Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
  • Patent number: 11909241
    Abstract: An electronic device to which a drive power is supplied from a battery is provided. The electronic device includes a control circuit that acquires battery information including information related to a status of the battery, a storage that stores the acquired battery information, and an interface circuit that communicates with a management server via a network. The control circuit transmits the battery information stored in the storage to the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit receives control information related to control of the battery from the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit controls the battery according to the received control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junya Kamijima
  • Patent number: 11909242
    Abstract: The invention discloses a high-voltage driver switch system and switching method. The system includes a main control chip module and an energy storage capacitor connected with a battery pack, a drive circuit module, a pre-charge circuit and a charge circuit for charging the energy storage capacitor. The pre-charge circuit is connected with the main control chip module and has a current limit resistor, so as to pre-charge the energy storage capacitor under the control of the main control chip module. The charge circuit is connected with the main control chip module and has an electronic switch module which includes two ends connected respectively with the battery pack and the energy storage capacitor, the battery pack charges the energy storage capacitor when switched-on. The invention reduces the instantaneous start-up current and avoids a high current impact caused by charging the energy storage capacitor by the battery pack directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zefeng Wei, Biao Li
  • Patent number: 11909243
    Abstract: Embodiments of information handling systems (IHSs) having rechargeable batteries and improved battery charge control methods are provided herein. For example, a method is disclosed for dynamically switching between a plurality of battery charging profiles, each having different recharge thresholds and charge termination thresholds for controlling battery recharge. Such a method may include detecting discharge current from a rechargeable battery of an IHS, determining whether or not the IHS is coupled to an external power source, and switching from using a first battery charging profile to using a second battery charging profile to recharge the rechargeable battery in response to detecting the discharge current while the IHS is coupled to the external power source and/or determining that the discharge current is a short term supplemental power event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Richard C. Thompson, Karunakar P. Reddy, Yan Ning
  • Patent number: 11909244
    Abstract: Disclosed are a battery charging method, a controller, a battery management system, a battery, and an electric device, aimed to suppress lithium plating of the battery. The battery charging method includes: obtaining an electrical parameter of a battery; determining whether the electrical parameter of the battery reaches a preset threshold, where a value range of the preset threshold meets the following condition: a battery state of charge (SOC) corresponding to the preset threshold is 70% to 80%; suspending, when the electrical parameter of the battery reaches the preset threshold, charging of the battery and discharging the battery for a duration of t; and continuing to charge the battery when the discharge is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventor: Haili Li
  • Patent number: 11909245
    Abstract: A battery charging method includes: acquiring a current static voltage of a battery in a current charging stage, and determining the maximum charging current matching with the current static voltage, during staged charging of the battery; and charging the battery according to the maximum charging current. The charging speed can be guaranteed, and the overvoltage protection cannot be triggered during each charging stage, thereby preventing damages to battery cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhu Zhang, Huan Dang
  • Patent number: 11909246
    Abstract: A method and system for AC battery operation. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining, at a battery management unit (BMU) coupled to an AC battery comprising a power converter and a battery that is rechargeable, a bias control voltage that indicates a state of a charge process of the AC battery; and coupling, by a bias control module of the BMU, the bias control voltage to the power converting for communicating the state of the charge process to and from the BMU and the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Enphase Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Fornage, Mauricio Cespedes Moya
  • Patent number: 11909247
    Abstract: Semiconductor device includes a controller for controlling a charging of a battery cell. When the battery cell is charged, the controller generates a voltage command value which instructs to a charger so that an upper limit value of an output voltage output from the charger is higher than a predetermined voltage which is a maximum potential voltage that the battery cell can be charged maximally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Uchinohae, Youhei Kengoyama
  • Patent number: 11909248
    Abstract: A device in a wireless power system may be operable with a removable accessory such as a case. The device may transmit or receive wireless power through the case while the electronic device is coupled to the case. The case may have a folio shape with a front cover portion that covers the display of the electronic device. The case may have an embedded ferrimagnetic core that relays magnetic flux during wireless power transfer operations. Magnetic alignment structures in the case may position the ferrimagnetic core in the case in a high magnetic flux density region between the power transmitting device and the power receiving device. The ferrimagnetic core relays the magnetic flux between a transmitting coil in the power transmitting device and a receiving coil in the power receiving device. The ferrimagnetic core may be formed in a front portion, a sidewall, or a rear wall of a case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zelin Xu, Nan Liu, Zaki Moussaoui, Gianpaolo Lisi, Kunal Bhargava, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Matthew J. Chabalko, Robert Scritzky
