Patents Examined by Minki Chang
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Patent number: 12374947Abstract: Various examples related to stator and rotor configurations for the improvement in torque density and/or efficiency in AC machines are presented. In one example, a bar wound stator includes a stator core with winding slots; a first group of bar type conductors in the winding slots adjacent to a proximal end adjacent to a rotor air gap surface of the stator core; and a second group of bar type conductors in the winding slots adjacent to a distal end adjacent to a back-iron section of the stator core. The first group of bar type conductors having a first cross-sectional area and the second group of bar type conductors having a second cross-sectional area greater than the first cross-sectional area. In another example, a motor includes the bar wound stator and a rotor such as, e.g., a permanent magnet rotor. The motor can be utilized in hybrid or battery electric vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Md Sariful Islam, Adeeb Ahmed, Iqbal Husain
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Patent number: 12355303Abstract: a stator core, a bobbin fixed on the stator core, and a plurality of windings wound on the bobbin, characterized in that the stator further comprises an elastic member with one end fixed onto the insulating frame, the other end of the elastic member is resisted against and thereby forcing the bobbin to axially position the stator.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Ruifeng Qin, Yi Jing, Bensong Huang, Guoyuan Zou, Denie Zeng, Zhenzi Fang, Guanyin Liang
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Patent number: 12341389Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core and hairpin windings. The stator core defines slots that are circumferentially arranged between an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the stator core. Each slot has a plurality of pin positions that is arranged in a direction that extends from the inner diameter of the stator core toward the outer diameter of the stator core. The hairpin windings have a plurality of electrical paths of interconnected hairpins disposed within the slots. Each of the plurality of electrical paths of interconnected hairpins have a plurality of typical hairpins and a plurality of atypical hairpins. Each typical hairpin has first and second opposing inwardly extending twist portions. Each atypical hairpin has a third inwardly extending twist portion and an outwardly extending twist portion disposed on an opposing end of the atypical hairpin relative to the third inwardly extending twist portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Adeeb Ahmed
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Patent number: 12316196Abstract: Embodiments of an electric motor are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the motor comprises, a stator, a rotor, and an impeller mechanically coupled to the rotor, the impeller comprising a central shaft having a longitudinal bore, a plurality of blades radially extended from the central shaft, and an engagement cylinder coupling the plurality of blades to the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2024Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Garner Development Services, LLCInventor: Steven George Garner
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Patent number: 12316205Abstract: An electric machine configured to generate and transfer drive torque to a driveline for propulsion of an electric vehicle includes a gearbox assembly, an electric motor having a rotor and a stator having end windings, and a thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a first end plate disposed at an axial end of the rotor. The first end plate has a central hub and an overhang. The overhang includes an outwardly extending radial rim and a lip. The radial rim includes an outer surface, an inner surface, and at least two passages defined therethrough. The first end plate facilitates cooling of the electric motor by directing fluid (i) off of the outer surface of the radial rim and onto an inner diameter of the end windings, and (ii) through the at least two passages and onto the inner diameter of the end windings.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: FCA US LLCInventors: Sachin Ganakota, Shreyas Kapatral, Steven L Hayslett, Brandon R Given, Dhafar Al-Ani
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Patent number: 12316184Abstract: Described herein are fractional-slot-winding motors and electric vehicles using such fractional-slot-winding motors. In some examples, a fractional-slot-winding motor comprises a stator, a bus-bar assembly, and a plurality of coil units. The stator comprises a plurality of stator slots (e.g., 63 slots) extending through the core and radially offset relative to each other. Each dual-leg coil unit extends through two different stator slots and is electrically coupled to two other coil units on the coil-interconnection side of the rotor. Each single-leg coil unit extends through one coil slot and is electrically coupled to one other coil unit on the coil-interconnection side. At least some single-leg coil units can be coupled to a bus-bar assembly. Furthermore, the ends of the coil unit can have radial offsets relative to protruding portions, e.g., closer to the motor primary axis at the coil-interconnection side and further away on the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Harbinger Motors Inc.Inventors: Jackson George Diebel, Alex Tylee, James Dameron, Phillip John Weicker
