Patents by Inventor Gaël Andrieux

Gaël Andrieux 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: 20190229587
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a geared motor unit including a housing having an electric motor formed of a coiled stator assembly and of a magnetized rotor, the housing further including a printed circuit board for connecting and controlling the motor, a movement-reducing gear train, a sensor magnet and a magnetosensitive probe. The gear train includes a toothed movement output gear, the sensor magnet being ring-shaped and being rigidly connected to the output gear. An output gear is extended on either side of the sensor magnet by two guides cooperating with the two opposite walls of the housing; a ring-shaped magnet surrounds the axis of rotation of the output gear; a printed circuit board includes a controller controlling the motor and extends up to the vicinity of the output gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: MOVING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Mathieu WATRIN, Christophe ADLER, Damien LAFORGE, Gaël ANDRIEUX
  • Publication number: 20180366848
    Abstract: An electric motor includes an assembly for connection to a printed circuit having a conductive insert through which connection holes pass, and a coil assembly having electrical connections terminated by connection plugs. The motor further includes connection pieces comprising a rod, the outer cross-section of which matches the cross-section of the connection holes, the connection piece having, at the proximal end thereof, a shoulder with a cross-section greater than the cross-section of the connection holes, the opposite end having a slot extending up to the shoulder, and including an opening on the distal end with a width greater than or equal to the cross-section of the connection plugs and at least one narrowing with a width less than the cross-section of the connection plugs, in order to ensure the expansion of the collar of the connection piece engaged in the hole of the printed circuit insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Sonceboz Automotive SA
    Inventors: Gaël ANDRIEUX, Mikko PEIPPONEN, Johannes Konstantin KUHN, Thomas SCHREINER
  • Patent number: 10122311
    Abstract: A mechatronic assembly for linearly driving a member includes a control unit and an actuator, the control unit including a control algorithm and a power bridge, the algorithm controlling the power bridge, the power bridge providing a bifilar electrical signal consisting of a torque signal and a direction signal, the actuator including an electric motor which does not have an N-phase multiphase brush, binary probes for detecting the position of the rotor of the motor, a device for transforming the rotational movement of the rotor into a linear movement of the control member, power switches capable of powering the N phases of the motor on the basis of the bifilar electrical signal, and the state of the power switches is controlled directly by a signal from the detection probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: MMT SA
    Inventors: Gaël Andrieux, Antoine Foucaut
  • Publication number: 20180219435
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a motoreducer consisting of a casing including a brushless motor having at least two electrical phases, a rotor rotating on an axle, and composed of a stator assembly having at least two poles each bearing coils the winding axes of which are spaced apart by a mechanical angle smaller than 180° and extend radially, and a gear train. The gear train includes: a first axle placed in the angular space formed between the two poles, the first axle bearing a first assembly formed by a coupled pinion and toothed wheel, the toothed wheel being placed above the pinion and having a radius larger than the pinion, the toothed wheel meshing with an input pinion rotating on the axle of the rotor, the toothed wheel being placed above the poles bearing the coils, all the axles of the gear train being parallel to one another and parallel to the axle of the rotor. The gear train has at least one axle bearing two toothed wheels/pinion assemblies rotating on the axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: MMT SA
    Inventors: Lionel BILLET, Gaël ANDRIEUX
  • Publication number: 20170331409
    Abstract: A mechatronic assembly drives a member intended to be linked to a DC electrical power source and to an ECU control unit. The ECU includes a computer for executing a feedback control algorithm delivering an item of direction and torque information. The assembly includes an actuator formed by a brushless polyphase electric motor having N phases, binary detection probes for detecting the position of the rotor of the motor, an electronic circuit comprising a power bridge for powering the N phases of the motor. It further includes an onboard electronic control circuit without a microcontroller, computer and memory of which the input receives the item of direction and torque information from the ECU and of which the output controls the power bridge directly modulating the current of the DC electrical power source applied to each of the phases of the motor, and the torque and direction information provided by the ECU is separate from the power signal delivered only by the power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: MMT SA
