stator core includes a yoke, a plurality of teeth, and a shoe. The insulator includes an insulator body wrapping and insulating an outer surface of the shoe so that an inner end of the shoe is exposed to outside, and a creepage distance extension portion extending a creepage distance between the stator coil and the inner end of the shoe. The creepage distance extension portion includes an inner extension section extending from the end of the shoe along the circumferential direction, and an outer extension section extending outwardly from the inner extension section. Accordingly, the creepage distances between the stator coil and the stator core in the circumferential direction and the radial direction may be increased, respectively, without increasing the size of the stator in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sunghyun Kim, Seonghun Seo, Honghyun Kim, Hwajung Jung
-
Patent number: 12328033Abstract: A method for checking a model temperature of an electrical machine ascertained by a temperature model. At least one manipulated variable relating to the electrical machine is specified by a regulation of the electrical machine as a function of a setpoint variable. A model value of the manipulated variable is ascertained as a function of the manipulated variable and the model temperature from a machine model comprising at least one temperature-dependent parameter. A difference between the actual manipulated variable of the regulation and the model value of the manipulated variable and/or a difference between a variable derived from the actual manipulated variable of the regulation and a corresponding further variable derived from the model value of the manipulated variable is ascertained. The difference is compared to a limiting value and, if the limiting value is exceeded, a deviation of the model temperature from an actual temperature of the electrical machine is detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Franz Honkomp, Thomas Heckel
-
Patent number: 12328031Abstract: A stator including a ring having teeth with slots there between, and bridges of material each connecting two adjacent teeth at their base on the side of the air gap and defining the bottom of the slot between these teeth. The bridges of material each having at least one region of reduced magnetic permeability that is in the form of at least one localized narrowing formed by a groove or a localized crushing of the material, and/or at least one opening with the width l of the bridge of material, and/or at least one localized treatment in the with l of the bridge of material, which locally reduces the magnetic permeability of the bridge of material, and windings placed in the slots of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Jacques Saint-Michel, Francois Turcat, Cedric Plasse, Olivier Gas
-
Patent number: 12323000Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor having 10×N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 1) magnetic poles and a stator including 9×N teeth. A center tooth includes a first main body and a first tooth end portion. A downstream-side tooth includes a second main body and a second tooth end portion. The electric motor satisfies TCR>TBR, where TCR is a maximum length of the first upstream-side portion in the first upstream-side radial direction of the first tooth end portion and TBR is a maximum length of the second upstream-side portion in the second upstream-side radial direction of the second tooth end portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Takanori Watanabe, Kazuchika Tsuchida, Ryogo Takahashi, Naoki Tamura
-
Patent number: 12323019Abstract: An in-wheel working device including: a stator fixed to the inside of a housing, a rotor rotatably installed in the stator, a rotating part rotatably installed in the housing, and rotated with the rotor, a resolver fixing part fixed to the inside of the housing, and a resolver moving part. The resolver moving part includes a resolver rotor positioned outside the resolver fixing part and facing the resolver fixing part, and a cover part fixed to the rotating part and covering the resolver rotor.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hae Jun Yang
-
Patent number: 12316180Abstract: Disclosed is a stator (2) comprising a stator body (25) having notches (21) formed between teeth (23), electrical conductors (22) being housed in the notches (21), at least one part of the electrical conductors being in the form of a U-shaped pin, each comprising first (22c) and second (22f) axially extending legs in the first (A) and second (R) notches, respectively, at least one of the first (22e) and second (22f) legs of the electrical conductors (22) extending out of the notches via an inclined welding portion, at least one part of the electrical conductors each having a welding portion, innermost with respect to the longitudinal axis of the stator, the innermost welding portions being inclined with the same inclination with respect to the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: NIDEC PSA EMOTORSInventor: Cyril Moya
-
Patent number: 12283860Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that includes a shaft along a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a stator that includes coils and opposes the rotor in a radial direction, a casing that supports the rotor and the stator, and a terminal attached to the casing and electrically connected to lead wires extending from the coils. The terminal includes a lead wire terminal portion that is in contact with the lead wire, an external terminal portion that is electrically connected to the lead wire terminal portion and extends toward an outside of the casing, and a holding portion that holds the lead wire terminal portion and the external terminal portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Inoue, Tomoyuki Kubota
-
Patent number: 12283864Abstract: Various methods are provided for an electric motor including a coolant jacket molded to a stator. In one embodiment, the method comprises flowing a coolant to an annular coolant passage formed between a stator and a coolant jacket molded directly to the stator, and spraying the coolant toward the stator from a nozzle formed in a spray ring molded integrally with the coolant jacket.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventor: Darren J. Ziskovsky