Patents Issued in March 12, 2024
  • Patent number: 11929612
    Abstract: A first switching unit switches a first power grid from an isolated operation to a grid-connected operation. In switching the first power grid from the isolated operation to the grid-connected operation, the first switching unit determines a master and a slave among a plurality of power adjustment resources and allows the first power grid to be connected to the second power grid after master-slave control by means of the master and the slave such that electric power of the first power grid is in synchronization with electric power of the second power grid. The first switching unit preferentially selects as the master, a power adjustment resource close to a point of connection between the first power grid and the second power grid from among the plurality of power adjustment resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigetaka Hamada, Haruka Hirose, Yusuke Horii, Toru Nakamura, Takaaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11929613
    Abstract: There is provided a method of determining and utilizing predicted available power resources from one or more renewable power sources for one or more industrial gas plants comprising one or more storage resources. The method is executed by at least one hardware processor and comprises: obtaining historical time-dependent environmental data associated with the one or more renewable power sources; obtaining historical time-dependent operational characteristic data associated with the one or more renewable power sources; training a machine learning model based on the historical time-dependent environmental data and the historical time-dependent operational characteristic data; executing the trained machine learning model to predict available power resources for the one or more industrial gas plants for a pre-determined future time period; and controlling the one or more industrial gas plants in response to the predicted available power resources for the pre-determined future time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Sanjay Mehta, Pratik Misra
  • Patent number: 11929614
    Abstract: An energy storage system and a switching power supply thereof are provided in the present disclosure. An alternating current AC input terminal of the switching power supply is connected to an AC power source via a protection fuse unit. A direct current DC input terminal of the switching power supply is connected to an energy storage unit in the energy storage system via a protection fuse unit. An output terminal of the switching power supply is connected to a master control unit in the energy storage system and an additional load in the energy storage system. Therefore, the switching power supply can receive electric energy from at least one of the energy storage unit and the AC power source, and supply power to the master control unit and the additional load in the energy storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Cao, Ri Fang
  • Patent number: 11929615
    Abstract: A system includes a battery system including a plurality of batteries and configured to be selectively coupled to and charged by a renewable energy source and selectively coupled to and charged by a power grid. The system further includes a DC bus shared by a plurality of loads and an energy management system connected between the battery system and the plurality of loads. The energy management system is configured to selectively connect individual ones of the plurality of batteries to at least one of the plurality of loads via the DC bus, selectively connect the battery system to the power grid and disconnect the battery system from the power grid, and selectively connect at least one of the plurality of loads directly to the power grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Prasad Atluri, Ian J. Sutherland, Paul M. Najt, Chandra S. Namuduri
  • Patent number: 11929616
    Abstract: Responding to grid events is provided. The system determines, based on an event, to modify an electrical load of a site. The system selects a parameter for the site to adjust to modify the electrical load. The system identifies a script constructed from previously processed interactions between a human-machine interface of the building management system to adjust the parameter for the site. The system establishes a communication session with a remote access agent executed by a computing device of the site to invoke the building management system of the site. The system generates a sequence of commands defined by the script to adjust the one or more parameters for the site. The system transmits the sequence of commands to cause the remote access agent to execute the sequence of commands on the human-machine interface of the building management system to modify the electrical load of the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Peak Power, Inc.