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Patent number: 12316202Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooling system, an electric motor and a wind-power electric generator set. The cooling system is applied to an electric motor; the electric motor includes a stator support and a rotor support, the stator support is dynamically sealingly connected to the rotor support to form ventilation chambers respectively arranged at two ends of the electric motor in an axial direction, first ventilation holes are formed at two ends of the stator support in the axial direction respectively, and the cooling system includes: a flow-confluence chamber, arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator support; an accommodating chamber, arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator support; a heat exchanger, arranged in the accommodating chamber or in the flow-confluence chamber; a circulating fan, arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator support and located at a side of the stator support in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dinghui Wang, Jinmeng Li, Jing Xia
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Patent number: 12301083Abstract: A stator includes a stator iron core and a stator winding provided at the stator iron core. The stator iron core has a plurality of winding slots formed in an inner wall thereof. The stator winding includes a conductor inserted in the plurality of winding slots. The stator winding includes a plurality of phase windings, and each of the plurality of phase windings includes a first branch and a second branch.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2024Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) LIMITEDInventor: Kai Wu
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Patent number: 12294258Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-excitation-source axial-flux permanent-magnet motor with partitioned, hierarchical, and variable poles, and a variable-condition driving control system. The motor mainly includes a main magnetic pole and an auxiliary magnetic pole. The main magnetic pole is responsible for providing a main air gap flux and is connected in series with a dual-stator magnetic circuit. The auxiliary magnetic pole is responsible for adjusting an air gap field and is connected in parallel with the dual-stator magnetic circuit. Magnetic fluxes of the main magnetic pole and the auxiliary magnetic pole together constitute the air gap field. The present disclosure can control a flux path of the auxiliary magnetic pole by controlling the magnitude of a current applied to a field winding, thereby adjusting an air gap flux, expanding a speed range of the motor, and achieving variable-condition operation of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Jiangsu UniversityInventors: Lei Xu, Danchen Xu, Chao Zhang, Xiaohua Zang, Xiaoyong Zhu, Li Quan
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Patent number: 12289029Abstract: A drive unit includes an electric drive motor for driving and an electric generator motor in a series hybrid vehicle. Each of the motors includes a helical cooling passage helically surrounding an outer periphery of its stator. The first and second electric motors are housed in an outer housing such that the rotor axes are parallel. The helical cooling passages of the motors are connected in series via a connecting passage. The coolant outlet of the upstream helical cooling passage is connected to the connecting passage. The coolant inlet of the downstream helical cooling passage is connected to the connecting passage. The coolant outlet of the upstream helical cooling passage and the coolant inlet of the downstream helical cooling passage are arranged at end portions on the same side in a direction of the rotor axes.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.Inventor: Yuki Tsukagoshi
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Patent number: 12278529Abstract: A winding mat formed as a flat winding and to coil mat formed from it for producing a coil winding for an electric machine. To be able to manufacture different coil mats also with layer swap and conductor swap in an automated manner and in large series and with a high degree of reliability, it is proposed to join wave winding wires by plugging. To produce the coil mat, it is proposed, among other things, to join two individual mats by plugging the mats together.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: GROB-WERKE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Frederik Schmid, Ralf Rauscher
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Patent number: 12272991Abstract: A motor stator assembly includes stator yoke, coil sets connected to the stator yoke, and a positioning plate removably connected to the stator yoke. Each coil set has a coil member with two terminal legs. The positioning plate has though openings. The terminal legs of each coil set extend through one of the through openings. The electrical conductor set has conductor layers and an insulating part encapsulating the conductor layers. Each conductor layer has conductor components each having connection holes exposed from the insulating part. One of the terminal legs of each coil set extends through one of the connection holes of one of the conductor components of one of the conductor layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SINPRO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-Sheng Chou, Hung-Han Chiu
