Patents Examined by Michael Andrews
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Patent number: 11552529Abstract: A hobby servo block system for increasing the load-bearing capacity of a hobby servo motor is provided. The system includes aa servo plate configured to receive a hobby servo motor. The system also includes a hub plate configured to couple to the servo plate such that the hub plate and the servo plate are substantially perpendicular. The system further includes a ball bearing plate configured to couple to the hub plate such that the ball bearing plate and the servo plate are substantially parallel.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: RobotZone, LLCInventor: Brian T. Pettey
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Patent number: 11552511Abstract: 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 formed 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: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Shengjun Ma
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Patent number: 11527934Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine (10), comprising at least one first coil (12), which is surrounded by a first electrical insulation element (24) at least in a partial region, and at least one second coil (14), which is surrounded by a second electrical insulation element (26) at least in a partial region, wherein at least one electrically conductive layer (28) provided in addition to the coils (12, 14) and in addition to the electrical insulation elements (24, 26) is arranged between the coils (12, 14).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Wolfram Siegfried Birkmayer, Karsten Brach, Korbinian König-Petermaier
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Patent number: 11522431Abstract: A linear motor/generator/transmission system includes a guideway with rails and a plurality of stator cores and coils evenly disposed along the length and in the center of the guideway. The system also includes a carriage configured to travel along the guideway having at least two magnet bars with alternating pole magnets, each successive magnet of each magnet bar mounted in front of the other in a direction of travel of the carriage. In embodiments, the magnet bars are mounted parallel to and on either side of a longitudinal centerline of the carriage such that, when adjacent to the center line and each other, the at least two magnet bars are positioned over the stator coils and are configured to be slidably translated away from the center line of the carriage to a position where the at least two magnet bars are not over the stator coils.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Falcon Power, LLCInventors: Harley C. McDonald, James L. Bailey, Matthew C. McDonald
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Patent number: 11519427Abstract: A brushless motor comprising a rotor assembly comprising a shaft, an impeller, a bearing assembly and a rotor core; a stator assembly; a frame comprising an outer portion and a support portion radially inward of the outer portion, the support portion supporting at least one of the rotor assembly and the stator assembly; and at least one strut extending between the outer portion and the support portion, wherein the strut and the stator assembly are aligned such that at least part of the strut and at least part of the stator assembly are disposed along a line substantially parallel to a rotation axis of the rotor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventor: Mark Andrew Johnson
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Patent number: 11522401Abstract: A radial gap type rotating electrical machine using amorphous metal that can realize high efficiency and is excellent in productivity is provided. The radial gap type rotating electrical machine according to the present invention includes a rotor including a rotary shaft and a rotor iron core that rotates around the rotary shaft, and a stator including a stator iron core that is disposed to face the rotor iron core. The stator iron core has an annular shape and has a back yoke (4) having a plurality of recesses provided along inner periphery, and a tooth (3) having one end fitted to the recess and the other end protruding toward the rotor iron core, the tooth (3) has a laminate in which amorphous metal foil strips are laminated in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and an insulating member (2) that holds the laminate, and a magnetic material (1) is provided in an end portion on a side facing the rotor of the insulating member (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Enomoto
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Patent number: 11515762Abstract: In order to provide a transport unit for a long stator linear motor, wherein the orientation thereof can be easily determined on the long stator linear motor during operational use, according to the invention, the transport unit (1) has a first guide side (FS1) on which a first guide group (G1) is arranged and a second guide side (FS2) on which a second guide group (G2) is arranged. A first magnetic side (S1) positioned laterally relative to the longitudinal direction (x) is opposite a second magnetic side (S2), wherein the first magnetic side (S1) has a magnetic variable with a first value (w1) at a first test distance (a1) from the center of the first longitudinal extension (I1) in the direction of the first end (I1e), and on the first magnetic side (S1), a magnetic variable with a second value (w2), corresponding to the first value (w1), at the first test distance (a1) from the center of the first longitudinal extension (I1) in the direction of the first start (I1a).Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventor: Friedrich Forthuber