    Inventors: Gaël ANDRIEUX, Eric RONDOT
  • Publication number: 20170324284
    Abstract: An electronic actuator is made up of a polyphase brushless motor comprising a rotor provided with permanent magnets and secured to an output shaft, and a stator supporting coils and providing the magnetic drive of the rotor, a first electrical connection assembly powering the coils, said stator being built into a stator module made up of a material which coats the wound stator as well as the first electrical connection assembly. The rotor is built into a rotor module made up of a flange coating a bearing that guides the shaft of the rotor. The stator module and the rotor module have elements for indexing and for attachment relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: MMT SA
    Inventors: Gaël ANDRIEUX, Pascal THIBAUT, Gaëtan RIOU
  • Patent number: 9812918
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrical connection system and assembly for a brushless electromagnetic motor including a coiled stator assembly with P electric phases and X coils per phase, each coil exhibiting in proximity a body furnished with two connection slots, a first sub-assembly formed of W tracks cut in a conducting sheet, the tracks forming W coplanar output tracks, W being an integer number lying between P and P+1, each of the W tracks terminating in at least one end folded back perpendicularly to the plane of the tracks, the shape of the folded back end being complementary to the shape of the connection slot, the tracks being joined by an insulating plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sonceboz Automotive SA
    Inventor: Gaël Andrieux
  • Publication number: 20170194885
    Abstract: A mechatronic assembly for driving a member, includes a control unit and an actuator, the control unit having a servo control algorithm and a power bridge, the algorithm controlling the power bridge, the power bridge outputting a bifilar electric signal consisting of a power signal and a direction signal, the actuator including a polyphase brushless electric motor having n-phases, binary sensors for detecting the position of the rotor of the motor, power switches being capable of powering the n-phases of the motor using the bifilar electric signal, and a state of the power switches being controlled directly by a signal from the detection sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: MMT SA
    Inventors: Eric RONDOT, Gaël ANDRIEUX
  • Patent number: 9684285
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mechatronic assembly for positioning a member including a control unit and an actuator, the control unit including a control algorithm and a power bridge, the algorithm controlling the power bridge, the power bridge outputting a two-wire electric signal, the actuator including a polyphase brushless electric motor having N phases (N being or higher), binary probes for detecting the position of the rotor of the motor, and power switches suitable for supplying the N phases of the motor from the two-wire electric signal, and states of the power switches is controlled directly by a signal emitted by the detection probes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: MOVING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES (MMT)
    Inventors: Eric Rondot, Gaël Andrieux
  • Publication number: 20170085203
    Abstract: A mechatronic assembly for linearly driving a member includes a control unit and an actuator, the control unit including a control algorithm and a power bridge, the algorithm controlling the power bridge, the power bridge providing a bifilar electrical signal consisting of a torque signal and a direction signal, the actuator including an electric motor which does not have an N-phase multiphase brush, binary probes for detecting the position of the rotor of the motor, a device for transforming the rotational movement of the rotor into a linear movement of the control member, power switches capable of powering the N phases of the motor on the basis of the bifilar electrical signal, and the state of the power switches is controlled directly by a signal from the detection probes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: MMT SA
    Inventors: Gaël ANDRIEUX, Antoine FOUCAUT
  • Publication number: 20160352168
    Abstract: A linear electromagnetic actuator includes a stator excited by at least one electric coil arranged around an axis of symmetry and two ferromagnetic stator poles positioned axially on either side of the coil, as well as at least two independent moving members, each of the moving members being formed of a ferromagnetic material, where the linear electromagnetic actuator includes at least three magnetized poles arranged inside the coil, with respectively a first magnetized pole positioned in the vicinity of the median plane separating the two moving members and containing the axis of the coil, and a second and third magnetized pole arranged laterally on either side of the moving members, between the moving members and the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: MOVING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES (MMT)
