Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 11799337
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine including a rotor including a rotor core arranged coaxially with a stator core via an air gap formed between the stator core and the rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnet groups each forming one magnetic pole, A flux barrier is formed between one set of permanent magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in each permanent magnet group forming one magnetic pole. A pair of ribs is formed of regions of the rotor core between the flux barrier and the one set of permanent magnets. A first slit is formed in a region of the rotor core on the air gap side in a radial direction of the each permanent magnet group, and an end portion of the first slit on the flux barrier side is positioned between extension lines of the pair of ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Kitao, Kosho Yamane, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama
  • Patent number: 11799350
    Abstract: An electric machine, characterized by two partial machines, each of which has a housing with a bottom-side end wall, in which in each case a stator and a rotor having a hollow rotor arm is accommodated, the two housings being arranged adjacent to one another with their bottom side end walls, with a common distribution device being provided in a cavity between the two housings for distributing a coolant that is used to cool the rotors and which is coupled with at least one housing-side inlet via which the coolant is supplied, and at least one housing-side outlet via which the coolant is discharged, and which is formed to distribute the coolant supplied into both hollow rotor arms and to guide the coolant flowing back from it to the at least one outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Jason Cox, Zsolt Bárány
  • Patent number: 11799339
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor having a rotor core, a stator having a stator core and a stator coil, a first rotating shaft member having a first flange portion and a first shaft portion, a second rotating shaft member having a second flange portion and a second shaft portion, and a fastening device that fastens the first and second rotating shaft members, in a condition where the rotor core is sandwiched between the first and second flange portions, from opposite sides of the rotor core in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11799346
    Abstract: A transport apparatus including a housing, a drive mounted to the housing, and at least one transport arm connected to the drive where the drive includes at least one rotor having at least one salient pole of magnetic permeable material and disposed in an isolated environment, at least one stator having at least one salient pole with corresponding coil units 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, and at least one seal configured to isolate the isolated environment where the at least one seal is integral to the at least one stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BROOKS AUTOMATION US, LLC
    Inventors: Jairo T. Moura, Ulysses Gilchrist, Robert T. Caveney
  • Patent number: 11791701
    Abstract: A compound motor-generator system including a first motor-generator and a second motor-generator. The first motor generator includes a stator having a set of three-phase field windings and a first rotor disposed inside and coaxial with the stator and configured to rotate relative to the stator. The second motor-generator includes a rotational stator and a second rotor coupled to a common shaft with the rotor of the first motor-generator and disposed inside and coaxial to the rotational stator. The rotational stator is configured to rotate relative to the second rotor and at a higher rotational speed than the second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Leo Francis Casey, Siyuan Xin
  • Patent number: 11791678
    Abstract: A motor and a rotor structure thereof are disclosed. The rotor structure includes a rotor core. The rotor core has a plurality of magnetic member units arranged around a periphery of the rotor core. Each magnetic member unit includes two first magnetic members and a second magnetic member. The two first magnetic members are obliquely arranged in a V shape relative to a center of the rotor core. The second magnetic member extends transversely between the two first magnetic members. Each first magnetic member has at least two permanent magnets that are arranged obliquely. The motor further includes a stator core covering the rotor core. The stator core has a plurality of stator windings arranged annularly. The stator windings correspond to the magnetic member units. The rotor structure has high structural strength, and the phenomenon of stress concentration is less obvious when the motor is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Min-Fu Hsieh, Mi-Ching Tsai, Kai-Jung Shih, Lucio Jose Fernando Caceres Vera, Guan-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11787275
    Abstract: An electric drive assembly for operation with a component of a work vehicle having an SAE standard hydraulic pump/motor mount includes an electric machine having a shaft and a mounting flange. An adapter housing defines an interior space between a component mounting flange and an electric machine mounting flange. The electric machine mounting flange is sized and configured to mate with the mounting flange of the electric machine. The component mounting flange has a bolt hole pattern and a mounting pad each of a complementary size and configuration to that of the SAE standard hydraulic pump/motor mount. A gear set at least in part disposed in the interior space of the adapter housing is configured to effect a gear ratio change and transfer power between the shaft of the electric machine and a drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Dwayne B. Watt, Randall L. Long
  • Patent number: 11784549
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor, including a housing having an accommodating space, a vibrator and a stator that are accommodated in the accommodating space. One of the vibrator and the stator includes a magnetic circuit structure, and the other includes a coil assembly. The coil assembly includes an iron core and a first drive coil and a second drive coil that separately sleeved on two ends of the iron core in a vibration direction of the vibrator, a powering direction of the first drive coil being opposite to a powering direction of the second drive coil. In the present disclosure, the first drive coil and the second drive coil are subjected to Lorentz force in the same direction, thereby vibration of the motor may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Zhaoxian Chen, Zijie Zhang
  • Patent number: 11777352
    Abstract: An electrical machine for a vehicle may include a rotor, a stator, a coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber. The rotor may be configured to be rotated about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction of the electrical machine. The stator may include a plurality of stator windings. The coolant collector chamber may be axially arranged at a distance from the coolant distributor chamber. The coolant distributor chamber may be configured to communicate fluidically with the coolant collector chamber by at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow. At least one of the stator windings may be embedded in at least one plastic mass consisting of an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling to the coolant. At least one of the coolant distributor chamber and the coolant collector chamber may be arranged at least partially in the at least one plastic mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Stojan Markic, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr
  • Patent number: 11777346
