Patents Examined by Terrance L. Kenerly
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Patent number: 12046968Abstract: A wave winding for an electric machine in which a quantity of coil strands are provided connected in parallel. Each partial strand is a plurality of hairpins. Two different variants of hairpins are provided. A first variant in the turn region W has a winding step WK between the conductor elements which is shortened by one and in a second variant of the hairpins the turn region has a lengthened winding step that is greater than the shortened winding step. In all of the variants of the hairpins the contact regions are deformed by one half of the standard winding step in direction opposite the turn region.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventor: Stefan Reuter
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Patent number: 12046959Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a cover assembly and a motor comprising same, the cover assembly comprising: a cover plate; a ground terminal disposed on the cover plate; and a capacitor connected to the ground terminal by means of a wire. The ground terminal comprises: a body unit; a ground unit bent from one area of the upper end of the body unit to a first direction; clip units extending from both sides of the body unit to a second direction that is opposite from the first direction; and a coupling unit extending from the lower part of the body unit. The wire is coupled to the clip units by means of insertion. Accordingly, the present invention enables the wire of the capacitor to be fixed in a temporarily assembled state and thus enables an automation process during assembly of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo Seob Shim, Seong Hun Oh, Namu Jo
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Patent number: 12046979Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a bearing holder. The rotor is disposed inside the stator. The rotor rotates with respect to the stator. The bearing holder holds a bearing of the rotor. The stator includes a plurality of coils, a plurality of teeth, and a coupling portion. Around the plurality of teeth, the plurality of coils are respectively arranged via an insulator. The coupling portion is located closer to the rotor than the plurality of coils are. The coupling portion couples at least some adjacent ones of the plurality of teeth. The bearing holder is positioned within a plane intersecting at right angles with a rotational axis of the rotor by coming into contact with either respective inner peripheral tips of the plurality of teeth or the coupling portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Akito Nakamura
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Patent number: 12040676Abstract: The VCM according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base unit, a mover including a bobbin arranged at an upper surface of the base unit and formed with a plurality of rotation prevention units along a periphery and a first driving unit arranged at a periphery of the bobbin, a stator including a yoke configured to the base unit to surround the mover and inner yoke units each extended to between the rotation prevention units, and a second driving unit oppositely arranged to the first driving unit, and an elastic member elastically supporting the mover, wherein an object occurrence preventing portion is formed between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units to decrease a contact area between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Tae Jin Jung
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Patent number: 12040668Abstract: A stator having a plurality of stator bars disposed circumferentially at intervals around an axis is provided. Each of the stator bars has a set of windings wound therearound for generating a magnetic field generally parallel to the axis. A plurality of radially outwardly disposed electrical interconnects for connecting two or more windings together are provided radially outwardly of the plurality of stator bars and extending circumferentially along at least a portion of the outer periphery of the stator bars. A plurality of radially inwardly disposed electrical interconnects for connecting two or more windings together are also provided radially inwardly of the stator bars and extending circumferentially along at least a portion of the inner periphery of the stator bars. The outer periphery of the stator is devoid of radially outwardly disposed interconnects along one or more portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: YASA LIMITEDInventors: Tim Woolmer, Tom Hillman
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Patent number: 12034360Abstract: A brushless motor with an internal integrated heat dissipation module thereof is provided. The brushless motor includes a stator including at least one recess to receive a corresponding heat dissipation module therein, and an outer rotor, the heat dissipation module sliding in the corresponding recess to contract to the bottom of the recess; an ejection element arranged in the recess for pushing the heat dissipation module outwards from the recess; two to four temperature sensors integrated in the heat dissipation module; the outer rotor including an annular pressing plate formed at a top thereof to bind and compress a wire harness at the end of a coil winding; an interior cavity inside the stator providing an annular baffle for dividing the cavity into inner and outer parts, and sealing the internal cavity, thereby air only flowing, through the external part near the outer side of the annular baffle.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Inventors: Qicai Wu, Jichang Gan, Min Wu, Huaqiu Huang
