Patents Examined by Rashad H Johnson
  • Patent number: 11837933
    Abstract: A process is described, for making an electric conductor for a winding of an electric machine comprising the following steps: providing an external shell (20} with a tubular shape made of electrically conducting material; inserting at least two wires (215 made of electrically conducting material in the external shell (20); heating the external shell (20) and the wires (21) inserted therein; laminating wherein the external shell (205 and the wires (215 are formed to modify the profile of their cross section; optionally repeating at least one of the two previous steps; an electric conductor made with such process and an electric machine comprising a winding made with such electric conductor are further described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAVEL EDT S.P.A
    Inventors: Andrea Tonino, Luca Favre
  • Patent number: 11831199
    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: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tau Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Wesley Pennington, III, Matthew J. Rubin, Gregory Gordon Stevenson, Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Euzeli Cipriano dos Santos, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11817741
    Abstract: A vehicle, electric machine, and stator include stator teeth extending from a yoke portion toward a rotor and defining slots between adjacent teeth with windings positioned within the slots, wherein the teeth form pockets at connections to the yoke portion. Electrically insulating slot paper may line at least three sides of the slots. The pockets may extend into the teeth or the yoke portion where the teeth extend from the yoke portion, and may be filled with an electrically insulating compound that secures the insulating slot paper lining and electrically conductive rectangular windings within the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Singar Rathnam, Joel Hetrick, Akash Changarankumarath Pradeepkumar
  • Patent number: 11811282
    Abstract: A coil device includes a first coil including a plate-shaped first coil body having a first and second end. The first coil body is spirally wound on a columnar portion along the extending direction of the columnar portion such that the second end is positioned on one side in the extending direction relative to the first end. The coil device further includes a second coil including a plate-shaped second coil body having a third end and a fourth end. The second coil body is spirally wound on the columnar portion along the extending direction such that the third end is positioned on the one side in the extending direction relative to the second end of the first coil, and the fourth end is positioned on the one side in the extending direction relative to the third end. The second coil is in electrically parallel connection with the first coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Ukaji, Mitsuoki Hishida, Kiyomi Kawamura, Toshiyuki Tamamura
  • Patent number: 11811281
    Abstract: A stator structure of an embodiment includes a stator core that comprises: a ring-shaped main body; and a plurality of teeth extending in a radial direction of the main body and arranged along a circumferential direction of the main body. The main body comprises a plurality of elongated holes that are formed in an arc shape along the circumferential direction of the main body and that are arranged along the circumferential direction of the main body, and a plurality of holes that are arranged along the circumferential direction of the main body between the teeth and the elongated holes in the radial direction of the main body. At least one of the holes is disposed between beams and the teeth located close to the beams, the beams being provided between the adjacent elongated holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Matsuura, Takashi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Abe, Shinya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11804756
    Abstract: An active part of an electric machine includes electrical conductors which are additively printed in layers, and intermediate bodies respectively disposed between the electrical conductors and being additively printed in layers, wherein the electrical conductors are printed in a radially increasing manner, alternating with the intermediate bodies. A contact layer <=300 ?m of a third material is applied between at least one of the electrical conductors and at least one of the printed intermediate bodies, with a diffusion zone being embodied by the contact layer and a heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Brach, Jens Dahl Jensen, Hartmut Rauch, Jakob Schneck, Oliver Stier
  • Patent number: 11800640
    Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) has a tridimensional (3D) dielectric substrate having opposite sides and made of fiber-reinforced polymer. Each side comprises channels and pockets formed by molding a dielectric laminate, and the channels and pockets define a layout for conductive traces and pads of the PCB. The channels and pockets in a same side of the 3D dielectric substrate have a uniform depth. Side walls of the channels and pockets have a draft angle in a range of greater than 0 degrees to about 5 degrees. The conductive traces and pads are formed into the channels and pockets by electrolytic metallization. In addition, the outer surface of conductive traces and pads are flush with the sides of the 3D dielectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Edward C. Carignan, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
  • Patent number: 11799363
    Abstract: A slotless electric motor provides a phase change material that may communicate thermally through the sides of coils directly attached to the outer circumference of the central stator. A control system modeling the motor allows effective operation for short durations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hinetics LLC
    Inventors: Kiruba S. Haran, Xuan Yi, Yangxue Yu
  • Patent number: 11791675
    Abstract: A housing for a rotary electric machine having stacked laminations forming a stator core includes a first portion forming a slip fit with a first series of the stacked laminations. A second portion forms an interference fit with a second series of the stacked laminations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LC Advanced Motor Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Dylan Broomfield, Russel Hugh Marvin, Matthew Honickman
  • Patent number: 11784523
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a motor/generator where the stator is a coil assembly and the rotor is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel or where the rotor is a coil assembly and the stator is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel, and where the magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel comprises magnets having a NNSS or SSNN pole configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Linear Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
  • Patent number: 11777376
    Abstract: An electric machine includes at least a printed circuit board and a magnetically permeable element. The printed circuit board includes a reluctance coil configured to generate a voltage in presence of a magnetic flux. The magnetically permeable element has a first end positioned adjacent to a rotor of the electrical machine and a second end positioned adjacent to the coil of the printed circuit board. In some examples, rotation of the rotor causes a change in the magnetic flux through the magnetically permeable element and generation of the voltage across the reluctance coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Isaac S. Frampton, Adam Larson
