Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
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Patent number: 11404947Abstract: The invention relates to an impregnation device (1) for trickle impregnation of a stator (2) or armature of an electric machine with a synthetic resin (5) curing under temperature increase, comprising a holding device (32) which can be tilted vertically relative to the horizontal (16) and to which a drive motor (12) is attached as a rotary drive for the stator (2) or the armature, a drive shaft (58) operatively connected to the drive motor (12), a clamping device (34) which is non-rotatably connected to the drive shaft (58) and capable of detachably connecting the stator (2) or the armature to the drive shaft (58), a trickle device (24) capable of applying a synthetic resin (5) onto at least one axial end of the windings (4) of the stator (2) or the armature, and a heating device capable of heating the windings (4) of the stator (2) or the armature to a trickle temperature and to a comparatively higher curing temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: GEHRING E-TECH GMBHInventors: Jens Berthold, Stefan Schneider, Richard A. Rasp
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Patent number: 11398756Abstract: An embedded magnet type rotor has a laminated core which is formed by laminating a plurality of steel plates, and a magnet provided in a magnet insertion hole of the laminated core, and an end plate provided at an end portion of the laminated core so as to close the magnet insertion hole. The pair of adjacent steel plates are fixed by pressing a steel plate fixing protrusion of one first steel plate into a steel plate fixing hole of the other first steel plate. The end plate and the laminated core are fixed by pressing a plate fixing protrusion of the end plate into a plate fixing hole of the laminated core. The steel plate fixing hole and the plate fixing hole are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuuki Fujii
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Patent number: 11394259Abstract: A rotor of a motor includes: a first slot and a second slot arranged in a “V” shape to each other and a third slot and a fourth slot arranged in a “V” shape to each other; a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet disposed in the first slot and the second slot, respectively; and a 1-1 barrier and a 1-2 barrier expandedly disposed on an outer side and an inner side of the first slot, respectively, a 3-1 barrier expandedly disposed on an outer side of the third slot, a 3-2 barrier expandedly disposed on an outer side of the fourth slot, and one 3-3 barrier arranged between an inner side of the third slot and an inner side of the fourth slot.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyung Soo Park, Jung Woo Lee
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Patent number: 11394258Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor including a first rotor end and a second rotor end, and a stator including a first stator end and a second stator end. The first rotor end is located apart from the first stator end toward the first side. The second rotor end is located apart from the second stator end toward the first side. The relationship between the distances D1 and D2 satisfies D1>D2?0, where D1 is a distance from a permanent magnet to a first end plate, and D2 is a distance from the permanent magnet to a second end plate. The thickness of each of a plurality of electrical steel sheets is not less than 0.1 mm and not more than 0.25 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Koji Yabe
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Patent number: 11394257Abstract: A cogging torque in a rotary electric machine is sufficiently reduced. The rotor core includes a magnetic pole having the base formed on the outer peripheral side of the storage space. A plurality of magnetic poles are provided in the circumferential direction, and include the first protrusion protruding from the base in one circumferential direction along the outer periphery of the rotor core, and the second protrusion which is provided on the opposite side to with the base interposed and protrudes from the base along the outer periphery of the rotor core in the other circumferential direction. At least one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion is located on the outer peripheral side from the first line segment which is a virtual line connecting the end of the first protrusion and the end of the second protrusion, and is provided such that the space is provided with respect to the first line segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kazutami Tago, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Kenji Nakayama, Yuji Tsuji, Takayuki Chikaoka
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Patent number: 11394279Abstract: The invention relates to a squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine (1), comprising conductors (9) in grooves (12) of a magnetic field-conducting rotor, and electrically conducting rotor end rings (6) which are located in the region of the end faces of the magnetic field-conducting rotor, electrically connect the conductors (9) and have at least two materials that conduct electricity differently.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Konrad Brandl, Johannes Grosshauser, Maximilian Pfaller, Uwe Scharf, André Trepper
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Asynchronous starting and synchronous reluctance electric motor rotor, electric motor and compressor
Patent number: 11387694Abstract: An asynchronous starting and synchronous reluctance electric motor rotor, an electric motor and a compressor. The asynchronous starting and synchronous reluctance electric motor rotor includes a rotor core. The rotor core includes: a first magnetic barrier structure, with multiple groups of first magnetic barrier portions arranged at interval along a d-axis of the rotor core; and a second magnetic barrier structure, including two communicating magnetic barrier slots arranged at interval along the d-axis, the two communicating magnetic barrier slots being respectively located on two sides of the first magnetic barrier structure, the communicating magnetic barrier slots being arc-shaped slots extending circumferentially along the rotor core, and slot walls of two ends of the arc-shaped slots being arranged parallel to a q-axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: GREEN REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER OF ZHUHAI GREE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hui Huang, Yusheng Hu, Jinfei Shi, Man Wu, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao -
Patent number: 11381125Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine is provided. Permanent magnets are disposed on the rotor such that the permanent magnets cannot carry out any tangential movement. The rotor may have four shoulders that extend away from a shell surface of the rotor in a radial direction. Primary permanent magnets that are disposed so as to be mutually contiguous and contiguous to the respective shoulders and accordingly cannot be displaced are in each case located between the shoulders. Secondary permanent magnets are disposed on the shoulders such that an annulus of magnets that is free of gaps and voids and is not movable in the tangential direction is formed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventor: Robert Goraj
