Patents by Inventor Guo-Jhih Yan

Guo-Jhih Yan 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: 20240113575
    Abstract: A hybrid permanent magnet motor rotor rotates around a central axis, and includes: a rotor core provided with a plurality of magnet installation slots; and a plurality of magnet parts embedded inside a plurality of magnet installation slots respectively, wherein the rotor is provided with a plurality of first magnetic pole parts and a plurality of second magnetic pole parts, the magnetic poles of the first magnetic pole part and the second magnetic pole part are arranged in opposite and alternately in the circumferential direction, and the magnetic placement of the first magnetic pole part is different from that of the second magnetic pole part, the amount of magnets used in the second magnetic pole part is greater than that used in the first magnetic pole part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kuan YANG, Pei-Chun SHIH, Ta-Yin LUO, Guo-Jhih YAN, Sheng-Chan YEN, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Publication number: 20240097520
    Abstract: An axial flux motor includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly has magnets. The stator assembly has a circuit substrate, segmented iron cores, and a coil. The circuit substrate extends radially. The segmented iron cores are supported on the circuit substrate to be opposite to the magnet in the axial direction. Segmented iron cores arranged in the circumferential direction. A coil is sleeved on a segmented iron core. Holding seats of an insulating material correspond respectively to the segmented iron cores. A holding seat abuts with and covers a segmented iron core from both axial sides and the circumferential direction, and is used for winding the coil. The circuit substrate has slot holes. A slot hole is used for embedding and positioning a portion of a holding seat that protrudes more towards one axial side than the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Keng-Chang WU, Guo-Jhih YAN, Hsiu-Ying LIN, Kuo-Min WANG
  • Patent number: 11881746
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a rotor and a motor having the rotor. By providing a plurality of flux barrier groups and slot groups at intervals in a circumferential direction of the rotor iron core, it is possible to flexibly arrange the numbers of the flux barrier groups and the slot groups so as to meet the requirements for the number of poles of different products. In addition, by flexibly adjusting the quantity ratio between the flux barrier groups and the slot groups and/or the quantity relationship between the flux barriers in the flux barrier group and the slots in the slot group, it is possible to meet the requirements for motor efficiency and starting capacity of different products. Further, since the processing jig of the rotor only requires processing of the structures of the flux barriers and the slots, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsin-Nan Lin, Sheng-Chan Yen, Ta-Yin Luo, Guo-Jhih Yan, Yu-Wei Hsu, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Patent number: 11770036
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor includes a rotor and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotator includes a rotatable shaft and magnetic flux barrier layers arranged radially. One of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the stator is filled with a conductor, and one of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the rotating shaft is a void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pei-Chun Shih, Yu-Wei Hsu, Sheng-Chan Yen, Ta-Yin Luo, Hsin-Nan Lin, Guo-Jhih Yan, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Publication number: 20230198323
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator, the rotor includes flux barriers. In a plane orthogonal to an axial direction, at least two flux barriers corresponding to each pole of the rotor are located entirely within an extending angle. A magnitude of the extending angle is determined by a number of poles of the rotor and phases of the motor. A center line of the extending angle is a q-axis of the rotor. A ratio between an area of the flux barrier entirely located within the extending angle and an area of all flux barriers corresponding to the pole is about ½ or more, and a ratio between an area of a radially innermost flux barrier entirely located within the extending angle and an area of a radially outermost flux barrier entirely located within the extending angle and a smaller one of the two areas is about 10% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ta-Yin LUO, Yu-Wei HSU, Sheng-Chan YEN, Pei-Chun SHIH, Hsin-Nan LIN, Guo-Jhih YAN, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Publication number: 20230006490
    Abstract: In a rotor core and a motor including the rotor core, a rotor yoke includes magnetic pole core groups arranged in a circumferential direction and each including a magnetic conductor at a center and permanent magnets around the magnetic conductor. A center of each magnetic pole core group is defined by the magnetic conductor, so that the number of magnets used can be reduced to achieve low cost. The permanent magnets around the magnetic conductor increases a magnetic flux concentration effect while preventing magnetic flux leakage to achieve high efficiency and high performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih YAN, Keng-Chang WU, Kuo-Min WANG
  • Publication number: 20230006588
