Patents Examined by Michael Andrews
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Patent number: 12381431Abstract: A variable frequency generator (VFG) may include a housing, a shaft, a rotor, and a stator with slots. The VFG also includes a first set of stator windings including a first subset of windings and a second subset of windings and a second set of stator windings including a first subset of windings and a second subset of windings. The windings of the first subset of the first set of stator windings are co-located with the windings of the first subset of the second set of stator windings so as to share a common slot of the plurality of slots of the stator. Further, the windings of the second subset of the first set of stator windings are co-located with the windings of the second subset of the second set of stator windings so as to share a common alternative slot of the plurality of slots of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN POWER USA, LLCInventors: Lev Sorkin, Matthew Thomas Burger, Sara Roggia, Sergey Mischuk
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Patent number: 12381441Abstract: An electric machine assembly includes a shaft configured to rotate about an axis and an end frame coupled about the shaft such that the shaft rotates relative to the end frame. The end frame includes an end surface and a plurality of pins that extend axially from the end surface. The electric machine assembly also includes a fan coupled to the shaft such that rotation of the shaft causes rotation of the fan to facilitate cooling the plurality of pins.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey William Crosson
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Patent number: 12381446Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, and a stator radially outside of the rotor, a reduction gear connected to the motor, a differential connected to the motor through the reduction gear, a housing including a housing space to house the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential, and an oil passage to lead an oil to the motor. The oil passage includes an electric pump and a cooler. The electric pump and the cooler are fixed to the housing. The electric pump includes a portion located vertically below the cooler.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuo Yamaguchi, Yuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 12368331Abstract: An electric propulsion motor system includes a cylindrical stator and rotor, a fluid circulation system providing pressurized fluid, and conductors within winding slots. The stator has a yoke and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the yoke, with winding slots defined between adjacent teeth. Respective tooth tips extend circumferentially into adjacent winding slots and are radially adjacent to a first conductor within the winding slot, with a first channel through which pressurized fluid flows.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Alireza Fatemi, Farzad Samie, Thomas W. Nehl, Chandra S. Namuduri, Gokhan Cakal
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Patent number: 12355301Abstract: The stator for a rotating electrical machine includes an annular first iron core part, which is a stacked body including electrical steel plates, and second iron core part, which is a stacked body including an amorphous soft magnetic metal or a nanocrystalline soft magnetic metal, wherein: the annular first iron core part includes a plurality of tooth parts which protrude toward the inner circumferential side and around which a coil is wound, and first groove parts formed within each tooth part from an outer circumferential surface; and the second iron core parts are disposed in the first groove parts.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Hirohisa Sano, Kyohei Aimuta, Toshio Abe, Motoki Ohta
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Patent number: 12341399Abstract: To provide a motor capable of meeting a demand for size reduction. The motor includes an axial member, a tubular rotating body rotatable in relation to the axial member, a bearing supporting the rotating body with respect to the axial member, and a stator inside the rotating body. The rotating body preferably includes a tubular member formed of a single member, and a magnet.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Hitoshi Iwata, Naoki Ohsawa, Shoma Yamanishi, Toshiyuki Nishikata, Seiji Mitamura, Michihiro Shimizu, Yuta Amagi
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Patent number: 12328032Abstract: Disclosed herein is an axial flux motor. The axial flux motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor disc, a plurality of rotor disc teeth provided on a first side of the rotor disc, and a cage. The stator assembly includes a stator base, a plurality of electromagnet assemblies, a supporting plate, and a bearing housing. An electromagnet assembly from the plurality of electromagnet assemblies comprising a core, a first fixture, a second fixture, a coil winding, and a couple of connecting screws. The yoke is configured to be secured between the first fixture and the second fixture.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignees: Durali System Design & Automation Co., Sharif University of TechnologyInventors: Mohammad Durali, Ali Nickandish
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Patent number: 12323009Abstract: A drive shaft of a dynamoelectric machine includes at least two different heat conduction paths that are thermally separate from one another. Each of the at least two heat conduction paths has two physically separate ends and is embodied such that heat is able to couple into the drive shaft at a first one of the two ends and to couple out of the drive shaft at a second one of the two ends.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Innomotics GmbHInventor: Markus Hoesle
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Patent number: 12323006Abstract: A magnet pole (10) formed by a plurality of elongated single magnets grouped into a bundle, oriented magnetically longitudinally and extending parallel between a front face and a rear face of the magnet pole (10). The elongated single magnets are connected to one another. A first group of single magnets (4) has a larger cross-section or a differently shaped cross-section than at least a second group of at least one single magnet (4 a), there being a greater number of single magnets (4) of the first group than the at least one single magnet (41) of the at least one second group.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Whylot SASInventor: Vasile Mihaila
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Patent number: 12316181Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine. The stator includes: a tubular stator core and a coil including coil segments inserted in slots of the stator core. The coil segments include segment end portions outwardly protruding from an axial end face of the stator core. The coil includes welded portions each of which is constituted by the segment end portions that are welded to each other. The welded portions include a plurality of kinds of welded portions that are different from each other in a welded manner in which the segment end portions are welded to each other, such that the plurality of kinds of welded portions are arranged in circumferential direction of the stator core and/or in a radial direction of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryosuke Osugi
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Patent number: 12316200Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor housing having a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, multiple core assemblies along the circumference of the rotor to form a magnetic path, and a first bearing housing supporting one side of the shaft, a housing cover coupled to the motor housing, an impeller installed on the shaft, a diffuser coupled to the housing cover between the impeller and the rotor, and a shroud containing the impeller and the diffuser. The multiple core assemblies are contained independently and spaced apart from each other along the circumference of the rotor. The housing cover includes a second bearing housing supporting the other side of the shaft. The motor housing includes core support portions for supporting the multiple core assemblies independently, and a first bridge extending from the core support portions to connect the core support portions and the first bearing housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaehoon Jeong, Chaseung Jun, Jinwook Cha, Charyeom Park
