Patents Examined by Ramon M. Barrera
  • Patent number: 11106250
    Abstract: Techniques for forming and adjusting a magnetic tension mechanism are described herein. A system includes a first magnetic element in a first component of a computing device. The system includes a second magnetic element in a second component of the computing device, wherein the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component are to be held in tension by a magnetic force. The system also includes an adjustment mechanism to adjust the force required to decouple the magnetic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kristin L. Weldon, Michael S. Brazel, Jered H. Wikander, Lily Kolle, Weibo Chen, Aleksander Magi, Konstantin I. Kouliachev, Ralph V. Miele, Richard P. Crawford
  • Patent number: 11094442
    Abstract: An electromagnetic linear actuator is provided having a housing having a casing section and an end piece, a coil arrangement having two coils which extend about a common axis, are wound in opposite directions and are offset axially from one another, an armature arrangement mounted displacably in the housing along the axis, and a shaft, which passes through the end piece. A magnet arrangement at the end of the shaft has an axially magnetized permanent magnet and two disc-shaped flux conducting pieces are arranged on a front side. The first coil which faces away from the free end of the shaft has a region with a reduced internal diameter. A core of a magnetically active material is held in the coil. In each end positions of the armature arrangement, at least 50% of the axial length of the magnet arrangement is overlapped by one of the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: KOLEKTOR GROUP D.O.O.
    Inventor: Franci Lahajnar
  • Patent number: 11095185
    Abstract: A motor assembly is provided, which includes a motor having a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a filter unit mounted to an outside of the motor. The filter unit includes an insulating housing and at least one filter element arranged in the housing and electrically connected to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Hongwei Zhang, Lingdong Jin, Fosheng Zou
  • Patent number: 11095193
    Abstract: An electronic switch module for a power tool having an electric motor is provided, including a printed circuit board (PCB), power switches mounted on the PCB and configured to switchably supply electric power from a power source to the electric motor, a series of primary heat sinks mounted on the PCB in association with the power switches, and a secondary heat sink mounted on the primary heat sinks. Output wires attached to the PCB to facilitate electrical connection between the power switches and the electric motor are passed through a slot of the secondary heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Eric W. Wachter, Erik A. Ekstrom, Alpay Hizal
  • Patent number: 11094485
    Abstract: A contactor for medium voltage electric systems including: one or more electric poles; for each electric pole, a fixed contact and a corresponding movable contact reversibly movable between a first position, at which the movable contact is decoupled from the fixed contact, and a second position, at which the movable contact is coupled with the fixed contact; an electromagnetic actuator including a magnetic yoke having a fixed yoke member and a movable yoke member, the movable yoke member reversibly movable between a third position corresponding to the first position of the movable contacts, at which the movable yoke member is decoupled from the fixed yoke member, and a fourth position, corresponding to the second position of the movable contacts, at which the movable yoke member is coupled with the fixed yoke member, the electromagnetic actuator including an excitation circuit assembly including an excitation coil wound around the magnetic yoke and electrically connected with an auxiliary electric power suppl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Andrea Delpozzo, Emanuele Morelli, Veronica Biagini, Osvaldo Prestini
  • Patent number: 11095200
    Abstract: An actuator (1) is provided A substrate (15) held by a support (2) is provided with a total of six power supply electrodes (153) electrically connected respectively to both ends of a first coil (61) of a first magnetic drive circuit (6) that vibrates a movable body (3) in an X direction, both ends of a second coil (71) of a second magnetic drive circuit (7) that vibrates the movable body (3) in a Y direction, and both ends of a third coil (81) of a third magnetic drive circuit (8) that vibrates the movable body (3) in the X direction. An opening (110) that exposes the six power supply electrodes (153) is formed in a cover (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitahara, Tadashi Takeda, Masao Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 11095176
