Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 12027922
    Abstract: A rotor/stator assembly for a motor, including: a rotor shaft including an internal channel; a rotor core disposed adjacent to the rotor shaft; and end windings disposed adjacent to an end of the rotor shaft and an end of the rotor core; wherein the rotor shaft includes a passage passing through a wall of the rotor shaft adjacent to the end thereof, thereby forming a path by which a cooling fluid passes from the internal channel of the rotor shaft to the end of the rotor core and the end windings when the rotor shaft and rotor core are rotated/rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Dang Dinh Dang, Lon Cooper, Larry Xiong
  • Patent number: 12027919
    Abstract: A motor assembly is provided including a stator assembly and a rotor assembly rotatably disposed relative to the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core having magnet pockets formed therethrough along a longitudinal direction, permanent magnets received within the magnet pockets, and a spring structure disposed in contact with the end of the rotor core. The spring structure includes spring elements configured to apply biasing forces to the permanent magnets along the longitudinal direction of the magnet pockets. Optionally a magnet retention end cap is provided to secure the spring structure to the end of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Jin, Weifeng Qian, Changxing Lu, Tong Zheng, Fulong Liu, Yeli Gu
  • Patent number: 12021414
    Abstract: A rotor, a motor and a compressor are provided. The rotor has multiple first punches and multiple second punches, which are stacked to form a rotor core of the rotor. Multiple openings are provided in each of the first punches and second punches along a circumferential direction of the rotor. The openings divide the first punches and the second punches into a rotor yoke and multiple pole caps. The pole caps are arranged around the outer circumference of the rotor yoke. The openings extend in an axial direction of the rotor core to form a plurality of slots. Multiple magnets are arranged in the slots in a one-to-one correspondence. Each first punch includes one or more connecting ribs. Each connecting rib is disposed between adjacent two pole caps. At least two of the openings of each second punch communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MEIZHI COMPRESSOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Xu, Xiaohua Qiu, Liyu Zheng
  • Patent number: 12021415
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electric machine (2) has a rotor body including multiple poles. The rotor (1) further has at least one sensor element (3) for detecting at least one condition variable of the rotor (1), and a signal processing unit (4) connected to the at least one sensor element (3). The signal processing unit (4) is configured to generate measured data from the condition variable of the rotor (1) and to transmit the measured data to a control device (5). Additionally, the rotor (1) has at least one induction coil (7), where each of the at least one induction coil (7) includes at least one electrical conductor (8). The at least one induction coil (7) is arranged at the rotor (1) and is configured to generate electrical energy from a magnetic field that is temporally changing during operation of the electric machine (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Jochen Eggler, Ulrich Kehr
  • Patent number: 12015309
    Abstract: A columnar core main body including a plurality of laminated cores having the same shape and that has a shaft hole on a rotation center side, a plurality of permanent magnets penetrate around the shaft hole of the core main body in an axial direction and is fixed in each of a plurality of magnet accommodating holes arranged in a circular shape in a circumferential direction, and protrusions in the magnet accommodating holes in one-to-one correspondence. The protrusion protrudes along the circumferential direction and comes into pressure contact with the permanent magnet accommodated in the magnet accommodating hole from the radially inner side. Each of the protrusions is defined by a protrusion forming space extending along the circumferential direction from a radially inner side surface of each magnet accommodating hole, and at least one of the protrusion and the protrusion forming space is on the magnetic pole center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Kusakabe, Yuya Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 12009703
    Abstract: A rotor-cooling structure is for a drive motor including an inner shaft, a rotor shaft surrounding the inner shaft, a rotor connected to the rotor shaft, and a stator disposed to be spaced apart from the rotor. The rotor-cooling structure includes: a first flow passage formed in the inner shaft; a second flow passage formed in the rotor shaft to receive oil through the first flow passage; a third flow passage formed in a plate disposed at an end of a rotor core, constituting the rotor, to be connected to the second flow passage; and a fourth flow passage formed to be connected to the third flow passage and to penetrate the rotor core in the direction in which core plates constituting the rotor core are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong Seok Yang, Tae Ho Kim, Jae Won Ha, Jae Young Choi
  • Patent number: 12003147
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to devices, methods, and/or systems that use electrical machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Axiflux Holdings Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: David Elias Jahshan
  • Patent number: 11996754
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a rotation shaft and a bearing mounted to the rotation shaft, a stator surrounding the rotor, a heat dissipation member provided on one side of the rotor in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and a resin portion covering the stator and at least a part of the heat dissipation member. The heat dissipation member has a first concave portion surrounding the bearing from an outer side in a radial direction about the rotation shaft, and a second concave portion famed on an inner side of the first concave portion in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryogo Takahashi, Hiroki Aso