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Patent number: 12224652Abstract: In a motor cooling structure including a rotor connected to a rotary shaft, a stator disposed on the rotor and including a stator core and coils, and a housing surrounding the rotor and the stator, the motor cooling structure includes: a first cover provided to extend along the inner circumferential surface of the coil between the stator core and the coils disposed on both sides of the stator core and a second cover disposed on the outsides of the coils with respect to the stator core and provided to extend along the inner circumferential surfaces of the coils, and the oil for cooling a motor through a chamber and a channel flows.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Jong Kim, Byoung Hoon Choi, Jong Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 12206291Abstract: An electromagnetic propulsion unit for a land-based wheeled or tracked vehicle is provided. The propulsion unit includes a rotor stack, a rotor shaft, and a balancing plate assembly. The balancing plate assembly include a base plate fixating the rotor stack to the rotor shaft, where the base plate includes an air channel that axially extends through the base plate and a planar channel formed between the rotor stack and the base plate and in fluidic communication with the air channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.Inventors: Steven Vanhee, Stephan Schlimpert, Bart Peremans, Bram Robberechts, Jasper Nonneman
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Patent number: 12184141Abstract: A stator for a motor includes a hole formed at a center thereof by arranging a plurality of assemblies along a circumferential direction (C) of the stator. Each of the plurality of assemblies includes: a stator core; a bobbin; a coil; and a plurality of bus bars disposed on the bobbin. The plurality of bus bars include first to third bus bars. In the plurality of assemblies, both ends of the first bus bar in the circumferential direction (C) and both ends of the second bus bar in the circumferential direction (C) are spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction (C) while being spaced apart from each other in a radial direction (R) or an axial direction (A) of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Ho Jung, Seong Jun Hwang, Yeong Woo Seo
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Patent number: 12184157Abstract: Systems are provided for an electronic drive unit. In one example, the electronic drive unit comprises a cooling passage integrally arranged therein, wherein the cooling passage is sealed via laminations of the stator. The laminations are further shaped to jet oil from the cooling passage onto end-windings.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Steven Vanhee, Joachim Druant, Thibault Devreese
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Patent number: 12166383Abstract: A skewed rotor core assembly having a resin mold disposed in a plurality of longitudinal channels and a resin flow path is provided. The rotor core has a first and second magnet stack each defining a plurality of longitudinal channels. The plurality of longitudinal channels for the first stack are misaligned with the plurality of longitudinal channels for the second stack. Methods of making the same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Singar Rathnam, Devan James Anderson
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Patent number: 12149143Abstract: The disclosure discloses a magnetic levitation planar motor workbench having a double-layer winding of coarse and fine drive, which belongs to the technical field of planar motors, and includes a stator and a mover. The vertically magnetized permanent magnets and the horizontally magnetized permanent magnets in the stator are arranged in a Halbach arrangement; the mover is located on the enhanced side of the air gap magnetic field above the stator. The mover adopts the double-layer winding of unequal heights, and the height of the upper first winding is smaller than the lower second winding. Each layer of winding may generate driving forces in six directions to achieve six-degree-of-freedom driving.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2024Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Lizhan Zeng, Kai Liu, Xuedong Chen
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Patent number: 12142980Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator having a stator core, a suspension winding group, and an armature winding group. The stator core includes a back yoke and a plurality of teeth. The suspension winding group includes a plurality of suspension windings wound on the teeth. The suspension windings generate an electromagnetic force that supports the rotor in a non-contact manner, and generate a magnetic pole inside the stator. The armature winding group includes a plurality of armature windings wound on the teeth. The armature windings generate an electromagnetic force that rotationally drives the rotor, and generate a magnetic pole inside the stator. One of the suspension or armature winding groups includes a plurality of series winding sets with a plurality of series connected windings of a same phase. Each series winding set is connected in parallel with an other one of the series winding sets.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Sakuragi, Yusuke Irino
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Patent number: 12113413Abstract: A vehicle, electric machine, and method of manufacturing an electric machine include a stator having teeth extending from a yoke portion toward a rotor and defining slots between adjacent teeth with windings positioned within the slots, wherein the slots are coated with an electrically insulating material having an arcuate surface exiting the slots and extending at least partially over the teeth on at least one end face of the stator to form a winding guide for bending/positioning the windings. The winding guide may be formed by a molded epoxy that replaces insulating paper slot liners while providing a template for forming the hairpin bends of end windings.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Man Prakash Gupta, Christopher White, Steven White, Gary Thomas Martini, Singar Rathnam