Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
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Patent number: 10859098Abstract: The present invention provides a drive device including a drive motor. The drive motor includes an end cover, a motor housing, a stator, a rotor, a motor shaft, and a bearing. The drive motor further includes a casing and a first heat-dissipating fan used for dissipating heat for the motor housing. The casing is fixedly mounted on a side of the end cover to contain the motor housing into a chamber formed by the casing. The casing and the motor housing are spaced apart at certain intervals to form a gap between the casing and the motor housing for air flow to pass through. The first heat-dissipating fan is connected to the end of the motor shaft away from the end cover to rotate with the motor shaft. The casing is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet for air flow to pass through.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Zhejiang Dongxin iTechnology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fengping Zhou, Xinjiang Zhou, Guoyao Wu, Xiaoke Zhou, Dong Chen
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Patent number: 10862372Abstract: A driving apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The driving apparatus is used for transmitting drive force to a first output shaft. The driving apparatus includes a housing, a motor, a torque converter and an oil reservoir unit. The housing includes a first oil chamber and a second oil chamber. The motor is disposed in the first oil chamber. The torque converter forms the second oil chamber and transmits drive force of the motor to the first output shaft. The oil reservoir unit is disposed radially inward of the torque converter. The torque converter guides hydraulic oil from the oil reservoir unit to the second oil chamber by centrifugal force.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihiro Matsuoka
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Patent number: 10862375Abstract: A rotary electric machine including an electronic module which includes a printed circuit board and a plurality of electronic components, each of which is provided with respective connecting pins disposed on a component side of the printed circuit board; the electronic module includes at least one conductive track which includes a plurality of tabs, each configured to be connected to a respective connecting pin; the conductive track is positioned on the component side of the printed circuit board; the printed circuit board has at least one seat configured to house at least a first tab of the tabs in such a way that the top face of the first tab is coplanar with the component side of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SPAL AUTOMOTIVE S.R.L.Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
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Patent number: 10858219Abstract: The invention refers to an electric linear motor comprising at least one linear stator designed to be located in a fixed correlation to an environment, particularly building, and at least one mover designed for connection with an element to be moved and co-acting with the stator, which motor comprises a stator beam supporting said at least one stator, which stator beam has at least one side face carrying ferromagnetic poles of said stator spaced apart by a pitch, and which mover comprises at least one counter-face facing said side face(s) of the stator beam, in which counter-face electro-magnetic components of the mover are located.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ilya Petrov, Tero Purosto, Tero Hakala, Jouni Ratia
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Patent number: 10848026Abstract: Provided is an electric linear actuator that enables reduction of the mounting space and reduction of costs. An electric motor of this electric linear actuator is an axial gap motor including a stator and a rotor which are disposed such that orientations of magnetic poles which generate interlinkage flux which contributes to torque generation are parallel to the rotation axis of the electric motor. Further, a linear motion mechanism and the electric motor are disposed in line along the same axis which serves as the axis of a rotation input and output shaft of the linear motion mechanism. First and second coil terminals have extended portions extended in the outer-diameter side in the radial direction with respect to the rotation axis, and the extended portions are electrically connected to a control device through a wiring mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventor: Yui Masuda
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Patent number: 10840757Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, and a rotor spaced apart from the stator by a gap. The rotor includes a first magnet that generates first magnetic flux, that includes first magnetic portions arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and that are configured to generate a magnetic field in the gap, and second magnetic portions that are alternately arranged with the plurality of first magnetic portions along the circumferential direction of the rotor. The rotor further includes a plurality of second magnets that are each located between a first magnetic portion of the first magnetic portions and a second magnetic portion of the second magnetic portions that is adjacent to the first magnetic portion, where each second magnet generates second magnetic flux that is greater than the first magnetic flux, and the first magnet is located radially between the gap and the plurality of second magnets.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Dongseok Ryu, Sangjoon Eum, Kiman Kim
