Patents Issued in January 11, 2022
  • Patent number: 11223228
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure includes an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system comprising a first input configured to receive input AC power, a second input configured to be coupled to an energy storage device having a backup runtime capacity, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the UPS system to store a plurality of indications each indicating a number of times that the UPS system has regained access to the input AC power within a respective amount of time after the UPS system has stopped providing the output power, analyze the plurality of indications to determine an additional backup runtime capacity for reducing a number of load drops, determine a number of additional energy storage devices that provide the additional backup runtime capacity, and output the determined number of additional energy storage devices to add to attain the additional backup runtime capacity and reduce the load drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Raymond M. Fallon
  • Patent number: 11223229
    Abstract: Disclosed is an uninterruptible power supply system comprising an energy storage system (ESS). The uninterruptible power supply system comprises an ESS and is connected to a grid, and further comprises: a first converter for converting an alternating current voltage of the grid into a direct current voltage; a second converter connected in series to the first converter, for converting the direct current voltage outputted from the first converter into an alternating current voltage and transferring same to a load; the ESS comprising a battery connected to a node between the first and second converter, for performing charging and discharging; and a PLC for receiving the operation statuses of the first and second converters, and on the basis thereof, controlling the operation of the uninterruptible power supply system, wherein the PLC determines the operation mode of the ESS by using the received operation statuses of the first and second converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Heon Lee, Dong-Jin Yun, Ji-Hong Kim, Yun-Jae Lee, Min-Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 11223230
    Abstract: An apparatus including a removable modular insert disposed within a housing of a host device, the housing including one or more magnets, and one or more conductive contacts disposed on the removable modular insert to magnetically couple to the one or more magnets and secure the modular insert within the housing of the host device, and electrically couple the modular insert to the host device. A conductive coil can be coupled to the modular insert to electromagnetically receive power from a base device having a surface, where the host device moves and operates along the surface of the base device. The apparatus can include a communication device and a processor to control the communication device for communication between the modular insert and the host device, and control operation of the conductive coil. The communication device further controls the electromagnetic coupling between the modular insert and the base device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Fabrice Sauterel, Christopher Pate, Laurent Plancherel
  • Patent number: 11223231
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a charging system and a charging method for an automatic force detection robot for a gas pipeline. The charging system includes a primary charging unit disposed outside the gas pipeline and a secondary charging unit disposed in the gas pipeline, wherein the primary charging unit includes a primary magnetic core and a primary coil wound on the primary magnetic core, the secondary charging unit includes a secondary magnetic core and a secondary coil wound on the secondary magnetic core, the primary magnetic core and the secondary magnetic core form a closed magnetic field line, the primary coil is connected to a power supply, and the secondary coil is connected to a battery of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Shunli Gao, Xiaxi Li, Zandong Han, Jiabao Zhang, Linlin Xing, Qingyu Wang, Shengguo Li, Yao Liu, Rui Wu, Na Ni
  • Patent number: 11223232
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to digital demodulation for wireless power transmission. A wireless power transmitter includes a transmitter coil and a controller. The transmitter coil is configured to wirelessly couple to a receiver coil of a wireless power receiver to transfer power to the wireless power receiver responsive to a coil current applied to the transmitter coil. The wireless power receiver is configured to modulate at least one electrical condition of the wireless power receiver to modulate the coil current at the transmitter coil. The controller is configured to sample one or more electrical signals of the wireless power transmitter, and digitally demodulate the sampled one or more electrical signals to obtain a communication received from the wireless receiver responsive to the modulation of the at least one electrical condition of the wireless power receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Bhandarkar, Alex Dumais
  • Patent number: 11223233
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer (IPT) converter has a first switching means adapted to produce a time varying input power signal comprising a substantially unipolar stepped waveform, and a second switching means adapted to modify the time varying input power signal provided by the first switching means to produce a modified input power signal. The converter is coupled to a resonant circuit to receive the modified input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Udaya Kumara Madawala, Duleep Jayanath Thirmawithana, Hamid Reza Rahnamaee
  • Patent number: 11223234
    Abstract: A wireless electrical energy transmission system is provided. The system comprises a wireless transmission base configured to wirelessly transmit electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling to a receiving antenna configured within an electronic device. The wireless electrical energy transmission system is configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device external and adjacent to the transmission base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Peralta, Md. Nazmul Alam, Vinit Singh, Christine A. Frysz, Ajit Rajagopalan, Jacob Babcock
