Patents Examined by Thanh Lam
  • Patent number: 10931165
    Abstract: A vehicle having wheels for riding the vehicle over a carrier such as a road or rails, said vehicle having a battery and a generator connected thereto, said generator having a stator and a rotor being arranged to generate electrical power for charging said battery, wherein said wheel drives said rotor by means of a shaft connected to the centre of said wheel and axially extending therefrom, wherein the connection between said rotor and said shaft comprises a gear box for regulating the rotation speed of said rotor relative to the rotation speed of said wheel, characterized in that said gear box comprises a planetary gear train of the type having a sun gear, planet gears and an annular gear, and that said shaft, said sun gear and said rotor extend around a common axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Rudolf Johannes Van Wijk
  • Patent number: 10923992
    Abstract: A drive device for use in a vehicle includes a motor, a substrate, and at least one inter-system ground connection capacitor. The motor includes a plurality of motor windings within one housing. Multiple inverters are mounted on the substrate. Each inverter is connected to a different battery and a different ground to form a system, where each of the motor windings is associated with its own system. The inter-system ground connection capacitor is mounted on the substrate, and electrically connects the grounds of the systems together to reduce electrical noise propagated outside the drive device to other parts in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10916982
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator having a stator surface and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of poles, each of which is defined by a pair of magnets positioned in a V-shaped arrangement having a vertex positioned radially inward. The magnets present a mechanical pole angle of the corresponding pole. The rotor also includes a rotor surface that is opposite the stator surface. The rotor surface includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced pole segments, each of which spans a respective mechanical pole angle. The rotor also includes a plurality of longitudinally extending recesses, each of which is positioned between adjacent pole segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Keith I. Hoemann, Lunjie Lu, Michael W. Major
  • Patent number: 10910895
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of poles, each of which is defined by a pair of magnets positioned relative to each other in a V-shaped arrangement having a vertex positioned radially inward. Each of the poles includes a mechanical pole angle defined by the pair of magnets. The mechanical pole angle is about one-half of three hundred and sixty divided by the number of the poles of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Keith I. Hoemann, Lunjie Lu, Michael W. Major
  • Patent number: 10910914
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes a driving unit generating a driving force by electricity and various components functioning by electricity, a circuit board on which a control unit configured to control the driving unit and the various components is mounted, a plurality of connectors connecting a plurality of wirings, which extend from the driving unit and the various components, with a plurality of wirings, which extend from the circuit board, a body portion installed therein with the driving unit, the various components, the circuit board and the plurality of connectors, and a receiving portion which receives the plurality of connectors therein and which is fixed to the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terufumi Hamano, Hiroki Ishiguro, Yusuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10910935
    Abstract: A linear actuator comprising a first fixed portion comprising a linear array of stator teeth, each surrounded by one or more turns of electrical wire, a controller which generates a set of currents that are applied to phase windings of the first fixed portion to generate a pattern of magnetic poles along the array of stator teeth, a spacing between the magnetic poles being larger than a spacing between adjacent stator teeth of the first fixed portion, a second fixed portion that comprises an alternating set of magnet poles, a spacing between adjacent poles being smaller than the spacing of the magnetic poles of the first fixed portion created by the controller, and a movable output portion that comprises a linear array of pole pieces that extend along a length of the moveable output portion that is greater than a stroke length of the actuator and longer than a length of the fixed portion, whereby in use a length of the movable output portion is at all times located between the first and second fixed portions,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: ZF Automotive UK Limited
    Inventor: Connel Brett Williams
  • Patent number: 10910902
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, each of teeth of a stator core is provided with a covering portion. The covering portion of each of the teeth is made of a soft magnetic material having a lower iron loss factor than each steel plate. The covering portion of each of the teeth covers at least a part of a surface of the corresponding one of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Akira Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10899582
