Patents Examined by Rashad H Johnson
  • Patent number: 11155357
    Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to a generator comprising a housing defining an interior and fluidly separating the interior from surrounding ambient air, at least one of a rotor or stator located within the housing, a cooling circuit passing through at least a portion of the housing to cool the interior and recirculating a coolant having a density greater than the ambient air, and a jet pump having a motive fluid conduit fluidly coupled to the cooling circuit, a transport fluid circuit fluidly coupled to the ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Jan Zywot, Gerard Howard Bueche, Gary Michael Chessare, Robert Donald Grennan, Michael George Schneider
  • Patent number: 11142999
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating electrical power includes at least one power generation assembly having a housing including a fluid chamber, one or more conductive coils surrounding the fluid chamber, a reciprocating magnetic shuttle dividing the fluid chamber into a first volume and a second volume. The apparatus also includes at least one switching assembly configured to alternate between a first operating state where the first volume is in fluid communication with a first fluid pressure source, and a second operating state where the first volume is in fluid communication with a second fluid pressure source. The switching assembly is configured to alternate between the first operating state and the second operating state to alternate a direction of differential pressure between the first volume and the second volume and cause the magnetic shuttle to move in a reciprocating motion and generate an electric current in the one or more conductive coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Duggan, Christopher Ryan Hern, Daniel Ewing
  • Patent number: 11128197
    Abstract: An electric device has a driveshaft with at least one stator cylinder positioned between opposing, curvilinear shaped cams mounted on the driveshaft, where the center axis of the stator cylinder is parallel with but spaced apart from the driveshaft axis. A magnet assembly is disposed in each end of the stator cylinder, with one magnet assembly engaging one cam and the other magnet assembly engaging the other cam. Each magnet assembly includes a cam follower that can move along a curvilinear shaped cam. A magnet slide arm attached to the cam reciprocates magnets carried on the magnet slide arm through electromagnetic windings disposed around the stator cylinder. An electrical input delivered to the windings can reciprocate the arm, driving the cams to rotate the driveshaft. Alternatively, rotation of the driveshaft can be used to reciprocate the arm to induce electric current in the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: HTS LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Marcelo Todeschini Hilgert, Gustavo Ludwig Schneider
  • Patent number: 11128207
    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; characterised in that the coils comprise a wound flat strip conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TIME TO ACT LIMITED
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 11121612
    Abstract: A rotary-linear actuation assembly comprising a casing internally housing an output shaft arranged coaxial with an actuation axis (A) in a translationally and rotationally movable manner, at least two actuators, of which a first actuator is adapted to impose a translational movement along the actuation axis (A) on the output shaft and a second actuator is adapted to impose a rotary movement about the actuation axis (A) on the output shaft, and at least one position sensor adapted to detect an instant position of the output shaft inside the casing. At least one position sensor is mounted in fixed manner in respect of rotation about the actuation axis (A) and in fixed manner in respect of translation along the actuation axis (A) and faces at least a portion of the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AROL S.P.A.
