Rotor Patents (Class 29/598)
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Patent number: 12388304Abstract: A stator and a stator housing for an electric machine is disclosed. The stator housing comprises an opening to receive the stator in a direction extending along a longitudinal axis of the electric machine to enable the stator housing to be shrink-fitted to the stator. The shape of the opening in the stator housing lying in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis comprises four quarter circle arcs, with at least two of the quarter circle arcs being separated by a non-zero distance, the stator having a corresponding shape to the stator housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Tiago Cesa, Alexandros Michaelides
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Patent number: 12368353Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to slotless electric motor, in particular, to a method of manufacturing a stator for a slotless electric motor. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a stator for a slotless electric motor, the method comprising: disposing a conductor in the shape of an annular cylinder; bonding a plurality of bonded lengths of the conductor, wherein the plurality of bonded lengths are separated by non-bonded lengths; folding the conductor to provide a plurality of petals repeated along the conductor, wherein each petal comprises a pair of bonded lengths connected by a non-bonded length; rotating each petal about a point on the second circle to align in parallel the bonded lengths of all of the petals to thereby provide a stator comprising a cylindrically-shaped conductor wherein the bonded lengths are equidistantly disposed around and from a central longitudinal axis of the cylindrically-shaped conductor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: ETA GREEN POWER LIMITEDInventors: Liam Bowman, Henry Collings
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Patent number: 12355302Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for a generator of an aircraft engine. The method includes providing a rotor body; mounting at least one magnet on the rotor body; wrapping a tow around the rotor body and the at least one magnet to form a wrapped tow having a plurality of layers overlaid in the radial direction; and curing the wrapped tow to form at least a part of a fibre-reinforced composite sleeve configured to retain the at least one magnet on the rotor body. The step of wrapping includes applying a controlled tension to the tow during wrapping. The controlled tension is varied according to the radial position of the layer being wrapped.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Paul David Flower, Adrian Uriondo
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Patent number: 12348096Abstract: A coil includes first and second segment conductors, and a welded metal portion where the first and second segment conductors are welded. The first and second segment conductors each include: a fixed portion held in a stator core to extend in a first direction; an inclined portion protruding from the stator core, extending in a second direction inclined with respect to the first direction, and including side surfaces covered with an insulative coating film; and a weld portion that is at a tip of the inclined portion and includes a first surface located within an extension plane in the second direction of one surface of the side surfaces, a second surface contacting the first surface, and a third surface contacting the second surface. The welded metal portion contacts the first, second, and third surfaces of the first segment conductor, and the first and second surfaces of the second segment conductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Kikawada, Tetsuo Sakai
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Patent number: 12323005Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, including a magnet accommodation cavity, and a permanent magnet, embedded in the magnet accommodation cavity of the rotor core and including a bent portion located toward a radially inner side of the rotor core. The permanent magnet has a thickness to satisfy an expression of 0 . 0 ? 0 ? 0 ? 6 ? D + 0 . 1 ? 6 ? 2 ? 6 - 0.5 / ( D / 2 ) ? Wm / ( D / 2 ) ? - 0 . 0 ? 0 ? 0 ? 6 ? D + 0 . 1 ? 6 ? 2 ? 6 + 0.5 / ( D / 2 ) .Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Toshihiro Uchida
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Patent number: 12316176Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing stators for electric submersible pumps, where a stator core having an inner portion and an outer portion is formed. The inner portion has a plurality of teeth and outward-facing slots. Magnet wire coils are formed on the inner portion by holding the inner portion in a stationary position and using a linearly movable robotic arm to position the magnet wire in each slot while preventing the wire from sliding axially with respect to the stator and adjacent turns of the coil. After forming the magnet wire coils on the inner portion of the stator core, the outer portion of the stator core is press-fit onto the inner portion to close the slots. The magnet wire can thereby be positioned to maximize the fill factor of each slot and increase power density for a given temperature rise.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Yong Li
