Patents Examined by Michael Andrews
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Patent number: 12266974Abstract: A stator assembly, an electrical motor having the stator assembly, a wind power generator set and a method for cooling a stator assembly are provided. The stator assembly includes a stator support and a stator core mounted on the stator support, wherein the stator support includes a support enclosure plate, a first axial air flow channel is fonned between the support enclosure plate of the stator support and a radial side surface of the stator core, and the first axial air flow channel is used for receiving a first cold air flow, so that the cold air flow can flow in the axial direction. The stator assembly can introduce a cold air flow from the other side, opposite an air gap, of a stator during the operation of an electrical motor, so that two radial sides of the stator can be cooled at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT. CO., LTD.Inventor: Shengjun Ma
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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
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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: 12261485Abstract: A rotor includes an iron core; a plurality of permanent magnets housed in magnet slots different from each other formed in the iron core, and arranged in series magnetically; and a flux barrier provided to be close to an end in a direction orthogonal to a direction of a main magnetic flux, for each of at least two permanent magnets among the plurality of permanent magnets arranged in series magnetically. Two instances of the flux barrier corresponding to said at least two permanent magnets arranged in series magnetically, communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Okuyama, Masaki Hirano, Shoujirou Naka, Shunsuke Shimizu, Yoshiki Yasuda, Akio Yamagiwa
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Patent number: 12249889Abstract: Provided is a magnetic-geared motor that can suppress eddy current flowing inside a fastening member and reduce power loss. The magnetic-geared motor includes: a stator; a first rotor provided rotatably relative to the stator and including a plurality of magnetic pole pieces and a plurality of spacers disposed so as to be arranged in a circumferential direction; and a second rotor provided coaxially with the first rotor. Each spacer is composed of a plurality of divisional spacers disposed apart from each other in an axial direction, and a plurality of fastening tools for fastening the plurality of divisional spacers in the axial direction, and the divisional spacers and the fastening tools are electrically insulated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takizawa, Haruyuki Kometani, Ryoji Miyatake, Takuro Yamada, Kenji Tanaka
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Patent number: 12249885Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine is disclosed, the stator comprising a stator core (16) comprising stator slots and a plurality of stator coils. The stator coils comprise side windings (17) located in the stator slots, end windings (18) which extend out of the stator slots, and end leads (28) for connecting the stator coils. The end leads (28) run circumferentially around a radially outwards side of the end windings (18). A spacer (34) may be provided to space the end leads from each other and from the end windings. This may help to improve cooling, help to improve electrical separation, and may be more efficient in terms of space requirements and ease of manufacture than previous arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies LimitedInventors: Yogesh Wani, Peethamparam Anpalahan, Darren Camilleri, Narasimha Saraswati, Hu Guoqing, Lake Zhao
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Patent number: 12249870Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator core, a stator coil, and a shower pipe. An upper part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core includes a circumferential groove that extends in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Axial grooves are located at positions that are spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction, and extend in a direction that intersects the circumferential groove. The axial grooves each open in opposite end faces of the stator core in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. Each axial groove includes opposite ends in the axial direction. The opposite ends have a groove width that becomes narrower as the opposite ends become farther from the circumferential groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hironobu Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12244197Abstract: A stator for an electric machine comprises a cylindrical core defining an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface with a plurality of slots formed between the inner cylindrical surface and the outer cylindrical surface. Windings are positioned on the cylindrical core. The leads of the windings include a plurality of inner leads associated with conductors in an inner layer of the slots and a plurality of outer leads associated with conductors in an outer layer of the slots. A bus bar assembly includes a plurality of inner bus bars and a plurality of outer bus bars, the plurality of inner bus bars connected to the plurality of inner leads, and the plurality of outer bus bars connected to the plurality of outer leads. The plurality of outer bus bars are positioned radially outward from the end turns of the windings and radially inward from the outer cylindrical surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Timothy Beatty, David Lee Durant, Ryan J. Jones, Kirk Neet
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Patent number: 12244198Abstract: A stator coil includes a coil group of coils of three phases of a U-phase, a V-phase and a W-phase, each including a plurality of straight portions inserted into slots of a stator core, the coil group being folded back in a state where input terminals and midpoint terminals are closely arranged, so that forward portions and backward portions of the plurality of straight portions are laminated, and the input terminals and the midpoint terminals of the respective three-phase coils are alternately arranged in a length direction of the stator coil.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Omagari
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Patent number: 12223111Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a linear motor having a housing with an receiving space, a vibration unit and a stator unit received in the receiving space. The vibrator unit includes a weight and an elastic member fixed to the weight. The elastic member includes a first fixation portion fixed to the housing and a second fixation portion fixed to the weight and an elastic portion. An elastic member having a groove penetrating thereon is sandwiched between the elastic portion and the weight. The elastic member includes a first damping portion and a second damping portion arranged on two opposite side f the groove along a vibration direction. The groove can effectively avoid the detachment of the elastic member from the elastic member and the weight, thus improving the vibration stability of the vibration motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd., AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jie Ma
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Patent number: 12208900Abstract: An aircraft interior unit with a detachable panel. The aircraft interior unit comprises a wall comprising a hollow panel, and a door mounted to the wall. The door is slidable between a closed position in which it covers an entrance to the aircraft interior unit, and an open position in which the entrance to the aircraft interior unit is uncovered. In the open position, the door is at least partially disposed within the hollow panel of the wall. The hollow panel can be detached from the rest of the aircraft interior unit, and the door, when moved from the open position, can be detached from the wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Safran Seats GB LimitedInventors: Joseph Vuagniaux, Mark Douglas, Daniel Parish
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Patent number: 12212187Abstract: An electric drive motor has a permanent magnet rotor with a motor shaft on which a permanent magnet carrier is fastened. A first axial end portion of the motor shaft has a seat for an impeller and the permanent magnet carrier carries at least one permanent magnet at a second axial end portion of the motor shaft. The permanent magnet carrier is pot-shaped with a pot base portion, fastened to the second axial end portion and extending radially to the motor shaft, and a circular cylinder wall portion directly adjoining the outer periphery of the pot base portion and coaxially surrounding the motor shaft. The pot base portion and the circular cylinder wall portion have an at least approximately identical or exactly identical wall thickness. There is also described a wet-rotor pump and a household appliance with such an electric drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Michal Kalavsky
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Patent number: 12206310Abstract: A power generation device includes a housing, chambers, and conductive fillers. The housing has a rotation axis. The chambers surround the rotation axis and located inside the housing. The conductive fillers respectively filled in the chambers. The chambers include electrodes. The electrodes are located on the chambers and in contact with the conductive fillers.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Inventor: Kuo-Tso Chen
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Patent number: 12199469Abstract: A material comprises at least one layer of a plurality of domains, each domain being flattened in a first direction and elongated in a second direction normal to the first direction. The flattened and elongated domains define an anisotropic microstructure that facilitates a magnetic flux flow in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Persimmon Technologies CorporationInventors: Martin Hosek, Jayaraman Krishnasamy
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Patent number: 12199488Abstract: A linear transport system includes: a stator module including an iron core that includes a plurality of teeth and a coil wound around the iron core; a movable element that includes a plurality of identical magnets disposed on a side surface parallel to a moving direction, and is propelled by an electromagnetic force from the coil; and a motor drive control device that controls the movable element by supplying an independent current of single-phase AC individually to the coil included in the stator module. When Lm is a magnet pitch that is a pitch of the magnets disposed in the movable element, and Lt is a tooth pitch that is a pitch of the teeth, 1.3?Lm/Lt?1.4 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Takumi Tomatsu, Zaini Ariff, Jun Hosono, Hiroshi Wakayama
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Patent number: 12191717Abstract: A rotor of an electrical rotating device includes a rotor core, plural permanent magnets mounted on an outer circumference of the rotor core, a retaining sleeve that holds the permanent magnets from their outer side, a cooling fluid flow channel formed on each surface of the permanent magnets on a side of the retaining sleeve [or on each surface on a side of the rotor core], and a seal ring. The retaining sleeve is configured of plural divided sleeves divided along a direction of a rotation axis of the rotor. A seam is formed between adjacent divided sleeves in the plural divided sleeves. The seal ring covers the seam from an outer circumferential side [or an inner circumferential side].Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Fuminori Suzuki, Naoki Seki
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Patent number: 12191723Abstract: This rotary electric machine includes two movable parts which are placed with a stator core interposed therebetween and rotate about an identical rotary shaft. At least part of the stator core is formed by stacking thin sheets in a rotation direction of the two movable parts. The stator core has, at both ends, stator core retention portions extended in a direction parallel to surfaces thereof opposed to the two movable parts and perpendicular to the rotation direction of the movable parts. Retention surfaces of the stator core retention portions at both ends are respectively fixed by retention members. The retention surfaces of the stator core retention portions at both ends are formed to face toward each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Hiroshi Mitsuda, Kazumasa Ito
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Patent number: 12191732Abstract: An electric motor is provided that has a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator. The stator includes a plurality of motorettes, each having a ferrous metal core segment, and a conductive winding on the core segment. The plurality of motorettes are arranged in a circular arrangement, and a plurality of wedges are provided, with one of the wedges being positioned in each interface between the conductive windings of adjacent ones of the motorettes that presses the conductive windings of the adjacent ones of the motorettes towards respective ones of the ferrous metal core segments. This provides an arrangement with minimal or no air gaps between the conductive windings and the core segments, or an electric insulator on each of the core segments.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Eric Ubelhart
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Patent number: 12184143Abstract: A linear actuator comprising a mass movably mounted in a linear displacement path, the mass having a magnetic segment, a drive force generator configured to selectively impart acceleration to the mass in the orientation of the linear displacement path, and a reactive force path generating a return force when the mass is displaced from a rest position. The return force being in the orientation of the linear displacement path and towards the rest position, the amplitude of the return force varying as a function of the position of the mass in the linear displacement path in accordance with a force response curve, the reactive force path including a permanent magnet force element disposed transversally adjacent to the linear displacement path and magnetically coupled with the magnetic segment.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TITAN HAPTICS INC.Inventor: Timothy Jing Yin Szeto
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Patent number: 12184212Abstract: A motor main body of a switched reluctance motor includes a rotor-having a plurality of rotor salient poles, a stator having a plurality of stator salient poles, a drive winding of each phase wound around stator salient poles of the plurality of stator salient poles, of the phase, and a permanent magnet disposed in a stator yoke. A drive circuit outputs a drive current to the drive winding of each phase to rotate the rotor. A pulse current output circuit outputs a pulse current to be superimposed on the drive current during an application time shorter than an application time of the drive current to the drive winding of each phase.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Kyoto UniversityInventors: Taketsune Nakamura, Fuat Kucuk