Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 11863045
    Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a motor housing of an electric motor. An annular seal accommodating portion is formed around an external terminal forming part of a connector assembly, and filled with a liquid sealing agent. A fixing member fixes the connector assembly to a fixing part of an end face part of the motor housing. A liquid sealing agent guiding passage is formed with the annular seal accommodating portion, and allows the liquid sealing agent to flow to the fixing member. A metal cover includes: a bottom part including: an exposure hole through which the external terminal forming part is exposed to outside; and an annular reinforcing projecting portion formed at an edge of the exposure hole, and accommodated in the annular seal accommodating portion; and a lateral peripheral part angled from the bottom part, and forming an opening for fixation to the end face part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11855490
    Abstract: In a rotor in which magnet slots arranged in a V shape so as to open toward the outer circumferential side and having permanent magnets inserted therein are formed in a two-layer structure in a radial direction, the magnet slots in each layer are composed of a pair of slots formed between a center bridge located at the center and respective ones of two radially-outer bridges located between the outer surface of the rotor and the respective slots. Of magnetic fluxes generated from the permanent magnets, magnetic fluxes excluding magnetic fluxes for magnetically saturating the bridges are defined as effective magnetic fluxes. The rotor is configured such that the effective magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnet on the radially outer side is not greater than half the effective magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnet on the radially inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Tatsuo Nishimura, Junji Kitao, Hitoshi Isoda
  • Patent number: 11855485
    Abstract: A laminated core includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of each of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent in the stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive for forming the adhesion part includes a first phase and a second phase, wherein the adhesion part has a sea-island structure of the first phase which is a sea structure portion and the second phase which is an island structure portion, wherein the first phase contains an epoxy resin, an acrylic resin, and a curing agent, wherein the first phase has an SP value of 8.5 to 10.7 (cal/cm3)1/2, wherein the second phase contains an elastomer, and wherein the second phase has an SP value of 7.5 to 8.4 (cal/cm3)1/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takatani, Hiroyasu Fujii, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11855489
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotor assembly and a consequent-pole motor, and the rotor assembly includes an iron core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The iron core is provided with a plurality of mounting grooves for accommodating permanent magnets distributed along a circumferential direction of the iron core. One side of each of the mounting grooves adjacent to an end of an outer edge of the iron core is provided with a second air slot which is located in a consequent-pole region. The second air slot is communicated with the mounting groove. The second air slot can, on one hand, prevent magnetic lines emitted from the permanent magnet from short-circuiting through an end of the permanent magnet, so as to decrease the magnetic flux leakage, and on the other hand, adjust an orientation of the magnetic lines in the consequent-pole region, so as to weaken torque fluctuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Bin Chen, Quanfeng Li, Yong Xiao, Jinfei Shi
  • Patent number: 11846697
    Abstract: A linear actuator includes a piston, a transmitter, and a receiver. The piston is configured to linearly extend and retract (such as within a cover tube). The transmitter is configured to generate a transmit electromagnetic waveform and direct the transmit electromagnetic waveform along a length of the piston. The receiver is configured to receive a return electromagnetic waveform that includes the transmit electromagnetic waveform after travelling to an extended end of the piston and returning to the receiver and determine a position of the piston based on a phase difference between the transmit electromagnetic waveform and the return electromagnetic waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Markus Dietl, Siva RaghuRam Prasad Chennupati
  • Patent number: 11843283
    Abstract: A rotor sheet includes a sheet body. The sheet body includes a plurality of magnetic poles symmetrically distributed in a circumferential direction of the sheet body. Each magnetic pole includes one first magnet groove symmetrical about a D-axis center line, two second magnet grooves symmetrically distributed in an approximate V shape about the D-axis center line, two first air grooves symmetrically distributed on the outer sides of two ends of the first magnet groove, and one second air groove positioned between the ends of the two second magnet grooves near the side of the center of the sheet body. First magnetic bridges are formed between the first air grooves and an excircle of the sheet body, and second magnetic bridges are formed between the first magnet groove and the first air grooves; and third magnetic bridges are formed between the excircle of the sheet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hefei JEE Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Liu, Renzhong Zhang, Kun Fan