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Patent number: 12316166Abstract: A plurality of plate-like magnets are partially bonded at a predetermined interval to an inner circumferential surface of a rotor yoke with a first adhesive via a positioning member for positioning in a radial direction and in an axial direction, and a second adhesive is heat-cured in a state where the positioning member is removed, thus bonding and fixing the plurality of plate-like magnets at a predetermined interval and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Takizawa, Hisao Hirabayashi, Masakazu Ikeda
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Patent number: 12316174Abstract: The method includes producing a stack of coil loops from a continuous electrical conductor, the coil loops having two parallel straight side portions and two opposite curved end portions connecting the ends of the side portions. A length of each coil loop in the stack of coil loops decreases, whereby a staggered end portion is formed at each end of the stack of coil elements. The end portion of the stack of coil loops is bent into a predetermined bending angle, whereby the staggering has been determined so that an outer end of the end portion of the stack of coil loops is substantially straight when the stack of coil loops is bent into the predetermined bending angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Matti Vänskä, Niko Strandström, Heikki Metsberg
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Patent number: 12311480Abstract: A TIG welding device (10) includes a welding robot (11), robot control device (12), welding torch (13), welding control device (14), gas feeder (15), and a height detection device (16). The welding torch (13) is set at a reference position, and the height detection device (16) detects the respective heights of two tip parts (4e). The robot control device (12) drives the welding robot (11) such that a torch electrode (13c) of the welding torch (13) abuts on central part of the higher tip part (4e). When the torch electrode (13c) is moved toward the reference position while power is supplied to the torch electrode (13c), and inert gas flows in the periphery of the torch electrode (13c), arc (AC) is generated in a gap between the tip parts (4e) and the torch electrode (13c). The overall two tip parts (4e) are melted and welded by this arc (AC).Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Murata, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Akifumi Sudo
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Patent number: 12301074Abstract: A conductive wire includes an angled protrusion having a tapered shape being integrated with a wire-shaped main body and configured to generate an arc between itself and an arc welding electrode. At least one of the pair of conductive members comprises an angled protrusion having a tapered shape. Welding of the conductive members is performed by melting the angled protrusion by generating an arc between the angled protrusion and an electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignees: Proterial, Ltd., Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Takahashi, Teruaki Nakashima
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Patent number: 12294255Abstract: A coil molding apparatus being capable of easily forming the band-shaped coil into a wound state, without the winding posture in the coil winding jig being disturbed by spring back of the band-shaped coil. The coil molding apparatus includes: a coil winding jig for winding the band-shaped coil with inserting straight portions thereof into a plurality of comb-shaped grooves in the outer periphery; a coil conveying mechanism unit for pivotally conveying the band-shaped coil along the outer periphery of the coil winding jig; and guide members for inserting the band-shaped coil into the plurality of comb-shaped grooves by guiding in an arc shape while contacting with the side end of the band shaped groove thereby gradually reducing in diameter accompanying pivoting at a second half portion of pivot conveying of the band-shaped coil, then extending with maintaining curvature of the portion of which the diameter has already been reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Matsumoto, Shuhei Okuda, Eishi Yoshida, Junya Ochiai
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Patent number: 12283857Abstract: A production method for manufacturing a hairpin coil includes positioning a plurality of hairpin-like conductor elements on a coil support such that conductor end portions of conductor elements to be connected, which protrude from the coil support, are arranged adjacent to one another as conductor end portion pairs, securing the relative position of the conductor end portions of a conductor end portion pair, and simultaneously welding the respective conductor end portions of a plurality of conductor end portion pairs by friction welding, by a friction surface of a welding tool being simultaneously moved in a frictional manner along the plurality of conductor end portion pairs.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Baranowski, Maik Broda, Raphael Koch, Marcel Mathissen, Maira Magnani, Julius Maximilian Engelke, Ferat Oezkan
