Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
  • Patent number: 12272993
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core fixed to a shaft, a pair of magnet slots arranged in a V-shape in the rotor core so as to be separated away from each other toward a radially outer side, permanent magnets inserted into the magnet slots, and a hole provided on the radially outer side of the magnet slots. The distance between each permanent magnet and the hole increases toward the radially outer side. The distance between an outer circumference of the rotor core and the hole is not less than the distance between each magnet slot and the outer circumference of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Kosho Yamane, Junji Kitao, Kodai Okazaki, Tatsuo Nishimura, Tomohira Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12272992
    Abstract: A stator structure is provided and includes a plurality of first lamination layers, a plurality of second lamination layers, two third lamination layers and two oil spraying rings. The second lamination layers are sandwiched in between the first lamination layers. The second lamination layer located in the middle of the stator structure is sandwiched in between the two third lamination layers. The two oil spraying rings are connected to two first lamination layers located at outermost sides. Another stator structure is provided and includes a plurality of first lamination layers, a second lamination layer and two oil spraying rings. The second lamination layer is sandwiched in between two first lamination layers. The two oil spraying rings are connected to two first lamination layers located at outermost sides. By means of the arrangement of the aforesaid stator structure, the invention can effectively improve heat dissipating effect for oil cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: XPT (NANJING) E-POWERTRAIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengyu Tang, Di Wang, Zhixin Yu, Wei Wang, Jiebao Li, Li Han
  • Patent number: 12261511
    Abstract: A technique for generating electrical power from an engine in an aerial vehicle includes providing an alternator disk structure (ADS) between the engine and a propeller of the vehicle. The ADS is disposed concentrically with an engine drive shaft that drives the propeller and includes at least two concentric regions, a first region having a stator and a second region having a rotor. The first region is rotationally fixed relative to the engine, and the second region is coupled to a drive shaft of the engine. As the engine rotates the drive shaft, the rotor disposed in the second region spins concentrically relative to the stator disposed in the first region, thereby inducing electrical current in windings of the stator. The rotor and the stator thus work together to generate electrical power, which may be conveyed from the stator to electrical subsystems and controls of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Glynn Glucksman
  • Patent number: 12261505
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of new energy, and provides a drive assembly with a motor controller and a vehicle including the same. A cylindrical housing is provided therein with a chamber, a partition wall provided on an inner wall of the housing divides the chamber into a motor mounting chamber and a controller mounting chamber. The present disclosure utilizes a space at a rear end in an axial direction of a motor, and designs a partition wall and a bearing, such that a rotor is rotatably provided in a motor mounting chamber and a motor controller is provided in a controller mounting chamber. The present disclosure designs a drive assembly with a motor controller at a rear end in the axial direction, thereby improving the device integration and space utilization, effectively reducing the occupied space, and realizing high integration of the motor controller and the drive assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ZHUHAI ENPOWER ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guibin Jiang, Hongxin Liu, Hongyu Li, Biao Wei, Lixiong Mo
  • Patent number: 12261484
    Abstract: A motor, a compressor, and a refrigeration device are provided. The motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator core provided with a stator slot. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core and a permanent magnet. The stator core is sleeved outside of the rotor core or vice versa. The permanent magnet is arranged on the rotor core. By limiting the relationship between the distance between the stator core and the rotor core, the length of the permanent magnet in its own magnetization direction, the number of the stator slots, and the intrinsic coercivity of the permanent magnet, it is possible to adjust the strength of the demagnetization reverse magnetic field generated by energizing the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ANHUI MEIZHI PRECISION MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Chen, Dejin Zhang, Xiaohua Qiu
  • Patent number: 12251730
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible tactile actuator including a tactile transmitter configured to be flexible and including magnetic particles capable of being polarized in response to an external magnetic field and a matrix layer including the magnetic particles, a magnetic field generator disposed below the tactile transmitter and configured to generate a magnetic field in the tactile transmitter, and an elastic member provided in a shape of a film, having at least a portion in surface contact with the magnetic field generator, and attached to be in surface contact with one of a top surface and a bottom surface of the tactile transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: CK MATERIALS LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong Jun Kim, Myung Sun Park, Jong Hun Lee, Ji Goo Kang, Nam Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 12255498
