Patents Examined by Tran Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9755464
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotating shaft and a pair of first and second pole cores fixed on the rotating shaft. Each of the first and second pole cores includes a plurality of magnetic pole claws each having a root portion and a distal end. Each of the magnetic pole claws are configured to have a constant circumferential width at the root portion and taper from the root portion to the distal end. The magnetic pole claws of the first pole core are arranged alternately with those of the second pole core in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft. Further, at least part of the magnetic pole claws of the first and second pole cores each have at least one chamfered portion formed at a circumferential end of the root portion of the magnetic pole claw so as to extend parallel to an axial direction of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Sekiyama, Nobuhiro Asano
  • Patent number: 9752809
    Abstract: A linear oscillation system comprising a housing, a stationary assembly, a moveable assembly and a suspension system is disclosed. The suspension system is mechanically coupled between the moveable assembly and the housing. The suspension system comprises a plurality of planar elastic members and plurality of longitudinal elastic members disposed between the plurality of planar elastic members. A first end of each of the plurality of planar elastic members is mechanically coupled to at least one of the plurality of planar elastic members. A second end of each of the plurality of longitudinal elastic members is mechanically coupled to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Savio Sebastian Kathayanatt, Subhrajit Dey, Bhaskar Tamma, Aditya Bhakta, Sandeep Dhar, Parag Mantri
  • Patent number: 9748807
    Abstract: A motor including a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator core and a winding; the stator core includes a yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding inwards from the yoke; between two adjacent teeth formed is a winding slot; the winding is arranged in the winding slot, and winded on the teeth. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core and a permanent magnet. The rotor core includes an annular ring having a central axial bore and a plurality of magnetic induction blocks protruding outwards from an outer side of the annular ring. Between two adjacent magnetic induction blocks formed is a radial recess for mounting the permanent magnet. The magnetic induction blocks at both sides of an opening of the radial recess protrude with a hook block. The thickness of the rotor core is larger than that of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingpan Pan
  • Patent number: 9746027
    Abstract: An assembly includes a rotating shaft supported with respect to a stationary housing by at least one active magnetic bearing presenting a mean radial air gap and at least one auxiliary bearing having first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces is provided. One of the first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces defines a clearance (E2) with one of the stationary housing and the rotating shaft, the clearance (E2) being less than the mean radial air gap and the other of the first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces being integral with the other one of the stationary housing and the rotating shaft. The auxiliary bearing provides a first ball bearing and a second ball bearing having a misalignment with respect to each other in order to increase the starting torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SKF MAGNETIC MECHATRONICS
    Inventors: Jens Anders, Mohamed Bendaoud, Joaquim Da Silva, Matthieu Oliva, Frederic Ponson
  • Patent number: 9742238
    Abstract: A method for producing a housing arrangement for a an electric machine provides a closure part and a carrier part. An opening of the carrier part is placed onto a spigot on the closure part. The spigot is shaped to engage behind the carrier part. A housing arrangement for an electric machine is also provided. The housing arrangement has a closure part and a carrier part fixedly connected to the closure part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Jochen Dehn, Marko Tomasovic, Sebastian May
  • Patent number: 9742224
    Abstract: The invention concerns a pole shoe, in particular of a generator, comprising a pole assembly which is of a laminated configuration, at least one winding arranged around the pole assembly, and a body which passes through the laminated pole assembly in the longitudinal direction and which has a plurality of transversely directed engagement locations, preferably at most three transversely directed engagement locations, into which a respective holding means can engage to fasten the pole shoe on a support, in particular the rotor or stator of a generator. The present invention further concerns a pole shoe, in particular of a generator, comprising a pole assembly which is of a laminated configuration, at least one winding arranged around the pole assembly, and an insulating means arranged between the pole assembly and the winding, wherein the insulating means has a fiber composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventors: Wilko Gudewer, Arno Hildebrand
  • Patent number: 9742230
