Patents Examined by Mohammed Ahmed
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Patent number: 12381442Abstract: An electric machine assembly includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. The electric machine assembly also includes a midframe coupled between the first and second portions such that the mid-frame and the first portion partially define a first compartment and such that the mid-frame and the second portion partially define a second compartment. A terminal box is coupled to the mid-frame and configured to house a first plurality of electrical components. A stator is positioned within the first compartment and a second plurality of electrical components positioned with the second compartment. The stator and the second plurality of electrical components are electrically coupled by a first plurality of wires extending through the mid-frame, and the first plurality of electrical components are electrically coupled to the second plurality of electrical components by a second plurality of wires extending through the second compartment and into the terminal box.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey William Crosson
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Patent number: 12381365Abstract: Disclosed herein is a brush wear indicator comprising and brush (3) moveable within a holder (2). The brush (3) is urged against a collector surface (10) of a rotor by a spring (4) which is mounted to a bracket (6) supported by the holder (2). A proximity sensor (5) is mounted to either a) the spring (4) or the brush (3), or b) a non-moveable part of the indicator which includes the bracket and configured to determine the distance to a) the non-moveable parts or b) the spring (4) or brush (3), respectively. The proximity sensor (5) in electrical communication with a CPU configured to determine the amount of wear that has occurred to the at least one brush (3) depending on the distance determined by the sensor (5) between the spring (4) or the brush (3) and the non-moveable parts.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: ALEXSAVA Holdings LimitedInventor: Anthony L. Morgan
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Patent number: 12374956Abstract: A linear electro-mechanical actuator assembly includes a linear actuator having an output rod end, and a bell crank assembly having a bell crank that is rotatable around a central axis and that has a rod connection opening for receiving the rod end. The bell crank further includes a tube opening along the central axis for receiving a torque tube. First and second bearing plates are positioned on opposite sides of the bell crank, whereby the bank crank rotates relative to the first and second bearing plates. A connection pin provides a hinge connection of the rod end to the bell crank such that linear motion of the rod end imparts rotational motion to the bell crank. The bell crank includes bearing supports positioned on opposite sides of the bell crank body. Circular bearings are positioned within the bearing plates, and around the bearing supports, to support the rotational motion of the bell crank.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Parker-Hannifin CorporationInventors: David E. Edwards, Abbas M. Charafeddine
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Patent number: 12374959Abstract: A linear actuator includes an actuating mechanism, a telescopic structure and a hand rotary releasing structure. The hand rotary releasing structure includes a connecting seat, a clutch seat, a clutch, an adaptor sleeve and a return spring. A peripheral surface of the connecting seat is disposed with multiple clutch troughs. The clutch seat includes multiple engaging troughs. The clutch is disposed between the connecting seat and the clutch seat. The adaptor sleeve is disposed around the clutch and includes multiple spiral troughs. The return spring is disposed around the connecting seat and abuts against the clutch to reduce the activating time and steps of release.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: TIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 12374976Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator formed by a plurality of stator phases. The stator phases include coils that extend fully about the motor axis of the motor. The stator phases further includes flux rings disposed on opposite axial sides of the coil and that are joined by axial returns. The stator phases electromagnetically drive rotation of the rotor on the motor axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Electric Torque Machines, Inc.Inventor: Thomas F. Janecek
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Patent number: 12368337Abstract: A brushless motor includes a motor body, a bracket, and a power supply structure for supplying power to the motor body through a through hole in the bracket. The motor body includes a stator having a core with teeth and a coil formed of a winding wound around the teeth. The power supply structure includes, for each phase, a winding pair including a first lead portion and a second lead portion of the winding, a guide part that guides the winding pair, and a connector part where the lead portions are electrically connected. The winding pair includes a first portion guided by the ide part and a second portion formed by bending the winding pair at an axially outer end of the first portion along a surface of the bracket. The first portion passes through the through hole in the axial direction. The second portion extends to the connector part.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: MITSUBA CorporationInventors: Satoshi Nagamoto, Shingo Watanabe
