Patents Examined by Alexander Talpalatski
  • Patent number: 10541097
    Abstract: An electromechanical relay, which can be inserted into a modular terminal in an insertion direction, wherein the relay is arranged in a housing and has two toggle switches, each of which is connected to connecting elements. At least one of the connecting elements leads out of the housing at the side and extends perpendicular to the insertion direction in at least some segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ralf Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 10541078
    Abstract: An electronic component includes: an element body in which a plurality of insulator layers are stacked; a coil in which a plurality of inner conductors installed in the element body are electrically connected to each other; and an outer electrode that is disposed on an outer surface of the element body, is electrically connected to the coil, and includes at least a baked electrode layer. The inner conductor connected to the outer electrode includes a connection conductor that electrically connects the baked electrode layer to the inner conductor. The connection conductor includes a protruding portion that protrudes from the outer surface of the element body to the outer electrode. The protruding portion includes a metal having a smaller diffusion coefficient than a metal of a main component included in the baked electrode layer. The inner conductors have a lower electric resistance value than the metal included in the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Sato, Yohei Tadaki, Akihiko Oide, Yuma Ishikawa, Hidekazu Sato, Kazuhiro Ebina, Hiroyuki Tanoue
  • Patent number: 10529483
    Abstract: A resonant transformer with adjustable leakage inductance includes a secondary winding group, a primary winding group, a magnetic sheet and a core group. The primary winding group is provided on a bobbin of the secondary winding group, and the magnetic sheet is provided in the bobbin. The secondary winding group, the primary winding group and the magnetic sheet include a first through hole, a second through hole and a through hole, respectively. The core group includes a first core and a second core symmetrically disposed, which are disposed on top of and at the bottom of the primary winding group, respectively. During operation of the resonant transformer, the degree of coupling between the primary and secondary sides can be changed using the magnetic sheet. This allows the native leakage inductance to be altered to satisfy demands for various different resonant frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Yujing Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sen-Tai Yang
  • Patent number: 10523095
    Abstract: The invention essentially relates to a method for the production of a winding of a stator (15) comprising a body equipped with slots (28), comprising: a supply step consisting in supplying a winding unit with a bundle of conductors (37); and a pre-forming step consisting in moving the winding unit in relation to the bundle of conductors (37), such as to obtain a bundle of conductors (37) having, for each phase winding (E1-E6), at least two loop structures (39) and at least three segment structures (38), two of the segment structures (38) being positioned such that they can be disposed in the same slot (28) of the stator (15) and the two loop structures (39) connecting said two segment structures (38) stacked on the third segment structure (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Ludovic Darras, Vincent Ramet, Jean Duquesne, Denis Even, Larry Sapotille
  • Patent number: 10515774
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes: a first member integrally including a first horizontal portion to which an armature is fixed, a vertical portion to which a yoke is fixed, a hinge spring connected between the vertical portion and the first horizontal portion, a spring arm including a pair of movable contacts, and a pair of first terminals extended downward from the vertical portion; a second member integrally including a front plate portion extended in front of an electromagnet in a vertical direction, a second horizontal portion including a pair of fixed contacts opposed to the movable contacts, and a pair of second terminals extended downward from the front plate portion; a pair of permanent magnets that sandwich the movable contacts and the fixed contacts in a right-to-left direction and that is not opposed to the electromagnet; and a cover including accommodating portions accommodating the permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Takaki Sunohara, Nobuyoshi Hiraiwa
  • Patent number: 10508189
    Abstract: In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a power inductor includes a body, at least two bases disposed in the body, a plurality of coil patterns disposed on at least one surface of the at least two the base, respectively, and a connection electrode disposed on an outer portion of the body and connecting the at least two coils to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: MODA-INNOCHIPS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Kil Park, Gyeong Tae Kim, Seung Hun Cho, Jun Ho Jung, Ki Joung Nam, Jung Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 10504645