    Inventors: Stéphane BIWERSI, Javier RIOS-QUESADA, Michaël DELBAERE, Guillaume LOUSSERT, Gael ANDRIEUX
  • Publication number: 20150323908
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mechatronic assembly for positioning a member including a control unit and an actuator, the control unit including a control algorithm and a power bridge, the algorithm controlling the power bridge, the power bridge outputting a two-wire electric signal, the actuator including a polyphase brushless electric motor having N phases (N being or higher), binary probes for detecting the position of the rotor of the motor, and power switches suitable for supplying the N phases of the motor from the two-wire electric signal, and states of the power switches is controlled directly by a signal emitted by the detection probes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MOVING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES (MMT)
    Inventors: Eric RONDOT, Gaël Andrieux
  • Publication number: 20150249375
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrical connection system and assembly for a brushless electromagnetic motor including a coiled stator assembly with P electric phases and X coils per phase, each coil exhibiting in proximity a body furnished with two connection slots, a first sub-assembly formed of W tracks cut in a conducting sheet, the tracks forming W coplanar output tracks, W being an integer number lying between P and P+1, each of the W tracks terminating in at least one end folded back perpendicularly to the plane of the tracks, the shape of the folded back end being complementary to the shape of the connection slot, the tracks being joined by an
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SONCEBOZ AUTOMOTIVE SA
    Inventor: Gaël Andrieux
  • Patent number: 8890380
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector assembly for a brushless electromagnetic motor, comprising a 3-phase electrical stator winding and X windings per phase, connected in series or in parallel, characterized in comprising a circular wire guide with slots designed to hold the ends of the wires of the windings and a connector support comprising at least three circular connector tracks, three of said tracks being each terminated with a thimble and which are axially extended by wire grips to ensure the electrical contact for the 3 phases of the motor through the slots of the wire guides and wherein the thimbles exit the motor via a connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sonceboz Automotive SA
    Inventors: Gaël Andrieux, Daniel Sigg
  • Publication number: 20110057524
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector assembly for a brushless electromagnetic motor, comprising a 3-phase electrical stator winding and X windings per phase, connected in series or in parallel, characterised in comprising a circular wire guide with slots designed to hold the ends of the wires of the windings and a connector support comprising at least three circular connector tracks, three of said tracks being each terminated with a thimble and which are axially extended by wire grips to ensure the electrical contact for the 3 phases of the motor through the slots of the wire guides and wherein the thimbles exit the motor via a connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: SONCEBOZ AUTOMOTIVE SA
    Inventors: Gaël Andrieux, Daniel Sigg
  • Patent number: 7898122
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic actuator comprised of a mobile assembly, a fixed ferromagnetic stator assembly, at least one electric field coil, and of at least one permanent magnet, having two stable positions of equilibrium without current at its ends of travel. The invention is characterized in that the mobile assembly has two distinct ferromagnetic armatures placed on both sides of the stator assembly and each forms, together with the stator assembly, at least one magnetic circuit, and is characterized in that the permanent magnet magnetically cooperates with one of the other ferromagnetic mobile parts in a stable position of equilibrium without current at the end of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT)
    Inventors: Gael Andrieux, Stephane Biwersi
  • Publication number: 20080284261
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic actuator comprised of a mobile assembly, a fixed ferromagnetic stator assembly, at least one electric field coil, and of at least one permanent magnet, having two stable positions of equilibrium without current at its ends of travel. The invention is characterized in that the mobile assembly has two distinct ferromagnetic armatures placed on both sides of the stator assembly and each forms, together with the stator assembly, at least one magnetic circuit, and is characterized in that the permanent magnet magnetically cooperates with one of the other ferromagnetic mobile parts in a stable position of equilibrium without current at the end of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: MOVING MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES (MMT)
    Inventors: Gael Andrieux, Stephane Biwersi
  • Patent number: D663268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sonceboz Automotive S.A.
    Inventor: Gael Andrieux