Patents Examined by Eric Johnson
  • Patent number: 12237750
    Abstract: A terminal assembly for an encapsulated stator is provided. The terminal assembly includes an elbow terminal and an insulating tube. The terminal assembly allows for joining of magnet wire and lead wire at a 90 degree angle. A terminal assembly for an ESP motor head is provided. The terminal assembly includes a terminal, an insulation tube, and a sleeve. The insulation tube is disposed in the motor head pothole. The terminal is disposed within the insulation tube. An end of the terminal configured to receive a lead wire includes internal threads. The threads allow for accommodation of various lengths of lead wires extending from the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinbin Wu, Onkar Sunil Kulkarni, Maksim Y. Radov, Varun Vinaykumar Nyayadhish, William K. Goertzen, Jason Holzmueller
  • Patent number: 12237740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving motor, and more particularly, to a 6-phase driving motor including input terminals made of multiple conductor materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Eui Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 12231023
    Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments of an electric motor are provided herein. In one embodiment of this disclosure, an electric motor includes a rotor, at least one end of the rotor includes at least one blade and at least one array of micro-features, wherein heat generated by the rotor is dissipated by the at least one blade and the at least one array of micro-features. In another embodiment, a method of manufacturing an electric motor having a rotor, the method comprising machining a piece of conductive material to create micro-features on at least one end of the conductive material; and inserting the conductive material into the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventor: James Rhett Mayor
  • Patent number: 12224634
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core with slots, and multi-phase segment coils each including coil segments each including a first linear part and a second linear part arranged in different slots and a bridge part, the coil segment formed of a rectangular conductor. An innermost coil segment in the slot is structured with divided segments adhered together. Each divided segment includes a first linear part and a second linear part, and a bridge part, and is formed of a rectangular conductor cross-sectional area of which is smaller than the rectangular conductor of other coil segments. The bridge parts of the divided segments are arranged to cross each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Toi, Hiroaki Makino, Minoru Awazu, Makoto Matsushita, Kazuya Yasui, Masaru Kano
  • Patent number: 12218558
    Abstract: A motor assembly comprising a mover assembly and a stator. The mover assembly comprising a plurality of mover assembly units, each unit comprising: a non-ferromagnetic core with a profile of an outer surface having at least two flat sections lying on intersecting planes; at least two ferromagnetic laminated structures arranged on the at least two flat sections of the non-ferromagnetic core, each ferromagnetic laminated structure includes a stack of ferromagnetic plates, each plate is covered with a non-conductive coating. Each ferromagnetic laminated structure is arranged on a corresponding flat section of the at least two flat sections of the non-ferromagnetic core such that side of each ferromagnetic plate is adjacent to the non-ferromagnetic core thereby making the ferromagnetic plates of the at least two ferromagnetic laminated structures lie on intersecting planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Bingnan Wang, Hongyu Wang, Yusuke Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12218566
    Abstract: The tension structure is used for connecting a drive part with a rotating part. The tension structure is able to drive the rotating part to rotate about a rotation axis under a driving of the drive part, and the tension structure includes: a first connection part, in transmission connection with the drive part; a limit part, including a bottom wall and a side wall arranged at a periphery of the bottom wall, in which the side wall defines therein installation slots; and the bottom wall is detachably connected to the first connection part to enable the side wall to sleeve outside the first connection part; and tension parts, engaged with the installation slots, respectively. A side of each of the tension parts facing away from the first connection part protrudes from a corresponding installation slot and presses against the rotating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: SUZHOU ZHAOWEI INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN ZHAOWEI MACHINERY & ELECTROICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shanyao Ke, Weiqun Xie
  • Patent number: 12206287
    Abstract: A single-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor and dust collector. The single-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a plurality of stator teeth, the plurality of stator teeth include at least: a first-type and second-type stator tooth; the first-type and second-type stator teeth enclose an annular working cavity for accommodating a rotor part, where the size of a central angle corresponding to a first contour line of an end face of the first-type stator tooth facing the rotor part is different from the size of a central angle corresponding to a second contour line of an end face of the second-type stator tooth facing the rotor part. The motor has a significantly reduced cogging torque, a greatly reduced torque ripple, and an obviously increased motor output torque. The single-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor is small in size, light in weight, simple in structure, convenient for large-scale manufacture and low in manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao, Zhidong Zhang, Jinfei Shi, Shengyu Xiao, Xia Li, Lin Tang, Shaoxuan Zhu, Pengqian Gui, Hui Sun, Jiating Ding