  • Patent number: 11909249
    Abstract: A power feeding system of the present disclosure includes a control unit. In a case where a magnitude of supply destination power is smaller than an upper limit value of the power supply capability of the power source, the control unit controls the charge/discharge control circuit so as to meet the supply destination power based on power output from the power source, and to charge the storage battery with power which is a difference obtained by subtracting the supply destination power from the upper limit value of the power supply capability of the power source. In a case where the magnitude of the supply destination power is more than or equal to the upper limit value of the power supply capability of the power source, the control unit controls the charge/discharge control circuit so as to meet the supply destination power by both the power source and the storage battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PRIMEARTH EV ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Koba, Yuji Torii, Yuji Sakayanagi, Yasushi Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 11909250
    Abstract: A system describing Unlimited Range Drive capabilities of electric vehicles using machine learning techniques, assisted by intelligent battery modules and high voltage continuous variable power plant, the intelligent battery and power plant modules work in harmony and continuously provide feedback to each other, causing a battery to recharge while the other is in use to drive, this charging/recharging process and dynamically switching battery in use is continued until physical life of batteries is exhausted approximately 10 to 15 years, dynamic coordination of modules with dynamic switching of batteries, achieves unlimited range drive capabilities which may exceed 1 million mile drive on a single high voltage battery charge, the system provides clean environment and cost effective solution, this platform can be implemented in larger chassis including, but not limited to light duty trucks and vans up to heavy duty cargo tractor trailer and commercial public transportation buses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: Mitul M. Patel, Michael Andrew Generallo, Luna Yaisi Manuel
  • Patent number: 11909251
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an electrical circuit coupled to an alternator. The electrical circuit includes a rotor and stator coils. The electrical circuit is configured to receive, at a point when an engine is operating, an electrical current that is induced in the stator coils by rotation of the rotor and charge a battery pack with the electrical current and inhibit generation of a spark by the engine while the alternator is powered by the battery pack until a speed of the alternator is greater than a threshold. The electrical circuit is further configured to power the alternator, at a point when the engine is not operating, with electrical current supplied by the battery pack coupled to a battery connector to start the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Gareth Mueckl, Jeremy R. Ebner, Tauhira Hoossainy, David Rose
  • Patent number: 11909252
    Abstract: A wireless photovoltaic power system is provided. The wireless photovoltaic power system includes photovoltaic cell units that provide power. Each of the photovoltaic cell units include a photovoltaic cell. The wireless photovoltaic power system includes a first wireless power device that receives the power. The first wireless power device includes a coil that provides a magnetic field to wirelessly transfer the power to a second wireless power device. The first wireless power device provides a combinational implementation of a maximum power point tracking of the photovoltaic cell units and a power control of a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: POWERMAT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Itay Sherman, Elieser Mach, Neri Naveh
  • Patent number: 11909253
    Abstract: A power supply circuit supplies power from a first battery to a first load. The first load includes a capacitor that needs to be charged before activation. The power supply circuit includes: a main circuit that supplies power from the first battery to the first load; and a backup circuit having a precharge circuit for charging the capacitor and that supplies power from the first battery to the first load. When charging the capacitor, power is supplied from the first battery to the first load by using the backup circuit. After charging of the capacitor is completed, power is supplied from the first battery to the first load by using the main circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Mitani, Akinori Kita, Sadao Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11909254
    Abstract: A motor vehicle control device may have a switch-on and switch-off function for at least one electrical load to be controlled by the motor vehicle control device. The motor vehicle control device may include an electronic switching element for arrangement in a supply voltage path of the electrical load and a control unit for controlling the electronic switching element. The control unit is designed to provide a control signal for switching the electronic switching element based on at least one input signal. The control unit may include a resistor connected to the supply voltage path and a current control means connected in series therewith for generating a predefinable voltage difference at the resistor as the control signal for the electronic switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Adam Neveri
  • Patent number: 11909255
