Patents by Inventor Michael Richard Ricci
Michael Richard Ricci 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).
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Patent number: 10574110Abstract: A lightweight and efficient electrical machine element including a method of manufacture providing a stator winding for an electric machine which has a large portion of its volume containing electrically conductive strands and a small portion of its volume containing of an encapsulant material. The stator winding includes winding of a first phase by shaping a portion of a bundle of conductive strands into an overlapping, multi-layer arrangement. Winding of successive phases occurs with further bundles of conductor strands around the preceding phases constructed into similar overlapping, multi-layer arrangements. The multiple phases are impregnated with the encapsulant material using dies to press the bundles into a desired form while expelling excess encapsulant prior to the curing of the encapsulant material. The encapsulated winding is removed from the dies after the encapsulant has cured. The encapsulant coating on the strands may be activated using either heat or solvent.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Geoffrey Alan Long, Bradley E. Paden, Michael Richard Ricci, David Brian Paden, Jonathan Gordon Sugar
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Patent number: 10468955Abstract: An axial flux brushless permanent magnet electrical machine having a stator and at least one rotor. The rotor includes a Halbach array of magnets with at least four magnets per magnetic cycle. The rotor magnets are contained within pockets in the rotor. The pockets are formed with magnet pocket walls being radial walls, active surface walls, and/or inactive surface walls where the walls retain the magnets within the pockets.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michael Richard Ricci, Jonathan Gordon Sugar, Bradley Evan Paden, David Brian Paden
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Publication number: 20190058384Abstract: An axial flux brushless permanent magnet electrical machine having a stator and at least one rotor. The rotor includes a Halbach array of magnets with at least four magnets per magnetic cycle. The rotor magnets are contained within pockets in the rotor. The pockets are formed with magnet pocket walls being radial walls, active surface walls, and/or inactive surface walls where the walls retain the magnets within the pockets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Michael Richard RICCI, Jonathan Gordon SUGAR, Bradley Evan PADEN, David Brian PADEN
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Patent number: 10141822Abstract: An axial flux brushless permanent magnet electrical machine having a stator and at least one rotor. The rotor includes a Halbach array of magnets with at least four magnets per magnetic cycle. The rotor magnets are contained within pockets in the rotor. The pockets are formed with magnet pocket walls being radial walls, active surface walls, and/or inactive surface walls where the walls retain the magnets within the pockets.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michael Richard Ricci, Jonathan Gordon Sugar, Bradley Evan Paden, David Brian Paden
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Publication number: 20160365755Abstract: A lightweight and efficient electrical machine element including a method of manufacture providing a stator winding for an electric machine which has a large portion of its volume containing electrically conductive strands and a small portion of its volume containing of an encapsulant material. The stator winding includes winding of a first phase by shaping a portion of a bundle of conductive strands into an overlapping, multi-layer arrangement. Winding of successive phases occurs with further bundles of conductor strands around the preceding phases constructed into similar overlapping, multi-layer arrangements. The multiple phases are impregnated with the encapsulant material using dies to press the bundles into a desired form while expelling excess encapsulant prior to the curing of the encapsulant material. The encapsulated winding is removed from the dies after the encapsulant has cured. The encapsulant coating on the strands may be activated using either heat or solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Geoffrey Alan LONG, Bradley E. PADEN, Michael Richard RICCI, David Brian PADEN, Jonathan Gordon SUGAR
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Publication number: 20160329795Abstract: An axial flux brushless permanent magnet electrical machine having a stator and at least one rotor. The rotor includes a Halbach array of magnets with at least four magnets per magnetic cycle. The rotor magnets are contained within pockets in the rotor. The pockets are formed with magnet pocket walls being radial walls, active surface walls, and/or inactive surface walls where the walls retain the magnets within the pockets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Michael Richard RICCI, Jonathan Gordon SUGAR, Bradley Evan PADEN, David Brian PADEN
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Publication number: 20080303355Abstract: A variable reluctance electric motor employs motor coils installed adjacent to or integral with railroad rails and uses the steel wheels of railroad locomotives and cars as its moving elements. This “rail motor” electrically propels unmodified conventional railroad trains or individual railroad cars, without the use of diesel engines and with no mechanical connection to the vehicles, and is electronically controlled. Electric operation eliminates the production of air pollution by any locomotive traveling through rail motor-equipped zones, improves system capacity by providing boost power on ascending grades, and can be used to brake trains, recovering and storing the energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Orlo James Fiske, Michael Richard Ricci
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Patent number: 6873235Abstract: One or more permanent magnets, or one or more permanent magnet arrays are used to produce shear force levitation. A primary application of shear force levitators is a levitated ring energy storage device. Such a levitated ring energy storage device includes a round support structure having a first magnetic levitator or levitator array encircling its outer periphery, and a ring encircling the support structure and having a second magnetic levitator or levitator array encircling its inner periphery, such that the first and second magnetic levitators (or levitator arrays) interact to produce a vertical force that levitates the ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Magtube, Inc.Inventors: Orlo James Fiske, Chen Chen, Michael Richard Ricci, Bradley Evan Paden
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Patent number: 6684794Abstract: A magnetically levitated transportation system employs permanent magnet rails along a guideway that interact with permanent magnets on a vehicle. The rails are optimized to reduce magnetic mass, while maximizing lift force. In one example, the arrays are composed of arrays of magnets having rotating magnetizations, such as Halbach arrays. In another example, the arrays are cup-shaped to provide stronger magnetic field forces in the central portion of the array, relative to the lateral portion of the array. The vehicle may be stabilized in the lateral and yaw directions with feedback controlled lateral control coils that interact with the permanent magnet rails on the guideway. Vertical, pitch and roll motions may be controlled or damped with eddy-current damper coils or plates or with active feedback control to control the coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Magtube, Inc.Inventors: Orlo James Fiske, Chen Chen, Michael Richard Ricci, Bradley Evan Paden
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Publication number: 20030217668Abstract: A magnetically levitated transportation system employs permanent magnet rails along a guideway that interact with permanent magnets on a vehicle. The rails are optimized to reduce magnetic mass, while maximizing lift force. In one example, the arrays are composed of arrays of magnets having rotating magnetizations, such as Halbach arrays. In another example, the arrays are cup-shaped to provide stronger magnetic field forces in the central portion of the array, relative to the lateral portion of the array. The vehicle may be stabilized in the lateral and yaw directions with feedback controlled lateral control coils that interact with the permanent magnet rails on the guideway. Vertical, pitch and roll motions may be controlled or damped with eddy-current damper coils or plates or with active feedback control to control the coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2002Publication date: November 27, 2003Applicant: MAGTUBE, INC.Inventors: Orlo James Fiske, Chen Chen, Michael Richard Ricci, Bradley Evan Paden
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Publication number: 20030192449Abstract: One or more permanent magnets, or one or more permanent magnet arrays are used to produce shear force levitation. A primary application of shear force levitators is a levitated ring energy storage device. Such a levitated ring energy storage device includes a round support structure having a first magnetic levitator or levitator array encircling its outer periphery, and a ring encircling the support structure and having a second magnetic levitator or levitator array encircling its inner periphery, such that the first and second magnetic levitators (or levitator arrays) interact to produce a vertical force that levitates the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Applicant: MAGTUBE, INC.Inventors: Orlo James Fiske, Chen Chen, Michael Richard Ricci, Bradley Evan Paden