Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
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Patent number: 10734857Abstract: An electromechanical rotary actuator includes a stator having teeth extending inwardly from an inner wall surface, wherein free ends of each tooth form an aperture dimensioned for receiving a rotor, the free ends forming a gap therebetween. A segmented set of electrical coils extends around each tooth, wherein each coil of the segmented set has a thickness sufficient for passing through the gap between the first and second teeth. Electrically insulating tabs extend into an opening around each tooth carrying the segmented set of coils. The tabs maintain each of the coils within the segmented set in a spaced relation to the stator. When fabricating the actuator, each of the coils are fabricated and individually placed around a tooth with each coil having a thickness and breadth for optimally packing the stator.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Pangolin Laser Systems, Inc.Inventor: William R. Benner, Jr.
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Patent number: 10707740Abstract: An X-Y movable stage with rotation and tilt is described. A fixed base comprises a magnetic bed with a checkerboard, hexagonal or pseudo-random pattern of alternating north and south poles on a grid. A movable puck moves, rotates and tilts on the base. The base and puck system is free of any other moving parts. The puck comprises three or more nodes where each node may be energized for a north, south, or off magnetic field, with varying field strength. Embodiments include use in a vacuum or fluid. Light from the base to the puck may be used to charge or power a puck. Methods of mapping node locations, controllers, and applications are described. Embodiments for specific applications are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Inventor: Kim Rubin
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Patent number: 10707739Abstract: An X-Y movable stage with rotation is described. A fixed base comprises a magnetic bed with a checkerboard, hexagonal or pseudo-random pattern of alternating north and south poles on a grid. A movable puck moves and rotates on the base. The puck comprises three or more nodes where each node may be energized for a north, south, or off magnetic field, with varying field strength. Methods of mapping node locations, controllers, and applications are described. Embodiments for specific applications are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Inventor: Kim Rubin
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Patent number: 10707728Abstract: A device for sealing off multiple grooves of a stator of an electric drive machine with respect to a rotor of the electric drive machine. The device includes a seal which is able to be inserted simultaneously into the multiple grooves, wherein the seal is designed as an electrical insulator. The seal is designed to seal off the grooves with respect to the rotor. Windings of an electrical coil are able to be arranged in the grooves. The seal is of integral or unipartite design.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stefan Oechslen, Jan Nägelkrämer
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Patent number: 10700563Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole. The rotor core has a slit on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in a radial direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is magnetized by placing the rotor so as to face a tooth around which a winding is wound, rotating the rotor in a first rotating direction from a rotational position where a center of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction of the rotor core faces a middle portion between both ends of the winding in the circumferential direction and supplying electric current to the winding, and rotating the rotor in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction from the rotational position and supplying electric current to the winding.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Yoshikazu Fujisue, Kazuya Kumagai, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 10696149Abstract: An electric vehicle includes an energy storage system, an integrated drive system assembly having a gearbox, a power inverter, and an electric motor, wherein the gearbox, the electric motor and the power inverter are assembled into a single unit with a multi-piece housing. The electric vehicle may also include two half shafts for respective wheels of the electric vehicle. The gearbox, the electric motor and the power inverter may be oriented such that the gearbox extends along a center line of the electric vehicle and the electric motor and the power inverter extend from the gearbox in opposite directions. The electric vehicle may also include a mutual thermal management system coupled to the integrated drive system assembly and having at least one liquid coolant loop that is thermally coupled to the electric motor, the power inverter, the gearbox, a cooling system, a refrigeration system, and an HVAC system.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventors: Edwin M. Pearce, Jr., Jim Robbins, Benjamin D. Dettmann, Nicholas R. Kalayjian, Michael R. Kubba
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Patent number: 10700578Abstract: Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of an exciterless synchronous generator are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is an exciterless synchronous generator comprising a stator, a rotor, and a startup excitation system. The stator includes a set of stator windings. The rotor includes an energy harvest winding, a DC power supply including a DC bus and coupled to the energy harvest winding, and a field winding coupled to the DC power supply. The startup excitation system comprises one of a magnetic field generation system structured to generate a magnetic field received by the energy harvest winding in response to a rotation of the rotor, wherein the magnetic field is converted to DC power with the DC power supply and transmitted to the field winding; or a rotor DC power source including and diode coupled in series across the DC bus.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Ghanshyam Shrestha, Chenjie Lin, Mehanathan Pathmanathan, Pedro Rodriguez
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Patent number: 10693359Abstract: A technology for improving a device structure so that an external impact does not occur in a coil in order to solve a problem in that several attachments, such as coil, included in a linear vibration generator are separated or broken due to a small impact test or drop test on the linear vibration generator. The attachments, such as coil, included in the linear vibration generator can be prevented from being disconnected, separated or broken due to the execution of a small impact test and drop test on the linear vibration generator.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: MPLUS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seuk Hwan Chung, Nam Sock Kim
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Patent number: 10693329Abstract: A stator of a polyphase claw pole motor includes: a compressed-powder member including a compression molded product of magnetic powder; and a metal member. At least claws of the claw pole of the stator are constituted by the compressed-powder member.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Isamu Nitta, Hiroshi Araya, Nobuo Ukai
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Patent number: 10686347Abstract: The present invention provides a high-speed motor for supplying high-output power by preparing a power transmission device, which increases rotational power at the front of a motor converting electrical energy into mechanical energy, so as to cause a rotary motion, obtain power, and supply the power, such that the power transmission device generates torque through an interaction of attraction and repulsion between a rotating magnetic field and a magnetic field generated by receiving the rotational power of the electric motor of receiving the rotational power of the electric motor and external electric power, thereby implementing a motor for transferring power with an increased number of revolutions and torque.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Inventors: Seungjoo Han, Byungho Han, Jongtaek Han
