Patents Examined by Robert W. Horn
  • Patent number: 11394267
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor disposed in the stator, a shaft coupled to the rotor, and a bus bar disposed on the stator and including a plurality of terminals, wherein the plurality of terminals include a neutral terminal and a plurality of phase terminals, the neutral terminal includes a first body of which a first width in a radial direction is greater than a second width in an axial direction and a plurality of first connectors extending from the first body, and the phase terminal includes a second body of which a first width in the radial direction is less than a second width in the axial direction and a plurality of second connectors extending from the second body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Keun Kim
  • Patent number: 11387702
    Abstract: A stator device with a plurality of windings, on a winding carrier, that electromotive interaction with a rotor. The windings are parallel to one another and to the center axis. The windings can be individually electrically contacted with winding terminals of a winding wire. The windings are assigned to at least two disk-shaped and/or ring-shaped electrically conductive interconnection rings so that they are electrically insulated from one another. The winding terminals are connected using the interconnection ring assigned to this terminal polarity (U; V; W) for external permanent common contact by welding hooks formed on the radial inner side on the interconnection ring. A ring-shaped deflection disk, with deflection pins, is provided in the axial direction on the interconnection end disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thirza Weiser, Christian Rudel, Achim Honold, Hassan Ghodsi-Khameneh
  • Patent number: 11381127
    Abstract: An electric machine provided with a stator structure including internal and external layers of interleaved pre-wound coils made of rectangular wire coated with enamel insulation varnish is described herein. The two layers of pre-wound coils allow the use of slightly different size of pre-wound coils, which facilitates their insertion into the stator slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DANA TM4 INC.
    Inventors: Gyula Bihari, Ruisheng Shi, Mohammad Adib Ghadamyari
  • Patent number: 11380293
    Abstract: A percussion instrument includes a drum head arranged on a support with a flange of the drum head extending from the support, wherein the support is an inner ring, and an outer ring comprising an abutment that is configured to engage the flange of the drum head. The inner ring and the outer ring are concentrically arranged and moveable relative to each other in a longitudinal direction. The percussion instrument also includes a tensioning mechanism having an external screw thread going around on an outer circumference of the inner ring, and an internal screw thread going around on an inner circumference of the outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Wouter Gerrit Hietkamp, Gerrit Willem Hietkamp
  • Patent number: 11380289
    Abstract: A piano tuning retention system includes first and second bushings, each having a threaded upper longitudinal end and a lower longitudinal end that defines a polygonal interior for mating with a polygonal end of a respective piano tuning pin, first and second threaded fasteners corresponding to the threaded upper longitudinal ends of the bushings, first and second sleeves that fit over the bushings, each of the sleeves having an upper longitudinal end with an inward radial extension that defines a reduced inner diameter and a lower longitudinal end that defines a catch (e.g. a notch) extending in a circumferential direction of the sleeve for engagement with a piano string, and a bridge configured to be sandwiched between the threaded fasteners and the inward radial extensions of the sleeves with the bushings disposed within the sleeves and the threaded fasteners fastened to the threaded upper longitudinal ends of the bushings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Timothy Jenson
  • Patent number: 11373628
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to new attachments for the round tubular body of flutes. It attaches firmly, but removably, to the flute and stabilizes the relation between the flute and the player's left index finger (and/or thumb) without pressure on the player's mouth, which enhances the flexibility of the player's lips to more perfectly play the flute. This is especially beneficial for the player's lower lip, which, under extant art, is forcibly pinned against the lower teeth and gums to stabilize the flute. This invention comprises a finger connector and a spacer attachment to the flute, constituting a comfortable surface for the base of the left index finger and an opening through which the flute player's left index finger (and/or thumb) is inserted, as like wearing a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventor: David Garland Harris
  • Patent number: 11367421
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided performing autonomous tuning of a stringed instrument. Images of the stringed instrument are acquired by at least two cameras and processed to identify the location of a peg. A robotic peg actuator is then engaged to actuate rotation of a peg in order to rotate the peg to a tuned angular orientation, guided by feedback generated by processing acoustic signals recorded by an acoustic transducer while a string associated with the peg is agitated. In some example implementations, the cameras and peg actuator are rigidly mounted to a frame that is configured to support the stringed instrument during peg imaging and actuation. A robotic string actuator may be provided to facilitate vibration of the string during the tuning process. Multiple robotic peg actuators may be included for per-peg rotational actuation and/or a given peg actuator may be robotically translatable to actuate more than one peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: 2UNIFY INC.