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a battery backup unit (BBU) cut-off and recharge circuit includes: a first transistor, a power entry connection connected to a main power supply, where power from the power entry connection flows to application circuits for an electronic device, and the first transistor is positioned between a BBU and the power entry connection, and a microcontroller, where the microcontroller is operative to: detect a loss of power from the main power supply, turn on the first transistor to enable the BBU to discharge through the power entry connection to application circuits, detect a status of charge (SOC) for the BBU, and upon detecting that the SOC is under a predefined threshold, set the BBU cut-off and recharge circuit to a lockdown state by turning off the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Xiqun Zhu, Sung Kee Baek, Wingo Cheong, Steven Anthony Granzella, Joel Goergen, Charles Calvin Byers
  • Patent number: 11909256
    Abstract: A switching module includes mechanical relays, semiconductor switches, voltage detectors to detect an input voltage to a power converter, and a controller. When the controller determines that the waveform of the input voltage is abnormal during a first determination period, the controller outputs an open command signal to mechanical relays corresponding to a power source electrically coupled to the power converter. When the controller subsequently determines that the waveform of the input voltage is normal during a second determination period, the controller outputs a close command signal to the mechanical relays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuo Hattori
  • Patent number: 11909257
    Abstract: Uninterruptible power supplies, power modules, and non-transitory computer readable mediums storing instructions for operating such power modules, the power modules comprising an input configured to receive AC power from an AC power source, an output configured to provide AC output power to a load, and a plurality of power modules coupled in parallel between the input and the output, each power module of the plurality of power modules configured to provide at least a portion of the AC output power to the output. Each power module of the plurality of power modules comprises a current compensator stage configured to generate a current error signal based on output current of a corresponding power module and a gain adjustment stage configured to adjust the current error signal based on a measurement of the output current and a desired output current of the corresponding power module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qinghong Yu, Adam Daniel Sanner, Jing Huang, Kaushal J. Patel
  • Patent number: 11909258
    Abstract: Power supplies and methods of use thereof are provided, where a power supply includes an input configured to receive input AC power an output configured to provide output AC power to a load, at least one power converter coupled to the input and configured to convert the input AC power into the output AC power, a controller coupled the at least one power converter. The controller is configured to adjust at least one parameter of the output AC power provided by the at least one power converter, detect, in response to adjusting the at least one parameter of the output AC power, at least one of an adjusted input AC power or an adjusted output AC power, and determine that a fault has occurred based on the at least one of the adjusted input AC power or the adjusted output AC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Colby, Jr., Wei-Hsiang Lin, Venkatraman Chennakesavan, Eyob Demissie, Luka Petrovic, Himamshu V Prasad, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11909259
    Abstract: A stator includes a first core that includes a first tooth extending in a first radial direction and a first core back extending in a circumferential direction and a second core that includes a second tooth extending in a second radial direction and a second core back extending in the circumferential direction. The first core back includes a depression formed with at least a first face and a second face in an outer peripheral surface of the first core back and a connection part facing the second core back. The stator satisfies ?1<?2, where ?1 represents an angle between the first face and the first radial direction and ?2 represents an angle between the second face and the first radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11909260
    Abstract: Provided is an electric generator including a stator including: a stator yoke a plurality of teeth, a plurality of slots extending radially from the stator yoke to respective radial slot ends, the plurality of slots being circumferentially interposed between the teeth of the stator, each slot including a bottom portion adjacent to the stator yoke and a top portion adjacent to the respective radial slot end. The stator further includes a plurality of coils housed in the plurality of slots, each slot housing at least one coil in the bottom portion and at least another coil in the top portion, each coil housed in the bottom portion of a first slot of the plurality of slots being connected to another respective coil housed in the top portion of a second slot of the plurality of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Erik Groendahl, Subhra Samanta, Arwyn Thomas
  • Patent number: 11909261
    Abstract: A stator module (10) and a motor are provided. The stator module (10) includes a stator core (1) and a stator winding (2). The stator core (1) includes a plurality of stator slots (11), and the plurality of stator slots (11) are distributed in a circumferential direction of the stator core (1). A first winding coil (21) of each phase of the stator winding (2) includes a first winding part (211) and a second winding part (212) connected end to end, the first winding part (211) includes a first crossing segment (2111) to a sixth crossing segment (2116), and the second winding part (212) includes a seventh crossing segment (2121) to a twelfth crossing segment (2126). A second winding coil (22) of each phase of the stator winding (2) includes a third winding part (221) and a fourth winding part (222) connected end to end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shenglang Shu, Bin You
  • Patent number: 11909262