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor including a rotor core and permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a plurality of magnetic induction blocks. A plurality of radial recesses are formed between every two adjacent magnetic induction blocks for mounting the permanent magnets. The magnetic induction blocks protrude at both sides of the opening of the radial recesses to form hook blocks. The permanent magnets include a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet. The first permanent magnet includes a north pole strong magnetic surface and a south pole weak magnetic surface. The second permanent magnet includes a north pole weak magnetic surface and a south pole strong magnetic surface. The first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet are alternately disposed in the radial recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingpan Pan
  • Patent number: 9735637
    Abstract: There is provided an alternating current generator for a vehicle, including: a rotor (1), a flywheel (3), and main magnets (4) and auxiliary magnets (5) alternately arranged; and a stator (2). Each of the main magnets (4) is magnetized to an N-pole and an S-pole in a radial direction, whereas the main magnets (4) are arranged so that the main magnets (4) adjacent to each other through corresponding one of the auxiliary magnets (5) therebetween are magnetized to have opposite polarity patterns. Each of the auxiliary magnets (5) is magnetized to the N-pole and the S-pole in the circumferential direction, whereas the auxiliary magnets (5) are arranged so that the auxiliary magnets (5) adjacent to each other through corresponding one of the main magnets (4) therebetween are magnetized to have opposite polarity patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Akamatsu, Shinji Baba
  • Patent number: 9735631
    Abstract: Permanent magnets that constitute the single magnetic poles are constituted by n permanent magnet segments, the n permanent magnet segments being configured such that shapes and directions of orientation thereof have mirror symmetry relative to a plane that passes through a magnetic pole center and that includes a central axis of the rotor core, and being oriented such that a permanent magnet segment that is further away from the magnetic pole center in a circumferential direction has a smaller angle of orientation, and the permanent magnet segment that is positioned further away from the magnetic pole center in the circumferential direction being produced so as to have an approximately fan-shaped cross-sectional shape in which a radial width is wider than a circumferential width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Takuma Sasai
  • Patent number: 9729018
    Abstract: An electric machine is provided. The electric machine may comprise an inlet and a stator fluidly coupled to the inlet. The stator may comprise a first cooling channel formed in the stator with a first cross-sectional area. A second cooling channel may be formed in the stator and have a second cross-sectional area. The first cross-sectional area may be less than the second cross-sectional area. The electric machine may also include an outlet fluidly coupled to the stator. A stator assembly is also provided. The stator assembly may include a first channel with a first cross-sectional area and a second channel with a second cross-sectional area. The second cross-sectional area may be less than the first cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas C. Koenig, Joseph K. Coldwate
  • Patent number: 9728925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carbon brush (2), having a wear limit indicating function, having a current-carrying stranded wire being arranged in the brush body (4), and having a stranded indicating wire (10), which, at a stranded wire end section (12), is surrounded and fixed by a sleeve (8) having an infeed opening (22), wherein the sleeve (8) is arranged in a recess (6) being formed in the brush body (4). The sleeve (8) is formed as a centering sleeve, the inner diameter (26a, 26b) of which at the infeed opening (22) nearly corresponds to the outer diameter (24) and features a tapering (30) that is conical in the infeed direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SCHUNK KOHLENSTOFFTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus-Georg Tontsch, Reiner Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 9719730
    Abstract: An energy conversion system which utilizes magneto-hydrodynamics for energy based on the Stirling cycle without any moving parts. The energy conversion system generally includes a containment chamber which includes no moving parts. A compressible gas traverses through four distinct sections of the containment chamber to allow for energy conversion based on the Stirling cycle. The first section performs constant volume heating of the medium, the second section performs isothermal expansion of the medium, the third section performs constant volume cooling of the medium, and the fourth section performs isothermal compression of the medium. Electrical conductors installed within the containment chamber and magnetic field placed adjacent to the electric conductors within the containment chamber will extract electrical energy from the moving compressed ionized gas (CIG) using the principle of magneto-hydrodynamics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Paknia Engineering, PC
