Patents Examined by Julio C. Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10608514
    Abstract: A type of electricity and air supplying equipment, which includes: a clutch mechanism, a belt assembly, a motor having a transmission shaft, a generator unit having a generating wheel, and an air compressor having an air compressing wheel. The clutch mechanism has first and second clutch shafts that can be engaged or disengaged. The belt assembly includes a first belt connected between the transmission shaft and the generating wheel, a second belt connected between the generating wheel and the first clutch shaft, and a third belt connected between the second clutch shaft and the air compressing wheel. The motor drives the generator unit to run and generate electricity, and meanwhile, the generator unit drives the air compressor through the clutch mechanism. Thus, the equipment can use single power for electricity generation and high-pressure air production, while providing heat insulation and easy assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventors: Yao-Lin Wang, Chong-Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 10598153
    Abstract: Architecture that harnesses energy from natural atmospheric wind and water currents and self-generated wind and water currents from moving vehicles and natural fluid flow found in nature for moving or stationary applications. The power generation system harnesses energy from natural atmospheric sources utilizing pneumatic and/or hydraulic turbines with compound nozzles, meteorological sensors, computer controlled harmonic resonance valves, a control system, and other components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Inventor: Paul C. Dietzel
  • Patent number: 10578653
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods to determine an overexcitation condition on electric power delivery system equipment that includes a magnetizing core. Overexcitation conditions are determined even during sub-synchronous resonance, ferro-resonance, and other complex events. Power system voltage is integrated and normalized to determine a flux on the magnetizing core. The flux is compared with a protection model to determine the overexcitation condition on the magnetizing core. Once an overexcitation condition is detected, a protective action may be taken to remove power from the effected power delivery system equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ritwik Chowdhury, Dale S. Finney
  • Patent number: 10581355
    Abstract: A double-fed oscillating linear alternator is provided that includes two concentric Halbach type arrays, one stationary and one movable, that do not require magnets or iron laminations to create a strong magnetic field between the two arrays where the movable array oscillates in a linear motion with respect to the stationary array. The two arrays are manufactured from magnet-less and iron-less conductive material using additive manufacturing techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Rodger W. Dyson
  • Patent number: 10554098
    Abstract: A reciprocating piston engine is disclosed having a first inner magnetic field unit, arranged on a first crank web of a crankshaft, and a stationary first outer magnetic field unit, wherein the first inner magnetic field unit and the first outer magnetic field unit together form a first electromagnetic converter, in particular an electric motor or an electric generator. The first crank web has a first compensating weight on a side that is opposite a first connecting rod bearing and that faces radially outwards in relation to a crankshaft axis, wherein the first compensating weight is made of a non-magnetizable material. The first inner magnetic field unit is arranged on a side of the first compensating weight that faces outwards in relation to the crankshaft axis. The invention also relates to a system comprising the reciprocating piston engine, an energy store, an electric control unit and a crankshaft sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: HVD AG
    Inventors: Andreas Von Schuttenbach, Karl-Heinz Grabher
  • Patent number: 10516357
    Abstract: A switched reluctance generator and devices and methods for its control are concerned with generators and controls which can operate in an aerospace environment. The generator may have: a rotor having rotor poles; a stator having stator poles; and a controller. Either the rotor or stator poles each have windings to which current can be supplied to energise the poles and from which current can be drawn to a load; and the controller is arranged to: periodically excite each of the windings in turn to a pre-determined level of current; measure the current generated in each winding; cease the excitation when the current generated in each winding exceeds the excitation current; and direct the generated current in each winding to the load. The generator may thereby avoid the need to determine the position of the rotor poles relative to the stator poles to provide the commutation of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Simon Turvey
  • Patent number: 10508641
