Patents Examined by Htet Z Kyaw
  • Patent number: 11161149
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wave-emitting device comprising an electromechanical actuator stimulated by a signal generator that allows it to generate torsional waves with a higher amplitude, and to an ultrasonic transducer comprising said device. The use of said devices allows the reconstruction of the structural characteristics of the materials subject to the waves generated by the emitter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: Universidad De Grenada, Servicio Andaluz De Salud
    Inventors: Guillermo Rus Calborg, Alicia Valera Martínez, Elena Sánchez Muñoz, Francisca Molina García
  • Patent number: 11165303
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a guide ring for connection to a housing of an electric machine comprising: a main body having a ring element; a plurality of busbars; and a plurality of pressure elements. The busbars are overmolded by the main body. Each of the plurality of pressure elements projects from an outer circumferential surface of the main body and to frictionally connect the guide ring to an inner receiving surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Swen Wiethoff, Zoran Dmitrasinovic
  • Patent number: 11165295
    Abstract: A rotor lamination assembly is formed with a central hole wherein a central axis goes through the central hole. The rotor lamination assembly is further formed with an even number of mounting holes arranged between a rim of the central hole and an outer rim of the rotor lamination assembly. The outer rim of the rotor lamination assembly has a projection on a plane substantially perpendicular to the central axis. The projection includes an even number of base curve edges, an even number of protruding curve edges, and connecting curve edges. Each protruding curve edge is arranged between two adjacent base curve edges in a circumferential direction of the central axis. The protruding curve edges and the base curve edges are connected with each other through the connecting curve edges. Every two mounting holes which are arranged symmetrically constitute a mounting hole group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shibo Chen, Qian Xu
  • Patent number: 11165345
    Abstract: A multi-level boost apparatus. Voltage allocation among N first switches is achieved by connecting N voltage dividing modules, sequentially connected in series, in parallel with the N first voltage switches, respectively. Thereby, a voltage across each of the N first switches is within a safety range. Even if an input voltage is high and a voltage across a flying capacitor is zero at an instant of being powered, it is prevented that a second one to an N-th one of the N first switches break down due to overvoltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUNGROW POWER SUPPLY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiacai Zhuang, Jun Xu, Bing Zhang, Peng Wang, Peng Wen
  • Patent number: 11128198
    Abstract: An electric motor including: a frame; a rotor assembly including a magnet, a bearing assembly, an impeller, and a shaft; and a stator assembly including a stator core and a bobbin. The frame has an inner wall and an outer wall, the outer wall surrounds the inner wall and defines an annular channel between the inner wall and the outer wall, and diffuser vanes extend from the inner wall to the outer wall through the annular channel. The inner wall defines a bore for supporting the rotor assembly, and the outer wall defines a substantially cylindrical outer casing of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew Simeon Barnes, Nigel Youatt Dymond, Andrew Charlton Clothier
  • Patent number: 11018567
    Abstract: A permanent magnet machine includes a rotor and an irregular polyhedron shaped magnet assembly. The rotor may define at least one magnet opening and may be configured to rotate within a circular opening defined by a stator. The irregular polyhedron shaped magnet assembly may be disposed in the magnet opening and may define a magnetization direction, wherein a height along the magnetization direction and perpendicular with a lamination plane of the rotor is greater at both ends than at a central portion disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Lusu Guo, Michael W. Degner, Wei Wu, Chun Tang
  • Patent number: 11005312
    Abstract: Provided is a method for implementing skewing in a hybrid homopolar generator. The method includes aligning slots within an axial front segment of a stator, with corresponding slots within an axial back segment of the stator. The method also includes moving, during assembly, the axial front segment and the axial back segment relative to each other such that slots in the axial front segment and the axial back segment form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Michael Saban, Charles Michael Stephens
  • Patent number: 11005313
    Abstract: Provided is a method for implementing skewing in a hybrid homopolar generator comprising. The method includes aligning inductor poles within an axial front segment of a rotor, with corresponding magnets within an axial back segment of the rotor. The method also includes moving, during assembly, the axial front segment and the axial back segment relative to each other such that inductor poles in the axial front segment and the axial back segment form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Michael Saban, Charles Michael Stephens
  • Patent number: 10992200
    Abstract: An electric motor (1) comprising an armature (10) having a plurality of teeth (20), and slots (30) configured between the teeth (20), at least one winding (40), which is constituted by a winding conductor (42), wherein at least part of the winding (40) is accommodated within one of the slots (30), a first guide (52) and a second guide (52), respectively having a spacer (56) and a guide slot (54), configured within the slot (30), wherein a winding conductor section (44) of the winding conductor (42) is guided at least in one of the guide slots (54), and wherein the spacer (56) separates the winding conductor section (44) from the winding (40), wherein the free ends of the spacer (56) and the openings in the guide slots (54) are configured in a mutually facing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Patent number: 10972008
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image in a normal mode or low power mode. A DC-DC converter supplies a source driving voltage to the data driver, and supplies a first power voltage to the power line of the display panel in the normal mode. The data driver supplies a first auxiliary power voltage to the power line of the display panel in the low power mode. The DC-DC converter gradually changes the voltage level of the first power voltage to a reference output voltage level over a first period when the display panel initially enters into the normal mode, and changes the voltage level of the first power voltage to the reference output voltage level over a second period shorter than the first period when the mode of the display panel is switched from the low power mode to the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoon Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10951120
