Patents Examined by Terrance L. Kenerly
  • Patent number: 11095183
    Abstract: A motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing accommodating the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump section driven by the motor are included. The inverter substrate is disposed on one side of the motor. The pump section is disposed on the other side of the motor. The housing has a motor housing section accommodating the motor, an inverter housing section accommodating the inverter substrate, and a breather section establishing communication between inside and outside of the housing. The motor housing section has an accommodation tubular section accommodating the motor and a brim section spreading outward in a radial direction from an end of the accommodation tubular section. The inverter housing section is disposed on one side of the brim section and overlaps the brim section when seen in the axial direction. The breather section is disposed at the brim section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Tatsuo Abe, Hitoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11095174
    Abstract: A rotor has reduced weight. A hammer drill includes a motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a rotor core having a first space, and a permanent magnet fixed on the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 11095173
    Abstract: A stator core of a rotary electric machine includes: an outer core that is an annular back yoke portion; and an inner core in which a plurality of teeth are radially arranged and inner side end portions of the teeth adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction are connected to each other in the circumferential direction by connection portions and which is fitted to an inner side of the outer core, each connection portion has a hole penetrating in an axial direction, each connection portion is split into a plurality of sections by the hole, a width in a radial direction of the one connection portion at a portion of the connection portion that has a smallest width in the radial direction is equal to or greater than ¼ and less than ½ of a sheet thickness of each of sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawamura, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Sachiko Kawasaki, Naohiro Motoishi, Takatoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11081929
    Abstract: A motor includes a bearing holder and a first bearing. The bearing holder is fixed to a casing. The first bearing is interposed between the bearing holder and a shaft. The bearing holder includes a holder main body made of a resin and a ring made of a metal. The holder main body includes, around the central axis, a first arcuate portion including one or a plurality of through-holes passing therethrough in an axial direction and a second arcuate portion that does not include a through-hole. The first arcuate portion occupies a range of about ? or more of a total circumference of the holder main body in a circumferential direction. An outer ring of the first bearing is held by the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Sonoda, Akihiro Okita
  • Patent number: 11075554
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor (2) for a permanent magnet synchronous machine, comprising a laminated core (6) arranged on a shaft (4) extending in the axial direction (A), a plurality of poles (14) being arranged around the periphery of the laminated core, wherein at least one magnet (10) is provided per pole. In order to ensure particularly good prevention against slipping of the magnets, pole gap rods (12) are positioned between the poles (14) in such a way that, in the peripheral direction, each magnet (10) is applied, by a first side (16a) and an opposing second side (16b), to a respective pole gap rod (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Angler, Michael Bzdziuch, Rainer Eckert, Andreas Kraus, Jürgen Seufert
  • Patent number: 11063485
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor assembly including a stator and a rotor is provided. The stator includes electromagnetic windings. The rotor is disposed concentrically with the stator about a rotor axis and the rotor has a plurality of rotor segments. The plurality of rotor segments may include a first rotor segment and a second rotor segment. The first rotor segment may have first pockets being arranged to receive at least a first magnet of a first magnet set according to a first rotor topology. The second rotor segment may be axially stacked relative to the first rotor segment about the rotor axis. The second rotor segment may be arranged to receive at least a second magnet of a second magnet set according to a second rotor topology having a configuration that is different than the first rotor topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Subhra Paul, Mohammed R. Islam
  • Patent number: 11050318
    Abstract: A drive device includes: a cover that is installed to an outer wall of a housing; a control unit that is installed in an inside of the cover; a terminal that extends from the control unit and extends through the cover; and a lead wire that extends from a coil and extends through the housing and the cover. The lead wire is electrically connected to the terminal at an outside of the cover. Therefore, the lead wire and the terminal can be connected together after installation of the cover to the housing. At this time, a lead wire insertion hole is shielded by the cover, and thereby it is possible to limit intrusion of solder debris into an inside of the housing through the lead wire insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11050324
