Patents Examined by Rashad H Johnson
  • Patent number: 11901786
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine provided for purely electrically driving a motor vehicle is provided with a stator body forming stator grooves, a stator winding through which current can flow, which engages in the respective stator groove and axially protrudes from the stator groove, for forming an electromagnetic rotating field and an insulation paper, which is provided in the stator groove between the stator winding and the stator body, for electrically insulating the stator winding from the stator body, wherein the insulation paper protrudes from the stator groove, wherein the insulation paper is provided with an additional layer on the surface thereof for providing a higher creepage resistance compared to the surface of the insulation paper without the additional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Hubert, Stefan Schmidt, Joerg Schneider
  • Patent number: 11894743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coil assembly including: a plurality of unit flat coils disposed and spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction; and a molding body made by dual injection molding and configured to partially surround the unit flat coils, thereby simplifying a structure of the coil assembly and a process of manufacturing the coil assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Mo Koo, Yong Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11894758
    Abstract: Disclosed are a rotor plate and a rotor assembly including the same. The rotor plate includes a plate body including a first part having a first hole at a center, and a second part having a second hole at a center, the second part having a diameter corresponding to the first part, and connected to the first part in a first direction that is an axial direction perpendicular to the first part, and a diameter of the second hole is larger than a diameter of the first hole, a first slot recessed on an outer peripheral surface of the plate body, a second slot recessed on the outer peripheral surface of the plate body, and a first plate passage formed on a wall of the first part in the second direction that is opposite to the first direction, and connecting the first slot and the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yeong Woo Seo
  • Patent number: 11888373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a linear motor system, in particular a transport system, e.g. a multi-carrier, having a plurality of or for a plurality of carriers, and having a guide track for the carriers, wherein, at the guide track, a first magnetic sensor for determining a magnetic field with respect to a first spatial direction and for outputting a first sensor signal and a second magnetic sensor for determining a magnetic field with respect to a second spatial direction and for outputting a second sensor signal are provided, wherein the control device is configured to determine position information relating to a carrier on the basis of the first sensor signal and to determine identification information relating to a carrier on the basis of the second sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Guillaume Geoffroy, Frank Klöser, Frank Brechtefeld
  • Patent number: 11881750
    Abstract: A motor assembly for use with a power tool includes a motor housing, a brushless electric motor disposed at least partially in the motor housing, and a PCB assembly coupled to the motor housing. The PCB assembly includes a heat sink, a power PCB coupled to a first side of the heat sink, and a position sensor PCB coupled to a second side of the heat sink opposite the first side and in facing relationship with the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Keith Boulanger, Matthew R. Bailey, Carl B. Westerby
  • Patent number: 11881744
    Abstract: A stator assembly includes a strip stator core, a three-phase coil winding, and an end insulator. The strip stator core includes twelve stator core units, twelve connection parts, and twelve slots; every two adjacent stator core units are connected by one of the twelve connection parts; each slot is disposed between every two adjacent stator core units, and each stator core unit includes a yoke and a tooth protruding from one end of the yoke; every two adjacent teeth are abutted against each other to form one of the twelve slots. The three-phase coil winding includes a U-phase winding, a V-phase winding, and a W-phase winding. The end insulator includes a first end insulator and a second end insulator; the first end insulator includes a first coil-in pin, a second coil-in pin, a third coil-in pin, and a coil-out pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingpan Pan, Sanzeng Liang
  • Patent number: 11876430
    Abstract: Apparatus for sound insulation of a machine has a sleeve which has a sound-absorbing composite material wall with a plastic carrier layer. The composite material wall has two edge regions which lie against and/or above one another and each have a boundary edge which can be connected by at least one plug-in connection arrangement. The at least one plug-in connection arrangement has a plug-in tab arranged in one first edge region of the composite material wall and a receiving element which is arranged in the other second edge region of the composite material wall and into which the plug-in tab can be plugged. The plug-in tab has a web which has an end connected to the plastic carrier layer and an end section facing away from this end and having an insertion end and an upper side and an underside with at least one locking recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Frank Riederer, Thomas Karcz, Volkmar Schulze
  • Patent number: 11876425
    Abstract: A vibrator support structure, a vibration motor including the vibrator support structure, and an electronic device including the vibration motor are provided. The vibrator support structure includes a housing, a vibrator, and a first support member. The vibrator is slidable in a first direction D1 and a second direction D2 that crosses the first direction D1. The vibrator is supported within the housing by the first support member, which includes a first deformation portion and a first engagement portion. The first deformation portion undergoes elastic deformation associated with vibrations of the vibrator in the first direction D1. The first engagement portion engages with the vibrator in such a manner that the vibrator produces a sliding motion associated with vibrations of the vibrator in the second direction D2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhide Takata
  • Patent number: 11876421
    Abstract: An iron core assembly, a motor, a compressor and a vehicle are provided. The iron core assembly has an iron core body and multiple insulating skeletons. The iron core body has multiple iron core blocks. A mounting groove is provided at an edge of at least one end face of each iron core block. Each iron core block is arranged between two insulating skeletons. Out of the two insulating skeletons provided at two ends of an iron core block, an end face of at least one insulating skeleton, facing the iron core block, is provided with insulating protrusions. The insulating protrusions can wrap two sides of the iron core block. The insulating protrusions match the mounting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG WELLING AUTO PARTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanxi Chen, Guowei Sun
  • Patent number: 11870309