    Abstract: An electrical machine assembly includes a stator. The stator includes a core, windings assembled into the core, and a back iron heat exchanger mounted to the core. A first end plate is mounted at a first end of the core and back iron heat exchanger. A second end plate is mounted at a second end of the core and back iron heat exchanger opposite the first end plate. A coolant circuit passes from a coolant inlet in the back iron heat exchanger, through the back iron heat exchanger, into the first end plate, out of the first end plate, through the core, into the second end plate, and out of the second end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ashutosh Joshi, Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 11909263
    Abstract: One example device includes a rotor platform that rotates about an axis of rotation. The device also includes a rotor coil comprising a first plurality of conductive loops disposed along a planar mounting surface of the rotor platform. The device also includes a stator platform and a stator coil comprising a second plurality of conductive loops disposed along a planar mounting surface of the stator platform. The rotor coil and the stator coil are coaxially arranged about the axis of rotation. The stator coil remains within a first predetermined distance to the rotor coil in response to rotation of the rotor platform. The device also includes a magnetic core extending along the axis of rotation and through the stator coil. The magnetic core remains within a second predetermined distance to the stator coil in response to rotation of the rotor platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: Paul Karplus
  • Patent number: 11909264
    Abstract: A hybrid switched reluctance motor is provided that reduces torque ripple. A novel rotor design includes flux barriers. The flux barriers are positioned and shaped to create implicit saliency and reluctance torque for the motor. A gradual change in the motor reluctance results which avoids rapid increases in flux density. The rotor also increases efficiency by reducing acoustical and vibrational responses and associated energy loses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Babak Fahimi, Seyed Ehsan Movahed Mohammadi, Mehdi Moallem
  • Patent number: 11909265
    Abstract: A motor for a laundry appliance includes a drive shaft coupled to a drum at a first end. The rotor frame is coupled proximate the second end of the drive shaft, where the rotor frame includes at least one polymeric material. A central hub includes a core and a perimetrical ring that extends circumferentially around the core. A plurality of recesses are defined within a planar surface of the perimetrical ring, wherein a portion of the polymeric material is received within the plurality of recesses to secure the rotor frame to the central hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Krati Bhargava, James Hull
  • Patent number: 11909266
    Abstract: A rotor includes a core and two or more ribs. The core has a through hole group that includes three or more through holes arranged in a circumferential direction. The through hole group is formed through a predetermined magnetic pole. The two or more ribs are configured as portions of the core, with each rib being interposed between adjacent through holes. A first of the ribs has a first inclination with respect to a magnetic pole centerline. A second of the ribs has a second inclination with respect to the magnetic pole centerline. The second inclination is larger than the first inclination. The magnetic pole centerline is a straight line that passes through a radial center line of the magnetic pole and an axial center of the rotor. The first rib is narrower than the second rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Daikin Industries, Ltd., UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Yoshihito Sanga, Masayuki Sanada, Shigeo Morimoto, Yukinori Inoue
  • Patent number: 11909267
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet are disposed in each magnetic pole of a rotor core. When angular coordinates of intersections of a flux line in a d-axial direction passing an outer end A1 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing through an inner end A2 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an outer end B1 of the second permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an inner end B2 of the second permanent magnet and a circumscribing circle of the rotor core are respectively defined as ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2, the ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2 satisfy a formula (?34/p<(?dB1-?dA1)<22/p, ?34/p<(?dB2??dA2)<22/p).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Makino, Makoto Matsushita, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Daisuke Misu, Fumiaki Ito, Masakatsu Matsubara, Mikio Takabatake
  • Patent number: 11909268
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a motor includes at least one magnet, a magnet support having an end region, a rotor shaft and an over-molded body affixed to the at least one magnet and the magnet support. The over-molded body includes a first end and a second end. The rotor shaft may be disposed proximate to the first end of the over-molded body and the second end of the over-molded body is proximate to the end region of the magnet support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety US Inc.
    Inventor: Irfan Bhatti
  • Patent number: 11909269
    Abstract: A combined fixed fan for a disc-type motor includes a front fixing sheet (1), a fan (2) and a rear fixing sheet (3) in sequence in an axial direction, wherein the front fixing sheet and the rear fixing sheet are both circular sheets with a central hole (10), and are provided with magnet fixing holes (4) evenly arranged in a circle, the fan (2) is integrally provided with an annular column-shaped spacing frame (11), a center of the fan (2) is axially provided with a shaft hole (15) for a motor rotating shaft to pass through, and a plurality of fan blades (13) arranged around the shaft hole (15) are arranged in the spacing frame (11); and a side surface of the spacing frame is provided with a plurality of air outlet channels (16) evenly arranged in a circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Renwei Yu
  • Patent number: 11909270
    Abstract: A hybrid rotor assembly is provided. The assembly utilizes two different types of magnets within the lamination cavities of the lamination stack: sintered permanent magnets and bonded magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Atieva, Inc.
