Patents Examined by Jeremy A Luks
  • Patent number: 12113407
    Abstract: A motor that includes a stator having a stator core; a rotor; and a ground pin for at least achieving a ground connection of the stator core; the ground pin is configured to be electrically connected to the stator core by being partially embedded in the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GENTHERM GMBH
    Inventors: Bob Bao, Loory Wang
  • Patent number: 12104512
    Abstract: A muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a muffler housing with a peripheral wall which extends longitudinally in the direction of a housing longitudinal axis. At least one base wall is surrounded by the peripheral wall or/and retained on the peripheral wall and delimits a chamber in the muffler housing. At least one base wall opening is surrounded by an opening edge region which is bent at an essentially plane base wall region of the base wall essentially in the direction of the housing longitudinal axis. The at least one base wall opening receives an exhaust pipe with a press fit in at least one base wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Hutschenreuther, Rolf Baldes, Thomas Beck
  • Patent number: 12106744
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic absorption structure comprising a plurality of acoustic elements, each of which is positioned in one of the cells of a cellular panel. The method includes a step of manufacturing acoustic elements provided with at least two radial tongues, a step of manufacturing a cellular panel provided with slots configured to accommodate the radial tongues of each acoustic element, a step of force-fitting each acoustic element in one of the cells of the cellular panel until the radial tongues are accommodated in the slots. An acoustic absorption structure obtained using this method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Florian Ravise, Théo Riccobene
  • Patent number: 12101002
    Abstract: An embodiment may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, and a stator disposed between the shaft and the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a yoke coupled to the shaft and a driving magnet and a sensing magnet which are coupled to the yoke, the sensing magnet includes a first sensing magnet and a second sensing magnet, a first pole and a second pole are alternately disposed on a first circumference of the first sensing magnet, and the second sensing magnet is disposed on a second circumference having a radius different from a radius of the first circumference and includes a first pole and a second pole of which a length in a circumferential direction is different from a length of the first pole of the second sensing magnet in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Seob Lee
  • Patent number: 12095313
    Abstract: A sensor fastening device for temperature measurement in an electrical machine for driving a motor vehicle having a retaining body for receiving a temperature sensor, a support body for resting against a stator lamination of the electrical machine, the support body being connected to the retaining body spreadably, and a spreading element for spreading the retaining body away from the support body. By means of the sensor fastening device, which can be shifted in the radial direction and can be moved past the winding axially, the temperature sensor can be positioned, from the radial outside, on the radially inner edge of the winding and can be thermally coupled by means of the spreading element such that maintenance-friendly and accurate measurement of a maximum temperature in a winding of an electrical machine for a motor vehicle is made possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Silvery, Matthias Kästle, Marie-Luise Anke
  • Patent number: 12089673
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a sound reducing mask wearable by a user according to various embodiments may include a body portion contoured to form a seal with the user's face when the body portion is placed over the user's mouth. The sound reducing mask may also include an air intake assembly including an inlet and a unidirectional flap configured to move between an open position and a closed position. Methods and apparatus for a sound reducing mask may further include a muffler configured to muffle noise made by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Justin Smith
  • Patent number: 12090741
    Abstract: A panel for a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly includes two skins and a cell structure provided with transverse partitions defining cells. The cell structure includes folds with at least one central part forming at least one part of at least one transverse partition and at least one peripheral part extending along at least one of the skins. A nacelle with such a panel is provided, as well as a method for manufacturing such a panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Ceramics
    Inventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Davi Silva De Vasconcellos, Florent Bouillon, Arnaud Delehouze
  • Patent number: 12091998
