Patents Examined by Minki Chang
  • Patent number: 11575288
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core and a hairpin winding. 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 toward the outer diameter. The hairpin winding has a plurality of paths of interconnected hairpins that correspond to a first electrical phase of the electric machine. The hairpins are arranged to occupy a portion of the pin positions according to a pattern that repeats at angular intervals along a circumference of the stator core. The pattern includes hairpins occupying each pin position within a first of the slots, harpins occupying exactly half the pin positions within a second of the slots, and harpins occupying exactly half the pin positions within a third of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chun Tang, Adeeb Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11575289
    Abstract: Coil segments of the same phase are inserted into each group of circumferentially consecutive three slots. Assuming that the grouped three slots are A, B, and C, and six groups are U1 to U6, respectively, and that slot y of group Ux are slot Uxy, a coil starting from the slot U1A is wired to pass through one turn of a stator in the order of slots U1A?U2B?U3B?U4C?U5C?U6A, and connected to slot U1A of the next turn. In this turn, coil segments with a wide straddle width are used for the connections of U1A?U2B and U3B?U4C, and a coil segment with a narrow straddle width is used for the connection of U5C?U6A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ODAWARA ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noburo Miyawaki
  • Patent number: 11563349
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a motor in which a structure of an insulator is improved. The motor includes an insulator module coupled to a top face of a stator core. The insulator module includes: each power terminal unit connected to each of 3-phases power lead wires; a neutral terminal unit connected to a neutral point of a coil; and an insulator body for achieving insulations between the power and neutral terminal units and the stator core, and between the power and neutral terminal units, wherein the power terminal unit and the neutral terminal unit are positioned at different vertical levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Hong, Cheol Han, Kwangyong Jang
  • Patent number: 11563350
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine wiring member is configured to connect coil ends of a stator and associated electrodes of a terminal block in a rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine wiring member includes a plurality of electrical conducting wires, and a holding portion configured to hold the plurality of electrical conducting wires together. The holding portion includes a holder, which is provided to cover all respective peripheries of the plurality of electrical conducting wires in respective one parts in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of electrical conducting wires together, and a molded resin section made of a molded resin to cover one part of the holder. Exposed parts of the holder uncovered with the molded resin section are arranged to surround a peripheral edge of the molded resin section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Takahashi, Jun Umetsu
  • Patent number: 11557930
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11557947
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of printed layers arranged to form a stator having an outer periphery and teeth extending radially inward from the outer periphery. Each of the printed layers includes discrete portions of metal and discrete portions of insulation. The discrete portions of insulation define a contiguous network of insulative boundaries separating discrete cells formed by the discrete portions of the metal. A volume of the discrete cells within the outer periphery is greater than a volume of the discrete cells within the teeth such that a reluctance of the teeth is greater than a reluctance of the outer periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 11522398
    Abstract: A supply end plate apparatus includes a supply end plate with an aperture therethrough configured to be mounted at a first axial end of the rotor core for supplying fluid to the rotor core. The supply end plate defines a plurality of end plate passages therein extending outward from an inward portion of the supply end plate toward an outward portion of the supply end plate. Each of the plurality of end plate passages includes: a radial section extending in a radial direction from an inlet in the inward portion of the supply end plate toward the outward portion; a transition section extending obliquely from the radial section; and a circumferential section extending circumferentially from the transition section to an outlet of the supply end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Alan Larson, Brady A. Manogue
  • Patent number: 11509200
    Abstract: A process for making a continuous bar winding (4) for an electric machine is described, comprising: a) a step of providing a template (10) having a template axis (X) and a circular array of slots (11) extended about said template axis (X), said circular array of slots having a number of slots equal to a number of slots of the stator or of the rotor of said electric machine, each slot (11) of said circular array having a first and a second open end face (11A, 11B) which are axially spaced from one another and a third open end face (11C), said third face (11C) being a longitudinal face extended between said first and second end faces (11A, 11B) b) a step of providing a conductive bar (20); c) a step of locking a locking portion (21) of said conductive bar; d) a step of inserting the conductive bar (20) into the slots (11) of said array and shaping the conductive bar (20) so that such conductive bar (20) repeatedly passes through the slots (11) of said array from the side of the first open end faces (11A) to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Giuseppe Ranalli, Maurilio Micucci, Giovanni Ruggieri
  • Patent number: 11502585
    Abstract: A method for producing a squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine includes the following steps: providing a main body, which is magnetically conductive at least in parts and has substantially axially extending grooves; inserting electrical conductors into the grooves in such a way that the conductors protrude from the axial ends of the magnetically conductive main body; positioning electrically conductive end rings, which have a plurality of openings for receiving the respective conductors; and establishing electrical contact between the conductors and the end rings by way of one or more additive manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Koerner, Freerk Jacobus Oude Kotte
  • Patent number: 11496014
    Abstract: A winding head arrangement for an electric rotating machine includes a base body including an electrically conductive material having an electrically insulating coating, and a plurality of conductors made from a first metal material and connected to the base body via the electrically insulating coating by a first additive production method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Karsten Brach, Jens Dahl Jensen, Hartmut Rauch, Olaf Rehme, Jakob Schneck, Oliver Stier
