Patents Examined by Quyen Leung
  • Patent number: 9577478
    Abstract: A motor comprises a stator assembly, a rotor assembly having a stator core, and a stator cup adjacent the stator core. The inside surface of the stator cup comprises a plurality of aligned regions and a plurality of pressure regions. Each of the plurality of aligned regions is axially aligned with a corresponding one of a plurality of fastener-engaging regions of the stator cup. Each of the plurality of pressure regions is spaced from each of the plurality of aligned regions. A plurality of fastening portions operatively engages the fastener-engaging regions and operatively engages the stator core in a manner urging the stator core and the stator cup toward one another. Urging of the stator core and the stator cup toward one another by the plurality of fastening portions causes the stator core to exert pressure on the plurality of pressure regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven W. Post
  • Patent number: 9577488
    Abstract: Problem To obtain a drive unit integrated rotating electrical machine that makes it easier to connect power circuits and achieves not only excellent vibration resistance but also excellent heat releasing properties. Means for Solution A drive unit integrated rotating electrical machine has a motor, a drive unit driving the motor under control and provided with power switching elements and conductors passing a current to the power switching elements, and a heat sink cooling the drive unit, which are combined into one unit. The drive unit integrated rotating electrical machine is characterized in that: the power switching elements are molded and formed into mold modules in a state in which terminals thereof are exposed; the conductors are insert-molded in a frame in a state in which terminals thereof are exposed; and the exposed terminals of the mold modules are connected to the exposed terminals of the insert-molded conductors and the mold modules are firmly fixed to the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sonoda, Yoshihito Asao, Mamoru Watanabe, Katsuhiko Omae, Tetsushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9570959
    Abstract: An electric motor having a housing having a front and a rear end plate, a rotor that is mounted in the end plates, a stator, the core of which stator includes stator plates that are aligned with respect to each other in the axial direction of the rotor, and a housing cooling system that includes a tube that surrounds the stator core, the being concentrically surrounded by at least one cooling channel that is open towards the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventor: Helmut Kassler
  • Patent number: 9570953
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a stator around which a coil is wound; a frame which fixes the stator; a rotor which faces the stator via a slight air gap; a shaft which is fixed to the rotor and is rotatably and removably supported via a bearing; and a bracket which supports the bearing inside a bearing box. The rotary electric machine includes: an insulating member which is mounted inside the bearing box of the bracket; a metal holder which is mounted inside the insulating member with a predetermined clearance with respect to an outer ring of the bearing, and supports the bearing; and a pressing body which is mounted between the side surface of the metal holder and the side surface of the outer ring of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Soichi Sato, Masaya Inoue, Koichi Ojima, Keigo Maeda
  • Patent number: 9559556
    Abstract: A stator includes an annular stator core having a plurality of slots arranged in the circumferential direction at predetermined intervals and a stator coil formed of a plurality of electric conductor wires mounted on the stator core. Each of the electric conductor wires has a plurality of in-slot portions received in the slots of the stator core and a plurality of turn portions that connect, on the outside of the slots, adjacent pairs of the in-slot portions. The stator coil has first and second coil end parts and that respectively protrude axially outward from a pair of axial end faces of the stator core. At each of the coil end parts, the turn portions of the electric conductor wires are stacked in a radial direction of the stator core, and the axial heights h1 of the turn portions are set so as to gradually increase from the radially inside to the radially outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Mori, Akito Akimoto, Atsuo Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9553492
    Abstract: Provided is a paper shredder comprising a housing (6) and a paper shredder head (4), wherein a transmission mechanism (5) and a motor are provided in the paper shredder head (4); the motor comprises a motor body (1), the motor body (1) having an output shaft (12) and a motor housing (11) sleeve connected on the output shaft (12); the motor housing (11) is provided with a heat dissipation device, the heat dissipation device comprising an air intake device (2) and an air output device (3); the air intake device (2) has a cold air inlet and the air output device (3) has a hot air outlet; the air intake device (2) is provided on one side of the output shaft (12) and the air output device (3) is provided on the other side of the output shaft (12); at the position where the air intake device (2) is provided on the motor housing (11) there is an air intake hole (13) opened correspondingly to communicate with an inner chamber of the motor housing (11), and at the position where the air output device (3) is provided o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Inventor: Ning Xu
