Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinones
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Patent number: 11622486Abstract: A motor includes: a rotating shaft; a motor portion; a circuit board; a case having a circuit housing recess portion for housing the circuit board; and a cover made of a synthetic resin and sealing the opening portion of the circuit housing recess portion. The cover has an outer circumference rib and an inside rib. The outer circumference rib is located on the outer circumferential side from the opening end surface of the circuit housing recess portion and projects from the outer circumferential edge of the cover toward the front surface side of the cover and the rear surface side of the cover. The inside rib is located inside from the opening end surface and projects at least either on the front surface side of the cover or on the rear surface side of the cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Otawara, Yuki Fujita, Yosuke Kanbe, Kenji Kani, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshiaki Fukuta
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Patent number: 11621602Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes a motor body and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a magnetic core mounted to a rotor shaft. The rotor assembly may include standoffs for accurately axially locating the magnetic core relative to rotor bearings. A drive nut adjustment arrangement may be provided. A mechanical interconnection between the drive nut and rotor shaft may be provided. A trailing end lead screw support may be provided. An axial preload arrangement may be provided to axially locate the rotor assembly within the motor body.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Pacific Bearing Corp.Inventors: Robert Schroeder, Jonathan R. Schroeder, Timothy Joseph LeCrone, Kent Proffitt, Kollin Proffitt, Keith Cummings
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Patent number: 11611268Abstract: Provided is a stator device for an electric flat motor, including a first stator side part and a second stator side part which can be arranged in such a way that a gap is formed between the first stator side part and the second stator side part to accommodate a rotor, the first stator side part includes an electrically insulating carrier substrate with an electrically conductive conductor layer arranged thereon, and wherein coil-like conductor tracks are formed in the conductor layer. The stator device includes a stiffening device for stiffening the first stator side part, wherein the stiffening device is designed as a magnetic inference for the first stator side part. Furthermore, provided is an electric flat motor for a quick adjustment device for a motor vehicle and a method for producing a stator device for an electric flat motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HS PRODUCTS ENGINEERING GMBHInventor: Martin Specht
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Patent number: 11611271Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and an air gap formed between a magnetic device of the rotor and the stator. For the selective setting of the air gap, movement devices implemented by piezoelectric stacks are provided on the rotor and/or on the stator. The movement devices may influence radial positions of the respective magnetic device and thus set the radial air gap width. It is thereby possible to exert open-loop and/or closed-loop control over a power or torque of the electric machine without adjusting stator currents. Vibration or unbalance of the rotor may also be counteracted quickly and effectively during operation of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Christian Stanek, Dieter Cramer
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Patent number: 11608890Abstract: An electro-mechanical park lock actuator includes a shaft and a circuit board. The shaft is arranged for connecting to a transmission park pawl. The circuit board includes a first non-contact inductive position sensor integrated circuit, a first trace electrically connected to the first non-contact inductive position sensor integrated circuit for determining an angular position of the shaft, and an electrical connector for connecting the circuit board to an external master controller. In some example embodiments, the electro-mechanical park lock actuator includes an electric motor drivingly connected to the shaft, and a transmission arranged in a torque path between the electric motor and the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Angad Boralkar, Todd Sturgin, Chris Luipold
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Patent number: 11606006Abstract: A system for overcooling a drive motor and a method for controlling the same may include a first cooling loop in which a first coolant circulate, the first coolant being in a heat exchange with a power electronics (PE) part and a drive motor cooler mounted in the first cooling line and configured to cool cooling oil supplied to the drive motor fluidically connected to the drive motor cooler; a second cooling loop disposed independently from the first cooling loop, wherein a second coolant circulates in the second cooling loop, the second coolant being in a heat exchange with a battery module and a battery chiller mounted in the second cooling loop; and a switch unit configured to selectively shift a flow path of the second coolant such that the second coolant is in a heat exchange with the drive motor cooler.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Byoung Hoon Choi, Sung Hyun Ahn, Hee Ra Lee, Jong Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 11605997Abstract: An electric motor assembly for, for example, a hair dryer, includes an impeller, an outer housing in which the impeller is accommodated, an inner housing concentrically disposed in the outer housing, a stator having one side thereof accommodated in the inner housing, a rotor provided with a rotating shaft having one end coupled to the impeller and rotatably accommodated in the stator, a first bearing disposed at one side of the rotor, a second bearing disposed at another side of the rotor, and a bracket coupled to the stator and the outer housing so as to support the second bearing. Accordingly, initial alignment of the stator and the rotor may be securely maintained.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaeho Kim, Sunghyun Kim, Kyungho Ha, Sunghoon Kwak
