Patents Examined by Bernard Rojas
  • Patent number: 12294267
    Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to realize downsizing of the bus-bar holder, and then to downsize an electric rotating machine apparatus and an electric power steering apparatus. In a first protruding portion of the bus-bar holder, there are provided a columnar portion, two or more first ribs that are provided on an outer circumferential surface of the columnar portion in such a way as to be parallel with a center axis of the columnar portion and in such a way as to be spaced apart from one another, and two or more second ribs; the first rib makes contact with an inner circumference surface of a first through hole of the control circuit board; the second rib makes contact with an inner circumference surface of a second through hole of the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Motoishi, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Kentaro Urimoto
  • Patent number: 12293891
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact, a movable contact, a movable contact piece, a movable iron core, a drive shaft, a coil, and a stopper. The movable iron core is movable in a moving direction including a contact direction in which the movable contact approaches the fixed contact and a separation direction in which the movable contact separates from the fixed contact. The movable iron core includes a shaft hole extending in the moving direction. The drive shaft is connected to the movable contact piece. The drive shaft extends through the shaft hole. The drive shaft is fixed to the movable iron core. The coil generates a magnetic force to move the movable iron core in the moving direction. The stopper is connected to the drive shaft. The stopper restricts a movement of the movable iron core with respect to the drive shaft in the moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Otsuka, Ryota Minowa, Hiroyuki Iwasaka, Shinichi Ogawa, Ayata Horie
  • Patent number: 12285097
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described that relate to energy generation. A housing can retain a spring coupled to a gear set. As the spring experiences linear compression and extension, the spring can cause rotational movement in the gear set. The rotational movement from the gear set can cause rotation of a rotational magnet. The rotational magnet, when rotated about a coil set, can convert an energy. The energy can be used to charge a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Connor Garrison, Julianne Douglas
  • Patent number: 12283859
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a stator core, an insulator coupled to the stator core, and a first terminal and a second terminal which are coupled to the insulator, wherein the stator core includes a yoke and a tooth protruding from the yoke, the insulator includes a body on which the tooth is disposed and a seating part extending from the body and disposed on the yoke, the seating part include a base and first to third partition walls extending from the base, the first terminal is disposed between the first partition wall and the second partition wall, and the second terminal is disposed between the second partition wall and the third partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seong Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 12278545
    Abstract: An output shaft is configured by connecting a first shaft and a second shaft, coaxially arranged with each other, by a reverse input cutoff clutch 20; an end portion on one side in an axial direction of the second shaft located on an opposite side from the first shaft with a gear portion sandwiched in between in the axial direction being rotatably supported with respect to a fixed portion by a bearing device; the reverse input cutoff clutch having a function that, when rotational torque is input to the first shaft, transmits the rotational torque input to the first shaft to the second shaft, and when rotational torque is reversely input to the second shaft, completely cuts off the rotational torque reversely input to the second shaft and does not transmit the rotational torque to the first shaft, or transmits part of the rotational torque to the first shaft and cuts off the remaining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Nagao Dohi, Yuya Daikoku, Eiji Inoue
  • Patent number: 12273006
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an outer-rotor brushless motor and a housing thereof. The housing is applicable to an outer-rotor brushless motor. The outer-rotor brushless motor includes a spindle, a stator holder mounted on a lower portion of the spindle through a bearing, and an outer rotor assembly fixedly mounted on an upper portion of the spindle. The housing comprises a cavity with a bottom being open, and covers the outer rotor assembly. At least one platform extends outwards from a bottom of a side wall of the housing, and is detachably fixed to the stator holder to form air inlet gaps. Multiple air outlet openings corresponding to the outer rotor assembly are formed in the side wall of the housing in a circumferential direction. The motor can be effectively protected and cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TOPBAND CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingwei Wang, Yong Bu
  • Patent number: 12266491