    Inventor: Marco Cipriani
  • Patent number: 11114927
    Abstract: A brushless electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a core defining a plurality of stator teeth, a first end cap proximate a first end of the core, a second end cap proximate a second end of the core, and a plurality of coils disposed on the respective stator teeth. The stator also includes a plurality of coil contact plates overmolded within one of the first end cap or the second end cap that short-circuit diagonally opposite coils on the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Keith Boulanger, Matthew R. Bailey, Carl B. Westerby
  • Patent number: 11108311
    Abstract: The invention relates to electrical engineering, in particular to electromagnetic devices. Brushless motor generator is disclosed, which includes a rotor with a permanent magnet and a stator, the windings of which have a rounded cross-section. According to the invention, the rotor is made in the form of a shaft with a permanent magnet fixed on it. The magnetic field vector of the poles of the magnet is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the shaft. The stator is spherical, covering the magnet, and the axis of symmetry of the stator coincides with the axis of rotation of the shaft. From 1 to 12 windings are wound on the outer spherical surface of the stator; the windings forming the coils with uniformly offset poles relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Ruben Medzhlumyan
  • Patent number: 11101706
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor (3) for an electric rotating machine (1), in particular a synchronous machine (20), comprising a shaft (5) and at least one pole shoe (7). In order to keep overhead and costs low while achieving high reliability, according to the invention, a metal sheet (8) is placed between the shaft (5) and the pole shoe (7); said metal sheet (8) has a first contact area (12) that is in contact with a contact area (14) on the pole shoe (7), the metal sheet (8) and the pole shoe (7) being made of different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Schmidt, Benjamin Gottfried Ulbrich, Martin Wieschalla
  • Patent number: 11095180
    Abstract: A motor includes a first bus bar including a first extension, a second extension, and a first bus bar body including a first corner to which the first extension and the second extension are connected. A holder includes a support to support the first bus bar body, a pair of first walls, and a pair of second walls. The pair of first walls include wall surfaces that face each other in the first perpendicular direction and are spaced by a gap from each other, and extend in the first direction. The pair of second walls include wall surfaces that face each other in the second perpendicular direction and are spaced by a gap from each other, and extend in the second direction. A first space is provided between the pair of first walls and the pair of second walls. The first corner is provided in the first space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Ogawa, Tatsuya Onishi, Takashi Seguchi, Yasuhiko Iwano
  • Patent number: 11088581
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric motor, including: a rotor carrier hub; a rotor radially disposed about the rotor carrier hub; and an annular end ring. The rotor carrier hub includes: an axis of rotation; an annular outer surface facing in a first axial direction parallel to the axis of rotation; a circumferentially disposed outer surface; a curved indentation in the annular outer surface; and a protrusion extending beyond the circumferentially disposed outer surface in a radially outward direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation and radially aligned with the curved indentation such that a line, in the radially outward direction, passes through the curved indentation and the protrusion. The end ring is in contact with the circumferentially disposed outer surface of the rotor carrier hub and the protrusion. The protrusion blocks displacement of the rotor in the first axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ayyalraju Satyaseelan, Derek Deacon
  • Patent number: 11081919
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine has a permanent magnet carrier that defines a plurality of permanent magnet receptacles. A plurality of permanent magnets are received in the receptacles. The magnets are arranged to define at least two magnetic poles of the rotor. A metallic shield surrounds an outward facing surface of the permanent magnets to shield the magnets from high frequency magnetic fields that would cause eddy currents, and thus magnet heating. The metallic shield is constructed from a metallic foil. A carbon fiber retaining sleeve surrounds an outward facing surface of the metallic shield. The carbon fiber sleeve is configured to retain the magnets to the permanent magnet carrier during operation of the electric machine. The permanent magnet carrier is interference fit over a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Calnetix Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Archie A. T. Andonian, Patrick McMullen
  • Patent number: 11081870
    Abstract: A bus bar unit includes a bus bar holder and bus bars. The bus bar holder is provided on an upper side of a stator disposed in a ring around a central axis extending in a vertical direction. The bus bars are supported by the bus bar holder and connected to coil wires extending from the stator. The bus bars are plate-shaped conductors and are supported by the bus bar holder with a plate surface facing in the vertical direction. The bus bars include coil connecting portions connected to the coil wires, and a bus bar body portion connecting the coil connecting portions through a radially inner side of the plurality of the coil connecting portions, respectively, and at least one bus bar crosses over an upper side or a lower side of at least one of the other bus bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Ogawa, Takashi Seguchi, Shunsuke Murakami, Takao Atarashi
  • Patent number: 11081918
