Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
  • Patent number: 11728701
    Abstract: This canned motor (10) is provided with a rotor (14); a cylindrical rotor can (42) that houses the rotor (14); an end plate (40) that covers an opening of the rotor can (42) in the axial direction and is joined to the rotor can (42); a rotating shaft (16) that passes through the rotor (14) and the end plate (40); and an annular wall (46) that surrounds the outer circumference of the rotating shaft (16), is joined to or integrated with the end plate (40), and is joined to the entire circumference of the rotating shaft (16) at an end thereof in the axial direction. The thickness of the end plate (40) is larger than the thickness of the annular wall (46).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Futatsugi, Osamu Watanabe, Yasushi Kubota, Yu Kodama, Masaaki Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11722021
    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: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: In Motion US, LLC
    Inventors: David M. Coulson, Gerald W. Brown
  • Patent number: 11722073
    Abstract: A flocked surface tribo-electric charge generator includes first and second contact surface electrodes; first and second flock fiber support layers a first flock fiber material flocked onto the first flock fiber support layer; a tribo-electrically second different flock fiber material flocked onto the second flock fiber support layer. A tribo-electric charge is generated by intermittent intermeshing/separation of the tribo-electrically diverse flock fiber materials of the first and second flock fiber support layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Yong K. Kim, Armand F. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11722023
    Abstract: A structure for fixing a permanent magnet in a rotor core. The structure includes a magnet accommodation portion into which a permanent magnet is to be inserted, an internal hole formed in an area adjacent to one end of the magnet accommodation portion, a pressing portion provided between the magnet accommodation portion and the internal hole. The pressing portion forms a convex shape toward the permanent magnet to be in contact with the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Hwa Do, Nyeon Han Hong, Kyoung Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 11716002
    Abstract: A stator assembly has coils in a distributed winding configuration. A poly-phase switched reluctance motor assembly may include a stator assembly with multiple coils in a distributed winding configuration. The stator assembly may have a central bore into which a rotor assembly having multiple poles is received and configured to rotate. A method of controlling a switched reluctance motor may include at least three phases wherein during each conduction period a first phase is energized with negative direction current, a second phase is energized with positive current and there is at least one non-energized phase. During each commutation period either the first phase or second phase switches off to a non-energized state and one of the non-energized phases switches on to an energized state with the same direction current as the first or second phase that was switched off. The switched reluctance motor may include a distributed winding configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: RESMED MOTOR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Aleksandr S. Nagorny, Siavash Sadeghi, David James Fleming, Michael Bruce Moir
  • Patent number: 11705786
    Abstract: A drive includes an electric motor disposed in a housing and driving a motor shaft, a Hall effect sensor adjacent to the motor, a power and control assembly, and a pinion gear driven by the motor shaft. A planetary gear reduction assembly is driven by the pinion gear, and an output axle has an axis of rotation that is offset from and parallel to the motor shaft axis of rotation. The reduction drive is substantially bilaterally symmetrical about a plane passing through the motor shaft axis of rotation and the output axle axis of rotation. The power and control assembly comprises a control board oriented perpendicular to a power board and includes a heat dissipation apparatus that applies multi-point, localized, indirect pressure to a plurality of field effect transistors mounted on the power board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Nathan W. Bonny, Ryan S. Buescher, Henry J. Hansen
  • Patent number: 11703058
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a drive unit device, in particular a fan device, which has at least one first modular unit (12) and at least one second modular unit (16), which concentrically accommodates at least a portion of the first modular unit (12), with the first and second modular units (12, 16) being intended to contribute mechanically to a change in torque, and the first modular unit (12) being secured in the second modular unit (16) in at least one method step (100, 110). To increase safety and reduce process costs, it is proposed that the first modular unit (12) be secured in the second modular unit (16) by means of at least one concentric pressing process step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Dold, Julian Wege
  • Patent number: 11699934
    Abstract: A non-output-side end shield (100) for a brushless electric motor (500) is provided, including a centrally arranged bearing seat (110) for accommodating a non-output-side rotor bearing (510) for a rotor shaft (560) of the brushless electric motor (500), the non-output-side end shield (100) including a sensor receptacle (150), which is used as a carrier for a sensor circuit board (550) for detecting the rotational position of the rotor shaft (560), the non-output-side end shield (100) and the sensor receptacle (150) being formed together as a one-part component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Mahler, Manfred Jakob, Torsten Tussing
  • Patent number: 11699930
    Abstract: Disclosed are a rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor, and an electric vehicle. The rotor structure includes a rotor body provided with a permanent magnet slot group; the permanent magnet slot group includes an outer layer of permanent magnet slot and an inner layer of permanent magnet slot; a magnetic conduction channel is formed between the outer layer of permanent magnet slot and the inner layer of permanent magnet slot; the magnetic conduction channel is provided with a connection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yong Xiao, Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Tong Tong, Suhua Lu
  • Patent number: 11692466