  • Patent number: 11984781
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about a rotational axis, by which an axial direction is defined, and a stator with stator windings, a coolant distributor space and a coolant collector space. The coolant distributor space communicates fluidically with the coolant collector space to cool the stator windings with a cooling duct. The stator includes stator teeth supporting the stator windings and protruding radially inward from a stator body of the stator. A stator groove is formed between two stator teeth which has a radially outer groove zone extending radially inward away from the stator body into a radially inner groove zone, the radially inner zone width of which is smaller than the radially outer zone width, when measured along the circumferential direction, of the radially outer groove zone. At least one stator winding is embedded, for thermal coupling, into an electrically insulating plastic arranged in the stator groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Patent number: 11984763
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor core includes a plurality of rotor poles circumferentially-spaced about a central axis and including a first rotor pole and an adjacent second rotor pole that each include an outer wall, and wherein the rotor core includes a rotor diameter. The rotor core also includes a plurality of radial apertures alternately-spaced with the plurality of rotor poles. The rotor core also includes a first protrusion extending from the first rotor pole into a first radial aperture of the plurality of radial apertures positioned between the first rotor pole and the second rotor pole. The rotor core further includes a second protrusion extending from the second rotor pole into the first radial aperture such that a circumferential opening is defined between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The opening extends a first length of between approximately 0.052% and approximately 0.058% of the rotor diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: Regal Beloit America, Inc., Regal Beloit Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Mark Thiele, Greg Heins, Subhash Brahmavar, Steve Long, Lester Benjamin Manz, Kerry Shelton
  • Patent number: 11984761
    Abstract: Enhanced composite lightweight coiled windings are discussed which utilize phenolic, non-ferrous and ferrous metals in combination with improved geometrical shapes to create lightweight and highly efficient composite material winding assemblies for use in generators. These generators exhibit improved thermal and energy efficiencies when compared to present day generators. In some embodiments, the ends of these permanent magnets are in contact with intermediate T-shaped ferrous magnetically permeable members as described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventor: Elberto Berdut-Teruel
  • Patent number: 11973406
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electric machine (25) which comprises a rotor support (2). The rotor support has cylindrical inner and outer shells (3, 4). A magnetic flux-carrying rotor component has first and second end faces (6, 7) and carries the cylindrical outer shell (4). A rotationally shaft section (8) is arranged in an inside space (9) of the rotor support and mounted coaxially with the rotor support. At least in the area of the first end face (6) the outer shell has first teeth which face toward the magnetic flux-carrying rotor component and a first tooth base between respective pairs of first teeth, and at least in the area of the second end face (7) the outer shell (4) has second teeth which face toward the magnetic flux-carrying rotor component and a second tooth base between respective pairs of second teeth. The invention also relates to an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Rayk Gersten, Stefan Spühler, David Wörzler, Martin Christians, Martin Jelinewski, Alexander Baur
  • Patent number: 11973386
    Abstract: Since the shape of the insulating paper is complicated, a forming and bending step of the insulating paper is required, and further there is a step of inserting the insulating paper in the middle of coil forming, which causes a problem of damaging the insulating paper. A fitting state of an insulating paper 201 into the inter-coil gap has an annular taper shape in which a diameter dimension D1 of an annular opening of the insulating paper 201 on a coil end tip side is long, and a diameter dimension d2 of an annular opening of the insulating paper 201 on a stator end face side on the opposite side is short. The insulating paper 201 is made to follow the tapered shape of the inter-coil gap 140 between an inner peripheral coil 120 and an outer peripheral coil 130, and the insulating paper 201 is fitted in a state inclined from the coil end tip side to the stator end face side with respect to an axial direction of the stator 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Ryoji Kobayashi, Yuichiro Baba
  • Patent number: 11967865
    Abstract: A drive motor includes a housing and a stator iron core arranged inside the housing. A rotor iron core is placed through the inside of the stator iron core. The rotor iron core includes a cylindrical iron core body, and two openings are symmetrically formed on a periphery of the iron core body in a radial direction of the iron core body. The iron core body is provided with a plurality of mounting slots for receiving magnets, and each of both sides of the mounting slot is provided with a magnetic-leakproof air slot. The central part of the iron core body is provided with a through hole into which a rotating shaft is inserted. Moreover, the magnets are mounted in the mounting slots by means of insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG BAOLONG M&E CO., LTD., SHENZHEN YUNDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyan Guo, Jun Li, Fangkui LIn