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Patent number: 12255497Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a core, a plurality of magnets, and a magnet retention cap. The core is rotatable about an axis and defines a plurality of magnet-receiving slots. Each of the magnets is received in a respective one of the magnet-receiving slots. The magnet retention cap is fixed relative to the core and includes a resiliently deformable magnet retention element configured to restrict axial movement of the magnets relative to the core.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Marc J. Corcoran, Jeffrey Scott Sherman, Daniel E. Bailey, Chetan O. Modi, John H. Hussey
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Patent number: 12249881Abstract: A manufacturing system for manufacturing a stator for an electric machine, in particular an electric motor, wherein the stator has a main part and a plurality of bent and/or straight bar conductors. The manufacturing system has the following: a bending machine for bending free ends of the bar conductors, a spreading machine for spreading the free ends of the bar conductors in the radial direction, a welding machine for welding the free ends of at least two bar conductors, and a holding device for the stator. The holding device has at least one first set of fingers for engaging between the bar conductors at a first end face of the main part. The holding device can be secured to the bending machine, the spreading machine, and the welding machine. The manufacturing system facilitates an accelerated and inexpensive manufacture of stators with bar conductors.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: FELSOMAT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Juergen Peschina, Stefan Frommer
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Patent number: 12244193Abstract: A stator of an electric machine having stator slots and conductor elements running through the stator slots in order to form an electric winding is already known, wherein the conductor elements protrude with their conductor ends out from the stator slots and form a winding head at each of the two end faces of the stator, the conductor ends of the conductor elements each having a cabinet portion running in the circumferential direction and a joining portion for contacting another of the conductor elements, each of the joining portions arranged adjacently to one another of two conductor elements being joined, for example welded, by means of a joint and in each case forming a conductor pair, the conductor pairs being arranged in the winding head in a specific radial winding head position in relation to a stator axis. The strength of the joints in the stator according to the invention is dependent on the mechanical connection of each conductor pair to the corresponding winding head.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Drazen Martinovic
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Patent number: 12237732Abstract: A device for positioning the ends of at least first pair of legs of hairpin conductors extending from a stator core with respect to a welder tool includes a first clamping element and a second clamping element that are independently moveable radially. The first clamping element has a first clamping surface and said second clamping element has a second clamping surface, wherein the clamping surfaces radially face each other. The clamping elements form a first radially inner receiving section between the first clamping surface and the second clamping surface, having a first radial width dimensioned to axially receive and clamp a first pair of legs during welding, and a second radially outer receiving section inside the first and second clamping elements, having a second radial width dimensioned to receive at least a further pair of legs during welding of the first pair of legs.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: ATOP S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Ponzio, Rubino Corbinelli
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Patent number: 12224633Abstract: A auxiliary device for bonding a casing and magnets, comprising a press (10) and a housing positioning seat (2), the press (10) including a press block (12). A vertically arranged raising and lowering rod (3) is provided below the press block (12), the raising and lowering rod (3) being supported on the housing positioning seat (2) by means of an elastic piece. A plurality of push plates (4) are provided on the circumferential side of the raising and lowering rod (3), the push plates (4) being slidingly mated on the housing positioning seat (2) along the radial direction of the raising and lowering rod (3). The raising and lowering rod (3) moves up and down in order to cause the push plates (4) to move in the radial direction of the raising and lowering rod (3), and the sides of the push plates (4) away from the raising and lowering rod (3) are provided with contact faces used to make contact with magnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HENGDIAN GROUP INNUOVO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhonghua Wei, Kedi Shan, Junjian Lu, Jianhua Chen, Hangdong Tang
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Patent number: 12199472Abstract: Main technical features of an iron core structure of motor rotor provided by the invention are that on a rotor iron core of a rotating motor, along a circumferential direction of a rotation axis of the motor as a center of circle, a plurality of through-hole-shaped spaces spaced apart from each other are arranged on the iron core in sequence. When the through-hole-shaped spaces form obstacles to a magnetic circuit in the rotor, the through-hole-shaped spaces are also provided for insertion of a plurality of straight rod-shaped coupling elements made of non-permeability magnetic material to fix an overlapping state of a plurality of silicon steel plates of the iron core in order to improve an overall rigidity of the iron core and reduce a possibility of deformation or damage of the silicon steel plates caused by centrifugal force of high-speed rotation.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: HIWIN MIKROSYSTEM CORP.Inventors: Yu-Cheng Nien, Yuan-Kai Lin