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft with a central axis along an up and down direction as a center, a bearing mechanism rotatably supporting the shaft; a cylindrical rotor main body fixed to the shaft; a rotor fan fixed to the shaft at an upper side of the rotor main body; an armature facing the rotor main body in a radial direction; and a housing accommodating the rotor main body, the rotor fan, and the armature therein. The bearing mechanism includes a first bearing above the rotor fan in the housing and facing the rotor fan in the up and down direction and a second bearing positioned below the rotor main body. The housing includes a first opening, a second opening, and a bearing holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Makino, Satoshi Kajikawa
  • Patent number: 11050323
    Abstract: A motor assembly may comprise: a motor rotor shaft; and a flange attached to the motor rotor shaft, at least a part of an inner surface of the flange contacted with a first part of a circumferential surface of the motor rotor shaft, wherein the motor rotor shaft comprises: a toothed pulley directly machined on a second part of the circumferential surface of the motor rotor shaft to be coupled with a drive belt, the toothed pulley of the motor rotor shaft having a diameter smaller than the first part of the motor rotor shaft contacting the flange; and a step part disposed between the first and second parts of the motor rotor shaft, the step part of the motor rotor shaft having a diameter gradually increasing from the toothed pulley to the first part of the motor rotor shaft contacting the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Troy Strieter, Hee Kwon Jo
  • Patent number: 11049644
    Abstract: A coil assembly of a stator of a planar multi-dimensional drive includes at least one coil. The at least one coil includes a winding. The winding is electrically conductive and has a winding material. The winding is a structure of the winding material, which is folded at folding points and which has one or more windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Albrecht, Stefan Junker, Ilya Kamenshchikov, Stefan Daehling, Volker Henrichs, Markus Hanisch
  • Patent number: 11050313
    Abstract: A stator and a motor including the motor are disclosed. The stator includes a number of windings and a number of guiding portions. The windings are formed by winding a single conductive wire under the guide of the guiding portions. The windings are divided into multiple groups, and the windings in each group are short-circuit connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Chi Ho Fung, Kar Wai Lam, Cai Yong Zhang, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11043863
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes: applying the adhesive to an adhesive placement position on an outer peripheral surface of the permanent magnet or an inner peripheral surface of the magnet hole, the adhesive containing an expansive agent that is expanded by being heated to a temperature that is equal to or higher than an expansion temperature; drying the adhesive after applying the adhesive; inserting the permanent magnet into the magnet hole of the rotor core after drying the adhesive; and fixing the permanent magnet and the rotor core to each other using the adhesive by expanding the expansive agent and curing the adhesive by heating the adhesive to a temperature that is equal to or higher than the expansion temperature after inserting the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideharu Ushida, Tetsuya Matsubara, Tetsuya Takahashi, Shinya Katayama
  • Patent number: 11038394
    Abstract: A rotor assembly includes a rotor core having winding slots, and one or more coils, which have slot-inserted segments included in the winding slots, and first and second end-turn segments external to the winding slots and located around opposite axial ends of the rotor core, respectively. The rotor assembly further includes a first containment band located around at least a portion of the first end-turn segments and configured to prevent the first end-turn segments from moving away from the rotor core radially, a second containment band located around at least a portion of the second end-turn segments and configured to prevent the second end-turn segments from moving away from the rotor core radially, and one or more sticks mounted in one or more of the winding slots, respectively. The first and second containment bands are retained via the sticks against moving away axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Parmeet Singh Chhabra, David Raju Yamarthi, Navin Soni, Mamatha Ramakrishnaiah, Balamurugan Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11031841
