Patents by Inventor Erwin Gerardus Bernardus Hofste

Erwin Gerardus Bernardus Hofste 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).

  • Actuator, linear motor and lithographic apparatus
    Patent number: 11539280
    Abstract: An actuator comprises a coil, a first cooling plate and a second cooling plate. The cooling plates are configured to cool the coil. The first and second cooling plates are arranged at opposite sides of the coil to be in thermal contact with the coil. The coil comprises a first coil part and a second coil part, the first coil part facing the first cooling plate and the second coil part facing the second cooling plate, the first and second coil parts being separated by a spacing there between. The first cooling plate, the first coil part, the spacing, the second coil part and the second cooling plate form a stacked structure whereby the coil parts are arranged between the cooling plates and the spacing is arranged between the coil parts. The actuator further comprises a filling element arranged in the spacing. The filling element to push the first coil part towards the first cooling plate and to push the second coil part towards the second cooling plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Niels Cornelis Petrus Johannes Geerts, Franciscus Stadhouders, Erwin Gerardus Bernardus Hofste
  • Method for winding a multi-layer flat wire coil
    Patent number: 10163565
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for winding a dual-layer flat wire coil, and to method for winding a multi-layer flat wire coil. Furthermore, the present invention is related to a device for winding such coils and to a dual-layer flat wire coil and to a multi-layer flat wire coil obtainable by performing the method of the present invention. Finally, the invention is related to a linear motor comprising such a dual-layer flat wire coil and/or multi-layer flat wire coil. According to the invention, an auxiliary winding core is used to temporarily store wire that is intended to form the odd layer of any pair of layers in the multi-layer coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: TECNOTION B.V.
    Inventors: Erwin Gerardus Bernardus Hofste, Roel Toon Hendrik Huinink
  • MULTI-LAYER FLAT WIRE COIL
    Publication number: 20160260543
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for winding a dual-layer flat wire coil, and to method for winding a multi-layer flat wire coil. Furthermore, the present invention is related to a device for winding such coils and to a dual-layer flat wire coil and to a multi-layer flat wire coil obtainable by performing the method of the present invention. Finally, the invention is related to a linear motor comprising such a dual-layer flat wire coil and/or multi-layer flat wire coil. According to the invention, an auxiliary winding core is used to temporarily store wire that is intended to form the odd layer of any pair of layers in the multi-layer coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Erwin Gerardus Bernardus Hofste, Roel Toon Hendrik Huinink