Patents Examined by Tran N Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12249886
    Abstract: Generator field endwinding blocking is described. The endwinding blocking has a spacer block for radial placement between rotor endwindings. The spacer block has a spacer body with a radially inboard end, a radially outboard end, a slot extending from the outboard end towards the inboard end, and at least one transverse hole formed on an outer surface of the spacer body, extending in a perpendicular direction towards the slot. A cap covers at least a portion of the outboard end. The cap has a radially inward portion received in the slot with at least one hole aligned with the at least one traverse hole, and at least one end extending beyond a periphery of the outboard end towards an adjacent endwinding. A fastener placed in the holes of the spacer block and the radially inward portion of the cap, secures the cap with the spacer block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Mitchell Draina, Anthony Rigosu
  • Patent number: 12249892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling jacket for cooling a permanent magnet synchronous electric motor, wherein the cooling jacket comprises bearing housing cooling portion and a stator cooling portion, wherein the stator cooling portion comprises stator coolant guiding channel having an enlarged middle section. The flow splitter having a shape that corresponds to the enlarged middle section is disposed at the middle of this enlarged section. The flow splitter has the same height as that of the partition wall, and the upper surface of the flow splitter is curved to form a seal with the inner surface of the stator outer housing. At the middle of the stator coolant guiding channel, there is provided a middle rib that extends in the spiral shape around the circumference of the stator cooling portion. The middle rib has a lower height than the height of the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: VINFAST TRADING AND PRODUCTION JOINT STOCK COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohammad Naeem Khan, The Quynh Nguyen, Van Hoan Nguyen, Van Tho Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12249408
    Abstract: A method and corresponding system for providing patient data to a patient data server following an offline network condition are described. In one arrangement, a healthcare information analysis and presentation system includes a client logic device disposed in wireless communication with a patient data server. The healthcare information analysis and presentation system is configured with an offline functionality that stores patient data on the client logic device, even when not wirelessly connected to the patient data server. Further, the healthcare information analysis and presentation system is configured to allow the end user to begin patient data entry for a new patient, to document an existing case, and to resolve conflicting data following an offline network condition, all while preserving and protecting patient's privacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: T6 Health Systems LLC
    Inventors: Hubert Bandurski, Igor Muravyov, Lewis Cohen
  • Patent number: 12244204
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to a flux-modulated permanent magnet clutch. Disclosed is a magnetic clutch apparatus comprising a tension spring, an outer ring coupled to the tension spring, the outer ring including a first plurality of magnets, an inner ring coupled to an output shaft, the inner ring including a second plurality of magnets, the outer ring to magnetically engage with the inner ring, and an intermediate ring coupled to an input shaft, the intermediate ring disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, the intermediate ring including a ferrous metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lokaditya Ryali, Bugra H Ertas, Adam Joseph Wangler
  • Patent number: 12244191
    Abstract: A stator with a multi-phase stator winding including phase windings each made of several winding segments, the segments including intermediate conductor portions arranged away from each other in a circumferential direction and link portions located at first and second radial end sides and connect the paired intermediate conductor portions into an annular shape. The winding segments are adjacent each other in a circumferential direction partially overlapping in the circumferential direction and include first and second winding segments overlapping each other in the circumferential direction. The link portions of the first winding segments are bent radially inward at at least one of axially opposed ends of the stator winding. The link portions of the second winding segments are bent radially outward at the at least one of the axially opposed ends of the stator winding. These link portions are arranged not overlapping in an axial direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akito Tamura, Kazuya Iwase
  • Patent number: 12231005
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator core and a coil. The stator core has a plurality of teeth arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction. The coil is formed of an electrically-conductive winding wound around the teeth. Moreover, the motor also includes a rotor having magnets arranged in radial opposition to the stator core and at intervals in the circumferential direction. The rotor is configured to rotate upon supply of electric current to the coil. Furthermore, the motor also includes a sensor arranged in a circumferentially intermediate area between a circumferentially-adjacent pair of the teeth in an axial view. The sensor is configured to detect magnetism of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seigo Shinoda, Masayuki Echizen, Naoto Natsume
  • Patent number: 12231015