    Abstract: A method for starting a motor having a stator and a rotor is provided. The method includes starting a motor with field coils of the stator being in Y connection, switching the connection of the field coils to ? connection when the speed of the rotor does not fall within a predetermined range from a rated speed within a predetermined time (t2), and switching the connection of the field coils to the Y connection when the speed of the rotor falls within the predetermined range from the rated speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Pei-Chun SHIH, Hsin-Nan LIN, Yu-Wei HSU, Ta-Yin LUO, Kuan YANG, Guo-Jhih YAN, Sheng-Chan YEN, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Publication number: 20220407372
    Abstract: The present invention aims to improve conductivity of a conductive member on a first axial side, the conductive member being inserted into a flux barrier. An aspect of a synchronous reluctance motor includes flux barriers provided at respective poles of a rotor core, and conductive members that are branched from a first axial side, which is one side in an axial direction, and that are positioned in the flux barriers different from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sheng-Chan YEN, Ta-Yin LUO, Yu-Wei HSU, Guo-Jhih YAN, Huu-Tich NGO, Pei-Chun SHIH, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Publication number: 20220379716
    Abstract: A driver of an automatic guided vehicle includes a crown gear (turning gear) fixed to a bottom of a vehicle body, a support shaft penetrating a center of the crown gear and extending vertically from the vehicle body, a frame supported by the support shaft to be rotatable on a horizontal plane, a wheel axle rotatably and horizontally provided on the frame, and a wheel connected to the wheel axle. A first motor and a second motor, which are drive sources, and a first planetary gear mechanism and a second planetary gear mechanism are provided at both ends in an axial direction of the wheel axle, respectively. Each carrier of the first and second planetary gear mechanisms is connected to the wheel axle, and each ring gear of the first and second planetary gear mechanisms meshes with the crown gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: NIDEC CORPORATION, Nidec Taiwan Corporation
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih YAN, Keng-Chang Wu, Huu-Tich NGO, Kuo-Min WANG, Hsiu-Ying LIN
  • Patent number: 11469648
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a rotating shaft extending along a center axis, a cylindrical rotor core provided outside the rotating shaft in a radial direction, and two discoid weight plates provided at two ends of the cylindrical rotor core in an axial direction, and a stator opposing the rotor in the radial direction. A radius of each weight plate is smaller than a radius of the rotor core, and a difference between the radius of the rotor core and the radius of each weight plate is larger than an air gap between an outside of the rotor core in the radial direction and an inside of the stator in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Nan Lin, Guo-Jhih Yan, Sheng-Chan Yen, Yu-Wei Hsu, Kuo-Min Wang, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Publication number: 20220299103
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a speed reducer attached to one axial end of the motor, and an oil feeder between the motor and the speed reducer. The oil feeder is made of a material having elasticity and capable of storing a lubricating substance. The oil feeder includes a first lubrication portion that lubricates a gear of the speed reducer and a second lubrication portion that lubricates a bearing of the speed reducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Keng-Chang WU, Guo-Jhih YAN
  • Publication number: 20220294288
    Abstract: A rotor includes a stack of electromagnetic steel plates each including through-hole groups with through-holes extending through the respective electromagnetic steel plates. In each of the through-hole groups, at least one of the through-holes accommodates a magnet and at least a portion of the through-holes that does not accommodate any magnet is filled with an electrically conductive material. When the rotor is seen axially, at two circumferential sides of a magnetic flux passage that is adjacent to the magnet, a width of the magnetic flux passage adjacent a first side of the magnet is larger than a width of the magnetic flux passage near a second side of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yu-Wei HSU, Ta-Yin LUO, Hsin-Nan LIN, Sheng-Chan YEN, Guo-Jhih YAN, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Patent number: 11418098
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a rotor, a motor, and a driving apparatus. The rotor is defined by laminated electromagnetic steel plates. The electromagnetic steel plate includes a plurality of through hole groups running through the electromagnetic steel plate, and each through hole group includes a plurality of through holes. A central axis of a magnetic pole of the rotor is used as a d axis, and an axis that is 45 degrees from the d axis is used as a q axis, where an outer peripheral surface of the rotor that is between the d axis and the q axis is recessed radially inward relative to an outer peripheral surface of another portion of the rotor, so that the rotor is noncircular when observed in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng-Chan Yen, Guo-Jhih Yan, Ta-Yin Luo, Yu-Wei Hsu, Hsin-Nan Lin, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Publication number: 20220209595
