Patents Examined by Alexander A Singh
  • Patent number: 11509183
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inverter, notably configured to be on-board an automobile vehicle, comprising: power components configured to convert DC electrical energy into AC electrical energy so as to supply an electric motor, notably configured to drive the vehicle, a casing housing the components of the inverter and comprising a first part forming a first housing, housing said power components and a second part forming a second housing, housing filtering components configured to filter DC electrical energy supplied to the power components, notably from a battery of the vehicle, said second casing part being formed at least in part by a set-back with respect to said first part from an outer face of the casing comprised in the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive France SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Gilet, Anthony Lamarche
  • Patent number: 11502578
    Abstract: An electric working machine capable of efficiently cooling components disposed inside, as well as simplifying assembling work and reducing man-hours and production cost. A motor, control board for controlling the motor, rod fixture secured to the front side of the motor, and air guiding partitioning member secured to the rear side of the motor form a motor assembly. The air guiding partitioning member includes a partitioning plate hermetically partitioning between air exhaust and intake ports provided with a predetermined interval longitudinally in the body casing. The partitioning plate has an air guiding window for delivering cooling air taken in from the air intake port to an opening for sucking air on the front side of the motor through a space between the motor and body casing. The control board is disposed on the rear side of the partitioning plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Momiyama
  • Patent number: 11502582
    Abstract: A spring clamp for plugging onto an electrical conductor of an electric machine, having a first spring leg and a second spring leg adjoining the first spring leg. The spring legs are arranged and/or formed with respect to one another in such a way that a receiving opening for receiving the electrical conductor is formed between a free first end portion of the first spring leg and a free second end portion of the second spring leg, and the conductor is clamped between the first end portion and the second end portion. The second spring leg has a sensor holder and a spring arm with a press-on tab, a spring force is exerted by way of the spring arm such that a sensor arranged in the sensor holder is fixed in the sensor holder by way of the press-on tab, and the sensor holder is pressed onto the electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Uday Bhat, Frank Eltner, Zoran Dmitrasinovic, Anton Beer, Johannes Kohlstrunk
  • Patent number: 11502583
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor having an axis of rotation and a magnet. The stator includes a PCB having PCB panels. Each PCB panel is assigned to one electrical phase. Each PCB panel has a pair of PCB layers. Each PCB layer includes coils, and each coil in each PCB layer of a PCB panel is circumferentially aligned with a corresponding coil in another PCB layer. One coil in one PCB layer is coupled to a corresponding coil in another PCB layer with a via. A number of turns in each coil is a multiple of a number of electrical phases configured for the PCB stator. In addition, the vias that connect two coils in a pair of PCB layers that belong to a same electrical phase do not intersect coils in PCB layers that belong to other electrical phases of the PCB stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Infinitum Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Rich Lee, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
  • Patent number: 11502581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor unit that includes: a rotary electrical machine that has a cylindrical stator, a rotor disposed coaxially with the stator, a shaft disposed coaxially with the rotor, and a cylindrical case that houses the stator and the rotor; and a drive unit that has a swell swelling toward the case and is fixed to a circumferential surface that is located in a radial direction of the rotor and is the case. The case has a recess that corresponds to the swell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Keiichiro Kashiwabara, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Heisuke Kobayashi, Takeshi Hoshinoya, Sachio Kawada, Akira Fujiwara, Yasuyuki Saito, Hiroshi Hamano, Tsuyoshi Harada
  • Patent number: 11502575
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator to which a substrate can be stably secured without increasing the size of the substrate. An air-conditioning apparatus includes the motor. At an end portion of the stator in the axial direction thereof, a substrate on which electronic components are mounted is provided. The stator includes: a stator core formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets, and including a plurality of teeth; insulators provided on the stator core; and a wire wound around the teeth, the teeth being coated with the insulators. The insulators have outer walls provided on respective core backs of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe
  • Patent number: 11496012
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a stator and a motor including the stator, the stator comprising: a stator core; a coil wound around the stator core; and an insulator disposed between the stator core and the coil, wherein the insulator includes: a body around which the coil is wound; a first guide protruding from the inside of the body; a second guide protruding on the outside of the body a first protrusion protruding outward from the lateral surface of the first guide; and a second protrusion protruding inward from the inner surface of the second guide, and an insulating member radially disposed between the first guide and the second guide is bent in a circumferential direction by means of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. Therefore, the motor can inhibit the movement and separation of insulating paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bong Geon Kim, Young Gu Kang, Tae Ho Kim, Ja Young Seo, Jin Su Pyeon
  • Patent number: 11496024
    Abstract: A motor controller including a control box and a control panel disposed in the control box. The control box includes at least a first chamber and a second chamber. The control panel is disposed in the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chongsheng Zeng
  • Patent number: 11496017
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a field that includes a magnet unit having a plurality of magnetic poles, an armature including a multi-phase armature coil, and an electric power conversion device that is configured to perform electric power conversion and supply electric power resulting from the electric power conversion to the armature. Moreover, one of the field and the armature is configured as a rotor while the other is configured as a stator. The electric power conversion device includes at least one band-shaped busbar through which electric current flows during the electric power conversion. The at least one busbar has a cross section where a thickness in a lateral direction of the cross section at one end of the cross section in a longitudinal direction of the cross section is smaller than a thickness in the lateral direction at the other end of the cross section in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hirasawa, Ryota Tanabe, Yuta Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11496069
    Abstract: A Static Electrostatic Generator (SEG) is disclosed which produces static charges at high voltage and low current. The SEG is capable of generating positive or negative charges on a metal sphere by reversing the polarity of a DC source. The conversion efficiency of the system is about 47% and its design is simple, lightweight, and easy to manufacture. The SEG is a static device and no mechanical movement is required to produce charges. Also, the design is easily scalable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Hosam Salem Alharbi, Muhammad Khalid, Mohammad Ali Abido
