Patents Examined by Tran N Nguyen
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Patent number: 11218065Abstract: A field coil type rotating electric machine includes a rotor where both a series resonant circuit including a first winding and a capacitor and a parallel resonant circuit including a second winding and the capacitor are formed. The first winding is radially located closer than the second winding to a stator. The capacitance of the capacitor and the ratio of the number of turns of the second winding to the number of turns of the first winding are set to have the amplitude of a total resultant magnetic flux lower than the amplitude of a field resultant magnetic flux. The total resultant magnetic flux is the resultant of the field resultant magnetic flux and magnetic flux generated by harmonic currents flowing in phase windings of a stator coil. The field resultant magnetic flux is the resultant of magnetic fluxes generated by harmonic currents flowing in the first and second windings.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Seguchi
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Patent number: 11218045Abstract: An electric motor includes a case, a stator that includes end-windings, a rotor coupled to the case via at least one rotor bearing, at least one drive motor fluid pump, and drive motor electronics. The rotor includes a hollow cylindrical body, a first shaft portion, and a second shaft portion, a fluid feed tube having a fluid receive end and a fluid feed end, the fluid feed end extending into the hollow cylindrical body, and a plurality of fluid exit ports. The drive motor electronics power the stator with or without causing rotation of the rotor. The drive motor fluid pump pumps fluid into the hollow cylindrical body via the fluid feed tube, pumps the fluid out of the plurality of fluid ports, and onto the stator end-windings to collect heat from the rotor and the stator. The heated fluid may be used for heating a battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventors: Bozhi Yang, Tomas Vianna Martins, Scott Michael Graves, Ethan Swint, Eric Bellemare, Lev Fedoseyev, Benjamin Dellal, Leif E. Olsen, Alexander Hain
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Patent number: 11218067Abstract: Embodiments of an electrical power generation device and methods of generating power are disclosed. One such method comprises creating magnetic flux forces generally transverse to a face of a magnet facing a center of a cylinder, moving a coil of wound conductive material partially through the center opening of the cylinder to produce the electric current and, routing resistive forces generated from the moving coil through an iron core, wherein the first coil is positioned concentrically about a first portion of the core, and further routing the resistive forces around the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Linear Labs, Inc.Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
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Patent number: 11211848Abstract: A method and assembly of a dry cavity oil cooled electric machine includes a housing, a shaft configured to operably couple with a source of rotational force and rotate about a rotational axis, and an exciter rotor and a permanent magnet generator rotor carried by the shaft, wherein the exciter rotor and the permanent magnet generator rotor rotate relative to the housing, which provides such a construction of dry cavity generators that have high efficiency and high power density.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Hao Huang, Xiaochuan Jia
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Patent number: 11205937Abstract: A driving system has a driving motor body operative to produce a driving force for driving an object to move in reciprocating directions. A pivotal support is located between the driving motor body and a machine base for supporting the driving motor body on the machine base. The pivotal support causes at least a portion of the driving motor body to rotate relative to the machine base in an opposite direction to a direction of the driving force produced by the driving motor body to drive the object, so as to reduce vibration transmission to the machine base.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ASM TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE PTE LTDInventors: Keng Yew Song, Ka Shing Kwan, Yue Zhang, Xiao Liang Chen, Chu Fan Feng
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Patent number: 11201534Abstract: A segmented secondary part of a linear motor includes at least two segments, each having a plurality of magnets attached to a yoke plate, having alternating polarity, and having a direction of magnetization perpendicular to the yoke plate. The yoke plates include an overlapping region, in which the yoke plates of adjacent segments are superposed in the direction of magnetization but do not touch each other in the overlapping region.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: ETEL S.A.Inventors: Pierre Alexandre Bischoff, Loïc Moreno, Sylwia Szczukiewicz, Valerio Tamellini
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Patent number: 11201519Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for electrically contact-connecting a winding (40) of an electrical machine (1) to a printed circuit board (92), wherein the electrical machine (1) has an armature (10) with a large number of teeth (20), wherein at least one winding (40), which is formed by an electrical conductor (42), is formed on one of the teeth (20).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Devermann, Asli Arslan-Huerst, Harald Merz, Ilya Kuperberg, Michael Soellner, Peter Beck, Ralf Lehmann, Wolfgang Glueck
