Patents Examined by Dang D. Le
  • Patent number: 11509191
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electric assembly and a vehicle having the same. The electric assembly includes: a box assembly; a motor, disposed in the box assembly; a transmission, disposed in the box assembly, where the transmission is power-coupled to the motor; and a controller, disposed outside the box assembly, and fixedly connected to the box assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hongbin Luo, Yi Ren, Guangquan Chen, Daqi Chen, Shuanghong Jing, Chunlei Liu
  • Patent number: 11502569
    Abstract: An electric machine for converting between electrical and rotary mechanical energy includes a rotor journaled to rotate about an axis of rotation, and a stationary stator mounted adjacent to the rotor. The stator has a ferromagnetic backiron with a surface facing the rotor across a magnetic airgap and having windings applied in a winding pattern formed directly onto the stator backiron and adhered to its surface with a pre-applied tacky adhesive. The windings magnetically exert torque upon the rotor across the magnetic armature airgap in response to electric power applied to the windings. The rotor has permanent magnets that generate magnetic flux across the airgap and through the windings. The windings are comprised of pre-bundled multiple individually insulated conductor strands that are electrically connected in parallel but are electrically insulated from each other along their lengths inside said magnetic armature airgap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher W. Gabrys, Timothy S. Rodgers
  • Patent number: 11496031
    Abstract: The motor is provided with: a rotor core; permanent magnets disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and magnetized in parallel orientation; and a salient pole saliently formed between the permanent magnets. The ratio of the number of magnetic poles of the permanent magnets to the number of teeth is 2:3. Sloped surfaces are formed on the side surfaces of the permanent magnets in the circumferential direction. The angle ?2 between lines L3 and lines L2 is an electrical angle of 13° or more, said lines L3 connecting outer circumferential corner portions where the sloped surfaces and the outer circumferential surface are connected to each other and the shaft center, said lines L2 connecting the radial direction outermost side of the circumferential side surface of the salient pole and the shaft center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Ohori
  • Patent number: 11486443
    Abstract: An axial-flux generator for fluid turbines has a continuously variable generator that is constructed of a pair of rotors that move radially across a stator resulting in varying torque and varying power output. In one embodiment the rotors are normally held proximal to the center of a stator by spring tension. The stator is larger than the normally held position of the rotors. As the angular velocity of the rotors increases, the rotors move radially toward the perimeter of the stator, thus encountering a greater stator surface area providing increased torque, increased power generation and a higher-rated output speed when used with a fluid turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Robert Lothar Monteith
  • Patent number: 11479447
    Abstract: A miniature handheld electric traction device including a shell, a power supply part, a power motor, a reduction gear set, a braking part and a winding drum, wherein the power motor, the reduction gear set and the winding drum are arranged in the shell; the power motor is linked with the winding drum through the reduction gear set; a surface of the winding drum is wound with a traction rope; the reduction gear set includes a planetary gear; the sun gear of the planetary gear is coaxial with the winding drum; the power motor or the motor shaft of the power motor is inserted into the inner ring of the winding drum; the motor shaft is linked with the planetary gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG NOWVOW MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL CORP LTD
    Inventors: Guogang Zhang, Keqian Xiao, Kan Tang, Chunxiang Zhang, Liangdao Tang, Renyi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11476741
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotary shaft member; first and second rotor including first and second rotor core, respectively, including first and second permanent magnets having first and second polarity, first and second magnet-based magnetic pole portions having the first and the second polarities and being formed by the first and the second permanent magnets, and first and second iron core portions having the second and the first polarities and being formed by iron pole portions of the first and the second rotor core, are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction of the first rotor core; a stator; and a field yoke. Further, the first magnet-based magnetic pole portion and the second iron pole portion face each other and the first iron pole portion and the second magnet-based magnetic pole portion face each other in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11469642
    Abstract: A three-phase drainage motor for a washing machine includes a stator, a rotor and an upper cover. The rotor is sealed inside the stator through the upper cover and includes an iron core, a coil bobbin, a three-phase coil and a plastic package portion. The iron core includes a hub, an inner ring and teeth radially connecting the hub to the inner ring, the coil bobbin covers the teeth, the three-phase coil is wound around the coil bobbin. The plastic package portion is wrapped around the coil bobbin, the three-phase coil and the iron core to form a spigot, a rotor cavity and a rotary shaft cavity. The spigot is located above the rotor cavity. The rotary shaft cavity is at a bottom of the rotor cavity, the plastic package portion includes a housing, a wall surface of the rotor cavity and a wall surface of the rotary shaft cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Xiachun Wang, Ben Wang