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Patent number: 10680491Abstract: Methods and devices are provided that allow for easy replacement of a motor assembly in a fuel dispensing unit. In one embodiment, a protective end cap for use with a motor assembly is provided and includes a junction box housing having a sealed end that can couple to a motor, and an opposite open end that can couple to an end plate. The junction box housing can be configured to house a junction box that allows electrical wires extending through the end plate to couple to electrical wires extending from the motor through the sealed end of the junction box housing. A motor assembly having a junction box housing and methods for replacing a motor assembly in a fuel dispenser are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLCInventors: Bengt I. Larsson, Mattias G. Martensson
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Patent number: 10680479Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include a rotor having an axis of rotation and a magnet; a stator coaxial with the rotor, the stator can have a printed circuit board (PCB) having a plurality of PCB layers that are spaced apart in an axial direction, each PCB layer can include a coil having only two terminals for electrical connections, each coil is continuous and uninterrupted between its only two terminals, each coil consists of a single electrical phase, and one of the two terminals of each coil is electrically coupled to another coil with a via to define a coil pair; and each coil pair is electrically coupled to another coil pair with another via.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Infinitum Electric, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard L. Schuler, Rich Lee, Jorgen Rasmussen
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Patent number: 10669150Abstract: [Object] To provide an electrostatic device capable of improving device characteristics. [Solving Means] An electrostatic device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an electrically conductive base material, a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, and a bonding layer. The first conductor layer includes a first electrode portion and a first base portion and is connected to a signal line. The first base portion supports the first electrode portion and is disposed on the base material. The second conductor layer includes a second electrode portion and a second base portion and is connected to a reference potential. The second electrode portion is opposed to the first electrode portion in a first axis direction and configured to be movable relative to the first electrode portion in the first axis direction. The second base portion supports the second electrode portion and is disposed on the base material.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Akiba, Mitsuo Hashimoto, Shinya Morita, Munekatsu Fukuyama
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Patent number: 10666112Abstract: A system having a damper with six or more indentations on alternating sides of the damper, where each indentation is open to an outer circumferential surface of the damper and extends over halfway through a width of the damper, and six or more slots, each slot open to an undulating inner circumferential surface of the damper and extending through the width of the damper.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.Inventor: William John Nicoloff
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Patent number: 10666115Abstract: An electric machine provided with a stator and with a rotor arranged on a coolable shaft which is rotatably mounted with respect to the stator. The rotor is connected to the shaft by a thermosiphon device which is non-rotatably connected to the rotor and arranged on the front side of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Maximilian Schröder
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Patent number: 10658896Abstract: A method for producing a coil of a compressor (1) which can be electrically driven, a coil which is produced in accordance with this method, and a stator and a compressor which can be electrically driven. The production process for the coil includes the steps of: producing (100) a first winding (101) of the coil (12), producing (200) a second winding (102) of the coil (12), and compacting (300) the first winding (101) and the second winding (102) by virtue of an external action of force. A cross-sectional area (111, 112, 111?, 112?) of a wire of the first winding (101) and of the second winding (102) is deformed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Hans Lehner, Dietmar Metz
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Patent number: 10651704Abstract: A rotating device has a housing having an opening portion opened to one side in a rotor axis direction, a rotor accommodated in the housing, a substrate coupling to the opening portion, and a cover covering a part of the substrate, and a snap portion and a loop portion are provided on an end portion, in the housing, forming the opening portion and are arranged in a radial direction. The substrate has an engaged portion engaging with the snap portion, and the cover has an engaged portion engaging with the loop portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventor: Katsunori Sakuragi
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Patent number: 10637314Abstract: The invention relates to a bar winding arrangement of a stator or a rotor of an electric machine, including a number of bar segments, which are housed in a plurality of slots of the stator or the rotor and are electrically connected to one another in such a way that they form a continuous winding of the stator or the rotor, wherein each of the slots is divided by the bar segments into a first group of bar segments and at least one second group of bar segments, wherein the bar segments of the first group have a smaller cross section than the bar segments of the second group, wherein the bar segments of the first group are electrically connected in series and the bar segments of the second group are electrically connected in series and in parallel with the bar segments of the first group and wherein the bar segments of the first group are arranged closer to a slot opening in the radial direction than the bar segments of the second group.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stefan Götz, Malte Jaensch
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Patent number: 10637323Abstract: A motor includes a bus bar assembly including a bus bar, a wiring member, and a bus bar holder. The bus bar holder includes a main body portion, a bottom portion, and a first circuit board support portion. The wiring member includes a circuit board connection terminal electrically connected to the circuit board. The circuit board connection terminal includes a contact portion connected to the circuit board, and applies force to the circuit board through the contact portion. The first circuit board support portion is disposed at a region of the bottom portion to define a side at which the circuit board connection terminal is located when viewed from one direction. The first circuit board support portion and the contact portion are located at different positions when viewed from the one direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Hidehiro Haga, Ryusuke Sato, Yosuke Yamada, Yasuaki Nakahara
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Patent number: 10637306Abstract: A stator for a simultaneous concentrated winding motor includes a core having 3×m teeth, and 3×m windings. The windings include at least a U1 winding and a U2 winding that belong to a U phase, a V1 winding and a V2 winding that belong to a V phase, and a W1 winding and a W2 winding that belong to a W phase. First lead wires of the U1 winding, the V1 winding, and the W1 winding extend, respectively, from the teeth on which the U1 winding, the V1 winding, and the W1 winding are arranged. First lead wires of the U2 winding, the V2 winding, and the W2 winding extend, respectively, from the teeth on which the U1 winding, the V1 winding, and the W1 winding are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hisato Sumitomo, Kazuo Ida, Akinobu Ishizaki, Hidemi Tanji, Akio Mutou