  • Patent number: 11223235
    Abstract: A wireless electrical energy transmission system is provided. The system comprises a wireless transmission base configured to wirelessly transmit electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling to a receiving antenna configured within an electronic device. The wireless electrical energy transmission system is configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device external and adjacent to the transmission base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Peralta, Md. Nazmul Alam, Jacob D. Babcock, Vinit Singh, Christine A. Frysz
  • Patent number: 11223236
    Abstract: A power transmitter (101) of a wireless power transfer system provides wireless power to a power receiver (105). The power transmitter (101) comprises a variable resonance circuit (201) generating an inductive power transfer signal in response to a drive signal. The resonance circuit comprises a capacitive and inductive impedance (201, 203), at least one of which is variable. The resonance frequency can be varied by at least one of the impedances being variable in response to a control signal. A driver (205) generates the drive signal with a variable drive frequency. A frequency modulator (305) applies frequency modulation to the drive signal by varying the variable drive frequency in response to data values to be transmitted to the power receiver (105). An adapter (309) generates the control signal in response to the data values such that the variable resonance frequency follows the variations in the drive frequency resulting from the frequency modulation of the drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Andries Van Wageningen, Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring
  • Patent number: 11223237
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a rectifier configured to convert an alternating current voltage into a direct current voltage, wherein the alternating current voltage is generated by a receiver coil configured to be magnetically coupled to a transmitter coil of a wireless power transfer system, a high efficiency power converter connected to the rectifier, the high efficiency power converter comprising a first stage and a second stage connected in cascade and a controller configured to detect a plurality of operating parameters and generate a control signal applied to a control loop of the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NuVolta Technologies (Hefei) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zeng Li, Junxiao Chen, Jinbiao Huang, Xintao Wang
  • Patent number: 11223238
    Abstract: A non-contact power feeding device includes multiple power feeding elements that are disposed spatially separated from one another in a movement direction, an AC power supply that supplies AC power to the power feeding elements, multiple power receiving elements that are provided in a moving body and that receive AC power in a non-contact manner, and a power receiving circuit that converts the AC power received by the power receiving elements and that outputs to an electrical load. When a length of the power feeding elements in the movement direction is LT, a separation distance between the power feeding elements is DT, a length of the power receiving elements in the movement direction is LR, and a separation distance between the power receiving elements is DR, the relationship DT?DR and the relationship (2×LR+DR)?LT are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Nomura, Shinji Takikawa, Masayuki Oki
  • Patent number: 11223239
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes a contactless power supply device and a power receiving device. Power is supplied from the contactless power supply device to the power receiving device while communication is performed therebetween. The power receiving device includes a power receiving coil unit, and a first communication unit that communicates with the contactless power supply device and attaches information having continuity to data transmitted to the contactless power supply device. The contactless power supply device includes a power supply coil unit, a second communication unit, and a power supply control unit that, when the second communication unit begins to receive data transmitted from the first communication unit, refers to the information having continuity attached to the continuously received data, and if continuity has been lost, performs correction to increase the output value of the power supplied from the power supply coil unit to the power receiving coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Miura, Toshiyasu Miwata, Yusuke Kawai, Masashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11223240
    Abstract: A charging pad for charging one or more receiver devices is disclosed. The charging pad includes a power drive unit configured to generate a first AC voltage signal having a first frequency and a second AC voltage signal having a second frequency. Further, the charging pad includes a transmitting unit including a single power exchange coil coupled to the power drive unit, wherein the single power exchange coil includes a first coil segment configured to transmit the first AC voltage signal having the first frequency when the first AC voltage signal is received from the power drive unit. Also, the single power exchange coil includes a second coil segment configured to transmit the second AC voltage signal having the second frequency when the second AC voltage signal is received from the power drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Suma Memana Narayana Bhat, Deepak Aravind, Somakumar Ramachandrapanicker, Arun Kumar Raghunathan
  • Patent number: 11223241