    Abstract: An electric motor and an elevator system. The electric motor includes: a casing; a stator supported by the casing, the stator including a stator yoke and stator teeth, and a winding being wound around the stator teeth and generating a magnetic field when energized; and a rotor which rotates under the action of the magnetic field; wherein at least a portion of the stator yoke is formed as a moving plate which is movable between a first position and a second position; and when the winding is energized, the moving plate is capable of moving from the first position to the second position under the action of the magnetic field, and in the second position, the moving plate is separated from the rotor; and after the winding is de-energized, the moving plate is moved from the second position to the first position under the action of a spring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Le Lin, Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 10897186
    Abstract: The invention relates to a torque motor comprising a stator and a rotor that extend along a common central axis. The stator includes an integral magnetic body and at least one pair of radial teeth that extend along the central axis and define slots for receiving stator windings, and at least one permanent magnet supported by the integral magnetic body. The torque motor also includes a winding support for the stator windings that has a hollow body that extends along the central axis and that delimits a chamber for receiving the rotor, and cavities for receiving the stator windings. In this way, the stator windings are integrated in the stator by the winding support, fitted with the stator windings, being axially inserted into the integral magnetic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE TOULOUSE SAS
    Inventors: Loïc Verhille, François Ramadour, Raphael Vilamot, Rémi Wojcieszonak
  • Patent number: 10897184
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a rectifier includes a positive electrode side member including a positive electrode side rectification element connected to a power supply side, and a positive electrode side heat sink to which the rectification element is fixed. The positive electrode side heat sink is disposed to face a non-positive electrode side member having a potential difference with respect to the positive electrode side heat sink with a gap therebetween. An insulating cover provided to cover the rectifier has a wall portion extending in a direction in which the positive electrode side heat sink and the non-positive electrode side member are arranged. The wall portion functions as an easily deformable portion that, when the insulating cover is deformed by an external force, contacts with the non-positive electrode side member and enters the gap between the positive electrode side heat sink and the non-positive electrode side member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Takuya Tamura
  • Patent number: 10886811
    Abstract: Provided is a stator assembly including: i) a first stator segment, ii) a second stator segment, wherein the first stator segment and the second stator segment being arranged along a circumferential direction of the stator assembly, and wherein the first stator segment and the second stator segment are located adjacent to each other and are separated by a gap. The stator assembly further including: iii) at least one first coil set of a first multi-phase coil system, and iv) at least one second coil set of a second multi-phase coil system, wherein each coil set includes at least one coil for each phase of the respective multi-phase coil system. Each stator segment includes a first busbar arrangement having first busbar elements, and a second busbar arrangement having second busbar elements, each busbar element being assigned to one phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Erik Groendahl, Subhra Samanta, Arwyn Thomas
  • Patent number: 10886797
    Abstract: Provided is a support structure segment for a stator of a generator, in particular of a wind turbine, wherein the support structure segment includes a carrier element extending in an axial direction AD, wherein the carrier element includes a base section, a side section and a top section, and wherein the top section is configured to be coupled to a lamination sheet section of the stator by means of a fixing connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventors: Mads Peter Zippor Leth Andersen, Bo Nedergaard Jacobsen, Saravanan Jayaraman, Stefan Schaldemose
  • Patent number: 10871152
    Abstract: Methods for replacing a Wye-ring of a wind turbine generator preferably, but not necessarily, in-situ are described along with a combination of three arcuate Wye-ring sections that when assembled comprise a Wye-ring. The method after gaining access to the Wye-ring typically comprises: removing all or most of the damaged Wye-ring; installing the replacement sections typically by welding or brazing them in place; insulating the new ring; installing new blocking; and adhesively securing the new blocking in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Christopher Hodges
  • Patent number: 10868453
    Abstract: The rotor of the rotating electric machine includes the rotor shaft and the rotor core. The rotor shaft has the shaft refrigerant passage and the refrigerant supplying port on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft, the shaft refrigerant passage extending in an axial direction, the refrigerant supplying port communicating with the shaft refrigerant passage. The rotor core has the rotor core refrigerant passage and the refrigerant receiving port on the inner peripheral surface of the rotor core, the rotor core refrigerant passage extending in the axial direction, the refrigerant receiving port communicating with the rotor core refrigerant passage and facing the refrigerant supplying port of the rotor shaft. A clearance groove part is provided at a portion that is on the inner peripheral surface of the rotor core and that faces the refrigerant supplying port of the rotor shaft, the clearance groove part extending in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Noda, Shinya Sano, Hiroyuki Hattori, Masayuki Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 10868465
