Patents Examined by Quyen P. Leung
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Patent number: 11329574Abstract: A system and a method for an energy harvesting and storage apparatus including a flexible substrate, an energy harvesting device disposed on the flexible substrate, the energy harvesting device is configured to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy, an energy storage device disposed on the flexible substrate and in electrical communication with the energy harvesting device and configured to receive and store the electrical energy from the energy harvesting device.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: City University of Hong KongInventors: Chunyi Zhi, Zifeng Wang
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Patent number: 11323005Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide: a cooling jacket device 1 which offers excellent cooling performance, is easy to manufacture and enables cost reduction; and a rotary electric machine including the cooling jacket device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yuuya Manaka
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Patent number: 11316409Abstract: A motor includes a holder having an annular plate shape with a plate thickness in an axial direction of a rotor housing, and including a flange section disposed so the rotor housing rotates at an inner side of the flange section, a center piece including a plate-shaped section opposing the flange section, and a heat sink including a heat dissipation section projecting from the plate-shaped section toward the flange section. The flange section integrates with a flow rectification section including a cooling air flow rectification face extending along a cooling air flow path between the flange section and the plate-shaped section. The heat dissipation section is disposed in the cooling air flow path. The cooling air flow rectification face closely opposes the top of the heat dissipation section. A bulk reduction section is between the cooling air flow rectification face and the flange section opposite of the plate-shaped section.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Goto, Hideaki Ishii
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Patent number: 11316398Abstract: Provided is a terminal device for a rotary electric machine, in which a plurality of conductive members, each having a first connecting portion having a flat plate shape, are provided to a base made of an insulating material. Each of a plurality of connection terminals has a second connecting portion having a flat plate shape. The second connecting portion is connected to a corresponding one of the first connecting portions. After a processed connecting portion being at least any one of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion is formed through press-working performed for a conductive flat plate, compression processing is performed for a front surface and a back surface at both ends of the processed connecting portion in a width direction of the processed connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toyoaki Udo, Zhishuai Gao
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Patent number: 11316402Abstract: An embodiment relates to a rotor and a motor including the same, the rotor comprising: a rotor core; coils wound around the rotor core; covers respectively arranged at the upper part of the rotor core, wherein the cover includes: a main body disposed at the rotor core; a plurality of blades arranged on the upper surface of the main body; and at least two first protruding parts protruding in the axial direction from the upper surface of the main body. Therefore, the rotor and the motor including the same can perform a balance correction operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Chan Lee, Byung Sam Lee
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Patent number: 11316390Abstract: A transverse flux machine includes a stator assembly consisting of a plurality of shaped cores, each having a base with a plurality of legs with a corresponding gap between each leg and each leg having a winding. A rotor assembly is positioned adjacent the stator assembly and includes a rotor disc, and a rotor ring with a plurality of rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of interpoles. The plurality of rotor poles and plurality of interpoles are radially disposed around the rotor disc. The plurality of rotor poles include a plurality of focused rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of diffused rotor poles.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: The University of AkronInventors: Yilmaz Sozer, Anik Chowdhury, Shuvajit Das, Naoto Saito, Subrata Saha, Takamasa Takeuchi, Yasunobu Shiotsuki, Teppei Tsuda
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Patent number: 11309750Abstract: A driving apparatus according to an embodiment includes an arm, an operation target, and a brake unit. The arm has one end supported by a support mechanism, and includes an electric driving source. The operation target is attached to the other end of the arm, the other end being an end on the opposite side of the one end, and is enabled to be pivoted by the driving source about one rotational axis intersecting with a direction from the one end to the other end. The brake unit secures immobility of a target gear that is a gear disposed in the arm, and that is a gear being rotated as the operation target is pivoted, when the power supply to the driving source stops.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Makoto Otsuka, Koji Kebukawa
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Patent number: 11309770Abstract: An in-wheel electric motor includes at a vehicle side an elongated connector, a cylindrical stator body connected to the connector and on an outer surface of the stator body equipped with stator windings, a cylindrical rotor body enclosing the stator, and a power electronics device powering the stator windings. The connector is provided with a first opening of a feed channel for coolant and a second opening of a return channel for coolant, each of the feed and return channels being parallel to an axial direction of the connector. The electric motor includes a cooling circuitry with a feed connector and a return connector for coolant, which circuitry includes a coolant supply channel that extends from the feed connector through first the power electronics device and subsequently through a cooling jacket that is situated at the perimeter of the cylindrical stator body and from there to the return connector.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: E-TRACTION EUROPE B.V.Inventors: Timothy Van Seventer, Reinhard Peter Van Der Wal
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Patent number: 11309767Abstract: An electric drive unit comprises an electric drive device having a stator and a rotor, the stator and the rotor being disposed in a stator housing which extends along a longitudinal axis, a cable, wherein a first portion of the cable is connected to the drive device, and a liquid encapsulation is disposed on a second portion of the cable which has individual lines which are litz wires. A rear flange at an end side that faces away from an interior of the stator housing and has an annular space disposed on one end of the stator housing, wherein the liquid encapsulation is disposed in the annular space.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: INTERROLL HOLDING AGInventors: Erwin Mans, Jurriaen Van Holthe Tot Echten
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Patent number: 11309772Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, and a metal component that is in contact with the stator. The stator includes a first tooth, a second tooth, a first winding wound around the first tooth by concentrated winding, a second winding wound around the second tooth by concentrated winding, and a thermal conduction sheet held between the first winding and the second winding. The thermal conduction sheet is held between the metal component and the first winding in a deformed state.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiro Oketani