    Abstract: The rotating electrical machine disclosed in the present application provides a rotor shafts supported by bearings, a rotor attached to the rotor shaft and rotates with the rotor shaft, a stator that surrounds the rotor through a gap so that the rotor can rotate, a frame that surrounds the rotor and the stator, an outer circumference of the stator is attached to an inner circumference of the frame, and an annular member provided along the inner circumference of the frame to prevent foreign matter existing at the boundary part between the frame and the stator from moving to a region different from the boundary part, it prevents foreign matter generated in the manufacturing process of the rotating electrical machine, such as shavings of a frame, from being scattered inside the rotating electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitoru Yabe, Takayuki Nakao, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12220726
    Abstract: The invention provides a silicide capacitive micro electromechanical structure and fabrication method thereof, comprising a substrate, a passivation layer, a silicon layer, a first metal layer, and a dielectric layer. The passivation layer is formed on the substrate; the silicon layer and the first metal layer are formed on the passivation layer. The first metal layer includes a contact part and a conductive part. The contact parts contact at least a part of the silicon layer, and the conductive portion extends away from the silicon layer to electrically connect an external circuit. The dielectric layer is formed on the passivation layer, and at least the silicon layer and the first metal layer are covered by the dielectric layer. After an annealing process is performed, the conductive portion remains in contact with the silicon layer after the silicidation reaction to maintain an electrical connection with the external circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN-ASIA SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Di-Bao Wang, Chun-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 12224625
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electrical axial flux machine (2) that can be operated as a motor and/or generator. The rotor includes a support (3), a plurality of magnet elements (4) arranged against, on, or in the support (3) and running radially from the interior outwards, the magnet elements (4) being magnetized in a circumferential direction and being arranged individually or in groups in series around the circumference with alternating opposing magnetization directions, and a plurality of flux conduction elements (5) which conduct the magnetic flux and are arranged against, on, or in the support (3) and around the circumference, between the magnet elements (4). A flux distributing element (6) which distributes the magnetic flux is arranged between at least one of the magnet elements (4) and a flux conduction element (5) that is arranged adjacently thereto in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Witt, Matthias Gramann
  • Patent number: 12218548
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an embedded magnet rotor comprises: a rotor shaft, a rotor core having permanent magnet housing spaces; and flat plate-shaped permanent magnets. Permanent magnet housing spaces each extend more radially outward than a position where the permanent magnet is held by a magnet holding outer projection and each have a communication opening communicating with a gap space. A radial thickness of each of the two chips sandwiching the communication opening and a circumferential width of the communication opening are in such a dimensional relation as to prevent a fragment produced by break of the permanent magnet from protruding from the communication opening and coming into contact with the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Masaru Kano, Daisuke Yamagishi, Naoya Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12215019
    Abstract: An electrostatic device includes: a fixed portion, a moveable portion, and an elastically-supporting portion that are formed in a same substrate; and a first glass package and a second glass package that are anodically bonded to each other on one and the other of front and back surfaces of the substrate with the fixed portion and the elastically-supporting portion separated from each other, the second glass package forms a sealed space in which the moveable portion is arranged between the first and second glass packages, an electret is formed at least partially in the fixed portion and the moveable portion, and a first electrode connected to the fixed portion and exposed on an outer surface of the second glass package and a second electrode connected to the elastically-supporting portion and exposed on the outer surface of the second glass package are formed in the second glass package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Saginomiya Seisakusho, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Hiroaki Honma, Hiroyuki Mitsuya
  • Patent number: 12212191
    Abstract: A planar drive system comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a plurality of stator conductors. The rotor comprises a magnet device comprising at least one rotor magnet. The stator is configured to energize the stator conductors. A magnetic interaction can be produced between energized stator conductors of the stator and the magnet device of the rotor in order to drive the rotor. The stator is configured to carry out the energizing of the stator conductors by a current control based on a pulse-width modulation. Due to the current control, a ripple current in energized stator conductors of the stator and thereby an alternating magnetic field can be generated. The rotor comprises at least one rotor coil in which an alternating voltage can be induced due to the alternating magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Beckhoff Automation GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas Bentfeld, Rolf Brinkmann, Patrick Jebramcik, Tim Kaulmann
  • Patent number: 12206309
    Abstract: A biaxial positioning device is described. The positioning device includes: a stationary base element; a first positioning element movably mounted relative to the base element along a first direction by means of a first guide device; a second positioning element movably mounted relative to the first positioning element along a second direction, which is different to the first direction, by means of a second guide device; a first drive for adjusting the first positioning element along the first direction of movement; and a second drive for adjusting the second positioning element along the second direction of movement. The stationary base element and the second positioning element each have a printed circuit board, and the first positioning element is a metal support element and is disposed between the base element and the second positioning element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Haase, Eric Kohler
