Patents Examined by Terrance Kenerly
  • Patent number: 9735657
    Abstract: An actuator includes two abutment elements and an adjusting device for changing their spacing in a translational displacement direction. A support element is provided between the abutment elements, a drive motor is supported by the support element, a first spindle nut is rotatably supported by the support element, a second spindle nut is rotatably supported by the support element, a first spindle engages the first spindle nut and is connected to one abutment element, and a second spindle engages the second spindle nut and is connected to the other abutment element. Two limit switches are mounted on a switch support on the support element and spaced apart from each other in the translational displacement direction. A first limit switch actuating element is attached to one of the abutment elements, and a second limit switch actuating element is attached to one of the spindles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: David S Meyer, Patrick Uhri, Stefan Waldner
  • Patent number: 9716413
    Abstract: An electric machine stator is provided and includes laminations consolidated along an axial direction to form a core element such that the core element includes an end lamination at an axial end of the core element. The end lamination includes a body extending in a plane and a plurality of spacer protrusions protruding along the axial direction from the plane. Each of the spacer protrusions of the plurality of spacer protrusions is configured for consolidation with another core element to define a radial vent between the core element and the another core element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Lang, Tyler Gaerke, Michael A. Graman
  • Patent number: 9712010
    Abstract: To provide a motor in which a cage coil formed of a wave winding conductor wire wound in plural turns and with bent portions is inserted in an integral type stator core. The motor including a stator provided with a wave winding coil using a flat conductor and a stator core, and a rotor provided with a rotor shaft is configured such that the wave winding coil includes the cage coil formed of a first wave winding wire assembly wound in plural turns, this assembly being formed of a plurality of bent-end wave winding conductor wires formed in a meandering pattern and overlapped in sequence with displacements from each other, a coil end part of the cage coil at one end is bent toward the rotor with respect to in-slot portions of the stator core, and the coil end part at the one end is positioned closer to an axis of the rotor than an inner peripheral surface of the stator core is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Masayoshi Haga, Shingo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9698660
    Abstract: A system and method for heating ferrite permanent magnets in an electrical machine is disclosed. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly, with a plurality of ferrite permanent magnets disposed within the stator assembly or the rotor assembly to generate a magnetic field that interacts with a stator magnetic field to produce a torque. A controller of the electrical machine is programmed to cause a primary field current to be applied to the stator windings to generate the stator magnetic field, so as to cause the rotor assembly to rotate relative to the stator assembly. The controller is further programmed to cause a secondary current to be applied to the stator windings to selectively generate a secondary magnetic field, the secondary magnetic field inducing eddy currents in at least one of the stator assembly and the rotor assembly to heat the ferrite permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Kum-Kang Huh
  • Patent number: 9676408
    Abstract: Reduction in costs and size of an electric driving device is achieved and reliability of electrical connection thereof is enhanced. The device comprises: an electric motor; a controller that is disposed coaxially with the axis of the electric motor rotation shaft and takes control of driving the electric motor; a motor terminal whose end extends from the electric motor toward the controller; and an output terminal whose end extends from the controller toward the electric motor; wherein a portion of the motor terminal including the end thereof and that of the output terminal including the end thereof each are formed to extend in parallel to an axial direction of the electric motor, and overlappingly connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tominaga, Katsuhiko Ohmae
  • Patent number: 9680340
    Abstract: An electrically rotating machine, includes a rotor and a stator, the rotor and/or the stator including a laminated core, with an air gap being formed between the rotor and the stator, said rotor having axially and radially extending cooling paths in flow communication with each other and in flow communication with radially extending cooling paths of the stator via the air gap, wherein the radially extending cooling paths of the stator are respectively axially aligned with the radially extending cooling paths of the rotor; at least one fan for conducting an air flow through the axially and radially extending cooling paths of the rotor, the air gap and the cooling paths of the stator, wherein the air gap has at least one constriction defined by sheets of the laminated core of the rotor having an outer radius greater than remaining ones of the sheets of the laminated core of the rotor and/or by sheets of the laminated core of the stator having a smaller inner radius than remaining ones of the sheets of the lamin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTEINGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felix Noack, Zdenek Spera, Christoph Stuckmann, Sebastian Weiss
