Patents Examined by Minki Chang
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Patent number: 11949306Abstract: 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: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Harbinger Motors Inc.Inventors: Jackson George Diebel, Alex Tylee, James Dameron, Phillip John Weicker
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Patent number: 11936260Abstract: A stator for an electric machine includes: a laminated stator core including stator grooves and having a plug-in side and a bending side, which bending side lies opposite the plug-in side in an axial direction; a stator winding having hairpin elements which are pushed into the stator grooves on the plug-in side of the laminated stator core and bent and electrically connected to the stator winding on the bending side of the laminated stator core; and an end plate which is arranged on the plug-in side in the axial direction between the laminated stator core and the hairpin elements. The hairpin elements are arranged in the axial direction so as to bear against the end plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Joerg Schneider, Andreas Lober, Rolf Graef, Tobias Schmack
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Patent number: 11936272Abstract: A haptic transducer comprising a magnetic plate, a plurality of coils each separately couplable to a signal generator such that axis of each coil is perpendicular to the plate and all coils are on a common side of the plate, and signals may be sent from said signal generator to each coil individually.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: WOOJER LTD.Inventor: Mor Efrati
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Patent number: 11923738Abstract: A vehicle electric machine includes a stator core having an inner diameter defining a plurality of slots, an outer diameter, and a plurality of mounting ears disposed radially outboard of the outer diameter. At least one of the mounting ears defines a cooling channel extending in an axial direction of the stator core. A radial distance between a center of the stator core and the cooling channel is greater than a radial distance between the center and the outer diameter. The machine further includes windings having portions disposed in the slots and end windings adjacent to an end face of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti
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Patent number: 11909260Abstract: Provided is an electric generator including a stator including: a stator yoke a plurality of teeth, a plurality of slots extending radially from the stator yoke to respective radial slot ends, the plurality of slots being circumferentially interposed between the teeth of the stator, each slot including a bottom portion adjacent to the stator yoke and a top portion adjacent to the respective radial slot end. The stator further includes a plurality of coils housed in the plurality of slots, each slot housing at least one coil in the bottom portion and at least another coil in the top portion, each coil housed in the bottom portion of a first slot of the plurality of slots being connected to another respective coil housed in the top portion of a second slot of the plurality of slots.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/SInventors: Ziad Azar, Erik Groendahl, Subhra Samanta, Arwyn Thomas
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Patent number: 11894722Abstract: A coil support for preformed flat coils of a stator of an electric rotary motor includes an annular supporting structure and a plurality of columns extending upwardly from the supporting structure. The columns are spaced apart from each other to form a corresponding plurality of coil receiving portions configured to hold the preformed flat coils in place before a potting operation. Each of the coil receiving portions is configured to support a lower part of one of the preformed flat coils.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: ETEL S.A.Inventors: Johann Pourchet, Loic Moreno, Manish Mittal, Jeremie Mallamaci, Cyrille Viennet
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Patent number: 11894739Abstract: A flux machine has plural coil assemblies and plural magnet sets arranged in mutual close proximity and circularly about a central axis. Either one of the coil assemblies and the magnet sets are supported by at least one axle which is aligned with the central axis, and either one of the coil assemblies and magnet sets executes rotary motion about the central axis when electrical current is present in the coil assemblies. Magnetic flux of the magnet sets is directed axially and radially while machine rotation is orthogonal to the direction of flux. A plurality of magnets in each magnet set are supported by one or another of a plurality of coaxially aligned axles so that the flux machine may operate as an electrical motor, as an electrical generator, or both at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: CLEARWATER HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: G. Noah Newmark, Stephen M. Collins, R. Morgan Harwith
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Patent number: 11876405Abstract: A stator of an electric motor includes a stator core including a rim and a plurality of stator teeth extending from the rim. The plurality of stator teeth define a plurality of tooth gaps between circumferentially adjacent stator teeth. A plurality of stator windings are wrapped along the plurality of stator teeth. The plurality of stator windings include a plurality of core segments extending along the plurality of tooth gaps, and a plurality of end turn segments connecting adjacent core segments. A plurality of non-electrically conductive cooling channels are located in the stator core. The plurality of cooling channels are configured to direct a cooling fluid flow therethrough to cool the plurality of stator windings.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Kimberly Rae Saviers, Ram Ranjan, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
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Patent number: 11863054Abstract: A kinetic power generation unit improves the magnetic field of an electric motor and the magnetic field of a power generator into a same magnetic field coupling of a same rotor, so that the rotors of electric motor and the power generator have the same rotational direction, and an exciting winding of the electric motor changes and transmits phases sequentially to a phase voltage by a brushless drive controller, so that an interference effect on the counter electromotive force of the electric motor and the counter-electromotive force of the power generator is changed to a positive effect.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Kang Chin Lin
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Patent number: 11855498Abstract: An electric motor comprises: a rotor having poles equaling a first number; and a stator having slots equaling a second number, the stator having stator windings formed by conductors wound in a wave pattern around the stator, wherein a third number of the conductors are located in each of the slots, wherein the conductors form three balanced parallel paths through the slots, each of the conductors in the three balanced parallel paths undergoing a same number of pitch turns, each of the pitch turns being either a standard pitch turn or a nonstandard pitch turn, the standard pitch turn involving wrapping around slots equaling the second number divided by the first number, the nonstandard pitch turn involving wrapping around more or fewer slots than the standard pitch turn, wherein each of the three balanced parallel paths forms a repeating pattern throughout the slots.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Atieva, Inc.Inventors: Yateendra Deshpande, Vivek Meenakshi Sundaram, Emad Dlala
