Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinones
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Patent number: 11962188Abstract: An electric machine is provided herein that includes a stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator core having one or more lamination packages. The stator core can define an outer ring and a plurality of teeth extending from the outer ring. A cooling plate may be positioned adjacent to at least one of the one or more lamination packages. The cooling plate can define one or more channels therethrough. One or more windings can be arranged around one or more of the plurality of teeth of the stator core. A rotor can be operably coupled with the stator assembly. A cooling system can be fluidly coupled with the one or more channels of the cooling plate. The cooling system provides a cryogenic fluid through the one or more channels to cool the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Thomas Kupiszewski, Anil Kumar Tolpadi
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Patent number: 11962202Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator including a coil and opposed to the rotor, and a bearing configured to support the shaft. In addition, the motor further includes a first temperature sensor disposed farther toward an outer periphery side than the coil, and a second temperature sensor disposed farther toward an inner periphery side than the coil.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Kouji Kebukawa, Kentaro Suzuki, Wataru Nogamida, Yoshihisa Okabuchi, Takayuki Sugaya, Takahiro Saito
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Patent number: 11955875Abstract: A system may generate energy in response to a movement of a vehicle. The system may include an energy recovery mechanism, a generator, an energy storage, and a motor. The energy recovery mechanism may include one or more rollers configured to rotate in response to a rotation of a drive shaft of the vehicle. The generator may be rotatably coupled to the roller and may be configured to generate an electrical output in response to a rotation of the roller. The energy storage may be electrically coupled with the generator and may be configured to receive a portion of the electrical output to store as energy. The motor may be electrically coupled with the energy storage and may be configured to receive a portion of the energy.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Anthony Macaluso
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Patent number: 11942850Abstract: The invention specifies an electrical machine (1, 1a . . . 1c) which comprises a housing (8), a stator (5) which is arranged in the housing (8) and a rotor (3) which is rotatably mounted in the housing (8). At least one first coolant duct (9) of a first cooling circuit (15) and at least one second coolant duct (10, 10a, 10b) of a second cooling circuit (16) are arranged in the region of the stator (5) in the housing (8). In this case, the coolant ducts (9, 10, 10a, 10b) and the housing (8) form a heat exchanger between the first cooling circuit (15) and the second cooling circuit (16). In addition, the invention specifies a gear motor comprising the electrical machine (1, 1a . . . 1c), in which gear motor the transmission is hydraulically connected to the at least one second coolant duct (10, 10a, 10b) of the second cooling circuit (16). The invention also specifies a vehicle (27) which is driven by the said electrical machine (1, 1a . . . 1c) or by the said gear motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Bernd Haas, Burkhard Pollak
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Patent number: 11936249Abstract: A measurement system for an electrical machine includes a position sensor device arranged on a rotor of the electrical machine, a carrier connected to the position sensor device, and a temperature sensor device fastened to the carrier. The position sensor device is configured to ascertain an item of information about an orientation of the rotor. The temperature sensor is configured to ascertain a temperature of a stator of the electrical machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: TE Connectivity India Private Limited, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Volkswagen AG, TE Connectivity Begium BVInventors: Bram Embo, Dirk Pillu, Rainer Schindel, Sebastian Wiechert, Mathias Dohmann, Manivasakan Ravinthiran
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Patent number: 11929692Abstract: The proposed vibrational energy harvester comprises a frame (118), a mass (114) coupled to first and second primary flexures (110, 112) which are configured to flex and allow the mass to move in a first direction (130), a plurality of secondary flexures (120, 122) which are configured to flex and allow the mass to move in a different second direction (132), and a transduction assembly configured to convert movement of the mass and flexures into electrical energy, preferably of electrodynamic or piezoelectric type. Each of the primary flexures is coupled to a secondary flexure at a position spaced from the mass. The resonant frequency of torsional vibration modes can thereby be raised to a frequency higher than the frequency band of ambient vibrations, which effectively prevents the energy harvester from vibrating in undesirable torsional modes that would result in wear between components.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: 8POWER LIMITEDInventors: Antony Rix, James Home, Yu Jia
