Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinone
  • Patent number: 11804752
    Abstract: A drive includes an electric motor with a brake and a fan cowl. The fan cowl is connected to a housing, in particular to a stator housing part, of the electric motor in a detachable manner. A rod is able to be passed through a cover part, which projects through a recess, in particular a recess arranged in the form of a slot, in the fan cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Steffen Essert, Andreas Lutz
  • Patent number: 11784551
    Abstract: Implemented is an electric actuator that includes a tubular stator and a slider. The tubular stator comprises a flexible stator support member and at least one electrical coil, forming a flexible outer tube. The slider is fitted within a tubular stator. The stator and the slider can axially slide relative to one another. The slider includes a flexible slider support member and at least one magnet, which together form a flexible inner tube. The electric actuator also includes an input power wire and an output power wire that are disposed within the slider. The stator and the slider are both deformable and may axially move relative to another while deformed due to at least one Lorentz force generated within the electric actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Kyber Labs Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler Habowski
  • Patent number: 11784541
    Abstract: A grounding structure for a motor stator includes a silicon steel sheet unit, and upper and lower insulating frames clamping the silicon steel sheet unit therebetween. The grounding structure further includes a conductive member and a circuit board. The conductive member is clamped between the silicon steel sheet unit and the lower insulating frame, and protruding from a lower end of the lower insulating frame. The circuit board is disposed at a lower side of the lower insulating frame, and includes a negative contact that is connected to a lower edge of the conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: YEN SUN TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Graham Chen, Chih-Tsung Hsu, Hsin-Hsien Wu, Chin-Hui Pan, Yu-Chuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11778301
    Abstract: A voice coil motor strongly attached to the base of a camera module comprises the base and a casing. The casing and the base are interlocked with each other. The casing is a hollow structure. The casing comprises a top surface and a side wall surrounding the top surface. The side wall and the base are engaged with each other. The side wall is extended in parts to form at least one extending leg. The extending leg extends to a side of the base away from the top surface and is bent toward the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao-Mei Ma, Shin-Wen Chen, Long-Fei Zhang, Kun Li
  • Patent number: 11777468
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to acoustically decoupled microelectromechanical system devices and, more particularly, to acoustically decoupled microelectromechanical system devices anchored upon phononic crystals. In some embodiments described herein, a device may comprise a resonator, a handle layer, and a pedestal disposed between the resonator and the handle layer, the pedestal connecting the resonator to the handle layer. In the devices described herein, the resonator and the handle layer may be non-coplanar. In some embodiments, the handle layer comprises a phononic crystal to acoustically decouple the resonator from the substrate of the handle layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Farrokh Ayazi, Benoit Hamelin, Jeremy Yang
  • Patent number: 11777374
    Abstract: A motor drive architecture is provided. The motor drive architecture includes a three-dimensional (3D) stack of cold plates on which power electronic components for an electric machine are mountable and supporting structures. Each cold plate has an annular shape with internal fluid pathways. The supporting structures hold the cold plates in the 3D stack. At least one supporting structure defines an internal cavity bifurcated into an internal inlet fluid pathway configured to direct fluid into the internal fluid pathways of each cold plate and an internal outlet fluid pathway receptive of the fluid from the internal fluid pathways of each cold plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu, Aritra Sur
  • Patent number: 11777350
    Abstract: A rotor for a motor includes a sensor ring, a rotor shaft and an over-molded body configured to couple the sensor ring to the rotor shaft. The rotor may further include at least one magnet and a magnet support where the magnet support is disposed between the at least one magnet and the rotor shaft. The over-molded body couples the sensor ring, the rotor shaft, the magnet support and the at least one magnet to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety US Inc.
