Patents by Inventor Eric Rippel

Eric Rippel 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).

  • Patent number: 11255612
    Abstract: An electric machine. The electric machine includes one or more face wound strips including a first strip. The one or more strips have a plurality of openings. The first strip has a plurality of turns, and an opening of a turn of the first strip overlaps an opening of an adjacent turn, to form a portion of a fluid channel of a plurality of fluid channels. The turn and the adjacent turn abut against each other at the overlapping openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ENURE, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Rippel, Wally E. Rippel
  • Publication number: 20210242751
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Publication number: 20200412209
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Publication number: 20200355447
    Abstract: An electric machine. The electric machine includes one or more face wound strips including a first strip. The one or more strips have a plurality of openings. The first strip has a plurality of turns, and an opening of a turn of the first strip overlaps an opening of an adjacent turn, to form a portion of a fluid channel of a plurality of fluid channels. The turn and the adjacent turn abut against each other at the overlapping openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Rippel, Wally E. Rippel
  • Patent number: 10790728
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Enure, Inc.
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Patent number: 10756583
    Abstract: An electric machine. The electric machine includes one or more edge wound strips including a first strip. The one or more strips have a plurality of openings. The first strip has a plurality of turns, and an opening of a turn of the first strip overlaps an opening of an adjacent turn, to form a portion of a fluid channel of a plurality of fluid channels. The turn and the adjacent turn abut against each other at the overlapping openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ENURE, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Rippel, Wally E. Rippel
  • Publication number: 20190334413
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Patent number: 10411563
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Prippell Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Patent number: 10374489
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Prippell Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Publication number: 20180367003
    Abstract: An electric machine. The electric machine includes one or more edge wound strips including a first strip. The one or more strips have a plurality of openings. The first strip has a plurality of turns, and an opening of a turn of the first strip overlaps an opening of an adjacent turn, to form a portion of a fluid channel of a plurality of fluid channels. The turn and the adjacent turn abut against each other at the overlapping openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Rippel, Wally E. Rippel
  • Patent number: 10060682
    Abstract: A wound strip structure for efficient heat transfer. The structure includes one or more edge-wound or face-wound strips. At least one of the strips has a plurality of turns and a plurality of apertures, and an aperture of a turn of the strip overlapping an aperture of an adjacent turn, of the strip or of another strip, to form a portion of a fluid channel. The fluid channel may be used to conduct a cooling fluid to cool the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Prippell Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Publication number: 20160226327
    Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Publication number: 20160087509
    Abstract: A cooling structure for an end turn of an electric machine stator. The cooling structure includes a plurality of layers, a layer of the plurality of layers having an opening forming a portion of a fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
  • Publication number: 20160025421
    Abstract: A wound strip structure for efficient heat transfer. The structure includes one or more edge-wound or face-wound strips. At least one of the strips has a plurality of turns and a plurality of apertures, and an aperture of a turn of the strip overlapping an aperture of an adjacent turn, of the strip or of another strip, to form a portion of a fluid channel. The fluid channel may be used to conduct a cooling fluid to cool the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel