Patents Examined by Terrance L. Kenerly
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Patent number: 11588369Abstract: In manufacturing a motor, a second protrusion of a lead bushing is inserted into a second through-hole in a bearing holder. A diameter increased portion on an upper end of the second protrusion fixes the lead bushing to the bearing holder. This configuration thus requires less dimensional accuracy as compared with a case where the lead bushing is press fitted to the bearing holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Takahashi, Takayuki Migita, Takumi Okada
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Patent number: 11581777Abstract: A motor assembly has an outer stator (40), a rotor assembly (30), a separating can (50), and a first bearing (36) and a second bearing (37). The rotor assembly (30) has an inner rotor (32) and a shaft (31) and defines an axial direction (77) and a radial direction (78) of the motor assembly (20). The motor assembly (20) has a magnetic air gap (53) between the outer stator (40) and the inner rotor (32). The separating can (50) has a split tube component (51) and a separating can base part (52). The split tube component (51) has a split tube section (54). The split tube section (54) extends through the magnetic air gap (53). The outer stator (40) is arranged around the split tube section (54). The split tube section (51) and the separating can base part (52) overlap in a first predefined axial region (55). A seal (60) is provided between the split tube section (51) and the separating can base part (52) in the first predefined axial region (55).Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Volker Ehlers, Martin König
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Patent number: 11575292Abstract: An anti-rotation device including a tapered sleeve elongated along a longitudinal axis wherein the sleeve including an inner surface defining an inner diameter, an outer surface defining an outer diameter varying along the longitudinal axis, a slot extended from the inner surface to the outer surface configured to provide.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: Liangheng Qiu
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Patent number: 11567213Abstract: An embodiment of a motorized optical scanner of a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system used in a motor vehicle is provided. The scanner includes a reflective piece including a substrate and a reflective surface. The scanner further includes a first shaft and a second shaft attached to a first end and a second end of the substrate respectively. The first end and the second end are opposite ends of the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate. The scanner further includes a first bearing and a second bearing coupled to the first shaft and the second shaft respectively. The first bearing and the second bearing are substantially concentric. Movement of the second shaft causes the reflective surface to optically transmit one or more light beams to a field-of-view.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: INNOVUSION, INC.Inventors: Haosen Wang, Yimin Li
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Patent number: 11569717Abstract: An axial flux rotary electric machine including at least one stator and at least one rotor that are arranged along an axis of rotation of the machine, the rotor including a rotor mass and housings created in the rotor mass, the housings defining magnetic poles of the rotor, each of the housings being able to contain or not contain at least one permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Dany Prieto, Paul Akiki, Xavier Jannot, Benjamin Daguse
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Patent number: 11569705Abstract: An object of the present invention is to hold a holding member appropriately in a casing. A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a drive shaft, a stator provided on an outer periphery of the rotor, a bearing B2 that rotatably supports the drive shaft, a holding member that contains an aluminum alloy member and holds the bearing, and a casing that houses the rotor, the stator, the bearing, and the holding member. The casing is made of a member that does not grow permanently or an aluminum alloy member that is permanently grown when the holding member is fixed to the casing. The holding member is in a state before permanent growth before being fixed in the casing, and the holding member grows permanently to be fixed more firmly to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: KYB CORPORATIONInventors: Sayaka Ueno, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Shun Matsuda, Tarou Matsumae
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Patent number: 11563353Abstract: To prove a motor capable of suppressing labor and costs even when the motor may be subjected to a large impact be used for a floating mobile body such as a drone. The motor (1) includes a shaft (41), a cartridge (4) including a plurality of bearings (42) that support the shaft (41), and a sleeve (43) that surrounds the bearings (42), and a housing (5) including a bottom portion (51) for receiving an impact from outside and an attaching portion (54) provided in the bottom portion (51). The bottom portion (51) of the housing (5) extends in a direction intersecting with respect to a longitudinal direction of the shaft (41), and the cartridge (4) is removably attached to the attaching portion (54).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Koji Kebukawa, Katsutoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11563348Abstract: A system for a rotor with directional magnetic field configured for use in electric aircraft motor that includes a magnet array having an outer cylindrical surface, an inner cylindrical surface, an upper edge, and a lower edge, which further includes a plurality of magnets, where the plurality of magnets is configured to create a directional magnet field and an electrically insulating epoxy, where the electrically insulating epoxy envelops at least a portion of the plurality of magnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventor: Herman Wiegman
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Patent number: 11552522Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor magnet and a bearing for the rotatable support on a fixed axle, the bearing comprising first and second bearing half-shells, wherein at least the first bearing half-shell is moveably arranged within the rotor body with respect to the second bearing half-shell, and wherein the first bearing half-shell is supported against the rotor body by a resilient element tangentially arranged with respect to the axle. The resilient element, at both its side surfaces facing in an axial direction of the axle, has at least one respective first protrusion extending in the axial direction, and the first bearing half-shell, on a side facing away from its bearing surface, includes at least two axially spaced second protrusions each extending in a radial direction and cooperating with the first protrusions for aligning the resilient element.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Uwe Schäfer, Helmut Schneider, Felix Blaser