  • Patent number: 9548640
    Abstract: A rotor is disclosed, which includes a plurality of axially extending slots disposed about the rotor; a plurality of conductors radially stacked within each of the axial slots; and an axially extending subslot at a radially inward end of each of the slots. In each slot, a cooling path is provided, extending radially outward from the subslot. The cooling path includes at least one manifold, each manifold including at least one ingress passage, at least one egress passage axially distanced from the ingress passage, and a plurality of axially extending passages in fluid connection at a first end with one of the at least one ingress passages, and at a second end with one of the at least one egress passages. Each of the plurality of axially extending passages is disposed at a different radial depth in the slot from each other axially extending passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Tolpadi, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Gustavo Adolfo Ledezma, Rebinth Jose Robin
  • Patent number: 9543811
    Abstract: An electric motor assembly including a housing, an electric motor supported in a motor compartment of the housing, an encoder operatively coupled to the electric motor and supported in an encoder compartment of the housing, and a heat sink surrounding at least a portion of the encoder, the heat sink in thermal contact with an end cap of the housing at least partially defining the encoder compartment, whereby the heat sink is adapted to absorb heat from the encoder and conduct heat to the end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Simin Jiang, Steven Herrmann, Gregory J. Gozola
  • Patent number: 9537375
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a stator core positioned within the housing, a wire wound about the stator core to form a plurality of end-turns that extend from an end of the stator core, and a thermal conductor positioned between the plurality of end-turns and the housing. The thermal conductor includes a substrate and a thermally conductive coating formed on a surface of the substrate. The thermally conductive coating includes a thermally conductive, dielectric material configured to transfer heat from the plurality of end-turns to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Xiaomei Fang
  • Patent number: 9531232
    Abstract: There is provided a drive-device-integrated rotating electrical machine, in which a radially protruding portion is provided radially on at least one of a housing and a heat sink which constitute a storing section of the drive device; an opening portion is formed on at least one of the radially protruding portion; a connector section is attachably/detachably attached onto the opening portion; and a connector-connecting portion for electrically connecting the connector section with the drive device is provided in the vicinity of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Isao Sonoda, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 9525314
    Abstract: In the rotary electric machine, a cylinder 04a of a ring component 04 is formed in such a way that a fitting outer surface 04c1 of the cylinder 04a of the ring component 04 is fitted to a fitting inner surface 02a of a first housing 02; a clearance value between the fitting outer surface of the cylinder and a fitting inner surface of the first housing is lower than a clearance value between an outer surface, in which the fitting outer surface is excepted, of the cylinder and an inner surface, in which the fitting inner surface is excepted, of the first housing; and a position in a diameter direction of a stator core 3 facing to the first housing is set by above-described fitting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Soichi Sato, Yoshihiko Onishi, Katsunari Takagi, Keisuke Shimomura, Manabu Yoshinori
  • Patent number: 9520755
    Abstract: A heat sink apparatus for induction motors and other dynamoelectric machines. The heat sink has a mounting portion adapted for coupling to a motor housing. A first heat sink portion is adapted for insertion into a motor housing interior, such as through an aperture in the frame or bearing bracket, and is thermally coupled to a second heat sink portion that is adapted for orientation outside the housing. The heat sink apparatus first heat sink portion may be inserted within an air channel of a TEFC induction motor. The heat sink preferably has a higher heat transfer rate than the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Lang, Donald J. Schenk
  • Patent number: 9509187
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to a hollow-cylindrical coreless winding for an electric motor. The winding includes a plurality of single coils which are distributed across the circumference of the winding, wherein each single coil includes a plurality of turns which are spirally wound around a winding axis which is perpendicular to an axis of the winding. Successive single coils overlap in a roof tile manner. The winding includes at least two phase windings, each of the phase windings consisting of several ones of the single coils. The phase windings are offset with respect to each other in the circumferential direction of the hollow-cylindrical winding, so that the single coils of a first phase winding are disposed in the circumferential direction of the hollow-cylindrical winding between the single coils of a second phase winding. Each of the phase windings is wound from a continuous wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MAXON MOTOR AG
