Patents by Inventor Timothy James Thursby WOOLMER

Timothy James Thursby WOOLMER 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: 10069388
    Abstract: We describe a method of manufacturing a housing for the stator of an axial flux permanent magnet machine, the machine having a stator comprising a set of coils wound on respective stator bars and disposed circumferentially at intervals about an axis of the machine, and a rotor bearing a set of permanent magnets and mounted for rotation about said axis, and wherein said rotor and stator are spaced apart along said axis to define a gap therebetween in which magnetic flux in the machine is generally in an axial direction, the method comprising: fabricating a radial wall for said stator housing to be located in said gap between said rotor and said stator by: placing a resin membrane into a mold of an injection molding machine; injection molding a set of reinforcing features onto said membrane using a thermoplastic polymer bondable when molten with said resin; and manufacturing said housing using said radial wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: YASA LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Lee Court, Jon Barker, Charles Edmund King, Mark Stephen Ewart East, Jonathan James Biddulph, Timothy James Thursby Woolmer
  • Publication number: 20160226353
    Abstract: We describe a method of manufacturing a housing for the stator of an axial flux permanent magnet machine, the machine having a stator comprising a set of coils wound on respective stator bars and disposed circumferentially at intervals about an axis of the machine, and a rotor bearing a set of permanent magnets and mounted for rotation about said axis, and wherein said rotor and stator are spaced apart along said axis to define a gap therebetween in which magnetic flux in the machine is generally in an axial direction, the method comprising: fabricating a radial wall for said stator housing to be located in said gap between said rotor and said stator by: placing a resin membrane into a mould of an injection moulding machine; injection moulding a set of reinforcing features onto said membrane using a thermoplastic polymer bondable when molten with said resin; and manufacturing said housing using said radial wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Lee COURT, Jon BARKER, Charles Edmund KING, Mark Stephen Ewart EAST, Jonathan James BIDDULPH, Timothy James Thursby WOOLMER