Patents Examined by Burton S. Mullins
  • Patent number: 11374481
    Abstract: A magnetic coupling device (1) is provided for coupling a first member (10) and a second member (11), coaxial with each other, so that they can jointly rotate about a common axis and/or translate along such axis or can perform relative rotary and/or translatory movements depending on the intensity of a torque or an axial force applied to one of the members. At least one of the members (10) has axially extending magnetized areas (12) each consisting of a row of axially aligned magnets (12?), the magnets (12?) in one area (12i) being axially offset relative to the magnets of an adjacent area (12j).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: AROL S.P.A.
    Inventors: Diego Amerio, Marco Caffa, Marco Cipriani
  • Patent number: 11374442
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a new and improved electrical motor/generator, specifically a motor/generator comprising: a plurality of coils radially positioned about a coil assembly, a plurality of magnetic tunnels forming a relative rotational path for the coil assembly, wherein the all of plurality of magnets forming each magnetic tunnel have like poles facing inward toward the interior of the magnetic tunnel or facing outward away from the interior of the magnetic tunnel such that each magnetic field of any magnetic tunnel is of an opposite polarity to the magnetic field of an adjacent magnetic tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Linear Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
  • Patent number: 11362600
    Abstract: A generator/controller for electrostatic motors exploits properties of a delta-connected electrostatic motor to accommodate high common mode DC offset voltages thus permitting construction of an electrostatic drive circuit outputting unipolar sinusoidal power and having a substantial reduction in the complexity and size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Peter Killeen, Daniel Colin Ludois
  • Patent number: 11362569
    Abstract: In an electric power steering apparatus, a motor housing includes an axial end part opposite to an output part of an electric motor. An electronic control section is arranged at the axial end part of the motor housing. The electronic control section includes a control circuit part, a power supply circuit part, and a power conversion circuit part. The axial end part of the motor housing includes a power conversion part thermal radiation region and a power supply part thermal radiation region. The power conversion circuit part is mounted to the power conversion part thermal radiation region to allow heat to be transferred from the power conversion circuit part to the motor housing. The power supply circuit part is mounted to the power supply part thermal radiation region to allow heat to be transferred from the power supply circuit part to the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Keiji Hamada
  • Patent number: 11356009
    Abstract: A magnetic coupling assembly for coupling of a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft. The magnetic coupling assembly includes a first and second rotary hub, a sleeve, coaxial with the first rotary hub and arranged to be rotatable with respect to the first rotary hub, a first and second displacement element threadingly connected to the sleeve, and a first and a second rotatable inductor rotor arranged to co-rotate with the rotation of the first rotary hub. The first and second rotatable inductor rotors are connected to the first and second displacement element, respectively, and rotatable central magnet rotor. The sleeve includes threaded outer surfaces of opposite threading engaged by the first and second displacement elements so as to displace the first and second displacement elements in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ZYTEC TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Wilhelmus Kornman, Karel Vaclav Mucek
  • Patent number: 11355975
    Abstract: A stator for a motor includes laminations arranged axially adjacently. A first lamination includes sub-yoke parts and tooth parts. The sub-yoke parts are spliced through a first yoke engaging part to form an annular first yoke part. The first tooth parts are assembled on an inner edge of the first yoke part through a first tooth engaging part. The second lamination includes sub-yoke parts and tooth parts. The sub-yoke parts are spliced through a second yoke engaging part to form an annular second yoke part. The second tooth parts are assembled on an inner edge of the second yoke part through a second tooth engaging part. The first and second tooth engaging parts are superposed in the axial direction. A method of manufacturing a stator for a motor is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Deng, Yigang Yuan, Guohua Du, Xusheng Zhang, Joy Gong
