Patents Examined by Theodore L Perkins
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Patent number: 12374952Abstract: An insulator includes a teeth cover portion and a crossover-wire guide portion. The crossover-wire guide portion guides a crossover-wire portion of a coil and an introduction crossover-wire portion of an introduction coil into a terminal connection portion. The crossover-wire guide portion has a guide groove that guides the crossover-wire portion and the introduction crossover-wire portion substantially in a core circumferential direction that is a circumferential direction of the stator core. In a state in which the plurality of the split cores are assembled in a ring shape, the guide groove is formed in a shape that does not coincide with a circular arc of a circle having a center corresponding to a ring center of the assembled split cores.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems CorporationInventors: Takashi Araki, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Masaaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12362621Abstract: A stator of an electric motor has a number of radially directed stator teeth, onto each of which an insulating coil carrier for a coil of a multiphase rotating field winding is or can be placed. The stator teeth are connected to one another on the outer circumference on a yoke side, forming stator grooves. On the inner circumference, on a pole shoe side, a groove gap is respectively formed between adjacent stator teeth. Stiffening is provided on the inner circumference on the pole shoe side of the stator teeth, in the form of a stiffening element that projects into the or each groove gap.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WürzburgInventors: Marco Grimm, Stefan Wüst, Alexander May, Daniel Hirsch, Oliver Haupt, Dominik Fenten
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Patent number: 12355321Abstract: A motor includes a stator assembly, a rotor assembly, and a terminal assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator core and a winding wound onto the stator core. The winding includes an input end and an output end. The rotor assembly includes a rotor shaft extending along a direction of a first straight line. The terminal assembly is configured to connect or fix the input end and the output end. The stator core includes first-type laminations. Each of the first-type laminations is provided with connection arms and a special-shaped portion. The special-shaped portions are configured to form an access slot which is configured to connect the terminal assembly when the first-type laminations are stacked along a direction parallel to the first straight line. The access slot is disposed on an outer sidewall of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chao Meng, Zichun Tang, Yang Zhang
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Patent number: 12348116Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a rotor core having a radius and a peripheral outer surface. The rotor further includes at least one air deflector element associated with the peripheral outer surface. The at least one air deflector element has at least one slope arranged at a predetermined angle to the radius. The at least one air deflector element is designed to deflect an air flow which occurs during a rotation of the rotor and flows along the peripheral outer surface counter to a direction of rotation of the rotor, at least partially in a flow direction oriented at least approximately perpendicularly to the peripheral outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Marco Eitzert, Soenke Schuch
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Patent number: 12348102Abstract: This vibration actuator comprises a fixed body including a coil, a movable body including a magnet, and an elastic support part that supports the movable body so as to be freely moveable with respect to the fixed body. The elastic support part has an outer circumferential part fixed to the fixed body, an inner circumferential part disposed inside in the radial direction of the outer circumferential part and fixed to the movable body, and a deforming arm part disposed between the outer circumferential part and the inner circumferential part and coupling the outer circumferential part and the inner circumferential part, the deforming arm part being elastically deformable. An attenuation part is provided across the outer circumferential part and a portion of the deforming arm part on an outer circumferential part side thereof, the attenuation part attenuating vibrations in the elastic support part when the movable body moves.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Chikara Sekiguchi, Shigeyuki Shimomura, Yoshihiro Kumanomido, Daisuke Kodama, Yuta Yoshii, Shigenori Inamoto
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Patent number: 12348086Abstract: A magnet arrangement method capable of easily assembling magnets is provided. A magnet arrangement method according to one aspect of the present invention is a magnet arrangement method for arranging a plurality of magnetized magnets in a Halbach array, the method comprising: a process of forming a first magnet group by combining magnets in such a way that a direction of a magnetic force that acts on the magnets is oriented in a first direction; a process of forming a second magnet group by combining magnets in such a way that the direction of a magnetic force that acts on the magnets is oriented in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction; and a process of assembling a plurality of the first magnet groups and a plurality of the second magnet groups.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Kei Ohta
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Patent number: 12323014Abstract: An alternating current motor system includes a motor frame, a rotor including a rotor shaft, a stator including multi-phase AC stator windings, a power inverter producing a multi-phase AC voltage coupled to the multi-phase AC stator windings and at least one ohmic connection between the rotor shaft and the motor frame including a conductive fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Farzad Samie, Peng Peng, Alireza Fatemi
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Patent number: 12324093Abstract: A single circuit board assembly for forming a vehicle-motor interface, the single circuit board assembly includes a first side of a board with logic modules located thereon. The single circuit board assembly also includes a second side of the board with power modules located thereon. The board comprises a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers having at least one through via and at least one buried via defined therein, wherein the at least one through via extends through all of the plurality of layers, the at least one buried via extending through less than all of the plurality of layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding CorporationInventors: Ryan D. Yaklin, Piotr Karasinski
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Patent number: 12316166Abstract: A plurality of plate-like magnets are partially bonded at a predetermined interval to an inner circumferential surface of a rotor yoke with a first adhesive via a positioning member for positioning in a radial direction and in an axial direction, and a second adhesive is heat-cured in a state where the positioning member is removed, thus bonding and fixing the plurality of plate-like magnets at a predetermined interval and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Takizawa, Hisao Hirabayashi, Masakazu Ikeda
