Patents by Inventor Jon Witcombe

Jon Witcombe 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).

  • Patent number: 11984781
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about a rotational axis, by which an axial direction is defined, and a stator with stator windings, a coolant distributor space and a coolant collector space. The coolant distributor space communicates fluidically with the coolant collector space to cool the stator windings with a cooling duct. The stator includes stator teeth supporting the stator windings and protruding radially inward from a stator body of the stator. A stator groove is formed between two stator teeth which has a radially outer groove zone extending radially inward away from the stator body into a radially inner groove zone, the radially inner zone width of which is smaller than the radially outer zone width, when measured along the circumferential direction, of the radially outer groove zone. At least one stator winding is embedded, for thermal coupling, into an electrically insulating plastic arranged in the stator groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Patent number: 11527932
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator may include providing an annular stator body including a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart from one another. The method may also include at least partially overmoulding at least two adjacent stator teeth with a first plastic mass. The method may further include arranging at least one stator winding on at least one stator tooth of the at least two stator teeth and fixing the at least one stator winding on the at least one stator tooth via at least partially overmoulding the at least one stator winding with a second plastic mass. The method may additionally include, prior to fixing the at least one stator winding, introducing a mask into an intermediate space defined between the at least two stator teeth to cover a surface portion of the stator body bounding the intermediate space radially outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markie, Sentance Graham, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Publication number: 20200373799
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator may include providing an annular stator body including a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart from one another. The method may also include at least partially overmoulding at least two adjacent stator teeth with a first plastic mass. The method may further include arranging at least one stator winding on at least one stator tooth of the at least two stator teeth and fixing the at least one stator winding on the at least one stator tooth via at least partially overmoulding the at least one stator winding with a second plastic mass. The method may additionally include, prior to fixing the at least one stator winding, introducing a mask into an intermediate space defined between the at least two stator teeth to cover a surface portion of the stator body bounding the intermediate space radially outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Sentance Graham, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Publication number: 20200295618
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a rotor, which can be rotated about an axis of rotation, with which an axial direction is defined, and a stator having stator windings, a coolant distribution chamber and a coolant collecting chamber arranged axially at a distance thereto, the coolant distribution chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collecting chamber for cooling the stator windings, a cooling duct and a stator winding are embedded in an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling, the stator has stator teeth which extend along the axial direction, are spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction and bear the stator windings, the electrically insulating plastic is arranged together with the cooling duct and the stator winding in an intermediate space, and the electrically insulating plastic is formed by a first plastic mass of a first plastic material and by a second plastic mass of a second plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Publication number: 20200295614
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a rotor, which can be rotated about an axis of rotation, with which an axial direction is defined, and a stator having stator windings, a coolant distribution chamber and a coolant collecting chamber arranged axially at a distance thereto, the coolant distribution chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collecting chamber for cooling the stator windings, a cooling duct and a stator winding are embedded in an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling, the stator has stator teeth which extend along the axial direction, are spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction and bear the stator windings, the electrically insulating plastic is arranged together with the cooling duct and the stator winding in an intermediate space, and the electrically insulating plastic is formed by a first plastic mass of a first plastic material and by a second plastic mass of a second plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Publication number: 20200295615
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator for an electric machine includes providing a stator with an annular stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth protrude radially inwardly, wherein an intermediate space is formed in each case between two stator teeth that are adjacent in a circumferential direction, encapsulating two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction with a first plastic mass, arranging a stator winding on a stator tooth, fixing the stator winding on the stator tooth by encapsulating said stator winding with a second plastic mass, following the encapsulation with the first plastic mass and before the fixing of the stator winding, a first mask is introduced into the intermediate space between the two stator teeth, such that the volume of the intermediate space that is filled with the first mask remains free from the second plastic mass to form a cooling duct during the encapsulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Publication number: 20200295617
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about a rotational axis, by which an axial direction is defined, and a stator with stator windings, a coolant distributor space and a coolant collector space. The coolant distributor space communicates fluidically with the coolant collector space to cool the stator windings with a cooling duct. The stator includes stator teeth supporting the stator windings and protruding radially inward from a stator body of the stator. A stator groove is formed between two stator teeth which has a radially outer groove zone extending radially inward away from the stator body into a radially inner groove zone, the radially inner zone width of which is smaller than the radially outer zone width, when measured along the circumferential direction, of the radially outer groove zone. At least one stator winding is embedded, for thermal coupling, into an electrically insulating plastic arranged in the stator groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe