Patents Examined by John K Kim
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Patent number: 11444510Abstract: One embodiment relates to a controller and a motor assembly comprising same, the controller comprising: a controller housing; a controller cover disposed at an opening of the controller housing; a DM filter unit disposed over the controller cover; a CM filter unit disposed over the DM filter unit; a power module unit disposed under the controller cover; a substrate disposed under the power module unit; and a first connector and a second connector which penetrate the controller cover and have one side thereof disposed at the substrate. Accordingly, a heat generation problem can be resolved while miniaturization and weight lightening are realized, and some parts of the controller can be shared.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Chan Seok Kim
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Patent number: 11437882Abstract: The cluster block accommodates connection terminals and has conductive member insertion holes, into which the conductive members are inserted. The cluster block is disposed between the bottom wall of the housing and second coil ends. The conductive member insertion holes are located on the radially outer side of the inner circumferential surface of the stator core. The cluster block includes a second wall portion in the vicinity of the electric motor and a first wall in the vicinity of the bottom wall of the housing. The second wall portion has a pressed surface on the radially inner side of the inner circumferential surface of the stator core. The outer surface of the first wall portion has a contact surface that is lined up with the pressed surface in the axial direction of the stator core. The contact surface is allowed to contact the bottom wall of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventors: Shuji Takimoto, Taku Adaniya, Shozo Hamana
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Patent number: 11437891Abstract: Apparatus for determining a position of a movable object in a high pressure chamber includes a housing configured to delimit the high-pressure chamber and a carrier unit having an object-facing stationary end and a flexible region arranged between the stationary end and a region that extends through the housing. The flexible region is formed by a section of a guiding tube in the form of a tube spiral. A detecting unit is received in the carrier unit and includes a sensor for detecting a position of the object and outputting a position signal, and a sensor cable guided out of the high pressure chamber through the guiding tube and through the region for relaying the position signal to an evaluating unit. The sensor is arranged stationary in the high pressure chamber on the stationary end of the carrier unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Johannes Burghard, Joachim Denk, Marco Festa
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Patent number: 11431211Abstract: A rotor assembly of an electric motor generally comprises a center shaft configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis and a plurality of spacers extending radially outward from the center shaft, the spacers fixedly attached to the center shaft. A plurality of axially stacked annular laminations are coaxially aligned with the center shaft and radially supported on an inner circumferential surface by the plurality of spacers. Each of the plurality of spacers has, at each axial end of the stacked annular laminations, first and second axial restraining elements extending in an outward radial direction beyond the inner circumferential surface of the plurality of stacked annular laminations. The plurality of stacked annular laminations are compressed between the first axial restraining element and the second axial restraining element, such that an axial compression force is applied to the plurality of stacked laminations.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Moog Inc.Inventor: Ping Peter Zhong
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Patent number: 11424660Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor, an inverter, a housing, and a cover defining an accommodation chamber with the housing to accommodate the inverter. The cover includes a plate-shaped body wall and insertion holes extending through a periphery of the body wall. The body wall includes a first surface opposed to the inverter in the accommodation chamber, a second surface, a first thickness portion having a first thickness, and a second thickness portion located around at least one of the insertion holes. The second thickness portion has a second thickness that is smaller than the first thickness and is obtained by recessing the body wall from the first surface toward the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Kohei Fukumitsu, Suehiro Fukazawa, Takayuki Ota, Kazuya Matsumoto, Takahiro Suzuki, Atsushi Nishizawa
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Patent number: 11424658Abstract: A device for driving a compressor of a vaporous fluid, in particular an electric motor. The device includes a rotor and a stator having a stator core, arranged extending along a common longitudinal axis. A carrier element, which is formed having at least one receptacle element for a plug housing for accommodating at least one plug connector and also at least one clamping element for fixing the carrier element on the stator core as a coherent unit and one-piece component, is arranged pressing against a first end face of the stator aligned in an axial direction. The at least one clamping element is arranged on a side of the carrier element aligned in the axial direction and facing toward the stator core and having an inner side pressing against an outer side of an outer wall of the stator core, centering the carrier element on the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Bernd Guntermann, David Walisko, Stephan Heinrichs