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Patent number: 12191715Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor structure for an underwater motor, an underwater motor and underwater equipment, related to the field of motors. The permanent magnet rotor structure for the underwater motor includes a rotor end cover; a plurality of permanent magnets arranged on an inner circumferential surface of the rotor end cover; a protective attachment structure arranged on surfaces of the plurality of permanent magnets; and an adhesive layer for adhering the protective attachment structure to the surfaces of the plurality of permanent magnets and covering the protective attachment structure. The permanent magnet rotor structure has characteristics of corrosion resistance and wear resistance, so that the service life of the underwater motor comprising the permanent magnet rotor structure can be prolonged.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DEEPINFAR OCEAN TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Jiancang Wei, Chao Chen
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Patent number: 12184125Abstract: A rotor includes magnets and a core including arcuately arranged pole segments. Each pole segment includes first and second prongs that extend away from the rotor axis and are at least in part arcuately spaced apart to define a cutout therebetween. Each pair of arcuately adjacent pole segments defines therebetween a respective magnet-receiving slot, with the first prong of one of the pole segments and the second prong of the other of the pole segments defining the slot. The magnets are received in slots, such that each of the magnets is at least in part interposed between one of the pairs of adjacent pole segments. The magnets and the pole segments are dimensioned and configured so that at least one of the first and second prongs is deflected by the magnet received in the respective slot, such that the prongs cooperatively apply a clamping force on the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: John M. Tucker, Lunjie Lu
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Patent number: 12176770Abstract: According to one disclosed method, a magnet segment may be slid linearly along a first surface and onto a second surface of a back iron of a rotor, wherein the first surface is disposed at or above a rim that extends upwardly from the second surface at an outer edge of the back iron to enable the magnet segment to slide over the rim before the magnet segment is slid onto the second surface. According to another disclosed method, a first end of a magnet segment may be pressed against an elastic member located at an inner portion of a back iron for a rotor so that force exerted by the elastic member pushes a second end of the magnet segment against a rim located at an outer portion of the back iron.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: E-Circuit Motors, Inc.Inventor: George Harder Milheim
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Patent number: 12176778Abstract: In a rotating electric machine that includes an armature with an armature coil, the armature coil is formed by winding an electrical conductor wire. The electrical conductor wire includes a plurality of element wires in a bundled state and an insulating coat covering the bundled element wires. Each of the element wires includes an electrical conductor through which electric current flows, and a fusing layer that covers a surface of the electrical conductor. In the bundled state of the element wires, the fusing layers of the element wires are in contact with and fused to one another. Between adjacent parts of the electrical conductor wire wound to form the armature coil, there are formed gaps due to differences in straightness between different parts of the electrical conductor wire. The gaps are filled with a filler.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 12176761Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a rotor rotatable about a central axis, the rotor including: a rotor core having a ring shape; a rotor magnet fixed to a radially outer face of the rotor core; and a protective member circumferentially wound around the rotor magnet to press the rotor magnet from radially outward of the rotor magnet. The rotor magnet includes a hanging portion on which a first end of the protective member is hung circumferentially.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuki Shigeta
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Patent number: 12149140Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator. The stator includes a stator core including a yoke that has a ring shape and a plurality of teeth radially coupled to an inner surface of the yoke, a stator coil that is wound around the stator core, and an insulator disposed between the stator core and the stator coil. The insulator includes a yoke insulator that is coupled to the yoke with a first coupling tolerance defined between the yoke insulator and the plurality of tooth insulators, and a plurality of tooth insulators that are coupled to the plurality of teeth, respectively, with a second coupling tolerance defined between the yoke and the plurality of teeth. The first coupling tolerance is less than the second coupling tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Joohang Kang, Hyeonho Ha, Yongdae Kim, Jin Hong