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Patent number: 12362615Abstract: A rotor including a shaft mounted around an axis of rotation; —a laminated core mounted coaxially on the shaft, the laminated core extending between a front side face and a rear side face. It includes first internal cavities, a plurality of permanent magnets housed inside the first internal cavities, a front flange in the form of discs and arranged on either side of the laminated core. The shaft is provided with an internal inlet channel for circulating a coolant. The front or rear flange is configured to form, with the front or rear side face, at least one front outlet channel or rear outlet channel inside which a coolant is circulated. The front or rear outlet channel connected to the inlet channel opens at an outlet opening at the outer periphery of the front flange or rear flange.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: NOVARES FRANCEInventors: Cédric Ledieu, Julien Brodnik
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Patent number: 12355335Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor is disclosed. The rotor includes a rotor shaft with a hollow space arranged in the rotor shaft at least in regions. The hollow space is structured as a cooling channel and has an inner surface. The inner surface of the hollow space comprises structures for an enlargement of a surface area, and/or at least one structural element is provided in the hollow space directly or indirectly connected to the inner surface of the rotor shaft for at least one of the enlargement of the surface area and/or for the mixing of coolant.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Mario Mohler, Christoph Steinmetz
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Patent number: 12355331Abstract: An electric machine unit for a motorized device, said electric machine unit includes: a rotor assembly including rotor members, and a rotor shaft configured to support said rotor assembly, with said rotor assembly being capable of rotating along with said rotor shaft; and a stator assembly including stator members, with each stator member being configured to work in conjunction with a corresponding rotor member of the rotor members, and a mode selector configured to enable operation of one or more of said stator members to rotate said rotor shaft depending one or more parameters of said motorized device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: TVS MOTOR COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Chidambaram Subramoniam, Thamilarasan Balakrishnan
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Patent number: 12348112Abstract: An electromechanical actuator, EMA, having a plurality of modes. The EMA includes a housing, a motor fixed relative to the housing, the motor having an output shaft, the output shaft defining an axis (X) of the EMA and a first sun gear connected for rotation with the output shaft. The system includes an output arranged to be driven by rotation of the first sun gear, wherein the output is arranged to have a neutral position and to be movable away from the neutral position within a positive quadrant and away from the neutral position within a negative quadrant and a ratchet comprising a ratchet wheel and a pawl. The system also has a torque limiter having a predetermined torque limit and arranged to limit torque transfer between the first sun gear and the output.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS SASInventors: Karl Potier, Maxime Serrand, Corentin Boitard, Raphael Medina
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Patent number: 12331783Abstract: In a magnetic circuit device for a magnetic bearing that includes a permanent magnet ring constituted by a plurality of permanent magnets and a soft magnetic material ring, the circumferential uniformity of the magnetic field near an axial end surface of the permanent magnet ring is enhanced. A magnetic circuit device for a magnetic bearing includes: a permanent magnet ring that is formed by disposing a plurality of anisotropic permanent magnets in a circumferential direction; a first soft magnetic material ring that contacts an outer circumferential surface of the permanent magnet ring; and a second soft magnetic material ring that contacts an inner circumferential surface of the permanent magnet ring. Each of the plurality of anisotropic permanent magnets is magnetized parallel to a straight line that passes through a center of the anisotropic permanent magnet and that extends in a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroyuki Ota
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Patent number: 12334794Abstract: An externally excited electric machine comprises a rotor as well as a contact device having at least one sliding contact element positioned against a contact segment of the rotor for transmitting an exciter current, wherein the sliding contact element is integrated in an electromagnetic actuator, by which it can be controlled to move between a position lying against the contact segment and a position spaced apart from it.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Roman Straßer
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Patent number: 12323076Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator in which a self-gap is formed using plasma etching. The present invention relates to an ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator having a polymer film as one triboelectric layer having a self-gap defined therein using plasma etching such that a surface area thereof is increased to achieve high power and miniaturization of the generator.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan UniversityInventors: SangWoo Kim, Young Jun Kim, Young Wook Chung, Joon Ha Hwang
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Patent number: 12301082Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a stator winding. An inner wall of the stator core is provided with M winding slots, the M winding slots are uniformly disposed in a circumferential direction of the inner wall of the stator core. The stator winding includes flat wire conductors inserted in the winding slots, N layers of flat wire conductors are disposed in any one of the winding slots, and phase units of a first-phase winding, phase units of a second-phase winding, and phase units of a third-phase winding are sequentially and periodically arranged along the inner wall of the stator core. Each phase winding includes P parallel branches. Any one of the parallel branches connects flat wire conductors of M·N/3P layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qiqi Guo, Yu Wang, Zhao Zhou, Yang Zheng