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Patent number: 11418078Abstract: An electric machine with a stator operably coupled with a rotor. The stator includes a stator core defining a plurality of slots. Each of the slots defines a plurality of layer positions located at different radial distances from a rotational axis of the electric machine. At least three windings are associated with each of the phases of the machine. In a first slot, a first winding is disposed in a first layer position. A second winding is disposed in a second layer position. A third winding is disposed in a third layer position. The first winding includes a first outside lead wire extending from the first slot. The second winding includes a second outside lead wire extending from a second slot. The third winding includes a third outside lead wire extending from a third slot. Each of the outside lead wires are in the first layer position.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Kirk E. Neet
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Patent number: 11418087Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a modular system for producing drives, in particular piece goods conveyor drives, with different drive properties, comprising at least one first group of transmission units, said first group comprising at least one transmission unit, at least one second group of motor units, said second group comprising at least one motor unit, and a third group of electronic units, said third group comprising at least one electronic unit for actuating the motor unit, wherein the groups can be combined together in order to produce the drive.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Flaig, Serkan Poyraz, Jürgen Sopejstal, Volker Messmer, Hermann Rappenecker, Jörg Hornberger
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Patent number: 11407443Abstract: An electric drive device includes a motor housing including a housing end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of an electric motor. The housing end face part includes a power conversion circuit part heat dissipation section and a power supply circuit part heat dissipation section formed to allow at least generated heat of the power conversion circuit part and the power supply circuit part to be transferred to the motor housing. A sensor magnet is fixed to an end part of the rotating shaft opposite to the output part of the rotating shaft and structured to constitute a rotation-sensing target part for sensing rotation of the rotating shaft. The power conversion circuit part heat dissipation section of the housing end face part is positioned closer to the electric motor than the sensor magnet.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventor: Keiji Hamada
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Patent number: 11411445Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous motor and an electric power steering device are driven by a first system including a first armature winding and a first control apparatus and by a second system including a second armature winding and a second control apparatus and are configured in such a way that if one system fails, driving by the one system is stopped but the driving is continued by the other system.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji Takizawa, Hiroko Ikeda, Kazumasa Ito, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Yu Hirotani, Satoru Akutsu
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Patent number: 11404938Abstract: Provided is an angle detection apparatus making it possible to reduce the labor of manufacturing while also suppressing bulkiness. The angle detection apparatus includes a first rotating body (120), a second rotating body (122), a first transmission mechanism (111) that causes the second rotating body (122) to rotate by reducing a speed of a rotation of the first rotating body (120), a first angle detector (Ds) that detects a rotational angle of the first rotating body (120), another second angle detector (Dm) that detects a rotational angle of the second rotating body (122), and a processor (40) that specifies a number of revolutions (Rs) of the first rotating body (120).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Osada, Hiroyuki Hishiyama
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Patent number: 11398764Abstract: A mounting structure of a rotating member of an encoder for detecting a phase angle of a magnet provided on a rotor of a motor includes: a rotating shaft configured to be rotated by driving of the motor; the rotating member on which a phase angle detection pattern configured to detect the phase angle is formed; and a boss attached to the rotating member and configured to mount the rotating member to an end of the rotating shaft. In this configuration, the end of the rotating shaft and the boss are provided with a first positioning structure configured to position a mounting position of the boss relative to the rotating shaft about the axis of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Fukuda, Nobuyuki Ootake