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Patent number: 12034350Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine, in particular an electric drive unit comprising an electric motor and a magnetic gear. In accordance with one embodiment the electrical machine has the following: a housing, a first shaft arranged in the housing, by means of which first shaft a first permanent magnet assembly and a second permanent magnet assembly are rigidly connected, and a stator arranged internally on the housing, which stator together with the first shaft forms the electric motor. The electrical machine also has a tubular machine element with a plurality of ferromagnetic pole shoes, into which the first shaft is at least partially inserted, such that the first shaft is situated coaxially with the tubular machine element and the second permanent magnet assembly is situated within the tubular machine element. The first shaft is mounted at a first end on the tubular machine element by means of a first bearing inside the tubular machine element.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gerald Jungmayr, Günther Weidenholzer, Edmund Marth
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Patent number: 12027933Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a bus bar unit disposed on one side in an axial direction of the stator. The stator includes conductor connection bodies and a segment coil. Each connection body includes first and second ends in the axial direction. The bus bar unit includes a neutral point bus bar connected to the first end and phase bus bars connected to the second end. The neutral point bus bar extends along a circumferential direction. The phase bus bar includes a main body extending along the circumferential direction and at least partially overlapping the neutral point bus bar and a connection portion extending from the main body to one side in the axial direction. The first end passes through one side in the axial direction of the neutral point bus bar and is connected to the connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Hironobu Kumagai
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Patent number: 12027954Abstract: The disclosure provides a hollow shaft and a method for manufacturing the same. The hollow shaft includes: an outer periphery component having a cylindrical shape, and the outer edge of the outer periphery component has a polygonal shape; an inner periphery component having a cylindrical shape and is fitted to the inner wall of the outer periphery component; and a bottom component including a bottom plate and a cylindrical body, the extending direction of the bottom plate is perpendicular to the axial direction, the cylindrical body extends from the radially outer circumference of the bottom plate along the axial direction toward the outer periphery component, and the inner wall of the cylindrical body fits the outer wall of the inner periphery component. The outer periphery component, the inner periphery component, and the bottom component are separately defined components. The hollow shaft of the disclosure includes three separate components defined separately.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Sambuichi, Desen Pan, Wenxian Shi
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Patent number: 12027945Abstract: A frame of an electric motor has inlet holes to allow ambient air to flow into an inside of the motor and outlet holes to allow the ambient air entering through the inlet holes to flow out to an outside of the motor. The motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator, a fan to rotate integrally with the shaft, and a guide. The guide is disposed outwardly of the fan in the radial direction and has a shape for suppressing foreign materials contained in the ambient air entering through the inlet holes from coming into contact with the stator and the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi Ajioka, Seiji Haga
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Patent number: 12021430Abstract: An electric motor includes three busbars in contact at end surfaces thereof and including ring-segment-shaped base portions to provide electrical connection of the busbars. The base portion of a first busbar is in a first plane and the base portion of a second busbar is in a second plane. The base portion of the first busbar extends clockwise from the terminal of the first busbar and the base portion of the second busbar extends counterclockwise from the terminal of the second busbar. Terminals of the first and second busbars are spaced apart with the terminal of the third busbar between the first and third terminals. The third busbar includes a first region extending clockwise from its terminal and lying in the second plane and a second region extending counterclockwise from its terminal and lying in the first plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jürgen Schmid, Thomas Kübler
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Patent number: 12015322Abstract: An electric motor having a frame, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly has a magnet, a bearing assembly, an impeller, and a shaft. The bearing assembly has a first bearing, a second bearing, and a biasing element between the first and second bearings. The first bearing is mounted to the frame by an o-ring, and the second bearing is mounted to the frame by adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Nigel Youatt Dymond, Lin Ji, Kevin Garcia
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Patent number: 12011818Abstract: An electric tool is provided which enables preventing adherence to a rotor core of dust, such as iron powder, that has entered a motor. The electric tool includes a cylindrical motor housing 10 accommodating and supporting the motor, and a cooling fan attached to a rotation shaft of the motor, and cools the motor by flowing air generated by the cooling fan toward the back or front of the motor housing 10, wherein a fan guide 50 guiding cooling air is provided in front of an insulator 35 of a stator 30 of the motor. The fan guide 50 includes a first cylindrical part 51 which covers a rotation space of the cooling fan, a guide surface 53, and a second cylinder 55 which extends backward from the guide surface 53, wherein a labyrinth space 39 is formed by the insulator 35 and the second cylinder 55. By providing the labyrinth space 39, it is possible to block the flow of cooling air from the outer peripheral side of the stator 30 to an opening 53a.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Miyazawa, Ryo Suzuki
