Patents by Inventor Tero Känsäkangas

Tero Känsäkangas 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: 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: 10707722
    Abstract: A protection arrangement of an electric machine which includes a plurality of solid elements layered one after another between a terminal box and a stator of the electric machine. Each of the solid elements includes a cable hole, and the cable holes are arranged to at least partially overlap with each other in order to have a cable channel of the successive cable holes through the solid elements. At least a part of the solid elements are adjustable in a radial direction of the cable channel for making a diameter of the cable channel equal to or smaller than a diameter of the electric cable input in the cable channel in response to adjustment in the radial direction. The protection arrangement comprises a locking mechanism which immobilizes the at least part of solid elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20200076269
    Abstract: A protection arrangement of an electric machine which includes a plurality of solid elements layered one after another between a terminal box and a stator of the electric machine. Each of the solid elements includes a cable hole, and the cable holes are arranged to at least partially overlap with each other in order to have a cable channel of the successive cable holes through the solid elements. At least a part of the solid elements are adjustable in a radial direction of the cable channel for making a diameter of the cable channel equal to or smaller than a diameter of the electric cable input in the cable channel in response to adjustment in the radial direction. The protection arrangement comprises a locking mechanism which immobilizes the at least part of solid elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Jouni Ikäheimo, 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20180233971
    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: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Tero Känsäkangas