Patents Examined by Hanh Nguyen
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Patent number: 9985485Abstract: A number of variations may include a product comprising a magnet holder for a rotor lamination comprising: a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, wherein the first and second portions are linear and constructed and arranged to hold a magnet and wherein the third portion extends outward from approximately a center location between the first and the second portions, and wherein the third portion is constructed and arranged to carry a load from a centrifugal force of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Murali Pandi
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Patent number: 9982687Abstract: A compressor is provided that comprises; a compression mechanism compressing a fluid; a motor driving the compression mechanism; and a housing that houses the compression mechanism and the motor. The compressor includes a low-temperature fluid passage forming unit having a surface forming a low-temperature fluid passage in which a low-temperature fluid flows and provided in the housing so as to cool the motor, and an oil passage forming unit having a surface forming an oil passage through which oil supplied into the housing flows. At least a part of the oil passage forming unit is arranged so as to face the low-temperature fluid passage forming unit with an interposed portion interposed therebetween such that the oil is cooled by heat exchange with the low-temperature fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Satoru Mitsuda, Ryo Umeyama
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Patent number: 9979266Abstract: An electrical rotating machine comprises a stator including armature pole coils 14 capable of generating magnetic flux when energized, an inner rotor driven to rotate when the magnetic flux passes therethough, and an outer rotor driven to rotate in a magnetic path of the magnetic flux that passes through the first rotor, the outer rotor having portions of different materials, in permeability, which are situated along the periphery of the outer rotor, the inner rotor having a plurality of salient poles situated along the periphery of the inner rotor and wound by wound coils 34 which induce induced current when linked by the magnetic flux generated by the armature pole coils, the stator including a plurality of wound coils 51, 52, 53 winding around each of poles to constitute the armature pole coil for each of the plurality of salient poles.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Aoyama
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Patent number: 9973117Abstract: An exemplary system includes a first electric motor and a second electric motor, which are coupled mechanically to one another via a common string of the system. The string has a torsional natural oscillation at a natural frequency. A first oscillating torque acts on the string by the first electric motor and a second oscillating torque acts on the string by the second electric motor. The second electric motor is arranged with respect to the first electric motor such that the effect of the second oscillating torque on the string results in damping of the excitation of the natural oscillation owing to the first oscillating torque.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventors: Joerg Pieder, Paolo Belli
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Patent number: 9966879Abstract: A system includes a hot source, a cold source, and a device thermally coupled between the hot source and the cold source. The device includes a thermal-mechanical transducer and a mechanical-electrical transducer. The thermal-mechanical transducer includes a band of bimetallic strips linked mechanically together by their longitudinal ends. The band partially suspended over a portion of a substrate. Each bimetallic strip has a first stable state having a first curvature and a second stable state having a second curvature opposite the first curvature, and adjacent bimetallic strips have opposite curvature.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SASInventors: Stephane Monfray, Guillaume Savelli, Thomas Skotnicki, Philippe Coronel, Frederic Gaillard
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Patent number: 9960649Abstract: A coolant flow path structure which cools a rotor is configured of a first coolant flow path forming a radial coolant flow path of the rotor and a second coolant flow path communicating with the first coolant flow path and forming an axial coolant flow path of the rotor, and a negative pressure structure, which brings an exist of the coolant flow path structure into a negative pressure as a result of a rotation of the rotor, is provided at the exit of the second coolant flow path.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Manabu Yoshinori, Yoshiaki Kitta, Koichi Ojima, Hiroyuki Higashino, Toshiya Chazono, Masaki Horii
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Patent number: 9960648Abstract: A high torque axial gap electric motor includes rotor and stator disks containing magnets fixed to their respective faces, where the magnets contain triangular ridges arranged in concentric circles. The face of each rotor magnet ridge is parallel to the face of a stator magnet ridge, creating an air gap with a cross-section that has a zigzag appearance. The preferred embodiment uses a three-phase motor design with multiple rotors and stators and permanent magnets.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: H&D Electrics, LLCInventor: Catalin Tutunaru