    Inventor: Emad Dlala
  • Patent number: 11909271
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes: an electric motor that includes a stator and a rotor that is rotatable relative to the stator; a rotary member to be rotated that is provided on the shaft; and a fastening member made of magnetic material and provided to fasten the rotary member to a shaft. The rotor includes: a rotor core made of magnetic material; a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the rotor core such that the permanent magnets are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction and magnetic poles of the permanent magnets that face an outer peripheral side of the rotor core in a radius direction of the rotor core have the same magnetic polarity; and the shaft. The shaft is made of magnetic material, provided to extend through a central part of the rotor core in an axial direction of the rotor core, and magnetized by part of magnetic fluxes generated from the permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuma Nomoto, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11909272
    Abstract: An oil-cooling structure for motor magnets, that includes: a pair of end plates that are disc-shaped and are mounted at both end portions of a rotor core; third oil paths formed at interiors of the end plates, and having axial direction portions that extend in an axial direction of a rotor shaft and are connected to axial direction end portions of second oil paths, respectively, and discharging portions that extend toward a radial direction outer side from axial direction outer side end portions of the axial direction portions and are open at end portions of the end plates; and angle mitigating members disposed in the third oil paths at corner portions formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions, configured to mitigate angles formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions in axial direction cross-sections that include the third oil paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11909273
    Abstract: An actuator includes a support body, a movable body, a connection body, and a magnetic drive mechanism having a coil and a magnet for relatively moving the support body and the movable body. A winding part of the coil includes effective side portions, a first curved side portion connecting one side ends of the effective side portions, and a second curved side portion connecting the other side ends of the effective side portions. The magnet faces the effective side portions of the coil. A yoke fixed to the magnet includes a first yoke, a second yoke, a one side connection yoke and the other side connection yoke connecting the first yoke with the second yoke, and the one side connection yoke and the other side connection yoke are provided at positions so as not to overlap with the effective side portions and the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Hatano, Kazuhiko Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11909274
    Abstract: An electric driving device and an electric power steering device. An electric driving device includes a motor and an electronic control unit that controls rotation of the motor. The electronic control unit includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a second housing, a lid, and an inter-board connector. The second circuit board includes a control circuit that controls an electric current supplied to a transistor of the first circuit board. The second housing accommodates the second circuit board and has a first through hole passing therethrough in the axial direction. The lid covers the second housing. The inter-board connector connects the second circuit board disposed on the anti-load side of the second housing to the first circuit board disposed on the load side of the second housing. The inter-board connector is disposed in the first through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11909275
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a controller controlling at least one aspect of operation of the motor, and a control housing defining a control chamber. The controller is in part received within the control chamber. The controller includes a main electronics board and a modular connector assembly. The modular connector assembly includes a secondary electronics board and a connector at least in part supporting the secondary electronics board. The connector includes an inner connector portion and an outer connector portion. The connector extends through the control housing such that the inner connector portion is disposed inside the control chamber and the outer connector portion is disposed outside the control chamber. The outer connector portion defines a first access portal facilitating access to a first component of the secondary electronics board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Chetan O. Modi, Steven R. Palmer, Daniel E. Bailey, Jared Joseph Lesicko
  • Patent number: 11909276
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor assembly rotatable about a vertical center axis, a stator assembly around the rotor assembly, a housing inside of which the stator assembly is fixed, and a bearing mechanism rotatably supporting the rotor assembly. The housing includes a cylindrical wall portion inside of which the stator assembly is located, a bottom at a bottom vertical end of the cylindrical wall portion and extending radially outward, and a cover plate on one side of the stator assembly opposite to the bottom. The cover plate includes electrically conductive elements and at least one columnar projection protruding away from the stator assembly so that the at least one projection contacts at least one grounding contact of a controller on one side of the cover plate, the controller being electrically connected to a ground potential through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 11909277
    Abstract: A motor includes a grounding ring and a first sealing piece, or includes a grounding ring, a first sealing piece, and a second sealing piece. The grounding ring is electrically coupled to a rotating shaft and a housing. The grounding ring is made of a material with good conduction performance, hence, a shaft induced voltage transmitted on the rotating shaft is transmitted to the housing through the grounding ring, instead of being transmitted to the housing through a motor bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxing Chen, Guoquan Yu, Wenwu Ma, Chao Cao