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Patent number: 11381124Abstract: A torque ripple in a rotary electric machine is sufficiently reduced. At least two of the plurality of laminated plates in the rotor core include a magnetic pole having the base formed on the outer peripheral side of the storage space, and a bridge part connected to the magnetic pole. A plurality of magnetic poles are provided in the circumferential direction, and the first space is formed between the bases of a pair of magnetic poles adjacent in the circumferential direction. The q-axis outer peripheral portion, which is located between the pair of circumferentially adjacent magnetic poles and is in contact with the first space, is provided on the inner peripheral side of the base. The base includes the side surface portion which is in contact with the first space, and the protrusion which is provided on the outer peripheral side of the side surface portion and protrudes in the circumferential direction with respect to the side surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kazutami Tago, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Kenji Nakayama, Yuji Tsuji, Takayuki Chikaoka
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Patent number: 11381144Abstract: The present invention relates to a brushless motor, and an objective of the present invention is to provide a brushless motor which can significantly reduce the cogging torque and torque ripple of the motor by minimizing the rate of change of magnetoresistance in accordance with a change in position of a rotor through the optimization of the shape design of the rotor and a stator, and can also reduce the weight of the brushless motor through the optimization of the shape design taking into consideration the materials of the rotor and the stator.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Hyeon Jae Shin, Seong Kook Cho, Ho Youn Kim, Jae Won Lee, Ho Bin Im, Kyung Hun Jung
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Patent number: 11381123Abstract: The present disclosure provides hybrid stator core components for an axial flux motor stator and methods for making the same. The hybrid stator core component includes a molded soft magnetic composite material and a laminated component. In one variation, a laminated insert comprising a plurality of insulated layers is non-releasably seated within a molded soft magnetic composite material. In another variation, a hybrid stator core component has a molded soft magnetic composite core and a laminated shell comprising a plurality of layers disposed around at least a portion of the molded soft magnetic composite core.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jian Yao, Mingyuan Zhang, Chengwu Duan, Yusheng Zou
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Patent number: 11381141Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a center axis extending vertically, a stator radially opposing the rotor, a bracket holding the stator, a circuit board including an upper surface with a first wiring pattern and a lower surface with a second wiring pattern, and a first fixing portion having conductivity and fixing the circuit board to the stator. The stator includes a stator core having conductivity. The first fixing portion includes a board holding portion holding the circuit board, and a stator fixed portion fixed to a portion of the stator core. The board holding portion is in contact with the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Sho Fukuhara, Shinji Takemoto
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Patent number: 11381126Abstract: An electric motor includes an end turn ring and a cooling structure that is in a thermally conductive relationship with the end turn ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dillon J. Thomasson, Kan Zhou, Rui Guan, Yateendra B. Deshpande, William M. Price
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Patent number: 11374450Abstract: A magnetic element holder (1) of an electric motor has a carrier formed as a frame structure. The carrier has at least one receiving section (2) to receive at least one magnetic element (6). The carrier is configured with a holding device (3) for positionally fixed holding the at least one magnetic element (6) inside the at least one receiving section (2). The magnetic element holder (1) is configured to be fastened to a rotor (100) of an electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Maschke, Friedrich Schaffert, Sebastian Hoss, Tobias Schmidt
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Patent number: 11374465Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11374474Abstract: A method of manufacturing a core product includes injecting molten resin into a resin injection portion provided in a core body so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the core body, and forming a core product by welding the core body. A buffer region is set between the resin injection portion and a periphery of the core body in a lateral direction of the core body. The core product is formed by welding the core body so that a weld bead formed on the core body is prohibited from reaching the buffer region, and so that the weld bead is spaced apart from the resin injection portion in the lateral direction of the core body.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Inventors: Kenji Katsuki, Takashi Fukumoto, Yasutaka Oba, Go Kato
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Patent number: 11368063Abstract: A rotor capable of suppressing cogging torque and heat build-up caused when an electric motor is operated. The rotor includes a sleeve fixed to a radially outside of a rotary shaft, a plurality of magnets disposed around a radially outside of the sleeve, and a reinforcing member having a cylindrical shape that surrounds the plurality of magnets while being in contact with an outer surface of each of the plurality of magnets to hold the plurality of magnets with the sleeve, each of the plurality of magnets including a central portion in a circumferential direction, in contact with the sleeve, and an end portion in the circumferential direction, having a thickness less than that of the central portion and forming a gap with the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Yuudai Konaka, Kenji Kawai
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Patent number: 11368062Abstract: A rotor structure and a rotor structure manufacturing method capable of suppressing magnetic flux leakage and exhibiting an excellent torque-up effect are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Hosoda
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Patent number: 11362556Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor disposed outside the shaft, and a stator disposed outside the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core surrounding the shaft and a magnet disposed inside the rotor core, the rotor core includes a pocket in which the magnet is disposed, the rotor core is formed by stacking a plurality of plates, a lower end plate of the plurality of plates is disposed to cover at least a part of the pocket, and an upper end plate of the plurality of plates is disposed at a level higher than a level of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Jung Ho Han
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Patent number: 11362554Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes a rotor core with one or more permanent magnets having opposing ends. The rotor core defining a magnet channel extending axially between opposing ends of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is disposed in the channel and extends axially through the rotor core. The magnet includes a planar layer of magnetically hard-phase material that includes rare-earth metal and includes a planar layer of magnetically soft-phase material that does not include rare-earth metal. Both of the hard and soft layers extend between the opposing ends. The soft-phase material has a major face disposed against a major face of the hard phase material.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Chuanbing Rong