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Patent number: 11605990Abstract: An annular core piece in which an annular core piece can be received inside a contour of an outer circumstance of the annular core piece and the number of recesses formed on the outer circumstance is small is provided. In an annular core piece including a plurality of recesses opened in an outer circumferential part, the recess includes a narrowed part and a raised part, and a transverse width of the narrowed part is made narrower than a transverse width of a different region present on a side of a bottom of the recess further beyond the narrowed part, and the raised part is formed such that a part of the bottom of the recess is raised and projected toward an opening end of the recess.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.Inventors: Hirokazu Arakawa, Yusuke Hasuo
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Patent number: 11606014Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for sensing rotor location, the apparatus comprising: a central shaft; a magnet coupled to the central shaft; a sensor portion is disposed correspond to the magnet; wherein the sensor portion comprising a substrate, a first group including a first Hall sensor and a third Hall sensor disposed on the substrate, and a second group including a second Hall sensor and a fourth Hall sensor, the first Hall sensor and the third Hall sensor are arranged to overlap in a radial direction about the central shaft and the second Hall sensor and the fourth Hall sensor are arranged to overlap in a radial direction about the central shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Shung Hun Woo, Nam Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11601023Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a refrigerant passage. An axial direction of the rotor is along the horizontal direction. The stator is placed around the rotor and includes a tubular stator core. The stator core includes: a communication passage via which an inner peripheral surface of the stator core communicates with an outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the communication passage guides the refrigerant from the inner peripheral surface of the stator core to the outer peripheral surface of the stator core; and a projection portion provided on the outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the projection portion extends in the axial direction of the tubular stator core. The projection portion is placed downward in the gravitational direction from an opening of the communication passage on the outer peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Kenta Tabuchi, Masachika Kawa
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Patent number: 11602057Abstract: A display device including a display panel, a shaft, a correcting sensor and a driving module is provided. The display panel has a display surface. The shaft has an axial end and a correcting end opposite the axial end. The correcting sensor is disposed on the correcting end. When the shaft is rotated relative to the axial end, the correcting sensor is moved to a second position from a first position and faces the display surface at the second position. The driving module is configured to translate the shaft when the correcting sensor is at the second position, such that the correcting sensor can be moved to a detecting position from the second position, wherein the distance of the second position relative to the display surface is greater than the distance of the detecting position relative to the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Qisda CorporationInventors: Wu-Shen Lin, Hung-Hsun Liu, Wen-Ching Hsieh, Chin-Yi Yu
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Patent number: 11594923Abstract: A rotor and a motor including the same. The motor includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate by interacting with the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor and rotor cores disposed between the plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a notch cut inward from a circumferential surface thereof, and the notch is formed in an asymmetric shape. The rotor core has a notch formed on one side of the circumferential surface and the rotor core has a shape inverted left and right with the rotor core are alternately stacked, so that a magnitude of a synthetic cogging torque generated in the rotor is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongwoo Nam, Deokjin Kim, Ukho Seo, Jaewoong Jung, Youngkwan Kim