  • Patent number: 11777367
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a casing having a base, on which an electric motor is fixed having a stator with radially extending straight teeth and having a plurality of coils and a rotor formed by a plurality of magnets. The coils extend in a plane parallel to the base of the casing and the rotor is extended by a pinion forming a worm gear with an axis perpendicular to the orientation of the coils. The worm gear meshes with a threaded rod extending parallel to the base of the casing, wherein the threaded rod is guided at the rear by a fixed smooth bearing or by a fixed nut, with the smooth bearing or nut being rigidly connected to a cover of the casing. The axial end of the worm gear is guided by the cover and a printed circuit, to which the plurality of coils is connected, is positioned between the stator and the threaded rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MMT AG
    Inventors: Antoine Foucaut, Benjamin Thierry
  • Patent number: 11777353
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes: a winding formed of a bundle of conducting wires; a stator core including a slot in which the winding is disposed; and an insulating paper disposed between the stator core and the winding in the slot, wherein the conducting wires have a self-fusing property, the insulating paper has a foam layer, and a coolant channel is formed between the conducting wires of the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taku Ueda, Noriyuki Yagi, Fumiya Nishii, Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 11770035
    Abstract: A laminated core for a rotor and/or a stator of a rotating electric machine includes teeth arranged adjacent to one another in a peripheral direction of the laminated core and delimiting slots for accommodating an electrical conductor that forms a winding. A cover unit is arranged on a side of an air gap between the rotor and the stator and delimits the slots in the radial direction. The cover unit has in a region of a respective one of the slots at least two tapering regions which are spaced apart from one another in the peripheral direction of the laminated core, with a material of the cover unit being thinner in the tapering regions in a radial direction of the laminated core than in a region of the cover unit adjoining the tapering regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Holger Schunk
  • Patent number: 11770036
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor includes a rotor and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotator includes a rotatable shaft and magnetic flux barrier layers arranged radially. One of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the stator is filled with a conductor, and one of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the rotating shaft is a void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pei-Chun Shih, Yu-Wei Hsu, Sheng-Chan Yen, Ta-Yin Luo, Hsin-Nan Lin, Guo-Jhih Yan, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Patent number: 11760496
    Abstract: Electromagnetic gyroscopic stabilizing propulsion system method and apparatus is an electric gyroscope that creates magnetic fields used to rotate its flywheel. The rotation of its flywheel creates both a gyroscopic effect and thrust with airfoil shaped spokes. The invention attaches to an airframe through an articulating joint that causes the axle of the gyroscope to precess in a vertical orientation regardless of the movements/angle of the airframe. The gyroscope's thrust aligns itself with the axle of the gyroscope. The net effect is that the invention has tremendous efficiency, no external drive because it is also a motor, tremendous power from magnetic leverage of the flywheel, and stability because of the gyroscopic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Airborne Motor Works Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Antoine Marcel, Jeffrey Scott Chimenti
  • Patent number: 11757321
    Abstract: A stator assembly for an electric machine includes stator teeth connected to a stator yoke to form a stator core. Adjacent teeth define a stator slot. Stator windings are disposed within the slot. A molding material fills the slot around the windings, providing a desired thermoelectrical performance level at different slot regions, including electrical insulation, thermal conductivity, and/or electrostatic shielding levels. A method insulates the stator assembly by inserting a molding tool(s) into the slot to define a void volume, filling the void volume with the dielectric molding material, and curing the dielectric molding material to form a slot liner layer adjacent to the tooth walls. A slot opening between adjacent teeth is filled with an electrically-conductive resin to form an electrostatic shielding layer. An electrical system includes an AC voltage bus connected to a power inverter module and to the electric machine having the above-described stator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Anthony M. Coppola, Farzad Samie, Thomas W. Nehl
  • Patent number: 11750054
    Abstract: A modulated litz wire wherein the braid of a litz wire is varied along its length such that bulkier sections are located at the end-turns of a motor, while more compact parallel stranded sections are located in stator slots or magnetic gaps. Variations may include parallel stranded sections replaced with a longitudinal twist for improved handling or improved current sharing in strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley E. Paden, Michael R. Ricci, David B Paden, Brian J. Clark, Zachary J. Marshall
  • Patent number: 11750047
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator unit formed by coupling plural stators to one another into an annular shape. Each of the stators has: an iron core having an arc-shaped core-back portion and a tooth portion protruding from the core-back portion, the iron core forming slot portions between the iron core and adjacent ones of the stators; insulating members disposed on both end portions, in the axial direction, of the iron core; insulating films disposed so as to be in contact with inner walls of the slot portions of the iron core; and a winding disposed in the slot portions and wound over the iron core with the insulating members and the insulating films interposed therebetween. In a portion of each of the insulating films that is in contact with the inner wall of the slot portion, at least a portion that is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the tooth tip portion has a length in the axial direction longer than the length of the iron core in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Kato, Koji Masumoto, Yuki Tamura, Nobukazu Kosone
  • Patent number: 11742709
    Abstract: An axial gap motor includes a rotor and a stator disposed to be separated with a gap from the rotor in a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the rotor. The stator includes a bobbin housing a coil and a core provided on an inside of the bobbin and configured by a plurality of magnetic sections. A first magnetic section among the plurality of magnetic sections is in contact with an inner peripheral wall of, among side portions of the bobbin, a first side portion opposed to a side portion of a bobbin on one side adjacent to the bobbin. A second magnetic section among the plurality of magnetic sections is in contact with an inner peripheral wall of, among the side portions of the bobbin, a second side portion opposed to a side portion of a bobbin on the other side adjacent to the bobbin. A void portion is present between the first magnetic section and the second magnetic section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Takuru Suehiro, Hidenobu Maruyama