Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 11342826
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes coil bodies formed as a first stator winding wound on first teeth, other coil bodies formed as a second stator winding wound on second teeth, and yet other coil bodies formed as the first stator winding and the second stator winding wound on third teeth. A phase difference between an electric current in the first stator winding wound on the third teeth and an electric current in the second stator winding wound on the third teeth is set so that respective phase differences of magnetomotive forces of the other coil bodies in three phases with respect to respective magnetomotive forces of the coil bodies in three phases and respective phase differences of magnetomotive forces of the yet other coil bodies in three phases with respect to respective magnetomotive forces of the other coil bodies in three phases are 20 degrees in electric angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Katou
  • Patent number: 11336141
    Abstract: Guide portions that guide a winding include a plurality of guide grooves which is provided at each boundary between adjacent wind surfaces, and which is extended in a winding direction of the winding. The plurality of guide grooves is arranged side by side in a radial direction of a stator at an equal pitch. The guide groove provided at an arbitrary boundary among the boundaries is offset in the radial direction relative to the guide groove provided at the adjacent boundary at the opposite side to the winding direction with reference to an orthogonal direction to the radial direction of the motor stator. Respective offset directions and offset amounts of the guide grooves are consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Masahiko Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11336165
    Abstract: A linear motor system has multiple modular track sections joined end-to-end to form a track along which movers may be displaced by the control of magnetic fields generated by coils disposed in each track section. A curved track section is provided that includes a curved portion, an integral straight portion, and a fit spline transition between the curved portion and the straight portion. The integration of the straight portion smooths the transition between the curved and straight areas of the track, and allows for improved performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver C. Haya, Marc Koeppel
  • Patent number: 11329529
    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: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CELEROTON AG
    Inventors: Andreas Looser, Manuel Blaser, Konrad Hertig
  • Patent number: 11329532
    Abstract: A drive system for a high torque mechanical load includes a power supply, a controller, and a high torque electric motor. The electric motor includes a rotor that is oriented eccentrically relative to a stator. In one form, the electric motor has a crankshaft that transmit the torque to the mechanical load. In other variations, the electric motor includes at least two electric motor lobes with opposite stroke positions to provide a smoother output at higher speeds. During operation, the rotor is magnetically attracted to the energized electromagnet. With the rotor attracted to the electromagnet in the stator, the rotor contacts or comes in close proximity to the stator at a contact area. The close proximity between the rotor and stator at the contact area allows very large magnetic forces to be utilized to produce torque without increasing the size or weight of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Bastian Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: William A. Bastian, II, Paul D. Burgeson, Gabriel Michael Riggs
  • Patent number: 11325474
    Abstract: The invention relates to a particularly redundant electrical machine (10) for driving a means of propulsion (1) with increased reliability. The machine (10) comprises a plurality of independent partial rotors (210, 220) which are respectively coupled to a common shaft (200) by means of freewheel devices (510, 520) in order to drive said shaft and the means of propulsion (1) therewith in a working direction of rotation. The machine (10) also comprises a plurality of independent stator winding systems (111, 121), a stator winding system (111, 121) and a partial rotor (210, 220) being respectively associated with each other and arranged in such a way that they can electromagnetically interact with each other. The stator winding systems (111, 121) are successively arranged in the axial direction. Similarly, the partial rotors (210, 220) are successively arranged in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & KG
    Inventor: Johannes Wollenberg
  • Patent number: 11329537
    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: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Leo Francis Casey, Siyuan Xin
  • Patent number: 11322994
    Abstract: A radial flux electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation and a stator. At least one of the rotor or the stator may include a plurality of teeth annularly arranged about the axis of rotation. The electric machine may also include a plurality of electromagnetic coils. Each coil of the plurality of electromagnetic coils may have a non-uniform trapezoidal cavity therethrough. Each cavity may be configured to contain therein one tooth of the plurality of teeth. Each tooth of the plurality of teeth may be formed of multiple pieces that, when assembled together correspond to a shape of the non-uniform trapezoidal cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTD
    Inventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
  • Patent number: 11323006
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing configured to receive at least a portion of an electric motor. The apparatus also includes a manifold disposed on an upper surface of the housing. The manifold includes a number of vertical jets configured to target one or more portions of the electric motor, the vertical jets includes multiple vias extending between (i) a cavity within the manifold and (ii) an interior portion of the housing. The cavity within the manifold is defined by (i) at least a portion of the upper surface of the housing, (ii) one or more side walls extending from the upper surface of the housing, and (iii) a cover lid coupled to the one or more side walls and configured to cover the cavity and the vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Canoo Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: John Mason, Charles Garmel, Samuel Anson Jantzi, Saul Guzman Carranza, Jackson George Diebel, Garrett Thomas Allen, Evan J. Filter
  • Patent number: 11322997
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a synchronous drive motor of an electrically driven motor vehicle having several rotor poles, wherein each rotor pole has at least three magnetic layers arranged radially one after the other with cavities, wherein an outermost magnetic layer includes at least one cavity filled with permanent magnetic material and each further magnetic layer includes at least two cavities filled with permanent magnetic material, furthermore each magnetic layer has an extension of a section of an ellipse, furthermore the central points of all ellipses lie within the smallest ellipse of the outer magnetic layer, wherein each cavity belonging to one of the at least three magnetic layers defines an interface in a radial plane, and each of these interfaces of a magnetic layer of the corresponding ellipse is divided into two partial interfaces, wherein bars made of the rotor material are formed in the second and every other magnetic layer between the cavities, and these bars, at the narrowest poi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BRUSA Elektronik AG
    Inventors: Tian Zhou, Daniel Oeschger, Raphael Teufel, Adina Muntean
  • Patent number: 11316406
    Abstract: A rotor of an electrical rotating machine having poles formed from stacks of magnetic plates and electrical conductors wound around each pole. The rotor includes cooling fins extending in prolongation of the poles along the axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Vit Zahradsky, Matthieu Boirlaud
  • Patent number: 11309758
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes: a rotor core having a refrigerant flow path; and an end surface plate arranged at least on one side of the rotor core. The refrigerant flow path includes: a first refrigerant flow path; and a second refrigerant flow path which is disposed further on a radial inner side than the first refrigerant flow pat. The stator includes: a stator core; and a coil end portion protruding from at least one side of the stator core. The end surface plate includes: a root side refrigerant supply portion which communicates with the first refrigerant flow path and supplies the refrigerant to a root region of the coil end portion; and a distal side refrigerant supply portion which communicates with the second refrigerant flow path and supplies the refrigerant to a distal region of the coil end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Wakui, Yasuhiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 11309757
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor core with a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a plurality of magnetic pole portions including permanent magnets inserted into the plurality of magnet insertion holes. A space portion is provided between a space portion forming surface of at least one of the outer diameter surface and the inner diameter surface of the permanent magnet and a wall surface of the magnet insertion hole facing the space portion forming surface. The space portion includes: a liquid medium storage region provided in a center in the circumferential direction, and liquid medium throttle regions provided at both end portions in the circumferential direction, and a distance between the permanent magnet and the magnet insertion hole in the liquid medium throttle region is shorter than a distance between the permanent magnet and the magnet insertion hole in the liquid medium storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ohzu
  • Patent number: 11309755
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: an annular stator including coils disposed in a stator core; and an annular rotor disposed inside the stator and opposite to an inner circumferential wall of the stator. The rotor includes a rotor core having receiving holes for magnetic material members. The receiving holes extend in an axial direction of a drive shaft and are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The rotor includes a pair of protrusions provided in each receiving hole. The protrusions jut out from an inner wall of the receiving hole to hold a magnetic material member. Each magnetic material member includes a hard magnetic material member and a soft magnetic material member stacked one on another in a direction of magnetization. The soft magnetic material member is disposed to border the inner wall of the receiving hole at positions where the protrusions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Kubota
  • Patent number: 11296566
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a stator having slots in which coils formed of conductive wires are stored; and a rotor facing the stator and having magnetic poles. The rotating electric machine has a fraction slot configuration or an integer slot configuration. The coils configure a mixed phase band group in which a first, second and third basic phase band groups are stacked in this order in a radial direction of the slots. In the mixed phase band group, a magnitude of magnetomotive force of each phase per pole is uniform, and, when the number of layers of the first, second and third basic phase band groups in the radial direction are denoted by m1, m2 and m3, respectively a relationship of 0<2×m2/(m1+m3) is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Masako Shibamori
  • Patent number: 11289964
    Abstract: The present application provides an amortisseur-spring assembly for use about at least one of a wedge and a retaining ring of a generator. The amortisseur-spring assembly may include an amortisseur, a spring, a creepage block, and a locking mechanism extending through the amortisseur, the spring, and the creepage block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Mancuso, Curtis M. Hebert, Scott Eric Belknap
  • Patent number: 11283332
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a rotor core has a rotor core cooling hole under a state of being coupled to a first gap at a position on a radially inner side with respect to a center portion of a first inner wall surface in a length direction. The rotor core has a radially-outer-side refrigerant flow path formed under a state of being coupled to a radially-outer-side end portion of the first gap. A first end plate has a communication path formed so as to extend from an inner end surface of the first end plate to the rotor core cooling hole. A second end plate has a discharge path formed so as to allow the radially-outer-side refrigerant flow path to communicate with an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Kitao, Tomohira Takahashi, Yusuke Kimoto, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masatsugu Nakano, Yuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11277050
    Abstract: An electric motor, especially for a fluid-handling system, comprises an external stator and an internal rotor mounted to rotate around an axis. The said external stator comprises a multiplicity of ferromagnetic pole pieces disposed around the axis and having winding cores extending substantially radially, an injection-molded plastic structure having a bushing and, molded thereon, winding supports enveloping the winding cores, as well as stator windings received on the winding supports. The bushing comprises a sleeve having a closed inner face extending radially inside the pole pieces and an end piece that closes the sleeve in the end region. The rotor is disposed inside the sleeve and mounted in a bearing disposed in the end piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: KOLEKTOR GROUP D.O.O.
    Inventors: Franci Lahajnar, Boris Jezersek, Borut Jeram
  • Patent number: 11277048
    Abstract: An insulator includes a part to be wound with a coil of a wiring wire with a circular cross section; first and second flanges. The first flange is formed at the side of the part closer to a core segment. The second flange is formed at the side closer to a distal end of a tooth. The part to be wound with the coil has a slope continuous with the first flange and inclined so that a height from an upper surface of the tooth increases from the first flange toward the second flange. Expression 0<(?6.8 D+b)??<30 is satisfied, where b is a constant and 8.3?b?11.6 is satisfied, D (mm) is a diameter of the coil, and ? (°) is an angle of the slope inclined from the upper surface of the tooth as a reference surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuoki Hishida, Hiroshi Yoneda, Hirokatsu Kunitomo, Yuichi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11236871
    Abstract: A power generating device comprises a magnetic core, an induction coil assembly, a first housing, a conductive plate, and a second housing. The induction coil assembly is coupled with the magnetic core, and the magnetic core and the induction assembly are configured in the accommodating space of the first housing. The conductive plate is attracted to the magnetic core. The second housing is configured above the conductive plate. When the second housing receives an external force along an extending direction of the magnetic core, a distance change between the conductive plate and the magnetic core causes a variation of magnetic flux. The induction coil assembly generates a current by sensing the magnetic flux variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shen-Ko Tseng, Juinne-Ching Liao