  • Patent number: 11355973
    Abstract: The present invention provides a direct current motor, including: a casing; m pairs of brushes fixed within the casing; a stator provided within the casing, including m main poles corresponding to the m pairs of brushes, and n field winding parts; and a rotor provided within the stator, wherein each pair of main poles includes an S-polarity main pole and an N-polarity main pole, two neighboring main poles are different in polarity, the two brushes in each pair of brushes are arranged at neighboring positions, each pair of brushes includes an S-pole corresponding brush corresponding to the S-polarity main pole, and an N-pole corresponding brush corresponding to the N-polarity main pole, each field winding part includes m field winding units corresponding to the m pairs of main poles, respectively, each field winding unit is made up of field coils formed by winding an insulated conductor strip, which is made of a metal wire coated with an insulating layer, around one pair of main poles corresponding to each oth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shaolong Li, Aijuan Jin
  • Patent number: 11342781
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a power management circuit and a power management method for a triboelectric nanogenerator. The power management circuit includes a pulse current control switch, an intermediate energy storage element, and a target energy storage element, wherein the pulse current control switch is configured to instantaneously connect two electrode layers of the triboelectric nanogenerator to generate a transient pulse current, after movement of two relative moving components of the triboelectric nanogenerator generates static charges induced between the two electrode layers; the intermediate energy storage element is configured to store electric energy of the transient pulse current, and the target energy storage element is configured to store the electric energy output from the intermediate energy storage element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF NANOENERGY AND NANOSYSTEMS
    Inventors: Zhonglin Wang, Gang Cheng
  • Patent number: 11342805
    Abstract: A stator comprises: a stator core placed in a circular ring shape around a central axis that extends vertically, onto which coil wires are wound; a first support member placed over the stator core; and a second support member placed over the first support member, the first support member having receiving grooves for guiding the coil wires coming out of the stator core, wherein the receiving grooves are grooves that open to the top and extend in a direction along the top surface of the first support member, the second support member having through-holes that axially support the coil wires, wherein the second support member at least partially overlaps the receiving grooves of the first support member in an axial view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ogawa, Yoshinobu Arao, Yoshiaki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11342824
    Abstract: A method produces a rotor having at least one laminated core for an electrical machine, in which method at least one partial region of the rotor is provided with a plastic by injection molding. The method provides at least one disk following the laminated core in the axial direction of the rotor, by which disk the partial region is at least to a large extent delimited in the axial direction of the rotor; and by the injection molding, injects the plastic into the partial region via at least one through-opening in the disk leading into the partial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dragoljub Duricic, Thorsten Rienecker, Philipp Schlag, Daniel Winkle
  • Patent number: 11342830
    Abstract: An electromechanical drive system for a mechanical power load. The system includes an electric motor connectable to an electric power source, a first transmission connected at one side with a first end of the shaft of the electric motor and connectable at the other end with a load, an electric power generator, and a second transmission connected at one side with a second end of the shaft of the electric motor, which extends in a direction opposite to that of the first end of the shaft of the electric motor, and which is connected at the other side with the electric power generator, wherein the electric power generator is electrically connectable via a switch with a power source and the electric motor, such that the electric current from the power generator can be directed either to electric power source or to an electric motor, with which charging of the electric power source is achieved when a need of the load for mechanical power is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: METCON d.o.o.