  • Patent number: 11909278
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a production apparatus of a motor laminated core and a method for producing the same, the production apparatus comprises an upper die assembly, a lower die assembly and an adhesive spraying device, the adhesive spraying device comprises an adhesive spraying plate, a first die plate and a second die plate successively from top to bottom, and channels are disposed between the plates, and respective channels communicate with first adhesive spraying openings and second adhesive spraying openings so as to coat an adhesive on a portion of a metal strip used for forming an core sheet, and after the core sheet is formed, a plurality of core sheets are cured and bonded at normal temperature in the production apparatus with the aid of a hydraulic cylinder so as to form a motor laminated core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Suzhou Fine-Stamping Machinery Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuan Xiang, Xiudong Huang, Renyi Yang, Hongbo Wang, Bo Yang, Haodong Shi, Bajin Wu
  • Patent number: 11909279
    Abstract: Apparatus for a motive device that combines a prime mover integrated with one or more drivers for multimodal locomotion. The motive device has an axle configured to connect to a vehicle and has a ground configuration for land travel and a fan configuration for lift and flight. The motive device includes a prime mover integrated with a ground driver and a fan driver. The motive device includes a multitude of stator windings attached to the axle and a multitude of magnets attached to rotors. The ground driver includes a wheel with the spokes extending from at least one rotor. The wheel rotates for land-based locomotion when in the ground configuration. The fan driver includes blades extending from another rotor. The blades rotate for lift and flight when in the fan configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Charles Scott Wright
  • Patent number: 11909280
    Abstract: A modular device that can operate as an electrical generator. First and second coil support plates are arranged in parallel orientation relative to each other forming a gap between the first and second coil support plates. Removable C-cores, each having wire coils, are removably attached to the first and second coil support plates. A rotor disc having selectively arranged magnets is disposed in the gap between the first and second coil support plates and is permitted to rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotor disc and the parallel first and second coil support plates; a drive motor can power rotation of the rotor disc. As the disc rotates, electrical current is generated. The C-core assemblies can be interchanged, checked, removed and/or replaced while the electrical generator remains in operation without requiring cessation of such operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EDGE POWER SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Eric J. Blanchard, Dennis L. Fontenot, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11909281
    Abstract: A stator-based permanent magnet field-enhanced hybrid-excitation motor capable of operating under multiple operating conditions and a driving control method thereof are provided. The motor includes a stator, excitation windings, permanent magnets, a rotor, armature windings, and an air gap. The stator is a structure with double-cross-shaped stator modules. A power converter of the motor by four H-bridges is formed. Incoming and outgoing ends of the excitation winding are each connected with a center point of one H-bridge arm, and incoming and outgoing ends of a three-phase winding are each connected with a center point of one H-bridge arm to form an open winding structure; the H-bridge of the excitation winding is connected in series with a bus of the open winding structure of the three-phase winding; every three bridge arms of the open winding structure form a group; and a switch transistor is arranged between each two groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Lei Xu, Xiaohua Zang, Xiaoyong Zhu, Danchen Xu, Shiyue Zheng, Chao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11909282
    Abstract: A device for determining a first angle between a rotor and a stator, having inputs for reading amplitudes of electrical signals detected via a sensor system and representing a first angle, wherein the device has an angle estimator for estimating a second angle, the device determines amplitudes representing the second, estimated angle, the device has at least one controller with which at least one difference between the first angle and the second, estimated angle can be minimized, and the second, estimated angle can be provided via an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Henning Irle, Fabian Utermoehlen
  • Patent number: 11909283
    Abstract: An electric machine system disclosed herein comprises first and second electric machines configured to drive a load. The first electric machine has a plurality of first rotors. The second electric machine has a plurality of second rotors. At least one of the second rotors is indexed relative to a respective one of the first rotors to, in use, provide a torque phase offset between the first and second electric machines. A shaft is coupled to the load and connects the respective one of the first rotors with the at least one of the second rotors. The respective one of the first rotors is coaxial with and axially spaced apart from the at least one of the second rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Eric Latulipe, Richard Freer
  • Patent number: 11909284