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Patent number: 12004426Abstract: A terahertz detector and a method of manufacturing a terahertz detector, wherein the terahertz detector including a substrate (2) and at least one detection unit. Each detection unit includes: a channel material (1) arranged on the substrate, two electrodes (3, 4) respectively in ohmic contact with both ends of the channel material (1) in a longitudinal direction, and a three-dimensional grapheme (5) in direct or indirect thermal contact with the channel material (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED, Tsinghua UniversityInventors: Ziran Zhao, Yingxin Wang, Meng Chen, Xuming Ma
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Patent number: 12003150Abstract: A stator of a rotary electrical machine includes a laminated core having grooves, windings inserted into the grooves for forming a multi-phase winding system, and an insulating layer made of plastic and sprayed between partial winding overhangs of the windings of phases inserted immediately one after the other. The insulating layer is formed as a mesh-like structure having junctions and brace-like connections running between the junctions.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Innomotics GmbHInventors: Klaus Büttner, Tobias Katzenberger, Bastian Plochmann, Matthias Warmuth
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Patent number: 11990818Abstract: An in-wheel motor for an electric vehicle is provided, including a motor body (1) including a wheel hub (11) on one side, and a sealing apparatus (2) mounted to the motor body (1) on the opposite side to the wheel hub (11), in which the sealing apparatus (2) includes a first support (510) fixedly coupled to a motor shaft (14) of the motor body (1), a second support (520) fixedly coupled to the motor shaft (14) and disposed outside the first support (520), a third support (530) covering an outer surface of the first support (510) and an outer circumferential surface of the second support (520), and rotated when the motor is operated, and a fourth support (540) coupled to an outer surface of the second support (520) and rotated when the motor is operated.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: MOTEK INCORPORATED CO., LTDInventors: Jae Woong Chung, Hye-Young Jeong, Mi-Rim Jung
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Patent number: 11984788Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor having a rotating shaft, first and second bearings each having an outer ring, balls, and an inner ring, and spaced apart axially from each other, a preload washer including a shaft section having a preset fixed length in the axial direction, and an elastically-deformable portion extending from one end portion of the shaft section to be elastically deformable, the preload washer applying a preset intensity of preload to the inner ring of the first or second bearing, and a coupling member screwed into an end portion of the rotating shaft and elastically deforming the preload washer in the axial direction. This structure may result in preventing an excessive preload from being applied to the bearing and allowing a preset preload to be stably maintained when thrust is applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sunghoon Kwak, Hyuk Nam, Sanghoon Park, Seoyoung Jeong, Namgi Kim, Minsoo La
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Patent number: 11984769Abstract: A rotary electric machine system of a combined power system includes a rotary electric machine, a rotary electric machine housing in which the rotary electric machine is accommodated, and a rotation parameter detector that detects a rotation parameter of a rotating shaft constituting the rotary electric machine. The rotating shaft includes a first end part and a second end part, a first bearing is provided between the first end part and the housing, and a second bearing is provided between the second end part and the housing. The first end part includes a protruding distal end that passes through the first bearing and protrudes to an exterior of the housing. The rotation parameter detector is disposed on the protruding distal end.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
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Patent number: 11984790Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooling system, an electric motor and a wind-power electric generator set. The cooling system is applied to an electric motor; the electric motor includes a stator support and a rotor support; the stator support is dynamically sealingly connected to the rotor support to form a ventilation chamber arranged at an end of the electric motor in an axial direction; the cooling system includes a flow-confluence chamber, arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator support; an accommodating chamber, arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator support; a heat exchanger, arranged in the accommodating chamber or in the flow-confluence chamber; a circulating fan, arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator support and located at a side of the stator support in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dinghui Wang, Jinmeng Li, Jing Xia
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Patent number: 11980103Abstract: A power generation element and an actuator for vibration power generation is provided that can be mass-produced at low cost while achieving increase in electromotive force. A power generation element includes a main series magnetic circuit having a frame yoke made of magnetic material and provided with a fixed portion that is one end and a free portion that is the other end across a U-shaped bent portion, a main magnet that applies a magnetic bias to the frame yoke, and a first gap formed at a position in contact with the free portion; and an auxiliary series magnetic circuit having an auxiliary yoke made of magnetic material and attached to the frame yoke, an auxiliary magnet that gives a magnetic bias to the auxiliary yoke, a second gap formed at a position facing the first gap across the free portion, the frame yoke, the main magnet, and the first gap.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITYInventors: Toshiyuki Ueno, Tamotsu Minamitani