  • Patent number: 11456631
    Abstract: A disc-type three-degree-of-freedom magnetic suspension switched reluctance motor includes a stator and a double-disc rotor. The stator includes an axial stator core, a permanent magnet ring, and a radial stator core coaxially connected to each other in sequence from outside to inside. Axial suspension teeth are distributed on two axial ends of the axial stator core, several axial torque teeth are evenly distributed between adjacent axial suspension teeth by axial magnetic isolation blocks, and axial suspension windings and axial torque windings are respectively wound on the axial suspension teeth and the axial torque teeth. Radial suspension teeth are distributed on the inner circumference of the radial stator core, radial torque teeth are evenly distributed between adjacent radial suspension teeth by a radial magnetic isolation block, and a radial suspension winding and a radial torque winding are respectively wound on the radial suspension teeth and the radial torque teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUAIYIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Xinfeng Liu, Yeqing Wang, Wei Ni, Yingjun Sang, Xing Xia, Weihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11451124
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator mechanically coupled to the rotor by a nutating traction interface, such that during nutation of the rotor with respect to the stator a tilt axis of the rotor progresses about the axis of rotation of the output shaft. The rotor and a surface of the stator bound a dynamic gap across which a magnetic field is produced by electrical activation of the motor to generate a force between the rotor and the stator. The traction interface and the gap are arranged such that, in a plane containing the axis of rotation of the output shaft, the traction interface is angled with respect to the stator surface bounding the gap. The rotor is connected to the output shaft by a tiltable connection such as a gimbal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Tau Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Rubin, Walter Wesley Pennington, III, Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Gregory Gordon Stevenson
  • Patent number: 11451100
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes an axis, a rotor carrier a plurality of rotor segments, a first end plate, a second end plate, and a spring element. The rotor carrier has a tubular portion with a cylindrical surface and a radial wall extending radially outwardly from the cylindrical surface. The plurality of rotor segments circumscribe the cylindrical surface. The first end plate is disposed at a first axial end of the plurality of rotor segments adjacent to the radial wall. The second end plate is disposed at a second axial end of the plurality of rotor segments. The spring element presses the first end plate, the plurality of rotor segments, and the second end plate against the radial wall. The spring element includes a ring portion and a plurality of segments extending axially from the ring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: John Ramsey, Matthew Payne, Gregory Gress, Tuo Luo
  • Patent number: 11451114
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric media gap machine (10) for a compressor and/or a turbine, in particular for a turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, including a shaft (5) which is rotatably mounted in a housing (6) and on which a rotor (11) is arranged in a rotationally fixed manner, a stator (12) which is fixed to the housing and which has at least one multi-phase drive coil (16) for generating a drive magnetic field and multiple stator teeth (15) that protrude radially inward, and a device (17) which is fixed to the stator for optimizing the flow of a medium flowing through the media gap machine. The device (17) has a cover cap (18) which covers at least the rotor (11) upstream thereof, wherein the cover cap (18) is adjoined by an inner sleeve (19) which surrounds the rotor (11) completely in the circumferential direction and at least partly in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, BMTS Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Nau, Hartmut Weiss, Johannes Riedl, Kilian Ertl, Michael Bäuerle, Thomas Frühschütz
  • Patent number: 11444513
    Abstract: An electric motor including a rotor, a stator, a motor housing having a controller can, and a controller having an electronic component disposed within the controller can. The controller can includes an insert comprising thermally conductive metal for exchanging heat with an external heat sink space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Palmer, Richard L. Eason
  • Patent number: 11437886
    Abstract: Kinetic energy harvesting devices are disclosed including, but not limited to, portable and stationary devices that generate electricity from motion resulting from any type of movement including human movement, movement of traveling vehicles, gravitational movement, and movement resulting from stored spring energy. The kinetic energy harvesting devices can be used for charging batteries and powering devices such as personal electronic devices and electric vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Positive Energy, a Gravity and Motion Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Helmut K. Taylor, Steven L. Marden
  • Patent number: 11411471