  • Patent number: 9673679
    Abstract: A driving device is provided with a gear unit and a plurality of motors. The gear unit includes a plurality of input shafts supported by a supporting member, and a driven member to which the plurality of input shafts is engaged. Each motor rotor is respectively attached to a corresponding one of the input shafts. Each motor stator is attached to a housing that is detachably attached to the supporting member. When the housing is attached to the supporting member, phase angles of the rotors of all of the motors are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Azuma, Hiroki Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 9667106
    Abstract: A motor housing for enclosing a first stator module and a second stator module of a motor is provided. The motor housing includes a stator housing. The stator housing has a first module portion coupled to the first stator module, wherein the first module has a first contoured shape complimentary to the first stator module. A second module portion is coupled to the second stator module, wherein the second module has a second contoured shape complimentary to the second stator module. The housing also includes a base portion having a first side coupled to the first module portion and a second side coupled to the second module portion. The base portion further includes a third side coupled to and extends between the first side and the second side. A rotor housing is coupled to the stator housing and has a fastener coupled to the third side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Matthew John Turner, Greg Heins, Byron Kennedy
  • Patent number: 9667123
    Abstract: An electric motor for driving a motor vehicle component, particularly a fan wheel for cooling coolant water, contains a rotor that is rotatably mounted opposite a stator, and an electronic system. The electronic system contains a punched grid provided with a plastic over-mold and a current path which conducts the motor current and has two current path ends spaced apart from one another forming an interruption point that is bridged by a thermal fuse. The thermal fuse has a spring-loaded contact bridge which is held so as to pivot about an axis that extends perpendicularly to the plane in which the interruption point lies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Stefan Zick, Steffen Ehrmann
  • Patent number: 9660502
    Abstract: A motor includes: a shaft to which a rotor is attached and having an internal cooling medium passage in an inside of the shaft, a cooling medium passing through the internal cooling medium passage; a housing including the shaft disposed therein and configured to rotatably support the shaft; and a cooling medium reservoir provided in the housing and provided on an upstream side of an inlet of the internal cooling medium passage in a flowing direction of the cooling medium, the cooling medium reservoir being configured to store the cooling medium and then flow the cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura
  • Patent number: 9653971
    Abstract: A permanent magnet alternator (PMA) includes a rotatable shaft, windings, a shunt regulator circuit, and a speed detection circuit. The rotatable shaft is connected electromagnetically to the windings. The shunt regulator circuit is electrically connected to the windings. A current sense transformer with a primary coil is electrically connected to the shunt regulator circuit. A secondary coil is electrically connected to a comparator circuit with reference voltage and generates voltage pulse indicating PMA speed. The voltage pulses form an output corresponding to and indicative of rotation speed of the shaft suitable for processing by a processor to present a PMA speed indication for use in the overall system architecture as a measurement parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Mark J. Collins
  • Patent number: 9650238
    Abstract: A vibration device including a supporting portion formed to cover both ends of a vibration region, and a method of manufacturing the vibration device are provided. The vibration device may include a lower substrate on which an insulating layer is formed, an upper substrate connected onto the insulating layer, and including a vibration region that vibrates and that is separated from the lower substrate by at least a predetermined distance, and a supporting portion formed to cover both ends of the vibration region, to support the vibration region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: In Bok Baek, Han Young Yu, Yark Yeon Kim, Young Jun Kim, Chang Geun Ahn, Yong Sun Yoon, Bong Kuk Lee, Ji Eun Lim, Won Ick Jang
  • Patent number: 9653955