    Inventors: Franz-Xaver Fölmli, Jens Schulze, Raniero Pittini
  • Patent number: 9509180
    Abstract: A brushless motor for the electric power tool is configured such that a rotor having a magnet is radially disposed on the inner side of a stator having winding wires, and a bonded magnet is used as the magnet of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Ota, Masanori Higashi
  • Patent number: 9509183
    Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatuses adapted to include a dynamoelectric machine rotor with a modified outer surface. In some embodiments apparatuses include a dynamoelectric machine rotor including a rotor body having a spindle, pole regions, the pole regions having a non-uniform radial distance from an axis of rotation of the rotor to an outer surface of the pole regions and a plurality of slots in the outer surface of the rotor body, the plurality of slots being spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the rotor body, each of the plurality of slots extending in an axial direction of the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Venkata Subramanya Sarma Devarakonda, Patrick Robert Davis, James Jonathan Grant, Paul August Quail, John Russell Yagielski
  • Patent number: 9502929
    Abstract: A rotor with a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a field magnet, and an interpole magnet is provided. The first rotor core has a first core base and a plurality of first nail-shaped magnetic pole parts that extend in the axis direction from the outer circumference section of the first core base. The second rotor core has a second core base and a plurality of second nail-shaped magnetic pole parts that extend in the axis direction from the outer circumference section of the second core base. The field magnet is magnetized along the axis direction and makes the first nail-shaped magnetic parts function as first magnetic poles and the second nail-shaped magnetic parts function as second magnetic poles. The interpole magnet is arranged between the first nail-shaped magnetic parts and the second nail-shaped magnetic parts. The interpole magnet has the same polarity as the first and second nail-shaped magnetic pole parts, in the sections where same face the first and second nail-shaped magnetic pole parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Chie Morita, Yuuki Fujii, Shigemasa Kato
  • Patent number: 9502941
    Abstract: An electronically commutated electric motor has an internal stator (18) and an external rotor (24). They are separated by an air gap (23). A circuit board (68) equipped with openings (58?, 70?, 72?) is arranged on the internal stator (18). The internal stator (18) has a lamination stack (22) that is equipped with a winding arrangement (60; 86, 88) whose terminals are implemented at least in part as wire segments (86E, 88E, 90). The lamination stack (22) of the internal stator (18) is covered, at least locally, by an insulating layer (20) made of a thermally stable plastic. Implemented on said layer are supporting elements (58; 70, 72) that project from the internal stator (18) toward the circuit board (68) and serve to secure wire segments (86E, 88E, 90) of the winding arrangement (86, 88). These supporting elements (58, 70, 72), with the wire segments mounted thereon, are each arranged in an associated opening (58?, 70?, 72?) of the circuit board (68) and are there soldered thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST ST. GEORGEN GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Seidler, Matthias Nickel-Jetter
  • Patent number: 9496776
    Abstract: An electric machine (10; 100) comprises a rotor (14a, b) having permanent magnets (24a,b) and a stator (12) having coils (22) wound on stator bars (16) for interaction with the magnets across an air gap (26a, b) defined between them. The bars and coils are enclosed by a stator housing (42a,b; 102, 142a, b,146) that extends between the air gap and defines a chamber (52; 152) incorporating cooling medium to cool the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Oxford University Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Tim Woolmer, Malcolm McCulloch, Hugo Spowers, Andrew Thornby
  • Patent number: 9490677
    Abstract: A motor is provided, the motor including an insulator body coupled to a stator core wound with a plurality of coils applied with an electric power having mutually different polarities to prevent the coils and the stator core from being short-circuited, a terminal housing coupling unit integrally constituted with the insulator body, protruded to a circumferential direction and coupled to a terminal housing supplying an external electric power, a terminal housing coupled to the terminal housing coupling unit to supply an electric power to the motor, a fixing unit position-fixing the terminal housing to the terminal housing coupling unit, and a regulation unit mounted on the fixing unit to regulate a rotation angle of the terminal housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Woo Jo
  • Patent number: 9484792
    Abstract: A rotor has a rotor core arranged to radially face a stator. The rotor core has an accommodation hole extending axially from an axial end face of the rotor core. A magnet is received in the accommodation hole. A recess, which is dented in a direction separating from the magnet, is formed in an end surface of the accommodation hole. The recess has an opening facing the magnet. A pair of open distal portions are arranged at opposite sides of the opening and pressed against the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Utsumi, Yoshinobu Nagao, Hiroshi Katou