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Patent number: 11923754Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a system for cooling an electric motor that includes a rotor shaft rotatably mounted inside a motor housing, a lamination stack integrally connected to the rotor shaft, an encoder-end balance plate integrally connected to a first end of the lamination stack and a first end of the rotor shaft, an output-end balance plate integrally connected to a second end of the lamination stack and a second end of the rotor shaft, an oil supply coupled to the output-end balance plate and the rotor shaft. A closed-looped coolant pathway is formed between the transmission, the rotor shaft, the encoder-end balance plate, the lamination stack, and the output-end balance plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.Inventors: Shawn P. A. Jackson, Steven Vanhee
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Patent number: 11923753Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a stator assembly disposed in the housing, a rotor assembly rotatably disposed in the stator assembly, and an impeller configured to be rotated by the rotor assembly and to generate a flow of air. The stator assembly defines an inner flow path configured to guide a part of the air to pass through an inside of the stator assembly. The housing defines a bypass flow path at an outside of the stator assembly, where the bypass flow path is configured to guide another part of the air to bypass the stator assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Taeyong Jung, Jeongho Lee, Joongkeun Choi, Seongho Cho
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Patent number: 11921283Abstract: A vibrating element includes a movable part, a substrate made of metal, a driving source, and a holding member holding the substrate. The substrate includes a pair of support beam parts, a support part, and a torsion beam part. Each of the support beam parts has a first end part and a second end part. The support part supports the first end part. The torsion beam part swingably supports the movable part. The second end part of each of the support beam parts is provided with a fixing part fixed to the holding member. By adjusting an inclination with respect to the holding member, the fixing part is fixed to the holding member in a state in which each of the support beam parts applies tension to the torsion beam part in a direction away from the movable part in a first direction in which the torsion beam part extends.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Fujita, Kenji Tanehashi, Fuminori Tanaka
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Patent number: 11923745Abstract: Disclosed are a motor accommodation structural body, an automobile including the motor accommodation structural body, and a method for manufacturing the motor accommodation structural body. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, disclosed is a motor accommodation structural body for accommodating a motor for an automobile, the motor accommodation structural body including: a housing having an empty space formed therein; a guide unit which is provided on an outer surface of the housing, has a shape protruding outward, and extends along a longitudinal direction L of the housing; and a fixing bracket unit having a coupling portion which has one side coupled to the guide unit and the other side coupled to the automobile.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Ho Kim, Seung Hun Kim, Yeong Woo Seo
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Patent number: 11916450Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 11916451Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Patent number: 11909280Abstract: A modular device that can operate as an electrical generator. First and second coil support plates are arranged in parallel orientation relative to each other forming a gap between the first and second coil support plates. Removable C-cores, each having wire coils, are removably attached to the first and second coil support plates. A rotor disc having selectively arranged magnets is disposed in the gap between the first and second coil support plates and is permitted to rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotor disc and the parallel first and second coil support plates; a drive motor can power rotation of the rotor disc. As the disc rotates, electrical current is generated. The C-core assemblies can be interchanged, checked, removed and/or replaced while the electrical generator remains in operation without requiring cessation of such operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: EDGE POWER SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Eric J. Blanchard, Dennis L. Fontenot, Jr.