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Patent number: 11509206Abstract: A linear-motor type transport device for transporting material for an absorbent article includes: a shaft portion that has an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction; a pair of guide portions that is disposed on the shaft portion with a predetermined axial-direction space between the guide portions and that forms an orbital transport path that extends along the circumferential direction; a mobile unit that moves on the transport path along the guide portions while supporting a transport head rotatably about a rotation axis; a cam mechanism that rotates the transport head about the rotation axis through a predetermined angle when the mobile unit is moved on the transport path; and a controller that moves the mobile unit by supplying currents to conductors and generating a propulsive force between one of the conductors and a magnet that is disposed on the mobile unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11509202Abstract: A permanent magnet motor is provided that produces variable magnetic flux. The motor may include two different types of permanent magnets with different coercivities. The magnetic state of one of the magnets may be altered during use. In one state, the effective magnetic flux of the motor is greater, and in another state, the effective magnetic flux of the motor is less.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Chenjie Lin, Matthew Henriksen, Ghanshyam Shrestha, Elio Alberto Perigo
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Patent number: 11502589Abstract: A rotor of an induction machine includes a rotor core structure and a cage winding. The cage winding includes rotor bars in slots of the rotor core structure and end-rings connected to ends of the rotor bars. The ends of the rotor bars are attached to openings of the end-rings by expansion of the ends of the rotor bars in transverse directions of the rotor bars caused by axial press having been directed to the ends of the rotor bars. The material of the rotor bars is softer than the material of the end-rings. Thus, unwanted shape deformation of the end-rings can be avoided when the ends of the rotor bars are axially pressed. The material of the end-rings can be for example copper alloy with additions of chrome and zirconium, whereas the material of the rotor bars can be for example copper.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: THE SWITCH DRIVE SYSTEMS OYInventors: Panu Hava, Panu Kurronen, Kimmo Heinonen, Heikki Sallinen
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Patent number: 11502580Abstract: A linear actuator includes a guide rail, a wall portion, a coil, a heat transfer member, a heat radiation member, and a heat insulation member. A mover having a permanent magnet is movable along the guide rail. The wall portion is installed on a pedestal and supports the guide rail. The heat transfer member is coupled to the coil and the heat radiation member is coupled to an end of the heat transfer member. The heat insulation member is installed on the pedestal and coupled to the heat radiation member. The heat transfer member is arranged apart from the wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ryota Okazaki
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Patent number: 11496030Abstract: A motor (1) has a pair of journal supports (2), between which is journalled a rotor (3) on a shaft (4). The rotor has a disc (5) fast with the shaft and at right angles to it, whereby it rotates without wobble. At the circumference of the disc, a plurality of short, circular cylindrical permanent magnets (6) are provided at the same radial distance (7) from the shaft to their polar axes, tangential to the disc at their mid-point, with their polar axes in the central plane of the disc and the midpoints of the axes on a circular path (9) of radius (7), and equally spaced around the disc with an angular pitch (10) equal to double their polar length (11). A stator (12) carried by the supports on rods (14). It included two formers (15,16).Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Inventor: Dennis Majoe
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Patent number: 11489429Abstract: A field modulated doubly salient motor and a design method for a distribution of salient pole teeth thereof are provided. The motor includes a stator and a mover, wherein the stator includes a stator core, two sets of windings, and two sets of permanent magnets. Each of the stator teeth is split into two field winding teeth, and each of the field winding teeth is split into two salient pole teeth. The two sets of windings are respectively armature windings and field windings, wherein the armature windings are wound around stator teeth, and the field windings are wound around adjacent field winding teeth that are split from different stator teeth. The two sets of tangentially magnetized permanent magnets are respectively placed on openings and bottoms of field winding slots, and permanent magnets placed in the same slot or at the same positions of adjacent slots have opposite polarities.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITYInventors: Wenxiang Zhao, Tingting Jiang, Liang Xu, Jinghua Ji