  • Patent number: 12199491
    Abstract: An electrical machine having a non-rotating part, a rotating part, at least one bearing supporting said rotating part and having a rotating ring and a non-rotating ring, a fiber grounding brush fixed to said non-rotating part and having a support secured to the non-rotating part and a plurality of conductive fibers having a first end secured to said support and a second free end, opposite to said first end, extending towards the rotating part, and a conductive sleeve having a base fastened to the rotating part or to the rotating ring of the bearing and a conductive layer covering at a portion of a surface of the base, the second free end of the conductive fibers of the fiber grounding brush being in contact with said conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Mathieu Hubert, Paul Feliciano, Thomas Perrotin, Anthony Simonin
  • Patent number: 12184145
    Abstract: A breathing device includes a ventilator, which is arranged on an end surface of the control unit provided with a connector on an opposite side of an output shaft of a rotating machine so as to protrude from an inside of the electric power steering device toward an outside of the electric power steering device, and is configured to provide a breathing action through ventilation between the inside and the outside. The ventilator protrudes in a horizontal direction or upward with respect to the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoaki Udo, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 12184146
    Abstract: An integrated motor is provided, including a cover assembly and a housing assembly. The housing assembly is detachably connected to the cover assembly. The cover assembly includes a housing sub-assembly, a motor sub-assembly, and a connecting sub-assembly, the motor sub-assembly is disposed in the housing sub-assembly, and the connecting sub-assembly is matched with the housing assembly. The housing sub-assembly includes a top cover and a tubular housing, the tubular housing is connected to the top cover. The housing assembly includes a bottom cover and an electronic speed controller sub-assembly, the bottom cover is matched with the tubular housing, and the electronic speed controller sub-assembly is disposed in the bottom cover. The top cover, the tubular hosing, and the bottom cover are enclosed to form an accommodating space for accommodating the motor sub-assembly and the electronic speed controller sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NANCHANG SANRUI INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoguang Wu, Min Wu, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 12176776
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core and a stator coil configured by joining a plurality of coil segments mounted in slots of the stator core. Extending portions of the coil segments include a plurality of first extending portions, an inclined portion, and a joining end portion and a hook-shaped portion provided at an extending end of the inclined portion. The joining end portions are arranged side by side in a radial direction such that distal end surfaces are located at substantially the same height, the hook-shaped portions are meshed with each other, and a first engagement surface of one of the joining end portions faces and abuts on a first engagement surface of the other of the joining end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Hisada
  • Patent number: 12176779
    Abstract: An electric motor with stator includes pairs of windings. Winding wire ends of the pairs of windings are electrically contacted at end surfaces with three busbars to define three phases. The three busbars include power source connection terminals which are located adjacent to one another, and the second and third busbars extending over an angular range of approximately 210°, having a same contact scheme with four contact points following one another in the circumferential direction to contact the winding ends and are offset from one another by approximately 120° in the circumferential direction, and the first busbar has a different contact scheme. The first busbar includes a first section and a second section, three contact points located in the first section, a further contact point being located in the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS &ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Schmid, Thomas Kübler, Matthias Fischer
  • Patent number: 12166404
    Abstract: An electric machine has a housing which has an interior space and an interior wall extending about the interior space, and a stator assembly disposed within the interior space and attached to the interior wall. The electric machine includes a rotor within the interior space and located radially inward from the stator. The rotor and stator define a gap there between and cooperate to produce flux. The rotor comprises a hollow cylindrical member having an interior region, an interior wall extending about the interior region and an exterior surface. The rotor includes magnets attached to the exterior surface and a rotor shaft support structure disposed within the interior region of the hollow cylindrical member and attached to the interior wall of the hollow cylindrical member. A rotor shaft is attached to the rotor shaft support structure. The electric machine further comprises bearings to locate and support the rotor shaft relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Prime Datum Development Company, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Rollins, George Lucas
  • Patent number: 12155276
    Abstract: There is provided an electric power steering apparatus in which constituent elements of a control unit for controlling one of 2 winding groups of a motor and constituent elements of a control unit for controlling the other one thereof are arranged in point symmetry with respect to a center axis of an output shaft or in line symmetry with respect to a virtual straight line perpendicular to a direction in which the output shaft extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Ichikawa, Kengo Fujimoto, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Kentaro Urimoto