    Inventors: Michael Jobity, Ryan Ng Cheong Ton, Mitchell Wong, Michael Salamaszek, Curtis Graham
  • Patent number: 11367363
    Abstract: Embodiments herein illustrate an educational musical game. The educational musical game includes a first set of polygon tokens representing a first combination of a first set of musical notes and a first musical interval between musical notes in the first set of musical notes. Further educational musical game includes a second set of polygon tokens representing a second combination of a second set of musical notes and a second musical interval between the musical notes in the second set of musical notes. The second set of polygon tokens is configured to be coupled with the first set of polygon tokens based on one or more rules associated with the first set of musical notes and the second set of musical notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Bennett Samuel Lin
  • Patent number: 11368066
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots and a winding disposed in the core and having three phases. Each of the phases has at least two parallel paths including hairpins interconnected to form at least two continuous circuits between a terminal and a neutral. The hairpins of each path include: a first type of hairpins (first hairpins) each having first and second legs spaced apart by a span of five slots; a second type of hairpins (second hairpins) each having first and second legs spaced apart by a span of seven slots; and a third type of hairpins (first hairpins) each having first and second legs spaced apart by a span of five or seven slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adeeb Ahmed, Jacob Krizan
  • Patent number: 11368059
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a non-rotating member, a stator fixed to the non-rotating member, a field coil fixed to the non-rotating member, disposed on an inner diameter side of the stator, and having an iron core and a winding wound around the iron core, and a rotor rotatably disposed between the stator and the field coil. The rotor has, at a portion facing the stator, different radial dimensions with respect to a rotary shaft of the rotor between a one end of the rotor in an extending direction of the rotary shaft and a portion different from the one end in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Katsura, Taichi Kitamura, Kenji Kitada
  • Patent number: 11358232
    Abstract: The diamond tipped nut filing tool includes a body and a diamond tipped file. The diamond tipped file may be disposed along one end of the body. The body has a longitudinal length and at least half of the length includes a circumference so that at least one half of the longitudinal length is rounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: STEWART-MACDONALD MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jay Hostetler, Don MacRostie, Todd Sams
  • Patent number: 11362559
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a motor comprising: a stator; a rotor disposed inside the stator; a shaft coupled to the rotor; and a bus bar disposed at the upper side of the stator, wherein: the bus bar includes a terminal connected to a stator coil, and a body for insulating the terminal; the terminal includes a first terminal and a second terminal of which the circuits are separated; the body includes a first body and a second body, and a bridge part for connecting the separated first body and second body; and the first terminal is disposed at the first body and the second terminal is disposed at the second body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seong Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11361740
    Abstract: The present invention is a noise maker comprising: a body comprising: an upper chamber, a lower chamber connected to the upper chamber, a handle connected to the lower chamber, a base connected to the handle; a cover, wherein the cover securely fits around the upper chamber; a first set of noise making elements contained with the upper chamber; and a second set of noise making elements contained within the lower chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Cheryl Lynn Jones, Daniel Lathery
  • Patent number: 11355092
    Abstract: A strike pad includes a strike layer, a magnet layer, a metal soft sheet, and a base. The magnet layer is provided on a bottom of the strike layer, the metal soft sheet is provided on a top of the base, and then a magnet layer the bottom is magnetically attached to the top of a metal soft sheet. In the above technical solution, a magnet layer is set on the bottom of a strike layer, and a metal soft sheet is set on the top of a base. The user first puts a base on a fixed surface, and then holds a strike layer, facing the magnet layer to a metal. The soft sheet makes the magnet layer adsorb on a metal soft sheet to realize the assembly between the strike layer and a fixing seat; when disassembling, the magnet layer and the metal soft sheet can be separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: RELIANCE INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Han-Chun Kao, Tsung-Lun Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11355989
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a bus bar comprising a main body; an upper terminal which is disposed on an upper surface of the main body; and a lower terminal which is disposed on a lower surface of the main body, wherein the upper terminal includes a first upper terminal and a second upper terminal, the lower terminal includes a first lower terminal, the main body includes a first hole and a second hole which penetrate the main body, and the first lower terminal has one end which is connected to the first upper terminal through the first hole and the other end which is connected to the second upper terminal through the second hole and to a motor comprising the same. According to this, space utilization inside the motor can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il Hwan An, Beom Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11349356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a double-phase rotating field machine having a 2p-pole stator with winding teeth (Z), which is designed with a winding arrangement in tooth coil technology, comprising two phase windings (W1, W2, W3), wherein the winding arrangement is formed from wound coil groups (G) with coils nested in one another several times, wherein the coil sections (T) of said coil groups (G) are arranged concentrically surrounding one another from the inside to the outside, and comprise two or a plurality of winding teeth (Z), wherein the respective coil winding numbers are arranged in the grooves (N) between the winding teeth (Z) such that in each case an essentially uniform coating of each groove (N) with the same effective total conductor cross section of the coils per groove cross section is given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Huth, Jens Krotsch
  • Patent number: 11348559
    Abstract: A music box structure with composing function comprises primarily a comb reed composed of teeth which are tuned to play various musical notes, a motor-driven cylinder, and a plurality of pins, wherein on a surface of the cylinder are disposed a plurality of spaced jack holes corresponding to the teeth of the comb reed. When in use, a user may insert pins into various jack holes on the cylinder according to various music scores or the user's own composition with the inserted pins having an appropriate protrusion height. When the cylinder is driven to rotate by the motor, the inserted pins pluck the teeth at various positions on the comb reed in order and produce music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: Ken-Ming Li
  • Patent number: 11341941
    Abstract: A bass drum spur system has a pivot assembly and a spur leg assembly. The pivot assembly has a spur hub removably attachable to a rim of a drum and a hub cover attached to the spur hub. The hub cover has a passageway and a circumferential slot formed through a sidewall of the passageway. The circumferential slot has first and second notches at respective opposite ends of the slot. A release button is axially slidable within the passageway of the hub cover and a spring is disposed in the passageway and biases the release button in a direction away from the spur hub. The spur leg assembly has a post fixedly attached to the release button for movement therewith, wherein the post is movable between engagement with the first notch and the second notch by pressing the release button in a direction toward the spur hub and rotating the post along the circumferential slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: John Spinelli
  • Patent number: 11335306
    Abstract: A percussion instrument has at least one tone bar, retaining elements for fastening the tone bar, and at least one resonance body with upper and lower sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONOR GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Rabe, Knut Hoyer, Ralph Christian Bremenkamp
  • Patent number: 11336131
    Abstract: A stator of an electric motor has a cylinder-shaped stator core. First core teeth and second core teeth are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction on the inner peripheral surface of the stator core. The second core teeth each have a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the central axis of the stator core different from the cross-sectional shape of the first core tooth. A coil is assembled to the first tooth. The coil is assembled to one of the first core tooth and the second core tooth. The width of the second core tooth is reduced with a step of a curved surface at a boundary between the tip end portion and a portion behind of the tip end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasunori Sugimoto