    Abstract: A gapless core reactor includes a saturable magnetic core having reactor legs without air gaps and multiple windings. The windings are each wound around a common leg, spaced apart from each other and connected in counter series. The windings are configured such that a magnetic flux generated from an alternating current flowing through the windings generates a plurality of substantially equal and counter magnetic fluxes flowing through two or more separate magnetic circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventor: Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski
  • Patent number: 10490373
    Abstract: A key with balance rods and a keyboard are provided. The key includes a base plate. A sensing component is disposed on the base plate. An intermediate plate is disposed on the sensing component. The intermediate plate has a key hole and a receiving chamber which penetrate upper and lower surfaces of the intermediate plate. A keying portion is disposed on the base plate. Balance rods are disposed between a lower surface of the keying portion and a lower surface of the intermediate plate or base plate. Two balance rods run in the direction of X-axis or the direction of Y-axis, whereas one balance rod runs in the other direction and between the two balance rods. The three balance rods neither cross nor overlap. The key with balance rods and the keyboard have a comfortable feel and are applicable to laptops with thin keyboards, tablets, and smartphone keyboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jian-Ping Yuan, Hui-Hu Liang
  • Patent number: 10475599
    Abstract: Circuit breakers with handles having at least one handle bearing pin that contacts an upper end portion of a moving arm and allows the arm to rotate to “OFF”, “ON” and “TRIP” positions, typically about 90 degrees of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: James Gerard Maloney, Daniel Quentin Gates
  • Patent number: 10476254
    Abstract: An electrical wiring device including: a housing, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to a contact structure including a conductive member having at least one contact, wherein in response to a make-force each contact structure is configured to perform a first movement to electrically connect each of the contacts on each contact structure to one of the contacts on a different one of the fixed contact structures in the reset state, thereby electrically connecting the terminals in the reset state; a circuit interrupting assembly being configured to perform a first linear movement in response to a break-force in order to cause each contact structure to perform a second movement in a direction opposite the first movement to decouple each of the contacts on each contact structure from one of the contacts on a different one of the fixed contact structures thereby decoupling the terminals to effect a tripped state; a protective electrical assembly, and a latching element configured to restrain the circuit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Pass & Seymour, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Weeks, Kent R. Morgan, Jeffrey C. Richards, Gerald R. Savicki, Jr., Bruce F. Macbeth
  • Patent number: 10468942
    Abstract: A bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring arranged to face each other with a rolling element interposed therebetween, and a housing including a housing inner supported by the inner ring and a rotor flange supported by the outer ring. The rotor flange includes a flange portion extending toward one end surface side in an axial direction of the outer ring, and a C-type retaining ring arranged at the other end surface side in the axial direction of the outer ring. A push ring formed of a resin material is provided in a gap between the flange portion and the one end surface in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Hirohide Konishi
  • Patent number: 10460863
    Abstract: Techniques for tuning magnetic potential using a variable gap in a parallel dipole line (PDL) trap are provided. In one aspect, a PDL trap is provided. The PDL trap includes: a pair of dipole line magnets separated from one another by a variable gap g; and a diamagnetic object levitating above the dipole line magnets. The dipole line magnets can be separated from one another by at least one spacer, or a variable gap fixture can be used in which the dipole line magnets are affixed to separate mounts for varying the gap g between the dipole line magnets. A bigger trap or track can be built with multiple segments of PDL trap. A method of operating a PDL trap is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Oki Gunawan
  • Patent number: 10461601
    Abstract: A motor is provided to improve the damp proof or dustproof effect of the conventional motor. The motor includes an isolating housing, a sealing member and an inner assembly. The isolating housing includes first and second housing parts. A through-hole is formed between the first and second housing parts. The through-hole communicates an internal space of the isolating housing with an external space. The sealing member includes a frame portion and a wire receiving portion. The wire receiving portion is integrally formed with the frame portion. The frame portion is arranged between the first and second housing parts. The wire receiving portion is disposed at the through-hole. A lead wire is received in the wire receiving portion, and includes one end extending into the internal space of the isolating housing. The inner assembly is received in the internal space of the isolating housing and electrically connected to the lead wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Sheng-Chieh Liang, Yi-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10439739
