Patents Examined by Bryan R Perez
  • Patent number: 11575316
    Abstract: A power converter includes a power switch controlling current flow in the power converter and a variable capacitance coupled in parallel to the power switch. The variable capacitance is configured to add a frequency jitter to the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Diodes Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Chuan Su, Feng-Jung Huang, Yuan-Hung Lo
  • Patent number: 11569710
    Abstract: A rotor shaft for an electric machine includes a rotor shaft main body and a rotor shaft core which is arranged therein and which is connected to the rotor shaft main body. The rotor shaft comprises a substantially axially running cooling cavity configured to conduct a cooling fluid, and the rotor shaft core is composed of a different material than the rotor shaft main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Endre Barti, Julian Blum, Markus Lang, Daniel Loos, Holger Ulbrich
  • Patent number: 11557894
    Abstract: A protection relay device includes a housing and a fuse unit. The fuse unit includes a connection conductor, an input conductor connected to the connection conductor and receiving an external power, a fuse connected to the connection conductor, and an external device connection conductor connected to the fuse on a side opposite to the input conductor, and to which an external device is connected. A short-circuit induction conductor is provided on at least one of the input conductor on a side opposite to the fuse and the flapper portion, the short-circuit induction conductor protruding toward the other of the input conductor and the flapper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Inamasa, Kenji Uetani, Mitsuru Hano
  • Patent number: 11552466
    Abstract: A method for isolating a fault in an underground power distribution network. The network includes a power line, a plurality of transformers electrically coupled to and positioned along the power line, a first recloser connected to one end of the power line and a second recloser connected to an opposite end of the power line, where each transformer includes an upstream switching device and a downstream switching device, and where power is provided to both ends of the power line through the first and second reclosers and one of the switching devices is a normally open switching device. The method includes detecting overcurrent by some of the switching devices, detecting loss of voltage by some of the switching devices and sending clear to close messages to some of the switching devices to open and close certain ones of the switching devices to isolate the fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: S&C Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Quinlan, Boris Marendic, Alejandro Montenegro, Daniel Desmond, John French
  • Patent number: 11535097
    Abstract: An electric motor cooling system is provided that utilizes stator-integrated axial coolant channels and a coolant manifold centrally located within the stator to efficiently remove motor assembly heat. In order to increase the velocity of the coolant exiting the axial coolant channels, thereby improving end winding cooling uniformity, end laminations are integrated into the stator which restrict the flow of coolant from the axial coolant channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Atieva, Inc.
    Inventors: Emad Dlala, Jeremy Mayer, Barnaby James Gerard Lewis, Mohammed Mahmoudi
  • Patent number: 11529729
    Abstract: A power tool includes a body housing including a first grip, inlet facing a front surface of the first grip, first outlet, and second outlet; a brushless motor held on the body housing and including a rotational shaft; an output unit supported on the body housing in a reciprocable manner; a power transmission mechanism between the brushless motor and the output unit in the body housing to transmit rotational motion of the rotational shaft to the output unit; a controller held on the body housing to control the brushless motor; and a fan held on the body housing and mounted on the rotational shaft. The body housing allows air drawn through the inlet and having cooled the brushless motor to be divided into first and second outlet blows respectively cooling the power transmission mechanism and discharged through the first outlet, and cooling the controller and discharged through the second outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Ogura
  • Patent number: 11527961
    Abstract: An isolated switching power converter having a primary-side and secondary-side in signal communication with an input and an output is disclosed. The isolated switching power converter comprises a transformer, primary-side switch, secondary-side switch, primary-side controller, and secondary-side controller. The transformer includes a primary-winding and a secondary-winding in signal communication with the input and output. The primary-side switch is in signal communication with the primary-winding and the secondary-side switch is in signal communication with the secondary-winding. The primary-side controller is on the primary-side and the secondary-side controller is on the secondary-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Guang Feng, Pengju Kong, Jianming Yao
  • Patent number: 11522430