    Inventor: Benson Pei Sen Hu
  • Patent number: 11929617
    Abstract: A load control unit includes a first input terminal configured to receive power, a second input terminal configured to receive load information, a first output terminal configured to provide a first portion of the power to a first load, a second output terminal configured to provide a second portion of the power to a second load, a memory, and an electronic processor communicatively connected to the memory, first input terminal, the second input terminal, the first output terminal, and the second output terminal. The electronic processor is configured to measure the power received via the first input terminal, receive load parameters via the second input terminal, and dynamically control, in response to measuring the power and receiving the load parameters, at least one of the first load or the second load based on the power that is measured and the load parameters that are received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Patrick Sullivan, Melissa A. Baran, Matthew James Fogarty, Frederick L. Bourne
  • Patent number: 11929618
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting abrupt voltage changes and supplying reactive power support are provided. In some embodiments, a genset connected to a power grid can identify a maximum voltage value and a minimum voltage value. The maximum voltage value and the minimum voltage value are based on an average of a plurality of mains voltage values. The genset may detect an abrupt voltage change by determining whether an instantaneous mains voltage value is above the maximum voltage value or below the minimum voltage value. The genset can adjust an amount of reactive current either supplied to the power grid or consumed by the genset for a period of time, responsive to detecting the abrupt voltage change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Power Generation Limited
    Inventors: Raghunandan Subramaniam, Adunola Christiana Fashogbon, Apoorv Prakash Hiremath, Ankit Vinodchandra Patel
  • Patent number: 11929619
    Abstract: A stored energy power source uses a wound-rotor induction machine (WRIM) to receive energy from a prime mover via a rotating shaft, provide magnetization reactive energy from a self-excited AC capacitor bank, store the energy in N energy storage elements (ESEs) via tertiary windings, and discharge the ESEs to deliver energy via a secondary winding to a load producing output. Each discharging ESE contributes to a total flux at the secondary winding to sum the individual ESEs voltages. These voltages can be stepped up or down by a transformation ratio between the secondary winding and each of the tertiary windings. A flywheel may be coupled to the shaft to store and delivery kinetic energy. Load factor power control can be used to stabilize the output voltage. The source may be configured to allow for the bi-directional flow of energy between the ESEs, the flywheel and the load. The WRIM provides a safe, reliable and efficient system to provide high-level AC and DC output voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Stephen B. Kuznetsov
  • Patent number: 11929620
    Abstract: A power harvesting system including multiple parallel-connected photovoltaic strings, each photovoltaic string includes a series-connection of photovoltaic panels. Multiple voltage-compensation circuits may be connected in series respectively with the photovoltaic strings. The voltage-compensation circuits may be configured to provide respective compensation voltages to the photovoltaic strings to maximize power harvested from the photovoltaic strings. The voltage-compensation circuits may be include respective inputs which may be connected to a source of power and respective outputs which may be connected in series with the photovoltaic strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Solaredge Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Ilan Yoscovich
  • Patent number: 11929621
    Abstract: A power control apparatus for a distributed power supply interconnected with a power system includes: a conversion circuit that performs reverse conversion of converting power supplied from the distributed power supply from direct current to alternating current and outputting the converted power; and a control device that controls the conversion circuit. The control device changes a target value of received power at a power reception point of the power system on the basis of a predicted value of a power generation amount of the distributed power supply and a predicted value of power consumption of a demand facility, and controls an output of the conversion circuit such that the received power at the power reception point becomes a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Endo, Masao Yokoyama, Shinichi Hongo
  • Patent number: 11929622
    Abstract: A method includes selectably controlling a power supply from a renewable energy source based power system and an energy storage device charged thereby and/or an Alternating Current (AC) power system to a computing system including one or more data processing device(s) and a set of loads using an electronic control system, and continuously updating, through a computing power management system associated with the electronic control system, a parameter of operation of the one or more data processing device(s) and/or the set of loads in response to analyzing data pertinent to prior energy usage/production and/or predicted energy usage/production relevant to execution of a high computational workload through the one or more data processing device(s). The method also includes optimizing the power supply from the renewable energy source based power system and/or the energy storage device to the one or more data processing device(s) based on the continuously updated parameter of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Sean Walsh
  • Patent number: 11929623
    Abstract: For transmitting electrical energy different electric currents are transmitted through different numbers of wires from a plurality of sources, converted into single-wire electric currents with increased voltage, transmitted through a single-wire electrical current transmission line, converted into several electric currents with the reduced voltage and supplied to corresponding consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Bank, Izhak Elyashiv