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor main body which has at least two poles between which in the circumferential direction of the rotor is disposed at least one pole gap, and a rotor shaft which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor main body. The rotor has a support device which has a covering body that is configured for covering at least regions of an end side of the rotor main body. The support device has an annular body, which is different from the covering body, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the rotor main body, on the one hand, and in the direction of radial extent of the rotor is braced in relation to the covering body, on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Lang, Jerome Ragot, Robert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12249873
    Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes: a rotor core configured having electromagnetic steel sheets; a stator core having electromagnetic steel sheets; a magnet inserted in each of a plurality of through holes; and a magnetic end plate in contact with one or each of an end surface on one side in the axial direction of the rotor core and an end surface on another side in the axial direction of the rotor core, and having a single magnetic sheet or a plurality of magnetic sheets stacked in the axial direction, wherein heat generated from the magnetic end plate owing to eddy current that is generated in the magnetic end plate by magnetic flux from the stator core is equal to or lower than heat generated from the rotor core owing to eddy current that is generated in the rotor core by magnetic flux from the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Tomohira Takahashi, Junji Kitao, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12244206
    Abstract: An enclosure for a rotary electric machine may include a housing supporting a stator of the electric machine and first and second end plates attached to the housing and rotatably supporting a rotor at opposite ends with respective first and second bearings isolated from the end plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Velmurugan Ayyanar
  • Patent number: 12244201
    Abstract: An industrial heavy load electric linear actuator includes a gearbox, an electric motor, a lead screw, an extension pipe and a load baring structure. The electric motor is connected to the gearbox. A portion of the lead screw is received inside the gearbox and driven by the electric motor, and another portion of the lead screw is extended out of the gearbox. The extension pipe is movably fastened to the lead screw. The load bearing structure includes a sleeve, a bearing, a fastening element, a fixation seat, and a rear supporting seat. The sleeve is mounted to the lead screw and holds the bearing jointly with the fastening element. The fixation seat and the rear supporting seat hold the bearing at outer perimeters of the sleeve and the fastening element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 12244182
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, and a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core, a magnet disposed on an outer surface of the rotor core, and a guide in contact with the rotor core, the guide includes a first member in contact with one side surface of the rotor core and a plurality of second members (420, 430) which extend from the first member in an axial direction and are in contact with a side surface of the magnet, and positions of one side end portions and the other side end portions of the second members are different from each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Joo Oh, Jae Young Kim
  • Patent number: 12237103
    Abstract: A core for an electrical apparatus includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets having a ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic coating applied to both sides of the electrical steel sheets. The electrical steel sheets are arranged in a stack to form a laminated stack. The ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic coating is applied to both sides of the electrical steel sheets. The coating may comprise MnZn ferrites, NiZn ferrites, MgMnZn ferrites, CoNiZn ferrites, Co ferrites, Ni ferrites, Yttrium iron garnets (Y3Fe5O12) or other ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic coating materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Leyi Zhu, Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 12237725
    Abstract: In a rotor, magnetic poles having a pair of first magnets and second magnets are provided along a circumferential direction. The magnetic pole includes a pair of first flux barrier portions radially outside the first magnets, and a pair of second flux barrier portions between the pair of first flux barrier portions in the circumferential direction. The first flux barrier portion has a first end close to the adjacent second flux barrier portion. The second flux barrier portion has a second end close to the adjacent first flux barrier portion. A relative position of the first end in the circumferential direction with respect to a circumferential center of the magnetic pole is different between the adjacent magnetic poles. A relative position of the second end in the circumferential direction with respect to the circumferential center of the magnetic pole is different between the adjacent magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12237722
    Abstract: A laminated rotor core for a rotor of a permanently excited electric machine and to a method for producing same are provided. The laminated rotor core consists of a plurality of stacked lamination rings, each lamination ring consisting of a plurality of circular segments. Each circular segment has multiple receiving openings, which are arranged in a V-shaped manner relative to each other in pairs, for permanent magnets and multiple passages for respective fixing elements. The laminated rotor core is mounted on a holding disc using the fixing elements, which run in the passages of the laminated rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilfried Schwenk, Michael Schlosser, Patrick Wisbar
  • Patent number: 12231003
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including: a first magnet with a first remanence value and a first coercivity value, the first magnet having a first cross-sectional area substantially normal to a direction of magnetization of the first magnet; and a second magnet positioned in series with the first magnet, the second magnet with a second remanence value and a second coercivity value that is less than the first coercivity value, the second magnet having a second cross-sectional area substantially normal to a direction of magnetization of the second magnet. A ratio of the first cross-sectional area to the second cross-sectional area is equal to or greater than a ratio of the second remanence value to the first remanence value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Niron Magnetics, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruno P. Lequesne
  • Patent number: 12231000
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine includes a core and a multi-phase winding arrangement positioned on the core. Each phase of the winding arrangement includes a plurality of parallel paths defining a plurality of poles for the electric machine. Each parallel path includes a plurality of coils positioned on the core, each coil defined by coil legs and end turns. The coil legs include left legs and right legs extending through the slots of the core. The left legs and right legs of each coil are connected by first end turns at one end of the core and second end turns at an opposite end of the core. Each pole of the electric machine is associated with a pole slot set comprised of multiple slots on the stator core. For each pole slot set, legs for each parallel path extend through one of the slots of said pole slot set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Neet, Joshua B. Lahrman, Matthew R. Conner, David A. Fulton
  • Patent number: 12231009
    Abstract: To prevent varnish from adhering to an adhesion prohibited area while satisfying required performance for varnish. A method for manufacturing a stator of a rotating electric machine in which a coil is wound around a stator core, the method includes: a first varnish process of forming a first varnish portion by dropping varnish at a coil disposed on an outermost circumference or an innermost circumference of a coil end portion where the coil protrudes from the stator core and positioned close to the stator core; and a second varnish process of forming a second varnish portion to provide a non-existence region where varnish is not applied between the first varnish portion and the second varnish portion by dropping varnish at a position farther from the stator core than a position in the first varnish process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukiko Kawano, Hiroshi Horie, Hiroshi Hamano, Hideaki Noto, Shunsuke Isogai, Chihiro Oinuma, Hirona Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12231025
    Abstract: A method includes pumping coolant into a cooling system of a generator while the generator is generating electrical power. The method includes regulating flow into the cooling system using a pressure relief valve to recirculate a portion of the coolant back to an inlet of the pump. Using the pressure relief valve includes actuating the pressure relief valve based on input from the cooling system and/or from the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Dhaval S. Patel, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12221766
    Abstract: A work vehicle and energy storage device include a ballast providing ballast weight to the horizontal end of the work vehicle, a stator of an electric machine having a vertically extending axis, and a rotor of the electric machine fixed for rotation with the ballast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Randall L. Long, Stacy K. Worley, Lashun O. Mowers
  • Patent number: 12212184
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a generator for connecting to a predefined load, where the generator is designed and constructed to meet one or more requirements of the predefined load. In specific embodiments the one or more requirements include providing a minimum output voltage while starting the predefined load at or above ambient temperature and providing an output voltage that does not exceed an upper voltage limit while being driven at full speed without any load current at or below ambient temperatures, while maintaining high efficiency under a specified full load running condition and keeping the overall cost and size of the generator low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: In Motion US, LLC
    Inventors: David M. Coulson, Gerald W. Brown