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wave energy power generation apparatus, comprising a plurality of wave energy collecting units. Each of the wave collecting units comprises: a potential energy collecting assembly used for collecting wave potential energy, a kinetic energy collecting assembly used for collecting wave kinetic energy and a positioning assembly used for vertically limiting and horizontally positioning buoyancy compartments. The apparatus is beneficial for improving the collection efficiency of wave energy, and simultaneously can satisfy the purposes of long-term safe and stable operation, of being adapted for scaled construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventor: Xianle Gao
  • Patent number: 10511209
    Abstract: An engine generator, including a general-purpose engine, a generator unit driven by the engine to generate electric power and capable of operating as an engine starter motor during engine starting, a case housing the engine and the generator unit, a battery detachably attached to the case, an inverter unit connected to the generator unit, and a power supply circuit interconnecting the battery attached to the case and the inverter unit and supplying power of the battery through the inverter unit to the generator unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsuhisa, Kenji Shibata, Wataru Matsuyama, Minoru Maedako
  • Patent number: 10505479
    Abstract: An arrangement for controlling a synchronous generator having a stator comprising at least one stator winding and having a rotor with an electromagnet driven by a field current is provided. The rotor is rotatable relative to the stator. The electromagnet is inductively coupled to the at least one stator winding. The arrangement includes a measurement system configured to measure at least one quantity and a controller configured to cause shutting down the field current when the at least one quantity satisfies at least one criterion associated with at least one malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Espen Haugan
  • Patent number: 10505419
    Abstract: A wind power generator has a nacelle; a hub rotatable about an axis of rotation with respect to the nacelle; at least two blades fitted to the hub; an electric machine which is fitted to the nacelle, is bounded by an inner surface extending about the axis of rotation, and has a rotor and a stator; and a cooling system for airflow cooling the electric machine, and which has a deflector body for defining a gap between the deflector body and the electric machine and guiding the airflow into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: WINDFIN B.V.
    Inventors: Otto Pabst, Georg Folie, Matteo Casazza, Paolo Bustreo, Peter Gebhard
  • Patent number: 10498273
    Abstract: Described is an independent speed variable frequency generator system that may include a rotor and a stator. The system may further include a pilot generator stage including a magnetic field source positioned on the rotor and a set of pilot multiphase windings positioned on the stator. The system may also include a high frequency transformer stage including a first set of high frequency transformer multiphase windings positioned on the stator and a second set of high frequency transformer multiphase windings positioned on the rotor. The system may also include a main machine stage including a set of main field multiphase windings positioned on the rotor and a set of main armature multiphase windings positioned on the stator, where the second set of high frequency transformer multiphase windings are coupled directly to the set of main field multiphase windings. The system may include a generator control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Lijun Gao, Eugene Solodovnik, Shengyi Liu
  • Patent number: 10498275
    Abstract: A system includes an exciter configured to operate with a synchronous generator. The exciter may be mechanically coupled and rotatable with the synchronous generator, or the exciter may be independently rotatable. The exciter is configured to output a field current for exciting the synchronous generator to produce a voltage and a current at an output of the synchronous generator. The synchronous generator may be synchronized with loads during a time when the synchronous generator is at substantially zero speed and the loads, such as motors, are at zero speed. A controller included in the system is configured to control output of the field current by the exciter with an exciter voltage. The controller may control the exciter voltage to selective include an AC component and DC component in accordance with a rotational speed of the exciter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Jon Blackwelder, Paul M. Rancuret
  • Patent number: 10495068
    Abstract: A nacelle for a wind turbine includes an electrical generator having a stator and a rotor with an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The stator includes an annular support plate. A cooling circuit in the nacelle includes at least a first inlet portion for channeling a fluid cooling medium to the gap between the stator and the rotor. The first inlet portion of the cooling circuit includes at least an inlet hole on the annular support plate for letting at least a portion of the cooling medium flow towards the air gap and an inlet fan for making the fluid cooling medium flow in the inlet portion. The stator includes a circumferentially outer structure attached to the annular support plate and the cooling circuit includes at least a second outlet portion for channeling a heated fluid medium from the air gap between the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS WIND POWER A/S