  • Patent number: 11929624
    Abstract: The invention discloses a power network flexible controller topology shared by modules. Each single-phase topology comprises an AC/AC converter including N1 CHB modules, and an AC/DC module including N?N1 full-bridge rectifiers; the AC input terminals of N1 CHB modules are connected in series to form an AC port on one side of the AC/AC converter, the AC output terminals of N1 CHB modules are connected in series to form the AC port on the other side of the AC/AC converter, the AC input terminals of N?N1 full-bridge rectifiers are connected in series to form the AC port of the AC/DC module, the AC port on one side of the AC/AC converter is connected in series with the AC side port of the AC/DC module and then connected to a first AC network nd the AC port on the other side of the AC/AC converter is connected in series with the DC side port of the AC/DC module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wu Chen, Guohao He
  • Patent number: 11929625
    Abstract: A wireless charging hearing aid is disclosed, comprising a housing, an inner housing, a power management module, a circuit board and a control button. An electromagnetic induction technology is utilized in the disclosed to obtain an inductive current for charging a built-in battery. Elements within the housing do not need to be in contact with an external charging joint, the sealing of the housing is better, thereby achieving complete waterproofing and dustproofing, and improving the adaptability when using the disclosed. Besides, shapes and the number of layers of a receiving coil are flexibly designed according to requirements, and a magnetic conductive sheet is used to shield an inductive magnetic field to prevent the inductive magnetic field negatively influencing other elements. The elements within the housing can be arranged arbitrarily, which improves the flexibility in designing an overall appearance, and facilitates to incorporate artistic designs while reduces the design difficulties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Zhengdong Huang
  • Patent number: 11929626
    Abstract: A method that includes: transmitting, by an electronic device, a first detecting signal when the electronic device is in a reverse wireless charging mode; receiving, by the electronic device at a gap moment between at least two adjacent moments at which the first detecting signal is transmitted, a second detecting signal transmitted by a wireless charging device; and if the second detecting signal received by the electronic device meets a preset condition, automatically switching, by the electronic device, from the reverse wireless charging mode to a forward wireless charging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenchao Yu, Haizhen Gao, Lvjian Yang, Jiang Chen, Hui Wang
  • Patent number: 11929627
    Abstract: Apparatuses and systems are provided for improving wireless power transmission for mobile devices. An enclosure for a mobile device may include a first electrical coil configured to establish a first wireless coupling with a transmitter coil of a power supply and a second electrical coil configured to establish a second wireless coupling with the first electrical coil and to establish a third wireless coupling with a receiver coil of a mobile device. A distance between the receiver coil and the transmitter coil may exceed a range over which the transmitter coil may be able to transfer power to the receiver coil via a single wireless coupling between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil. The first wireless coupling, the second wireless coupling, and the third wireless coupling, when established, may enable the transmitter coil to perform a wireless power transfer to the receiver coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Geoffrey Herbert Harris
  • Patent number: 11929628
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an antenna module configured to perform millimeter wave communication with an external radio frequency device; a radio frequency communication module configured to receive a millimeter wave communication signal transmitted by the external radio frequency device forwarded by the antenna module when the radio frequency communication module is connected with the antenna module; a radio frequency charging module configured to receive a millimeter wave charging signal transmitted by the external radio frequency device forwarded by the antenna module when the radio frequency charging module is electrically connected to the antenna module, and rectify the millimeter wave charging signal into a direct-current signal output; and a processing module electrically connected to the antenna module, the radio frequency communication module, and the radio frequency charging module, respectively to control the electrical connection between the antenna module and the radio frequency communication
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Yufei Tong, Zhiyuan Duan
  • Patent number: 11929629
    Abstract: A device operative to transfer power and communicate wirelessly includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC), memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s). The DSC generates a drive signal based on a reference signal and provides the drive signal to a first coil via a single line and via a resonating capacitor, and simultaneously senses the drive signal via the single line, to facilitate electromagnetic coupling to a second coil to transfer power wirelessly to another device. The DSC also detects electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal including whether a communication signal is transmitted from another device and generates a digital signal representative thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: John Christopher Price, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Phuong Huynh
  • Patent number: 11929630
    Abstract: A secondary battery charging method that shortens charging time includes a step for introducing a plurality of battery cells onto an activation tray and CC-charging the battery cells; and a step for connecting the plurality of battery cells in parallel. The charging method according to the present invention shortens the time typically required for CV-charging by connecting battery cells in parallel after CC-charging, thus having the effect of replacing CV-charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: So Hee Kim, Nak Gi Sung, Joon Sung Bae