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an electric power transmission device that periodically shifts a frequency of a magnetic field to a plurality of predetermined shift values and that transmits electric power by utilizing the magnetic field. The device includes a plurality of power transmitters and an instructor. Each of the plurality of power transmitters configured to generate a magnetic field. The instructor outputs an instruction signal indicating a shift value to be shifted to each of the power transmitters to instruct the shift value to be shifted to each of the power transmitters. Further, the instructor instructs the shift value to be shifted in such a manner that at least a part of the magnetic fields of the plurality of power transmitters are different in frequency at the same time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Koji Ogura
  • Patent number: 11223242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for performing communication in a wireless power transmission system. The present specification discloses a wireless power transmission apparatus comprising: a communication/control unit configured to perform negotiation on a first available power index with a wireless power reception apparatus; and a power conversion unit configured to create magnetic coupling of a primary coil according to the first available power index, and transmit power wirelessly to the wireless power reception apparatus. The wireless power transmission apparatus can properly adjust an available power index in a dynamic manner at a time point desired by itself according to a surrounding environment/situation, and leadingly initiate communication and authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongcheol Park, Gyunghwan Yook
  • Patent number: 11223243
    Abstract: A contactless power supply system includes a contactless power supply device and a power receiving device. Power is supplied from the contactless power supply device to the power receiving device while communication is performed therebetween. The power receiving device includes a power receiving coil unit, and a first communication unit that attaches information having continuity to data transmitted to the contactless power supply device. The contactless power supply device includes a power supply coil unit, a second communication unit, and a power supply control unit that, in a steady state where communication is performed between two communication units after the second communication unit begins receiving the data transmitted from the first communication unit, refers to information having continuity attached to the data, and if continuity has been lost, performs correction to increase the output value of the power from the power supply coil unit to the power receiving coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Miura, Toshiyasu Miwata, Yusuke Kawai, Masashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11223245
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that can allow for wirelessly powering and/or communicating with a sterile-packed electronic device without removing the electronic device from its sterile packaging and while maintaining the sterility of the electronic device. In some embodiments, a base station with a power transmitter wirelessly transfers power to a power receiver of the electronic device, for example using inductive, capacitive, or ultrasonic coupling. The base station or another external device can also be used to wirelessly program or interrogate the electronic device. Battery charging circuits and switching circuits for use with said systems and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hall, Michael O'Neil, Saurav Gupta
  • Patent number: 11223246
    Abstract: A stator (300) for an electric machine, having a yoke ring (310), and a plurality of teeth (220) arranged side by side within the yoke ring (310) in the circumferential direction, wherein each tooth (220) has a yoke portion (222), wherein the yoke portions (222) of the teeth (220) support one another in the circumferential direction, wherein respectively at least a part of the outer circumference of the yoke portion (222) of each tooth (220) deviates from a circle segment shape that is concentric to a central axis (302) of the stator (300), and the outer circumference encloses at each point an angle of more than 45° with the radius (304) defined by the central axis (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Wittenstein SE
    Inventors: Ing. Ralf Kruse, Wolfgang Weigel, Ingolf Gröning, Armin Neubert, Sandra Köhler
  • Patent number: 11223247
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core includes an annular back yoke, a plurality of teeth, and a plurality of slots. The stator coil, being housed in the slots and wound around the teeth of the stator core, includes coil ends protruding from the respective end faces of the stator core in the axial direction. The rotary electric machine stator further includes an insulating sleeve which is wound around root portion of the coil end on the end face of the stator core in the axial direction and disposed along the circumferential direction of the back yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Makoto Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11223248
    Abstract: In a rotary dynamo-electric reluctance machine, a rotor includes regions of differing magnetic resistances. One region includes material of a first magnetic conductivity. Another region includes material of a second magnetic conductivity which is lower than the first magnetic conductivity. The region having the second magnetic conductivity includes permanent-magnetic material to increase a torque of the reluctance machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Holger Schunk
  • Patent number: 11223249
    Abstract: An electric motor includes an armature and a mover. The armature includes an armature coil. The mover includes a plurality of pole blocks each including an iron core disposed to face the armature and a plurality of permanent magnets which surround the iron core such that a surface of the iron core, which faces the armature, is open. The plurality of permanent magnets in each pole block are disposed such that magnetic poles thereof facing the iron core are equal in polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Hayashi, Takashi Tokuyama, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11223250
