Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 12212262
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes a converter circuit converting an alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage. The converter circuit includes unit converters. The power converting apparatus generates a reference duty on the basis of detection values of a current detector and a voltage detector and generates, on the basis of a result of comparison between the reference duty and a carrier signal, a pulse-width modulation signal for controlling the switching element. In each of the unit converters, the pulse-width modulation signal has one pulse within a carrier period and has pulses for the number of phases within a leveling period, the leveling period being obtained by multiplying the carrier period by the number of phases. The pulses for the number of phases within the leveling period have phases all different from each other in the respective carrier periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ichiki, Kazunori Hatakeyama, Koichi Arisawa
  • Patent number: 12191714
    Abstract: A rotor, motor and brushless motor are provided. This rotor (9) includes a rotor core (32), permanent magnets (33), and a protrusion (35) protruding radially outward between permanent magnets (33). The permanent magnets (33) has a parallel orientation in which the easy magnetization direction is parallel to the radial direction in the center of the permanent magnets (33). The circumferential side faces (33d) of the permanent magnets (33) contact the protrusion (35) in the circumferential direction. Connection surfaces (33e) of the permanent magnets (33) are connected to the circumferential side face (33d) and to the outer peripheral surface (33a) on the radial outer side. The front end (35t) of the protrusion (35) in the protrusion direction is arranged between the center (33g) of the circumferential side face (33d) in the protrusion direction and the crossing ridge portion (33h) where the circumferential side face (33d) and the connection surface (33e) cross.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Ohori, Naoki Shioda
  • Patent number: 12191725
    Abstract: In a rotating magnetic field-variable pyramid energy cabin, shielding plate permanent magnets are disposed on inner surfaces of three triangular shielding plates forming a pyramid shape, to form a stable magnetic field in the triangular shielding plates. A top rotating magnet is disposed at a top of the triangular shielding plates. A bottom rotating magnet is disposed below a seat. The magnetic field in the triangular shielding plates is rotated, to enable a vortex in turbulence of magnetic lines of force to generate a torsion field. The torque of the torsion field changes the spin states of electrons and atomic cores in a hypoxic microfield in the body of a patient, to arrange the electrons and atomic cores in a uniform magnetic field direction. The magnetic actuation of the electrons and atomic cores can make the microfield environment serialized and orderly and increase the negentropy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: XI'AN XIAOCAO HERBAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chong Chen, Haiqin Xu, Guanzhu Chen, Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 12189203
    Abstract: Provided are a lens driving motor and an elastic member of the lens driving motor. The elastic member of a lens driving motor, the elastic member includes a first spring and a second spring. The second spring is different from the first spring and disposed together with the first spring on one side of a carrier to support the carrier. A first lead line of a coil and a first external power source are connected to the first spring, and a second lead line of the coil and a second external power source are connected to the second spring to supply power to the coil. Since the carrier can be assembled to other part after a (+) lead line and a (?) lead line of the coil are connected to the first and second springs, respectively, using solder, a process is simple and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soo Jin Jung
  • Patent number: 12170470
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine comprises a stator core structure (101) and a stator winding comprising a plurality of stator coils (102a-102f) mechanically supported by the stator core structure. Each stator coil comprises electrical conductors and a cooling tube (103) for conducting cooling fluid in the longitudinal direction of the electrical conductors. The stator comprises cooling elements (104a-104c) having heat-conductive mechanical contacts with the stator core structure. The cooling elements comprise channels for conducting the cooling fluid, and the cooling tubes of the stator coils are connected to each other via the cooling elements. The cooling elements transfer heat caused by iron losses from the stator core structure to the cooling fluid. Furthermore, the cooling elements act as manifolds for conducting the cooling fluid between the cooling tubes of the stator coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT
    Inventors: Ilya Petrov, Juha Pyrhönen
  • Patent number: 12170463
    Abstract: A motor rotor apparatus includes a rotor core and a bonding element embedded in the rotor core. The rotor core includes a first air sub-groove, and the first air sub-groove includes a first tooth and a first slot. The bonding element includes a second tooth and a second slot. The first tooth is engaged with the second tooth, and the first slot is engaged with the second slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaopeng Wu, Yibo Wang, Gurakuq Dajaku
