Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinones
  • Patent number: 12046974
    Abstract: In an actuator, damper members which connect a movable member and a fixed member are arranged at two places between the end portion of the shaft of the movable member on an L1 side and the opening portion of the first holder of the fixed member and between the end portion of the shaft of the movable member on an L2 side and the opening portion of a second holder. Each of the damper members includes a gel damper member serving as a connection member which is continuously arranged in a gap in a radial direction between the movable member and the fixed member over the entire circumference. In the gel damper member, an inner circumferential portion is fixed to the shaft through a cylindrical first member, and an outer circumferential portion is fixed to the fixed member through a cylindrical second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Kasahara, Masaaki Ando, Shinji Hatano, Masao Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 12046956
    Abstract: Electric motors and methods of controlling electric motors are described herein. The electric motors include a mobile component having at least one permanent magnet coupled thereto and a stator spaced apart from the mobile component. The stator includes at least one stator pole having a ferromagnetic core and a coil wrapped around the ferromagnetic core. The ferromagnetic core is naturally attracted to the at least one permanent magnet. The motors also include a magnetic position control system configured to monitor a position of the at least one permanent magnet relative to the stator and controllably deliver an electric pulse to the coil of each stator pole to generate a repulsive magnetic flux on the ferromagnetic core to cancel an attraction force between the ferromagnetic core and the at least one permanent magnet to control movement of the mobile component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: 121352 CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Normand Bussières, Patrick Martel, Mathieu Paré
  • Patent number: 12046961
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, at least two bearings supporting the shaft, a magnet supported by the shaft between the at least two bearings, a stator surrounding the magnet, and a magnetic member arranged between the magnet and at least one of the bearings in a longitudinal direction of the shaft. The magnetic member has a large outer diameter with respect to an outer diameter of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Kebukawa
  • Patent number: 12034333
    Abstract: A stator includes stator iron cores stacked in a rotor axial direction, and an interphase insulating member arranged between the stator iron cores. Each of the stator iron cores includes a circular back yoke and a stator claw magnetic pole that protrudes from the back yoke in a rotor radial direction. The interphase insulating member includes an insulating portion, arranged between adjacent ones of the stator iron cores, and a support. The stator claw magnetic pole is in contact with the support in at least one of a rotor circumferential direction and the rotor radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Asari, Naohiro Kido, Yoshinari Asano, Hiroshi Hibino
  • Patent number: 12024304
    Abstract: An electric propulsion system comprising an electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly may include a housing having an internal volume, a stator ring disposed about a perimeter of the internal volume, and a rotor positioned within the stator. The electric motor assembly may include a main shaft connected to the rotor via a gear reduction, wherein the main shaft extends through the rotor. The electric motor assembly may include a collar connected to the main shaft, wherein the collar encircles the main shaft, and at least a portion of the collar is configured to direct a fluid away from the main shaft and toward the stator ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Archer Aviation, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Graves, Robert Wayne Moore
  • Patent number: 12027946
    Abstract: A motor unit according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a motor having a rotor that rotates about a motor axis and a stator located radially outside the rotor; an inverter that controls a current to be supplied to the motor; and a housing having a motor housing portion that houses the motor and an inverter housing portion that houses the inverter. The housing further includes an inverter housing provided with a top plate portion covering an opening of the inverter housing portion. The inverter is fixed to a back surface of the top plate portion, facing the inside of the inverter housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nakamatsu, Tsubasa Tamura, Hitoshi Kuroyanagi, Keisuke Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 12015330
    Abstract: This vehicle-mounted electric compressor is provided with a compressor body including a motor for compressing a refrigerant, and an inverter including a power element for supplying the motor with electric current. The power element is provided with: a metal substrate having an electrically conductive layer in a partial region of the surface thereof; a heat-generating element having a metal layer solder-fixed to the electrically conductive layer; and a resin substrate which is disposed in parallel with the metal substrate in a plate thickness direction of the metal substrate, and has a metal pattern printed on the surface thereof, the metal pattern having an electronic component mounted thereon. The electronic component and a terminal of the heat-generating element are connected by means of the metal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Ito, Hiroto Higuchi, Kyohei Watanabe, Sachiko Nakao, Koji Nakano
  • Patent number: 12009732
    Abstract: An assembly including a winding and a cooler in contact with conductors of the winding, the cooler including a container forming a heat dissipator and including a phase change material having the ability to absorb a surplus quantity of heat when the conductors of the winding are subject to an increase in their current density and the heat dissipator is composed of at least two hollow parts separate and nestable with one another and intended to house the phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Sabrina Ayat, Camel Serghine, Thomas Klonowski
  • Patent number: 12003167
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Anthony Macaluso
  • Patent number: 12003138
    Abstract: A housing-free dynamoelectric rotary machine includes a stator having a material layer structure which includes a plurality of material layers arranged in a row along a rotation axis. The material layer structure includes a plurality of thickenings and a plurality of slots, with the slots arranged such that each of the slots is arranged between two respective ones of the thickenings. At least one of the slots is designed to receive a slot wedge, with a respective one of the thickenings being designed to fasten the slot wedge. An end element is arranged on an axial end of the stator and includes a connection box for supply with electrical energy. A connecting element connects the end element to the stator and is connected to the slot wedge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Innomotics GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Reiner Grillenberger, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth
  • Patent number: 12003067
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the wear state of a carbon brush of a brush holder assembly in which the length of the carbon brush is diminished from an initial length as an end of the carbon brush wears away during use. The system includes a wear state monitor, including a sensor, coupled to the carbon brush. The wear state monitor is configured to rotate as the length of the carbon brush diminishes. The sensor is configured to measure an angular displacement of the wear state monitor as the wear state monitor rotates. The measured angular displacement of the wear state monitor correlates to an amount of diminution in the length of the carbon brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CUTSFORTH, INC.
