Patents Examined by Daniel C Puentes
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Patent number: 12155267Abstract: A field magnet holder provided at a field portion of an electric motor is formed of a non-magnetic material. An inner wall and outer wall of the field magnet holder are respectively formed in annular shapes. Plural spacers are arranged between the inner wall and outer wall at a predetermined spacing in the circumferential direction. Sockets into which permanent magnets are inserted are formed between the spacers of the field magnet holder, plurally in the circumferential direction. Therefore, the permanent magnets may be easily assembled by being respectively inserted into the sockets. The plural permanent magnets are arrayed with magnetization directions thereof successively changed in steps of an angle that is a full cycle of electrical angles divided by a division number n, which division number n is any one integer that is at least three. Thus, ease of assembly of the permanent magnets is improved.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Kogakuin UniversityInventor: Mimpei Morishita
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Patent number: 12155105Abstract: A phase shifter includes functional actively controlled phase-shift elements formed with TSVs. The phase shifter may include plural phase shifter elements each including: a signal line including a signal line through-substrate-via (TSV) in a substrate; a ground return line including a ground return line TSV in the substrate; a capacitance control line including a capacitance control line TSV in the substrate; and an inductance control line including an inductance control line TSV in the substrate, wherein the phase shifter element has one of a first phase shift and a second phase shift, different from the first phase shift, based on a capacitance and an inductance of the signal line TSV.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: GLAIVERF, INC.Inventor: Wayne H. Woods, Jr.
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Patent number: 12155289Abstract: A housing for an electric machine includes a substantially cup-shaped outer housing having a first base portion and a first tubular portion adjoining the base portion. An inner housing, which has a substantially cup-shaped form, is arranged in the outer housing and has a second base portion and a second tubular portion adjoining the base portion. A cover is connected or connectable to the outer housing and/or the inner housing. At least one cooling channel is formed between the first tubular portion and the second tubular portion. A pocket is formed in the first base portion and forms a first cavity together with the second base portion, and a second cavity is formed in the cover. The first cavity is fluidically connected to the cooling channel via a first bore and the second cavity is fluidically connected to the cooling channel via a second bore.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lukas Legl, Andreas Penz, Alexander Dietrich, Gerhard Eibler
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Patent number: 12148329Abstract: Disclosed are a display module and a display screen. The display module includes: a first frame having a first attachment surface and a first assembly surface, an included angle between the first attachment surface and the first assembly surface being less than 90°; a locking rod movably provided on the first frame; a second frame having a second attachment surface and a second assembly surface, an included angle between the second attachment surface and the second assembly surface being less than 90°, the second assembly surface being parallel to the first assembly surface; and a locking piece provided on the second frame and having a locking hole matched with the locking rod. The display screen includes a first cabinet, a second cabinet and the display module.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: UNILUMIN GROUP CO., LTDInventors: Chengyou Liu, Jinxing Li, Longjiang Wu
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Patent number: 12149143Abstract: The disclosure discloses a magnetic levitation planar motor workbench having a double-layer winding of coarse and fine drive, which belongs to the technical field of planar motors, and includes a stator and a mover. The vertically magnetized permanent magnets and the horizontally magnetized permanent magnets in the stator are arranged in a Halbach arrangement; the mover is located on the enhanced side of the air gap magnetic field above the stator. The mover adopts the double-layer winding of unequal heights, and the height of the upper first winding is smaller than the lower second winding. Each layer of winding may generate driving forces in six directions to achieve six-degree-of-freedom driving.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Lizhan Zeng, Kai Liu, Xuedong Chen
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Patent number: 12142980Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator having a stator core, a suspension winding group, and an armature winding group. The stator core includes a back yoke and a plurality of teeth. The suspension winding group includes a plurality of suspension windings wound on the teeth. The suspension windings generate an electromagnetic force that supports the rotor in a non-contact manner, and generate a magnetic pole inside the stator. The armature winding group includes a plurality of armature windings wound on the teeth. The armature windings generate an electromagnetic force that rotationally drives the rotor, and generate a magnetic pole inside the stator. One of the suspension or armature winding groups includes a plurality of series winding sets with a plurality of series connected windings of a same phase. Each series winding set is connected in parallel with an other one of the series winding sets.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Sakuragi, Yusuke Irino