  • Patent number: 11929631
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery module, including multiple battery cells. The method includes: a) ascertaining cell voltages of the individual battery cells at a starting point in time; b) ascertaining at the starting point in time an average cell voltage from the cell voltages of the battery cells ascertained at the starting point in time; c) estimating the cell voltage of at least one battery cell at an operating point in time if the cell voltage of the battery cell is not measurable at the operating point in time, taking into account the cell voltage of the battery cell ascertained at the starting point in time, the average cell voltage ascertained at the starting point in time, and an average cell voltage ascertained at the operating point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Woll, Alexander Schmidt, Tunan Shen
  • Patent number: 11929632
    Abstract: A charger including a charging interface and a converter coupled to the charging interface. The converter includes a first plurality of switching transistors coupled to the charging interface and a transformer including a primary winding, a secondary winding, and an auxiliary winding. The primary winding is coupled to the first plurality of switching transistors. A second plurality of switching transistors is coupled between the secondary winding and a battery interface. An auxiliary system interface is coupled to the auxiliary winding. A controller is configured to control the first plurality of switching transistors and the second plurality of switching transistors to generate a first signal at the battery interface and a second signal at the auxiliary system interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LiveWire EV, LLC
    Inventors: Hamidreza Hafezinasab, William Albert Stinnett
  • Patent number: 11929633
    Abstract: A charging wake-up circuit includes a first switch, a second switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a third resistor. The first switch has a first terminal for receiving a first voltage, and a control terminal for receiving a second voltage. The second switch has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the first switch. The first resistor has a first terminal coupled to the control terminal of the second switch, and a second terminal coupled to the first terminal of the second switch. The second resistor has a first terminal coupled to the second end of the second switch, and a second terminal. The third resistor has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the second resistor and a device to provide a control voltage to the device to wake up the device, and a second terminal to receive a third voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corp., Inventec Corporation
    Inventor: Bo-Han Hwang
  • Patent number: 11929634
    Abstract: Provided by the present application are a Direct Current (DC) micro-grid system, a charging loop circuit and a control method thereof. The charging loop circuit selectively connects a charging loop to a first side loop or a second side loop through a set of switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Shiyong Jiang, Xiang Zhang, Chongyang Feng, Ningning Chen, Meng Li, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11929635
    Abstract: A charging method includes: charging a battery according to a second current value after charging the battery according to a first current value in each of N charging cycles, the second current value being less than the first current value, and N being a positive integer; and charging the battery according to a target cutoff voltage value in the case where a target voltage value is greater than or equal to the target cutoff voltage value at the end of the N charging cycle. The target voltage value is a charging voltage value corresponding to the first current value, and the target cutoff voltage value is a first cutoff voltage value, or the target voltage value is a charging voltage value corresponding to the second current value, the target cutoff voltage value is a second cutoff voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chao Xu
  • Patent number: 11929636
    Abstract: Devices, methods and systems for providing electrical power are provided. In some embodiments, hybrid generator systems are provided that are capable of both receiving and delivery powering to various different devices and applications, and that are operable to service various demands. Efficiencies in production and signal conditioning are provided wherein stored energy devices and related controls are capable of responding to variable power demands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MOSER ENERGY SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Darrin Moorman
  • Patent number: 11929637
    Abstract: An intermediate disconnect section includes a utility power breaker and an alternate power breaker. A switching mechanism opens and closes the utility power breaker and the alternate power breaker, so as to be in one of a first, second or third state. The utility power breaker is closed and the alternate power breaker is open while in the first state. The utility power breaker is open and the alternate power breaker is closed while in the second state. The utility power breaker is open and the alternate power breaker is open while in the third state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: North American Power Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Matyac
  • Patent number: 11929638
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wind turbine comprising an internal power supply grid for distributing power to a number of power consuming units of the wind turbine, the wind turbine further comprising a power backup system connected to the internal power supply grid for supplying power to said internal power supply grid during a grid fault, wherein the power backup system comprises a power storage module providing a total backup voltage that falls within a nominal voltage range of the internal power supply grid of the wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Morten Bagger Søgaard, Niels Erik Danielsen, Alun Jones, Carsten Lindgaard Jensen
  • Patent number: 11929639