    Inventor: Manca Pirc Vargec
  • Patent number: 11336145
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and first bus bars electrically connected to the stator on one axial direction side of the stator. The stator includes a stator core including a core back extending in a circumferential direction, teeth extending radially from the core back, and coils defined by winding a conducting wire, each of which is mounted on the teeth. A first conducting wire and a second conducting wire which are two respective ends of the conducting wire extend to one axial direction side from each of the coils. The first bus bars are neutral point bus bars connecting two or more first conducting wires as neutral points. The second conducting wire is connected to a power supply that supplies power to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Yamashita, Shunsuke Murakami, Kosuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11336157
    Abstract: In an assembly for electrically exciting the rotor of an electrical machine, the wear of the sliding contacts is reduced in operating conditions with low current density in that an AC current is injected. The additional injection of the AC current is superimposed upon the DC current. The rotor poles function as an open circuit with respect to the AC current through a co-rotating capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Hildinger
  • Patent number: 11336153
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a housing; a stator disposed in the housing; a rotor disposed in the stator; a shaft coupled to the rotor; and a wire assembly connected to the stator, wherein the wire assembly includes a first ground part, the housing includes a body and a bracket including a first fastening hole and disposed on an upper portion of the body, and the bracket includes a third ground part, which is inserted into the first fastening hole and thereby contacts the body, and a second ground part, which is connected to the third ground part and is disposed so as to be exposed to the bottom surface of the bracket and thereby contacts the first ground part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Ho Kim, Nam Hoon Kim, Ja Young Seo, Jin Su Pyeon
  • Patent number: 11316445
    Abstract: An electrostatic energy harvester broadly comprises an electrical energy storage component, an electrical energy transfer stage, first and second variable capacitors, and a switching control module. The electrical energy transfer stage includes diode-connected transistors and dictates electrical energy transfer between the electrical energy storage component and the variable capacitors. The switching control module timely switches between the first and second variable capacitors according to a state machine. Subsequent electrical energy investments from the electrical energy storage component are less than an initial electrical energy investment due to remnant electrical energy remaining at the previously active one of the first and second variable capacitors from previous electrical energy harvesting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURINGS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Amy Charlene Wilson
  • Patent number: 11316446
    Abstract: An electrostatic energy harvester broadly comprises an electrical energy storage component, an electrical energy transfer stage, first and second variable capacitors, and a switching control module. The electrical energy transfer stage includes diode-connected transistors and dictates electrical energy transfer between the electrical energy storage component and the variable capacitors. The switching control module timely switches between the first and second variable capacitors according to a state machine. Subsequent electrical energy investments from the electrical energy storage component are less than an initial electrical energy investment due to remnant electrical energy remaining at the previously active one of the first and second variable capacitors from previous electrical energy harvesting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURINGS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Amy Charlene Wilson
  • Patent number: 11309778
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a motor/generator where the stator is a coil assembly and the rotor is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel or where the rotor is a coil assembly and the stator is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Linear Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
  • Patent number: 11303225
    Abstract: Provided is a small-sized electrostatic motor having a rotor capable of starting reliably to rotate forward. The electrostatic motor includes a rotor rotatable around a rotating shaft, charged portions formed radially around the rotating shaft on upper and lower surfaces of the rotor, first and second stators disposed to sandwich the rotor therebetween, and first sets and second sets of fixed electrodes respectively formed radially around the rotating shaft on the surfaces of the first and second stators facing the rotor and selectively energized according to drive pulses to rotate the rotor by electrostatic force generated between the charged portions and the fixed electrodes. The average number of sets of fixed electrodes simultaneously energized in one cycle of the drive pulses out of the first sets and second sets of fixed electrodes is equal to the average of the numbers of first sets and second sets of fixed electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshinari Maeda, Akira Izumi
  • Patent number: 11303174
    Abstract: Various embodiments may include a rotor for an electric machine, the rotor comprising: a first shaft journal; a second shaft journal; a laminated rotor core; a filler body cast onto the laminated rotor core wherein the filler body and the laminated rotor core rotate conjointly; and a cooling duct extending through the shaft journals and the filler body along an axis of the filler body and the rotor core. The filler body rotates with the shaft journals and a torque applied to the shaft journals is transmitted to the laminated rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Isao Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11289977
    Abstract: The cooling device is intended for an electric motor and has a rotor cooling flange and a stator cooling flange (2), of which one is rotatable with respect to the other. At least one of the two cooling flanges (2) is provided with cooling ribs (8) arranged distributed over its circumference. During operation of the electric motor, at least one of the two cooling flanges gives off heat to the surrounding air. At least some of the cooling ribs (8) of a heat-emitting cooling flange (2) have an undulating profile over their length. In this context, the surface area of a cooling rib (8) having an undulating profile is larger than the surface area of the associated straight reference rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Ziehl-Abegg SE
    Inventors: Frieder Lörcher, Lothar Ernemann