    Abstract: A machine includes a liquid lubrication system and a shaft, the shaft being rotatable about a rotation axis, the shaft including a first part, a second part engaged coaxially with the first part, and a journal bearing between the first part and the second part, the first part being rotatable relative to the second part about the rotation axis, a helical feature disposed between the first part and the second part and configured to define a helical pump between the first part and the second part, the pump being hydraulically connected to the liquid lubrication system, the journal bearing being disposed adjacent to the helical feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Dana Tomescu, Daniel Alecu
  • Patent number: 11695305
    Abstract: Rotor structure, permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and electric vehicle. The rotor structure includes: a rotor body provided with a permanent magnet slot group, the permanent magnet slot group including a permanent magnet slot, a first segment and a second segment of the permanent magnet slot being arranged to extend towards an outer edge of the rotor body, and an intermediate portion of the permanent magnet slot being arranged to protrude towards a side where a shaft hole of the rotor body is disposed; and a permanent magnet arranged in the permanent magnet slot, the permanent magnet including a plurality of permanent magnet segments, and partial lengths of the permanent magnet segments gradually decreasing outwards along a radial direction of the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao, Tong Tong, Suhua Lu
  • Patent number: 11688593
    Abstract: A system for thermionic energy generation, preferably including one or more thermionic energy converters, and optionally including one or more power inputs, airflow modules, and/or electrical loads. A thermionic energy converter, preferably including an emitter module, a collector module, and/or a seal, and optionally including a spacer. The thermionic energy converter preferably defines a chamber and/or a heating cavity. A method for thermionic energy generation, preferably including receiving power, emitting electrons, and/or receiving the emitted electrons, and optionally including convectively transferring heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Spark Thermionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Schmitt, Jared William Schwede, Adam Lorimer
  • Patent number: 11682936
    Abstract: Provided is a motor capable of suppressing reduction of the torque of the motor even if the amount of use of the permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core is reduced. A motor includes a rotor with permanent magnets embedded in a rotor core, and a stator positioned on an outer circumference of the rotor. The rotor includes magnetic poles formed around a rotation axis of the rotor, the magnetic poles having the permanent magnets arranged therein. The permanent magnets in adjacent magnetic poles are arranged such that positions of a north pole and a south pole of the permanent magnet in one magnetic pole are inverted from those of the permanent magnet in a magnetic pole adjacent to the one magnetic pole. The permanent magnets each have a residual magnetization that decreases as it moves from the north pole toward the south pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Ichigozaki, Kyoko Nakamura, Masaaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11683919
    Abstract: A heat pipe assembly includes walls having porous wick linings, an insulating layer coupled with at least one of the walls, and an interior chamber sealed by the walls. The linings hold a liquid phase of a working fluid in the interior chamber. The insulating layer is directly against a conductive component of an electromagnetic power conversion device such that heat from the conductive component vaporizes the working fluid in the porous wick lining of the at least one wall and the working fluid condenses at or within the porous wick lining of at least one other wall to cool the conductive component of the electromagnetic power conversion device. The assembly can be placed in direct contact with the device while the device is operating and/or experiencing time-varying magnetic fields that cause the device to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Karthik Bodla, Nathaniel Benedict Hawes, Brian Magann Rush, Weijun Yin, Andrew Thomas Cross
  • Patent number: 11677284
    Abstract: A BLDC motor server includes a stator configured in a hollow cylindrical shape and comprising a plurality of teeth around which a plurality of coils is wound to form an electromagnetic field, respectively; and a rotor configured in a cylindrical shape rotatable within the stator and comprising a plurality of permanent magnets, each having an arched section in which an outer circumference side is extended in both directions from a rotation center side, wherein the plurality of permanent magnets is disposed, so that facing outer surface portions of two permanent magnets neighboring each other are adjacent to each other, and wherein a width Wo of the outer circumference side of each permanent magnet is configured to be smaller than a width Wc of the rotation center side thereof. The BLDC motor may reduce a noise and a vibration as well as increasing an efficiency of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Incheol Hwang, Dongbum Lee, Jonghyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11670989
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11670988
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11664708
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11664693
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, a magnet unit and an armature core member are configured to satisfy the following relation Br×Ma?Bsc×Wsc. In the relation, Br represents a remanent flux density of the magnet unit, Ma represents a distance of a farther circumferential surface of each of first magnets in the circumferential direction, Bsc represents a saturation magnetic flux density of the armature core member, and Wsc represents a thickness of the armature core member in a radial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Kazuya Iwase
  • Patent number: 11664703
    Abstract: A hand-held tool that includes a housing. The housing includes a handle. A tool also includes a motor assembly, a battery assembly and a circuit board. The motor assembly includes a motor, the motor including a rotatable motor output shaft, a motor positive terminal and a motor negative terminal. The motor assembly also includes a first rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the motor positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board. The battery assembly includes a battery cell with a battery cell positive terminal and a battery cell negative terminal. The battery assembly further includes a second rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the battery cell positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy W. French, Jr., Tyler Knight, David Proudlock, Graham Bone, Jonathan Priestley, Andrew Walker, Shaun Lovelass