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Patent number: 12316189Abstract: In the magnetic flux modulation type magnetic gear which uses pole pieces, improvement in demagnetization resistance and suppression of the reduction in torque were issues. Therefore, to the pole pieces provided in a torus shape, a magnetic flux modulation type magnetic gear arranges concentrically a first rotator on the inside of the pole piece and a second rotator on the outside, so that the rotors can be rotated relatively, with the center of the pole pieces as the rotation axis, wherein a first hole part stores, on the inside of the rotator, a first permanent magnet prepared in the rotator, having inclination of a predetermined angle, with respect to the line segment which shows a magnetic pole center, when viewed from the rotation axis. The magnetic gear is configured so as to use the amount of permanent magnets as much as possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kodai Okazaki, Junji Kitao, Yoshihiro Miyama
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Patent number: 12301066Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a housing, and an encoder assembly. The housing defines a motor chamber in which the stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The housing includes an endshield that defines in part the motor chamber. The encoder assembly is configured to sense an operational parameter of the motor and includes an encoder and an encoder cover. The encoder is adjustably positioned within an axially recessed channel of the endshield. The encoder cover is secured relative to the endshield to at least partially overlie the encoder.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: John M. Tucker, Jeffrey M. Hutsler
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Patent number: 12294253Abstract: A system for mitigating induced currents in an electric motor having a shaft includes: a brush holder having a handle end, the brush holder having: a brush holder handle at the handle end; and a shaft grounding brush attached to the brush holder handle, the shaft grounding brush including a contact at a contact end of the brush holder, the contact end being opposite the handle end; and an end bell of the electric motor, the end bell receiving the contact end of the brush holder such that the contact of the shaft grounding brush contacts the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Robert J. Mask, III, Mark J. Sharum, Bevan J. Christiansen
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Patent number: 12289027Abstract: Provided are a magnetic field generating device and an electric motor with which it is possible to generate a large amount of magnetic flux using a simple construction. The magnetic field generating device is provided with a magnetic pole element, a facing magnetic body opposing the same in an opposing direction, and an inner support member. The magnetic pole element includes a plurality of first iron cores, a plurality of second iron cores, a plurality of third iron cores, a plurality of fourth iron cores, and a plurality of back surface permanent magnets. Each of the plurality of first to fourth iron cores has a magnetic pole surface opposing the facing magnetic body and a back surface on the opposite side thereto, and the plurality of back surface permanent magnets are disposed on the back surfaces of each of the plurality of first to fourth iron cores.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventor: Shumpei Hayashi
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Patent number: 12278573Abstract: Provided is a friction nano power generation synaptic transistor. The friction nano power generation synaptic transistor includes a friction nano generator, a synaptic transistor, a substrate, an electrode layer formed on the substrate, a shared intermediate layer formed on the electrode layer; a synaptic transistor active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode which are formed on the shared intermediate layer; and a positive friction layer and a negative friction layer formed on the shared intermediate layer, where the shared intermediate layer is used as a dielectric layer of the synaptic transistor and an intermediate layer of the friction nano generator.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITYInventors: Qihan Liu, Chun Zhao, Cezhou Zhao, Yina Liu, Li Yang
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Patent number: 12278550Abstract: A motor stator includes a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth on an inner diameter thereof and defining a respective plurality of slots between the plurality of stator teeth. A plurality of windings are disposed in the slots. A heat pipe network includes a plurality of evaporator portions including a hollow structure disposed in at least a portion of the plurality of slots and including an interior having a wick extending along the interior of the hollow structure. A condenser portion has an interior portion in communication with the plurality of evaporator portions and is located at an end of the stator core. The wick of each of the plurality of evaporator portions extend into the condenser portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Alireza Fatemi, Chih-Hung Yen, Farzad Samie, SeungHwan Keum, Thomas W. Nehl, Xiaofeng Yang
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Patent number: 12273008Abstract: A cooling sleeve for an electric machine is provided. The cooling sleeve includes: a cylindrical body having an exterior surface, a first channel formed in the cylindrical body and having a first inlet for receiving a cooling fluid, and a second channel formed in the cylindrical body and having a second inlet for receiving the cooling fluid. The first inlet and the second inlet are formed on the exterior surface at a center along a length of the cylindrical body. A plurality of turbulators are formed in the first channel and the second channel and a cylindrical cover is configured to be disposed over the cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Cristian E. Anghel, Toren S Davis, Balwinder Singh Birdi
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Patent number: 12266987Abstract: A rotating brush assembly for an electric motor, including a commutator and a plurality of brushes, each of the brushes rotatingly mounted on an axle disposed between arms coupled to respective first and second brush holders, wherein the brush holders are urged toward said commutator with a spring, and wherein the brushes rotate in a direction opposite the direction in which the commutator rotates.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Inventor: Larry A. Burchfield
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Patent number: 12266983Abstract: The present invention involves in the technical field of resolver transformers, specifically in a motor-integrated resolver transformer simulation device and the simulation method thereof. The present invention obtains the current sinusoidal and cosinusoidal signals of a motor module through a resolver transformer module provided therein, and compare them with the excitation signals inputted by a motor controller, so as to determine whether the resolving circuit of the motor controller is faulty, and, by improving the brush device of the motor module, the service life of the motor module is increased and the testing cost is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CHANGZHOU HUAXUAN SENSING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Yan Huang, Weifeng Ma