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Patent number: 11581779Abstract: A machined object that can prevent a coating material of a coating surface from peeling off when a machined surface that is adjacent to the coating surface is machined after coating of the coating surface. The machined object includes a main body and a coating material applied to the main body, the main body includes a machined surface that is machined, a coating surface that is arranged adjacent the machined surface via a boundary and to which a coating material is applied, and a recess formed in the main body and recessed toward an inner side of the main body from the machined surface and the coating surface at the boundary, and the recess extends along the boundary so as to separate the machined surface and the coating surface from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11581778Abstract: A motor and a rotating shaft cooling device thereof are disclosed. A rotating shaft of the motor is formed with an annular space. A shaft has a front end and a rear end. The shaft is a blind tube formed with a channel communicating with the annular space through a plurality of nozzles. The distance between the nozzles and the rear end is less than one-half of the length of the shaft. A cooling fluid flows through the nozzles to form a jet array to impinge on the inner wall of the rotating shaft to cool the rotating shaft, and flows back in the annular space to enhance the cooling effect, increase the heat exchange area, and improve the cooling effectiveness of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: National Cheng Kung UniversityInventors: Mi-Ching Tsai, Shyy-Woei Chang, Min-Fu Hsieh, Kai-Jung Shih, Wei-Ling Cai, Bi-Sheng Wei
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Patent number: 11581769Abstract: In one possible implementation, a motor is provided including a rotor and a stator. Front cooling fins are thermally coupled to a front of the stator, and rear cooling fins are thermally coupled to a rear portion of the stator. The winding is between the front and rear cooling fins.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.Inventors: Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Lindsay Aspinwall Sheppard, Bart Dean Hibbs, Wally Ewald Rippel
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Patent number: 11569707Abstract: An enclosure for an electric machine includes a housing defining an axial bore having an opening at a first end of the bore. The housing comprises a first wall having a first inboard surface partially defining the bore, and a first outboard surface spaced from the first inboard surface, the first wall defining a first coolant channel disposed between the first inboard and first outboard surface. An end cap is fastenable to the housing to cover the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Hao Huang
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Patent number: 11569706Abstract: An electric machine comprising at least one housing in which a rotor having coolant guide vanes provided at an end face is accommodated, and an annular cooling fin structure through which coolant conveyed by the coolant guide vanes is passed and having cooling fins which are axially covered by an annular cover section in such a way that there is an inlet area for the coolant supplied by the coolant guide vanes and an outlet area, wherein the cooling fin structure is formed on a side of an axial end wall of the housing facing the interior of the housing, on which an annular disk-shaped cover forming the cover section is attached.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Jason Cox, Zsolt Bárány
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Patent number: 11569719Abstract: An electric motor for an appliance includes a rotor coupled with a drive shaft. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor magnets that each define a magnet assembly including a plurality of magnet portions having different magnet pole orientations. A stator is in electromagnetic communication with the rotor. A gap is defined between the stator and the rotor. The stator comprises a stator core. A plurality of stator poles define the gap. Stator magnets are positioned within the stator core and are located to partially define the gap. Each stator magnet defines a pair of flux paths that extend around an outer perimeter of the stator magnet and onto the gap. The different magnet pole orientations of the plurality of rotor magnets operate to direct an effective magnetic flux toward the gap.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Fang Deng, Cheng Gong
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Patent number: 11559916Abstract: An electric working machine may include: a support rod constituted of metal; a tool disposed at a front end of the support rod; a motor configured to drive the tool; a control unit disposed at a rear end of the support rod and configured to control the motor; and a heat transfer structure configured to transfer heat from the control unit to the support rod.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Takuma Niiyama
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Patent number: 11563362Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electrical flux-switching machine, comprising a rotatable tubular rotor (2), an inner first stator (3), and an outer second stator (4) that is concentric and spaced apart relative to the first stator (3), wherein the rotor (2) is arranged concentrically relative to the first and second stator (3, 4) and is arranged between the first and the second stator (3, 4) in such a way that a first air gap (10) is formed between the first stator (3) and the rotor (2), and a second air gap (11) is formed between the second stator (4) and the rotor (2). The invention also relates to an aircraft comprising a rotating electrical machine of this type.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventor: Mykhaylo Filipenko