Patents Examined by Rashad Johnson
  • Patent number: 10218241
    Abstract: A motor having a configuration that includes plural openings which are disposed in a circumferential direction on a case bottom surface and are pulled-out bus bar terminals, and is directly connected between a control board and bus bars by using a simple procedure, and to an electric power steering apparatus and a vehicle equipped with the motor. The outer periphery of the motor is enclosed in a case and wirings are implemented at an anti-load side. The motor has a configuration that includes plural openings which are provided in a circumferential direction on a case bottom surface at the anti-load side and allow bus bar terminals to protrude therefrom, and openings which have an almost same shape of the plural openings and are disposed at a predetermined interval in a similar shape are added as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kozue Nakamura, Toshiaki Asada, Yusuke Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10205357
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator having multiple magnetic poles and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor includes a shaft, a commutator and a rotor core fixed to the shaft; and windings wound on the rotor core and electrically connected to the commutator. The rotor core is formed by stacking a plurality of laminations. Each lamination includes an inner ring having a hole for fixing the shaft; an outer ring radially spaced from the inner ring; multiple teeth extending outwardly from the outer ring, and multiple ribs connecting the inner ring to the outer ring. Each rib has a width w measured in a circumferential direction of the lamination. The number of ribs is n. The width w and the number n satisfy the formula: 0.75?n×w2?64, where the width w is measured in millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Di Wang, Ji Yu Liang, Guo Dong Ren, Yong Bin Li, Xiao Wu Xie, Yao Zhao, Xian Ming Wu, Sheng Han
  • Patent number: 10186921
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and a coil. The stator core includes slots extending in an axial direction of the stator core and a first axial end surface in the axial direction. The coil is attached to the stator core and includes slot coils disposed in the slots and connection coils. At least one of the slot coils includes a slit in a part positioned in a slot among the slots. The slit extends through the at least one of the slot coils from a first axial end side of the stator core toward a second axial end side of the stator core opposite to the first axial end side in the axial direction. The connection coils are connected to the slot coils at a contact portion at a position outward from the first axial end surface in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Takahashi, Tomotaka Iki, Kentaro Nagahiro
  • Patent number: 10170950
    Abstract: First and second winding bodies are each configured so as to have a helical shape by winding a conductor wire for m turns, where m is a natural number that is greater than or equal to two, an armature winding is configured by mounting two-lane winding bodies into respective pairs of slots, two-lane winding bodies being configured by assembling the first and second winding bodies, the coil ends include a top portion that displaces in a radial direction at a central portion, and the radial displacement at the top portion is a×d, where a is a natural number that is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 2×(m?1), and d is a radial thickness of the rectilinear portions, 4×m of the rectilinear portions being housed inside the slots so as to line up in single columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10153676
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core, a stator winding, a first insulating frame, a number of first insulating elements, and a number of second insulating elements. The stator core includes a number of teeth. Adjacent teeth form a winding passage defining a winding opening. Each first insulating element is assembled within the corresponding winding passage. Two end portions of each second insulating element are placed over the corresponding winding opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC S.A.