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Patent number: 12301078Abstract: A coil-connecting method according to an embodiment includes: preparing a metal sleeve having a circular shape when viewed from an axial direction; processing the metal sleeve such that the metal sleeve has a non-circular shape when viewed from the axial direction, thereby obtaining a deformed sleeve; inserting a plurality of coils into the deformed sleeve, aligning the plurality of the coils by the deformed sleeve; and swaging the deformed sleeve after the plurality of the coils are inserted into the deformed sleeve, thereby connecting the deformed sleeve and the plurality of the coils together.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems CorporationInventors: Takashi Araki, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Masaaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12294283Abstract: A cooling system for a drive device with several electric machines, the cooling system including a hydraulic circuit for a coolant including a cooling part in a gearbox of the drive device for cooling the gearbox, and an air/coolant heat exchanger including cooling walls forming channels for circulating coolant for the cooling thereof, an air cooling circuit including a plurality of fans, rotationally coupled to the gearbox, a cooling part between the cooling walls of the air/liquid heat exchanger, wherein the air sucked in and propelled by the fans circulates by sweeping over the cooling walls in order to cool them.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Alexis Renotte, Julien Marc Nicolas Rambaud, Christophe Castelli, Guillaume Porte
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Patent number: 12289036Abstract: The present invention provides a portable power storage device, and in particular, a portable power storage device with a self-generation and nano-capacitor storage structure. The portable power storage device includes: opposite fixed magnet plates disposed on both sides of a main body and having a plurality of radially arranged induction magnet bodies; and a rotating coil plate disposed between the opposite fixed magnet plates and having a plurality of radially arranged coil bodies to perform mutual induction action with the induction magnet bodies, such that when the rotating coil plate is rotated or reciprocated, electric charges are induced in the coil bodies by the induction magnet bodies to generate current, thereby electricity may be easily generated and used at all times regardless of the location, as well as the stored electricity may be output and used in a portable electric device as necessary.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Inventor: Suk Ho Jang
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Patent number: 12289034Abstract: A system includes an electric generator, a power electronics system, and a heat exchanger. The electric generator includes a turbine wheel, a rotor, and a stator. The turbine wheel is configured to receive process gas and rotate in response to expansion of the process gas flowing into an inlet of the turbine wheel and out of an outlet of the turbine wheel. The rotor is configured to rotate with the turbine wheel. The electric generator is configured to generate electrical power upon rotation of the rotor within the stator. The power electronics system is configured to convert the electrical power to specified power characteristics. The heat exchanger includes a first side in fluid communication with the process gas and a second side in fluid communication with a fluid stream from a second system. The heat exchanger is configured to cool the fluid stream using the process gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Sapphire Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Earl, Jeremy Liu
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Patent number: 12272999Abstract: An armature portion includes a first and second armature core, and a core coupling portion that magnetically couples the first armature core to the second armature core. The first and second armature core includes magnetic pole groups that are magnetically coupled, respectively. A first and second magnetic flux are formed in the armature portion by magnets. A first magnetic circuit in which the first magnetic flux flows includes three magnetic pole groups, magnetic field cores, and the magnets. A second magnetic circuit in which the second magnetic flux flows includes two magnetic pole groups, a core coupling structure, the magnetic field cores, and the magnets. This structure reduces magnetic saturation of the magnetic circuit formed on the armature portion and eliminate the need to magnetically divide the armature cores in the machine moving direction, thereby increasing the intensity of the armature.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinya Naito
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Patent number: 12261483Abstract: An electric machine with a low profile retention assembly for retention of a stator core is disclosed. A first housing houses the stator core. The first housing has an axial end face with a circumferentially extending, shaped profile having recessed portions that project axially inward alternating with non-recessed portions. A portion of the stator core extends axially out from the recessed portions. A core retention spring is disposed circumferentially at the axial end face of the first housing. The core retention spring has direct contact with the portion of the stator core that extends axially out from the recessed portions of the first housing and the shaped profile of the housing. The core retention spring pushes against the portion of the stator core that extends that extends axially out from the first housing, imparting one or more of an axial load and radial load into the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Matthew Robert Martin, Philip Michael Cioffi, John Russell Yagielski, Wei Zhang