    Abstract: A linear vibration actuator includes: a mover having a plurality of magnets linearly arrayed in the vibration direction; a guide portion holding the mover to be allowed to linearly move in the vibration direction; a plurality of planar coils wound in a flat plate shape on a flat surface facing the mover; a pair of first biasing magnets respectively arranged at both ends of the mover in the vibration direction; and a pair of second biasing magnets that are respectively arranged facing the pair of first biasing magnets, and respectively have the same polarities as those of the pair of first biasing magnets to bias the mover in the vibration direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nakamura, Motoichi Nakamura, Chihiro Okamoto, Takeshi Kogawa
  • Patent number: 11515745
    Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet motor, including a rotor body having a cylindrical surface having a circumference. A plurality of magnets are disposed on the cylindrical surface at spaced intervals at the circumference, each of the magnets having a base disposed on the cylindrical surface and a top oriented radially away from the base, a sloping front side and a sloping rear side defining with the base and top an isosceles trapezoid shape in a cross sectional plane normal to an axis of rotation of the rotor, the isosceles trapezoid shape being broader at the base. A plurality of magnet retainers, each magnet retainer disposed between a neighboring pair of the plurality of magnets, include angled faces that engage respective front and rear sides of adjacent pairs of the plurality of magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Ghanshyam Shrestha, Colin Tschida, Paul Humphries
  • Patent number: 11512860
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a protection circuit and an air conditioner, which are applied to the field of air conditioner technologies and used to protect an indoor unit. The protection circuit provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a positive temperature coefficient thermistor; a signal input terminal; and a communication module; wherein a first end of the positive temperature coefficient thermistor is connected to the signal input terminal, and a second end of the positive temperature coefficient thermistor is connected to the communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER AIR CONDITIONER GENERAL CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaojiang Cheng, Jun Wang, Benhai Yuan, Bin Shi
  • Patent number: 11515755
    Abstract: Stator housing for an electric machine, includes a plurality of axially extending main channels, wherein pairs of adjacent main channels are connected by deflection channels to form a meandering cooling path for a coolant, and a plurality of connection channels that connect each pair of adjacent main channels in a fluid conductive manner at an axial position between the deflection channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Krais, Philipp Söntgerath
  • Patent number: 11495427
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a leakage protector, which includes a housing. A base plate and a brush are arranged in the housing. A first conducting strip and a second conducting strip spaced apart are arranged on the base plate. The brush is provided with contact pins to contact the first conducting strip and the second conducting strip, respectively. The second conducting strip can generate different analog voltages, and the first conducting strip is configured to transmit different analog voltages to a microprocessor. A user can drive the brush to move through an actuating part, and set the power-on time of the leakage protector in one step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KEDU ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunkai Zheng, Ziping Li, Jun Liao, Desheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11495425
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a circuit breaker with a monitoring device having an electronic switch and a mechanical changeover switch, where the mechanical changeover switch has a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal, where in a neutral position of the mechanical changeover switch the first terminal is connected to the third terminal and where in an operating position of the mechanical changeover switch the second terminal is connected to the third terminal, where the electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the mechanical changeover switch as a series circuit, where when switching on the circuit breaker in a first switching state, initially the electronic switch is activated, where a measurement is taken at the first terminal using the monitoring device to determine whether essentially the same potential is present at the first terminal as at the third terminal and, it this is the case, the electronic switch is activated and the mechanical changeover switch is in an operating p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Wölk, Martin Striewe, Alexander Fomenko
  • Patent number: 11495932
    Abstract: Embodiments of a slip ring for use in a rotatable substrate support are provided herein. In some embodiments a slip ring includes a main body having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a sidewall extending between the top and bottom walls, wherein the top wall, bottom wall, and sidewall define an inner volume within the main body, wherein a central opening is formed through the top wall; a plurality of annular containers disposed within the inner volume and coaxially with the main body, wherein the plurality of annular containers are vertically spaced apart from one another, and wherein each of the plurality of annular containers contains a first volume of an electrically conductive liquid; an upper cylindrical body rotatably disposed in the central opening; a lower cylindrical body fixedly coupled to the lower wall of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Muhannad Mustafa, Yu Chang, William Kuang, Muhammad M. Rasheed, Xiping Huo