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor. The linear vibration motor includes: a housing and a stator; a vibrator including a mass with a receiving hole and a first driving member disposed in the receiving hole and fixed to the mass; and an elastic support member. The stator includes a fixed member fixed to the housing and passing through the mass via the receiving hole, and a second driving member fixed to the fixed member and spaced apart from the first driving member. One of the first driving member and the second driving member includes a permanent magnet, and the other includes a coil. A first through hole is formed in the top wall. A second through hole is formed in the bottom wall. Two opposite ends of the fixed member in the vibration direction are respectively embedded into the first through hole and the second through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Tang, Lubin Mao
  • Patent number: 10862354
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin strip component, including a processing step of processing an amorphous thin strip member into a dimension shape larger than a target shape, and a heat treating step of heat treating and contracting the amorphous thin strip member processed in the processing step to form the amorphous thin strip member into a thin strip component of the target shape. A thin strip component which is a magnetic laminate in which a plurality of plate-shaped thin strip component members of the same shape are laminated, and has a recess over an entire side surface of the magnetic laminate is used. A motor including the thin strip component, a plurality of coils disposed on the thin strip component, and a rotor disposed between the plurality of coils is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Nishikawa, Hideaki Hamada, Naoki Nojiri
  • Patent number: 10862369
    Abstract: A power unit comprises: a wave gear speed reducer, a rotary shaft extending in the axial direction; a rotor unit that rotates integrally with the rotary shaft; a stator unit disposed facing the rotor unit; and a motor casing to which the stator unit is secured. The motor casing has a second cover that covers the rotor unit and the stator unit from the other side in the axial direction. The rotary shaft extends toward the other side in the axial direction, penetrates the second cover, and is connected to a cam. The second cover has a support part that extends toward the other side in the axial direction, supports the rotary shaft in a rotatable manner, and is positioned in a flexible cylindrical part of an external gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kikuo Okamura, Takuro Yonemura, Hitoshi Inoue, Guo-Jhih Yan, Keng-Chang Wu, Hsiu-Ying Lin
  • Patent number: 10862378
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor of an electric motor or an electric generator includes positioning a plurality of amortisseur bars and using additive manufacturing to place electrically conductive material. More specifically, positioning the amortisseur bars may include circumferentially positioning the bars around a rotor stack and using additive manufacturing to place electrically conductive material may include forming a non-solid pattern of electrically conductive material, such as a pattern of electrically conductive traces, across opposite axial ends of the rotor stack to electrically interconnect an amortisseur circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Louis Wentland, Eric W. Karlen, Dhaval Patel, Andrew R. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 10850886
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a rear holder comprising: a first body comprising a first groove; a second body comprising a second groove; a coupling portion for coupling the first body and the second body such that the first groove and the second groove are aligned, thereby constituting a cable hole; and a rib, wherein the rib is arranged so as to protrude along at least one selected from the boundary between the front surface of the first body and the first groove and the boundary between the front surface of the second body and the second groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung Jae Oh, Shung Hun Woo
  • Patent number: 10848041
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes: a field core having at least one boss portion, a pair of disc portions and a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a field coil arranged between the at least one boss portion and the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a plurality of permanent magnets each of which is arranged between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; and a ring-shaped fixing member fixed to radially inner parts of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions to support the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions from the radially inner side. Moreover, a d-axis magnetic circuit and a magnet magnetic circuit are at least partially coincident with each other to share a common circuit portion. When field current is supplied to the field coil, the permeance of the d-axis magnetic circuit is lower than the permeance of a q-axis magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Yuuki Takahashi