Patents by Inventor Hugo Spowers

Hugo Spowers 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).

  • Cooled electric machine
    Patent number: 9496776
    Abstract: An electric machine (10; 100) comprises a rotor (14a, b) having permanent magnets (24a,b) and a stator (12) having coils (22) wound on stator bars (16) for interaction with the magnets across an air gap (26a, b) defined between them. The bars and coils are enclosed by a stator housing (42a,b; 102, 142a, b,146) that extends between the air gap and defines a chamber (52; 152) incorporating cooling medium to cool the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Oxford University Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Tim Woolmer, Malcolm McCulloch, Hugo Spowers, Andrew Thornby
  • ELECTRIC MACHINE-COOLING
    Publication number: 20110309699
    Abstract: An electric machine (10;100) comprises a rotor (14a, b) having permanent magnets (24a,b) and a stator (12) having coils (22) wound on stator bars (16) for interaction with the magnets across an air gap (26a, b) defined between them. The bars and coils are enclosed by a stator housing (42a,b; 102, 142a, b,146) that extends between the air gap and defines a chamber (52;152) incorporating cooling medium to cool the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: ISIS INNOVATION LTD
    Inventors: Tim Woolmer, Malcolm McCulloch, Hugo Spowers, Andrew Thornby