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Patent number: 11894747Abstract: A drive motor for a suction device or a machine tool in the form of a handheld power tool or a semi-stationary machine tool, wherein the drive motor includes a stator having an excitation coil assembly and a rotor having a motor shaft, which is rotatably mounted around a rotational axis on the stator or with respect to the stator by means of a bearing assembly, wherein the rotor is received in a rotor receptacle of the stator, the inner circumference of said receptacle having grooves which extend along longitudinal axes that run parallel to the rotational axis and have insertion openings which are open towards the rotational axis and are provided for inserting excitation coils of the excitation coil assembly and are closed by groove covers, wherein the groove covers are in engagement with the engage-behind contours of the grooves at their opposite longitudinal sides, each of which extends along the longitudinal axis of the respective groove, said longitudinal axis being transverse to a transverse spacing betwType: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Florian Goos, Volker Barth, Hans-Dieter Braun
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Patent number: 11892071Abstract: A bearing unit includes: a thrust damper extendable in an axial direction of a shaft placed in a gearbox, the movement of which toward one side in the axial direction is regulated; a shaft receiver component held by the thrust damper on the other side of the thrust damper in the axial direction; a metal holder that holds the shaft receiver component in such a manner as to be detachable in the axial direction; and an oilless metal held by the metal holder and placed on the other side of the shaft receiver component, in which the thrust damper, the shaft receiver component, the metal holder, and the oilless metal are integrated all together before being incorporated into the gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11888357Abstract: A method and apparatus serve to mount a calibrated encoder assembly to an electric motor so that a sensor output signal waveform produced by the calibrated encoder assembly is aligned with a back electromotive force (BEMF) waveform of the electric motor. The calibrated encoder assembly is fixed to an alignment plate, which is attached to the electric motor. The electric motor is rotated using a servo driven functional tester and the BEMF waveform of the electric motor is measured. The sensor output signal waveform is measured, and the alignment plate is adjusted relative to the electric motor to align the sensor output signal waveform to the BEMF waveform. The alignment plate is secured to the electric motor in the adjusted orientation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Jeremy Beck, Timothy H. Sullivan, Bruce Nielsen
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Patent number: 11884409Abstract: Aircraft electric motors include a motor unit having a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of windings and cooling channels arranged to provide cooling thereto. A drive unit is configured to drive operation of the motor unit. A cooling system includes a working fluid arranged within a cooling fluid flow path, wherein the cooling fluid flow path includes a liquid cooling path configured to direct flow of the working fluid through, at least, the cooling channels of the motor unit and a vapor cooling path configured to direct flow of the working fluid through the drive unit and a separator arranged upstream of each of the liquid cooling path and the vapor cooling path and configured to direct a liquid portion of the working fluid into the liquid cooling path and configured to direct a vapor portion of the working fluid into the vapor cooling path.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Abbas A Alahyari, Kimberly Rae Saviers, Joseph Turney, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
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Patent number: 11888346Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compact bionic eye device based on a two-degree-of-freedom electromagnetically-driven rotating mechanism, which can be used as a vision sensor of bionic robots such as humanoid robots. The compact bionic eye device includes a rotor, stator cores, windings, an angular displacement camera, a spherical hinge pressing block, a stator connector, a camera, a spherical hinge, a camera connector, a rotor connector and an outer spherical shell. According to the compact bionic eye device of the present disclosure, the rotor is driven to achieve limited rotation with pitching and yawing degrees of freedom by regulating a current of the windings of four stators. By adopting a two-degree-of-freedom of electromagnetically-driven rotating mechanism which is compact in structure, the bionic eye device of the present disclosure can achieve a human eye size, and provides important foundation for practical application of bionic eyes in humanoid robots.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Tong Wei, Zhongwen Shan
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Patent number: 11881756Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a ring portion and a hub portion. The ring portion contains a permanent magnet material and is configured to at least partially rotate about at least a portion of a stator of the electric motor. The hub portion is configured as a fan including two or more blade elements each being connected to the ring portion. The blade elements encompass two or more axial air passages. An electric motor including the rotor, a pump device and a household appliance each including the electric motor, as well as a method of producing the rotor, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Michal Kalavsky
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Patent number: 11881749Abstract: The synchronous reluctance motor includes: an annular stator core having slots; and a cylindrical rotor core-having, for each magnetic pole, slits formed by arc-shaped openings which are convex toward a cylinder center and whose apexes are positioned on a q axis. The nth arc that is an inner edge of the opening close to the cylinder center has an arc center point on the q axis at a distance D(n) from-the rotor core. Where the radius of the nth arc with respect to the arc center point is denoted by R(n) and a ratio k(n) is defined as D(n)/R(n), the values of the ratios k(1) to k(n) are determined such that 0.20?k(nmax)?0.37 and k(nmax)< . . . <k(n)< . . . <k(1)<1 are satisfied and a slope a is in a range of (?0.92/nmax)?a?(?0.71/nmax).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Shinsuke Kayano