Patents by Inventor Stéphane Dufau

Stéphane Dufau 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: 20200398669
    Abstract: An assembly, having a generator and electric motors, for a vehicle air-conditioning or cooling system, having: a compressor intended to be driven by a heat engine, a top-up electric motor for driving the compressor when the latter is not or cannot be driven by the heat engine, a generator with permanent magnets having a shaft which can be driven in rotation by the heat engine, the generator and the top-up electric motor being disposed on this shaft, one or more condenser and/or evaporator electric motors of a vehicle air-conditioning or cooling system, said electric motors being configured to be powered by a direct current, the generator powering the electric motor or motors through a converter configured to supply a direct current, notably a low-voltage controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY SOMER
    Inventors: Nicolas NAY, Sébastien CHARENTON, Stéphane DUFAU, Matthieu ROBIN
  • Patent number: 10536060
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric rotary machine including a rotor magnetic mass formed by a stack of superimposed electrical sheets containing housings, and a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the housings, the housings being provided with a plurality of lugs for locking the permanent magnets in the housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Alban Marino, François Turcat, Stéphane Dufau, Mario Pereira
  • Patent number: 9979244
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a rotating electrical machine, comprising: a magnetic mass (2), in particular a rotor, comprising first housings (3), a plurality of permanent magnets (11) inserted into the first housings (3), and shims (20), preferably deformable, inserted into the first housings (3) and/or into second housings (12) provided in the magnetic mass (2), the shims (20) being configured to wedge the magnets (11) in the first housings by plastic and/or elastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Michel Droit, Stéphane Dufau, Sébastien Porcher, Nicolas Gluard
  • Publication number: 20160336839
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric rotary machine including a rotor magnetic mass formed by a stack of superimposed electrical sheets containing housings, and a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the housings, the housings being provided with a plurality of lugs for locking the permanent magnets in the housings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Alban MARINO, François TURCAT, Stéphane DUFAU, Mario PEREIRA
  • Publication number: 20160013690
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a rotating electrical machine, comprising: a magnetic mass (2), in particular a rotor, comprising first housings (3), a plurality of permanent magnets (11) inserted into the first housings (3), and shims (20), preferably deformable, inserted into the first housings (3) and/or into second housings (12) provided in the magnetic mass (2), the shims (20) being configured to wedge the magnets (11) in the first housings by plastic and/or elastic deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michel Droit, Stéphane Dufau, Sébastien Porcher, Nicolas Gluard
  • Publication number: 20150145351
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for potting a stator of an electric machine, including:—introducing an expandable, preferably elastically deformable, non-metallic shell in a non-expanded state into the stator,—expanding the shell,—pouring a resin around the shell, inside the stator,—retracting and removing the shell after the resin has set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Sébastien Porcher, Haikel Gherairi, Stéphane Dufau
  • Publication number: 20110121668
    Abstract: A rotor for rotating an electric machine having permanent magnets and flux concentration, including a shaft extending along the rotational axis of the rotor, a rotor body placed on the shaft, the rotor body having a central opening for the mounting thereof on the shaft; radially oriented recesses wherein the permanent magnets are placed; and in at least one angular space separating two consecutive recesses, at least one cavity leading neither to the central opening nor to the two consecutive recesses, the cavity or cavities located in the space occupying an angular area around the rotational axis of the rotor greater than or equal to half of the angular area of the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Dominique Condamin, Michel Labonne, Patrick Camus, Stephane Dufau