Patents Examined by Thomas Truong
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Patent number: 11462971Abstract: An electric fluid pump for a motor vehicle includes an electric drive motor which is brushless and electronically commutated. The electric drive motor includes a permanent-magnetic motor rotor having a motor shaft and at least two rotor poles, each of the at least two rotor poles having one permanent magnet embedded therein, a plurality of stator-side magnetic coils, at least two sensor magnets each emitting an axial magnetic field and each having polarities, and at least one Hall sensor which is arranged to lie eccentrically in a transverse plane so that the at least one Hall sensor detects the axial magnetic fields of the at least two sensor magnets. The at least two sensor magnets are magnetized diametrically. The at least one Hall sensor is arranged to detect the polarities of each of the at least two sensor magnets during one revolution of the permanent-magnetic motor rotor.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Alessandro Malvasi, Christian Schulz, Frank Buerger, Martin Glogasa, Witold Joschko
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Patent number: 11456634Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor structure, a permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motor and an electric car. The rotor structure includes: a rotor body opened with a group of permanent magnet slots, wherein the group of permanent magnet slots include an inner-layer permanent magnet slot and an outer-layer permanent magnet slot which are arranged at intervals outwards along a radial direction of the rotor body; an inner-layer permanent magnet disposed within the inner-layer permanent magnet slot; an outer-layer permanent magnet disposed within the outer-layer permanent magnet slot, wherein the inner-layer permanent magnet and the outer-layer permanent magnet are arranged staggeredly.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of ZhuhaiInventors: Yusheng Hu, Bin Chen, Yong Xiao, Suhua Lu, Tong Tong
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Patent number: 11454459Abstract: A heat-sink base provided with heat-sink fin portions, a manufacturing method and a motor provided with the heat-sink base. The base is produced by pouring cast metal into a mold cavity to replace a pattern having a predetermined sublimation temperature. The base includes a preformed heat-sink member comprising a plurality of heat-sink fin portions and at least one anchor portion embedded at least partially in the pattern, and a base body comprising an enclosed base portion and a holder portion for receiving and holding the at least one anchor portion. By virtue of the invented method, the heat-sink member having an extremely thin thickness can be mounted on the base body and the overall surface area of the heat-sink base is increased considerably.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Atieva, Inc.Inventor: Chia-Ming Chuang
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Patent number: 11456650Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor that includes a rotor core and a permanent magnet fixed to the rotor core using an adhesive, the method includes applying the adhesive, which contains a volatile agent, to an adhesive placement position of the permanent magnet; drying the adhesive by volatilizing the volatile agent by a magnet heater directly heating the permanent magnet such that a temperature of the permanent magnet becomes higher than a temperature of the adhesive after applying the adhesive; placing the permanent magnet on the rotor core after drying the adhesive; and fixing the permanent magnet to the rotor core by curing the adhesive after placing the permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Matsubara, Motoki Kori
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Patent number: 11456633Abstract: A rotor of the permanent magnet rotating electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets, and magnetic slits. Each of the magnetic slits is formed in a core region being a region between magnets of the plurality of magnets, and a gap. The magnetic slits are regions having a lower magnetic permeability than a magnetic permeability of the core region. One end of each of the magnetic slits, which is closer to an outer periphery of the rotor, is positioned in a portion of the core region on the same direction side as a direction of a force in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and another end closer to the rotation axis center of the rotor is positioned on the magnetic pole center or in a portion of the core region on a side opposite to the direction of the force.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohira Takahashi, Junji Kitao, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masatsugu Nakano, Kosho Yamane
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Patent number: 11451111Abstract: A combination of a motor casing and a plug connection, the motor casing being designed for a drive of movable components of a vehicle, in particular sunroofs, blinds or roofs of convertibles. A plug connection is inserted in the motor casing and a gap is provided between the motor casing and the plug connection. At least one projection is provided in the area of the gap and avoids play between the motor casing and the plug connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: WEBASTO SEInventors: Martin Traub, Werner Lissner
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Patent number: 11435092Abstract: A rotor includes a rare-earth magnet magnetized in a radial direction, a rotor core, and a thermal conduction sheet formed of a deformable material. The rotor core includes a first part, a thin-wall part including a second part that is harder than the first part, and a magnet insertion hole. The thin-wall part is situated between a region of end of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction and an outer edge of the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiro Oketani
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Patent number: 11437876Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating electrical machine capable of fixing a permanent magnet at a defined position of a magnet insertion hole without providing a filling groove for injection of a filler in a rotor core and, of course, without lowering performance as the rotating electric machine. A rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes: a rotor; and a stator, the rotor including: a rotor core provided with a plurality of magnet insertion holes; a permanent magnet inserted into the magnet insertion hole; and a filler configured to fix the permanent magnet to the magnet insertion hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Nitta, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuji Kobayashi, Manabu Yazaki, Keiichiro Kashiwabara, Atsushi Nishida