  • Patent number: 11938807
    Abstract: A device cools a power train of a vehicle including an electric machine with a wound rotor coupled to a speed reducer. The device includes: an oil cooling circuit for cooling the electric machine, the circuit include a heat exchanger connected to an oil tank and a water circuit that connects members of the power train through the radiator of the vehicle; a temperature adjuster of the oil flow supplied at the outlet of the exchanger to a distribution circuit projecting the oil to elements for heating the electric machine; a circuit for lubricating the reducer, the circuit including a sump, the bottom of the sump forming a reserve of oil for lubricating the reducer; and a bypass channel at the outlet of the exchanger, for conveying a portion of the temperature-adjusted oil in contact with the bottom of the sump in order to cool the oil reserve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: RENAULT s.a.s., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bassel Assaad, Julien Borie
  • Patent number: 11942822
    Abstract: Presented are electric machines with optimized stator tooth geometries and multi-gauge stator conductors, methods for making/using such electric machines, and motor vehicles equipped with such electric machines. An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor assembly rotatably attached to the housing, and a stator assembly coaxial with and separated by an airgap from the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes one or more magnets mounted to a rotor core. The stator assembly includes a stator core with multiple axially elongated, circumferentially spaced stator slots, multiple radially aligned stator teeth interleaved between and separating the slots, and multiple electromagnetic windings wound through the slots. Each stator tooth has an elongated tooth body with a tooth head at a radial end of a tooth root, which attaches to a cylindrical hub of the stator core. The tooth head has an axial cross-section with a trapezoidal crown integral with a rectangular tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad F. Momen, Edward L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11936312
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes magnets arranged to face a winding. The magnets are movable relative to the winding upon the winding being energized. The magnets are arranged in a relative movement direction while magnetic polarities based on the magnets are alternately changed. Each magnet includes a first magnet member configured to generate magnet flux in accordance with a corresponding one of the polarities. The first magnet member has first magnetic orientations defined therein. Each magnet includes a second magnet member provided at a q-axis side end of the corresponding magnet located closer to a pole boundary. The second magnet member has second magnetic orientations defined therein. The second magnetic orientations intersect with the first magnetic orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11923729
    Abstract: A transport apparatus comprising a housing, a variable reluctance drive mounted to the housing, and at least one transport arm connected to the variable reluctance drive where the drive includes at least one rotor having salient poles of magnetic permeable material and disposed in an isolated environment, at least one stator having salient pole structures each defining a salient pole with corresponding coil units coiled around the respective salient pole structure and disposed outside the isolated environment where the at least one salient pole of the at least one stator and the at least one salient pole of the rotor form a closed magnetic flux circuit between the at least one rotor and the at least one stator, at least one seal partition configured to isolate the isolated environment; and at least one sensor including a magnetic sensor member connected to the housing, at least one sensor track connected to the at least one rotor, where the at least one seal partition is disposed between and separates the mag
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Brook Automation US, LLC
    Inventors: Jairo T. Moura, Reza Saeidpourazar, Branden Gunn, Matthew W. Coady, Ulysses Gilchrist
  • Patent number: 11909272
    Abstract: An oil-cooling structure for motor magnets, that includes: a pair of end plates that are disc-shaped and are mounted at both end portions of a rotor core; third oil paths formed at interiors of the end plates, and having axial direction portions that extend in an axial direction of a rotor shaft and are connected to axial direction end portions of second oil paths, respectively, and discharging portions that extend toward a radial direction outer side from axial direction outer side end portions of the axial direction portions and are open at end portions of the end plates; and angle mitigating members disposed in the third oil paths at corner portions formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions, configured to mitigate angles formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions in axial direction cross-sections that include the third oil paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11901775
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor iron core, a rotor shaft, and a fastening plate. The rotor iron core includes a first and a second end, and extends along an axial direction. The first fastening plate is fastened to at least the first or second end, and includes a through hole and a first runner. An inlet of the first runner communicates with the through hole. An outlet of the first runner is on a surface of a side of the fastening plate. The rotor shaft includes a second runner and a third runner in the rotor shaft. An inlet of the second runner is at one end of the at least one end of the rotor shaft. An outlet of the second runner communicates with an inlet of the third runner. An outlet of the third runner communicates with the inlet of the first runner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangang Wang, Quanming Li, Tingyu Xie