    Abstract: An electrical machine (1) comprises a stator (20) and a rotor (10) having a plurality of poles (4). A pole comprises a radial axis (5) centrally through the pole. A pole comprises a first slot configuration (12, 13) having a magnet (15, 16) located centrally within the slot with the radial axis (5) passing through the magnet (15, 16) or the magnet being substantially perpendicular to the radial axis. A pole comprises a second slot configuration (11) having a pair of magnets (14-1, 14-2) located at spaced apart positions within the slot. The pair of magnets (14-1, 14-2) are located each side of the radial axis (5). The first slot configuration (12, 13) is located between the second slot configuration (11) and an outer perimeter (19) of the rotor (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Alexandros Michaelides, Istvan Kiraly, Jose Malumbres Ruiz, Bonyadi Roozbeh
  • Patent number: 11223251
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor body and an axis of revolution which extends in an axial direction and about which the rotor body is rotatable. The rotor further includes an outer casing surface which delimits the rotor body, at least one pole arrangement, and a movement mechanism for the at least one pole arrangement. The movement mechanism is designed such that the at least one pole arrangement is movable about a rotation axis which is oriented substantially parallel to the axis of revolution of the rotor. The at least one pole arrangement is also movable about the rotation axis in addition to rotation about the axis of revolution of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Carsten Angrick, Wolfgang Reik, Matthias Gramann, Peter Schwanemann, Miriam Engler
  • Patent number: 11223252
    Abstract: An electric machine is described, and includes a rotor that is rotatably disposed in a stator. The rotor includes a rotatable shaft that is disposed on a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of laminations that are disposed on the rotatable shaft. The plurality of laminations are arranged on the rotatable shaft to form a plurality of axially-disposed cavities, wherein each of the cavities is defined by a surface. A coating is disposed on the surfaces of the cavities, and a curable filler material is introduced into each of the cavities. The curable filler material adheres to the plurality of laminations via the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Anthony M. Coppola, Gayatri V. Dadheech, Alireza Fatemi
  • Patent number: 11223253
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine includes a stator coil, a stator iron core having slots into which the stator coil is mounted, and insulating slot liners inserted into the slots, wherein conductive wire materials constituting the stator coil are inserted into the slot liners, and sections of the slot liners protruding from the slots are each provided with a bellows portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11223254
    Abstract: A capacitor unit (20) includes: a harness side terminal (23) provided on a first end portion (22a) side of a first surface of a housing (22) for accommodating a capacitor main body therein; a board side terminal (24) provided in the housing (22) and connectable to a circuit board; and a plurality of guide portions (25) that protrude from the first surface and extend from a second end portion (22b) on a side opposite to the first end portion (22a) toward the first end portion (22a). The plurality of guide portions (25) are provided to be separated in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction of connecting the first end portion (22a) and the second end portion (22b) to each other so as to sandwich the harness side terminal (23) therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Hiroto Higuchi, Takayuki Takashige
  • Patent number: 11223255
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a front end cover, a rotary output shaft extending through the front end cover from an inner cavity of the electric motor, and a gear transmission mechanism provided inside the inner cavity of the electric motor. The rotary output shaft includes an inner rotary shaft and an outer rotary shaft that are arranged concentrically. The gear transmission is in a transmission connection with the inner rotary shaft and the outer rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA CONSUMER ELECTRICS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiantang Liang, Liancheng Chen, Congshan Pang, Zhenfeng Yang, Guangren Yang
  • Patent number: 11223256
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a hybrid generator. The hybrid generator according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a housing having an empty space through which a fluid flows; a rotor received inside the housing, rotated by a fluid flowing inside the housing, and having a magnet; and a stator coupled between the housing and the rotor, surrounding the rotor, and having at least one coil. According to the present invention, the rotor includes a rotating shaft having a first blade on the outer circumferential surface thereof, and further includes a second blade detachably coupled to the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ORA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young San Shin
  • Patent number: 11223257
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor shaft having a refrigerant flow path therein, a rotor core, a plurality of magnet pole portions, a first end plate and a second end plate. The stator includes a first coil end located radially outside the first end plate, and a second coil end located radially outside of the second end plate. The first end plate includes a first refrigerant discharge hole, a first groove portion communicating with the refrigerant flow path and communicating with the first refrigerant discharge hole, and a second groove portion communicating with the refrigerant flow path and the core through hole. The second end plate includes a second refrigerant discharge hole communicating with the refrigerant flow path via the core through hole and the second groove portion, without directly communicating with the refrigerant flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Fujita, Norifumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11223258
