Patents by Inventor Jere Kolehmainen

Jere Kolehmainen 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: 20250038629
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a rotor (1) for an electric machine comprising a body (10) and at least one magnet (20) which is carried by the body and which comprises at least one first unitary magnet (21) and at least one second unitary magnet (22), said method comprising the following steps: forming the first unitary magnet by depositing a magnetic material over a support (30) distinct from the body; fastening the support with respect to the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Jere KOLEHMAINEN, Fernando BONILLA-ANGULO, Gildas LECUYER, Laurent AUBANEL
  • Publication number: 20240296994
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an element having magnetic poles, includes:—supplying a magnetization block including a first main face and a second main face between them delimiting a magnetization-block thickness;—machining, over just part of the thickness of the magnetization block, a first set of initial slots, starting from the first main face, so that the magnetization block remains in one piece;—pouring a first connecting material into the initial slots;—machining a set of complementary slots, forming continuations of the initial slots of the first set over the entire thickness of the magnetization block, so as to form a plurality of individual magnets separate from one another, the individual magnets being held together by the first connecting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jere KOLEHMAINEN, Thierry LAURENT, Florian LOUBEAU
  • Publication number: 20240250565
    Abstract: A stator body for an axial-flux electric machine includes: a plate in the form of a ring centered on a longitudinal axis, the plate including an upper face and at least one upper relief projecting from the upper face; and teeth, at least one of which includes a lower relief, a first side of which has a shape complementary to that of a portion of the upper relief, the upper relief being interlocked with the lower relief. The body includes a locking element extending opposite the upper face of the plate and interposed between the tooth and the plate so as to immobilize the upper relief in the position interlocked with the lower relief, and blocking unit blocking the position of the locking element with respect to the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventor: Jere KOLEHMAINEN
  • Publication number: 20240195272
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a stator for an axial-flux electric machine, the stator including a stator body, a plurality of teeth, and at least one coil formed of an electrically conductive wire, each tooth being formed of a first part and a second part, the method including steps of: obtaining a support part in which the teeth are each positioned in a precise attitude; forming an envelope of electrically insulating material intended to surround the second part of each tooth; winding the electrically conductive wire around the envelope; and fixing an end of the second part of each tooth to a face of the stator body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Jere KOLEHMAINEN
  • Publication number: 20240055921
    Abstract: Disclosed is an element with magnetic poles for the rotor of an axial flux electric machine, including an assembly of several individual magnets and a flange, at least a first part of which surrounds the assembly in order to immobilise the individual magnets in position. At least one part of the flange is made from a material including a mixture of polymer and magnet powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Jere KOLEHMAINEN
  • Publication number: 20240055912
    Abstract: A stator body for an axial flux electric machine includes a base having layers of metal sheet which are wound around a longitudinal axis, the base having an end face substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, and teeth distributed and fixed on the end face of the base. The base includes a plurality of angular portions distributed about the longitudinal axis, each angular portion including at least one of the layers which is flat. The layer which is flat is attached to a layer of an adjacent angular portion by a fold situated at the fixing of one of the teeth to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S
    Inventor: Jere KOLEHMAINEN
  • Publication number: 20230361659
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator of an axial flow electric machine includes cutting slots on a lateral part of a strip of sheet metal, cutting recesses on an opposite lateral part of the strip to form coolant flow channels, winding the strip according to a radial stack, the recesses being cut by a double perforation symmetrical to a line orthogonal to the length of the strip, the recesses being cut on a first radial periphery of the stator winding at a distance from the radial section of the stator passing through the line, until they meet on the radial section at an opposite radial periphery of the stator winding, forming V-shaped channels meeting at the ends of the legs of the V's during the winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventor: Jere KOLEHMAINEN
  • Publication number: 20230299651