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Patent number: 12137310Abstract: A voice communication relay device for use in combination with a protective face mask having an embedded microphone, a headset, a radio, and a push-to-talk (PTT) device that is connected to a radio. The voice communication relay device includes: a housing; a device speaker associated with the housing; an amplifier in the housing, the amplifier being electrically connected to the device speaker; a circuit board located inside of the housing; and a power source. At least one function of the circuit board is to serve as an Impedance dependent auto switch (IDAS) that is electrically connected to the device speaker and an output connector for selectively sending signals to the device speaker or to a radio that is connected to the PTT device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Damon Girton, Johnathan McAllister, Matthew Scharf, Matthew Seymour, Peter Voland, Matthew Stechschulte, Nathan Stover, Stevan Gallegos
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Patent number: 12120484Abstract: A speaker includes a housing having a receiving space, a speaker unit and a cavity received in the receiving space, sound-absorbing particles filled in the filling cavity, a filling hole opened in the housing and communicating with the filling cavity for filling the sound-absorbing particles into the filling cavity, a hole cover covering the filling hole and a resilient member filled in the filling hole. The resilient member can deform in the height direction of the filling hole, and the resilient member is sandwiched in a compressed state between the hole cover and the sound-absorbing particles. Compared with the related art, the sound-absorbing particles of the speaker disclosed by the present disclosure are not easily damaged.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongjian Hu, Shuai Li
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Patent number: 12113413Abstract: A vehicle, electric machine, and method of manufacturing an electric machine include a stator having teeth extending from a yoke portion toward a rotor and defining slots between adjacent teeth with windings positioned within the slots, wherein the slots are coated with an electrically insulating material having an arcuate surface exiting the slots and extending at least partially over the teeth on at least one end face of the stator to form a winding guide for bending/positioning the windings. The winding guide may be formed by a molded epoxy that replaces insulating paper slot liners while providing a template for forming the hairpin bends of end windings.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Man Prakash Gupta, Christopher White, Steven White, Gary Thomas Martini, Singar Rathnam
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Patent number: 12108555Abstract: An interconnecting module configured to be mounted in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cabinet in order to interconnect a plurality of computing units located in the HPC cabinet. The interconnecting module comprising a chassis configured to be mounted horizontally within housings defined in the computing units, a plurality of connection units spaced vertically, each connection unit being configured to be connected to a motherboard of a computing unit, the connection units being interconnected, each connection unit comprising at least a fastening member configured to cooperate with a housing of a computing unit, a vertical rack cooperating with all the fastening members and at least a main lever mounted pivotally on the chassis, the main lever being configured to move the vertical rack vertically in order to engage/disengage all the fastening members simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: BULL SASInventors: Sakthivel Mohanasundaram, Vishwas Bs
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Patent number: 12103158Abstract: The disclose provides a magnetic levitation gravity compensation device, including: a first permanent magnet, which is cylindrical; a second permanent magnet, which is cylindrical, arranged in the first permanent magnet and radially spaced from the first permanent magnet; and at least one end permanent magnet, which is cylindrical, and is located on at least one of two axial ends of the second permanent magnet and axially spaced from the two axial ends of the second permanent magnet, a center line of the end permanent magnet is configured to coincide with a center line of the second permanent magnet, and a cylinder wall thickness of the end permanent magnet is smaller than that of the second permanent magnet, wherein a magnetization direction of the first permanent magnet is a radial direction, and a magnetization direction of the second permanent magnet and the end permanent magnet is an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: YinGuan Semiconductor Technology Co., LTD.Inventor: Hui Meng
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Patent number: 12094590Abstract: A system for identifying compatible meal options. The system including a processor configured to receive a user selection identifying a dietary preference and select a meal option as a function of the dietary preference. The processor further configured to calculate a user effective age measurement using a first machine learning process trained with training data correlating a plurality of biological markers to a plurality of effective age measurements. The processor further configured to determine a food tolerance score as a function of the user effective age, wherein the food tolerance score relates to a user ability to tolerate a food item, wherein the food item is a supplement. The processor also configured to identify a plurality of compatible meal options as a function of the food tolerance score, wherein at least a compatible meal option of the plurality of compatible meal options includes at least a supplement.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