    Abstract: A form-wound coil for a stator of a generator of a gearless wind power installation. The form-wound coil comprises an electrical conductor, wherein the electrical conductor has a plurality of turns and also a first end and a second end. The first end has a first connecting part for connection to a connecting element and the second end has a second connecting part for connection to a further connecting element and the electrical conductor comprises aluminum or is substantially composed of aluminum. A connecting element for connecting a connecting part of a form-wound coil to a connecting part of a further form-wound coil. A winding structure for a stator and also to a stator and to a method for producing a stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Röer
  • Patent number: 11087910
    Abstract: Theoretical and practical constraints disallow direct determination of the structure of the atomic nucleus. Contained herein is a magnet model of the atomic nucleus, derived from considerations of charge density, RMS charge radii, magnetic moments, and nucleon binding energy. These physical properties point to a sequential, alternating up and down quark structure modeled in the present invention by an array of magnets alternating in polarity. The summation of the pull forces of the two magnet poles is unequal, and when two such magnet arrays are placed opposite one another in magnetic potential energy barrier assembly, the two arrays repel at a distance and attract when near one another. In one embodiment, the ratio of the maximum attractive force to the maximum repulsive force very closely approximates the strong force constant 137. This invention serves as a demonstration of the Coulomb barrier for the student, and a potentially useful model for probing the forces and structure of the atomic nucleus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Raymond James Walsh
  • Patent number: 11088604
    Abstract: Provided is a variable magnetic flux-type permanent magnet rotary electric machine wherein a leakage magnetic flux leaking from a certain permanent magnet included in the rotor core to a permanent magnet circumferentially adjacent on either side of the certain permanent magnet is controlled by q-axis current and thereby a magnetic flux emanating from the certain permanent magnet and linking with the armature coil wound on the stator is controlled without forming a mechanically weak part in the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Oguchi, Makoto Terajima, Hitoshi Nakazono
  • Patent number: 11088592
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compressor unit configured to compress air and a motor unit configured to drive the compressor unit. The motor unit includes a housing that forms an outer frame of the motor unit, a rotor that is provided in the housing and rotatably supported around a central axis O, a stator that is disposed radially outward from the rotor, and a stator holder which is fixed to the housing only in a part in a central axis O direction and is provided such that there is a gap in a radial direction crossing the central axis O between it and an inner circumferential surface of the housing in the rest in the central axis O direction and inside which the stator is accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Futae, Shunsuke Yakushiji
  • Patent number: 11088583
    Abstract: Provided are a rotary-electric-machine stator coil, a rotary-electric-machine stator having the same, and a rotary electric machine having the same, capable of improving a bonding strength and insulation reliability of a conductor bonding portion. A rotary-electric-machine stator coil includes: a conductor 110 having a bonding portion 104 bonded to other conductors; and a bonding member 401 having a melting point lower than a melting point of the conductor, wherein a tip of the bonding portion has an alloy layer 402 formed of an alloy of the conductor and the bonding member, and a root of the bonding portion is electrically connected by the bonding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Fukuda, Kenichi Nakayama, Kazuo Ojima, Shin Onose, Hisaya Shimizu, Shinji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11081270
    Abstract: A permanent magnet includes a magnet member, and an adhesive layer covering a surface of the magnet member, wherein the adhesive layer includes a resin and a plurality of foaming agents, and wherein at least part of the foaming agents protrudes from a surface of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Takagi, Yousuke Hitomi
  • Patent number: 11081269
    Abstract: A movement device comprising a first and a second assembly, the first assembly being composed of a plurality of subassemblies. Two directly adjacent subassemblies are conterminous with each other at a boundary line. The two subassemblies form at least one first pair of directly adjacent first permanent-magnet arrangements that are separated from each other by the boundary line. The two first permanent-magnet arrangements of the first pair are each arranged with a boundary distance from the boundary line that is reduced with respect to a spacing distance, such that they mutually have the spacing distance. There are present in each case within the said two subassemblies at least one second pair of directly adjacent first permanent-magnet arrangements that mutually have the spacing distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Frangen
  • Patent number: 11081268
