Patents Examined by Quyen P. Leung
  • Patent number: 11245301
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Iga, Masayoshi Maeda, Yu Asahi, Takao Atarashi
  • Patent number: 11245319
    Abstract: This actuator has a stationary body having either a coil or a magnet, a movable body having the other, that is, a magnet or a coil, and an elastic body that supports the movable body so as to be capable of moving with respect to the stationary body. The movable body moves reciprocally with respect to the stationary body in the vibration direction due to concerted movement of the magnet and the energized coil. The magnet can advance into and separate from the interior of the coil in the vibration direction. The elastic body is a plate-shaped elastic body one end of which is secured to a stationary unit, the other end of which is secured to the movable body, and which supports the movable body with a cantilever structure so as to be capable of oscillating reciprocally in the vibration direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Kazutaka Sakaguchi, Yasutaka Kitamura, Shigenori Inamoto
  • Patent number: 11245310
    Abstract: A motor includes binding pins around which a coil lead wire is wound, and an end on one side in an axial direction of the binding pin and the coil lead wire are fixed to a surface facing one side in the axial direction of a substrate. An insulator assembly includes a substrate receiver contacting with the substrate from the other side in the axial direction. A heat sink is fixed to a cover, and an end on the other side in the axial direction of the heat sink presses down the integrated circuit mounted on the substrate toward the other side in the axial direction. The heat sink and the substrate receiver are disposed at positions where the heat sink and the substrate receiver overlap each other as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11239737
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor. The linear vibration motor comprises a shell having a housing space, a vibration unit housed in the housing space, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit in the housing space, and a driving unit driving the vibration unit to vibrate. The vibration unit comprises a housing portion recessed inwardly on two sides perpendicular to the vibration direction. The housing portion includes respective inner walls constituting the housing portion. The linear vibration motor further includes a blocking piece housing in the housing portion and fixedly connected to the inner wall, and a foamed cotton fixedly connected to the blocking piece and at least partially received in the housing portion, the blocking piece carrying and supporting the foamed cotton, and the blocking piece cooperating with the foamed cotton to limit the displacement of the vibration unit in the vibration direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ACC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Tao, Fanghua Ling, Junsheng Wang, Xiaofeng Pu
  • Patent number: 11239711
    Abstract: An armature molded structure includes a cylindrical iron core used for a molded structure of a motor armature; a winding; and molding resin, wherein the iron core includes first core sheets and second core sheets, the first core sheet includes first magnetic poles placed along a circumferential direction of the iron core, tip portions, on an inner peripheral side of the iron core, of adjacent first magnetic poles form a coupling portion coupling the adjacent first magnetic poles, the second core sheet includes second magnetic poles placed along the circumferential direction of the iron core, tip portions, on the inner peripheral side of the iron core, of adjacent second magnetic poles form a non-coupling portion separating the adjacent second magnetic poles, the first and second core sheets are laminated along a central axis direction of the iron core in such a manner that the coupling portions coincide with each other, the non-coupling portions coincide with each other, the coupling portion and the non-coupl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Horiuchi, Hiroki Sagara, Jun Kitajima, Mai Shimizu, Takashi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11233439
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GOGORO INC.
    Inventors: Po-Chang Hung, Ching-Tan Yang, Kai-Chiang Li, Sung-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 11228224
    Abstract: A baffle 30 is disclosed for directing cooling air in a rotating electrical machine comprising a stator core and end windings. The baffle comprises a first surface 33 arranged to direct air flow along an end face of the stator core 16, and a second surface 35 arranged to direct air flow along a radially outwards surface of the end windings 18. This may help to reduce turbulence in the airflow, thereby allowing more efficient transfer of heat. Furthermore, greater priority may be given to air flow through the rotor/stator air gap 14, and thus increasing air flow through the centre of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Richard Gray
  • Patent number: 11228228
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a method of performing maintenance operations in an electrical machine is provided. The method comprises positioning the rotor in a first position; disconnecting electrical windings, removing one or more segments of an electrical conductor ring and positioning the rotor in a second position without connecting the removed segments of the electrical conductor ring. In a further aspect, a method of operating an electrical machine is also provided. In yet a further aspect, it is provided an electrical machine comprising an electrical conductor ring having a releasable segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Sergio Romero Perez, Julio César Urresty
  • Patent number: 11223176
    Abstract: A direct-current motor commutator structure includes: a commutator base, comprising a front pressing ring, a pressing plate and a sleeve that are sequentially abutted, a sealing ring being provided between the front pressing ring and the pressing plate, and between the pressing plate and the sleeve constituting a bearing area; a commutator, mounted in the bearing area and having opposite first and second portions; a sealing element being potted or provided between the second portion and the sleeve; an equalizing cable, mounted on an outer side of a first potting area formed by the first portion, the pressing plate and the front pressing ring, abutting against the first portion and the front pressing ring, and covering the first potting area; and an armature coil, clinging to the equalizing cable and located on an outer side of a second potting area formed by the equalizing cable and the front pressing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: New United Rail Transit Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Niancheng Lu, Chang Jiang, Jun Wu, Yang Cao
  • Patent number: 11223254