  • Patent number: 11843306
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventor: William John Nicoloff
  • Patent number: 11837919
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor core satisfies a relationship: W2/W1?(A1+A2)/A1. Where, A1 represents an area of a region defined by a polar central axis, an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and a first imaginary linear line extending on an outer circumferential-side long edge of an embedding hole, A2 represents an area of a region defined by the polar central axis, a q-axis, the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, a second imaginary linear line extending on an inner circumferential-side long edge of the embedding hole, a third imaginary linear line extending on a first edge of the cavity hole, W1 represents a half-width of a first bridge portion, and W2 represents a half-width of the second bridge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsuoka, Masakatsu Matsubara, Kazuo Aoki
  • Patent number: 11837922
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator and a rotor arranged on a hollow shaft and able to turn relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, wherein the hollow shaft comprises, in a shaft casing, at least one shaft exit opening for coolant supplied to a shaft interior space of the hollow shaft. A cover element is arranged next to the rotor on the hollow shaft, in which is formed a fluid duct comprising a fluid duct inlet and a fluid duct outlet, wherein the fluid duct inlet overlaps with the shaft exit opening and the fluid duct outlet overlaps with a coolant duct inlet of a coolant duct reaching through the rotor in the axial direction relative to the axis of rotation, having a coolant duct outlet on its side opposite the coolant duct inlet, through which the coolant emerges from the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Moritz Lux, Lars Wetterau, Peter Suess, Maximilian Schröder, Vladimir Chernogorski, Korbinian Weber
  • Patent number: 11837928
    Abstract: An electric motor and winding method that improves its characteristics of torque and speed. An improved electric motor that provides higher power density and safety features by a novel winding architecture. Since the new winding architecture does not affect the measures, design or materials of the electric motor there is no need for any special manufacturing process or extra cost. Therefore the improved electric motors are smaller, lighter and cheaper than the same power size conventional electric motors as in other prior arts. The improved electric motor provides redundancy features against failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Alejandro Bosco
  • Patent number: 11831204
    Abstract: A rotor core has first and second core parts in an axial direction. The first and second core parts have first and second magnet insertion holes in which rare earth magnets are disposed. A width of the first magnet insertion hole is wider than the second magnet insertion hole. The first core part has one or more slits elongated in the radial direction, the number of which is N1 (?1), on a radially outer side of the first magnet insertion hole. The second core part has no, one or more slits elongated in the radial direction, the number of which is N2 (?0), on a radially outer side of the second magnet insertion hole. N1>N2 is satisfied. A ratio of a length of the second core part in the axial direction to that of the rotor core is greater than or equal to 70% and less than 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11831203
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved structure of a core-bobbin assembly without using a support ring, an O-ring, and a gasket which support and cool the core-bobbin assembly of a motor for a vehicle, so that a weight decreases, and a heat transfer area increases. The present invention also relates to a motor cooling method using the same. In the present invention, an outer circumference sheath (210) is added to a bobbin to cover an entirety of a core outer circumferential portion (110) including a cooling surface press-inserted into and in contact with a housing, that is, a recessed outer circumferential surface (120) formed on the core outer circumferential portion (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Seong Yang, Yeong Woo Seo, Seong Jun Hwang, Jung Kyu Yim
  • Patent number: 11817748
    Abstract: A method for constructing a lamination for a rotary electric machine includes forming an annular lamination from a ferrous core material having a first relative magnetic permeability. The lamination defines through-openings, e.g., for permanent magnets or conductors. Peripheral bridges of the core material extend between the through-openings and an outer or inner diameter surface of the lamination. The method includes diffusing an alloy material having a second relative magnetic permeability into the bridges to form austenitic bridges, with the second relative magnetic permeability being less than the first relative magnetic permeability. A rotary electric machine includes a stator and rotor. A vehicle includes a rotary electric machine connected to the battery pack and to road wheels, and having a rotor and/or a stator constructed in accordance with the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Anil K. Sachdev, Thomas W. Nehl
  • Patent number: 11810715