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Patent number: 11855487Abstract: A stator liquid cooling structure and a stator structure of a stator yokeless disc motor are provided. The cooling structure includes an annular stator bracket and a water jacket. An outer periphery of the stator bracket is in a groove structure and is fixedly connected with the water jacket. Opposite upper and lower ends of the water jacket are provided with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet. The stator structure includes stator cores, an armature winding, the stator bracket and the water jacket. A first stator core and a second stator core of the stator cores are same in structure and oppositely arranged. The armature winding is wound on first stator tooth bodies and second stator tooth bodies of the stator cores; the first stator tooth bodies and the second stator tooth bodies are inserted into gaps between adjacent blade-shaped cavities and fixed on the stator bracket.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SHENYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Wenming Tong, Shengnan Wu, Deyi Cai, Jianguo Jia, Zhitao Wu
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Patent number: 11837930Abstract: An electric motor polyphase winding pack includes a plurality of coiled conductors, each of the coiled conductors corresponding to a phase of a plurality of phases. Each of the coiled conductors has a first side and a second side. The coiled conductors are arranged in a sequence in which all of the first sides are disposed sequentially in a first layer, and all of the second sides are arranged in second layer disposed adjacent to the first layer, such that some of the first sides in the first layers and some of the second sides in the second layer correspond to each phase of the plurality of phases.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Elinco International JPC, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Spindler, Sean Parzuchowski
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Patent number: 11831227Abstract: A motor cover structure sealing a housing of a motor includes a partition wall disposed on one side of a stator disposed within the motor to contact a cover contacting the housing, and a body part mounted with the partition wall, in which an oil recovery line is defined between the partition wall and the body part, and the oil flows to the oil recovery line in a space of one side of a rotor disposed within the motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Shin Jong Kim, Jong Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 11831202Abstract: An electric machine may include an stator and a rotatable rotor. At least one of the stator or the rotor may include a plurality of multi-part trapezoidal teeth with an electromagnetic coil disposed around each tooth.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 11831212Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a coil wound around the stator core. The coil includes at least one first winding and at least one second winding connected to the first winding in series. The stator satisfies (C1/S1)>(C2/S2), where S1 is a total cross-sectional area on a first side of a coil-end part of the coil, S2 is a total cross-sectional area on a second side of the coil-end part, C1 is a total cross-sectional area of the first winding on the first side, and C2 is a total cross-sectional area of the first winding on the second side.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Emi Tsukamoto, Koji Yabe
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Patent number: 11824407Abstract: A method for manufacturing a distributed straight-angle armature winding according to the present invention comprises a step (a) of preparing a raw material in which at least a pair of intra-slot winding areas and an end winding area provided between the pair of intra-slot winding areas are continued, a step (b) of forming an inclined surface by processing a contact surface in contact with an inner surface of a slot of at least a stator of the circumferences of the pair of intra-slot winding areas, and a step (c) of bending a space between the end winding area and the intra-slot winding area.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGYInventors: Eui Chun Lee, Soon O Kwon
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Patent number: 11824413Abstract: A winding arrangement for a stator of an electric motor includes winding hairpins arranged to form one or more phases. The stator includes a plurality of motor teeth forming a plurality of slots each configured to accommodate multiple layers. A first set of winding hairpins spanning of M slots are coupled in series and coupled to a phase lead, and are arranged sequentially in a first azimuthal direction. A jumper is arranged in a layer and is coupled in series with the first set of winding hairpins. A second set of winding hairpins configured to span of M slots are coupled in series between the jumper and a neutral lead. The second set of winding hairpins are arranged sequentially in the opposite azimuthal direction, and along with the first set of winding hairpins and the jumper, form a continuous electrical path between the phase lead and the neutral lead.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Khwaja Rahman, Dang Dinh Dang
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Patent number: 11804750Abstract: The motor includes a sealing material (dry body of a liquid gasket 41) interposed between a joint surface 3b of a motor housing 3 and a joint surface of an inverter housing, and an O-ring 39. The O-ring 39 is interposed between the motor housing 3 and the inverter housing and disposed so as to surround the communication port 3a1 of the refrigerant flow path 3a. The motor housing 3 includes a groove 3d disposed between the sealing material and the O-ring 39 on the joint surface 3b in a surface direction of the joint surface 3b.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiromichi Akiyama
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Patent number: 11784528Abstract: A stator includes a wound member that includes a wound portion extending in a radial direction, and a pair of outer extension portions which extend in a circumferential direction from a radially outer end portion of the wound portion, and a coil wound on the wound portion. On an inner side in the radial direction of a base portion of the outer extension portions, a concave portion is recessed radially outward from the winding outermost diameter position. The first layer of the coil includes a first coil, a center of which is positioned radially inward from the winding outermost diameter position and in a range between 0.5 times a coil wire diameter and 1.5 times the coil wire diameter with respect to the winding outermost diameter position, and a second coil, a part of which is disposed in the concave portion on the radially outer side of the first coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11784516Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator extending along an axis and having teeth arranged about the axis. The teeth are circumferentially spaced apart by slots. Conductors extend around the teeth and through the slots. The conductors are electrically connected to one another to form phases. A cooling device is provided in at least one winding slot. The cooling device includes an outer tube and an inner tube provided in the outer tube such that cooling fluid flows in a first axial direction within the inner tube and a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction within the outer tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: LC Advanced Motor Technology CorporationInventors: Dylan Broomfield, Russel Hugh Marvin, Matthew Honickman