  • Patent number: 12206301
    Abstract: A hybrid motor includes a rotor, a radial stator facing the circumference of the rotor, and first and second axial stators facing both sides of the rotor. The rotor includes conduction bars arranged in radial and axial directions, corresponding to the radial stator and the axial stators, and end-rings electrically connecting the conduction bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jin Ho Choi, Sung Woo Hwang, Myung Seop Lim, Jae Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12202618
    Abstract: A fan device includes: a fan including a plurality of blades each extending in a radial direction relative to a rotation axis, the fan being configured to rotate about the rotation axis and generate an airflow; a rotor core provided outside in the radial direction of the fan; a stator core provided at a position facing the rotor core in the radial direction; a housing that forms an inner circumferential surface surrounding the fan about the rotation axis and that internally includes an accommodation space accommodating the rotor core and the stator core; and a compressor configured to compress air. The inner circumferential surface of the housing has a cylindrical surface and a nozzle surface whose diameter expands outward in the radial direction along the rotation axis in downstream in a flow direction of an airflow relative to the cylindrical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Morisaki, Suguru Hase
  • Patent number: 12183505
    Abstract: An electrical rotary transformer for inductive energy transmission may include a rotary transformer stator, a rotary transformer rotor rotatable relative to the rotary transformer stator, and a capacitive coupler for capacitive electrical signal transmission between the rotary transformer stator and the rotary transformer rotor. The rotary transformer stator may include a primary coil. The rotary transformer rotor may include a secondary coil inductively couplable to the primary coil. The capacitive coupler may be partly formed on the rotary transformer stator and the rotary transformer rotor. The capacitive coupler may include two plate capacitors that may each include a first and a second plate element. The two first plate elements may be arranged on the stator. The two second plate elements may be arranged on the rotary transformer rotor. The first plate element and the second plate element of each plate capacitor may be disposed opposite one another for capacitive coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Penyo Topalov, Philipp Zimmerschied
  • Patent number: 12176789
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotating electrical machine with axial air gap, comprising two rotors, each provided with superconducting axial magnetic flux barrier elements around an axis of rotation and having, between them, axial magnetic flux passage areas, at least one armature, comprising windings and a superconducting field coil surrounding the elements and the armature and capable of inducing an axial magnetic field. Each armature is positioned between two of the rotors. The superconducting elements of the rotors are coaxial with one another and also the flux passage areas. A first annular cryogenic enclosure encloses the field coil and a second cryogenic enclosure encloses the two rotors and the armature or only one rotor, with a third cryogenic enclosure around the other rotor without the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Alexandre Colle, Sabrina Siham Ayat, Rémy Biaujaud
  • Patent number: 12170465
    Abstract: An electronic module for controlling a motor includes a module housing including a bottom surface, walls, and an open face, a printed circuit board (PCB) arranged along a plane within the module housing; a plurality of power terminals; and a plurality of power switches mounted on the PCB to switchably connect a supply of electric power from a power source to the plurality of power terminals. The plurality of power terminals includes first portions projecting outside the module housing through one of the walls along a direction substantially parallel to the plane for coupling to a plurality of wires couplable to the motor, and second portions extending substantially perpendicularly to the plane and electrically contacting the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Madhur M. Purohit, Alastair G. Valentine, Joshua M. Lewis, Timothy A. Smith, Christopher W. Shook
  • Patent number: 12160161
    Abstract: Described herein are immersion-cooled axial flux electric motors and methods of operating thereof. An immersion-cooled axial flux electric motor comprises a rotor and an immersion-cooled stator. The rotor comprises a set of magnets and a magnet support plate extending perpendicular to the motor axis. The set of magnets is attached to the magnet support plate and distributed about on the motor axis. The immersion-cooled stator comprises a cooling-fluid inlet, a cooling-fluid outlet, a set of stator windings, and a stator-sealed space. The set of stator windings is positioned within the stator-sealed space proximate to the set of magnets such that during the operation of the motor magnetic flux between the set of stator windings and the set of magnets is aligned substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor. The cooling-fluid inlet and the cooling-fluid outlet are fluidically coupled to the stator-sealed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DIMAAG-AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Wright, Brandon Stitt
  • Patent number: 12154696
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods include a valve actuator to open and close a valve in fluid communication with a fluid control system. The valve actuator includes a motor having windings of wire. The wire includes insulating material disposed over a conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: FLOWSERVE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Sochor, David Breeding, Kyle Ramsey