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Patent number: 11196308Abstract: A field coil type rotating electric machine includes a field coil having a serially-connected coil section pair consisting of first and second coil sections, a diode having its cathode and anode respectively connected to opposite ends of the serially-connected coil section pair, a rotating shaft, and a rotor having main pole portions radially protruding from a rotor core. In the rotating electric machine, there are formed both a series resonance circuit including the first coil section and at least one capacitor and a parallel resonance circuit including the second coil section and the at least one capacitor. Electronic components electrically connected with the field coil, which include the diode and the at least one capacitor, are arranged so that an overall center of gravity of all the electronic components is located closer than each of centers of gravity of the electronic components to a central axis of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Seguchi
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Patent number: 11189778Abstract: An element 1 includes a pair of electrodes 2 and 3, and an intermediate layer 4 having deformability, arranged between the pair of electrodes 2 and 3, and containing, as a material, a silicon compound including an unpaired electron. The intermediate layer 4 may contain a particle including the unpaired electron. The intermediate layer 4 may have rubber elasticity. The intermediate layer 4 may have at least one peak at a g value between 2.070 and 2.001 when being measured at an environment temperature of ?150° C. by using an electron spin resonance (ESR) device. The intermediate layer 4 may have at least one peak at a g value between 2.070 and 2.001 when being measured at an environment temperature of ?150° C. by using the electron spin resonance (ESR) device.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Sugawara, Tsuneaki Kondoh, Yuko Arizumi, Junichiro Natori, Mizuki Otagiri, Mayuka Araumi, Megumi Kitamura, Takahiro Imai, Makito Nakashima, Hideyuki Miyazawa
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Patent number: 11190068Abstract: A rotor sheet includes a central cut-out and is divided into a plurality of sectors, each including a first half sector and a second half sector delimited from the first half sector by a radial central line, wherein a through-opening configuration, which has two parallel edge lines extending along an extension direction, is formed inside the first half sector, and a further through-opening configuration, mirror-symmetrical to the through-opening configuration with respect to the central line, is formed inside the second half sector, wherein the first through-opening configuration includes a relief through-opening inscribed inside an incircle-free trapezoid having two bases extending parallel to the central line and two legs extending on a first straight line having a first angular spacing from the central line, and on a second straight line having a second angular spacing from the central line, wherein the first and second straight lines intersect at an acute angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventor: Kae Shyuan Tan
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Patent number: 11190066Abstract: The rotor of a permanent magnet motor includes a stack of laminations. Each lamination is located with respect to a shaft using a key with a tangential fillet. Each lamination also includes a set of lightening holes having a shape designed to minimize hoop stresses and thereby increase the maximum permissible operating speed of the motor. Furthermore, the tightening holes are aligned with the key to minimize interactions of the respective stress concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Cyrille Goldstein
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Patent number: 11190081Abstract: The electric linear motion actuator includes an electric motor, a linear motion mechanism configured to convert rotary motion of the electric motor to linear motion of a linear motion part via a rotation input-output shaft, and a housing holding the linear motion mechanism. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor which are arranged such that the directions of magnetic poles that generate interlinkage flux contributing to a motor torque are parallel with a rotation axis of the electric motor. The stator is arranged so as to be coupled with an axial end surface of the housing. The rotor is arranged so as to have a space, in the axial direction, from the torque generating surface of the stator, and the rotor is fixed to the rotation input-output shaft of the linear motion mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventor: Yui Masuda
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Patent number: 11177720Abstract: A standby generator includes an air-cooled engine having a crankshaft, an alternator driven by the crankshaft to produce electrical power for distribution from the standby generator, and an engine cooling fan operatively coupled to the crankshaft on a side of the engine driving the alternator.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Champion Power Equipment, Inc.Inventors: Mark J. Sarder, Russell J. Dopke, Hiroaki Sato, Leigh A. Jenison
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Patent number: 11177719Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a rotor, a stator and windings. The rotor includes a magnetically effective core. The rotor is contactlessly magnetically drivable about an axis of rotation and the rotor is contactlessly magnetically levitatable. The stator has coil cores, each with a longitudinal limb parallel with the axis and a transverse limb extending radially, the transverse limb being perpendicular to the axis. The windings generate an electromagnetic rotational field, each winding surrounding one longitudinal limb, such that the stator is free of permanent magnets. The rotor is ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic with one preferential magnetic direction extending radially, and the core of the rotor has a magnetic resistance in the preferential magnetic direction, the magnetic resistance at most half as large as the magnetic resistance in a direction, which is perpendicular to the preferential magnetic direction and perpendicular to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBHInventor: Thomas Holenstein