  • Patent number: 11496007
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor and a compressor are provided. The motor has a rotor, a stator core, and a stator winding. A plurality of coupled coils are disposed on the stator core. The coil includes a first type coil and a second type coil. The stator winding is a three-phase stator winding. Each phase of the stator winding is provided with three joints In each phase, a first joint and a second joint are disposed on the first type coil, a third joint in the stator winding of each phase is disposed on the second type coil. The permanent magnet motor provided by the present disclosure can improve the efficiency of the motor and reduce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ANHUI MEIZHI PRECISION MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Xu, Xiaohua Qiu, Zhengzhong Qiao
  • Patent number: 11486484
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a housing that accommodates the motor, an inverter electrically connected to the motor, an inverter case that accommodates the inverter, an auxiliary device provided in a lower portion of the housing to oppose a road surface, a wire harness that includes a first connector connected to a connector provided in the inverter case, a second connector connected to a connector provided in the auxiliary device, and an electric wire connecting the first connector and the second connector, and a lower connector cover provided in the lower portion of the housing and covering the second connector from a lower side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nakamatsu, Keisuke Fukunaga, Naohiro Wada, Masumi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 11469634
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electric motor includes a shaft extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the shaft defines a shaft jacket extending along a first direction, a rotor mounted on the shaft, a stator disposed about the rotor. The rotor defines a plurality of longitudinal channels each with the shaft jacket. The longitudinal channels are part of a rotor jacket. The rotor jacket includes a plurality of inlets fluidly interconnecting the shaft jacket and the plurality of the longitudinal channels. The rotor jacket includes an inner edge and an outer edge opposite the inner edge. The rotor jacket includes a plurality of outlets each in fluid communication with the plurality of longitudinal channels. Each of the outlets is closer to the inner edge than to the outer edge of the rotor jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Yang, Wei Zeng, Lei Hao, Srihari K. Gangaraj
  • Patent number: 11469636
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Bleckmann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinz Frederic Hackl, Georg Görg
  • Patent number: 11451099
    Abstract: A method of assembling a coil on an irregular-shaped multi-part tooth of an electric machine may include inserting at least one wedge-portion of the multi-part tooth into an opening of the coil such that a broader end of the at least one wedge-portion extends out of the opening in the coil. The method may also include mounting the coil with the inserted at least one wedge-portion on a core tooth-portion of the multi-part tooth such that the broader end of the at least one wedge-portion remains extended out of the opening in the coil, exerting a force on the broader end of the at least one wedge-portion to tighten the coil on the multi-part tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTD
    Inventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
  • Patent number: 11444519
    Abstract: A resin molding method includes a first step of supplying electricity to and heating a stator coil via a stator terminal in a state that the stator terminal clamped; and a second step of molding an insulating resin at a coil end of the heated stator coil. The first step places the stator terminal on a conducting terminal block in such a state that clamping of the stator terminal by the conducting terminal block and a terminal holding member is released, before supplying electricity to the stator coil, and lifts up and down the conducting terminal block, such that the portion of the stator terminal becomes within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihide Shimmei, Yoshiaki Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11444503
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a shaft extending along a central axis, a stator including a coil and opposing the rotor in a radial direction with a gap, and a busbar positioned at one axial-directional side of the stator. The busbar includes a conducting wire-connecting portion connected to a conducting wire extending from the coil. A notch into which the conducting wire is inserted is provided in the conducting wire connecting portion. An inner circumferential surface of the notch includes a bottom surface opposing an opening side of the notch, a first opposed surface extending from the bottom surface towards the opening, and a second opposed surface extending from the bottom surface towards the opening and opposing the first opposed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Onishi, Kosuke Ogawa, Takashi Seguchi, Shunsuke Murakami
  • Patent number: 11437879
    Abstract: A bus-bar unit includes bus-bars and a bus-bar holder supporting the bus-bars. The bus-bar includes a first and a second bus-bar piece, including a plate. The first bus-bar piece includes a coil wire connecting portion connected to a coil wire drawn from a stator, and a first junction terminal joined to the second bus-bar piece. The second bus-bar piece includes an external connection terminal connected to an external device, a second junction terminal joined to the first bus-bar piece, and a second piece main body connecting them. The second piece main body has a first extension extending from the external connection terminal along a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the axial direction, a second extension extending from the second junction terminal along a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the axial direction, and a crank portion located between them and bent in a crank shape in a plate thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Yoshikawa, Yusaku Yoshida, Hideo Fujiwara, Takashi Seguchi, Kosuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11418091
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KOCH ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Dylan Broomfield, Russel Hugh Marvin, Matthew Honickman
  • Patent number: 11411475
    Abstract: A method for producing a rotor for an electric rotating machine includes spraying in a rolling manner a first metallic material and a second metallic material, which is different from the first metallic material, onto at least part of a substantially cylindrical outer surface of a shaft body by a thermal spraying method to form on the shaft body a coating which forms at least part of a squirrel cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Kümmlee, Frank Seibicke