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Patent number: 11398762Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The electric pump device includes a motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing includes a motor housing portion for housing the motor and an inverter housing portion for housing the inverter substrate. The motor housing portion has strut portions which extend inside the inverter housing portion and fixed to the inverter substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Tomohiro Sakata, Chisato Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 11381131Abstract: An electric drive device includes: a motor housing for housing an electric motor, wherein the motor housing includes an end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of the electric motor; and an electronic control part arranged at the end face part. The electronic control part includes a control circuit part, a power supply circuit part, and a power conversion circuit part, which are covered by a metal cover, wherein the metal cover is fixed water-tightly to the end face part. The end face part includes a power conversion heat dissipation region and a power supply heat dissipation region. Each of the control circuit part and the power supply circuit part is contained on a circuit board, wherein the circuit board is placed along a plane perpendicular to the rotating shaft, and layered with each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Takuro Kanazawa, Haruaki Motoda
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Patent number: 11374462Abstract: A Brushless Direct-Current (BLDC) motor is provided for a power tool, including a stator comprising a coil, a rotor configured to rotate with respect to the stator, terminals secured to the stator, and a sensor circuit mount attached to the stator. The sensor circuit mount defines a plane having a first side and a second side, the sensor circuit mount including Hall sensors mounted on the first side of the plane of the sensor circuit mount facing the stator. Power-supply lines are secured to the terminals to supply electric current to the coil, the power-supply lines being routed from the terminals without traversing the second side of the plane of the sensor circuit mount. The sensor circuit mount is attached to the stator by at least one fastener that extends through an opening of the sensor circuit mount and a receptacle of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Hatfield, Earl M. Ortt
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Patent number: 11364991Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system comprises first and second co-axial propulsors, one of the first and second propulsor being positioned forward of the other propulsor. A first electric motor is configured to drive the first propulsor, and a second electric motor is configured to drive the second propulsor. The first electric motor comprising a rotor radially inwardly of the stator, and the second electric motor comprises a rotor radially outwardly of the stator. The stator of the first electric motor is mounted to the stator of the second electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventor: Giles E. Harvey
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Patent number: 11362612Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power device of an electric vehicle including a motor housing that is configured to accommodate a motor which generates a driving force, and an inverter housing that has the shape of a cylinder which has first and second opened surfaces, that is coupled to the motor housing such that a shaft which delivers the driving force is coupled to the motor, and that is configured to accommodate an inverter module which supplies first, second and third AC power to the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Youngjin Kim, Taehee Kwak, Taemin Yoon
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Patent number: 11362565Abstract: An electromagnetic automatic balancing device based on radial excitation includes a shell, a rotatory ring, a stationary ring, a pair of connecting bearings and a controller. The rotatory ring includes two bilaterally symmetrical outer excitation magnetic rings, two bilaterally symmetrical inner excitation magnetic rings, two bilaterally symmetrical counterweight discs, two bilaterally symmetrical first counterweight blocks, two bilaterally symmetrical second counterweight blocks and a pair of rotatory-ring bearings. The stationary ring includes a stator, two bilaterally symmetrical excitation frameworks and two bilaterally symmetrical coils. The rotatory ring and the stationary ring are installed in the shell and connected through a pair of connecting bearings. The stator is installed in the center of the shell. The excitation frameworks are respectively fixed at both ends of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xin Pan, Hai-Qi Wu, Zhi-Nong Jiang, Jin-Ji Gao
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Patent number: 11355974Abstract: An axial flux motor for an appliance includes a stator yoke. A plurality of stator teeth extend from the stator yoke in an axial direction and are positioned about a central rotational axis. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of laminations that extend in the axial direction and form a “T” shaped member. The plurality of stator teeth are overmolded with a polymeric material to define a plurality of axial stator poles. At least one winding extends around the plurality of axial stator poles. A ring-shaped rotor rotates about the central rotational axis of the stator yoke. The rotor is positioned proximate an axial end of the plurality of axial stator poles.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventor: James B. Hull
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Patent number: 11349363Abstract: A lamination for use in an integrated drive generator is formed from a plurality of plates having a body including a pair of opposed cylindrical surfaces. Non-cylindrical ditches are defined circumferentially intermediate the pair of cylindrical surfaces. A plurality of passages are formed in an outer periphery of the cylindrical surfaces including relatively large holes extending through a slot to the outer periphery. Grooves are formed intermediate the relatively large holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Derek R. Hochstetler, Ted A. Martin, Duane C. Johnson, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr.