Patents Examined by Maged M Almawri
  • Patent number: 11482899
    Abstract: It has been confirmed that even though there is a difference in the dimension of a perpendicular reference surface of a permanent magnet, there is almost no change in surface magnetic flux density, and variations in the dimension of the perpendicular reference surface do not much affect the surface magnetic flux density. Therefore, even though variations occur in the dimension of the perpendicular reference surface, variations in the characteristics of an IPM motor are prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ko Yanagihara, Atsushi Tada, Shinji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11482904
    Abstract: A stator (30) of an electric machine has a stator lamination stack (20) that comprises stator laminations (1). The stator (30) has at least one stator winding with conductor bars (31) arranged in slots of the stator lamination stack (20) and fixed in the slots of the stator lamination stack (20) with the aid of a fixing device. To improve the stator (30) with regard to the service life thereof and/or to the producibility thereof, at least one clamping stator lamination (8;28) has a clamping geometry that serves as the fixing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Johannes Stoll, Rolf Graef
  • Patent number: 11476747
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic retarder and generator assembly, the assembly including a rotor, a retarder armature carried by the rotor, a generator inductor carried by the rotor, a stator including a sleeve having one outer axial surface and one inner axial surface, a retarder inductor arranged on the outer axial surface of the stator and a generator armature arranged on the inner axial surface of the stator. The sleeve includes several bodies of nonmagnetic material arranged between the inductor of the retarder and the armature of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TELMA
    Inventors: Marie-Pierre Bernicot, Mbarek Akafou, Rafik Lounis, Nicolas Quennet
  • Patent number: 11476733
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine for use with coolant includes a stator and rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor, rotor shaft, and first and second end rings. The rotor has inner and outer diameter surfaces and an embedded set of rotor magnets proximate the outer diameter surface. The shaft is connected to the rotor and defines a main coolant passage along an axis of rotation. Radial shaft coolant passages are in fluid communication with the main coolant passage. The end rings are positioned at opposing distal ends of the rotor. The shaft coolant passages direct the coolant into the rotor and/or the end rings such that the coolant flows axially through rotor cavities of the rotor and cools the rotor magnets via forced convection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Farzad Samie, Alireza Fatemi, Derek F. Lahr, Erik B. Golm, Xiaofeng Yang
  • Patent number: 11476729
    Abstract: A salient pole machine (30) comprises a rotor (20) rotating about a machine axis, said rotor (20) having at its circumference a rotor rim (21) with a predetermined outer radius (29), whereby a plurality of salient poles (22), each extending in radial direction, is attached to said rotor (20) at said rotor rim (21) at a respective pole-rim interface (24). The mechanical properties of the configuration are improved by providing at said pole-rim interface (24) a plurality of axial rib-like rim extensions (25) projecting radially from said rotor rim (28) with a predetermined circumferential distance (d) between neighboring rim extensions (25), by each salient pole (22) having a plurality of axial pole grooves (26) matching and receiving said rib-like rim extensions (25) at the respective pole-rim interface (24), and by providing fixing elements (27) to fix said rib-like rim extensions (25) in said pole grooves (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: GE Renewable Technologies
    Inventor: Michel Whebe Spiridon
  • Patent number: 11473570
    Abstract: A mass shifting mechanism between twin equilibrium points comprises a movable slider between two equilibrium positions and actuating means active on the slider to bring it and keep it in a first and a second stationary spatial configuration through an action of electromagnetic field, the second stationary spatial configuration being different from the first stationary spatial configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CEME S.P.A.