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Patent number: 11431224Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Timothy W. French, Jr., Tyler Knight, David Proudlock, Graham Bone, Jonathan Priestley, Andrew Walker, Shaun M. Lovelass
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Patent number: 11431227Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing cooling to an electric motor via direct spray cooling. In one example, a system may include a shaft including an oil conduit extending axially therein and a plurality of openings fluidically coupling the oil conduit to an external surface of the shaft; a rotor positioned coaxial with the shaft, an inner diameter of the rotor greater than an outer diameter of the shaft; and a gas-filled chamber bounded by an inner surface of the rotor and the external surface of the shaft, the gas filled chamber fluidically coupled to the oil conduit via the plurality of openings, and a pressure of a gas in the gas-filled chamber lower than a pressure of oil in the oil conduit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Dana Belgium N.V.Inventor: Louis Lambourg
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Patent number: 11430644Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Spark Thermionics, Inc.Inventors: Felix Schmitt, Jared William Schwede, Adam Lorimer
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Patent number: 11431213Abstract: A rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles aligned in a circumferential direction, each magnetic pole includes a first magnet equipment portion and a second magnet equipment portion positioned more toward an inner circumferential side than the first magnet equipment portion, the second magnet equipment portion has a pair of inner magnet holes placed symmetrically with respect to a center of the magnetic pole, and one or more inner magnets equipped in each of the inner magnet holes, each inner magnet hole has a bent line shape with one or more points of bending in an axial direction view, and an end, on a center side in a circumferential side of the magnetic pole, of the inner magnet hole is expanded on both sides in a thickness direction thereof, and functions as a magnetic barrier having a larger thickness than the inner magnet.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Suguru Gangi, Shinya Sano, Yasuhide Yagyu, Takanori Kadota, Keiji Kondo
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Patent number: 11431215Abstract: An embodiment relates to a rotor comprising: a main body; an upper terminal disposed on an upper surface of the main body; and a lower terminal disposed on a lower surface of the main body, wherein the upper terminal comprises a first upper terminal and a second upper terminal; the lower terminal comprises a first lower terminal; the main body comprises a first hole and a second hole that penetrate the main body, wherein one end of the first lower terminal is connected to the first upper terminal through the first hole and the other end is connected to the second upper terminal through the second hole by means of a bus bar, and to a motor comprising the same. As such, it is possible to enhance space utilization inside the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Byeong Jong Yoo
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Patent number: 11424668Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine has multiple segments arranged adjacent to one another in an axial direction, wherein each of the segments has multiple magnetic poles which are arranged coaxially with respect to an axis of rotation of the electric machine and so as to be evenly distributed in a circumferential direction of the segment. The segments are arranged in the circumferential direction such that the magnetic poles of adjacent segments which are adjacent to one or more middle segments are rotationally offset in a first angular direction in relation to the magnetic poles of the one or more middle segments. The magnetic poles of segments which adjoin the adjacent segments toward the outside are rotationally offset in a second angular direction which is opposite to the first angular direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Maximilian Pilz, Benjamin Schlaepfer, Juntao Zhu
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Patent number: 11418073Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine, in particular an electric motor, comprising a rotor body which circumferentially surrounds a shaft, and with a plurality of magnets. Each of the magnets is in each case arranged within a radially extending pocket of the rotor body, and each of the pockets is connected by means of an axially extending slot, each with a radially inner chamber of the rotor body. An electric machine is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Baumueller Nuernberg GmbHInventors: Jiri Kurfuerst, Matthias Swarte, Florian Tafelmayer
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Patent number: 11418075Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core, magnets on a radial outside surface of the rotor core, and sheet-shaped magnetic portions provided on radial outside surfaces of some of the magnets. The magnets include first magnets in which the magnetic portions are on a circumferential portion in a radial outside surface of the first magnets and second magnets in which the magnetic portions are not on a radial outside surface of the second magnets. The first magnets and the second magnets are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction in each of a first portion and a second portion along the axial direction in the radial outside surface of the rotor core. The first magnets of the first portion and the second magnets of the second portion overlap each other, and the second magnets of the first portion and the first magnets of the second portion overlap each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Ichien, Hideyuki Kinjo
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Patent number: 11404924Abstract: There is provided a rotor that is capable of improving torque and rotational speed while securing mechanical strength. The rotor is equipped with a plurality of outer radial-side magnet slots 12, 13, a plurality of inner radial-side magnet slots 14, 15, a plurality of outer radial-side magnets 21, 22 that are respectively fit into the outer radial-side magnet slots 12, 13, and a plurality of inner radial-side magnets 23, 24 that are respectively fit into the inner radial-side magnet slots 14, 15. Lb2>Lb1 is satisfied, when one 12c, 13c of the recesses 12a-12d, 13a-13d of the outer radial-side magnet slot 12, 13 that is closest to the d-axis has a radial length of Lb1, and when one 14d, 15d of the recesses of the inner radial-side magnet slot 14, 15 that is closest to the d-axis has a radial length of Lb2.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventor: Shun Ueno
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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: 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