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a flyback converter, a control circuit and a control method therefor. In the control method, a power stage circuit is controlled at a light load to operate alternatively in a pulse-width modulation mode (e.g., a constant switching frequency mode) and in a constant on time mode, in accordance with a voltage compensation signal. Thus, output energy may decrease rapidly and smoothly, without need for the control circuit to stop working. The flyback converter has increased efficiency at the light load and decreased output voltage ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD
    Inventor: Huiqiang Chen
  • Patent number: 10944306
    Abstract: A rotary electric rotor includes a rotor core having a shaft through-hole; a rotor shaft having a male screw portion on its first side; a washer having an annular structure with cutouts elastically deformable in a radial direction, having a washer tapered surface, and having an annular projection portion that extends in an axial direction from an end surface and is fixed to the rotor core in a state of being disposed in a gap between an inner circumferential surface of the shaft through-hole and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor shaft and pressing the inner circumferential surface of the shaft through-hole, the end surface and the washer tapered surface are opposite surfaces of the washer; and a nut having a female screw portion that meshes with the male screw portion and having a nut tapered surface that faces the washer tapered surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yushi Takeuchi, Shingo Fubuki, Yasuo Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10944332
    Abstract: Provided is a power converter capable of being miniaturized while securing noise resistance and insulation between a power semiconductor module and a drive circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Furuta, Kenichirou Nakajima, Yuta Numakura
  • Patent number: 10933238
    Abstract: A power control circuit for use with devices that will be placed in a flammable sterilizing gas includes a bi-stable switch that is configured to produce an output to place the circuitry of a connected device in a run state or a sleep state. The bi-stable switch controls one or more transistors to drain energy from energy storage devices in the circuitry of the connected device to a level below an ignition level of a sterilizing gas. A remotely actuatable switch can be actuated from outside of a packaging in which the power control circuit is placed to cause the bi-stable switch to produce an output that puts the circuitry in the run state without removing the power control circuit from the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nevro Corp.
    Inventor: Bret Foreman
  • Patent number: 10924010
    Abstract: A control circuit for a switching regulator can include: an ON signal generator that generates an ON signal; an OFF signal generator that generates a first control signal according to an input voltage and an output voltage of the switching regulator; an on time regulator that generates an adjustment signal according to a switching signal and the first control signal; and a logic circuit configured to generate an off signal according to the first control signal, and to generate the switching signal according to the ON signal and the OFF signal, where the on time of the first switch is regulated according to the off time of the first switch when the off time of the first switch is less than the reference time, in order to regulate a duty cycle of the switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD
    Inventor: Liangwei Sun
  • Patent number: 10913506
    Abstract: The present invention provides a generator for a bicycle which can be applied to a rim of all kinds of bicycle wheels, comprising: a rotating body 30 which is arranged to be adjacent to or to make contact with the rim 10, wherein eddy current induction magnet 35 is installed along an outer circumferential surface of the rotating body 30; a rotation shaft 62 whose one side end part is fixed at a center of the rotating body 30; and a generation unit 60 which is arranged at the other side end part of the rotation shaft 62, wherein at least a portion of the outer circumferential surface of the rotating body 30 is arranged farther outside than an outer circumferential surface of the eddy current induction magnet 35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Young Hui Hur
  • Patent number: 10916990
    Abstract: A motor includes a motor body, a bracket installed in the motor body, a rotating shaft, a bearing accommodated inside the bracket and supporting the rotating shaft, and a bearing supporter defining a plurality of pores. The bracket and the bearing define a bearing heat dissipation flow path between an outer surface of the bearing and an inner surface of the bracket, and the bearing heat dissipation flow path is configured to pass air therethrough. The bearing supporter is disposed in the bearing heat dissipation flow path, and the bracket defines a bracket through-hole configured to discharge air that has passed through the plurality of pores of the bearing supporter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunji Hwang, Sunggi Kim, Byungjik Kim
  • Patent number: 10917015
    Abstract: A multiphase operation control method comprises configuring a plurality of power phases of a power converter to operate in an interleaved manner by passing a token sequentially among the plurality of power phases, turning on a first power phase after the first power phase possesses the token and receives a trigger signal from a control circuit of the first power phase, passing the token to a second power phase after the first power phase finishes, passing the token sequentially until a last power phase of the plurality of power phases possesses the token and forwarding the token to the first power phase after the last power phase finishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Active-Semi (BVI) Inc.
    Inventors: Narasimhan Trichy, Masashi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 10917018
    Abstract: A flyback converter is provided with a controller that is configured to analyze the reflected feedback voltage waveforms to determine the presence of a ground connection fault for the auxiliary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR INC.
    Inventors: Pengju Kong, Duc Doan, Fuqiang Shi
  • Patent number: 10917001
    Abstract: A resonant power converter has a main switch, a resonant tank coupled across the main switch, and a signal processing circuit coupled to the main switch and the resonant tank. The signal processing circuit generates a driving signal for driving the main switch ON and OFF at a switching frequency. The resonant tank includes circuit components designed to have a resonant frequency that is tuned to a designed switching frequency of the main switch. The signal processing circuit includes a zero voltage switching (ZVS) circuit, a signal generator, a detection circuit, and a latch oscillator. The signal processing circuit is configured to adjust the switching frequency of the driving signal to be tuned to the actual resonant frequency of a resonant tank under very high switching frequency conditions, 1 MHz and greater, thereby accounting for the influence of parasitics at very high switching frequencies and achieving resonance of the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Flex Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Telefus, Nate Vince