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Patent number: 11309774Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a stator that externally surrounds the rotor and includes a stator core and coils wound on the stator core. The windings are defined by a winding wire including winding wire end portions that are electrically contacted at end surfaces thereof by busbars held at least partially in a busbar holder, and include a ground contact to connect the stator to a ground potential. The ground contact includes a first end region received in a longitudinal groove on an outside of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Pascual Guardiola, Thomas Kübler
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Patent number: 11309762Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a stator having an improved structure of an insulator coupled to teeth and to a motor having the stator. The stator includes an insulator. The insulator includes: a coil-wound portion surrounding an outer circumferential face of a tooth; and both side walls respectively extending from both sides of the coil-wound portion, wherein the both side walls and the coil-wound portion defines a space receiving the coil, wherein one of the both side walls includes a coupling portion, wherein the insulator are divided into two parts and the two parts are coupled to each other via the coupling portion such that the tooth is inserted into and coupled to the insulator.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jin Hong, Yongdae Kim, Kwangyong Jang
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Patent number: 11303178Abstract: The object of the invention is to improve operability of the process for inserting the coil conductor into the insulating member stored inside the slot of the rotor core. Each of the first insulating member and the second insulating member has one side arranged between the first coil and the second coil so that the respective sides are superposed along the radial direction of the stator core. The side of the first insulating member and the side of the second insulating member are connected with the first connection part at one end in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Fukuda, Satoshi Yamamura, Yousuke Umesaki, Tomohiro Adachi
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Patent number: 11303180Abstract: A motor may include a rotor including a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The resin sealing member may include a resin sealing member side position regulating surface that makes contact in the axial direction with a cover member side position regulating surface provided on the cover member, and a resin sealing member side securing surface that faces, in the axial direction and with a gap, a cover member side securing surface provided on the cover member. At least a portion of the resin sealing member side securing surface is secured to the cover member side securing surface via an adhesive agent layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuratani, Nobuki Kokubo, Masaki Harada
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Patent number: 11303185Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a motor in which a structure of an insulator is improved. The motor includes an upper insulator coupled to a top face of a stator core. The upper insulator includes a power terminal unit connected to each of 3-phases power lead wires; and an upper insulator body for insulating the power terminal unit from the stator core. The upper insulator includes protrusions radially protruding from the upper insulator body. Each protrusion has a guide hole defined therein for receiving each of the 3-phases power lead wires.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jin Hong, Cheol Han, Yongdae Kim
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Patent number: 11296579Abstract: A Vernier external rotor machine for direct drive of a load is provided. The Vernier external rotor machine includes an external rotor configured to mechanically directly drive to a load.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Lenze Drives GmbHInventors: Matthias Thesseling, Heiko Stichweh, Volker Grabs
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Patent number: 11296572Abstract: A radial flux electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation and a stator fixedly positioned proximate the rotor. At least one of the rotor or the stator may include a plurality of teeth annularly arranged about the axis of rotation. Each tooth of the plurality of teeth may extend in a radial direction such that a plurality of cross-sectional areas of each tooth in a plurality of planes perpendicular to the radial direction may vary. And perimeters of the plurality of cross-sections may be substantially the same across the plurality of perpendicular planes.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 11296589Abstract: An electrical machine comprises a longitudinally movable device and an intermediate rotor. A first arrangement of magnets is disposed on a first surface of the longitudinally movable device, and a second arrangement of magnets is disposed on a first surface of the intermediate rotor. The longitudinally movable device is movable in a first direction. The intermediate rotor's first surface is held adjacent the first surface of the longitudinally movable device such that it cannot move in the first direction. The intermediate rotor is, however, rotatable about an axis and the arrangement of the first and second arrangements of magnets translates movement of the longitudinally movable device into rotation of the intermediate rotor about the axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventors: David Rodger, Hong Cheng Lai
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Patent number: 11289966Abstract: A prefabricated coil for placement on a tooth for a direct drive is orthocyclically wound from a wire of circular cross section. The coil includes two straight portions having an inner surface facing an interior of the coil and an outer surface opposite and parallel to the inner surface. A distance between the inner surface and the outer surface defines a thickness of the coil. Two coil overhangs connect the straight portions. A distance between the coil overhangs defines a height of the straight portions. The inner and outer surfaces of the straight portions have the height of the straight portions and a width of the straight portions. A sheet-like insulator covers the straight portions. The wire and the sheet-like insulator are bonded together such that the coil is self-supporting under the application of pressure and temperature. The sheet-like insulator has a joint region at the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: ETEL S.A.Inventors: Johann Pourchet, Jeremy Anstett
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Patent number: 11289968Abstract: Provided are a motor sealing structure and a motor. The motor sealing structure comprises: a rotary shaft, a bearing, which is sleeved on the rotating shaft. A shaft shoulder structure is arranged on an outer peripheral wall of the rotating shaft at a position corresponding to the bearing along an axial direction of the rotating shaft, so as to form a cavity between a portion of the bearing and the shaft shoulder structure, and a fan blade structure, which is sleeved at one end of the rotating shaft and extends in the axial direction of the rotating shaft to the position of the bearing, and is inserted into and held in the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: GREE GREEN REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Feng Gao, Jianning Liu, Yi Zheng