  • Patent number: 11489408
    Abstract: A system includes a shaft body defining a longitudinal axis. A first internal fluid channel extends axially within the shaft body and includes an inlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of external fluid into the first internal fluid channel and an outlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of fluid from the first internal fluid channel to an area external of the shaft body. A second internal fluid channel extends axially within the shaft body and includes an inlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of external fluid into the second internal fluid channel and an outlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of fluid from the second internal fluid channel to an area external of the shaft body. The first and second internal fluid channels are in fluid isolation from one another within the shaft body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Brian C. Konopa
  • Patent number: 11489403
    Abstract: A motor includes a case; and a partition that is fitted into the case and has an easily deformable part formed on an outer peripheral surface for dispersing and dissipating vibration transmitted between the case and the partition. A space is formed in the easily deformable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Kuwano, Takashi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 11489392
    Abstract: A bobbin structure of an armature of a three-phase motor having 6N (N is a natural number) slots and 3N coils per phase, the bobbin structure including: a main pole into which a winding bobbin around which a coil is wound is inserted; and an auxiliary pole into which an empty bobbin around which the coil is not wound is inserted. The main pole and the auxiliary pole are placed in a circumferential direction with respect to a rotation axis, and a contact portion where the empty bobbin and the winding bobbin are in contact with each other is formed on each of an outer peripheral side and an inner peripheral side of the slot formed between the main pole and the auxiliary pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Horiuchi, Hiroki Sagara, Jun Kitajima, Mai Shimizu, Takashi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11489415
    Abstract: A drive unit includes: a rotating electric machine having a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction; a rotating electric machine case; and a power conversion device. The power conversion device is arranged on one side of the rotating electric machine in an orthogonal direction. The power conversion device includes a first connector to which a first electric power line through which electric power supplied to the rotating electric machine and electric power supplied from the rotating electric machine flow are connected. The first connector is provided on a first end side and is arranged to protrude from the power conversion device at a predetermined angle in a direction away from the rotating electric machine in the orthogonal direction, as the first connector goes away from the power conversion device in the rotation axis direction, when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshinoya, Heisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11489416
    Abstract: A motor controller is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ji Hwan Kim, Joon Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11489398
    Abstract: The water channel structure for connecting a controller to a motor includes a controller main housing and a motor body that are connected and fastened to each other. A water-cooling plate is fastened in the controller main housing. A water inlet and a water outlet are respectively provided at two ends of the controller main housing. A heat dissipation water channel communicating the water inlet with the water outlet inside the controller main housing is formed in the water-cooling plate. A motor water channel is provided inside the motor body. A transition water joint is provided at the water outlet of the controller main housing. The transition water joint is directly connected to a water inlet of the motor water channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HEFEI JEE POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Liu, Jianhua Mao, Zhan Wang, Hongxin Wu, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 11489404
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine drive unit includes a first rotating electric machine, a second rotating electric machine, a rotating electric machine housing, a power control unit having a first power conversion unit and a second power conversion unit, a first connecting member electrically connecting the first rotating electric machine and the first power conversion unit, and a second connecting member electrically connecting the second rotating electric machine and the second power conversion unit. When viewed from a rotation axis direction of the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine, the rotating electric machine accommodation portion of the rotating electric machine housing includes a bulging portion bulging outward between the first connecting member and the second connecting member, and the first rotating electric machine is accommodated in the rotating electric machine housing such that a part of the first rotating electric machine is located in the bulging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Wakabayashi, Yuto Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11489399
    Abstract: In one aspect of a motor of the present invention, an inverter housing portion is located on the radially outer side of a stator housing portion. A housing has a tubular circumferential wall surrounding the rotor and the stator on the radially outer side of the rotor and the stator, and is a single member. The circumferential wall has a first cooling flow path, and a partition wall that partitions the stator housing portion and the inverter housing portion. The first cooling flow path extends in the circumferential direction, and at least a part of the first cooling flow path is provided in the partition wall. As viewed along the predetermined direction, a portion of the first cooling flow path provided in the partition wall has a portion overlapping the inverter and a portion overlapping the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Okuhata, Kunihiro Kajita, Mika Konagaya, Yosuke Ito
  • Patent number: 11489401
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine for a vehicle includes a rectifier constituting a rectification circuit which rectifies the alternating current generated in the stator; a battery terminal protruding from the rectifier and configured to be connected with a battery cable; an insulating member having a through hole in which the battery terminal is inserted; and a waterproof cap attached to the insulating member so as to cover a connection part of the battery terminal with the battery cable in a waterproof state. One of an inner peripheral surface of the through hole of the insulating member and an outer peripheral surface of the battery terminal has a conical tapered face. The insulating member and the battery terminal are pressed against each other at the tapered face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Morishita
  • Patent number: 11489397
    Abstract: A drive device includes a drive unit having an annular shaped adhesion recess portion, a cover including an annular shaped adhesion protrusion portion that faces the adhesion recess portion, an adhesive sealant that adheres the adhesion recess portion to the adhesion protrusion portion, and a spacer that maintains a distance between the adhesion recess portion and the adhesion protrusion portion. Therefore, it is possible to ensure that a space is formed between the adhesion recess portion and the adhesion protrusion portion, and adhesive sealant is able to enter this space. As a result, it is easier to ensure that the adhesion recess portion and the adhesion protrusion portion are bonded in a stable manner by the adhesive sealant. Therefore, it is possible to provide a drive device in which components are appropriately adhered and fixed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi Yamauchi, Naohiro Yamamoto