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for assembling a magnetic pole element for a rotor for an axial flow electric machine, the rotor including a body in the form of a disk having at least one housing, the magnetic pole element including a plurality of single magnets, the method including the following steps: e1) forming a first row of at least two single magnets and retaining the single magnets using a strip of adhesive material; e2) placing the first row on a support having a curvature that is equal or substantially equal to the curvature of a peripheral edge of the housing; e3) forming another row of at least two other single magnets and retaining the single magnets using another adhesive material strip; e4) placing the other row on the first row; and e5) repeating steps e3) and e4) until the magnetic pole element is assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jere KOLEHMAINEN, Loic MAYEUR
  • Patent number: 11362574
    Abstract: A rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of magnetically conductive laminations stacked in a rotor axial direction. The magnetically conductive laminations include cut-out portions forming a plurality of flux barriers radially alternated by flux paths portions, where at least one of the flux barriers includes a ridge connecting two flux paths portions adjacent to the at least one flux barrier. The at least one flux barrier has a first barrier mid-line, which is a line that is equidistant from both sides of the at least one flux barrier. The bridge has a second bridge mid-line, which is the line that is equidistant from both sides of the bridge. The first and second mid-lines intersect. The bridge has a first and second symmetry axis and is non-symmetrical with respect to at least one of the first and second symmetry axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Pietro Savio Termini, Alessandro Castagnini, Giovanni Tartaglino, Michele Maggi, Jere Kolehmainen, Tero Kansakangas
  • Patent number: 10910893
    Abstract: A rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine having an even number 2 p of poles circumferentially spaced at an angle ?, with ?=2 ?/2 p, the rotor comprising a substantially cylindrical laminate stack having a plurality of magnetically conductive laminations. One or more of the magnetically conductive laminations includes non-magnetic flux barriers which are spaced from each other in the radial direction, one or more of the non-magnetic flux barriers having a first and second bridge transversally positioned in correspondence of their lateral ends and defining a first and a second air-gap with the outer rim of the magnetically conductive lamination, and further including a third and a fourth bridge transversally positioned and respectively defining together with the first and second bridge a first and a second internal space which are filled with an electrically conductive and non-magnetically conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Tero Kansakangas, Pietro Savio Termini
  • Patent number: 10790715
    Abstract: An end structure for a rotor of an electric machine is attachable to an end of the rotor. The end structure includes a ring arrangement, a rotational axis of which is parallel to that of the stacked rotor, and at least one reinforcing structure at least partly within the ring arrangement. A value of a tensile strength of the at least one reinforcing structure is higher than that of the ring arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Jouni Ikäheimo, Tero Känsäkangas
  • Patent number: 10686343
    Abstract: A stack of a rotor comprises a plurality of stack elements which include material of first magnetic conductance. The rotor includes sectorial sections distributed round a rotational axis of the rotor. Each of the stack elements has an aperture of second magnetic conductance in each of the sectorial sections. Outer ends of the apertures are located at a rim of the stack elements or at a bridge of the rim. The apertures form channels through the stack in a direction of a rotational axis of the rotor. At least two of the apertures of a common channel of the channels have the outer ends at different radial distances from the rotational axis of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jouni Ikäheimo, Tero Känsäkangas, Jere Kolehmainen
  • Patent number: 10658890
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating machine having a number n of poles pairs p that define corresponding direct pole axis (D-axis) and quadrature axis (Q-axis), and including a rotor core having a plurality of magnetically conductive laminations stacked in a rotor axial direction z. The magnetically conductive laminations include cut-out portions forming a plurality of flux barriers extending continuously with respect to the Q axis from a first rim portion to a second rim portion of the magnetically conductive laminations, the flux barriers being radially alternated by flux paths. The plurality of flux barriers form a corresponding plurality of cavities extending in the rotor core along the axial direction z, at least some of the plurality of cavities being filled with an electrically conductive and magnetically non-conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Jere Kolehmainen
  • Patent number: 10601267