    Abstract: A switching appliance that includes a first housing and a second housing on one side of the first housing to accommodate an auxiliary contact mechanism, the first housing having a lower housing, and an upper housing to accommodate a main contact mechanism; the auxiliary contact mechanism having a linkage member connected to the main contact mechanism; a mounting leg that extends to the side surface of the side wall of the lower housing is arranged at the bottom of the second housing; a first clamping groove in the side surface, facing the lower housing, of the mounting leg, and a second clamping groove opposite the first clamping groove formed in the side wall of the lower housing; the mounting leg is connected to the side wall of the lower housing through a connector, which fixes the second housing and the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NOARK ELECTRICS(SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shi, Haiyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 12266464
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a magnetic sheet stack for an electric machine comprising: a plurality of magnetic sheets electrically insulated from one another by being spaced apart from one another predominantly with a non-vanishing clearance; a respective set of ceramic spacers distributed between each of the plurality of magnetic sheets from an adjacent sheet in the stack; and a respective gas layer filling a gap between a predominant part of a planar extent of each of the plurality of magnetic sheets allowing a cooling fluid to be circulated between the adjacent sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Buschbeck, Gotthard Rieger, Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 12251108
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides modular magnetic anastomosis devices that can be implemented in digestive surgery or in any circumstance of anastomosis between adjacent organs or two hollow viscera. The device is minimally invasive and easily and quickly delivered using laparoscopic or endoscopic procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: IRCAD
    Inventors: Juan Hernandez, Michele Diana, James Kennedy Wall
  • Patent number: 12249469
    Abstract: A circuit breaker may include a first magnetic actuator connected to a first single-phase vacuum interrupter, a second magnetic actuator connected to a second single-phase vacuum interrupter, and a third magnetic actuator connected to the third single-phase vacuum interrupter. Each magnetic actuator is configured to receive an interrupt signal, and in response, actuate a respective vacuum interrupter connected thereto into an open circuit condition. Each magnetic actuator includes a fixed core, a plurality of permanent magnets surrounding the fixed core, and a movable core received within the fixed core. A controller generates an interrupt signal to a respective magnetic actuator and interrupts one or more of the first, second and third single-phase vacuum interrupters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: JST POWER EQUIPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick R. Fischer-Carne, Robert L. Hanna
  • Patent number: 12249473
    Abstract: Disclosed are a direct current relay and a manufacturing method therefor. A movable contact part provided in a direct current relay comprises a movable contact and a lower yoke positioned below the movable contact configured to attenuate an electromagnetic repulsive force generated by contact between the movable contact and a fixed contact. The movable contact is provided with a coupling protrusion portion that protrudes downward. The lower yoke is provided with a movable contact coupling portion into which the coupling protrusion portion is inserted. The coupling protrusion portion can receive pressure directed radially outward after being inserted into the movable contact coupling portion. The coupling protrusion portion is expanded radially outward by the pressure. Accordingly, the outer circumferential surface of the coupling protrusion portion can be inserted into and coupled to the inner circumferential surface of the lower yoke that forms the movable contact coupling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jungwoo Yoo
  • Patent number: 12244205
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator, a rotor, a housing and a shaft. The stator is connected to the housing via an electrically insulating torque support. An electrically insulating flange is disposed on the shaft. The shaft is connected to a flange of a bearing shaft via said flange, the bearing shaft housed in a bearing which is arranged in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Morgen, Volker Steinert, Dennis Kuhl, Christian Nolte
  • Patent number: 12244199
    Abstract: This patent document provides optical shutter devices based on electromagnetically activated shutters using a printed circuit board (“PCB”) structure to provide a coil that generates a magnetic field to move a permanent magnet in and out of an optical aperture integrated as part of the PCB structure to open and close the passage of light through the optical aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: OCEAN OPTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Brian McGee
  • Patent number: 12237741
    Abstract: An electrical machine including a rotor and a stator occupying a substantially hollow-cylindrical spatial region, the stator including a stator core with a stator winding and fluid ducts which extend in an axial direction from a first axial side to an opposite second axial side, wherein a fluid-distributing chamber with a coolant inflow is provided on the first axial side, the coolant inflow communicates with the fluid-distributing chamber and the fluid-distributing chamber communicates with the fluid ducts, a fluid-collecting chamber with a coolant outflow is provided on the second axial side, the fluid-collecting chamber communicates with the coolant outflow and the fluid-collecting chamber collects the coolant, the coolant inflow is arranged on the first axial side on a first circumferential side and the coolant outflow is arranged on the second axial side, a bypass duct is provided, and the fluid inlet is arranged on the second axial side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Johannes Lange