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Patent number: 9951810Abstract: An electric submersible motor radial support bearing is described. An electric submersible motor includes a motor shaft extending longitudinally through a stator bore, the motor shaft bendable out of alignment with a longitudinal axis of the stator bore, a carrier keyed the stator bore, each rotor section of the motor separated from an adjacent rotor section by a roller bearing including a rounded roller cage between a rotatable inner race and a non-rotatable outer race, the inner race inward of the roller cage and rotatably secured to the motor shaft, the outer race having a curved inner diameter (ID) forming a roller cage socket, an outer diameter (OD) of the outer race non-rotatably secured to an ID of the carrier, the roller cage and outer race forming a spheroidal joint as the roller cage pivots off the longitudinal axis of the stator bore as the motor shaft bends.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Summit ESP, LLCInventors: Larry James Parmeter, Jeffrey G. Frey, Brett D. Leamy
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Patent number: 9948169Abstract: A repulsive force conversion drive system for centrifugal force conversion to drive a load. A operational load to be driven by movement and provide external power due to movement of the operational load. A rotary repulsive force conversion drive connected to the operational load, such that the operational load moves in a first linear direction due to centrifugal force of rotating mass of the rotary repulsive force conversion drive. A linear repulsive force conversion drive connected to the operational load, the linear repulsive force conversion drive connected to the operational load such that the operational load moves is a second linear direction that is opposite the first linear direction on command from the linear repulsive force conversion drive.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Inventor: Sei-Joo Jang
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Patent number: 9941777Abstract: An electrical rotating machine comprises a stator including armature pole coils 14 capable of generating magnetic flux when energized, an inner rotor driven to rotate when the magnetic flux passes therethough, and an outer rotor driven to rotate in a magnetic path of the magnetic flux that passes through the first rotor, the outer rotor having portions of different materials, in permeability, which are situated along the periphery of the outer rotor, the inner rotor having a plurality of salient poles situated along the periphery of the inner rotor and wound by wound coils 34 which induce induced current when linked by the magnetic flux generated by the armature pole coils, the stator including a plurality of wound coils 51, 52, 53 winding around each of poles to constitute the armature pole coil for each of the plurality of salient poles.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Aoyama
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Patent number: 9935526Abstract: A power module composite includes a power module (34) in which switching devices (32) included in an electric-power conversion circuit are molded, a driver module (37) that includes a control circuit (35) for controlling the switching devices (32) and is molded, a housing (39) containing the power module (34) and the driver module (37), and a heat sink (38) that is fixed to the housing (39) and refrigerates the switching devices (32); the power module 34 and the driver module 37 are mounted in that order on the heat sink (38) in such a way as to be superimposed on each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaki Kato, Masahiko Fujita
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Patent number: 9935528Abstract: A base portion of a spindle motor includes a base portion through hole passing therethrough from an upper surface to a lower surface thereof. Coils include a lead wire drawn out from above the upper surface downwardly from the lower surface through the base portion through hole. A circuit board includes a land portion to which the lead wire is connected. The spindle motor includes an insulation sheet portion configured to cover at least a portion of the base portion through hole and with which the lead wire is arranged to be in contact. A thickness of the insulation sheet portion is greater than a thickness of the land portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Yoneda, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masanobu Taki
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Patent number: 9935519Abstract: A cooling jacket for cooling using a fluid includes an inner part, an outer jacket that extends in an axial direction and surrounds the inner part in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the axial direction, and a duct for holding the fluid. A first boundary of the duct an outer surface of the inner part, while a second boundary of the duct includes an inner surface of the outer jacket. The inner part is arranged inside the outer jacket, and a material property of the outer jacket is different from the material property of the inner part.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth
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Patent number: 9935506Abstract: A segment for supporting electromagnetic coupling elements of a stator or rotor of an electrical machine comprises a plurality of elongate laminations which are stacked in a first direction to form a lamination stack with elongate edges of the laminations defining opposite first and second major faces of the lamination stack. The segment comprises a plurality of elongate compression devices passing internally through the lamination stack in the first direction and arranged to compress together the laminations in the lamination stack.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Lappeenranta University of TechnologyInventors: Robert Semken, Juha Pyrhonen, Yulia Alexandrova, Maria Polikarpova