    Abstract: A muffler for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine. The muffler has a muffler housing having at least two interconnected housing shells delimiting a muffler interior. Each housing shell has a connecting edge extending away from the muffler interior. The housing shells are mutually connected by material bonding in the region of their mutually adjacent housing shell connecting edges. An insulating arrangement covers at least regions of the inner side of one of the housing shells. The insulating arrangement has an insulating shell with an insulating shell connecting edge extending away from the muffler interior and the insulating shell is arranged with the insulating shell connecting edge between the mutually adjacent connecting edges of the housing shells and is connected by material bonding to the connecting edges of the housing shells in the region of the insulating shell connecting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Strähle, Michaela Weber, Jonathan Lang, Lukas Te-Kaat, Marco Jess, Frank Sühnel, Markus Schmitt, Matthias Scheer, Harald Gerlich
  • Patent number: 12088998
    Abstract: An on-vehicle woofer system includes: a speaker unit including a magnetic circuit and a diaphragm connected to the magnetic circuit, and capable of generating sound waves by electrically driving the magnetic circuit to vibrate the diaphragm; a Helmholtz resonator to which a first surface of the diaphragm is oriented, the Helmholtz resonator being connected to the speaker unit; a sealed container to which a second surface of the diaphragm that is a back surface of the first surface is oriented, the sealed container providing a sealed space connected to the speaker unit; and a tube penetrating the Helmholtz resonator, the speaker unit, and the sealed container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: FOSTER ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Takayuki Tabata
  • Patent number: 12087261
    Abstract: A noise suppressor is removably installed in power generator equipment including an enclosure and a power generator unit. The enclosure includes at least one of an air intake port and an air discharge port that are vents. The power generator unit is covered with the enclosure. The noise suppressor includes a tubular member having a first opening that opens to a direction different from the vent and a second opening that opens to the vent, forming a channel for gas leading from the first opening to the second opening, and provided with an acoustic liner inside the channel. The tubular member has such a shape that the channel bends at a plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Maeta
  • Patent number: 12084202
    Abstract: The present application relates to a sound insulating panel, suitable for use as a deflecting surface in jet blast deflectors. Therefore, it is described a jet blast deflector fence, comprised of detachable sound insulating panels, forming a modular deflecting and noise absorbing surface, covering its entire frontal area that is aligned with the aircraft. This approach favours not only the maintenance procedures of the fence, but also allows noise absorption, in addition to redirecting the high energy exhausted from a jet engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VALIS-ENGENHARIA E INOVAÇÃO, S.A.
    Inventor: Vasco Maria Marques Lito Velez Grilo
  • Patent number: 12081091
    Abstract: A system for generating a linear movement including an electromagnetically charged body which is free to move along a main direction, a static field generator, and two buffer elements. The movement of the electromagnetically charged body along the main direction is controlled by the static field generator and by the buffer elements. The static field generator is alternately powered with a power profile such as to generate the displacement of the system in one of the two ways along said main direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GENERGO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Vincenzo Tirella, Simone Brunetti
  • Patent number: 12080264
    Abstract: A flexural wave absorption system may include a pair of resonators disposed on the structure and separated from each other by a separation distance. The pair of resonators are arranged on the structure in a direction substantially similar to the direction of the flexural wave acting on the structure. As to the separation distance, this distance may be approximately one-quarter of the wavelength of the flexural wave acting on the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabuhiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xiaoshi Su, Debasish Banerjee
  • Patent number: 12071217
    Abstract: An additively manufactured noise attenuation panel for a structure within an aircraft structure includes a plurality of unit cells, each including a central body interconnected via a plurality of tubes extending from the central body. The noise attenuation panel may include an increasing wall thickness in a desired direction. A layers of unit cells may be manufactured in a twisted orientation with respect to an immediately adjacent layer of unit cells. Layers of unit cells may be manufactured in a rounded or bent orientation with respect to a central axis. The noise attenuation panel may further comprise a disk and a blended transition located at the interface between the disk and an interior surface of a unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Mendoza, Julian Winkler, Craig A. Reimann, Kenji Homma, Paul R. Braunwart, Lawrence A. Binek, Danielle L Grolman
  • Patent number: 12074494