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Patent number: 12149144Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods used to produce linear and rotational motion, acceleration, and actuation by the use of mobile ferromagnetic or permanent magnets subjected to asymmetric electromagnetic field distributions are disclosed herein. A variety of exemplary embodiments and applications are described, involving different coil and actuator geometries to include and allow for both stationary and moving magnets, electric fields, and magnetic fields.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Inventor: Thomas Alexander Johnson
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Patent number: 12132361Abstract: This rotor core manufacturing method includes a step of retracting a resin injection portion of a resin injection apparatus relative to a stacked core that remains pressed by a jig, while maintaining a resin material stored in the resin injection portion in a molten state.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoko Hiramatsu, Akinori Hoshino, Naotaka Hayashi, Tomoyasu Hirano
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Patent number: 12131853Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a rotor includes a magnetizer. The magnetizer is configured to magnetize a permanent magnet in a rotor from outside the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole. The permanent magnet is provided in an embedded state in the magnet insertion hole and has a bent-back shape protruding radially inward. The magnetizer includes a first yoke portion, a second yoke portion, and a magnetization coil. The first yoke portion has an opposing portion facing an outer peripheral surface of the rotor. The second yoke portion forms a magnetic path together with the first yoke portion. The magnetization coil is disposed on the magnetic path of the first and second yoke portions. The magnetizer magnetizes the permanent magnet by energizing the magnetization coil to apply a magnetizing magnetic flux at least through the rotor between the first yoke portion and the second yoke portion, which are located opposed to each other in a radial direction of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru Harada, Ritsurou Hiramatsu, Toshihiro Uchida
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Patent number: 12126218Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core body that includes a bridge through which a first inner surface is connected to a second inner surface of an innermost flux barrier when the rotor core body is viewed in an axial direction of a rotor core. The innermost flux barrier has an outer-side closed space that is a defined space and is formed between the bridge and an outer periphery of the rotor core body. The outer diameter closed space is filled, in the axial direction of the rotor core body, with a reinforcing part that is made of a non-magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Masaki Saijo
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Patent number: 12100546Abstract: A method for producing a magnetic core for an electromagnetic actuator of an electromagnetic valve train includes punching a core blank from a soft magnetic metal sheet and reshaping the core blank. The core blank has a base segment with an opening and a plurality of wall segments that extend outwardly from an outer edge of the base segment. The plurality of wall segments is bent in a direction substantially perpendicular to the base segment during the reshaping.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Federal-Mogul Valvetrain GmbHInventors: Johannes Knust, Olaf Josef, Guido Bayard
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Patent number: 12081084Abstract: A manufacturing method for a motor core in which a magnet is fixed in a magnet accommodating portion using synthetic resin material includes: a fixing step of fixing the a permanent magnet in the a magnet accommodating portion using a synthetic resin material, wherein the fixing step includes: an injection step of setting a temperature of the synthetic resin material to a first temperature and injecting, with an injection device having a container capable of maintaining the synthetic resin material in the softened state, the softened synthetic resin material into the magnet accommodating portion; and a curing step of raising the temperature of the synthetic resin material injected into the stacked body to a second temperature to cure the synthetic resin material, with the injection device being moved away from the stacked body.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoko Hiramatsu, Akinori Hoshino
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Patent number: 12062945Abstract: Techniques described here provide a rotor and a method of making a rotor. In an embodiment, a method of making a rotor includes forming a magnet array by assembling a plurality of magnets into the magnet array, providing pre-preg adjacent to the magnet array, co-curing the magnet array with the pre-preg, and magnetizing the magnet array subsequent to the formation of the magnet array.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Wisk Aero LLCInventor: Geoffrey Alan Long
