Patents Examined by Ramon M. Barrera
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Patent number: 11106250Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kristin L. Weldon, Michael S. Brazel, Jered H. Wikander, Lily Kolle, Weibo Chen, Aleksander Magi, Konstantin I. Kouliachev, Ralph V. Miele, Richard P. Crawford
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Patent number: 11094442Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: KOLEKTOR GROUP D.O.O.Inventor: Franci Lahajnar
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Patent number: 11095185Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventors: Hongwei Zhang, Lingdong Jin, Fosheng Zou
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Patent number: 11095193Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Eric W. Wachter, Erik A. Ekstrom, Alpay Hizal
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Patent number: 11094485Abstract: 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 supplType: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Andrea Delpozzo, Emanuele Morelli, Veronica Biagini, Osvaldo Prestini
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Patent number: 11095200Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kitahara, Tadashi Takeda, Masao Tsuchihashi
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Patent number: 11095176Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbHInventor: Jochen Röer
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Patent number: 11087910Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Inventor: Raymond James Walsh
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Patent number: 11088604Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Oguchi, Makoto Terajima, Hitoshi Nakazono
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Patent number: 11088592Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takaya Futae, Shunsuke Yakushiji
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Patent number: 11088583Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Fukuda, Kenichi Nakayama, Kazuo Ojima, Shin Onose, Hisaya Shimizu, Shinji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11081270Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Nobuo Takagi, Yousuke Hitomi
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Patent number: 11081269Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Joachim Frangen
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Patent number: 11081268Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Siemens Healthcare LimitedInventors: Alun Down, Jonathan Noys
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Patent number: 11075567Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Hara, Tomohiro Ukai
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Patent number: 11070149Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Redwave Energy, Inc.Inventors: Patrick K. Brady, Dale K. Kotter, Wounjhang Park
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Patent number: 11063481Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Ashwoods Electric Motors LimitedInventor: Lloyd Ash
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Patent number: 11056948Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Michael Jason Grundmann, Jonathan Ross
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Patent number: 11043864Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventors: Seppo Saarakkala, Victor Mukherjee, Maksim Sokolov, Marko Hinkkanen, Anouar Belahcen
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Patent number: 11043884Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Antwan Shenouda