  • Patent number: 12155268
    Abstract: An electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle includes a housing, a stator, which is fixedly accommodated in the housing, and a rotor, which is mounted rotatably relative to the stator. The stator has a laminated core composed of a plurality of punched lamination segments and has a wire winding region connected to the laminated core. Each lamination segment has, on its radial exterior, at least one radial recess also created by means of the punching production. A coolant guide channel is delimited directly by an outer periphery of the laminated core. A recess of a first lamination segment is spaced apart, along the outer periphery, from a recess of a second lamination segment directly abutting the first lamination segment in such a way that the recess of the first lamination segment is at least partly axially covered by an end face of the second lamination segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Marsetz, Christian Ludwig
  • Patent number: 12149121
    Abstract: A stator may include a stator core and a coil. The stator core may include: a first portion; a second portion; and a first intermediate portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion in the axial direction. A first segment conductor and a second segment conductor may overly each other in a circumferential direction of the stator core hr a slot within an area of the first intermediate portion. A first side surface may include a first protrusion provided by the first intermediate portion protruding with respect to the first portion and the second portion. The first segment conductor and the second segment conductor may be held between the first protrusion and a second side surface such that the first, segment conductor and the second segment conductor are connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Watanabe, Masashi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Inano
  • Patent number: 12139208
    Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a motor housing of an electric motor. The motor housing includes an end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of the electric motor. An electronic control part is arranged at the end face part. A connector assembly is arranged on a side of the electronic control part opposite to a side of the electronic control part that faces the end face part. A metal cover for the electronic control part includes a bottom part and a lateral peripheral part. The bottom part includes: an exposure hole through which an external terminal forming part is exposed to outside; and an annular reinforcing projecting portion formed at an edge of the exposure hole. The lateral peripheral part is angled from the bottom part, and forms an opening through which the lateral peripheral part is fixed to the end face part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 12142973
    Abstract: A switched reluctance electrical motor comprises a rotor having a substantially circular cylindrical envelope with a diameter in a range of 50 mm to 300 mm and a length in the range of 20 mm to 250 mm. The rotor comprises a plurality of radially extending rotor teeth. A switched reluctance electrical motor further comprises a stator surrounding the rotor and comprising a plurality of stator poles. The rotor teeth are circumferentially-spaced apart from each other to define slots between adjacent teeth that, expressed in normalised angular and radial coordinates, have a cross-sectional profile transverse to an axis of rotation of the rotor, lying within a well-defined polygonal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Monumo Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Bates, Kevin Bersch, William Gallafent, Jaroslaw Pawel Rzepecki, Alexey Kostin, Jonathan Rayner, Markus Kaiser, Nicolas Durrande, Rupert Tombs, Ian Murphy, Xiaoyan Wang, Pierre Guern, Bhaskar Sen
  • Patent number: 12132354
    Abstract: A rotor assembly of a motor is configured to be rotatable relative to a stator. The rotor assembly may comprise a permanent magnet rotor segment comprising permanent magnets, the permanent magnet rotor segment configured to be rotatable by a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnets; and a reluctance rotor segment comprising flux barriers, the reluctance rotor segment configured to be rotatable by magnetic reluctance formed by the flux barriers. The permanent magnet rotor segment and the reluctance rotor segment are axially stacked relative to each other so that at least a part of a first torque ripple generated by the permanent magnet rotor segment and at least a part of a second torque ripple generated by the reluctance rotor segment can cancel each other. The permanent magnet rotor segment may be a rare earth permanent magnet rotor, and the reluctance rotor segment may be a synchronous reluctance rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mazharul Chowdhury, Md Sariful Islam, Mohammad Islam
  • Patent number: 12132420
    Abstract: A package for moving a platform in six degrees of freedom, is provided. The platform may include an optoelectronic device mounted thereon. The package includes an in-plane actuator which may be a MEMS actuator and an out-of-plane actuator which may be formed of a piezoelectric element. The in-plane MEMS actuator may be mounted on the out-of-plane actuator mounted on a recess in a PCB. The in-plane MEMS actuator includes a plurality comb structures in which fingers of opposed combs overlap one another, i.e. extend past each other's ends. The out-of-plane actuator includes a central portion and a plurality of surrounding stages that are connected to the central portion. The in-plane MEMS actuator is coupled to the out-of-plane Z actuator to provide three degrees of freedom to the payload which may be an optoelectronic device included in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MEMS DRIVE (NANJING) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiaolei Liu, Guiqin Wang, Matthew Ng