Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 11722019
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a stator for an electric machine comprising a plurality of stacked laminations each including inwardly facing slots defining inwardly facing teeth configured to receive prewound coils thereonto. Each slot including a generally triangular projection configured and sized as to be in proximity of the prewound coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: DANA TM4, INC.
    Inventors: Ruisheng Shi, Martin Houle, Mohammad Adib Ghadamyari
  • Patent number: 11710993
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator with stator slots securing therein electrically conductive windings. A rotor is rotatably mounted adjacent the stator and includes a stack of rotor laminates. Each laminate includes circumferentially spaced poles, each of which includes a magnet slot spaced from an insert slot. These laminate magnet slots cooperatively define the rotor's magnet slots. Likewise, the laminates' insert slots cooperatively define the rotor's insert slots. Magnets are mounted inside the rotor's magnet slots, and non-magnetic inserts are mounted inside the rotor's insert slots. One or more poles of each laminate includes a structural web that extends radially through the magnet and insert slots of that pole. Multiple poles of each rotor laminate lack a radially extending structural web. Each rotor laminate is rotated with respect to a neighboring rotor laminate such that each pole with a structural web axially aligns with a pole without a structural web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Anthony M. Coppola, Alireza Fatemi, Yew Sum Leong, Alan G. Holmes
  • Patent number: 11710994
    Abstract: In an IPM motor according to one aspect of the present disclosure, in a magnet structure installed in a magnet hole, a first soft magnetic body is located outside a first permanent magnet in a radial direction. Since the first soft magnetic body has a higher electrical resistivity than the electrical resistivity of a rotor core, a situation where an eddy current occurs in the first soft magnetic body is suppressed. In the IPM motor, a deterioration in efficiency caused by an eddy current loss is suppressed, so that the efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Shinji, Koji Mitake, Kazuya Uchida
  • Patent number: 11705774
    Abstract: An industrial electrical machine system includes an industrial electrical machine including a first housing and a first plug-in electrical connector disposed on the first housing; and an electronics module including a second housing; a converter disposed in the second housing and constructed to convert an input electrical power to an output electrical power; a second plug-in electrical connector electrically coupled to the converter and constructed to sealingly engage and electrically couple to the first plug-in electrical connector and electrically couple the converter to the industrial electrical machine and supply the output electrical power to the industrial electrical machine from the converter, wherein the industrial electrical machine is a motor, a generator or a motor/generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Sheng Zhong, Darren Tremelling, Elio Perigo
  • Patent number: 11705766
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor comprises: a stator comprising teeth; and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, the rotor having a plurality of poles, wherein each pole of the rotor comprises a pair of magnet retention slots, each magnet retention slot accommodating a magnet. Surfaces of the teeth of the stator facing the rotor are flat or have an arc shape. Each magnet retention slot may have a plurality of angled slot surfaces forming a first barrier around a corner of the magnet positioned closest to an outer surface of the rotor. At least three second barriers are positioned around a mid-axis extending along between the pair of the magnet retention slots. Each magnet retention slot comprises a slot surface slanted or curved relative to a second side surface of the magnet facing an inner surface of the rotor to form a third barrier around an end of the second side surface of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mazharul Chowdhury, Md Sariful Islam, Mohammad Islam, Abraham Tesfamicael
  • Patent number: 11705765
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a housing, a stator, and a rotor. The rotor is mounted relative to the stator for rotation about an axis of rotation. The stator radially outwardly surrounds the rotor. The housing is shrunk onto the stator from radially outside. On its radially outer periphery, the stator includes spring dements which are at least partially elastically deflected radially inwards during shrinking of the housing onto the stator such that the projections rest against the housing with a spring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth
  • Patent number: 11705767
    Abstract: A rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and an electric vehicle, the rotor structure includes a rotor body and an outer layer permanent magnet. The rotor body is provided with a magnetic steel slot group. The magnetic steel slot group includes an outer layer magnetic steel slot. The outer layer magnetic steel slot includes a plurality of magnetic steel slot segments. At least two of the plurality of magnetic steel slot segments are arranged in a radial direction of the rotor body and are disposed oppositely at both sides of a direct axis of the rotor body. The outer layer permanent magnet is arranged in the magnetic steel slot segment, a length of the outer permanent magnet disposed in the two oppositely arranged magnetic steel slot segments is L, and a maximum distance between the two oppositely arranged magnetic steel slot segments is C, where 0.8×C?L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao, Tong Tong, Suhua Lu