    Abstract: A stator arrangement for an electric machine is provided. The stator arrangement includes a stator having a stator yoke with a number of stator slots, with each stator slot accommodating at least one set of stator windings and at least one cooling device in the shape of a duct-like pipe. The duct-like pipe is divided in two or more separate cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Soeren Gundtoft, Jean Le Besnerais, Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 9653957
    Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core having a yoke and teeth projecting from the yoke; coils attached to the stator core so as to surround the teeth; and coil fixing members, each of which is arranged at at least one of opposite ends of the stator core in a gap formed between an end face of the tooth and an inner side of the coil facing the end face. The coil fixing member includes a locking part that projects on the opposite side from the end face of the tooth to lock the coil and a projection that projects on the opposite side from the locking part, and the projection is inserted into an insert hole formed on the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Senoo, Yoshinori Murakami
  • Patent number: 9653956
    Abstract: A stator for a rotational electrical machine includes a cylindrical stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes slots arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction. The slots pass through the stator core in an axial direction. The stator winding is obtained by joining together ends of U-shaped conductors inserted through the slots. A second insertion part is located away from a first insertion part in the circumferential direction and is inserted in its corresponding slot. A joining end part is joined to another U-shaped conductor at a joining position away from the insertion part in the circumferential direction. The joining end part includes a first bent part and at least one second bent part. The first bent part is bent near an opening of its corresponding slot. The second bent part is bent between the first bent part and the joining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Nobuyuki Kimura, Masaru Watanabe, Hideaki Kuri
  • Patent number: 9647511
    Abstract: A primary part of an ironless linear motor includes a cooling plate on which flat coils are disposed, each having a central opening. The coils are pressed onto the cooling plate by holding pieces which taper toward the cooling plate and engage in the openings in the coils. In this manner, an especially good contact is produced between the flat coils of the primary part and the cooling plate prior to encapsulating the primary part with a synthetic resin, the cooling effect of the preferably actively cooled cooling plate thereby being increased markedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ETEL S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Morel
  • Patent number: 9647403
    Abstract: An electrical machine (1) with a machine housing (5) receiving an electrically excited rotor (2) and a stator (10) of the electrical machine (1) and with an electronics unit (18) fastened to the machine housing (5) and electrically connected to an exciter winding (3) of the rotor (2) via at least one sliding contact (11, 12) consisting of at least one slip ring (13, 14) assigned to the rotor (2) and at least one brush (15, 16) assigned to the electronics unit (18), the brush (15, 16) being arranged displaceably in a brush holder (20). In this case it is provided that the brush holder (20) is fastened exchangeably in a guiding recess (27) of the electronics unit (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schroeder, Zeljko Lubina, Matthias Gesellmann, Cornelia Mauer
  • Patent number: 9647404
    Abstract: A brush holder apparatus includes a stationary support member having at least one groove, and a fork electrical connector. The stationary support member has a conductive bar configured to pass through a portion of the stationary support member's main body. The conductive bar is configured to provide electrical conductivity with a collector mount and the fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove, and a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Albert Eugene Steinbach, Frank Austin Scalzo, III
  • Patent number: 9641053
    Abstract: A connecting element between a motor and a control unit includes a flat base plate having contact elements and an, in particular centered, opening. The base plate further includes a shaft around the opening. A first seal is provided at the edge of the base plate and a second seal is provided at the upper edge of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Hennecke, Andre Skuppin, Stephan Urban
  • Patent number: 9641033
    Abstract: A motor rotor assembly that includes multiple motor rotor sections and a rotor bar that extends through the motor rotor sections, such that the rotor bar and the motor rotor sections are configured such that the rotor sections are step-skewed, or continuously skewed, from each other. The assembly may be used in an IPM or Synchronous Reluctance motor; and, the motor rotor sections may be of solid core or laminations. Various assembly components, IPM and Synchronous Reluctance motors, and methods of construction/assembly are also disclosed. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Francesco Papini, Alexander Felix Fiseni, Mohamed Osama