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a central hub with a cylindrical outer surface. A plurality of elongate spacers are affixed to the central hub at its outer surface. The spacers are circumferentially spaced apart from each other and extend axially along the outer surface of the central hub. A plurality of permanent magnets reside on the outer surface between the spacers. The magnets define at least two magnetic poles of the rotor. A metallic shield surrounds an outward facing surface of the permanent magnets and spacers to shield the magnets from high frequency magnetic fields that would cause eddy currents, and thus magnet heating. The metallic shield includes a metallic foil. A carbon fiber retaining sleeve surrounds an outward facing surface of the metallic shield. The carbon fiber sleeve is configured to retain the magnets to the central hub during operation of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Calnetix Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Archie A. T. Andonian, Patrick McMullen
  • Patent number: 11081914
    Abstract: Provided are a stack-type stator having coil patterns patterned on a multi-layer substrate, and a motor and a blower for an air purification system using the stator. A stack-type stator includes: a multi-layer substrate having first through holes; coil patterns formed on the respective substrates of the multi-layer substrate and spirally patterned to surround the first through holes and to form a plurality of turns; a stator yoke disposed at a lower portion of the multi-layer substrate and having second through holes at positions corresponding to the first through holes; and divided cores each having one side protruding above the coil patterns formed on the uppermost layer of the multi-layer substrate and the other side being coupled to one of the second through holes through one of the first through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Soo Kim, Jin Gwan Kim, Hong Geun Lee
  • Patent number: 11050312
    Abstract: A stator includes an iron core cylindrical part, multiple teeth, and a coil. The iron core cylindrical part has multiple circular arc-shaped core back parts. The teeth radially inwardly protrude from an inner circumferential wall surface of the iron core cylindrical part. The coil is wound around each of the teeth. A first coil and a second coil are disposed so as to hold a temperature measuring element therebetween. The first coil has an outer surface provided with a gap made of a recess or a space, which is formed by skipping winding a coil wire. The temperature measuring element for measuring temperature of the coil is inserted in the gap and is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka Totsuka, Hironori Tsuiki, Yuki Yamamoto, Takanori Onoue
  • Patent number: 11043879
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator defining multiple stator poles with associated electrical windings, and a rotor having multiple rotor poles. The rotor has flux barriers between adjacent rotor poles, the flux barriers each having a material with an electrical conductivity higher than the rotor pole material. The flux barriers are electrically isolated from one another external to the ferromagnetic material. Eddy currents are induced in the flux barrier to cause destructive interference of an impending magnetic field, such that the flux barrier effectively acts to inhibit magnetic flux during motor operation, which in some cases will result in a repulsive force that will act to increase an induced motive force on the rotor poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Tau Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Rubin, Walter Wesley Pennington, III, Gregory Gordon Stevenson, Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Euzeli Cipriano dos Santos, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11038390
    Abstract: Electrical machine apparatus comprising: a rotor having an axis of rotation and defining a cavity therein; and a conduit positioned within the cavity of the rotor, the conduit comprising an inlet arranged to receive a fluid and an outlet arranged to exhaust the fluid, the inlet having a first radial distance from the axis of rotation and the outlet having a second radial distance from the axis of rotation, the first radial distance being greater than the second radial distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Rory D. Stieger
  • Patent number: 11038386
    Abstract: A stator assembly for use in an axial flux electric motor includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced tooth assemblies that each includes a tooth portion and a base portion. The stator assembly also includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced bridge members that are each configured to engage a pair of circumferentially adjacent base portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Steven W. Post, Lyn D. Coones, Jeff J. Long
  • Patent number: 11025140
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine in which a controller and a heat sink are arranged in an extending direction of an output shaft of a motor, in order to provide a rotary electric machine which secures a heat rejection performance and an insulation performance of a semiconductor device to be mounted to the controller and is downsized as a whole, the controller includes a semiconductor device having a drive circuit provided so as to correspond to a stator winding of the motor, and the semiconductor device has a main face held in close contact with the heat sink. On a close contact face between the semiconductor device and the heat sink, a drive circuit is formed so as to extend along an outer edge portion of the heat sink to increase a cooling area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Kajihara, Katsuhiko Omae, Shunsuke Fushie, Tokiyoshi Tanigawa, Hiroyuki Miyanishi, Atsuki Fujita, Tomohiro Inoue, Yuki Okabe, Junya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11025134
    Abstract: A motor includes: a rotor core which rotates about an axis; a plurality of magnets which extend in an axial direction of the axis inside the rotor core and are disposed in a circumferential direction; a shaft body which is disposed coaxially with the rotor core and has a hollow portion through which a fluid is able to pass from a first side to a second side in the axial direction; and a plurality of heat radiation portions which are disposed along the magnet in the circumferential direction and have a planar portion disposed to be parallel to a side surface of the magnet facing a radial direction, wherein the heat radiation portion extends to be closer to the second side than a second side core end surface located on the second side in the axial direction of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Andrii Pydin