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Patent number: 9935532Abstract: An electrical rotating machine comprises: a stator including armature pole coils 14 capable of generating magnetic flux when energized; an inner rotor driven to rotate when the magnetic flux passes therethough; and an outer rotor in a magnetic path of the magnetic flux that passes through the first rotor, the outer rotor having portions of different materials, in permeability, which are situated along the periphery of the outer rotor, the inner rotor having a plurality of salient poles situated along the periphery of the inner rotor and wound by wound coils 34 which induce induced current when linked by the magnetic flux generated by the armature pole coils.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Aoyama
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Patent number: 9929615Abstract: A winding arrangement in a machine component for a rotary electrical machine (1), comprising: a plurality of slots (11); a winding (7) which is wound with a winding conductor (8) and has a plurality of coils (12) which each run through two of the slots (11), wherein coil sides, which are accommodated in the slots (11), of at least one last-wound coil (16) are exposed toward corresponding slot openings of the slots (11); and at least one fixing winding (17, 20a, 20b) which is formed by a section of the winding conductor (8) and has at least one fixing turn which runs transversely across a coil head (14) of the at least one last-wound coil (16) of the winding (7).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Huber, Werner Bloedt, Gerold Schleif, Marcin Ostrowski, Klemens Heid, Lukas Eberle, Ralf Meier
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Patent number: 9929616Abstract: The motor according to the present invention is characterized by including a stator core having an upper insulator and a lower insulator combined with an upper portion and a lower portion thereof; a housing manufactured by placing the stator core in an insert injection mold, the housing being formed by a resin molding having at least one upper leg integrally formed in the upper portion thereof; a rotor located inside the stator core of the housing and rotating, the rotor being combined with the housing by having a shaft penetrating into a center portion thereof; and at least one lower leg formed as a separate member from the housing so as to be combined with the lower portion of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: NEW MOTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong Cheol Jang, Ji Min Lee, Nam Jong Kim
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Patent number: 9929618Abstract: An inverter-integrated electric compressor for which an inverter device is integrally incorporated, with a main circuit board being housed while the four corners thereof are supported by boss parts at locations above high-voltage electrical components and semiconductor switching elements. The multiple high-voltage electrical components are arranged in parallel along one side of the main circuit board at one side of an inverter housing part, with one side of the main circuit board being supported from below by the upper surface of these components. The multiple semiconductor switching elements are arranged in parallel along the other side opposing the one side of the main circuit board, at the other side of the inverter housing part, with the other side of the main circuit board being supported from below by multiple lead terminals extending upwards.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AUTOMOTIVE THERMAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Masahiko Asai, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Koji Nakano
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Patent number: 9923422Abstract: A rotor assembly comprises a number of rotor segments forming a rotor structure and a central structure connected to the rotor structure and at least partially arranged between at least two of the rotor segments, for example surrounded by the rotor structure. A wind turbine generator comprising a stator assembly and said rotor assembly and a wind turbine comprising such a generator are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: GE Renewable Technologies Wind B.V.Inventor: Pere Cortada Acosta
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Patent number: 9917495Abstract: Certain aspects relate to topologies for an interior permanent magnet (IPM) electrical machine having increased saliency torque, increased flux-linkage, reduced magnet leakage flux, and reduced detrimental slotting effects compared to existing IPM electrical machines. The IPM electrical machine includes a rotor having a number of poles and a flux barrier formed along the edge of the rotor between poles. The flux barrier contains a magnet or set of magnets having a varying thickness, with a central thickest portion located along the d-axis of the rotor. A magnet retention structure, which may be formed integrally with the rotor or provided as a separate structure, surrounds the rotor and magnets. The rotor and magnets combine to form a smooth circular profile having no air gaps.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: FARADAY & FUTURE INC.Inventor: Omar Abdul Rahman Laldin