Patents Examined by Alexander Singh
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Patent number: 12081087Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a shaft that rotates about an axial direction; a rotor that is disposed around the shaft and that includes a rotor core and a plurality of magnets provided in the rotor core; a stator that is disposed around the rotor and that includes a stator core and a stator coil provided in the stator core; a magnetic flux short circuit plate that is disposed so as to face the rotor core in the axial direction and that moves in the axial direction; a biasing member that biases the magnetic flux short circuit plate to a side away from the rotor core; a holding member that holds the biasing member; and a fixing member that fixes the holding member to the shaft. Further, a strength of a material of the fixing member is higher than a strength of a material of the holding member.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Kitayama, Hiroyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 12081145Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include thermionic energy converters and electronic circuitry for generating pulses for igniting plasma in a hermetic package of a thermionic energy converter. In various embodiments, an illustrative thermionic energy converter includes a hermetic package charged with a non-cesium gas additive. The hermetic package is configured to route into the hermetic package pulses for igniting plasma in the hermetic package. A cesium reservoir is disposed in the hermetic package. A cathode is disposed in the hermetic package and an anode is disposed in the hermetic package.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Modern Hydrogen, Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Clark, Roelof E. Groenewald, Arvind Kannan, Andrew T. Koch, Hsin-I Lu, Alexander J. Pearse, Peter J. Scherpelz
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Patent number: 12081067Abstract: A stator includes insulation including a back insulation portion covering a back stator portion, a first tooth portion covering a first tooth, a second tooth portion covering a second tooth. A first flange portion has a first face that is in facing relationship with the back insulation portion. A second flange portion has a second face that is in facing relationship with the back insulation portion. The first face and the second face together substantially defining a boundary plane, such that a cross-sectional slot area is defined between the back insulation portion, the first tooth portion, the second tooth portion, and the boundary plane. A plurality of conductive wires are arranged in the cross-sectional slot area, the wires defining a cross-sectional winding area within the cross-sectional slot area. A ratio of the cross-sectional winding area to the cross-sectional slot area is greater than or equal to 0.45.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Keith Boulanger, Ryan B. Jipp, Timothy R. Obermann, Matthew R. Bailey
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Patent number: 12081089Abstract: A motor apparatus including a stator having a plurality of teeth formed in a circumference thereof, a rotor rotatably installed in the stator, and having a plurality of magnets disposed in a circumference thereof, and a 3-phase coil part having a plurality of coils wound around the teeth, respectively, in which the coils having a preset phase difference are arranged in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jae Woo Jung
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Patent number: 12074481Abstract: A motor-driven power board having a PCB and a plurality of transistors uniformly arranged along the edge of the PCB and a plurality of capacitors uniformly arranged along the inner side of the transistor. There is a plurality of terminals uniformly arranged along the inner side of the transistor. The board further includes a positive pole of power bus, a negative pole of power bus and a signal wire which are all located in the middle of the PCB. The invention improves the heat dissipation and current-sharing capacity of the power board by uniformly setting the power components from the inside to the outside according to the heat value while at the same time reduces the heat value in the middle of the power board, so that the motor of the driver using the power board can be assembled near the middle of the power board.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: AUTOFLIGHT (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu Tian
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Patent number: 12074490Abstract: A motor apparatus including a stator having a plurality of teeth formed in a circumference thereof, a rotor rotatably installed in the stator, and having a plurality of magnets disposed in a circumference thereof, and a 3-phase coil part having a plurality of coils wound around the teeth, respectively, in which the coils having a preset phase difference are arranged in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jae Woo Jung