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus employing an isolation ring having a center strip of conductive material used to isolate magnetic fields generated by common-mode and differential-mode current flow through one or more inductors disposed in the ring. The apparatus generally includes an electrical component having an inductive element and a ring of electrically conductive material encircling the inductive element, wherein the ring has a strip of electrically conductive material disposed in the ring and connecting a first point on the ring to a second point on the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhang Jin, Yung-Chung Lo, Youngchang Yoon, Ning Yuan, Apsara Ravish Suvarna
  • Patent number: 10432055
    Abstract: Provided is a motor capable of more reliably preventing dust generated therein from flowing to the outside. A motor includes a stator, a rotor, a rotor housing which rotates along with the rotor, a stator housing which fixes the stator thereto, includes spaces formed with respect to the rotor housing, and overlaps the rotor housing with first gaps interposed therebetween in the entire circumferential direction, annular members which overlap the stator housing with second gaps interposed therebetween in the entire circumferential direction inside the spaces, exhaust holes which suck and discharge air inside the spaces through the second gaps, and exhaust grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Hideya Higuchi, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hayao Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10424985
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rotor and/or a stator of a dynamoelectric rotary machine by means of the following steps: —producing pre-formed coils from an integral electrically conductive material or pre-insulated or coated electrically conductive wires, —fixing spacers to the pre-formed coil at predefinable intervals, —inserting the pre-formed coil, which is provided with spacers, into slots in a laminated core of a stator or rotor, —making contact with the individual pre-formed coils to form groups of coils and forming a winding system of a rotor and/or stator in accordance with a predefined circuit plan, —insulating the pre-formed coils or the winding system in the slots by complete encapsulation, in particular by complete vacuum encapsulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: André Grübel, Bernhard Klaussner, Dieter Schirm, Matthias Übler
  • Patent number: 10410784
    Abstract: A magnetic component has a core 80 provided with a leg 81; and a coil structure having a coil 10, 20 including conductors wrapped around the leg 81, and two or more radiative insulating sheets 100 provided between the conductors; a radiator 91, 92 brought into contact with an end surface of the core 80, and extending toward the radiative insulating sheets 100 and brought into contact with the surface of the radiative insulating sheets 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Ikeda, Yoshiaki Hiruma
  • Patent number: 10411529
    Abstract: A stator includes a yoke, teeth, insulating members, a first ribs, coils, annular members and adhesive bodies. The insulating members each have circumferential wall and a flange. The flange includes a plate wall. The first ribs protrude from the respective flanges. The coils each wound on the outsides of the circumferential wall and the first ribs of each of the teeth. The annular members close teeth distal end sides of cavities. A first hole and a second hole are provided in the plate wall. The turning passage contains varnish charged through the injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10396620
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine connection component includes a plurality of linear conductors, and a first molded resin portion that covers portions of the plurality of linear conductors and connects the plurality of linear conductors to each other. Each of the plurality of linear conductors includes a first straight portion extending out of the first molded resin portion in a direction parallel to a rotational axis of the rotor and connected to the terminal block, a second straight portion extending out of the first molded resin portion in a different direction from the first straight portion and a bent portion bent between the first and second straight portions. Of each of the plurality of linear conductors, a part of the first straight portion, the bend portion and a part of the second straight portion are covered by the first molded resin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Egami, Takuya Yoshizawa, Mitsuhiro Okamura
  • Patent number: 10396687
    Abstract: A mechanical system is provided for maintaining a desired gap between a stator electrode array and a rotor electrode array by employing repelling magnets on the inner surface of the rotor and on movable carts that support azimuthally segmented stator arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventor: Richard F Post