    Inventors: Robert S. Cutsforth, Dustin L. Cutsforth, Douglas Christopher Bruey, Michael Lee Schaaf, David William Drury Harrison
  • Patent number: 11996735
    Abstract: A motor according to an embodiment includes a stator. The stator includes a plurality of connection cores. The connection core includes a plurality of pieces connected via connection portions. The plurality of pieces are arranged in a circular arc shape. The plurality of connection cores are arranged in an annular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kamogi, Tomohisa Suzuki, Masaki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 11990795
    Abstract: An adhesively-laminated core for a stator capable of suppressing an iron loss of an electric motor and also having excellent productivity is provided. The adhesively-laminated core for a stator includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on one another and of which both surfaces are coated with insulation coatings, and adhesion parts which are disposed between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in a stacking direction and cause the electrical steel sheets to be adhered to each other. All sets of the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in the stacking direction are adhered via the adhesion parts. An adhesive forming the adhesion parts is a two-agent type acrylic-based adhesive (SGA) which includes an acrylic-based compound, an oxidizer, and a reducer and in which a portion of the acrylic-based compound and the oxidizer are assigned to a first agent and the remaining portion of the acrylic-based compound and the reducer are assigned to a second agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Takeda, Hiroyasu Fujii, Shinsuke Takatani
  • Patent number: 11990794
    Abstract: Provided is a stator including a stator core composed of an annular core back and teeth projecting from the inner circumference side of the core back, and an end plate for clamping and pressing at least one end side of the core back and the teeth in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Deguchi
  • Patent number: 11984772
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a support device and a working machine arranged with the support device. The support device is configured to support an operating machine and includes: a telescopic member retractable in a length direction; an operating section mounting member connected to a first end of the telescopic member; and a power supply control member connected to a second end of the telescopic member, the first end and the second end being opposite to each other along the length direction; wherein the operating section mounting member is arranged with a plug-in interface; the power supply control member is configured to provide a power supply to the plug-in interface; the power supply control member includes a primary controller for controlling conduction of the power supply and a secondary controller for controlling activation of the operating machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Jinyun Mailin Tools Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Quanyu Hu, Huahua Lu
  • Patent number: 11984779
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a field element having a plurality of magnetic poles of which polarities alternate in a circumferential direction, and an armature including an armature winding of multiple phases and an armature core having a circular cylindrical shape. The armature core is provided integrally with the armature winding. The field element and the armature are provided to oppose each other in a radial direction. An armature holding member includes a circular cylindrical portion assembled on an inner side in the radial direction of the armature core. The armature core and the circular cylindrical portion are fitted and fixed to each other with a predetermined tightening margin. A regulating portion regulates displacement in the circumferential direction of the armature core by engagement in the circumferential direction, and is provided in portions of the armature core and the circular cylindrical portion that oppose each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuuki Mawatari
  • Patent number: 11984771
    Abstract: A motor assembly is provided including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator main body defining a longitudinal axis, stator teeth projecting radially from the stator main body, stator windings wound around the stator teeth, and two winding terminals provided for each stator tooth extending away from the stator main body substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. A circuit board is oriented along a radial plane adjacent the stator. The circuit board includes a central through-hole through which a rotor shaft extends, at least one magnetic sensor mounted on a surface of the circuit board around the central through-hole configured to magnetically interface with the rotor, peripheral openings arranged to receive the winding terminals of the stator, and conductive routings extending from the peripheral openings to connect the stator windings in a series or a parallel configuration and/or a wye or a delta configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Velderman, Andrew E. Seman, Jr., Daniel J. White, Paul Becke, William A. Rigdon
  • Patent number: 11984786
    Abstract: A canned motor includes a stator with a laminated core and a winding with winding heads, and including a rotor, which is mounted so as to be rotatable relative to the stator, and a can element, which is arranged between the stator and the rotor, and a support ring, which is coupled to the can element. The support ring on its own and/or together with the can element provides a support section which extends at least partially axially adjacent to the laminated core. The support section lies with a seal section against a seal device such that a rotor space is sealed off in coolant-tight fashion with respect to a stator space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Philipp Berendes, Stefan Oechslen
  • Patent number: 11979065
    Abstract: Brushless electric motor for an electric handheld power tool, wherein the electric motor has an end plate and a Hall board which is arranged on the end plate, wherein the Hall board is axially fixed to the end plate by an elastic O-ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Schmid, Helmut Burger, Lothar Dietl
  • Patent number: 11962202
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Kebukawa, Kentaro Suzuki, Wataru Nogamida, Yoshihisa Okabuchi, Takayuki Sugaya, Takahiro Saito