Patents Examined by Daniel Haile
  • Patent number: 8436507
    Abstract: An adjustable axial-flux disc motor, that is used in a flat space formed at a side or at the center of a wheel center for driving the wheel to rotate. The motor is activated to perform a rotation movement by the interactions of an electromagnetic field formed from the passing of an electric current through the armatures of its stator and a magnetic field resulting from the permanent magnet of its rotator. Moreover, there is a circular air gap sandwiched between the stator base and the rotator base, and the permanent magnet is further surrounded by coils. By adjusting the excitation current of the coils, the magnetic flux intensity can be modulated accordingly, and as the air gap magnetic flux is varied with the relative positioning of the stator and the rotator, the output characteristic of the motor will be varied accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shih-Hsiang Chien, Yee-Pien Yang, Shih-Hsin Hsu
  • Patent number: 8400031
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrical connection for an electric motor having a casing which houses a drive device, embodied especially a stator in a casing interior. The drive device is contacted via a conductor, embodied especially in the form of a pin. The conductor is guided from the exterior into the interior of the casing via a casing opening. A cylindrical sealing element is provided on the casing opening in the casing interior to seal the conductor from the casing opening. The sealing element is provided with a continuous collar and a through-opening through which the conductor extends and in which the conductor is sealed in the through-opening via at least one radial sealing lip that is formed in the through-opening on the sealing element and that rests on a surface of the conductor. The conductor is then sealed towards the housing via at least one axial sealing lip that is formed on the collar and that rests on an inside of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Patent number: 8237318
    Abstract: A motor positioning structure is constructed by providing a plurality of positioning pins 28, 29 for positioning a circuit board 22 on a case 21 of a circuit main body 3 and also providing receiving holes 35, 36 for receiving the positioning pins 28, 29 in a frame 4 on the side of a stator in a motor main body 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ikitake, Toshiyuki Umemoto, Kenta Hatano, Toshihiko Miyake