    Abstract: A mechanism including a magnetic gear including a first wheel, a second wheel and a third wheel. The first wheel is provided with permanent magnetic poles which are arranged so as to form the magnetised teeth of a first magnetic toothing. The second wheel and the third wheel are provided with teeth made of a soft ferromagnetic material respectively defining a second magnetic toothing and a third magnetic toothing, each with a number of teeth that is greater than that of the first magnetic toothing and having a magnetic coupling with this first magnetic toothing. The second magnetic toothing is directly coupled with the first magnetic toothing and with the third magnetic toothing thanks to the magnetic fluxes provided by the magnetised teeth of the first toothing and the teeth of the second magnetic toothing are magnetically separated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Matthias Imboden, Jean-Pierre Mignot, Milan Calic, Cédric Nicolas, Jean-Jacques Born
  • Patent number: 12071874
    Abstract: A sound attenuating engine exhaust system and methods are provided for directing exhaust gases away from an internal combustion engine of a vehicle and attenuating undesirable exhaust sounds during engine operation. The sound attenuating engine exhaust system comprises an exhaust inlet configured to receive exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine. A first resonator coupled with the exhaust inlet is configured to dampen at least one frequency of exhaust sound waves by way of destructive wave interference. The first resonator includes an exhaust outlet for directing the exhaust gases out of the first resonator. A second resonator is coupled with the first resonator and configured to dampen one or more frequencies of exhaust sound waves by way of a combination of destructive wave interference and Helmholtz resonance. Hangers facilitate attaching the sound attenuating engine exhaust system to an undercarriage of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: K&N Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve E. Williams, Kevin McClelland
  • Patent number: 12060818
    Abstract: A muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a muffler housing having a peripheral wall elongated along a longitudinal housing axis. The muffler has an end wall on each axial end region of the peripheral wall and a muffler insert, surrounded by the peripheral wall and supported on the peripheral wall. A retaining wall extends substantially in the direction of the longitudinal housing axis and a first exhaust-gas routing pipe is positioned with a first end region engaging in an opening in the peripheral wall and is secured to the peripheral wall and retained with a second end region on the retaining wall. The first exhaust-gas routing pipe is retained in its second end region on the retaining wall by force closure or interlocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Krause
  • Patent number: 12041413
    Abstract: Acoustic loudspeaker (10) comprising a cabinet (12) extending in a direction (L), and a speaker (14) defining an acoustic axis (X). The cabinet defines a first axis (V1) perpendicular to the direction, and a second axis (V2) perpendicular to the direction and to the first axis. The acoustic loudspeaker is intended to be used in a first configuration, wherein the first axis is essentially vertical, and a second configuration, wherein the second axis is essentially vertical. The speaker is movable relative to the cabinet around an axis of rotation (D) between a first position, wherein the acoustic axis defines with the second axis a first angle less than 30°, and a second position, in which the acoustic axis defines with the first axis (V1) a second angle less than 30°. The axis of rotation makes two angles between 40° and 50° with the first axis and the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DEVIALET
    Inventors: Max Rainer, Fabien Gerlier, Antonin Anquetil
  • Patent number: 12018480
    Abstract: An acoustic damping structural system includes studs, tracks, and acoustic damping members. The studs and tracks include a first wall, a second wall, and a third wall that define a channel. The third wall includes a first portion perpendicular to the first wall, a second portion perpendicular to the first portion, and a third portion perpendicular to the second portion to define a ledge along a length of the third wall. The tracks are coupled to a support, such as floor joists and roof beams, in parallel. Opposite ends of the studs are received in the channels of the tracks, with the acoustic damping members received on and coupled to the ledges of pairs of the studs and pairs of the tracks. The acoustic damping members are planar with the ledges and the studs and tracks, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Jon Sessler
  • Patent number: 12014714
    Abstract: A cellular sound insulation structure and associated aircraft, a cell of which is provided with a diaphragm which includes a membrane having at least one orifice passing through a thickness of the membrane, and at least one tube surmounting the orifice and extending from a face of the membrane into one compartment of the cell, the tube comprising a free end, forming an acoustic outlet, which is positioned at a distance (p) from the base cross section of the cell. Also, a method for manufacturing such a cellular sound insulation structure, as well as to a tool for inserting a diaphragm into a cell. Such a cellular structure makes it possible to treat a wider acoustic frequency spectrum, and its acoustic dimensioning as well as its manufacture are simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, Florian Ravise, Franck Dobigeon, Florent Mercat