    Inventor: Vincenzo Mercantonio
  • Patent number: 11469648
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a rotating shaft extending along a center axis, a cylindrical rotor core provided outside the rotating shaft in a radial direction, and two discoid weight plates provided at two ends of the cylindrical rotor core in an axial direction, and a stator opposing the rotor in the radial direction. A radius of each weight plate is smaller than a radius of the rotor core, and a difference between the radius of the rotor core and the radius of each weight plate is larger than an air gap between an outside of the rotor core in the radial direction and an inside of the stator in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Nan Lin, Guo-Jhih Yan, Sheng-Chan Yen, Yu-Wei Hsu, Kuo-Min Wang, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Patent number: 11462960
    Abstract: A rotor apparatus for a permanent-magnet motor has the main technical feature of a ring rotor with its magnets arranged according to the Halback magnetic ring array. In addition, for a distance between magnets of a parallel array and the outer ring edge of the rotor, and for a diameter difference between the inner and outer diameters of the ring rotor, a ratio between said distance/said diameter difference is between 0.43 and 0.48.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HIWIN MIKROSYSTEM CORP.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsun Pan, Cheng-Te Chi, Ruei-Bin Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11456629
    Abstract: A stator core is configured by assembling divided cores in an annular shape. Each core includes a yoke part extending in a circumferential direction, and having opposite first and second facing sections. The first facing section includes an inner circumferential protrusion, an outer circumferential protrusion, and a central recess. The second facing section includes an inner circumferential notch, an outer circumferential notch, and a central protrusion. When the cores are assembled, the inner circumferential protrusion faces the inner circumferential notch, the outer circumferential protrusion faces the outer circumferential notch, and the central recess faces the central protrusion, and the outer circumferential protrusion is formed so as to have a width larger in a direction orthogonal to a circumference direction than that of the inner circumferential protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA INDUSTRIAL TOOLS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinari Sato, Yoshimu Tanimoto, Kaoru Koga
  • Patent number: 11456637
    Abstract: A motor includes a stationary unit including a stator and a rotation unit including a magnet unit disposed radially outward of the stator and a cylindrical rotor holder. The magnet unit is held on a radially inside surface of the rotor holder. The magnet unit includes first magnets each of which has N and S poles magnetized in a radial direction, and second magnets each of which has N and S poles magnetized in a circumferential direction. Magnetic poles of radially inner end portions of the first magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction via the second magnet are different from each other. Magnetic poles of circumferential end portions of the second magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction via the first magnet are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sakauchi, Yusuke Ichioka, Takahiro Suginohara
  • Patent number: 11451119
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a rotation shaft, a rotor core attached to the rotation shaft, and a rotor magnet embedded in the rotor core, a stator disposed on an outer side of the rotor in a radial direction about a central axis of the rotation shaft and surrounding the rotor, a board disposed on one side of the stator in a direction of the central axis, and a microcomputer mounted on the board. The microcomputer is disposed on an outer side of the rotor magnet in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Ryogo Takahashi, Kazuma Nomoto
  • Patent number: 11444524
    Abstract: A vibration actuator has a movable body and a fixing body. The movable body includes: a disk-shaped magnet; annular cores each having an opening at a center thereof; and spring stopper weight parts, and stacked such that the magnet is disposed at a center of the movable body, the annular cores is fixed on front and rear surfaces of the magnet in its axial direction, and the spring stopper weight parts are joined with the annular cores at the opening. Each spring stopper weight part includes: a spring fixing part connecting to one of the elastic support parts; a joining protrusion part inserted into the opening of one of the annular cores; and a weight body part provided between the spring fixing part and the joining protrusion part, having a larger diameter, and disposed to face and join with an annular surface of one of the annular cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Chikara Sekiguchi, Shigeyuki Shimomura, Daisuke Kodama, Yuta Yoshii, Yasutaka Kitamura, Shigenori Inamoto
  • Patent number: 11444506
    Abstract: The invention relates to a line bushing (1) in a housing (2) of an electrical machine (1) in explosive atmospheres, having a threaded bush (100) and a terminal stud (200), wherein the threaded bush (100) is an insulator and is located in, particularly screwed into, a recess in the housing (2), wherein the terminal stud (200) is made from an electrically conductive material and is provided, at least in sections, with a thread, wherein connection options (206) for lines and braids are provided at either end of the terminal stud (200), wherein the terminal stud (200) can be screwed into the threaded bush (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Meyer, Thomas Mutzl, Josef Sebastian Schneider
  • Patent number: 11437873