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Patent number: 11177714Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a central axis, and a stator opposing the rotor in a radial direction. The stator includes a stator core including an annular core back and teeth extending in the radial direction from the core back, bobbins attachable to the teeth, respectively, in the radial direction, a coil wire wound around the bobbin, the bobbin including a cylindrical tube portion extending in the radial direction and a protruding piece that protrudes in the radial direction from an upper end, close to the core back, of the tube portion and is fixed to the core back, and an annular fixing member covering the core back and the protruding piece from an upper side.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATIONInventors: Norihisa Imaizumi, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11171538Abstract: Provided is a motor device capable of detecting entry of water into a housing before a control circuit is submerged. A first motor bus bar includes a first U-phase motor bus bar, a first V-phase motor bus bar, and a first W-phase motor bus bar. A first control circuit is connected to the first motor bus bar. The first U-phase motor bus bar, the first V-phase motor bus bar, and the first W-phase motor bus bar are disposed on the lower side with respect to the first control circuit in a gravity direction. The first control circuit detects entry of water into a motor housing of the motor device, based on the status of power supply to the first U-phase motor bus bar, the first V-phase motor bus bar, and the first W-phase motor bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Genta Sugimori
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Patent number: 11172308Abstract: An electric motor including two magnetic assemblies each having an even number of magnets in a circular arrangement, the magnets arranged in a bucking configuration with like poles directed at each other. There are a plurality of ferrous members for each of the magnetic assemblies arranged between each of the magnets. The ferrous members having a face that is directed radially toward a face of another ferrous member of the corresponding magnetic assembly. An electromagnetic assembly has a plurality of electromagnetic members arranged in a generally circular arrangement and is located radially between the two magnetic assemblies. Each electromagnetic member has a ferrous element with an electrical conductor wound around the ferrous element, each ferrous element having an inward and outward face respectively being directed to the ferrous members of the two magnetic assemblies as they pass each other as the magnet assemblies rotate relative to the electromagnetic assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Inventor: Curtis E. Graber
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Patent number: 11165296Abstract: A motor includes a rotary shaft, an armature part, a frame including a tubular portion surrounding the armature part, and a plurality of magnets. The tubular portion is formed of a magnetic body. The tubular portion includes a plurality of flat parts and a plurality of curved parts. Each of the plurality of flat parts and each of the plurality of curved parts being alternately arranged in a peripheral direction. On an inner surface of the tubular portion in each of the plurality of curved parts, a plurality of magnetic poles are provided. A magnetic gap is provided in a radial direction, the magnetic gap being formed by the inner surface of the tubular portion in each of the plurality of flat parts and the armature part.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventor: Minoru Kuroda
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Patent number: 11165292Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, a case, and back-surface magnet portions. The rotor has a first rotor core, a second rotor core and a field magnet. Each of the first and second rotor cores has a core base and claw-shaped magnetic poles. The field magnet is sandwiched between the first rotor core and the second rotor core and causes the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the first rotor core and the second rotor core to function as different magnetic poles. The back-surface magnet portions include a second and a first back-surface magnet portions respectively provided on the back surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the second rotor core and the first rotor core. Size of the second back-surface magnet portion differs from size of the first back-surface magnet portion are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Hironari Suzuki, Seiya Yokoyama
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Patent number: 11165313Abstract: Provided is a decelerator-equipped motor unit which can achieve cost reductions in the control board and improvement of both mechanical and electrical reliability through a particular arrangement of elements on the board, thereby achieving a smaller size by realizing an appropriate board shape without increasing the size of the unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD., CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Junya Kurata, Satoshi Kikuchi, Bjoern Schmitz, Erwin Kessler, Gebhard Hopfmueller