    Inventor: Giovanni Airoldi
  • Patent number: 10491038
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electrical power subsystem includes determining an auxiliary voltage error value based on a measured voltage of the low voltage distribution panel. The method further includes receiving an active current command. The method further includes calculating a switching pattern for a line-side converter of the power converter based on the auxiliary voltage error value and the active current command. A current level produced by the line-side converter controls a voltage to the low voltage distribution panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Govardhan Ganireddy, Saurabh Shukla, Anthony Michael Klodowski
  • Patent number: 10476363
    Abstract: A hybrid induction motor includes a fixed stator, an independently rotating outer rotor, and an inner rotor fixed to a motor shaft. The outer rotor is designed to have a low moment of inertia and includes angularly spaced apart first bars and permanent magnets on an inner surface of the outer rotor. The inner rotor includes angularly spaced apart second bars and interior flux barriers aligned with the second bars. The outer rotor is initially accelerated by cooperation of a rotating stator magnetic field with the first bars. As the outer rotor accelerates towards synchronous RPM, a rotating magnetic field of the permanent magnets cooperate with the second bars of the inner rotor to accelerate the inner rotor. At near synchronous speed the rotating stator magnetic field reaches through the outer rotor and into the inner rotor coupling the two rotors for efficient permanent magnet operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Louis J. Finkle
  • Patent number: 10476362
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a motor/generator where the stator is a coil assembly and the rotor is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel or where the rotor is a coil assembly and the stator is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel, and where the magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel comprises magnetics having a NNSS or SSNN pole configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Linear Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
  • Patent number: 10468932
    Abstract: An electric motor has a switching unit with a number of contact wires and an annular frame part. The contact wires are arranged to form an interconnect ring for the coil ends of a stator winding and the ends of the wires being connected by insulation displacement contacts. Each of the contacts have two insulation displacement limbs for connecting at least two of the wire ends, the limbs being spaced apart, thus forming an insulation displacement slot therebetween. The frame part of the switching unit has a number of plug-in pockets for receiving the insulation displacement contacts, the number corresponding to the number of insulation displacement contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Stefan Beetz, Maurad Berkouk, Sylvain Cordrie, Dominik Jaeger, Sebastien Labat, Stanley Simpson
  • Patent number: 10464651
    Abstract: A watertight, transom mounted, electric marine sterndrive propulsion drive unit mounted to an external surface of the transom of a marine vessel comprising an integrated electric motor with an output shaft, an intermediate drive shaft mechanically coupled to the electric motor output shaft, one or more propeller shafts mechanically coupled to the drive shaft, and one or more propellers mechanically coupled to the one or more propeller shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Pure Watercraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew H. Rebele, Christopher M. Gil, Kerwin Loukusa, Matthew M. O'Brien, Zachary Meyer Omohundro, Nathan Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10468926
    Abstract: Described herein is a motor including a stationary section and a rotating section. The stationary section includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth, and a coil constituted by a conducting wire wound around each of the plurality of teeth. The rotating section has a plurality of magnets arranged in a circumferential direction, a rotor core which is in contact with the magnets, a magnet holder which is fixed to the rotor core, and an annular plate. The lower surface of the annular plate faces the upper surface of the magnets. Further, the annular plate is fixed to the rotor core and the magnet holder. Employing this structure enables the annular plate to further prevent an upward position shift of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehiro Haga, Masato Aono, Takashi Hattori
  • Patent number: 10461622
    Abstract: A power generator is provided. The power generator may include a battery, a motor and an electrical generator. The motor is powered by the battery which rotates a first rotating shaft. The first rotating shaft rotates a second rotating shaft of the electrical generator, which generates electricity. An electrical wiring may run from the electrical generator to a voltage regulator. An electrical wiring may run from the voltage regulator to the battery, thereby keeping the battery charged. A power inverter may be electrically connected to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Raymond F. Miller