    Abstract: A plurality of split iron cores combined with each other to form an annular shape and having yoke portions arranged along an outer circumference of the annular shape and tooth portions protruding to an inner side in a radial direction from the yoke portions, insulators disposed at both ends in an axial direction of each split iron core, and a coil wound around each tooth portion through at least parts of the insulators, are included. The insulators have protrusions protruding from end surfaces in a circumferential direction of each yoke portion. When the coil is wound around the tooth portion, each protrusion is deformed, thereby being fixed together with the yoke portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Shinohara, Daisuke Shijo, Takao Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 11437872
    Abstract: An electric machine includes an annular stator and a rotor disposed within the stator. The stator has a plurality of stator segments in the circumferential direction and a stator winding applied to a winding support. Each stator segment has lateral cutouts in the circumferential direction. In each case a winding support having a toroidally applied stator winding is introduced into lateral cutouts, which are adjacent in the circumferential direction, of adjacent stator segments. The radial outer side of the stator winding is partially surrounded by stator segment outer arms of mutually adjacent stator segments in such a way that a radially directed outer gap is formed between the stator segment outer arms of the two mutually adjacent stator segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Stauder, Bernhardt Lueddecke, Lars Vornweg, Uwe Schein, Dominik Just
  • Patent number: 11431209
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator (8) for an electromagnetic motor or generator comprising windings (4) and a magnetic circuit, the stator (8) comprising a yoke with a circular or polygonal shape and winding support teeth (3). Each winding (4) rests on a tooth (3) while at least partly surrounding a winding support (13, 14), each winding support (13, 14) comprising or being associated with snap snap-fitting means (15?) that cooperate with complementary snap-fitting means (3?) supported by a tooth (3) associated with the winding support (13, 14) so that the winding support (13, 14) is fastened to the associated tooth (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Whylot SAS
    Inventors: Vasile Mihaila, Romain Ravaud
  • Patent number: 11424649
    Abstract: An internal rotor for an electric motor has a laminated rotor core with a multiplicity of rotor plates, and multiple pockets in each of which pocket a rotor magnet is at least partially arranged. The rotor plates have first recesses for forming the pockets and at least a first rotor plate which has at least a second recess associated with a first recess. A sprung web-shaped clamping element is formed between the second recess and the associated first recess, and tensioned toward the second recess by the associated rotor magnet to apply a force to the associated rotor magnet toward the first recess in order to hold the associated rotor magnet in the pocket. A rotor plate holds a rotor magnet in a pocket of a laminated rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Arnold Schulde, Juergen Herr, Johannes Fehrenbach, Markus Flaig, Christoph Mayer, Serkan Poyraz, Bozidar Radjenovic
  • Patent number: 11418077
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets, which are arranged within a magnet pocket each, formed in the rotor core, with a clearance extending in the axial direction, and a shaft connected to the rotor core for conjoint rotation. A cooling channel arrangement is formed within the rotor assembly, and includes a first cooling channel extending within the shaft, a second cooling channel fluidically connected to the first cooling channel and extending in the radial direction along an end face of the rotor core, and a third cooling channel, which, adjoining the second cooling channel, extends in the axial direction through the clearances in the magnet pockets. The arrangement further includes a separation element, which separates an interior of the shaft into a first shaft portion, in which the first cooling channel extends, and into a second shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Krais, Philipp Söntgerath
  • Patent number: 11418099
    Abstract: A vibration actuator has: a fixing body; a movable body; and first and second elastic support parts disposed to sandwich the movable body in the vibration direction and configured to movably support the movable body with respect to the fixing body by elastic deformation, wherein the movable body includes: a core provided to both sides of a magnet of the movable body and having an opening; and spring stoppers disposed between the magnet and the first elastic support part and between the magnet and the second elastic support part; and wherein the spring stoppers are each fixed such that one end is fixed to one of the first or second elastic support part and such that another end is fixed by insertion into the opening and abutment on a surface of the movable body core facing the one of the first or second elastic support part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Chikara Sekiguchi, Shigeyuki Shimomura, Daisuke Kodama, Yuta Yoshii, Yasutaka Kitamura, Shigenori Inamoto
  • Patent number: 11418080
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a rotor core, an end plate disposed on a rotor core end surface, and a stator including a stator core disposed at a gap from the rotor, and a coil provided to the stator core. The stator core includes a stator yoke portion having a substantially annular shape, stator teeth portions provided along a circumferential direction and protruding radially from the stator yoke portion, and slot portions formed between adjacent stator teeth portions. The coil is inserted into each slot portion of the stator core and includes a coil end portion protruding in an axial direction from a stator core end surface. A refrigerant is discharged radially outward of the rotor. A refrigerant guide unit for guiding the refrigerant discharged radially outward in a protruding direction of the coil end portion is disposed on the stator core end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Tsutsui