  • Patent number: 11695306
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine capable of obtaining a higher torque while minimizing the amount of permanent magnets used. A rotor core includes a plurality of first insertion holes each having an auxiliary magnet embedded therein, the auxiliary magnet being embedded so as to surround a rotation axis of a rotor in a cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis. The rotor core includes a plurality of second insertion holes each having a main magnet embedded therein, the main magnet being embedded so as to extend from the auxiliary magnet toward an outer circumferential direction of the rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of magnetic poles formed around the rotation axis, the magnetic poles each having the auxiliary magnet and the plurality of main magnets. The auxiliary magnet is arranged disproportionately on one side of the first insertion hole in the circumferential direction of the rotor so as to form a clearance on the other side of the first insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Hirano, Kyoko Nakamura, Mitsutoshi Akita, Daisuke Ichigozaki, Akira Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11689072
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a circuit device for demagnetizing the rotor of an externally excited synchronous machine and to a method for operating the circuit device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Schiedermeier, Stephan Brüske
  • Patent number: 11689074
    Abstract: An adhesive-reinforced rotor for a rotary electric machine includes rotor lamination layers (“rotor lams”) having axial inner surfaces collectively defining rotor openings through the rotor lams. The rotor also includes reinforcement blocks disposed within a respective one of the rotor openings. A polymer primer/adhesive layer of the rotor having a bond line thickness of less than 1 mm is disposed between the one or more reinforcement blocks and the axial inner surfaces of the rotor lams. The reinforcement blocks and the primer/adhesive layer each have a tensile strength of at least 50 MPa. A modulus of elasticity of the reinforcement blocks is at least three times greater than that of the materials of the polymer primer/adhesive layer. A method of constructing an adhesive-reinforced rotor is also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Anthony M. Coppola, Kestutis A. Sonta, Alireza Fatemi, Gayatri V. Dadheech, Yew Sum Leong, Xiaosong Huang
  • Patent number: 11689071
    Abstract: A rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and an electric vehicle. The rotor structure includes a rotor body. The rotor body is provided with an outer magnetic steel slot; an inner magnetic steel slot; a first bent slot, a first end of the first bent slot being in communication with the outer magnetic steel slot, and a second end of the first bent slot extending towards an outer edge of the rotor body and spreading gradually away from a direct axis of the rotor body; and a third bent slot, a first end of the third bent slot being in communication with the inner magnetic steel slot and being arranged to be adjacent to the first bent slot, and a second end of the third bent slot extending towards the outer edge of the rotor body and spreading gradually away from a straight axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Tong Tong, Suhua Lu, Yong Xiao, Bin Chen
  • Patent number: 11677297
    Abstract: A stator assembly for an electrical machine comprises a stator, a plurality of inserts and a heat sink. The stator comprises an annular core extending around an axis (X) and a plurality of axially extending slots. A plurality of sets of electrical windings is arranged within the slots. The windings have axial end portions arranged at axial ends of the core. The inserts comprise ceramic plates which are arranged in respective slots in the gaps (G) between adjacent respective electrical windings in the slots. The inserts extend axially from the respective slots for engagement with the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawata, Andrew E. Page, Zeyuan Xu, David Gerada, Dmitry Golovanov, Christopher Gerada
  • Patent number: 11677294
    Abstract: A power unit structure for a vehicle includes a motor disposed in a power unit room of the vehicle and configured to transmit a driving force to drive wheels of the vehicle, an electric power converter disposed in the power unit room of the vehicle, and an electric power distributor disposed in the power unit room of the vehicle. The electric power converter is configured to convert supplied electric power into electric power to be supplied to the motor and is disposed on an upper side of the motor. The electric power distributor is configured to distribute electric power supplied from a power supply to the electric power converter and is disposed at a position where at least a part of the electric power distributor overlaps the electric power converter in an up-down direction of the vehicle when viewed from a vehicle front-rear direction or a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Murai