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor comprising a rotor and a stator, the hollow cylindrical stator of which has a distributed winding consisting of multiple circumferential coil layers arranged one over the other in layers with a winding head. A temperature sensor for detecting a winding head temperature is arranged in the winding head. A dimensionally stable sensor receiving element with a functional section having a receiving area for the temperature sensor is provided which is added between two adjacent coil layers arranged one over the other such that the functional section is fixed in the winding head between the two coil layers that are spread apart by the introduction of the functional section and that the temperature sensor can be inserted into and removed from the receiving area through an opening arranged in a base section of the sensor receiving element, wherein the receiving area is delimited on one hand sectionally by the functional section and on the other hand sectionally by the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Fuchs, Peter Bahrmann, Nils Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 11223259
    Abstract: To effectively cover a coil end with a resin layer. A method for manufacturing a stator includes a first resin layer forming step (ii) of forming a first thermoset resin layer by impregnating the tip end side of a coil end with first thermoset resin, the coil end protruding from the core of the stator, the first thermoset resin having liquidity; a second resin layer forming step (iii) of forming a second thermoset resin layer on the first thermoset resin layer by dropping second thermoset resin from the core side of the coil end toward the tip end side; and a curing step of curing the first thermoset resin and the second thermoset resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Kawai, Yasushi Nishikuma, Hiroaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11223260
    Abstract: The invention provides a coil molding attached to a stator of a motor, the coil molding including a coil wound around each of teeth of the stator, and a bus bar connected to the coil and molded integrally with the coil. The invention also provides another coil molding attached to a stator of a motor, the coil molding including a set of coils wound respectively around a plurality of teeth of the stator, the set of coils being molded integrally with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yoshikawa, Keiichiro Nukada, Hirokazu Yamauchi, Mitsuoki Hishida
  • Patent number: 11223261
    Abstract: A magnet embedded core is manufactured in a stable manner even when using a die clamping device having a large rated clamping force by preventing an excessive pressurizing force from being applied to a laminated iron core, performing the clamping with an appropriate pressurizing force so to minimize leakage of the resin out of magnet insertion holes, and suppressing a reduction in the geometric and dimensional precision of the laminated iron core. A die clamping device for driving a moveable platen in a direction toward and away from a fixed lower platen is configured to include a toggle link mechanism. In a fully extended state of the toggle link mechanism, an upper die abuts an end surface of the laminated iron core to close openings of the magnet insertion holes and pressurize the laminated iron core in a laminating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Okudaira, Tomoaki Murayama, Osamu Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 11223262
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for forming a rotor or stator core. The method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of key punches disposed about an inner diameter area of a sheet of electrical steel and circumferentially spaced from one another and activating a first key punch of the plurality of key punches to cut the electrical steel sheet to remove a portion to form a first key disposed at a first key rotational angle from the line of orientation from a plurality of key rotational angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Tempel Steel Company
    Inventor: Mark D. Bender
  • Patent number: 11223263
    Abstract: An axial flux rotary generator comprising: two magnetic annuli; a coil annulus; the magnetic annuli and coil annulus having a common axis; the two magnetic annuli defining a plurality of magnetic fields around the common axis extending across a gap between the two magnetic annuli and the coil annulus having a sequence of coils around the common axis in the gap such that lines of magnetic flux from the magnetic fields cut the turns of the coils and thus induce electric current in the coils as the magnetic annuli are caused to rotate relative to the coil annulus, means provided at or towards the central aperture of the coil annulus axial to resist flexure of the coil annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Time To Act Limited
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 11223264
    Abstract: A magnetic motor comprising a rotating flywheel coupled to rotate a drive output shaft within a support cage. Multiple permanent magnets extend directionally from the flywheel. Pairs of positionally fixed electro-magnets extend from the cage effacing platforms for sequential selective magnetic interaction with permanent magnets rotatable driving the flywheel and the drive output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Tom Hotton
  • Patent number: 11223265
    Abstract: An electric generator comprising a rotor housing; a rotor mounted in the rotor housing, with two opposed main faces; permanent magnets circumferentially arranged in front of one of the main faces of the rotor; coils circumferentially arranged in front of the other one of the main faces of the rotor; the rotor being configured for, upon rotation, vary a magnetic flux through the coils produced by the permanent magnets, so as to generate electromotive forces in said coils; wherein the coils are arranged outside of the rotor housing. Also a valve for gas cylinder, equipped with a corresponding electric generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Rotarex S.A.