    Abstract: An apparatus for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) comprises a rotating electric machine having a generator winding and a plurality of motor windings. The motor windings of the plurality of motor windings are electrically insulated from the generator winding and from one another. The UPS further comprises, for each motor winding, an energy storage for electric energy and an inverter which outputs an alternating current and via which the energy storage is connected to the respective motor winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PILLER GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Detlev Seidel, Armin Klauenberg
  • Patent number: 11929640
    Abstract: A stator includes a magnetic plate material that has a main plate surface that is a surface to face a main plate of a movement when assembled to the main plate and that has a rotor accommodating hole formed in a part thereof; and a non-magnetic region that is made non-magnetic by applying chromium on the main plate surface around the rotor accommodating hole and irradiating the chromium with a laser from the main plate surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kosuke Yamamoto, Shinji Kinoshita, Hitoshi Takeuchi, Tatsuya Omura
  • Patent number: 11929641
    Abstract: A segment core and an axial flux motor. The segment core is formed by covering an SMC core (100, 100?) over an outer peripheral surface of a laminated core (200, 200?). An outer surface of the segment core, which can not be processed easily, is shaped by processing the easily shapeable SMC core (100, 100?). The entire structure of the laminated core (200, 200?) is relatively simple, and thus a mold for processing the laminated core (200, 200?) requires simpler specifications. Moreover, the mold can be used to perform processing easily, thereby reducing difficulties of processing the segment core. The segment core has better electromagnetic performance than a segment core solely using an SMC material, and has a higher core utilization rate than a segment core solely using a laminated core (200, 200?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG PANGOOD POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Tang, Yixiong Li
  • Patent number: 11929642
    Abstract: A generator including a stator frame, a plurality of stator donuts including a plurality of circumferentially disposed notches, and a plurality of a wedge assemblies for mounting the stator donuts to a plurality of building bolts is presented. Each wedge assembly includes a set of opposing wedges. The set of opposing wedges are positioned within a notch in a stator donut to create a locking force between a building bolt and the stator core. The wedge assembly also includes a tensioning bolt to set the opposing wedges to a position creating the locking force between the stator core and the building bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Michael R. Vindler, Michael A. Hall
  • Patent number: 11929643
    Abstract: An electric compressor motor includes a stator ring having a plurality of stator winding slots and a plurality of stator windings. Each of said stator windings is received in a stator winding slot of the plurality of stator winding slots. The stator ring also includes a plurality of cooling slots. Each cooling slot in the plurality of coolant slots is defined along an axial length of at least one corresponding stator winding slot of the plurality of stator winding slots such that a shared opening between each stator winding slot and at least one corresponding coolant slot is defined. The cooling slots are configured to allow coolant to directly contact at least one stator winding in the corresponding at least one stator winding slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Vishnu M. Sishtla, Michael Westlake
  • Patent number: 11929644
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine (1) having a housing comprising first (14) and second (15) clamp members and an inner face, a stator comprising a stator body (41) clamped between the first and second clamp members and having an outer face extending opposite the inner face together defining an annular cooling chamber (21) surrounding the stator body, the stator body comprising a longitudinal stack of stator sheets (410), each stator pack of which comprises an annular core having an outer circumference and at least two radially centrifugal protuberances projecting from the outer circumference of the annular core, in the annular cooling chamber, and diametrically opposite one another, the stator sheets of the longitudinal stack being identical and two adjacent stator sheet of the longitudinal stack being angularly offset from each other such that the respective protuberances thereof do not extend opposite one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC PSA EMOTORS
    Inventors: Ioan Deac, Juan Wang, Hussain Nouri, Guillaume Tardy
  • Patent number: 11929645
    Abstract: A direct drive drive actuator includes a base structure and a driven structure that is journally supported and translatable relative to the base structure. The driven structure is disposed in a fixed spatial relationship to the base structure. A plurality of first pole arrays is disposed on the driven structure. A plurality of second pole arrays, corresponding in number to the plurality of first pole arrays is disposed on the base structure. An electrical power source is provided. A controller is coupled to the power source and the first plurality of pole arrays and the second plurality of pole arrays, wherein the controller is configured to selectively electrically energized windings of the first plurality of pole arrays and the second plurality of pole arrays such that an electro-magnetic force is formed between poles of the first plurality of pole arrays and poles of the second plurality of pole arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL DYNAMICS LAND SYSTEMS—CANADA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mark Gojkovic
  • Patent number: 11929646
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotor of an electric machine for use in an aircraft. By forming the shaft of the rotor such that it performs, at least partially, the function of the back iron, components of the rotor can be combined. Further, by forming the rotor components in this manner, an internal shaft with an increased diameter can be used to provide a rotor with greater stiffness than equivalent prior art devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Paul David Flower, Anthony Kelly
