Patents Examined by Theodore L Perkins
  • Patent number: 12266997
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan, SeungHwan Keum, Denghao Fan
  • Patent number: 12249894
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Woo Jo, Jin Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 12244200
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: FOSTER ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke Chiba, Yoshikazu Okazaki
  • Patent number: 12244177
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: SeungHwan Keum, Jian Yao, Yusheng Zou
  • Patent number: 12231002
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Pingyuan Luo, Liang Xiong, Yadong Wang
  • Patent number: 12218560
    Abstract: An electric power unit includes: a rotary electric machine unit an electrical unit disposed above the rotary electric machine unit; and a cooling unit. The electrical unit includes a protrusion protruding outward from a left end portion of the rotary electric machine housing portion of the rotary electric machine in a left-right direction. The cooling unit includes: a cooling fan configured to generate cooling air by rotating integrally with a rotary shaft of the rotary electric machine; and an air guide unit configured to guide the cooling air. The air guide unit includes cooling air flow paths provided between the cooling fan and the electrical unit. The closer to the protrusion of the electrical unit a cooling air flow path is disposed, the larger opening area of the introduction port the cooling air flow path has.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Matsumoto, Yuko Nishi, Naoki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 12206286
    Abstract: A rotor for an induction motor includes a rotor core having a hollow portion on a central portion wherein a shaft is coupled to the rotor core by being inserted through the hollow portion, a plurality of slots radially formed in the rotor core around a central axis of the shaft, a plurality of conductor bars coupled to the plurality of slots, and an end ring electrically connecting the plurality of conductor bars to each other, wherein the rotor core is thermally treated above Curie temperature to form a predetermined pattern on an outer circumference of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Jin Ho Choi, Sang Jin Park, Jong Seok Lee, Ki O Kim, Sung Woo Hwang, Myung Seop Lim, Jae Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12206311
    Abstract: An outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly for a magnetic gear which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed on an outer circumferential side of the outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly along a circumferential direction, includes: a plurality of magnetic pole pairs disposed on the outer circumferential side of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces along the circumferential direction; and a support member for supporting the plurality of magnetic pole pairs from the outer circumferential side. A space along an axial direction is formed in at least a part between an outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs and an opposite surface of an inner circumferential surface of the support member opposite to the outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Yasutaka Aoki, Takayuki Shimizu, Ryoji Okabe, Akihiko Umeda, Takatoshi Matsushita, Mikito Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12199478
    Abstract: The application discloses coils of an electrical machinery and a method for forming the coil, a stator of an electrical machinery and a method for forming the stator, and an electrical machinery. The method includes: providing a first conductor and a second conductor, a resistivity of the second conductor being lower than a resistivity of the first conductor; obtaining a rated current rising coefficient according to a desired power of the electrical machinery, the rated current rising coefficient being a ratio of a rated current of the electrical machinery with the desired power to a rated current of a reference electrical machinery; obtaining, according to the rated current rising coefficient, a first conductor turn number of the first conductor and a second conductor turn number of the second conductor in each coil; forming the coil according to the first conductor turn number and the second conductor turn number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yazhou Gao, Haitao He, Jing Xia
  • Patent number: 12191724
    Abstract: A dual rotor motor includes: an inner rotor and an outer rotor; a stator disposed between the inner rotor and the outer rotor; a stator variable unit provided inside the stator to intermit a magnetic path between an outside and an inside of the stator according to a pressure in an axial direction; and a pressing mechanism provided to provide the pressure in the axial direction to the stator variable unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min Ho Chae
  • Patent number: 12176780
    Abstract: In a brushless motor including a stator core and a rotor which rotates with respect to the stator core, a coil support wall supports a coil wound around a core main body part from a radially inner side of the core main body part. A first wall part and a second wall part constituting the coil support wall are connected to each other at an angle at a portion of a tooth tip part protruding from a tooth main body part along a circumferential direction of the core main body part, and a thickness dimension of the second wall part is equal to or larger than a thickness dimension of the first wall part along a radial direction of the core main body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Toriyama, Ryo Ohori
  • Patent number: 12119728
    Abstract: A canned motor device includes a base, a fixed seat, a motor unit, a motor cover and a main cover. The base is formed in a shape of a hollow cylinder that surrounds an axis, and defines an accommodating space in which the fixed seat is disposed. The motor unit includes a stator, a rotor and an impeller. The motor cover is disposed on the base and covers the impeller. The main cover is located at one side of the base opposite to the motor cover along the axis, and has an inner surface, an annular protrusion that protrudes from the inner surface and that has an annular end surface, and an inner heat-dissipating space that is defined by the inner surface and the annular protrusion and that is adjacent to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ZI YI ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ting-Tsai Huang
  • Patent number: 12113417
    Abstract: A wiring frame, a motor stator, and a motor applying them are disclosed. The wiring frame is formed of an annular tray structure. A top surface of the wiring frame is formed, from inside to outside, with at least three guide channels that correspond, in number, to phases and are separated from each other. Further, the wiring frame includes a plurality of through holes, which communicate inside and outside, respectively formed in bottoms of the guide channels. As such, at least three conductive wires are allowed to extend through the through holes in the bottom of the wiring frame directly into the corresponding ones of the guide channels for winding, so as to ensure that the conductive wires of different phases are separated from each other to eliminate erroneous contact therebetween and thus enhance operation safety. The outside diameter and height of the wiring frame are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Li-Ho Yao
  • Patent number: 12023806
    Abstract: A soft electrohydrodynamic actuator includes an actuating unit. The actuating unit includes a flexible pouch, a rod electrode, a dielectric fluid, an enameled wire, a hose and a planar flexible electrode. The inner cavity of the flexible pouch is provided with the rod electrode and filled with the dielectric fluid. The hose is hermetically connected to a side of the flexible pouch. The enameled wire is hermetically sleeved in the hose. One end of the enameled wire extends into the inner cavity of the flexible pouch through the hose and is electrically connected to an end of the rod electrode. The other end of the enameled wire is connected to a high-voltage positive electrode. The outer surface of the flexible pouch is coated with a layer of conductive soft material as the planar flexible electrode, or a water environment around the flexible pouch is used as the planar flexible electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Zou, Wei Tang, Chao Zhang