    Abstract: A capacitor unit (20) includes: a harness side terminal (23) provided on a first end portion (22a) side of a first surface of a housing (22) for accommodating a capacitor main body therein; a board side terminal (24) provided in the housing (22) and connectable to a circuit board; and a plurality of guide portions (25) that protrude from the first surface and extend from a second end portion (22b) on a side opposite to the first end portion (22a) toward the first end portion (22a). The plurality of guide portions (25) are provided to be separated in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction of connecting the first end portion (22a) and the second end portion (22b) to each other so as to sandwich the harness side terminal (23) therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Hiroto Higuchi, Takayuki Takashige
  • Patent number: 11223263
    Abstract: An axial flux rotary generator comprising: two magnetic annuli; a coil annulus; the magnetic annuli and coil annulus having a common axis; the two magnetic annuli defining a plurality of magnetic fields around the common axis extending across a gap between the two magnetic annuli and the coil annulus having a sequence of coils around the common axis in the gap such that lines of magnetic flux from the magnetic fields cut the turns of the coils and thus induce electric current in the coils as the magnetic annuli are caused to rotate relative to the coil annulus, means provided at or towards the central aperture of the coil annulus axial to resist flexure of the coil annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Time To Act Limited
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 11223253
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11217356
    Abstract: A radioisotope power source is disclosed. In one embodiment, the power source includes a dielectric liquid held within a vessel, a radioisotope material dissolved as an ionic salt within the dielectric liquid thereby forming an ionic salt solution, and a thermal-to-electric power conversion system configured to receive thermal heat generated from the decay of the radioisotope material and to generate electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian Tillotson
  • Patent number: 11218054
    Abstract: A gearmotor includes a motor assembly, a gear assembly, and an electronics assembly. The motor assembly includes a rotor including a rotor shaft; a stator; and a stator retention apparatus. The stator includes a core defining a core orientation feature, and a plurality of coils. The stator retention apparatus includes an apparatus orientation feature and an electronics assembly support structure. The gear assembly includes an output shaft. The electronics assembly includes a rotor shaft rotation sensor that is radially spaced from a rotor shaft position indicium, an output shaft rotation sensor that is radially spaced from an output shaft position indicium, and a magnetic sensor mounted to the electronics assembly support structure. The core orientation feature and the apparatus orientation feature engage one another to position the stator retention apparatus radially and arcuately relative to the core, such that the magnetic sensor is positioned adjacent an axial coil margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Tucker, Philip S. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11218041
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Yogo, Kazuhide Watanabe, Akinori Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11218048
    Abstract: A slinger for an electric motor broadly includes a hub and a wheel. The motor includes a housing in which a stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The motor also includes a rotatable output shaft projecting upwardly through a shaft opening in the housing. The hub is fixedly attachable to the output shaft of the motor so that the slinger rotates with the output shaft. The wheel is configured to divert liquid radially away from the shaft opening. The wheel includes a wheel plate and a plurality of radially extending blades cooperatively forming a series of passages extending radially outward relative to the shaft opening, when the hub is attached to the output shaft. The wheel plate is supported by the hub so as to be positioned above the housing when the hub is attached to the output shaft. The blades present radially inboard ends intersecting the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. Eason, Chetan O. Modi, Kevin L. West
  • Patent number: 11218035
    Abstract: Provided is an armature structure of a three-phase motor which includes: 6N (N is a natural number) slots; 3N coils per phase; 3N main poles; and 3N auxiliary poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Horiuchi, Hiroki Sagara, Jun Kitajima, Mai Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11214332
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to hub apparatuses and associated systems. An embodiment of the hub apparatus includes a rotor assembly, a shaft, and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes first/second housing components and multiple magnets mounted on one or both of the first and second housing components. The stator assembly includes (1) a coil assembly positioned corresponding to the magnets; (2) a main circuit board fixedly coupled to the coil assembly; and (3) a battery assembly positioned inside the coil assembly and carried by the main circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Gogoro Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Lin, Yu-Se Liu, Po-Chang Yeh, Liang-Yi Hsu, Chen-Hsin Hsu
  • Patent number: 11217952
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a slipring module comprising a plurality of sliding tracks and an insulating body. The method includes: making a monolithic sliding track component preferably by a 3D printing process. The monolithic sliding track component comprises a plurality of sliding tracks, multiple connector for electrically connecting the sliding tracks, and at least one strut for mechanically interconnecting the sliding tracks and the connector to form a monolithic sliding track component; inserting the monolithic sliding track component into a mold; filling the mold with an insulating material such as a plastic material, and curing the plastic material; removing the molded product forming a slipring module from the mold, and removing the at least one strut from the slipring module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Christian Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 11211850
    Abstract: A motor includes a stationary portion including an annular stator centered on a central axis extending in a vertical direction, and a rotating portion including a magnet radially opposite to the stator, and rotatable about the central axis. The stationary portion includes a circuit board axially below the magnet and an electronic component mounted on the circuit board, the circuit board includes a board hole passing therethrough in an axial direction. The electronic component includes a component body portion including at least a portion thereof in the board hole, a first terminal portion extending in a first direction from the component body portion, the first direction being not parallel to the axial direction, a second terminal portion extending downward from the first terminal portion, and a third terminal portion extending from the second terminal portion, and joined to the circuit board through solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Ito, Shuji Hosoda, Wataru Morisaki, Norihide Watari