    Inventors: Jie Chai, San Yuan Xiao
  • Patent number: 10148141
    Abstract: A motor rotor structure for an electric turbo charger is manufactured at low cost with good quality by fixedly fitting, over a shaft, a rotor core having electromagnetic steel sheets pre-formed as an integrated stack. The rotor structure includes a rotor core which is rotated by a magnetic field formed by a stator in a housing; a shaft configured to rotate a compressor impeller and the rotor core together; and a bearing supporting the shaft. The rotor includes the rotor core including the electromagnetic steel sheets; a stopper portion formed at an intermediate portion of the shaft to restrict axial movement of the rotor core; and a pressing unit which presses the rotor core fitted over the shaft against the stopper portion. The pressing unit prevents a circumferential phase shift between the shaft and the rotor core by a pressing force thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamashita, Noriyuki Hayashi, Seiichi Ibaraki, Katsuyuki Osako, Motoki Ebisu, Byeongil An, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hideaki Arita, Takashi Goto, Toshihiko Miyake
  • Patent number: 10141797
    Abstract: An electric motor has a polygon stator core. The polygon stator core includes yoke portions and teeth extending inwardly from the yoke portions. A winding slot is formed between adjacent teeth. Adjacent yoke portions are interconnected by a connecting portion. The winding slots include first winding slots and second winding slots of different shapes. The ratio of the area of a first winding slot to the area of a second winding slot is greater than or equal to 0.9 but less than or equal to 1.1. By changing the shape of the stator core, the size of the winding slots may be increased without increasing the radial dimension of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Fei Liu, Hong Liang Zhang, Jiang Cheng Xiao, Hai Qiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 10128707
    Abstract: The winding for an electric machine comprises transposed bars having at least four stacks of strands. Couples of stacks of strands define elementary transposed bars. The winding comprises at least two stacks of cooling pipes in each transposed bar, each stack of cooling pipes being arranged between two stacks of strands, and at least one crossover transposed bar in which the sides of the elementary transposed bars are exchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric GmbH
    Inventor: Johann Haldemann
  • Patent number: 10116191
    Abstract: A motor has a stator, a rotor, an end cover assembly installed on an axial end of the stator and the rotor. The rotor includes a shaft. The end cap assembly includes an end cap, a cover, and a circuit board arranged between the cover and the stator. At least one electronic element is mounted on the circuit board. The shaft passes through a hole in the cover. The cover and the shaft are made of a conductive material. With such structure damage to the circuit board and the electronic element due to high-voltage static electricity is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC S.A.
    Inventors: Hong Wei Zhang, Zhi Dan Liu
  • Patent number: 10110083
    Abstract: A side surface at the outside of a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core is faced to a side surface of teeth portions of an adjacent separated core, so as to form a second slot which is straddled between the adjacent separated cores, and a first slot is formed by a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core, and a width size of the first slot is identical to a width size of the second slot, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the first slot via a first insulating component, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the second slot via a second insulating component, and a thickness size of the first insulating component is different from a thickness size of the second insulating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Yoshinori, Atsushi Sakaue, Tatsuro Hino, Hironori Tsuiki, Shinichi Okada, Hiroki Shiota, Masaya Inoue, Shogo Okamoto, Shinji Nishimura, Akira Hashimoto, Shinkichi Sawa, Yutaka Ikura, Ryuichi Kitora
  • Patent number: 10090749
    Abstract: A magnetic gear system for use anywhere gears are required. The magnetic gear system incorporating magnetic gears including at least one end plate and at least one axle coupled to the at least one end plate. A plurality of magnet holders are also coupled to the at least one end plate. At least one magnet is contained in each of the plurality of magnet holders. Wherein the at least one magnet comprises two opposite polarities and the plurality of magnet holders are coupled to the at least one end plate with the at least one magnet having at least one polarity adjacent a similar polarity of another of the at least one magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: JAK Research, LLC
    Inventor: Justin D. Kidd
  • Patent number: 10075036
    Abstract: The hole diameter of a shaft through hole formed in the rotor core is changed in the axial direction, thereby forming a concave portion whose hole diameter is large and a convex portion whose hole diameter is small in the inner circumferential surface of the shaft through hole; the convex portion is arranged at opening portions on both ends of the shaft through hole; a shaft having ridge-shaped convex portions on a press-fitting portion is press-fitted into the shaft through hole to assemble; the number of points of the concave portion is equal to or more than two; and respective diameter dimensions of the concave portion, the convex portion, and the shaft are set to be the diameter of a main body of the shaft<the diameter of the convex portion<the diameter of ridge-shaped convex portions of the shaft<the diameter of the concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Morikawa, Kazuhisa Takashima, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Masayuki Miyaoka, Akihiro Yamamura, Hiroki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10069362