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor, a speed reduction mechanism, a first bearing, and a bearing holder. The speed reduction mechanism has external and internal gears, an output flange that is positioned at one side in an axial direction from the external gear, and a plurality of projecting portions that project in the axial direction from one of the output flange and the external gear toward the other. The plurality of projecting portions are inserted into a plurality of first bore portions disposed along a circumferential direction, respectively. The bearing holder has a cylindrical circumferential wall positioned at an outer side in a radial direction of the first bearing and a support wall supporting the first bearing from the other side in the axial direction. A position adjustment mechanism configured to be capable of moving the support wall in the axial direction is arranged in the bearing holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shirai, Shuichi Kinjo, Tomoki Sato
  • Patent number: 11025138
    Abstract: An electric machine has a housing and has a stator inside the housing, surrounding a rotor arranged on a motor shaft so as to be fixed to the shaft. A rotary field winding, at the ends of the stator, forms a winding head. The winding heads are embedded in a thermally conductive encapsulation material, wherein the encapsulation material is in thermal contact with the housing along the outer circumference of the winding head. A segmented cooling plate is arranged on the inner circumference of the encapsulation winding head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Julian Blum, Andreas Huber, Markus Lang, Joerg Merwerth, Angusto Guccione
  • Patent number: 11025103
    Abstract: An iron core including a laminate in which a plurality of nanocrystal thin strips are laminated, a board, and a fastener that fastens the laminate and the board, in which at least one of upper and lower surfaces of the laminate has a colored oxide film and an uncolored oxide film is used. Moreover, the iron core has a region of the colored oxide film wider than a region of the uncolored oxide film region is used. Furthermore, a motor uses the above-described iron core as a stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Nishikawa, Naoki Nojiri
  • Patent number: 11025128
    Abstract: A protective cover for a rotary electric machine including: a bottom portion formed into an approximately circular shape; a side wall extending from the bottom portion along an outer periphery thereof; and an opening portion, of approximately circular shape and formed by an end of the side wall, wherein the side wall has a plurality of guide ribs formed on an inner side thereof and arranged apart from each other along the outer periphery of the bottom portion, wherein each of the guide ribs has a chamfered portion at an end on a side closer to the opening portion, and wherein each of the guide ribs has a height of a top portion of each of the plurality of guide ribs from the side wall allows the top portion to contact a side surface of the component when the protective cover is mounted to the rotary electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yuzuru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11018555
    Abstract: An induction motor includes a motor shaft, a rotor, and a rotor conductor bar. In some embodiments described herein, the rotor has a first axial side and a second axial side, and is non-rotatably secured to the motor shaft. The rotor includes a rotor core having an interior surface defining a slot extending from the first axial side to the second axial side. The rotor conductor bar is disposed in the slot. The rotor conductor bar and the slot cooperate to define a channel configured to transfer a fluid through the rotor core from the first axial side to the second axial side while directly contacting the rotor conductor bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Khaja Sharfuddin Mohammed
  • Patent number: 11018547
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor with a rotor shaft mounted in at least one bearing bush of a friction bearing, a stator which surrounds the rotor, and at least one circular bearing plate which, relative to the rotor shaft, is mounted on the rotor shaft for co-rotation. An inner contour of the bearing plate surrounds a circumference of the rotor shaft by press-fit. The inner contour of the bearing plate is defined by at least two internal dimensions, wherein at least one internal dimension is smaller than the diameter of the rotor shaft. The at least one bearing plate is deformed in an axial direction when the bearing plate is in the pressed-in state on the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Hong Jian Zhang, Bin Shi, Daniel Gerhard Pahner
  • Patent number: 11011957
    Abstract: A coupler for coupling an output shaft of a servo to an auxiliary shaft, comprises an coupler body having a longitudinal axis extending from a first end to a second end. The coupler body comprises a first bore, configured to accept a portion of the auxiliary shaft, centered on the longitudinal axis and extending into the first end a first distance. The coupler also comprises a second bore centered on the longitudinal axis and extending into the second end a second distance. The coupler also comprises a first fastener disposed proximate the first end, wherein adjusting the first fastener deforms a cross sectional dimension of the first bore. The coupler also comprises a second fastener disposed proximate the second end, wherein adjusting the second fastener deforms a cross sectional dimension of the second bore. An inner surface of the second bore has a female spline configuration to accept and engage a portion of the output shaft of the servo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Robotzone, LLC
    Inventor: Brian T. Pettey