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor assembly and a motor. The rotor assembly includes a rotor body; the rotor body includes a plurality of magnetic poles centered on an axis of the rotor body and uniformly arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor body; each of the magnetic poles includes a filling slot provided therein with a conductive and magnetic isolation material, the filling slots of the plurality of magnetic poles are orderly arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor body; two ends of each of the filling slots along the circumferential direction of the rotor body have a first sidewall and a second sidewall respectively; the first sidewall of each of the filling slots and the second sidewall of the adjacent filling slot are parallel to each other, and together form a magnetic flux channel parallel to the q-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Jinfei Shi, Yong Xiao
  • Patent number: 11770038
    Abstract: A rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and an electric vehicle. The rotor structure includes a rotor body, and permanent magnet slot groups are disposed on the rotor body; the permanent magnet slot groups each include an outer layer permanent magnet slot; and a third bent slot and a fourth bent slot are further disposed on the rotor body. A third angle is formed by a length directional geometric center line of the third bent slot and a length directional geometric center line of a first segment of the outer layer permanent magnet slot a fourth angle is formed between a length directional geometric center line of the fourth bent slot and a length directional geometric center line of a second segment of the outer layer permanent magnet slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Tong Tong, Yong Xiao, Suhua Lu
  • Patent number: 11770033
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a first stator core located on a first side in the axial direction, and a second stator core located on a second side. The minimum distance from a rotor core of the rotor to the first stator core in the radial direction is smaller than the minimum distance from the rotor core to the second stator core in the radial direction. Each tooth of the first stator core includes a tooth end portion. The tooth end portion includes a main body extending in the radial direction, and a first portion extending in the circumferential direction, and a second portion projecting from the first portion in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Takanori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11770039
    Abstract: A rotor core for an electric motor includes a core stack including a plurality of identical lamination plates, each lamination plate including a plurality of magnet slots formed therein, the magnet slots of each of the lamination plates axially aligned and adapted to support a plurality of permanent magnets therein, and a plurality of heat conductive inserts extending axially through the core stack and adapted to conduct heat from inner portions of the core stack outward toward distal ends of the core stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Yang, Thomas W. Nehl
  • Patent number: 11770041
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for an electric motor including a coolant jacket molded to a stator. In one embodiment, an electric motor comprises a stator, and a coolant jacket molded as a single, unitary piece in sealing engagement against an outer perimeter of the stator, with a first end of the coolant jacket forming a first integrated spray ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
    Inventor: Darren J. Ziskovsky
  • Patent number: 11757340
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine capable of reducing oscillations and noise generated in the rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a frame. The rotor includes: a rotor core; and a plurality of permanent magnets, and the rotor is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks include: a skew-angle-increasing pair of blocks; and a skew-angle-decreasing pair of blocks. The frame includes: a body portion configured to hold the stator; and a flange portion, which projects outward from the body portion, and the body portion has a thickness that changes from one end to another end of the body portion in an axial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takashima, Masatsugu Nakano, Kosho Yamane, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 11757329
    Abstract: A ventilator for a control device for a vehicle may include a stator having a plurality of coils and a rotor comprising a hollow cylinder. An impeller may include a plurality of blades, the impeller being coupled to the hollow cylinder such that a rotation of the hollow cylinder causes a rotation of the impeller. The hollow cylinder may have a plurality of magnets. The stator may partially encompasses the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Viktor Rakoczi, Michael Keckeisen
  • Patent number: 11750058
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator with a stator body supporting an electrical stator and a rotor. The rotor is supported by a bearing having a radial bearing section forming a radial gas bearing and an axial bearing section forming an axial gas bearing, the stator side parts of these bearing sections being a stator side radial bearing part and a stator side axial bearing part that are rigidly connected to one another and together form a stator bearing structure. The stator bearing structure is mounted to the other parts of the stator by either the stator side radial or axial bearing part being rigidly mounted to these other parts, and the other bearing part are connected to these other parts by an elastic support or not at all.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CELEROTON AG
    Inventors: Andreas Looser, Manuel Blaser, Konrad Hertig
  • Patent number: 11742728
    Abstract: An electric pump is provided. The electric pump includes a PCB board, where the PCB board is formed with a power input port. The electric pump further includes a common mode filter, where the common-mode filter includes a common mode inductor, and the common mode inductor is arranged close to the power input port; and in a direction perpendicular to a plane on which the PCB is located, no wiring is provided at the common mode inductor corresponding to a wiring film layer in the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lulu Zhang, Hongmei Tian
  • Patent number: 11728703
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor, rotatable about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction, and a stator having stator windings, a coolant distribution chamber and a coolant collection chamber arranged axially at a distance thereto. The coolant distribution chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collection chamber with a cooling channel through which a coolant can flow. The cooling channel and the stator winding are embedded in a plastic mass made of a plastic for thermal coupling to the coolant. The stator has stator teeth extending along the axial direction and spaced apart from one another along a circumferential direction and carrying the stator windings. The plastic mass is arranged together with the cooling channel and the stator winding in an intermediate space formed between two stator teeth arranged adjacent in the circumferential direction and sections of cooling channel are configured as a tube body within the intermediate space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Philip Grabherr, Mirko Hoerz, Andrej Licen, Stojan Markic, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Hans-Ulrich Steurer
  • Patent number: 11722022
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine has at least one laminated core with a multiplicity of magnet pockets arranged in succession in an axial direction of the rotor. There are magnets fixed by a cured potting compound within the magnet pockets. The magnet pockets are fluidically connected to one another via at least one distributor system formed in the laminated core which has, at least one filling channel for each pocket fluidically connected to the respective pockets. The distributor system has at least one distributor channel common to and fluidically connected to the filling channels. The cured potting compound extends continuously through the distributor system from magnet pocket to magnet pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Christoph Heise