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, in the case where a cylindrical component is fixed by press fitting or the like, the opening edge of the cylindrical component is widened toward the end to provide peeps for facilitating the insertion of the cylindrical component. However, the outer shape of a rotor expands due to the peeps, and a gap needs to be provided between the rotor and a stator in consideration of the expanded portion of the outer shape, which causes the degradation of the performance of the rotating electrical machine. In addition, in the case where magnets are fixed only by the tightening force of a magnet cover, the greater the centrifugal force becomes, the larger the clamping margin becomes and similarly the larger the peeps become, and thus the expanded portion also becomes larger. However, if the opening edge is not widened to the end, the absence of the peeps makes it difficult to insert the magnet cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shozo Kawasaki, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Koichi Kashiwa, Kenji Nakayama, Yasunaga Hamada
  • Patent number: 10069384
    Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-separating structure of a sensing magnet for EPS motor, the structure being a coupling structure between the sensing magnet and a plate of the EPS motor, the structure including a disk-shaped plate formed with a magnet accommodation unit protrusively formed near at a rotation shaft, a ring-shaped sensing magnet centrally formed with a through hole having a diameter corresponding to the magnet accommodation unit, and magnet grip units each formed at a predetermined gap along a circumferential surface of the magnet accommodation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taehwan Kim, Shunghun Woo, Donggeun Chang, Byungyong Kim
  • Patent number: 10056848
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for an electrostatic machine are provided. In one embodiment, an electrostatic machine may be configured to have an electric field motor, a rotor assembly and a motor drive, wherein the improvement may include generating at least three watts (3 W) of power with a product of a gap pressure (pgap) and a gap distance (dgap) of less than ninety megapascals-micrometer (90 MPa*um).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Electric Force Motors, LLC
    Inventor: Weston Clute Johnson
  • Patent number: 10038359
    Abstract: A rotor casting includes a lamination stack and a cast structure including proximal and distal cast end rings respectively adjacent proximal and distal end faces of the lamination stack. Cast axial ribs are distributed radially on a peripheral surface of the lamination stack and extend between the proximal and distal cast end rings. Cast feed members extend axially from the proximal cast end ring and are respectively positioned radially between an adjacent pair of axial ribs. In one example, cast bar segments integral to the proximal and distal cast end rings are formed in axial slots of the lamination stack. In one example, a bar insert in each axial slot has insert ends that extend respectively from the proximal and distal end faces of the lamination stack and are fully encapsulated respectively in the proximal and distal cast end rings. A method of forming the rotor casting is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Michael D. Hanna, John S. Agapiou
  • Patent number: 10027190
    Abstract: A rotor for an electromagnetic apparatus including: ferromagnetic laminates stacked along a longitudinal axis of the rotor; non-magnetic laminates stacked along the longitudinal axis, wherein the non-magnetic laminates are between the ferromagnetic annular laminates; cavities in the rotor formed by aligned slots in the ferromagnetic and non-magnetic laminates, wherein the cavities are parallel to the axis of the rotor, and a permanent magnet(s) in each of the aligned cavities. The laminates may each be an annular disc or may be segments arranged in an annular array around a shaft of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Evgeny Victorovich Kazmin, Gary Randall Barnes, Yury Danilovich Vinitzky, Ronghai Qu, Mikhail Avramovich Avanesov
  • Patent number: 10014739
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses for mounting a motor rotor to a shaft of a compressor are disclosed. The shaft can include a rib region that is configured to form a press fit or a transition fit with the rotor bore. An end of the shaft can also include a plurality of crenulations that can be expanded outwardly in a radial direction relative to a centerline of the shaft. After the rotor is mounted onto the shaft, the crenulations can be expanded to eliminate the clearance between the shaft and the rotor to form a press fit with the rotor bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Crum, Robert S. Bakkestuen, Greg Chilcote, Aaron Salesman
  • Patent number: 10008900
    Abstract: A fixing member (14) formed of an annular metal material is molded integrally with a connecting plate (13) to constitute a connecting plate structure (9), said connecting plate (13) consisting of a plurality of bus bars (11) and a holder (12) for fixing and holding the bus bars. The fixing member (14) has an annular portion (14a) touching a frame (8) for holding a stator (4), and the connecting plate structure (9) is fixed to the frame (8) by the whole or a part of the surface of the annular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Bessho, Masashi Nakamura, Keisuke Murase, Toshiki Kuwahara, Shogo Okamoto, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9979257
    Abstract: An electromotive drive being a commutator motor has a motor shaft being rotatably mounted on axially opposite sides in shaft bearings which are each covered by an end plate. A damping system for damping sound is arranged on that bearing side, which is averted from the end plate, of at least one of the shaft bearings. The damping system has an annular sealing disk and an annular sliding disk with an integrated spring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Frank Wittstadt, Marco Stoehling