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Patent number: 10840794Abstract: A gravity energy generator that provides a better and efficient way to use electricity as a source of power. The gravity energy generator includes a horizontal casing, a plurality of magnets and a plurality of wiring. A magnet is positioned on a midpoint of a centered shaft that is adapted to rotate along the centered shaft from an electromagnetic field from the first pair of magnets placed on the first end and the second end within the interior of the horizontal casing. Other embodiments of the gravity energy generator include a horizontal casing, a plurality of magnets, a battery and a pair of copper plates as well as a horizontal casing, a plurality of magnets and a pair of magnetic push and pull devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Inventor: James Abella
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Patent number: 10840772Abstract: A hand held machine tool for machining workpieces, comprising a housing in which a motor driving a rotor shaft is accommodated, and having an air guide region formed in the housing for supplying cooling air to the motor along a main flow direction oriented substantially parallel to the motor longitudinal axis. The air guidance region is limited at one end by at least one air inlet and at the other end by at least one air outlet for discharging the cooling air from the housing. A separator is arranged in the air guide region for dividing the cooling air into an outer partial air flow flowing around the outer circumference of the motor and into an inner partial air flow flowing through the motor. The separator is formed such that a degree of contamination of the outer partial air flow is greater than a degree of contamination of the inner partial air flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: C. & E. Fein GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Duernegger
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Patent number: 10833569Abstract: A rotor core includes laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The laminate steel plates each include a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The laminate steel plates are laminated in an axial direction. The laminated steel plate at an upper end in the axial direction includes at least one of an outward projection extending radially outward from an outer edge portion of the base portion and an inward projection extending radially inward from an inner edge portion of the piece, and the laminated steel plate at a lower end in the axial direction includes an intervening portion between the base portion and the piece portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
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Patent number: 10828582Abstract: An electric vehicle drive unit includes an inverter, a gear box, an electric motor coupled to the inverter and to the gear box, a cooling jacket, and coupled to the gear box, a main coolant inlet, a coolant outlet, and an external passive air bleed device. The cooling jacket has a cooling chamber and surrounds at least a portion of the electric motor. The main coolant inlet couples to the cooling jacket. The coolant outlet is located at a lower portion of the gear box. The external passive air bleed device runs between an upper portion of the cooling jacket and the coolant outlet. The inverter may couple to a first side of the gear box and the electric motor may couple to a second side of the gear box such that the inverter and the electric motor reside on opposite sides of the gear box.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventors: Vincent G. Johnston, Paul Daniel Yeomans, Riccardo Marco Pagliarella
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Patent number: 10826372Abstract: The magnetic gear includes a magnetic force generator (8), a driving shaft (1), a driven shaft (2) and a gear carrier (3) which are magnetically coupled in movement to one another. Only one magnetic force generator (8) is provided, which one magnetic force generator (8) has a north-south alignment that runs in the axis direction (111) of a shaft (1, 2) or parallel to this.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/SInventors: Allan Ivo Søegaard, Flemming Buus Bendixen, Alexandru Sorea, Henrik Rassmusen
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Patent number: 10819259Abstract: An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a stator. The electric machine further includes rotor disposed adjacent to the stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in contact with the rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in contact with the rotor core to modulate torque exerted on the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLCInventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Deepak Aravind
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Patent number: 10819169Abstract: An axial gap rotating electrical machine, including: a rotor; a stator which includes a stator iron core, the stator iron core including: a core back having a hollow-disc shape; and a plurality of teeth, which axially extend from one axial surface of the core back, and are arrayed circumferentially, the plurality of teeth having distal ends axially facing the rotor; a housing having a bottom on which another axial surface of the core back, which is a surface axially opposite to the one axial surface of the core back, is superposed; and a fixing member, which is fixed to the bottom at a position radially shifted from the core back, and is configured to press the one axial surface of the core back toward the bottom.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Ogawa, Hideaki Arita, Akihiro Daikoku