  • Patent number: 12162343
    Abstract: A drive module for a vehicle including an electric machine, an inverter, a gearing assembly, and a cooling system. A first housing member thermally coupled with the inverter has a first set of heat exchange surfaces and a second housing member thermally coupled with the electric machine has a second set of heat exchange surfaces. The first and second sets of heat exchange surfaces each project into an interior volume cooled by an externally supplied liquid coolant which thereby defines a heat exchanger. A lower oil sump for collecting oil used to cool the electric machine may also include heat exchange surfaces projecting into the same heat exchanger. The gearbox may include an elevated oil sump which is supplied by the same oil pump circulating oil on the electric machine wherein the elevated oil sump gravity feeds oil onto selected surfaces within the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Bradfield
  • Patent number: 12155294
    Abstract: An electric work machine includes: a motor having a rotor disposed in an interior of a stator and being rotatable about a rotational axis; and an output shaft, on which a tool accessory is mountable and which is configured to be driven using motive power output from the motor. The stator includes: a stator core; a coil wound on a portion of the stator core; and a fusing terminal disposed more inward in a radial direction of the stator core than the coil and being connected to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Niwa
  • Patent number: 12155279
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator includes the steps of: providing a stator, which has one or more windings and a winding head, the winding head having one or more cable ends; positioning a phase connection assembly by way of a retaining element on the winding head, the phase connection assembly having at least one cable element; connecting the at least one cable element to a corresponding cable end of the winding head; and removing the retaining element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jens Richter
  • Patent number: 12149124
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor that is fixed to a shaft, a stator that rotates the rotor about an axis of rotation, and a compressor part that compresses a refrigerant by the shaft rotating, wherein the rotor has a rotor core in which a refrigerant hole is formed, a first magnet that is embedded in the rotor core, and a second magnet that is embedded in the rotor core, an interior wall surface of the refrigerant hole includes a first portion that is formed on a side close to the first magnet, a second portion that is formed on a side close to the second magnet, and a magnet-side intermediate interior wall surface portion that is formed between the first portion and the second portion, and the magnet-side intermediate interior wall surface portion is closer to the axis of rotation than the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Tomoki Nishio
  • Patent number: 12149135
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electric motor stator and an electric motor. The electric motor stator comprises: a stator core, the stator core being provided with a plurality of stator core slots, the plurality of stator core slots being formed on a radial inner surface of the stator core and being separated by a preset slot distance along a circumferential direction of the stator core; a stator winding, the stator winding being mounted on the stator core, the stator winding being provided with Q pole pair coils, wherein Q/a number of slots per pole per phase=P, P being an integer; wherein the stator winding being a three-phase winding, the number of slots per pole per phase being 3; the stator winding comprising: a first coil set and a third coil set successively sleeved from outside to inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner PowerDrive Systems (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rongjian Bai, Yanhai Liu
  • Patent number: 12132366
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hae Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 12126241
    Abstract: A brush holder for holding at least two brushes for a sliding contact arrangement, including an intermediate element and two contact elements for electrically contacting at least one of the brushes, the contact elements being arranged on two opposite sides of the intermediate element and the intermediate element having a receptacle extending through the opposite sides for a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Philipp Uhlmann, Andreas Ruf
  • Patent number: 12126239
    Abstract: In an electric power unit which accommodates at least an electric motor in a housing, polygonal rib regions in which polygonal ribs are respectively formed are provided on at least two surfaces of an outer peripheral surface of the housing, and the polygonal rib regions are connected by a circumferential rib. Here, a first axial rib and a second axial rib extending parallel to an axial direction are formed on the outer peripheral surface of the housing, and the polygonal rib region is provided in a portion sandwiched between the first axial rib and the second axial rib. Further, the circumferential rib is formed over the entire part of the polygonal rib region in a circumferential direction. Note that the polygonal rib is a honeycomb rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogasawara, Yuki Ishikawa, Keisuke Nakata, Jun Murakami, Hiroki Akaishi, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12126219
