Patents by Inventor Peter Colton

Peter Colton 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: 20230390546
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magnetic suspension motor (10) and a magnetic suspension blood pump. The magnetic suspension motor (10) comprises a stator assembly (11) and a rotor assembly (12) disposed above the stator assembly (11), with an axial gap (13) provided between the stator assembly (11) and the rotor assembly (12). The stator assembly (11) comprises a stator base (111), a plurality of stator teeth (112) distributed along a circumference of the stator base (111) and extending upward from an upper surface of the stator base (111), and a stator thrust body (114) arranged in an internal cavity enclosed by the plurality of stator teeth (112), wherein the stator teeth (112) are wound with stator coils (113). The rotor assembly (12) comprises a rotor ring (121), a rotor driving magnet (122) disposed on a lower surface of the rotor ring (121), and a rotor thrust magnet (124) disposed in an inner cavity of the rotor ring (121).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Magassist, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas George Logan, Peter Colton James Clifton, Chiahao Hsu
  • Publication number: 20230021792
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor for an extracorporeal blood pump, an extracorporeal blood pump, and an extracorporeal blood pump system. The motor for an extracorporeal blood pump comprises: a housing; an actuator located in the housing and used for driving an impeller in a pump head of the extracorporeal blood pump; at least one sensor located in the housing; and a motor driving-control assembly located in the housing and used to control operation of the motor. Integrating the motor driving-control assembly into the housing of the motor can significantly reduce the dependence of the motor on the control host of the extracorporeal blood pump, the risk of communication failure between the motor and the control host, and the risk of malfunction of the motor driving-control assembly, thereby greatly improving the safety and reliability of the extracorporeal blood pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Magassist, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas George Logan, Peter Colton James Clifton, Bo Wei, Ifan Yen
  • Patent number: 4922977
    Abstract: In a rotary cutter block each blade (14) is clamped in an inwardly divergent recess (12) by a wedge (16). The wedges (16) may be clamped simultaneously against their associated blades (14) by application of high pressure grease at any of one or more grease nipples (52, 54) which actuates by hydraulic plungers (22) in the bases of the wedge recesses (12). The angle of the wedges (16) is such as to provide a taper-lock between the wedges (16), the blades (14) and the recesses (12), which means that after depressurization the cutterblock can be stored or moved from one machine spindle to another without slackening of the wedges. The invention is of considerable advantage in reducing the amount of setting-up time involved in setting and grinding the blades of a rotary cutter head, since one pressurization is sufficient to tighten all the wedges simultaneously and to the same degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Wadkin plc
    Inventors: Peter Colton, Andrew D. Willbond, Mark A. Stocker