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Patent number: 11545870Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor with a grounded rotor. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a bearing seat, a conductive plate and an elastic element. The bearing seat receives a first bearing and a second bearing. The conductive plate is disposed in the bearing seat and has at least one overlapping foot convexly formed thereon. The elastic element is arranged between the first bearing and the second bearing, and integrally formed with the at least one overlapping foot into one piece. The rotor includes a rotating shaft. The rotating shaft is inserted in the first bearing and the second bearing along the axial direction. The conductive plate and the rotating shaft are electrically connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Han-En Chien, Tse-Peng Huang, Hung-Chi Chen, Meng-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11527939Abstract: A cooling arrangement for an electric machine (1, 1a, 1b) includes a rotatably mounted rotor shaft (2). A rotatably mounted hollow shaft (11) is mounted coaxially to the rotor shaft (2) and rotationally fixed to the rotor shaft (2). A hollow shaft inner side (12) is spaced apart from a rotor shaft outer side (5) in a radial direction (R) in order to form an annular gap (14). At least one cooling duct for a cooling lubricant includes a hollow shaft duct (18), a feed duct (20), and an outlet duct (25). The feed duct (20) opens into the hollow shaft duct (18) in order to feed the cooling lubricant to the hollow shaft duct (18). The outlet duct (25) extends from the hollow shaft duct (18) to the annular gap (14) in order to release the cooling lubricant from the hollow shaft duct (18) into the annular gap (14).Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Martin Lang, Thomas Auer, Sebastian Paulik, Harald Wendl, Gerhard Obermaier, Maria Lang
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Patent number: 11522415Abstract: A motor includes a housing and a metal shield plate. The housing includes a bearing holder. The shield plate includes a shield plate main body and a protrusion that protrudes upward from the shield plate main body. The protrusion has a tubular shape. In manufacturing the motor, the protrusion of the shield plate is inserted into a through-hole in the bearing holder. A working deformation portion is then formed such that an upper end of the protrusion is deformed to contact an upper surface of the bearing holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Takahashi, Takayuki Migita
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Patent number: 11522409Abstract: Shaft for an electric machine, includes a core seat for a laminated core and two shaft ends extending axially outwardly from the core seat in opposite directions, wherein the core seat has at least one core seat portion extending in the axial direction with a polygonal profile for forming a polygonal connection to the laminated core.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventor: Regina Bach
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Patent number: 11515744Abstract: A stator housing for an electric machine, includes a cooling channel through which a cooling fluid may flow and which has a plurality of main portions extending in the axial direction or in the circumferential direction, wherein adjacent main portions are connected by deflection portions of the cooling channel in such a way that a meandering cooling path is formed, wherein a guide element is formed within each of the deflection portions and separates the cooling path into two cooling sub-paths.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Nils Krais, Philipp Söntgerath
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Patent number: 11509197Abstract: An electrically powered propellor apparatus comprising an axial flux electric machine. The axial flux electric machine comprises a rotor, at least one stator and a shaft. The shaft mounts the rotor and the shaft is mounted in at least two spaced apart thrust bearings. Each of the thrust bearings is configured to resist thrust in opposing axial directions of the shaft. The shaft has a propellor mounted on at least one end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Avid Technology LimitedInventor: Ryan Maughan
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Patent number: 11509196Abstract: Motor vehicle comprising an electric motor for driving the motor vehicle and a power converter device for supplying an alternating current to the electric motor, the power converter device having a cooling device, and the cooling device comprising at least one coolant connection, which is fluidically connected to a coolant port of the electric motor to form a common cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Benjamin Söhnle
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Patent number: 11502564Abstract: A motor comprising a shaft, an array of stator assemblies rigidly attached to the shaft, each stator assembly includes a stator yoke having a toroid shape fixed around the shaft and having a number of slots at radial and axis directional faces with windings within the slots of the stator yoke, and a rotor assembly rotatively attached to the shaft to enclose the array of stator assemblies, the rotor assembly has a rotor drum with sections, each section embraces one stator assembly, each section has two axial-flux permanent magnet arrays attached on axial-directional inner surfaces of the section and has one radial-flux permanent magnet array attached on a radial-directional inner surface of the section furthest from the shaft, wherein the axial-flux and the radial-flux permanent magnet arrays with the number of pole pairs equals the number of the stator slots plus or minus the number of stator winding pole pair.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Lei Zhou, Bingnan Wang, Chungwei Lin, Dehong Liu, Yebin Wang, Koon Hoo Teo
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Patent number: 11502565Abstract: A rotor, a motor, a reinforcement ring tool and a mounting method therefor are disclosed. A reinforcement ring tool may be mounted on the outer circumference of a rotor of a motor, the reinforcement ring tool comprising two or more separate components and two or more connecting members. The two or more connecting members correspond to the two or more separate components, and the two or more separate components are connected to each other by means of the two or more connecting members so as to form an annular body. At least two of the two or more connecting members are movable connecting members, and corresponding separate components are movably coupled to each other by means of the movable connecting members such that the reinforcement ring tool may be detachably engaged at the outer circumference of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanhui Li, Dong Wang, Jingchao Yang
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Patent number: 11496021Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor shaft, a first bearing, and a second bearing. The rotor shaft includes a first rotor shaft part and a second rotor shaft part, the first rotor shaft part being rotatably mounted via the first bearing, and the second rotor shaft part being rotatably mounted via the second bearing. A bellows is connected at its first axial end region to the first rotor shaft part, e.g., by welding, and the bellows is connected at its second axial end region to the second rotor shaft part, e.g., by welding.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Markus Wöppermann, Jens Schillinger
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Patent number: 11476740Abstract: Exchangeable stator components are selected and exchangeable rotor components are selected to transform a motor from one motor class to another motor class. A motor comprises at least two stator rings, at least two outer rotor rings, a first input, and a second input. The first input comprises an exchangeable stator component selected from a stator component group consisting of a stator spacer ring and an axially magnetized stator magnet ring, the axially magnetized stator magnet ring comprising a solid axially magnetized ring magnet. The second input comprises an exchangeable rotor component selected from a rotor component group consisting of a rotor spacer ring and an axially magnetized rotor magnet ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: QM Power, Inc.Inventor: Charles J. Flynn