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Patent number: 12074498Abstract: A fan stator structure includes a silicon steel sheet lamination formed of a plurality of laminated silicon steel sheets located between a set of insulating supports and having coils wound thereon; and a plurality of conducting coil end holders respectively including a fixing section and a connecting section, and a receiving zone located between the two sections. The fixing and the connecting section are located at two opposite ends of the conducting coil end holder, and the fixing section is connected to the set of insulating supports. The receiving zone is configured for receiving a front and a back end of the coils, so that the front and back ends of the coils are in contact with the conducting coil end holders. With the conducting coil end holders, the fan stator structure can be manufactured with simplified procedures, reduced time and labor costs, and upgraded good yield rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeh-Chih Lu, Hsin-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 12074477Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, a field element includes a field element core to which magnets are fixed. The magnet has a pair of first acting surfaces opposing each other and through which a magnetic flux flows in or flows out, and a second acting surface serving as an inflow surface or an outflow surface for magnetic flux in a q-axis-side end portion. Between an acting surface on the armature side of the pair of first acting surfaces and the second acting surface, the magnet has a magnet magnetic path that extends from one acting surface to the other. The field element core has a q-axis-side portion adjacent in the circumferential direction to the acting surface of the magnet. A controller controls an energization phase of phases of an armature winding to cause a state of magnetic saturation of the q-axis-side portion of the field element core to be variable.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 12068655Abstract: The present invention discloses a displacement device based on Hall-effect sensors and planar motors.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Shanghai Yinguan Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chenyang Ding, Hanxiong Li, Guoqi Zhang, Chunyuan Chen, Xiaohui Wu
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Patent number: 12062953Abstract: An aircraft motor driver having a power board and a motor, wherein the power board includes a base plate and a power element, and the power element is located at the edge of the base plate. The motor is located near the middle of the power board and is electrically connected to the terminal block on the base plate, and the motor driver is provided with an airflow circulation channel for providing the airflow used for heat dissipation of the power element. The aircraft motor driver arranges the power element on the outer edge of the power board, so that the motor of the driver can be assembled near the middle of the power board, reducing the assembly difficulty and assembly volume of the driver, and, so that the power board can be cooled by air cooling mode of air convection.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: AUTOFLIGHT (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu Tian
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Patent number: 12051945Abstract: A motor includes a rotor molded by resin casting, and a stator disposed inside the rotor. The rotor includes a cylindrical portion in which a plurality of magnets are arranged side by side in a circumferential direction. The magnets are exposed on a side of an open end as one end of the cylindrical portion in an axial direction of the cylindrical portion. The cylindrical portion includes an inner resin located inside each of the magnets in a radial direction of the cylindrical portion. The inner resin includes a first resin portion, and a second resin portion closer to the open end than the first resin portion in the axial direction. A sectional area of the second resin portion perpendicular to the axial direction is smaller than a sectional area of the first resin portion perpendicular to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Takayama, Norimasa Matsushita
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Patent number: 12051943Abstract: A motor includes: a stator including assemblies; and a rotor disposed on one side of the stator. Each of the assemblies includes: a bobbin; a core inserted into the bobbin; and a coil surrounding an outside of the bobbin. The bobbin includes: a main through hole into which the core is inserted; and a sub-through hole disposed in either one of a top surface and a bottom surface on one side of the main through hole. An inner space of the bobbin is communication with the outside of the bobbin through the sub-through hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeong Woo Seo, Hye Seong Yang, Yong Ho Kim, Ui Il Jeong
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Patent number: 12051960Abstract: A rotating electrical machine case includes a case body having a cylindrical shape surrounding a rotating electrical machine and a side wall portion provided on at least one end side of the case body in a rotation axis direction. The side wall portion is provided with a plurality of ribs extending in a radial direction when viewed from the rotation axis direction of a rotating electrical machine and the plurality of ribs include ribs having different circumferential widths.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Nishida, Keiichiro Kashiwabara, Akira Fujiwara, Sachio Kawada, Hideaki Noto, Shunsuke Isogai