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Patent number: 12046952Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes: N pole pieces, each of the N pole pieces including two half pole pieces, where N is an integer greater than 2; apertures through the half pole pieces, respectively; permanent magnets disposed within the apertures, respectively, the permanent magnets including, in each of the N pole pieces, a first permanent magnet of a first magnetic polarity and a second permanent magnet of a second magnetic polarity; and structural non-magnetic portions disposed in gaps of the half pole pieces, respectively, and configured to magnetically disconnect a rotor web from a q-axis flux guide.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Derek Frei Lahr, Anthony Michael Coppola, Alireza Fatemi
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Patent number: 12040665Abstract: Provided is a rotor of a rotating electric machine, including: a rotor core; an end plate provided at an end portion of the rotor core in an axial direction of the rotor core; and a shaft passing through the rotor core and the end plate along the axial direction. The end plate includes: a flat plate portion that has an annular shape and is held in contact with the rotor core; and a warp portion that is formed more on an inner peripheral side of the end plate than the flat plate portion and is held in contact with the shaft. In a radial cross section of the end plate, the warp portion is warped so as to be apart from the rotor core as extending away from the flat plate portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masafumi Okazaki, Satoru Akutsu
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Patent number: 12033792Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] An adhesive agent is accurately applied on an adhesive agent applying surface. [Solution] Provided are guiding members (100) that guide the conveyance of a sheet steel strip (F) along an intermittent conveyance direction of the sheet steel strip (F) and limit the upward movement of the sheet steel strip (F), and an adhesive agent applying apparatus (50) that applies an adhesive agent to an adhesive agent applying surface at a section corresponding to an iron core lamina (A, W).Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd.Inventors: Hironobu Okudaira, Hideo Horii, Kenichi Shindo
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Patent number: 12027927Abstract: There are provided core part manufacturing method and apparatus for manufacturing a core part of a rotary electric machine. The core part manufacturing method includes: injecting a molten resin from a side on one end surface of an iron core body into a plurality of space portions provided in the iron core body in a state where the iron core body is sandwiched and pressed. In injecting of the resin, a contact surface on an opposite side to a side where the resin is injected includes: a relief portion that is recessed without contacting to the one end surface; and a remaining portion that is adjacent to a non-contact region. The remaining portion is disposed in the contact surface on an outer peripheral side from the non-contact region, and the relief portion is disposed further in the contact surface on an outer peripheral side from the remaining portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.Inventors: Shohei Yoshisako, Kohei Yoshida, Hibiki Mino, Masayuki Ono
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Patent number: 12027926Abstract: Disclosed is a method for pulling a stator winding system of an electric machine into a stator lamination stack of the electric machine and to a winding tool, with the stator lamination stack having stator grooves which run parallel to a rotation axis of the electric machine and are distributed in a circle around the rotation axis and open thereto and which have on an end facing the rotation axis a gap region which is narrowed relative to the rest of the stator groove. Windings are arranged in the stator grooves, and winding overhangs, as seen in the direction of the rotation axis, protrude from the stator lamination stack at the two axial ends thereof, with the windings formed in the stator grooves as laid windings. The stator lamination stack has no guide structures on the two axial ends for guiding the individual turns of the windings.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Innomotics GmbHInventors: Klaus Büttner, Tobias Katzenberger, Klaus Kirchner, Bastian Plochmann, Matthias Warmuth