    Abstract: An integrated motor and motor drive arrangement includes a motor having a stator, and a rotor, rotatable relative to the stator to drive a load, the rotor being arranged radially outside the stator, and the stator having an inner surface defining a radially inner space, the motor arrangement further comprising: motor drive components mounted to the inner surface of the stator within the radially inner space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ajith Balachandran, Thilak Durairaj, Mark Downes, Edward G C Pocock, Ashishkumar Parekh, Kalyani Menon
  • Patent number: 11859667
    Abstract: A position sensor includes a plurality of E-shaped ferromagnetic cores arranged to define a circular opening therethrough to receive a shaft. Each E-shaped ferromagnetic core has a plurality of teeth, wherein adjacent E-shaped ferromagnetic cores of the arranged plurality of E-shaped ferromagnetic cores have an overlapping tooth. The position sensor further includes a frame surrounding the arranged plurality of E-shaped ferromagnetic cores, with the E-shaped ferromagnetic cores coupled to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Lauri Juhani Salmia, Petri J. Mäki-Ontto, Esa H. M. Vikman
  • Patent number: 11858644
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device (1) for an aircraft, comprising: an electric machine (2) with a stator (3) and a rotor (4) and a cooling device (10) for cooling the electric machine (2), the cooling device (10) having an encapsulated first cooling region (12), in which a first cooling liquid for cooling the stator (3) and/or the rotor (4) is disposed, the cooling device (10) having a second cooling region (15), which is separate from the first cooling region (12) and in which the second liquid is disposed, and the cooling device (10) having an internal heat exchanger (11) for transmitting heat from the first cooling liquid to the second cooling liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Robert Goraj, Heintje Wyczisk
  • Patent number: 11863024
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device (1) having an annular stator unit (10), an annular rotor unit (30) and a base plate (50). The stator unit (10) has at least three coils (11) having coil cores (12) and coil bobbins (13). The rotor unit (30) has a bearing unit (31), the coils (11) forming a receiving space (14) in the stator unit (10). According to the invention, the coil cores (12) and the bearing unit (31) stand on the base plate (50). The invention also relates to a spin window (100) having such a drive device (1), a pane (110) being arranged on the rotor unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hema Maschinen-Und Apparateschutz GmbH
    Inventor: Lars Najorka
  • Patent number: 11863038
    Abstract: An electric machine includes at least one stator having at least one individual-tooth winding carrier that has at least one spacer configured to space apart turns of an individual-tooth winding mounted on the individual-tooth winding carrier. A hybrid electric aircraft has an electric machine of this kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Andreas Faass, Thomas Gleixner, Johannes Heissenberger, Andreas Reeh, Guillermo Zschaeck
  • Patent number: 11863039
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration actuator that includes: a coil; a core around which the coil is wound, the core including both ends projecting from the coil; a yoke formed of a magnetic material and disposed opposite to the both ends of the core at a position adjacent to the both ends of the core with a gap provided between the yoke and the both ends of the core in a direction orthogonal to a winding axis of the coil; and an elastic part fixed between the core and the yoke and configured for elastic support to enable a movement between the core and the yoke in a direction opposite to at least one of the both ends of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Tomoya Ishitani
  • Patent number: 11854435
    Abstract: A device that makes it possible to make the movements of moving platforms safer and relates more particularly to a linear actuator that can be used in a hexapod positioner supporting a load is provided. The actuator is actuated by electric control and comprises at least one hydraulic damper positioned on the actuator such that the forces generated by damping in the event of extreme breakdown are experienced only by the load and are distributed such as to limit force and acceleration peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: René Le Guillou, Maxime Bonnet
  • Patent number: 11855576
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a power generating assembly in the event of a fault, wherein the power generating assembly comprises a PMG comprising at least first and second sets of stator windings, wherein each set of stator windings is connected to a power converter via a controllable circuit breaker, the method comprising the steps of detecting a fault associated with the first set of stator windings, and lowering, such as interrupting, the current in the second set of stator windings, and, after a predetermined delay, lowering, such as interrupting, the current in the first set of stator windings. The present invention also relates to a power generating assembly being capable of handling such faults, and a wind turbine generator comprising such a power generating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Hansen
  • Patent number: 11855502
    Abstract: A winding of at least one conductor element is provided. At least some sections of the winding are enclosed in a casting compound, and the conductor element including an internal conductive material as well as a first sheath layer and a second sheath layer for insulation purposes, the second sheath layer being made of a material that differs from a material of the first sheath layer, and the conductor element further including at least one third sheath layer, wherein the ductility of the third sheath layer is greater than the ductility of the casting compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Becker, Andreas Jahnke
  • Patent number: 11848593
    Abstract: A stator device for an electric machine, including a laminated core arrangement with a plurality of receiving grooves for receiving, in each receiving groove, at least one conductor element of a stator winding in a conductor channel, wherein the receiving grooves each provide at least one flow channel, wherein the laminated core arrangement includes a plurality of laminated core units which are lined up axially and which each provide axial groove sections of the receiving grooves, and wherein the groove sections associated with each of the plurality of laminated core units at least in part have a groove geometry variant taken from a group of at least two different groove geometry variants, such that the receiving grooves, over an axial extent along the laminated core arrangement, each have at least two different groove geometry variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Holger Hinrich, Johannes Wende
  • Patent number: 11837936
    Abstract: A vibrator includes a frame, a swing unit, and an elastic member. The swing unit is disposed within the frame and holds a magnet. The elastic member connects the swing unit and the frame. The swing unit is movable with respect to the frame while deforming the elastic member. The frame, the swing unit, and the elastic member are integrally molded with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI, Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu Nakamura