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Patent number: 12294244Abstract: A rotor includes a magnet, a rotor core having an axially extending hole in which the magnet is accommodated, and a resin in the hole. The rotor core includes a first block and a second block that is arrayed in an axial direction together with the first block and is arranged such that a circumferential position of the hole is shifted with respect to the first block. Each of the first and second blocks has a resin groove that communicates with the hole included in each block, extends axially, and receives the resin. The resin groove of the first block and the resin groove of the second block are at least partially overlapped and connected in the axial direction, or are connected via the resin groove included in at least one other block disposed between the first and second blocks in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Sugaya
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Patent number: 12294280Abstract: An axial flux motor includes: a ring-shaped stator, a ring-shaped rotor and a planetary gear set. The ring-shaped stator includes a stator core and segments arranged on the stator core, where each of the segments includes a laminated stack and windings wrapped around the laminated stack. The ring-shaped rotor defines an inner open area and including a body and permanent magnets arranged on the body adjacent to and spaced from the segments. The planetary gear set is disposed within the inner open area and configured to receive an input torque from the rotor and provide an output torque, which is greater than the input torque.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Chengwu Duan, Zhen Gao, Jian Yao
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Patent number: 12294276Abstract: A stator, a circuit board for supplying a current to the stator, a rotor rotating by the current supplied to the stator, a lead wire connecting an external power supply to the circuit board, and a first mold resin covering at least a portion of the stator, at least a portion of the circuit board, and a portion of the lead wire, and a second mold resin covering a predetermined range from the first mold resin of the lead wire led out from the first mold resin are provided. The second mold resin has the hardness lower than the hardness of the first mold resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Masaaki Sato
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Patent number: 12289028Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a tube-shaped outer housing and a tube-shaped inner housing that forms a coolant flow channel between the outer housing and the inner housing. The inner housing is fixed with the outer housing by press-fitting or shrink-fitting at one end thereof in its axial direction and fastened with the outer housing at another end by plural bolts. One or more non-contacting sections, in which an inner circumferential surface of the outer housing and an outer circumferential surface of the inner housing are not in contact with each other, are formed at a fixation portion made by the press-fitting or the shrink-fitting between the outer housing and the inner housing along a circumferential direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Takuma Kinoto
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Patent number: 12283853Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-rotating direct current electric generator capable of generating a direct current with high efficiency without rotating a field magnet or an armature.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Inventors: Woo Hee Choi, Hyung Ju Yoo, Nan Kyung Hwang
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Patent number: 12276757Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for improved short range object detection in LiDAR systems. The associated systems may include a first portion and a second portion configured to rotate relative to one another. The system may also include a first magnet located on the second portion and arranged with a north pole of the first magnet facing a first direction. The system may also include a second magnet located on the second portion and arranged with a south pole of the second magnet facing the first direction. The system may also include a first sensor located on the first portion. The first sensor is further configured to measure a first magnetic field of the first magnet and a second magnetic field of the second magnet as the first portion and second portion rotate relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Mark Entwistle, Bayard G. Gardineer, IV, Gary Burkholder, Chris J. Trowbridge
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Patent number: 12266997Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing having an inner surface; and a stator including a stator core mounted in the housing. The stator core includes a plurality of stator windings, a thermal bridge extends between the stator core and the inner surface of the housing. The thermal bridge is formed from a non-magnetic material and includes a plurality of individual thermal bridge elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan, SeungHwan Keum, Denghao Fan
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Patent number: 12249894Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a stator, a shaft having a hollow and disposed inside the stator, and a magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, wherein the shaft includes protrusions in contact with the magnet, and the protrusions include first faces protruding from the outer circumferential surface of the shaft and second faces concavely disposed in an inner circumferential surface of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung Woo Jo, Jin Ho Kim
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Patent number: 12244200Abstract: A vibration actuator that can prevent reduction of vibration performance and durability of the vibration actuator and that can prevent occurrence of operation failure and noise when the vibration actuator had impact from the outside is provided. The vibration actuator includes a cylindrical casing having a first coil and a second coil, a movable element arranged inside the casing and having a magnet, and a first inner guide and a second inner guide arranged between the first coil and the second coil, and the movable element 4 and having extending portions and which sandwich and hold a part of the first coil and the second coil together with the casing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: FOSTER ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke Chiba, Yoshikazu Okazaki
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Patent number: 12244177Abstract: An axial flux electric machine includes a casing, stator cores, windings, and fins. The casing has a hollow cylindrical shape with an inner radial surface and an outer radial surface. The stator cores are spaced circumferentially along the inner radial surface of the casing. The windings are wrapped around the stator cores. The fins project from the inner radial surface of the casing to spaces between the windings.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: SeungHwan Keum, Jian Yao, Yusheng Zou
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Patent number: 12231002Abstract: A motor cooling structure, including: branch flow-channels, shell flow-channels, end cover flow-channels, a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet. A plurality of the branch flow-channels are circumferentially arranged on a stator of a motor around an axis of the motor. The shell flow-channels includes a liquid inlet flow-channel, a plurality of shell long flow-channels and a liquid outlet flow-channel, which are circumferentially arranged on a reducer shell around the axis of the motor. The end cover flow-channels includes a plurality of the end-cover long flow-channels are circumferentially arranged on a motor end cover around the axis of the motor. The shell flow-channels, the plurality of branch flow-channels and the end cover flow-channels form a continuous total flow-channel. The liquid inlet and liquid outlet both disposed on the reducer shell are in communication with the liquid inlet flow-channel and liquid outlet flow-channel, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Pingyuan Luo, Liang Xiong, Yadong Wang