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Patent number: 12046949Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of coils and a plurality of U-shaped clips. Each coil defines a coil opening and each U-shaped clip includes a first tooth, a second tooth, and a yoke interconnecting the first tooth and the second tooth. The first tooth of each U-shaped clip is disposed in one coil opening and the second tooth of each U-shaped clip is disposed in another coil opening of an adjacent coil with the yoke bridging the two adjacent coils. And two sidewalls of the two adjacent coils are sandwiched between the first tooth and the second tooth of each U-shaped clip.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky, Oleg Gaspar
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Patent number: 12040685Abstract: A magnetically levitated motor includes a stator, a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator, and a passive radial magnetic bearing configured to support the rotor relative to the stator in a radial direction. An active longitudinal magnetic bearing is configured to selectively position the rotor relative to the stator in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: VERITIUM RESEARCH LLCInventors: Gino Morello, Steven Prina
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Patent number: 12040687Abstract: A power tool includes a motor including a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor; an output shaft to which a tip tool is attached and that is rotated by power generated by the motor; a torque sensor unit that is disposed between the stator and the output shaft in a front-rear direction parallel to a rotation axis of the motor and that is coupled to the output shaft; an amplifier circuit that amplifies a detection signal of the torque sensor unit; and a housing including a motor housing part for housing the motor and a grip part. The torque sensor unit is disposed forward of the stator. The grip part is disposed downward of the motor housing part. The amplifier circuit is disposed upward of the grip part. The amplifier circuit is disposed forward of a rear end part of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Takaharu Nakatsuka, Yuta Izutsu
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Patent number: 12030772Abstract: The present disclosure describes an image forming element having a semiconductor chip with micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) devices and voltage generators, each voltage generator being configured to generate a voltage used by one or more of the MEMS devices. A floating ground may be used to add a voltage to the voltage generated by the voltage generators. The semiconductor chip may include electrical connections, where each voltage generator is configured to provide the voltage to the one or more MEMS devices through the electrical connections. The MEMS devices may define a boundary in the semiconductor chip within which the MEMS devices, the voltage generators, and the electrical connections are located. Each MEMS device may generate an electrostatic field to manipulate an electron beamlet of a multi-beam charged particle microscope. The MEMS devices may be organized into groups based on a distance to a reference location (e.g., optical axis) in the semiconductor chip.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Yongxin Wang, Rui-Ling Lai, Qian Zhang
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Patent number: 12015323Abstract: A stator cooling housing for a stator of a rotary electric motor includes a cylindrical frame adapted to be mounted around an iron core and having an outer lateral surface and inlet and outlet channels. A cylindrical jacket is arranged against the outer lateral surface of the cylindrical frame. The cylindrical jacket comprises an inner side having a plurality of cylindrical grooves forming with the outer lateral surface of the cylindrical frame adjacent fluid cooling channels arranged around the cylindrical frame from a frame upper portion to a frame lower portion. Fluid communication portions are arranged such that a cooling fluid is enabled to run from the inlet channel, through the adjacent fluid cooling channels from the frame upper portion to the frame lower portion, and through the outlet channel to form a cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: ETEL S.A.Inventors: Johann Pourchet, Dmitry Chechenev, Ivan Garcia-Herreros
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Patent number: 12015324Abstract: An electronics assembly including a motor controller electronics arrangement includes a housing enclosing a solid-state switch array, a cold plate arranged within the housing and in thermal communication with the solid-state switch array, and a feeder cable. The feeder cable is electrically connected to the solid-state switch array, has a coolant jacket extending thereabout, is separated from the switch arrangement by the housing, and is in liquid communication with the cold plate to limit heat communicated by the feeder cable into the housing. Electrical systems and methods of cooling feeder cables are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Hailing Wu, Gary L. Miles, Mark Hamilton Severson, Aritra Sur, Xin Wu
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Patent number: 12009725Abstract: A drive includes an electric motor, a converter, and an intermediate part arranged between the electric motor and the converter. A bottom part is connected to the intermediate part in a thermally conductive manner, a top part set apart from the intermediate part is connected to the bottom part in a thermally conductive manner, and the top part has cooling fins.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Johannes Brödner, Tobias Stark