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a synchronous reluctance electric machine. It includes a stack of consecutive magnetically conductive core elements; each core element includes at least two adjacent sectorial sections with flux barriers and a central area surrounding the rotational axis. A binding structure includes core end plates which form together with interconnection casts a unitary casted structure. The interconnection casts are casted into channels extending through the stack and which are located in an area defined by the flux barriers of the adjacent sectorial sections and the central area of each core element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Jouni Ikäheimo, Kari Heikfolk, Tero Känsäkangas
  • Patent number: 10541574
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, wherein the rotor comprises a plurality of stack elements and each of the stack elements includes material of first magnetic conductance. Each of the stack elements includes a plurality of sectorial sections distributed round a rotational axis of the rotor. Each of the sectorial sections includes one or more flux barriers. At least one of the one or more flux barriers has a difference associated with filing of an electrically conductive material of third magnetic conductance in different sectorial halves of a common sectorial section, the first magnetic conductance being larger than the third magnetic conductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Tero Känsäkangas
  • Publication number: 20190348880
    Abstract: An end structure for a rotor of an electric machine is attachable to an end of the rotor. The end structure includes a ring arrangement, a rotational axis of which is parallel to that of the stacked rotor, and at least one reinforcing structure at least partly within the ring arrangement. A value of a tensile strength of the at least one reinforcing structure is higher than that of the ring arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Jouni Ikäheimo, Tero Känsäkangas
  • Publication number: 20190319522
    Abstract: A rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine including a rotor core having a plurality of magnetically conductive laminations stacked in a rotor axial direction. The magnetically conductive laminations include cut-out portions forming a plurality of flux barriers radially alternated by flux paths portions, at least one of the flux barriers including a bridge connecting two flux paths portions adjacent to the at least one flux barrier. The at least one flux barrier has a first, barrier, mid-line which is the line that is equidistant from both sides of the at least one flux barrier, and the bridge has a second, bridge, mid-line which is the line that is equidistant from both sides of the bridge, the first and second mid-lines intersecting at an intersection point. The bridge has a first symmetry axis and a second symmetry axis and is non-symmetrical with respect to at least one of the first and second symmetry axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Pietro Savio Termini, Alessandro Castagnini, Giovanni Tartaglino, Michele Maggi, Jere Kolehmainen, Tero Kansakangas
  • Publication number: 20190157925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a synchronous reluctance electric machine. It includes a stack of consecutive magnetically conductive core elements; each core element includes at least two adjacent sectorial sections with flux barriers and a central area surrounding the rotational axis. A binding structure includes core end plates which form together with interconnection casts a unitary casted structure. The interconnection casts are casted into channels extending through the stack and which are located in an area defined by the flux barriers of the adjacent sectorial sections and the central area of each core element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Jouni Ikäheimo, Kari Heikfolk, Tero Känsäkangas
  • Publication number: 20180316231
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating machine having a number n of poles pairs p that define corresponding direct pole axis (D-axis) and quadrature axis (Q-axis), and including a rotor core having a plurality of magnetically conductive laminations stacked in a rotor axial direction z. The magnetically conductive laminations include cut-out portions forming a plurality of flux barriers extending continuously with respect to the Q axis from a first rim portion to a second rim portion of the magnetically conductive laminations, the flux barriers being radially alternated by flux paths. The plurality of flux barriers form a corresponding plurality of cavities extending in the rotor core along the axial direction z, at least some of the plurality of cavities being filled with an electrically conductive and magnetically non-conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Jere Kolehmainen
  • Publication number: 20180309336
    Abstract: A stack of a rotor comprises a plurality of stack elements which include material of first magnetic conductance. The rotor includes sectorial sections distributed round a rotational axis of the rotor. Each of the stack elements has an aperture of second magnetic conductance in each of the sectorial sections. Outer ends of the apertures are located at a rim of the stack elements or at a bridge of the rim. The apertures form channels through the stack in a direction of a rotational axis of the rotor. At least two of the apertures of a common channel of the channels have the outer ends at different radial distances from the rotational axis of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jouni Ikaheimo, Tero Känsäkangas, Jere Kolehmainen