    Abstract: A flat-type stator with multilayer coils for a disc-type motor is provided with a stator coil and a flat stator base, wherein a coil assembly is arranged in the stator coil, and a plurality of coil assemblies are arranged in a ring or in a straight line on the stator base; the coil assembly is formed by stacking even-numbered layers of single coils overlapped with the stator base in a vertical direction, each single coil is composed of even-numbered layers of single-layer coils wound by a single wire, and the single-layer coil is provided with a single axial wire; metal wires are sequentially connected in series among the plurality of coil assemblies to form a coil unit, the single coils in the coil unit have a same structure and a same shape and are not overlapped axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Renwei Yu
  • Patent number: 11909285
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core and a hairpin winding. The stator core defines slots that are circumferentially arranged between an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the stator core. Each slot has a plurality of pin positions that is arranged in a direction that extends from the inner diameter toward the outer diameter. The hairpin winding has a plurality of electrical paths of interconnected hairpins disposed within the slots. Each of the plurality of electrical paths of interconnected hairpins has a plurality of typical hairpins and an atypical hairpin. Each typical hairpin has a crown pitch of eight, nine, or ten, slots and opposing outwardly extending twist pitches along each end of the typical hairpin of four and one half slots. Each atypical hairpin, has an outwardly extending twist pitch and an inwardly extending twist pitch on opposing respective ends of the atypical hairpin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Adeeb Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11909286
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric machine of an electrical system, (e.g., a drive system), and in particular to the electrical insulation of a coil of the machine. A coil arrangement includes a coil, formed by an electrical coil conductor, and also an insulating arrangement. The coil is arranged at an electrically conductive element of the machine, for example, at or on a corresponding tooth of a stator or of a rotor of the machine, which is formed by a laminated core. The insulating arrangement is configured to insulate the coil from the electrically conductive element, (e.g., from the laminated core forming the tooth). The insulating arrangement has a first, electrically conductive layer, which is at least partly arranged between the coil and the metallic component. Furthermore, the first layer is electrically connected to the metallic component, in order to prevent partial discharges between the insulating arrangement and the metallic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Florian Schulz
  • Patent number: 11909287
    Abstract: A motor has: a housing; a stator disposed inside the housing; a rotor disposed inside the stator; and a shaft coupled to the rotor. The stator has a stator core, an insulator disposed on the stator core, and a coil wound around the insulator. The insulator has: a first body; an inside guide protruding from the inside of the first body; an outside guide protruding from the outside of the first body; a first blade portion disposed to be spaced apart from one side of the first body and to protrude from the outside guide in the radial direction; a second blade portion disposed to be spaced apart from the other side of the first body and to protrude from the outside guide in the radial direction; and a protruding portion extending from one radial side of the first blade portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11909288
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine is already known, comprising stator teeth and grooves formed between the stator teeth, in which electrical conductor elements of an electrical individual coil winding are provided as individual coils, wherein an interconnection is provided on at least one end side of the stator, which has a ring section and multiple, in particular a number corresponding to the number of stator teeth, tooth sections protruding from the ring section in the radial direction. The interconnection ring comprises multiple bus bars for interconnecting the electrical individual coils of the electrical winding. The individual coils are produced from a conventional conductor material, e.g. copper. In the stator according to the invention, an electrical winding made of CNT conductor elements is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Roepke, Jens Sauermann, Juergen Kujath
  • Patent number: 11909289
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vibration motor having a housing with an accommodation space; a vibrator; a stator; and an elastic support assembly suspending the vibrator in the accommodation space. The elastic support assembly includes one elastic support between the vibrator and the housing. The elastic support includes a first fixed part, a second fixed part, a first elastic support arm connecting the first fixed part and the second fixed part, and spaced from the vibrator, and a first flange formed by bending and extending from the first elastic support arm. The first flange keeps a distance from the vibrator or the housing. Such a vibration motor has enhanced stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Ma, Lubin Mao
  • Patent number: 11909290
    Abstract: An electromagnetic drive device includes a permanent magnet attached to a surface of a first yoke facing a second yoke; and first and second excitation coils to generate magnetic flux when being energized. The second yoke includes a base, and a first protruding part protruding from the base toward the first yoke, between the first and second excitation coils. The permanent magnet includes a first region; and second and third regions positioned on respective sides of the first region. The first region is magnetized to be a first pole, and the second region and the third region are magnetized to be second poles. The first region is opposite to the first protruding part, a boundary between the first and second regions is opposite to the first excitation coil, and a boundary between the first and third regions is opposite to the second excitation coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Wakuda