    Inventors: Mathieu Gerard, Jérôme Polesel Maris
  • Patent number: 11223266
    Abstract: Magnets are configured to generate absorption force for holding a movable member at each of first and second positions. A power generator includes a mover configured to move in conjunction with the movable member. The power generator is configured to convert kinetic energy of the mover into electrical energy. When an operator moves in a direction in which a first pressing part approaches a second holding part while the movable member is at the first position, a spring member is compressed by the first pressing part and the second holding part. The spring member then generates restoring force for moving the movable member to the second position. When the operator moves in a direction in which a second pressing part approaches a first holding part while the movable member is at the second position, the spring member is compressed by the second pressing part and the first holding part. The spring member then generates restoring force for moving the movable member to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Suguru Ohishi
  • Patent number: 11223267
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of fluid delivering. An electromagnetic pump is provided. The electromagnetic pump includes a drive mechanism and a magnetic assembly, where the magnetic assembly is configured to be driven by the drive mechanism to generate a varying magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jinfeng Wang, Tao Liu
  • Patent number: 11223268
    Abstract: A DC power supply and a method for operating a DC power supply, wherein the DC power supply comprises at least one feedback-controlled preregulator, at least one feedback-controlled postregulator supplied by the feedback-controlled preregulator, output terminals for supplying regulated constant current or regulated constant voltage to a load, and a control unit for controlling at least one of the feedback-controlled preregulator and the feedback-controlled postregulator, and designed for adjusting a voltage offset or a current offset added to a signal in a feedback loop of at least one of the feedback-controlled preregulator and the feedback-controlled postregulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Philipp Weigell, Sascha Kunisch
  • Patent number: 11223269
    Abstract: A circuit for controlling a switching power supply and a method for controlling a switching power supply by using the circuit for controlling the switching power supply, the circuit for controlling a switching power supply is configured to control a power stage circuit of a converter of the switching power supply. The circuit for controlling the switching power supply includes an external magnetic field direct detection unit, a current limit threshold unit, an operating frequency unit, a pulse width unit and a logic unit. The external magnetic field direct detection unit includes a Hall device and a Hall detection component. In accordance with the circuit for controlling the switching power supply of the present disclosure, the intensity of the external magnetic field can be detected directly at the chip level, and the operating mode of the switching power supply system can be adjusted timely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: WUXI CHIPOWN MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping Tao, Haijun Zhou, Haisong Li, Yangbo Yi, Wei Gao
  • Patent number: 11223270
    Abstract: A synchronous switching scheme with adaptive slew control in order to adiabatically charge and discharge a capacitor to recycle charge and generate a boosted voltage on the gate of the synchronous rectifier field effect transistor (FET) is described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a synchronous rectifier FET coupled to a transformer, and a secondary-side controller coupled to the synchronous rectifier FET. The secondary-side controller includes a synchronous rectifier gate driver (SRGD) coupled to a gate of the synchronous rectifier FET. The SRGD is to drive the synchronous rectifier FET using the capacitor and an adaptive slew rate, and to adiabatically charge and discharge the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Karri Rajesh, Arun Khamesra
  • Patent number: 11223271
    Abstract: A gate drive adapter circuit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, and a charge pump circuit. The input circuit is configured to receive pulses suitable for controlling a silicon power transistor. The output circuit is coupled to the input circuit. The output circuit is configured to translate the pulses to voltages suitable for controlling a silicon-carbide power transistor. The charge pump circuit is coupled to the input circuit and to the output circuit. The charge pump circuit is configured to generate a negative voltage. The output circuit is configured to apply the negative voltage to translate the pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xun Gong, Ingolf Frank
  • Patent number: 11223272
    Abstract: A method includes driving a first transistor to conduct a first current into an inductor when conductive and driving a second transistor to conduct a second current into the inductor when conductive. A first sense current is generated in response to the first current and a copy of the second current. A second sense current is generated in response to the second current and a copy of the first current. The first sense current is adjusted in response to the copy of the second current when the first transistor is nonconductive. The second sense current is adjusted in response to the copy of the first current when the second transistor is nonconductive. On times of the first and second transistors are controlled in response to a sum of the first and second sense currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Mahbub Hasan