    Abstract: An electromagnet assembly has an inner magnet, an outer magnet, arranged around the inner magnet with an annular region extending between the inner magnet and the outer magnet, and a number of support elements extending through the annular region and dividing the annular region into a number of annular segments. The support elements are distributed in the annular region so as to form a small annular segment and a large annular segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Alun Down, Jonathan Noys
  • Patent number: 11075567
    Abstract: A reciprocating tool includes a motor, a reciprocating member, and a crank mechanism. The motor is disposed in a housing. The reciprocating member projects from the housing. The crank mechanism converts rotation of a rotation shaft of the motor into reciprocation of the reciprocating member. The crank mechanism rotates around an axis in a lateral direction by rotation transmission from the rotation shaft, and the crank mechanism includes a crank member having an eccentric pin, a connecting rod coupling the eccentric pin to the reciprocating member, and a balancer coupled to the eccentric pin, and the balancer is supported by the eccentric pin alone in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Hara, Tomohiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 11070149
    Abstract: Spectral tuning of heat source to emit radiation at a desired frequency or frequency band is accomplished using metamaterials. The metamaterials include a structured geometry having holes with dimensions and spacing chosen such that the resulting surface will emit radiation in the desired spectrum. A collector can be made of a similar metamaterial or antenna array to detect the emitted radiation and transfer it to a converter device that converts the detected radiation to electricity. Embodiments also provide efficient coupling to the converter device for energy harvesting. Cooling of the converter devices can be accomplished using a cooling sink or deep space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Redwave Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick K. Brady, Dale K. Kotter, Wounjhang Park
  • Patent number: 11063481
    Abstract: A radial flux electrical machine is disclosed. The machine comprises a body of the stator having a body that defines a longitudinal axis a substantially cylindrical inner surface and an inner volume, and having a plurality of electromagnetic elements, each of which includes a stator core of ferromagnetic material and a winding of electrically conductive material located around at least part of the stator core of the electromagnetic element, the electromagnetic elements being arranged around the inner surface of the stator, and operable to induce a magnetic flux field in a radial direction in the inner volume of the stator, and a rotor located within the inner volume of the stator, and rotatable with respect to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ashwoods Electric Motors Limited
    Inventor: Lloyd Ash
  • Patent number: 11056948
    Abstract: An example system includes a disk that is rotatable and has a plurality of ferromagnetic elements disposed in a radial array on a surface of the disk; and at least one electro-permanent magnet (EPM) mounted adjacent to the disk such that a gap separates the disk from the EPM. Applying an electric pulse to the at least one EPM changes a magnetic state thereof, thereby generating an external magnetic field that traverses the gap between the disk and the EPM and interacts with a ferromagnetic element of the plurality of ferromagnetic elements, and causing a rotational speed of the disk to change as the disk rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Michael Jason Grundmann, Jonathan Ross
  • Patent number: 11043864
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for self-commissioning a bearingless-motor drive, which includes a bearingless motor and a control unit of the bearingless motor are disclosed. The motor includes at least one winding and at least one permanent magnet. The method includes generating a magnetic model, the magnetic model including a plurality of constant parameters; supplying, while the movable part remains standstill, to the at least one winding at least two unequal currents; measuring, with a magnetic sensor, flux linkages caused by said at least two unequal currents, respectively; calculating, with the magnetic model, flux linkages by inputting to the magnetic model current values equal to the currents supplied to the at least one winding; and fitting, with a least-squares fitting algorithm, at least one constant parameter in the magnetic model such that the difference between the measured and calculated flux linkages will be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seppo Saarakkala, Victor Mukherjee, Maksim Sokolov, Marko Hinkkanen, Anouar Belahcen
  • Patent number: 11043884
    Abstract: A multi-rotor electric machine having a stator, a first rotor magnetically coupled to the stator and a second rotor magnetically coupled to the stator is disclosed. A method of operating the electric machine comprises driving a gear via a first face of the gear using the first rotor and driving the gear via a second face of the gear using the second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Antwan Shenouda