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Patent number: 10819204Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vibration motor. The vibration motor includes a first vibrator and a second vibrator which perform relative moved. One of the first vibrator and the second vibrator is provided with a magnetic circuit, and the other one is provided with a coil corresponding to the magnetic circuit. The coil and the magnetic circuit interact to generate a driving force to drive the relative moved of the first vibrator and the second vibrator. A BL value of the magnetic circuit can be effectively improved, a better vibration feeling can be achieved, and the circuit reliability can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Lubin Mao, Yun Tang
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Patent number: 10811935Abstract: A screen turning-over mechanism includes a rotating shaft connected to a screen and a motor drivably connected to the rotating shaft. The motor is connected to an electromagnetic damping loop which forms a closed path with the motor only when the motor is in a de-energized state. The rotating shaft is also connected to an elastic mechanism. When the motor is energized, the motor drives the rotating shaft to rotate to extend the screen, and the rotating shaft drives the elastic mechanism to deform elastically to store energy; and when the motor is de-energized, the elastic mechanism releases the stored energy to drive the rotating shaft to rotate to retract the screen. The screen turning-over mechanism according to the present application has a simple and compact structure, occupies a small volume of space, and has a long service life.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: THALES CETC AVIONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kui Zhou, Zhenhua Song
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Patent number: 10804765Abstract: A highly reliable electromechanical integral motor is provided. In the electromechanical integral motor including an axial gap type motor and a power conversion control device, the power conversion control device is mounted on an end bracket portion of the motor. Additionally, a space is provided between the end bracket portion of the motor and the power conversion control device. Further, the end bracket portion of the motor and the power conversion control device are fixed by a plurality of fixing members, and at least one set of the plurality of fixing members is disposed to be spaced apart from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Tanie, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Yuji Enomoto, Hirooki Tokoi, Takayoshi Nakamura, Naoki Sakurai, Fusao Houjyou, Kohei Matsushita
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Patent number: 10792805Abstract: The present invention relates to a semi-hollow actuator module and, more particularly, to a semi-hollow actuator module that has solved the problem that wires (cables) are entangled when an actuator module including a motor and a reducer therein is combined with another actuator module or a module connection member, etc. by improving a connection structure of the wires.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: ROBOTIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoung Soo Kim, Yong Jin Eum
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Patent number: 10797541Abstract: Provided is a magnetic plate laminate comprising a laminate formed by stacking a plurality of thin strips, and fastening members provided in apertures in the laminate. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a magnetic laminate wherein the thin strips are amorphous thin strips and the magnetic body laminate is subjected to heat treatment, thereby forming nano-crystalline grains in the thin strips. Also provided is a motor equipped with a stator formed by stacking a plurality of the magnetic plate laminates, a securing plate for securing the stator, and a rotor arranged in an opening in the middle of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukio Nishikawa, Mituhiro Ikeda, Naoki Nojiri
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Patent number: 10797570Abstract: Power conversion circuit unit defined by rotation shaft-side line facing toward rotation shaft of electric motor, control output terminal-side line facing toward coil input terminals of electric motor and side lines connecting both end portions of rotation shaft-side line and control output terminal-side line is packaged with synthetic resin. Three-phase control output terminals connected to the coil input terminals are formed at control output terminal-side line. Power switching elements forming upper and lower arms for each phase are arranged in a zigzag formation along control output terminal-side line with power switching elements being offset from a substantially middle between rotation shaft-side line and control output terminal-side line toward control output terminal-side line. With this, size of power conversion circuit unit can be reduced, and heat of power conversion circuit unit can be efficiently released to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tomishige Yatsugi, Takuro Kanazawa
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Patent number: 10797556Abstract: The present invention is an electrical machine comprising a rotor (10) and a stator (12) having radial passages (28) arranged circumferentially along the stator, magnetic-flux generators (34) housed in the passages, and a stator bearing (24) containing the rotor. According to the invention, the radial passages (28) comprise fluid-circulation galleries (36) facing the magnetic-flux generators (34).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, MAVEL S.R.L.Inventors: Luca Favre, Davide Bettoni