  • Patent number: 12237130
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a base, a first fixed terminal including a first fixed contact, a second fixed terminal including a second fixed contact, a movable contact piece, a movable member, and a return spring. The movable contact piece includes a pair of movable contacts configured to contact the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact. The movable member is movable with the movable contact piece in a contact direction and in a separation direction. The return spring is disposed between the base and the movable member and urges the movable member in the separation direction. The base includes a guide portion to guide movement of the movable member. The movable member includes a sliding portion slidable with respect to the guide portion. The return spring is disposed inside the guide portion. The guide portion is disposed in the contact direction with respect to the first fixed contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Harimochi, Ryota Minowa, Takeshi Nishida, Hiroyuki Iwasaka
  • Patent number: 12237126
    Abstract: Magnetic coupling devices are disclosed which may be configured in at least three states. The various states may be provided through one or more of altering a position of a permanent magnet relative to another permanent magnet and altering a current level in a coil surrounding a permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Magswitch Automation Company
    Inventors: David H. Morton, Cengiz Kizilkan, Paul J. Karp
  • Patent number: 12230463
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a support member, a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a movable member. The support member is made of an insulating material. The first fixed terminal includes a first fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The second fixed terminal includes the second fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The movable contact piece includes a first movable contact and a second movable contact. The movable member is connected to the movable contact piece and includes a first overlapping portion made of an insulating material. The first overlapping portion is disposed between the first fixed terminal and the second fixed terminal. The first overlapping portion overlaps with the support member when viewed from a longitudinal direction of the movable contact piece in an open state where the first movable contact is separated from the first fixed contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tsukada, Takeshi Nishida, Kazuki Furukawa, Naoki Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 12231011
    Abstract: Stator (2) for a rotary electric machine (1), comprising a stator mass (25) comprising slots (21), electrical conductors (22) accommodated in the slots (21) forming a multiphase winding having at least a first phase (a) and a second phase (b), an input electrical conductor (A) of the first phase (a) being located in a first slot (slot number 1), one or more electrical conductors of the second phase (b) being located in a second slot (slot number 2), the second slot immediately following the first slot when going circumferentially around the axis of rotation of the machine, in the direction of flow of the electric current around the axis of rotation of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC PSA EMOTORS
    Inventor: Cyril Moya
  • Patent number: 12230464
    Abstract: An arc path-forming part and a DC relay comprising same are disclosed. The arc path-forming part according to various embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a Halbach array and a magnet part that form a magnetic field in a space formed therein. The magnetic field formed by the Halbach array is stronger in the direction toward the space. The magnetic field formed by the Halbach array and the magnet part forms an electromagnetic force together with the current applied to each fixed contactor. Here, the electromagnetic force formed in the vicinity of each fixed contactor is formed in a direction away from the center of the space or in a direction away from each fixed contactor. Accordingly, a generated arc can be quickly extinguished and discharged by being induced by the electromagnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Woo Yoo, Han Mi Ru Kim, Young Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 12230440
    Abstract: An actuator assembly including a first actuator having a first magnetically actuated plunger and a first latching plate, where the first plunger is operable to be magnetically latched to the first latching plate. The actuator assembly further includes a second actuator coupled to and axially aligned with the first actuator. The second actuator includes a second magnetically actuated plunger, a second latching plate, a sleeve positioned within and extending from the second plunger and being rigidly secured to the first plunger, and a tolerance spring wrapped around the sleeve. The second plunger is operable to be magnetically latched to the second latching plate, where latching of the second plunger causes the tolerance spring to compress and provide additional latching force of the first plunger to the first latching plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: S&C Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Seng, Alejandro Montenegro, John French, Thomas S. Kelley, Keith W. Benson, Robert E. Sroka, Michael Quinlan, Gabrielle Madden