  • Patent number: 11670978
    Abstract: A stator of an electric motor includes a cylindrical stator core, a winding wound around the stator core, and a first cooling tube wound around a coil end formed in an axial end portion of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Yuudai Konaka
  • Patent number: 11664696
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stator assembly of a hairpin winding motor. The stator assembly includes a stator core and hairpin coils. The hairpin coils include a first end including a pair of respective ends of first two hairpin coils arranged adjacent to each other in a radial direction, a second end including a pair of respective ends of second two hairpin coils arranged adjacent to each other outside the first end in the radial direction, and a third end including a pair of respective ends of third two hairpin coils arranged adjacent to each other outside the second end in the radial direction. Here, such first to third ends are repetitively arranged in plural along a circumferential direction, and a fixing cap fixes a preset number of ends among the plurality of first to third ends repetitively formed along the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong Jun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11654766
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor and a rotor carrier radially inside of the rotor non-rotatably fixed to the rotor. The rotor carrier includes an axially extending cylindrical section including an outer circumferential surface having an annular groove formed therein. A method of forming a rotor carrier includes forming, by stamping, a rotor carrier including an axially extending cylindrical section including an outer circumferential surface having annular groove formed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Timothy Simon, David Brucato
  • Patent number: 11658544
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a rotor core defining a first face, a second face, and an opening extending from the first face to the second face. The rotor also includes an output shaft received by the opening of the rotor core and a valve disposed within a passageway of the output shaft. The valve controls a flowrate of the coolant and is actuated into a fully opened position at a maximum operating temperature of the rotor. The valve includes a stem having a first end portion and a second end portion, a plug disposed at the first end portion of the stem, a valve seat disposed opposite to the plug, and a shape memory alloy actuator that expands to urge the stem of the valve and the plug away from the valve seat and into the fully opened position at the maximum operating temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wonhee Michael Kim, SeungHwan Keum
  • Patent number: 11652378
    Abstract: A laminated core for an electric machine has at least one cooling duct which runs within the laminated core and can be flowed through by a cooling fluid for cooling the laminated core. The cooling duct has at least one first throughflow opening which can be flowed through by the cooling fluid and penetrates an outer circumferential-side shell face of the laminated core, which shell face points toward the outside in the radial direction of the laminated core. The cooling duct further has at least one second throughflow opening which can be flowed through by the cooling fluid and penetrates an inner circumferential-side shell face of the laminated core, which shell face points toward the inside in the radial direction of the laminated core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dragoljub Duricic, Alexander Maier
  • Patent number: 11646615
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electrical machine includes a substantially annular rotor core and a plurality of magnetic pole portions formed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. Each magnetic pole portion includes an outer diameter side magnet portion configured by an outer diameter side circular arc magnet arranged so as to protrude radially inward and an inner diameter side magnet portion located radially inward of the outer diameter side magnet portion and configured by a pair of inner diameter side arc magnets arranged so as to radially inward of the radially outer magnet portion. Each arc magnet is an arc magnet in which an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface have the same arc center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Soma, Yoshihisa Kubota, Tatsuya Ohzu
  • Patent number: 11646634
    Abstract: A two-speed electric drive assembly for vehicles includes a main driveshaft driven by a first axial flux motor where the main driveshaft extends coaxially through a hollow assist driveshaft driven by a second axial flux motor. The main driveshaft includes a main gear that is continuously meshed with an intermediate gear on an intermediate driveshaft. A freewheel gear is mounted around the hollow assist driveshaft and can be selectively coupled and decoupled with the hollow assist driveshaft by a shift mechanism. The freewheel gear is continuously meshed with an intermediate gear on the intermediate driveshaft. Another intermediate gear affixed to the intermediate driveshaft is continuously meshed with an output gear affixed to an output driveshaft. The two-speed electric drive assembly can selectively switch between speed mode and torque mode without torque interrupt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Omni Powertrain Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Craig Daniel