    Abstract: An electromagnetic propulsion system is provided. The system comprises first and second pluralities of stator coils wound about first and second axes, a plurality of support structures, first and second couplers that surround portions of the first and second pluralities of stator coils, and first and second pluralities of sets of rotor coils wound about axes that are parallel to the first and second axes. The stator coils are configured to receive electric current through an outside controller selecting appropriately coupled stator sections or through a sliding electrical contact system or bearing system to induce at least a first magnetic field. The plurality of support structures supports the first and second plurality of stator coils. The first and second couplers include notches and are oriented so that their notches pass over the plurality of support structures when the couplers move along the stator coils. The couplers may have an adjustable segment to close the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Seth Hartman, Erik Timpson
  • Patent number: 11811270
    Abstract: A rotating field machine, in particular an electric motor with a stator and a rotor, is configured with a motor control for controlling the rotation and the rotational speed n of the rotor of the rotating field machine, wherein the motor control integrally includes an oscillation sensor system in order to acquire actual measurement values of oscillations of the rotating field machine depending on the rotational speed n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Bürkert, Hartmut Messerschmidt, Christian Antonius Knipp
  • Patent number: 11811271
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor, a stator configured to rotate the rotor, a compressor unit configured to compress a refrigerant with rotation of the rotor, and a housing in which an internal space for housing the rotor, the stator, and the compressor unit is formed, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core that has an upper surface and a lower surface, an edge plate that covers the upper surface or the lower surface, and a fixing member that fixes the edge plate to the rotor core, a plurality of refrigerant holes through which the refrigerant passes are formed in the rotor core, an opening that allows the plurality of refrigerant holes to communicate with the internal space and a fixing member opening through which the fixing member penetrates are formed in the edge plate, and a thickness portion is formed between the opening and the fixing member opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomooki Hasegawa, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11809014
    Abstract: A VCM (voice coil motor) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a lens-accommodating, both ends opened cylindrical bobbin and a coil block including a coil wound on a periphery of the bobbin; a stator including a cylindrical yoke formed with a lens-exposing opening, a plurality of magnets disposed inside the yoke and opposite to the coil block, and a housing disposed inside the yoke to fix the plurality of magnets; and an elastic member elastically supporting the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongmin Lee, Sangok Park, Sangjun Min, Kyoungho Yoo, Taejin Jung, Taemin Ha, Seungki Kim
  • Patent number: 11801648
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped insulating member including a thermoplastic resin fiber and an inorganic fiber is arranged on a surface of a magnet body. The insulating member is compressed while being heated to a temperature higher than or equal to a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin fiber, so that the insulating member is thermocompression-bonded to the magnet body in a state in which the inorganic fiber is elastically compressed. A magnet is thus formed. With the magnet arranged in a slot of a rotor core, the magnet is heated to a temperature higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin fiber. This causes the inorganic fiber to restore elasticity, so that the magnet is fixed to the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Takeshima
  • Patent number: 11804763
    Abstract: In an axial gap motor including a rotor and a stator placed apart in a direction of a rotation axis with respect to the rotor, the stator is formed by combination of a plurality of divided pieces containing cores and yokes in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis. A first end portion in the circumferential direction of a first divided piece as one of the divided pieces has a convex portion projecting in the circumferential direction and a second end portion of a second divided piece in contact with the first end portion has a concave portion fitted with the convex portion, and the convex portion is provided in a position apart from a side portion of the first divided piece along the circumferential direction in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenobu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11799333
    Abstract: A permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor includes a stator portion and a rotor portion. The stator portion includes a stator core and a winding embedded in the stator core. The stator core is provided with a stator tooth and a stator slot. The rotor portion is provided inside the stator portion; a rotor body of the rotor portion is provided with a plurality of permanent magnet slot groups which are evenly arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor body; each of the permanent magnet slot groups is provided with multiple layers of permanent magnet slots; a distance between end portions of adjacent permanent magnet slots between adjacent permanent magnet slot groups is less than or equal to a width of a stator tooth boot of the stator tooth, and the number of slots per pole and per phase of the motor is two or three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao, Tong Tong, Suhua Lu