Patents Examined by Minki Chang
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Patent number: 11283311Abstract: The rotor of a rotor assembly for an electric machine includes first magnetic structures utilized for torque production in the electric machine. Second magnetic structures including second magnetic poles not utilized for torque production in the electric machine are polymer-bonded to at least one of the rotor and the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Colin Tschida, Rajib Mikail, Elio Alberto Perigo
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Patent number: 11283330Abstract: An integrated apparatus of water-cooled motor and driver includes a motor housing and a driver housing. The motor housing includes a motor-housing inner wall, a motor-housing outer wall, an inlet, a heat-dissipation flow channel and an outlet. The motor-housing inner wall surrounds and receives a motor assembly. The motor-housing outer wall surrounds the motor-housing inner wall, and the exterior thereof has a first connecting surface. The inlet is disposed on the motor-housing outer wall. One end of the heat-dissipation flow channel is connected to the inlet, the end contacts and is received between the motor-housing inner wall and the motor-housing outer wall. The outlet is connected to the other end of the heat-dissipation flow channel and is disposed on the motor-housing outer wall. The driver housing receives a driver assembly, and the exterior thereof has a second connecting surface connected with and bonded to the first connecting surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Wu-Chen Lin, Chi-Hsiang Kuo, Chien-Chung Shih, Chia-Hsiang Yang, Yi-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 11245301Abstract: A bus bar unit includes an inner bus bar and an outer bus bar extending in a circumferential direction about a central axis of a motor and connected to a coil of a stator and held by a bus bar holder which is a resin molded structure and the outer bus bar is disposed outward in a radial direction with respect to the inner bus bar. The bus bar holder includes a first inner support wall to support an outer circumferential surface of the inner bus bar, a first outer support wall to support an inner circumferential surface of the outer bus bar, openings open in parallel or substantially in parallel in at least one of the first inner support wall and the first outer support wall in the circumferential direction, and through which a lead wire of the coil passes, and a connection rib extending in the radial direction between the openings adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction to connect the first inner support wall to the first outer support wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Iga, Masayoshi Maeda, Yu Asahi, Takao Atarashi
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Patent number: 11233439Abstract: A wiring device includes a plurality of trenches and a plurality of channel sets. The trenches at least include a first trench, a second trench and a third trench, bottoms of which are respectively located at different height positions. Each of the channel sets at least includes a first channel, a second channel and a third channel. The first channels penetrate the wiring device from an outer sidewall thereof to the first trenches, respectively, the second channels penetrate the wiring device from the outer sidewall thereof to the second trenches, respectively, and the third channels penetrate the wiring device from the outer sidewall thereof to the third trenches, respectively. The wiring device has the advantages of a simple structure and a low cost for molding and manufacturing, and is suitable to perform winding by a manual or automatic machine and thus can prevent first output wires of the coil windings with in phase or out of phase from entangling or knotting with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: GOGORO INC.Inventors: Po-Chang Hung, Ching-Tan Yang, Kai-Chiang Li, Sung-Ching Lin
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Patent number: 11223253Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine includes a stator coil, a stator iron core having slots into which the stator coil is mounted, and insulating slot liners inserted into the slots, wherein conductive wire materials constituting the stator coil are inserted into the slot liners, and sections of the slot liners protruding from the slots are each provided with a bellows portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11218041Abstract: A motor rotor equipped with a cylindrical rotor core formed by stacking multiple electromagnetic steel plates, end plates and balance weights stacked at both ends of the rotor core, and multiple headed swaging pins penetrating and integrally connecting the rotor core, the end plates, and the balance weights, wherein spacers or washers formed of a harder material than the swaging pins are interposed between the seating surface of the balance weights and the heads of the swaging pins. Thus, resistance of the motor rotor to excessive excitation force can be increased and a decrease in fastening strength can easily be prevented without changing the structure integrally fastened together by the swaging pins.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Yogo, Kazuhide Watanabe, Akinori Yoshioka
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Patent number: 11210912Abstract: The tactile feedback actuator generally has a stopper, a damper, a hammer path between the stopper and the damper, a coil element fixedly mounted relative to the hammer path, and a magnetic hammer guidingly mounted for movement along the hammer path. The magnetic hammer has two opposite ends. Each end of the magnetic hammer has a corresponding permanent magnet. The two permanent magnets have opposing polarities. The magnetic hammer is electromagnetically engageable by a magnetic field emitted upon activation of the coil element so as to be longitudinally slid along the hammer path in any one of two opposite directions depending on a polarity of activation of the coil element. The stopper has a striking surface adapted for stopping the magnetic hammer, and the damper is adapted for decelerating the magnetic hammer as the magnetic hammer is longitudinally slid towards the damper.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: NANOPORT TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Timothy Jing Yin Szeto, Matthew Angle
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Patent number: 11201530Abstract: Disclosed herein are permanent magnetic AC machine direct-drive resonant flapper system for flapping wing micro air vehicles and flapping fin autonomous underwater vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Fan Fei, Xinyan Deng
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Patent number: 11183899Abstract: Stator (10), electric machine (9), and method for manufacturing an electric machine (9), with a stator base body (34), which comprises radial stator teeth (14) for receiving an electric winding (20), wherein the electric winding (20) is connected to a separately manufactured connection plate (52), which comprises contacting modules (60) for the energizing of individual phases (U, V, W) of the electric winding (20), wherein electric conductor elements (54) are arranged in a radial plane of the stator (10) on the connection plate (52), which, on the one hand, are connected to winding wires (22) of the electric winding (20) and, on the other hand, carry the contacting modules (60), wherein the conductor elements (54) comprise a plurality of angled portions (56) within the radial plane, which make a spring-loaded compensation movement of the contacting modules (60) in the radial plane possible.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Konstantin Braun, Peter Szalay