  • Patent number: 11929647
    Abstract: A rotor has a rotor core made of a magnetic material, a permanent magnet provided in a magnet insertion hole of the rotor core, and a cushioning material. The cushioning material is provided at a location where a distance between a wall surface of the magnet insertion hole and the permanent magnet is the narrowest, on both sides in a rotational direction with respect to the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Takahashi, Shun Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11929648
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a stator including a first stator core, a second stator core, and a slot in which a stator winding is disposed, and a rotor including a first rotor core facing a first stator core in a radial direction and a second stator core facing the second stator core in the radial direction. The first stator core and the second stator core are laminated in an axial direction. The stator includes a depression formed in a position facing the slot and not touching the stator winding. A volume of the first rotor core is smaller than a volume of the second rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Masuko, Masahiro Nigo
  • Patent number: 11929649
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Patent number: 11929650
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine comprising a rotor and a stator. The rotor (40, 4) comprises a plurality of permanent magnets (4), the stator comprises a plurality of coils suitable for being powered by an electric current and two Hall effect sensors (6) on supports (60). The sensors are configured to detect a change in gradient of the normal component of a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnets (4). The stator comprises a part (7) comprising —a first zone (7a), —a second zone (7b), and a third zone (7c) extending from the first zone (7a) up to the second zone (7b). The maximum radial thickness of the third zone (7c) is less than the minimum radial thickness of the first zone and the second zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Alberto Rossi, Jérôme Piaton, Benjamin Daguse
  • Patent number: 11929651
    Abstract: An inverter integrated gas supply device includes a fluid machine configured to discharge air, an electric motor having a motor casing and configured to drive the fluid machine, an inverter having an inverter casing and configured to supply a drive current to the electric motor, a motor-side connection part attached to the motor casing and configured to receive the drive current, and an inverter-side connection part attached to the inverter casing, connected to the motor-side connection part. The motor-side connection part includes a motor-side connector housing, and a motor connector. The inverter-side connection part includes an inverter-side connector housing, and an inverter connector. A position of the motor connector relative to the motor-side connector housing is fixed; and a position of the inverter connector relative to the inverter-side connector housing is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ikeya, Yuji Sasaki, Masaya Taniguchi, Gen Kuwata, Satoru Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11929652
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes a magnetizing yoke in which a magnet section to be magnetized is installed. The magnetizing yoke includes a core having slots formed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction, and a coil received in the slots. When installed with respect to the magnetizing yoke, the magnet section is arranged to face, at locations closer to a d-axis, magnetization surfaces of the core and face, at locations closer to a q-axis, the slots of the core. The magnetization surfaces of the core are formed between the slots adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction. The coil is fixed by a nonmagnetic and elastic fixing material in the slots. On a facing surface of the magnet section which faces the magnetizing yoke, there are radially-recessed grooves formed respectively in q-axis-side portions of the magnet section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11929653
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a stator, bridge parts of seventh coil segments extend in a direction departing from one end surface while being inclined at a predetermined inclination angle from an axial direction of a stator core to the outside of a radial direction. Regarding the bridge parts of the seventh coil segments adjacent to each other in the radial direction of the stator core, when the same cross-sections defined by the radial direction and the axial direction is viewed from a circumferential direction of the stator core, a first inclination angle of the bridge part positioned relatively in an inner side of the radial direction is smaller than a second inclination angle of the bridge part positioned relatively in an outer side of the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Uchida
  • Patent number: 11929654
    Abstract: Inclined surfaces are formed in areas adjacent to a tooth protruding from the inner circumferential surface of the yoke, on both sides in a motor rotation circumferential direction, and the inclined surfaces are inclined or curved toward a protruding direction of the tooth as a distance from the tooth increases in the motor rotation circumferential direction. The conductive wire includes parts extending in the motor rotation circumferential direction on both sides of the tooth in the motor rotational shaft direction in each of first to n-th turns, and bent portions bending in a thickness direction of the conductive wire are formed in the parts so as to align in a winding axis direction through the width of the conductive wire. Portions of the conductive wire on are inclined toward the protruding direction of the associated tooth as the distance from the bent portion increases in the motor rotation circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Ukaji, Mitsuoki Hishida
  • Patent number: 11929655