    Inventor: Edouard Paknia
  • Patent number: 9716411
    Abstract: A rotor core includes low permeability areas having lower permeability than that of a material of the rotor core, between an outer circumference of each magnetic pole and a side surface of each permanent magnet. The low permeability areas are formed asymmetrically with respect to a geometric center of each magnetic pole so that a magnetic center of the magnetic pole is displaced toward one side with respect to the geometric center. The rotor cores are placed upside down relative to each other so that a relative position in the circumferential direction of the low permeability areas with respect to the permanent magnets differs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanaka, Tomoya Tachibana, Eigo Totoki
  • Patent number: 9716414
    Abstract: A stator of a rotating electric machine includes plural slots disposed in a circumferential direction of a stator core, and a coil body formed by a coil that is disposed as a single conductor in the slot in the circumferential direction of a stator core and that is wound for plural turns in the slot in a radial direction of a stator core. The coil has a flat conductor section, a magnetic body layer provided around the flat conductor section, and an insulating film provided around the magnetic body layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 9712007
    Abstract: A rotor core includes a laminated steel body including a plurality of magnetic core plates stacked one above another. The core plates extend in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a vertical center axis. The rotor core includes a plurality of magnetic pole portions arranged along a circumferential direction. At least some of the core plates include claws protruding from the magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction and outer connection portions arranged radially outward of the claws to interconnect the magnetic pole portions adjoining to each other. The claws restrain the magnets from being displaced radially outward by centrifugal forces. In addition, the outer connection portions restrain the rotor core from being deformed by centrifugal forces. The outer connection portions restrain the claws from being displaced by centrifugal forces so as to further restrain displacement of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9712008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permanent magnet synchronous motor, in particular an electric three phase motor, comprising a stator in which stator teeth with interposed stator grooves are arranged, at least one winding made of an electrically conductive material being provided on each stator tooth, further comprising a rotor with permanent magnets which are arranged radially in a spoke-like manner in the rotor. Said synchronous motor has a predetermined and defined maximum brake torque based on a predetermined diameter-length-ratio of the rotor, a number of rotor poles and a number of stator grooves. The present invention further relates to an electric power-assisted steering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditsellschaft, Wurzburg
    Inventors: Grzegorz Ombach, Horst Steegmuller, Wojciech Chlebosz
  • Patent number: 9705370
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an armature winding includes a plurality of rectangular solid conductors and a plurality of rectangular hollow conductors, which are arranged such that tip of end portions thereof form one surface, the surface being coated with a brazing filler material, and an anti-flowing agent applied on a portion of an inner surface of each hollow conductor to prevent the brazing filler material from flowing into hollow portions of the hollow conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Koyama, Toru Otaka, Shigehito Ishii, Yoshitaka Sakai
  • Patent number: 9705387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a housing assembly (1), in particular for an electric machine, wherein a region (26) of a closure part (3) is reshaped in the form of an indentation (26?), in order to thus press material of the closure part (3) against a housing part (16) for a non-positive engagement between the closure part (3) and the housing part (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Jochen Dehn, Marko Tomasovic, Sebastian May
  • Patent number: 9705365
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Takahiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 9698663
    Abstract: Provided is an orientation control device for a magnetic fluid, includes: a magnetic fluid having magnetic nanoparticles; an induction power generation unit configured to include a silicone tube through which the magnetic fluid passes and a solenoid coil which is wound around a predetermined section outside the silicone tube to generate induced power when the magnetic fluid passes through an inner side of the silicone tube; and a magnetic pole direction control unit configured to include a silicone tube at an entrance portion of the induction power generation unit and a solenoid coil wound around a predetermined section outside the silicone tube and generating a flux when a current flows therein so as to control pole orientation of the magnetic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA RAILROAD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Woo Tae Jeong, Duck Shin Park, Soon Bark Kwon