Patents Examined by Christopher Stephen Schaller
  • Patent number: 11444500
    Abstract: A motor with a permanent magnet is provided. A motor has a rotor and an annular drive magnet surrounding the rotor. The drive magnet includes a plurality of magnetized areas having an entire circumference divided into a multiple of at equiangular intervals and includes a plurality of divided areas having an entire circumference divided into the same number as the number of magnetized areas at equiangular intervals. The two adjacent magnetized areas have different polarities. In an inner circumferential surface of each divided area in the drive magnet, a distance D from a rotation center line of the rotor becomes longer from a center in a circumferential direction toward both ends of the area. A magnetization polarization line of the two adjacent magnetized areas deviates from a boundary between the two adjacent divided areas in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenobu Itou
  • Patent number: 11411447
    Abstract: In an axial gap motor, a rotor is rotatably supported and a stator is placed to face the rotor with a gap in a first direction parallel to a shaft of the rotation. A core of the stator is formed by stacking of thin plates that can be penetrated by magnetic flux in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A plurality of thus formed cores are fixed to a yoke. Here, each of the plurality of cores includes a plurality of fitting portions in positions at a side facing the yoke, and the yoke includes a plurality of attachment portions corresponding to the plurality of fitting portions of the core in positions in which each core is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenobu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11387695
    Abstract: A tangential motor, a tangential motor rotor and a rotor iron core thereof. The rotor iron core includes a rotor body and permanent magnet slots provided on the rotor body, a rotor magnetic pole between two adjacent permanent magnet slots being provided with a fixing hole for fixing a rotor punched segment and a flux isolating hole; the flux isolating hole is located at an outer side of the fixing hole in a radial direction of the rotor body, a width of the flux isolating hole (12) smoothly increases in a direction from the outer side of the rotor body to a center of a circle thereof. The rotor iron core reduces vibration noise of the motor, and improves efficiency of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: GREE GREEN REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yong Xiao, Yusheng Hu, Jing Wang, Bin Chen, Zeyin Mi
  • Patent number: 11387696
    Abstract: A tangential motor, a tangential motor rotor and a rotor core thereof are provided. The rotor core includes a rotor body and magnetic steel grooves provided on the rotor body. 2N magnetic isolation holes are provided in a rotor magnetic pole between every two adjacent magnetic steel grooves. The 2N magnetic isolation holes are symmetrically provided at two sides of a magnetic pole center line of the rotor magnetic pole. A width of each of the magnetic isolation holes increases from a circle center of the rotor body to an outer side of the rotor body. Outer side hole surfaces, close to the outer side of the rotor body, of the magnetic isolation holes are arc-shaped surfaces which are concentrically arranged with the rotor body. The rotor core is able to reduce the vibration noise of the motor and increase the efficiency of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Gree Green Refrigeration Technology Center Co., Ltd. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Yong Xiao, Jing Wang, Bin Chen, Zeyin Mi, Hui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11316390
    Abstract: A transverse flux machine includes a stator assembly consisting of a plurality of shaped cores, each having a base with a plurality of legs with a corresponding gap between each leg and each leg having a winding. A rotor assembly is positioned adjacent the stator assembly and includes a rotor disc, and a rotor ring with a plurality of rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of interpoles. The plurality of rotor poles and plurality of interpoles are radially disposed around the rotor disc. The plurality of rotor poles include a plurality of focused rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of diffused rotor poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Yilmaz Sozer, Anik Chowdhury, Shuvajit Das, Naoto Saito, Subrata Saha, Takamasa Takeuchi, Yasunobu Shiotsuki, Teppei Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11309750
    Abstract: A driving apparatus according to an embodiment includes an arm, an operation target, and a brake unit. The arm has one end supported by a support mechanism, and includes an electric driving source. The operation target is attached to the other end of the arm, the other end being an end on the opposite side of the one end, and is enabled to be pivoted by the driving source about one rotational axis intersecting with a direction from the one end to the other end. The brake unit secures immobility of a target gear that is a gear disposed in the arm, and that is a gear being rotated as the operation target is pivoted, when the power supply to the driving source stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Otsuka, Koji Kebukawa
  • Patent number: 11289957
    Abstract: A generator and a wind turbine are provided. The generator includes an active cooling circuit and a passive cooling circuit, the active cooling circuit is in communication with a closed space, and the passive cooling circuit is in communication with the external environment. The active cooling circuit includes mutually communicating chambers located at two axial ends of the generator, an air gap between a rotor and a stator of the generator, and radial channels distributed along an axial direction of the generator. The active cooling circuit is provided with a cooling device in communication with the closed space, and the stator is fixed on a fixed shaft through a stator bracket. The passive cooling circuit includes a first axial channel running through the stator, a second axial channel running through the stator bracket, and an outer surface of the generator. A heat exchanger is further arranged inside the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhui Li, Junwei Liu, Wenhua Xu
  • Patent number: 11277056
    Abstract: A fluid-cooled rotor for an electric machine and an asynchronous machine with a rotor winding cooled directly or close to a loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Vladimir Chernogorski