Patents by Inventor Alexis Boletis

Alexis Boletis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230075415
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a brushless DC electric motor, such as for an actuator unit of an implant, as for a cardiac assist system, with a stator with a hollow-cylindrical iron-free winding and a rotor which can rotate relative to the stator. A shaft has a number p of pairs of permanent-magnetic poles, and the winding has a number n of three-phase systems separate from one another. The number of n three-phase systems separate from one another, is varied based on a number p of pairs of permanent-magnetic poles, and the systems are arranged in a manner spatially offset from one another by an angle of 360°/n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: MAXON INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Peter Ullrich AREND, Alexis BOLETIS
  • Patent number: 8791607
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric linear drive, particularly for a rotary-lifting motor. Such a linear drive includes a winding system including a plurality of wound coils which are arranged to be coaxial to each other and successive in axial direction, and a magnet system which is movable in axial direction relative to the winding system and includes a plurality of axially successive permanent magnets. The winding system is normally fed by a controlled converter. The coils of the winding system and the permanent magnets of the magnet system define an air gap thereinbetween. Furthermore, a sensor is provided for detecting the relative movement of winding system and magnet system and for detecting the relative position of the two systems, the sensor being used for scanning a timing ruler mounted on the outer circumference of the magnet system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Maxon Motor AG
    Inventors: Alexis Boletis, Hugo Fritschy, Remo Hofstetter, Jens Oliver Schulze, Raniero Pittini, David Ramon, Max Erick Busse-Grawitz
  • Patent number: 8569920
    Abstract: In a small electric motor having a stator and a rotor which includes a solid-cylindrical permanent magnet and at least one shaft element mounted on a face of the permanent magnet and bonded thereto by adhesive, the shaft element has at least one recess on its face facing the permanent magnet. The adhesive is introduced into the recess and contacting the face of the permanent magnet in the area of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Maxon Motor AG
    Inventors: David Ramon, Hugo Fritschy, Jens Oliver Schulze, Hans-Georg Jansing, Raniero Pittini, Minh Hieu Lam, Alexis Boletis
  • Publication number: 20110304234
    Abstract: In a small electric motor having a stator and a rotor which includes a solid-cylindrical permanent magnet and at least one shaft element mounted on a face of the permanent magnet and bonded thereto by adhesive, the shaft element has at least one recess on its face facing the permanent magnet. The adhesive is introduced into the recess and contacting the face of the permanent magnet in the area of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Maxon Motor AG
    Inventors: David Ramon, Hugo Fritschy, Jens Oliver Schulze, Hans-Georg Jansing, Raniero Pittini, Minh Hieu Lam, Alexis Boletis
  • Publication number: 20110175462
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric linear drive, particularly for a rotary-lifting motor. Such a linear drive includes a winding system including a plurality of wound coils which are arranged to be coaxial to each other and successive in axial direction, and a magnet system which is movable in axial direction relative to the winding system and includes a plurality of axially successive permanent magnets. The winding system is normally fed by a controlled converter. The coils of the winding system and the permanent magnets of the magnet system define an air gap thereinbetween. Furthermore, a sensor is provided for detecting the relative movement of winding system and magnet system and for detecting the relative position of the two systems, the sensor being used for scanning a timing ruler mounted on the outer circumference of the magnet system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: Maxon Motor AG
    Inventors: Alexis Boletis, Hugo Fritschy, Remo Hofstetter, Jens Oliver Schulze, Raniero Pittini
  • Patent number: 7252001
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inertial sensor based on the magnetic levitation of an inertial mass comprising an active magnetic bearing unit arranged in such a way as to levitate the inertial mass and characterized by the fact that it furthermore comprises additional active magnetic bearings units arranged in such a way as to control the position of said inertial mass along three independent axis and to create, for any of said independent axis, restoring forces that can be oriented in any of the two directions of these independent axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Alexis Boletis, François Barrot, Roland Moser
  • Publication number: 20050204817
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inertial sensor based on the magnetic levitation of an inertial mass comprising an active magnetic bearing unit arranged in such a way as to levitate the inertial mass and characterized by the fact that it furthermore comprises additional active magnetic bearings units arranged in such a way as to control the position of said inertial mass along three independent axis and to create, for any of said independent axis, restoring forces that can be oriented in any of the two directions of said independent axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
    Inventors: Alexis Boletis, Francois Barrot, Roland Moser