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Patent number: 12027918Abstract: A rotor core of a rotor includes a salient pole portion; air gap portions that extend from the permanent magnet to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core; notch grooves formed such that the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core is notched; and a bridge portion that is formed between the outer peripheral surface and the air gap portions. The notch grooves are disposed such that the bridge portion is sandwiched between the notch grooves and the air gap portion, and, a notch minimum outside diameter portion in which a distance from the rotation center of the rotor core is the minimum is formed on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis. The notch minimum outside diameter portion is located at a position closer to a center side of the salient pole portion than the air gap portions in the circumferential direction of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITEDInventor: Hiroaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 12021426Abstract: The stator is provided with a first joint part provided so as to extend in a radial direction as viewed in a rotation axis line direction; and a second joint part provided at a location corresponding to a fastening member and provided so as to extend in the rotation axis line direction so as not to overlap the fastening member.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Funayama, Junichi Yokota, Yasunori Suzuki
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Patent number: 12021428Abstract: A rotating electric machine to which the present invention is applied includes: a plurality of coils provided in a stator for respective phases; a plurality of bus bars having elasticity, which are provided for the respective phases and connected to the plurality of coils; and a holder including a plurality of insertion portions each having a groove shape formed to deform each of the plurality of bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yutaka Ikura, Fumitaka Totsuka, Shoichiro Nishitani, Akifumi Miyake, Kohei Kawata
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Patent number: 12015331Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a heat pipe cooling system. A rotor core has a number of cavities internal to the rotor core. The cavities are surrounded by a wall defined by the rotor core. A magnetic element disposed in the at least one cavity leaving a void in the at least one cavity between the magnetic element and the wall. A heat pipe evaporator is disposed in the void and conforms to the available space, contacting the magnetic element and the wall to remove heat from the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Alireza Fatemi, Chih-hung Yen, SeungHwan Keum, Farzad Samie, Thomas W Nehl, Taeyoung Han, Ronald O Grover, Jr.
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Patent number: 11996738Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, including a magnet accommodation cavity, and a permanent magnet, embedded in the magnet accommodation cavity of the rotor core and including a bent portion located toward a radially inner side of the rotor core. The permanent magnet has a thickness to satisfy an expression of 0.0006D+0.1626?0.5/(D/2)?Wm/(D/2)??0.0006D+0.1626+0.5/(D/2).Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Toshihiro Uchida
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Patent number: 11979062Abstract: A rotor assembly for a turbomachine having a permanent magnet electric motor that defines an axis of rotation includes a jacket member. The rotor assembly also includes a magnet member that is received within the jacket member. The magnet member has a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end that are separated along the axis of rotation. The rotor assembly also includes a first shaft structure that is attached to the first longitudinal end and a second shaft structure that is attached to the second longitudinal end. The magnet member is solitary and unitary and has a solid core.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INCInventors: Maurizio Barbone, Jean Luc Perrin, Jeffrey A. Lotterman, Martin Tóth, Patrick Beresewicz
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Patent number: 11973386Abstract: Since the shape of the insulating paper is complicated, a forming and bending step of the insulating paper is required, and further there is a step of inserting the insulating paper in the middle of coil forming, which causes a problem of damaging the insulating paper. A fitting state of an insulating paper 201 into the inter-coil gap has an annular taper shape in which a diameter dimension D1 of an annular opening of the insulating paper 201 on a coil end tip side is long, and a diameter dimension d2 of an annular opening of the insulating paper 201 on a stator end face side on the opposite side is short. The insulating paper 201 is made to follow the tapered shape of the inter-coil gap 140 between an inner peripheral coil 120 and an outer peripheral coil 130, and the insulating paper 201 is fitted in a state inclined from the coil end tip side to the stator end face side with respect to an axial direction of the stator 20.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Ryoji Kobayashi, Yuichiro Baba
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Patent number: 11969923Abstract: There are provided a method and a device for manufacturing an iron core product, including: holding first and second inserts by first and second holding portions provided in a holding unit; and then displacing at least one of the first holding portion and the second holding portion such that a posture of the first insert corresponds to an opening of a first receiving portion provided in a first main surface of a first receiver and a posture of the second insert corresponds to an opening of a second receiving portion provided in the first main surface; thereafter inserting the first insert from the first holding portion into the first receiving portion and inserting the second insert from the second holding portion into the second receiving portion in a state where the holding unit is arranged to face the first main surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.Inventor: Kenyu Yoshizumi