  • Patent number: 11496023
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes: a motor having a rotor and a stator core; a housing; and a first injection port to inject a refrigerant into the stator core. The stator core includes: a core body surrounding the rotor; and a fixing portion projecting radially outward from the core body and fixed to the housing. The fixing portion includes an upper fixing portion. The first injection port is lower than an end portion of the upper fixing portion. The upper fixing portion is on one circumferential side of the first injection port. The first injection port is open in a first direction facing a directly lower side or a second direction angled to the one circumferential side with respect to the first direction, and is facing a portion on the other circumferential side of a boundary with an end portion of the upper fixing portion on the other circumferential side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Nakamura, Daichi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11489375
    Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator corer and windings. The stator corer includes a yoke portion and stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a winding portion and a pole shoe connected to an end of the winding portion. Each pole shoe includes a pole face. The pole face defines a first positioning notch at a middle thereof. Each of the pole faces further defines at least one second positioning notch. Said at least one second positioning notches in one of pole shoe are located at the same side of the first positioning notch of the corresponding one pole shoe. The first and second positioning notches are configured such that an initial position of the rotor received in the space of the stator is offset from a dead point position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Tao Zhang, Jie Chai, Chiu You Zhou, Qiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11488798
    Abstract: A system includes a contactor operatively connected to a coil for actuating the contactor to open and close a circuit. A pass element includes a source, a drain, and a gate, wherein the drain is electrically connected to the coil, and wherein the coil is in series between the pass element and ground. A voltage source is connected to the source of the pass element to pass current into the coil when the pass element is in a pass state. A current source control circuit with economizer is operatively connected to the gate of the pass element. A delay circuit is operatively connected to the current source control circuit with economizer and to a command line to command a lower current for holding the contactor closed after a delay has expired for the contactor to transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas P. Joyce, Jordan K. Vanevenhoven, Natalie Filipski
  • Patent number: 11489414
    Abstract: A drive device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including an electric motor and an inverter, wherein the electric motor includes at least one electrically conductive motor contact element for electrically contacting a respective electrically conductive inverter contact element of the inverter, wherein the motor contact element is mounted directly or via a motor sealing means on a motor housing component of a motor housing of the electric motor and the inverter contact element is mounted directly or via an inverter sealing means on an inverter housing component of an inverter housing of the inverter, wherein the motor contact element and the inverter contact element are mechanically fastened to one another by a fastening means, wherein the fastening means and a respective housing-external section of the motor contact element and the inverter contact element are accommodated in a liquid-tight receptacle chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Söhnle, Sebastian Witt
  • Patent number: 11482854
    Abstract: There is disclosed a circuit breaker arrangement for interrupting a current flowing through a direct current (DC) transmission line including a semiconductor switching device and a pulse injection circuit configured to inductively inject into the transmission line a pulse current that opposes the current flowing through the transmission line to thereby reduce the current in the transmission line to cause the semiconductor switching device to turn-off to interrupt the path for the current flow through the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sebastian Rosado, Chi Zhang, Adam Whitford
  • Patent number: 11473669
    Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a transmission. The rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator and a first housing. The transmission includes a motive power transmitting unit, a second housing provided integrally with the first housing, and lubricating oil provided in the second housing to lubricate the motive power transmitting unit. The stator includes a stator coil that has first and second coil end parts respectively protruding from first and second axial end faces of a stator core. Each of phase windings of the stator coil has turn portions included in the first coil end part and joints included in the second coil end part. The second coil end part is located on the same axial side of the stator core as the transmission whereas the first coil end part is located on the opposite axial side of the stator core to the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Endo, Ryo Tanie