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator defining a rotor chamber. A rotor is disposed within the chamber and is configured to rotate about a central axis. The rotor includes a plurality of stacked laminations to form a rotor core. The rotor core has an outer diameter and each of the laminations includes a plurality of magnet slots that are radially spaced apart from the outer diameter and angled inwardly with one end of each magnet slot adjacent to the outer diameter. Each magnet slot has a permanent magnet disposed therein, adjacent pairs of the ferrite permanent magnets defining poles for the rotor. Each magnet slot has two opposite ends that define inner and outer magnet free areas. The outer magnet free areas are adjacent the rotor outer diameter and the inner magnet free areas are radially inwardly positioned. Each outer magnet free area is provided with conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: William E. Martin, Robert F. McElveen, Jr., Nicolas W. Frank
  • Patent number: 12126237
    Abstract: A linear vibration motor and a linear vibration system include a housing, a moving member, a drive unit including a driving coil and driving magnets, and a bias unit including a biasing electromagnet and biasing magnets. The moving member vibrates in a first direction substantially orthogonal to a winding axis of the driving coil with Lorentz force generated by a magnetic field formed by the driving coil and a magnetic field formed by the driving magnets. The biasing electromagnet and the biasing magnets are disposed such that the same poles substantially face each other, and the moving member is biased in the first direction by a magnetic spring generated from a repulsive force between the biasing electromagnet and the biasing magnets. Moreover, a magnetic spring constant of the magnetic spring varies with variation in a value of a current flowing through a biasing coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Shirato, Masahiro Ozawa, Kazuhide Takata
  • Patent number: 12100995
    Abstract: Described is a rotor (3) for an electrical machine (1) which comprises a rotor laminated core (6) divided into a plurality of sectors (B), in each of which there is arranged a permanent magnet assembly (4) which has two permanent magnets (13a, 13n) which are arranged in a V shape and which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry (C) splitting the sector (B) into two half-sectors (D, D?). An outer contour (E) of the rotor laminated core (6) runs in each sector (B) symmetrically with respect to the plane of symmetry (C) and is formed in one half-sector (D, D?) by at least three different radii with just as many different centre points. The invention also relates to an electric machine (1) having such a rotor (3) and to a vehicle (17) having such an electric machine (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Boris Dotz, Christian Finger-Albert
  • Patent number: 12081082
    Abstract: A method for producing a laminated core is provided in which a plurality of lamination sheets is partially or completely separated from a strip made of a soft magnetic alloy by laser sublimation cutting, the lamination sheets each having a main surface and a thickness d. The main surface of a first of the lamination sheets is stacked on the main surface of a second of the lamination sheets in a direction of stacking and the main surfaces of the first and the second lamination sheets are substance-to-substance joined at a plurality of points by laser welding, a plurality of filler-free joints being formed between the between the first and the second lamination sheets and being entirely surrounded by the main surfaces of the first and the second lamination sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Frederic Bäcker, Jens Diehl
  • Patent number: 12074488
    Abstract: A small DC motor includes a motor frame having a cylindrical portion, the cylindrical portion having a constant thickness and having a cross section in a shape that comprises four sides and connecting portions, each of the connecting portions connecting adjacent two of the four sides and being located inward from a corresponding corner in a quadrangle comprising the four sides; and a magnet having a circumferential surface on an inside thereof and having conformable contact with the motor frame on an outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventor: Minoru Kuroda
  • Patent number: 12074500
    Abstract: An axial flux motor includes a housing; a drive shaft disposed within the housing; at least one rotor; and at least one stator. The at least one rotor includes a diametrically-magnetized single pole pair magnetic ring having a rotor aperture defined through the center of the magnetic ring, where the drive shaft extends through the rotor aperture and where the at least one rotor is fixed to the drive shaft. The at least one stator includes a number of conductive windings and a stator aperture, where the drive shaft extends through the stator aperture and where the drive shaft is rotatable within the aperture. The at least one stator is configured to generate an axial magnetic field that causes the at least one rotor to rotate, thereby rotating the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyna L. Sconzert, Joseph A. Kronstedt, Benjamin Breidall, Kimberly A. Robertson