Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
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Patent number: 11799337Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Junji Kitao, Kosho Yamane, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama
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Patent number: 11799350Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Jason Cox, Zsolt Bárány
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Patent number: 11799339Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 11799346Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: BROOKS AUTOMATION US, LLCInventors: Jairo T. Moura, Ulysses Gilchrist, Robert T. Caveney
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Patent number: 11791701Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Leo Francis Casey, Siyuan Xin
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Patent number: 11791678Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: National Cheng Kung UniversityInventors: Min-Fu Hsieh, Mi-Ching Tsai, Kai-Jung Shih, Lucio Jose Fernando Caceres Vera, Guan-Ming Chen
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Patent number: 11787275Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Dwayne B. Watt, Randall L. Long
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Patent number: 11784549Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Lubin Mao, Zhaoxian Chen, Zijie Zhang
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Patent number: 11777352Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Stojan Markic, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr
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Patent number: 11777346Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of ZhuhaiInventors: Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Jinfei Shi, Yong Xiao
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Patent number: 11770038Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Hui Huang, Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Tong Tong, Yong Xiao, Suhua Lu
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Patent number: 11770033Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Takanori Watanabe
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Patent number: 11770039Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Xiaofeng Yang, Thomas W. Nehl
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Patent number: 11770041Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLCInventor: Darren J. Ziskovsky
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Patent number: 11757340Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Takashima, Masatsugu Nakano, Kosho Yamane, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 11757329Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Viktor Rakoczi, Michael Keckeisen
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Patent number: 11750058Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: CELEROTON AGInventors: Andreas Looser, Manuel Blaser, Konrad Hertig
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Patent number: 11742728Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lulu Zhang, Hongmei Tian
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Patent number: 11728703Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Philip Grabherr, Mirko Hoerz, Andrej Licen, Stojan Markic, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Hans-Ulrich Steurer
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Patent number: 11722022Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Holger Fröhlich, Christoph Heise