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor includes a rotor and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotator includes a rotatable shaft and magnetic flux barrier layers arranged radially. One of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the stator is filled with a conductor, and one of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the rotating shaft is a void.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Pei-Chun SHIH, Yu-Wei HSU, Sheng-Chan YEN, Ta-Yin LUO, Hsin-Nan LIN, Guo-Jhih YAN, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Patent number: 11303166
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an axial flux motor and an electrical product. The motor includes a rotor which rotates with a central axis as a center, and a stator which is disposed opposite to the rotor in an axial direction and has a plurality of stator units, the plurality of stator units being disposed around the central axis. The stator unit includes a core unit formed by a core piece, and a coil unit formed by a wire wound and disposed around the core unit. A height of the core unit in the axial direction is less than or equal to a height of the coil unit in the axial direction. With the embodiments of the disclosure, the dependency between the coil and the core in design and manufacture can be reduced, and the degree of design freedom can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih Yan, Hsiu-Ying Lin, Keng-Chang Wu, Kuo-Min Wang
  • Patent number: 11296562
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a stator element, a stator assembly, a motor, and an electromechanical device, the stator element including at least two stacked stator housing sheets, each of the stator housing sheets being a frame enclosed by a sheet periphery, at least two protrusions being disposed around the periphery of each of the stator housing sheets, the protrusion being directed from an inside of the stator housing sheet to an outside of the stator housing sheet, a groove being formed between adjacent protrusions, and protrusions of the adjacent stator housing sheets being alternately arranged in a direction in which the at least two stator housing sheets are stacked. Therefore, heat of a stator disposed inside the stator element can be dissipated with a strong heat dissipation capability at relatively low costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keng-Chang Wu, Guo-Jhih Yan
  • Patent number: 11211845
    Abstract: A speed reduction apparatus includes a motor and a speed reduction assembly. The motor includes a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft a second rotator and a first rotator, a stator, a first motor housing, a second motor, and a first bearing and a second bearing at a radial outer side of the first rotating shaft, the first bearing and the second bearing being axially located at the same side of the first rotator facing the first motor housing. The speed reduction assembly includes a first gear, third gears engaging with the first gear, and a second gear, an output shaft, the third gears turning the second gear to rotate, and the second gear driving the output shaft, and a bracket between the output shaft and the first rotating shaft, the first gear, the second gear and the third gears being located at an axial outer side of the first motor housing, and at least one of the first gear, the second gear and the third gears being located radial outer sides of the first bearing and the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih Yan, Huu-Tich Ngo
  • Patent number: 11159068
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a rotating shaft, a nonmagnetic rotary frame, yokes arranged separately in the nonmagnetic rotary frame, and magnets arranged on surfaces of the yokes at least on one side of the yokes. To hold the yokes and the magnets, the nonmagnetic rotary frame includes a first annular rib that extends along a circumferential direction on a radially outer side of the rotating shaft, radially extending ribs that extend from a radially outer side of the first annular rib along radial directions, and a second annular rib joined to the radially extending ribs and concentric with the first annular rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih Yan, Hsiu-Ying Lin, Keng-Chang Wu
  • Publication number: 20210296948
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core that is made of electromagnetic steel sheets rotating around a central axis and laminated in an axial direction, and that has multiple flux barriers penetrating the electromagnetic steel sheets along the axial direction. At least some of the multiple flux barriers are provided with a first penetrating portion and a second penetrating portion arranged in the radial direction, the first penetrating portion housing a magnet and the second penetrating portion housing a conductive non-magnetic conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Sheng-Chan YEN, Hsin-Nan LIN, Ta-Yin LUO, Guo-Jhih YAN, Yu-Wei HSU, Huu-Tich NGO, Cheng-Tsung LIU
  • Patent number: 11078989
    Abstract: A reduction gear and an electromechanical device are provided. The reduction gear has a motor and a speed reduction assembly. The motor has a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft which rotate around a central axis, a second rotor, a first rotor, a stator and a first motor housing; the speed reduction assembly has: a first gear, a second gear, a third gear, and an output shaft driven by the third gear; and the motor further has: a first bearing and a second bearing, the first bearing and the second bearing are located on two sides of the stator in an axial direction, and the first gear is located on one side, away from the stator, of the second rotor. According to the embodiments, the reduction gear which is small in size and high in drive capability may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih Yan, Huu-Tich Ngo