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a motor including a shaft, a yoke coupled to the shaft, a stator disposed between the shaft and the yoke, a first magnet and a second magnet which are disposed on the yoke, and a circuit board on which a first Hall sensor disposed to correspond to the first magnet and a second Hall sensor disposed to correspond to the second magnet are disposed, wherein the yoke includes a body and a flange extending from the body, the flange includes a first groove, the first magnet is disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the body, the second magnet is disposed in the first groove, and a second groove having an open portion in a direction opposite to the first groove is disposed between the body and the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae Gil Byeon
  • Patent number: 11404932
    Abstract: In order to facilitate the assembly of the brush assembly and to improve the productivity, the brush device includes a positive side brush subassembly having a positive side brush for feeding a commutator, a positive side brush holder for holding the positive side brush, and a positive side plate to which the positive side brush holder is attached, and a negative side brush subassembly having a negative side brush for feeding the commutator, a negative side brush holder for holding the negative side brush, and a negative side plate to which the negative side brush holder is attached. The positive side brush subassembly and the negative side brush subassembly are combined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11374460
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a first rotating electric machine, a second rotating electric machine, a power transmission device and an accommodation case. The rotating electric machine accommodation portion and the power transmission device accommodation portion are partitioned by a partition wall. The partition wall includes a first rotating electric machine accommodation wall, a second rotating electric machine accommodation wall, and a step wall which extends in the axial direction from the second rotating electric machine accommodation wall to the first rotating electric machine accommodation wall. The step wall is at least partially overlapped with the second rotating electric machine in the axial direction, and a distance between an outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and the step wall is shorter than a distance between the outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and an outermost diameter portion of the first rotating electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11368073
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, of both ends of a stator winding of each phase, an end portion on a neutral point side is a first end portion, and an end portion on a connection point side of an upper arm switch and a lower arm switch of an inverter is a second end portion. The rotating electrical machine includes a neutral-point bus bar that electrically and mechanically connects the first end portions of the phases to one another. The first end portion and the second end portion of each phase is arranged in an end portion on a same side in an axial direction of a stator. The neutral-point bus bar and the second end portion of each phase are mechanically connected with an insulating sheet therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11368077
    Abstract: It is described an electric machine with permanent magnets, which can function as a high torque and power per mass motor or generator. The machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor and the stator have spiral shape, the stator is located inside the rotor. The rotor contains at least two permanent magnets of different polarity, forming spirals around the stator. The stator contains a ferromagnetic core, on which the three-phase winding is spirally wound. This construction allows almost the entire winding to participate in torque generation. The cooling with a fluid medium inside the magnet core allows to remove heating from the entire length of the winding, which significantly increases the operating efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Vadim Valerevich Shcherbakov
  • Patent number: 11355988
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core disposed about a central axis and covered by an insulator, coils installed on the stator core through the insulator, and an intermediate bus bar electrically connected to a portion of a conducting wire constituting the coils. A method of manufacturing a stator includes a mounting process, a winding process, and a connecting process. An intermediate bus bar is supported at a first position spaced apart from a coil in an axial direction in a mounting portion before the start of the winding process. The intermediate bus bar is fixed at a second position between the first position and the coils in the axial direction after the completion of the winding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Shiraishi, Takayuki Migita, Hisashi Fujihara, Masato Aono, Shuhei Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 11349368
    Abstract: An electric motor built for exposure to high pressure fluid includes a unitary metal sleeve that provides a fluid barrier between the rotor and the stator. An overmolded resin encapsulates the stator windings and reinforces the sleeve to minimize deformation of the sleeve under high fluid pressures. The overmolded resin also fixes the positions of insulation displacement connectors connected to the stator windings, thereby avoiding mechanical brackets and fasteners for holding the insulation displacement connectors in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Carroll, Lee L. Snider, Mohammad Khandan-Barani, Ronald G. Flanary, Allen Duncan, Travis S. King