    Abstract: An embodiment includes: a first transport module on which a carriage moves; a second transport module that is configured to be able to move to a position for connecting to the first transport module and on which the carriage is able to move to and from the first transport module; a position detection unit that detects a position in a moving direction of the second transport module and outputs position information; a first control unit that controls motion of the carriage on the first transport module; a second control unit that controls motion of the carriage on the second transport module; a third control unit that controls motion of the second transport module; and a fourth control unit that controls the first to third control units. The fourth control unit corrects a position where the second transport module connects to the first transport module based on the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHI
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ota, Takeshi Yamamoto, Satoru Deguchi, Takashi Shigemori, Kichinosuke Hirokawa, Ryota Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11929656
    Abstract: A protective cover for a generator in a running state includes a main body, a frame, and a top cover. The main body includes side wings capable of being rolled up and unfolded down. The side wings are enclosed to define an accommodating cavity. The accommodating cavity defines an upper opening and a lower opening and is matched with the generator. The frame is arranged in the accommodating cavity and is fixedly connected with the generator. The frame is fixed with the side wings. The top cover is openable and arranged on a top portion of the main body and covers the upper opening on an upper end of the accommodating cavity. When the generator is in the running state, the protective cover is used through the frame. Especially in a humid environment, the protective cover protects the generator from short circuit and protects an operator from electric shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Jiacheng Ji
  • Patent number: 11929657
    Abstract: A system has an axial field rotary energy device with a housing, an axis and a rotor with a shaft, bearings, rotor disks and permanent magnets. A printed circuit board (PCB) stator is between the rotor disks to define an air gap on each side thereof. A variable frequency drive (VFD) assembly has a VFD housing and first pads coupled to inductors to facilitate heat removal from the inductors. A concave cradle is coupled to a ferromagnetic core and has a same contour as an outer surface of the ferromagnetic core. A second pad is coupled to a rectifier module. A third pad is coupled to switching devices and has pins to align the switching devices with the third pad. Standoffs are coupled to the VFD housing to support a first printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). A second PCBA is mounted to a shield plate above the first PCBA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Thomas Radkey-Pechacek, John Mitchell Wilson, George William Vogel, Jr., Shriram Pushparaj Patil, Randal A. Lee, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
  • Patent number: 11929658
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing with a tubular wall extending in an axial direction of the housing and a closures positioned at opposite axial ends of the tubular wall, a stator fixedly mounted inside of the housing, a rotor rotatably mounted inside of the housing, and a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor. At least one of the closures includes a rotor supporting portion. The rotor supporting portion includes a through hole configured to receive a portion of the rotor. The through hole is defined by a closed shape including at least three or more straight sides, and a radius of an inscribed circle of the closed shape of the through hole is larger than a radius of the portion of the rotor received in the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 11929659
    Abstract: Disclosed are a voice coil motor base, a voice coil motor provided with the voice coil motor base, and a camera module. The voice coil motor base includes a base body and two electrode terminals disposed on one side edge of the base body, and further includes a molding tape embedded in the base body. The molding tape is connected to the electrode terminals, the molding tape is provided with pins, and the pins connected to a circuit are disposed inside the voice coil motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Dongming Wang
  • Patent number: 11929660
    Abstract: Press-fitting the bus-bar into the connection terminal while improving reliability. In the rotary electric machine, the connection terminal comprises a terminal fixing portion fixed to the circuit board and held by the terminal holder, and a terminal connection portion arranged on the other side in the first direction with respect to the terminal fixing portion and for press-fitting the bus-bar. The terminal connection portion is arranged separately from the circuit board on the lower side. In the connection terminal, the connecting portion connecting the terminal fixing portion and the terminal connection portion is configured to be bendable and deformable vertically. This allows the terminal connection portion to be displaced when a press-fitting load above predetermined value is input to the terminal connection portion. Thus, since the press-fitting load is used as a load that bends and deforms the connecting portion, the load transmitted to the terminal fixing portion is reducible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Shun Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11929661
    Abstract: An in-vehicle power supply device includes an input end configured to be connected to an in-vehicle secondary battery, an output end configured to be connected to an in-vehicle load, an external signal input port configured to receive an activation signal, a first converter unit connected to the input end and the output end, and a second converter unit connected in parallel to the first converter unit. The first converter unit includes a first drive power supply configured to constantly receive power suppled from the input end, and a first voltage converter operable in response to the power received by the first drive power supply to constantly output power from the output end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Tanaka