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Patent number: 11177709Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine, including a rotor core and a shaft, is connected to the rotor core for conjoint rotation, wherein a cooling channel arrangement is formed within the rotor assembly and includes a cooling channel, which extends within the shaft. The rotor assembly further includes a separation element which has a separation portion extending in the circumferential direction at an inner radius of the shaft, wherein the separation portion separates an interior of the shaft into a first shaft portion, in which the cooling channel extends, and into a second shaft portion, wherein the separation element includes a sealing device, which seals off the shaft portions with respect to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Nils Krais, Philipp Söntgerath, Sebastian Waider
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Patent number: 11174161Abstract: There is disclosed a microscale or nanoscale stepper motor in which one or more arrays of corresponding types of optically switchable molecular actuators are used to drive progressive motion between bodies of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Inventor: Kim Eric Drexler
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Patent number: 11171552Abstract: A short-circuit ring for a squirrel cage of a dynamoelectric rotary machine includes at least one indentation and is connectable by means of the indentation to at least one cage bar which projects from a rotor lamination of the dynamoelectric rotary machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jörg Müller, Alexandra Schneider
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Patent number: 11165302Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor; a stator having a core annularly arranged facing the outer peripheral surface of the rotor, a coil wound around the core and having a coil end formed protruding from an end surface in the axial direction of the core, and an insulator formed on the end surface in the axial direction of the core and insulating the core and the coil; a bus bar arranged on the outer peripheral side of the coil end of the stator; and a terminal block installed on the outer peripheral side of the bus bar for introducing an electric current from an external power source to the stator, and the insulator has a groove portion in which the bus bar is held, and a terminal block housing portion in which the terminal block is held.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kitta, Ken Nishikawa, Yoshiki Kuwahara, Fumitaka Totsuka, Yutaka Ikura, Koichi Ojima, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 11152828Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a case, wherein each of the sub stator cores has a first insulated bobbin, a stator iron core, a second insulated bobbin, and a coil, and the coil is disposed in teeth parts of the first insulated bobbin, the stator iron core, and the second insulated bobbin, all of which are stacked in layers, and the first insulated bobbin has three ring holding parts which are formed in a core back part and extend to a circumferential direction, and the bus rings are separately inserted into the ring holding parts formed in the first insulated bobbin, and the first insulated bobbin, the stator iron core, and the second insulated bobbin each has a convex part formed at one side face of the core back part and a concave part formed at the other side face of the core back part.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshiki Kuwahara, Ryuji Kitamura, Yoshiaki Kitta, Fumitaka Totsuka, Koichi Ojima, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 11139725Abstract: The electric machine includes a plurality of rotors drivingly coupled to a common shaft defining a shaft axis about which the common shaft is rotatable, and a common stator for the plurality of rotors, the common stator extending circumferentially about the common shaft. The rotors are rotatable about respective rotor axes which are substantially perpendicular to the shaft axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Eric Latulipe
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Patent number: 11133723Abstract: An electric motor including a rotor configured to rotate about a rotational axis and a stator extending along the rotational axis. The stator may include a stator yoke, a first tooth, and a second tooth, each provided with a shaft extending away from the stator yolk towards the rotational axis to a base. Adjacent sides of the of the first tooth and the base of the second tooth may form a groove slot. A reinforcement element may be inserted into the groove slot.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, WUERZBURGInventors: Daniel Hirsch, Eugen Hermann, Reinhard Mehner, Martin Pfister, Janik Schulz, Andreas Roeding, Rainer Schoele
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Patent number: 11123767Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tactile actuator can comprise: a housing having an accommodation space therein; a cap covering at least a portion of the accommodation space; a vibration unit disposed inside the accommodation space; an elastic member for connecting the housing and the vibration unit such that the vibration unit can vibrate with respect to the housing; a coil for forming a magnetic field to drive the vibration unit; and a control unit for determining any one driving mode on the basis of collected driving information from among a plurality of preset driving modes and determining, according to the driving mode, the characteristic of a current to be applied to the coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyeong Jun Kim, Jong Hun Lee, Jeong Bum Lee, Ji Goo Kang, Jong Hyung Jung
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Patent number: 11121607Abstract: An electronic system housing for an E-axle drive of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The electronic system housing comprises a power electronic system received within the electronic system housing for processing voltage in high voltage systems. At least one low voltage component is further received within the electronic system housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Andre Speck, Eduard Enderle, Peter Schwanemann, Christian Möhring, Johannes Herrmann, Ronald Glas, Julian Botiov, Cédric Blaes
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Patent number: 11114926Abstract: An electromagnetic energy converter includes: a conducting coil; a main magnet in an inner space V formed by the conducting coil, retaining structure allowing the main magnet to rotate about an axis YY? between two stable equilibrium positions; a first actuator magnet and a second actuator magnet disposed facing the first end and the second end respectively, the first and second actuator magnets being arranged to slide simultaneously in the same direction and parallel to the main axis XX? once a force is exerted on either one of the first or second magnets.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Gerard Delette, Olivier Tosoni
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Patent number: 11108297Abstract: An aspect of a motor according to the invention includes a stator, a rotor, a detector configured to detect a rotating position of the rotor, a holder disposed between the stator and the detector in the predetermined direction, and a bearing held by the holder and configured to rotatably support the shaft. A recess opened toward the stator and housing the bearing and an injection hole including a first opening opened toward the detector, the injection hole communicating with the recess, are provided in the holder. A groove into which an adhesive is injected is provided on the inner surface of the recess. The outer circumferential surface of the bearing is fixed to the inner surface via the adhesive. The injection hole includes a second opening opened in the inner circumferential surface of the recess and connected to the groove. The injection hole is closed by a screw.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Inventor: Yoshiteru Nishimura