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Patent number: 11970811Abstract: A hub for an overmolded basket base assembly of a laundry appliance is provided. The hub includes a central core defining an opening along an axis configured to receive a drive shaft. The hub further includes a disc, extending radially outwardly from the core about the axis, the disc configured to be overmolded in polymeric material that forms an overmolded plastic base, the disc including a plurality of posts arranged around the core and extending upward from a top surface of the disc to form a circumferentially-extending array to align the hub when applying torque to the hub.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Jesse de Freitas Goncalves, Kenneth McConnell, Steven Fricke, Marcos H. Herrmann, Bradley D. Morrow, Eric J. Walsh, Christine L. Strain, Peter A. Wagoner
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Patent number: 11955851Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots and a first hairpin assembly installed in the stator core. The first hairpin assembly includes first and second same hairpins, each having first and second ends and separately coated to have first and second outer coating surfaces, respectively. The hairpin assembly is in first and second ones of the slots such that the first and second outer surfaces are touching. A weld material joins the first ends and another weld material joins the second ends.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Feng Liang, Michael W. Degner
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Patent number: 11949299Abstract: A rotor manufacturing method comprises an arranging step for arranging a rotor core, which is formed by stacking electromagnetic steel plates, to direct the stacked electromagnetic steel plates toward a vertical direction, a guide inserting step for inserting a rod-like guide into a magnet insertion hole formed to extend in the stacked direction of the rotor core after the arranging step, a sheet inserting step for inserting a plurality of sheets from above the rotor core into the magnet insertion hole along different side surfaces of the guide after the guide inserting step, a guide pull-out step for pulling out the guide from the magnet insertion hole after the sheet inserting step, and a magnet inserting step for inserting a permanent magnet between the plurality of sheets within the magnet insertion hole after the guide pull-out step.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masayuki Akaishi
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Patent number: 11936271Abstract: Replaceable windings (101) for an electromagnetic machine (100) are provided. A replaceable winding (101) comprises a body (107) having a longitudinal axis (105), the body (107) comprising opposing surfaces along the longitudinal axis (105). The replaceable winding (101) further comprises an aperture (119) through the body (107), between the opposing surfaces, the aperture (119) having generally parallel internal sides about perpendicular to the opposing surfaces of the body (107), the aperture (119) configured to removably received a pole portion (109) of the electromagnetic machine (100). The replaceable winding (101) further comprises electrical conductors wound about the aperture (119) in the body (107). The replaceable winding (101) further comprises electrical connectors (123) at one or more external sides of the body (107), the electrical connectors (123) connected to the electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Rachel Ozer, Noel Godinez, George Tirone, Tim Lambert, Irfan-ur-rab Usman, Yingjie Li
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Patent number: 11916437Abstract: In an IPM rotor, a first core sheet has a first sheet hole forming a part of an accommodation hole. The first sheet hole has an edge portion having a flat spring portion which is bent by a magnet through insertion of the magnet into the accommodation hole. A pair of recesses forming a clearance with respect to the magnet are formed at both side portions of the flat spring portion of the edge portion of the first sheet hole. A size of the clearance is set based on a relationship between a magnitude of a pressing force of the flat spring portion on the magnet and variation in pressing force.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masafumi Okazaki, Natsumi Sugi, Yu Hirotani, Akihiko Mori, Satoru Akutsu
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Patent number: 11916441Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft having an outer surface including a first diameter and a flange extending from the outer surface. A first plurality of laminations is arranged about the shaft. The first plurality of laminations includes an outer annular surface and an inner surface defining an opening including a second diameter that is substantially equal to the first diameter. A second plurality of laminations is arranged about the shaft and coupled to the first plurality of laminations. The second plurality of laminations include an outer annular surface portion and an inner surface portion defining a third diameter that is greater than the first diameter.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.Inventors: Joshua B. Lahrman, David A. Fulton