  • Patent number: 11223273
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) circuit, a sub-harmonic reduction circuit, and a voltage feedback circuit. The PWM circuit produces a PWM signal according to a voltage control signal, a current of the electronic circuit, and a maximum duty cycle. When the electronic circuit is operating in a peak current limit mode, the sub-harmonic reduction circuit generates a feedback adjustment signal according to whether the current of the electronic circuit exceeds a peak current limit, whether a duty cycle of the PWM signal is greater than or equal to the maximum duty cycle, whether the voltage control signal is controlling the duty cycle of the PWM signal, or combinations thereof. The voltage feedback circuit generates the voltage control signal according to an output voltage produced using the PWM signal, a value of a reference voltage, and a value of the feedback adjustment signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yung-I Chang, Gabriel Eirea, Shawn Laliberte
  • Patent number: 11223274
    Abstract: Provided is a system of varying a dead time of a converter, including a converter including a plurality of semiconductor switches to which a dead time is applied during an alternate switching operation; and a controller controlling ON/OFF of the plurality of semiconductor switches and setting the dead time, wherein the controller varies the dead time during an operation of the converter. According to the present invention, an over dead-time may be detected and varied to an appropriate dead time, thereby minimizing power loss of the converter and increasing efficiency thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SOLUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Keun Ji, Dong Kyun Ryu
  • Patent number: 11223275
    Abstract: A switching mode power supply (SMPS) circuit is disclosed herein which includes: a first input rectification circuit, a first capacitor, a feedback control and driving circuit, and at least one boost circuit. The first input rectification circuit rectifies an input voltage and charges the first capacitor, forming a first loop. The second input rectification circuit rectifies the input voltage and charges the second capacitor, forming a second loop. The first inductor, second capacitor and first switching component form a third loop in which rectified voltage on the second capacitor charges the first inductor. The first inductor, second capacitor, first capacitor and first output rectification circuit form a fourth loop in which induced voltage on the first inductor and voltage on the second capacitor are superimposed to charge the first capacitor through the first output rectification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TUITUO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Renhong Li, Zhuo Shen
  • Patent number: 11223276
    Abstract: A voltage converter with a high side power switch, having: an off control circuit, having a first input terminal configured to receive an input voltage, a second input terminal configured to receive an output voltage, a third input terminal configured to receive a current representing signal indicative of a current flowing through the high side power switch, a fourth input terminal configured to receive an on-set signal in response to an on operation of the high side power switch, and an output terminal configured to provide an off control signal to indicate an end of an on time period of the high side power switch; wherein the on time period of the high side power switch is regulated by the input voltage, the output voltage and the current representing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Wen Cai
  • Patent number: 11223277
    Abstract: The present document describes a power converter configured to provide energy at an output based on energy provided at an input. The power converter comprises a first switch, wherein a first node is coupled to the input and wherein a second node is coupled to an intermediate point, a second switch, wherein a first node is coupled to the intermediate point and wherein a second node is coupled to an inductor point, a capacitor, wherein a first node of the capacitor is coupled to the intermediate point, a first diode element, wherein a first node is coupled to a second node of the capacitor and wherein a second node is coupled to the inductor point, a second diode element, wherein a first node is coupled to a reference port, and wherein a second node is coupled to the second node of the capacitor; and an inductor, wherein a first node is coupled to the inductor point and wherein a second node is coupled to the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Ambreesh Bhattad, Horst Knoedgen, James T. Doyle, Milan Dragojevic
  • Patent number: 11223278
    Abstract: Voltage supply circuitry includes a high-side pin and a low-side pin configured to couple to a storage element and an output pin. The voltage supply further includes a high-side switching element configured to electrically couple the positive supply pin and the low-side pin based on a high-side control signal and a low-side switching element configured to electrically couple the reference supply pin and the low-side pin based on a low-side control signal. The voltage supply further including driver circuitry configured to generate the high-side control signal and the low-side control signal for operating in a charge pump mode when the storage element is arranged in a charge pump configuration with the voltage supply circuitry and to generate the high-side control signal and the low-side control signal for operating in a boost converter mode when the storage element is arranged in a boost converter configuration with the voltage supply circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael Asam, Mihai-Alexandru Ionescu, Ardit Tabaku