    Inventor: Irfan Bhatti
  • Patent number: 11770055
    Abstract: An electric machine may include a housing having a front end and a back end where the front end is the primary mechanical coupling end. The electric machine may include a stator and a rotor arranged within the housing and a shaft connected to the rotor. The shaft may extend out of the front end of the housing and the shaft may be configured to be rotationally driven by the rotor or to rotationally drive the rotor. The electric machine may also include an electronic controller configured to control operations of the rotor and stator and the electronic controller may be mounted on the front end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MAGICALL, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel B Wacknow, Dinyu Qin, Randy Martin, Ken Keller, Drew Golonsky
  • Patent number: 11769603
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an H-3 silicon carbide PN-type radioisotopic battery and a manufacturing method therefor. The radioisotopic battery has a structure including, from bottom to top, an N-type ohmic contact electrode, an N-type highly doped SiC substrate, an N-type SiC epitaxial layer, and a P-type SiC epitaxial layer. A P-type SiC ohmic contact doped layer is disposed on a partial upper area of the P-type SiC epitaxial layer, a P-type ohmic contact electrode is disposed on top of the P-type SiC ohmic contact doped layer, a SiO2 passivation layer is disposed on an upper area of the P-type SiC epitaxial layer where the P-type ohmic contact doped layer is removed, and an H-3 radioisotope source is provided on the top of the SiO2 passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lin Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Liya Zhu
  • Patent number: 11764625
    Abstract: A segment sheet for a stator lamination stack of a generator of a wind turbine, wherein the segment sheet has the shape of a ring segment, having a first radial section, in which recesses are provided for receiving a stator winding, having a second radial section, which is arranged radially adjacent to the first section and which forms a segment of a magnetic yoke of the generator, and having a third radial section, which is arranged radially adjacent to the second section. The proposal is that the third radial section has at least two recesses arranged in an azimuthally spaced manner, which are designed for a positive connection to profiled strips arranged on a stator support ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Röer
  • Patent number: 11764661
    Abstract: The eddy current deceleration device according to the present disclosure includes: a stator including a cylindrical body and a plurality of magnets disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical body; and a rotor including a cylindrical part that houses the cylindrical body, wherein the cylindrical part of the rotor includes, on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical part, in order closest to the inner circumferential surface: a first layer consisting of one of an Ni—P alloy that is an Ni alloy consisting of P with the balance being Ni and impurities and an Ni—B alloy that is an Ni alloy consisting of B with the balance being Ni and impurities; a second layer consisting of nickel; a third layer consisting of one of copper and copper alloy; a fourth layer consisting of nickel alloy; and a fifth layer consisting of nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Okada, Yasutaka Noguchi, Nao Otaki, Tetsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11764659
    Abstract: A vibration actuator includes a movable body provided with one of a coil and a magnet that is disposed radially inward of the coil with a gap formed therebetween, a fixing body provided with the other of the coil and the magnet and a shaft portion, and an elastic support portion, the movable body vibrating in a vibration direction by means of cooperation between the coil supplied with power and the magnet. The movable body is provided with a through-hole into which the shaft portion is inserted with a gap formed between the through-hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion and the elastic support portion supports the movable body such that the movable body does not come into contact with the shaft portion at a time when the movable body does not vibrate and at a time when the movable body vibrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Chikara Sekiguchi, Yuta Yoshii, Daisuke Kodama, Shigenori Inamoto
  • Patent number: 11764634
    Abstract: A fan motor waterproof structure includes a fan motor, a disk-shaped member, and a tubular member. The fan motor is arranged with a shaft projecting upward from a motor body. The a disk-shaped member is fitted to an outside of a projecting portion of the shaft of the fan motor on a motor body side. The tubular member is press-fitted onto the disk-shaped member and disposed on an outer periphery of the shaft. The tubular member covers a boundary between an upper surface of the disk-shaped member and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Teppei Kobata, Jun Ishimaru, Takayuki Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 11757330
    Abstract: An outer-rotor brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor is provided including a rotor shaft, a motor housing having an open end and a closed end that supports a first motor bearing, a stator core having an aperture extending therethrough, a stator mount coupled to the open end and including an elongated cylindrical member projecting into the aperture of the stator core and a radial wall that supports a second motor bearing, an outer rotor, and a rotor mount including an outer rim arranged to couple to the outer rotor and an inner body mounted on the rotor shaft. An intermediate bearing is received at least partially within the aperture of the stator core to radially support the stator core relative to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.
    Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Jarrett A. Dunston, Timothy W. French, Gale A. Heslop, Ross A. Billings
  • Patent number: 11752674
    Abstract: A method is provided for the production of an electrical or electronic component having a conductor element with two contact points and a plastic structure injection-molded thereon. A strip-type metal substrate, having multiple conductor element blanks and a carrier structure, is provided. Grooved depressions are produced on all peripheral surfaces of the blanks on a texturing section with one or two laser light sources. With a single laser light source the grooved depressions are produced on at least two primary peripheral surfaces which adjoin one another and form a common edge such that a multiplicity of the grooved depressions extends without interruption continuously into the primary peripheral surfaces. A conductor element blank is separated from the carrier structure. The resulting conductor element is encapsulated with plastic by injection molding on all peripheral surfaces within a section to be encapsulated. The plastic structure thereby formed extends into the grooved depressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KOLEKTOR MOBILITY D.O.O.
    Inventors: Ana Drmota Petric, Zmago Jereb, Ludvik Kumar
  • Patent number: 11757320
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a case, a stator having stator windings, a rotor having a rotor shaft, and at least one main rotor bearing coupling the rotor shaft to the case. Common mode charge builds up on the rotor due to imbalances of the stator. The at least one main rotor bearing has a first electrical resistance between the rotor shaft and the case. The electric motor further includes a rotor discharge bearing coupling the rotor shaft to the case. The rotor discharge bearing has a second electrical resistance between the rotor shaft and the case that is less than the first electrical resistance, causing the common mode charge to discharge through the rotor discharge bearing. In a differing embodiment, a rotor discharge brush coupled between the case and the rotor shaft along the longitudinal axis of the rotor shaft discharges the common mode charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Michael Graves, Diego Alberto Silva Rodriguez, Tyler Nils Grendahl, Alexander Hain
  • Patent number: 11750061
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gear motor formed of a housing. An electric motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor driving a reduction gear train having a plurality of intermediate stages each formed by a shaft coupled to a toothed wheel and to a toothed gear. Also, an output stage is formed by a shaft coupled to a wheel and a coupling component, the shafts of the rotor, of the intermediate stages and of the output wheel being parallel. The gear motor further includes a printed circuit transversely positioned above the stator assembly, wherein the wheel of the output stage is positioned above part of the stator assembly, the shafts of the intermediate stages are located in the zone of the housing located on the opposite side, relative to a transverse vertical plane, of the zone including the shaft of the rotor and the shaft of the output wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MMT AG
    Inventor: Mathieu Watrin
  • Patent number: 11750066
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an electric motor that comprises a housing and a shaft disposed through the housing. The electric motor further comprises a rotor fitted on the shaft within the housing and a stator disposed within the housing and around the rotor. The electric motor further comprises a fan covering disposed on a first end of the housing and a first bearing cap disposed at the first end of the housing, wherein the first bearing cap is configured to house a first bearing, wherein the first bearing cap comprises a plurality of protrusions configured to operate as a heat sink for the electric motor. The electric motor further comprises a first fan disposed at an end of the shaft and within the fan covering, wherein the first fan is operable to generate a first airflow configured to flow over an external surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba International Corporation
    Inventor: Sergio Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11750050
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a motor. The washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub arranged inside the cabinet, a drum rotatively arranged inside the tub, and the motor. The motor includes a stator arranged on the rear wall of the tub, and a rotor. The stator is arranged to rotate by electromagnetically interacting with the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores alternatingly arranged with a plurality of magnets in a radial form. Each of the rotor cores includes a body, a tooth formed in the front end part of the body, a first groove formed in the upper part of the body, and a second groove formed in the lower part of the body. A partition between the first and second grooves constitutes a part of the body providing an interval between the first and second grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ukho Seo, Deokjin Kim, Yongwoo Nam, Jaewoong Jung
  • Patent number: 11742739
    Abstract: A gimmick device according to one or more embodiments may include a gimmick and a voice coil motors (VCM). The VCM includes a casing, a permanent magnet, a yoke and iron-core, a bobbin, and a coil part. The gimmick is mounted to the casing on a movable side. The coil part includes a drive and primary coil serving as a drive coil and a primary coil of a displacement sensor including a differential transformer, the drive and primary coil being interlinked with a magnetic flux by the permanent magnet, and two secondary coils of the displacement sensor. The yoke and iron-core may be disposed in a central space defined in the coil part, and serves as an iron core of the displacement sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuji Kawamoto