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Patent number: 11489406Abstract: A drive device includes an electric motor and a gear unit that is driven by the electric motor. The electric motor has a laminated stator core which includes stator windings and is accommodated in a stator housing. The stator housing has recesses that are axially uninterrupted, i.e. in particular in the direction of the rotor shaft axis, and the stator housing is surrounded, especially radially surrounded, by a housing of the drive device, in particular a tubular housing and/or a cup-shaped housing, and the housing is set apart from the stator housing, in particular such that an especially circulating airflow is able to be provided within the housing, the recesses in particular guiding the airflow through in the axial direction, and the airflow being returned in the opposite direction in the set-apart region between the stator housing part and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Waldemar Becker, Domenik Hettel, Thomas Rung, Jens Schillinger
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Patent number: 11485198Abstract: A transportation refrigeration system (100, 200, 300) includes a refrigeration system component (110), a linear generator (104, 202, 310) electrically connected to the refrigeration system component (110), and a linkage (142, 214). The linkage (142, 214) is operably connected to the linear generator (104, 202, 310) to convert movement of the transportation refrigeration system (100, 200, 300) into electrical power for communication to the refrigeration system component (110). An electric transportation refrigeration system used to cool a trailer box are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Suzankumar Gongate
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Patent number: 11489409Abstract: A motor housing assembly for cooling a motor assembly is disclosed. The motor housing assembly includes a stator and a rotor. To reduce a weight and a manufacturing cost, the motor housing assembly includes an aluminum housing coupled to an outer circumferential surface of a motor assembly and configured to form a first space between the aluminum housing and the motor assembly, the first space including an oil flow channel and a plastic housing coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the aluminum housing and configured to form a second space between the plastic housing and the aluminum housing, the second space including a water flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: LG MAGNA E-POWERTRAIN CO., LTD.Inventors: Deokkyu Lee, Jinho Yoon, Junggu Lee
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Patent number: 11476736Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotation shaft formed in a hollow shape, a rotor attached to the rotation shaft, a stator provided on an outer periphery side of the rotor, and a case having the rotor and the stator housed therein. The electric motor 1 is capable of cooling by a cooling-fluid flowing in a cooling-fluid flow passage which includes an inner flow passage formed inside the rotation shaft, an outer flow passage formed between an outer periphery of the stator and an inner periphery of the case, and a first communication flow passage isolated from a housing space of the case in which the rotor is housed. The first communication flow passage provides communication between the inner flow passage and the outer flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: Ron Dircks
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Patent number: 11469636Abstract: A stator of an electric motor comprises a pole chain, which is made of a stack of a plurality of straight transformer sheets and rounded to a circular configuration by bending the stacked transformer sheets, wherein the pole chain has a plurality of pole portions each comprising a pole tooth; a plurality of winding cores attached to the respective pole teeth for accommodating coils of a three-phase winding comprising wires; wherein the wires of respective phases of the three-phase winding are routed spatially separated from each other and without mutual contact at an axial end surface of the pole chain between and along adjacent winding cores around the pole chain; and wherein the wires are supported and guided such that their positions relative to the pole chain are substantially maintained when the pole chain is rounded from its straight configuration to its circular configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Bleckmann GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Heinz Frederic Hackl, Georg Görg
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Patent number: 11469638Abstract: Two types of insulating members, i.e., end surface insulators and slot insulators are provided. On tooth portion sides of both side surfaces in the circumferential direction of tooth end surface covering portions of the end surface insulator, first cutouts recessed in the circumferential direction are provided so as to extend in the radial direction. A part axially upward of the first cutouts protrudes in the circumferential direction to form a first overhang portion, and the slot insulator is accommodated between the first overhang portions of two end surface insulators.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Kitano, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuya Kumagai, Ryo Ishida, Hironori Tsuiki, Moriyuki Hazeyama
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Patent number: 11462956Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, a first rotor end and a second rotor end. The stator includes a stator core, a first plate formed in an L shape in a cross section, and a second plate formed in an L shape in a cross section. The first plate includes a first facing part facing the rotor core and a first base part. The second plate includes a second facing part facing the rotor core and a second base part. The first facing part and the second facing part adjoin in a circumferential direction with a gap in between.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiro Oketani