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Patent number: 12095323Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor at a predetermined distance from the stator. The stator includes an annular yoke, a plurality of teeth connected to the inner circumference of the yoke, and a plurality of coils each wound around an associated one of the teeth. Each coil has coil ends at both ends in an axial direction. At least one of the coil ends has, in an end surface thereof in the axial direction, a first recess extending along the radius of the stator. The first recess houses a first wiring member connecting the coils together.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamamura, Kiyomi Kawamura, Keiichiro Nukada
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Patent number: 12095433Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter for preventing noise emitted from a power line cable, and an isolated type active EMI filter having no additional elements on a power line. The EMI filter includes a common-mode (CM) choke disposed on a power source side, a Y-cap disposed on an EMI source side, and a sensing winding configured to sense a current. The EMI filter also includes an amplifier configured to amplify the noise current, and a transformer configured to inject a signal of the secondary coil into the Y-cap as a compensation signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)Inventors: Jin Gook Kim, Sang Yeong Jeong, Dong Il Shin
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Patent number: 12088165Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a motor in which a structure of an insulator is improved. The motor includes an insulator module coupled to a top face of a stator core. The insulator module includes: each power terminal unit connected to each of 3-phases power lead wires; a neutral terminal unit connected to a neutral point of a coil; and an insulator body for achieving insulations between the power and neutral terminal units and the stator core, and between the power and neutral terminal units, wherein the power terminal unit and the neutral terminal unit are positioned at different vertical levels.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jin Hong, Cheol Han, Kwangyong Jang
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Patent number: 12088289Abstract: A system includes a sensor integrated circuit (IC), including a driver adapted to be coupled to an oscillator, the driver including first and second transistors. The sensor IC includes an amplitude control amplifier coupled to the first transistor. The sensor IC also includes a common mode control amplifier coupled to the second transistor. The sensor IC includes a handover control circuit coupled to the amplitude control amplifier and configured to hand off an operation from the sensor IC to a different sensor IC, the handover control circuit including a resistor network coupled to a switch network.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Shanmuganand Chellamuthu, Qunying Li, Vikram Joseph Mani
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Patent number: 12081073Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of electromagnetic coils arranged circumferentially about the axis of rotation. Each coil defines a trapezoidally-shaped and tapered coil opening. The electric machine also includes a plurality of yokes that extend in an axial direction and a plurality of teeth. At least one of the plurality of yokes is tapered in the axial direction, and at least one tooth extends from each of the plurality of yokes. The plurality of teeth are each tapered in a radial direction to enable the plurality of teeth to fit within a corresponding trapezoidally-shaped and tapered coil opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Oleg Gaspar, Victor Kislev, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 12081090Abstract: One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a rotor including magnetic elements within a body. The system also includes a stator including coil assemblies arranged about the rotor. Each coil assembly includes an outer hook element and an inner hook element. The outer hook element extends across a first axial face and an outer radial surface of the rotor. The inner hook element: extends across a second axial face of the rotor; extends partially across the inner radial surface of the rotor; and is coupled to the outer hook element to define a throat configured to locate the rotor within the coil assembly. The system includes a shaft coupled to the inner radial surface of the rotor. Furthermore, the system includes a controller configured to drive current through the coil assemblies to generate a toroidal magnetic field configured to couple the magnetic elements to rotate the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Linear Labs, Inc.Inventors: Abla Hariri, Andrei Popov, Erik Hatch, John Langsdorf, Mohit Gangireddy
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Patent number: 12081075Abstract: Improved electric machines with tuned coils, integrated power electronics, and stator and rotor cooling assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignees: OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Codrin Cantemir, Olivia Bruj
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Patent number: 12074505Abstract: In various embodiments, systems, apparatuses and methods are provided to distribute coolant to an electric motor. The apparatus includes a pan configured with a set of holes for coolant flow; an assembly including a set of bar linkages, a set of discs, and a single actuator motor wherein the assembly is attached to the pan wherein the single actuator motor is linked via bar linkages to discs that enable configuring a planar angle of the pan to obtain an optimum hole location of holes for coolant flow; and in response to external disturbances to the apparatus that redirect the coolant flow from the target region of the electric motor, the single actuator motor is controlled by an algorithm to change the planar angle of the pan to obtain the optimum hole location to direct coolant flow to the target region of the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: SeungHwan Keum, Jun-mo Kang, Insu Chang, Young J. Kim