Motor-generator Sets Patents (Class 310/113)
  • Patent number: 9000644
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided and includes a hub, including opposing faces, a first sidewall fixed to the opposing faces to define a first interior and a second sidewall fixed to one of the opposing faces to define a second interior within the first interior, a first assembly, disposed within the second interior, to generate current from input mechanical energy, a second assembly, electrically coupled to the first assembly and disposed within the first interior, to generate mechanical energy to be transmitted to external mechanical elements from current associated with the current generated by the first assembly and first and second couplings, the first coupling being disposed to mechanically couple the first and second assemblies and the second coupling being disposed to mechanically couple the second assembly and the external mechanical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Larry Kubes
  • Patent number: 8994245
    Abstract: The permanent magnet type electrical rotating machine has an overhung rotor support structure in which a shaft of a rotor is supported at only one end side thereof by a bearing provided on one side of a casing of the electrical rotating machine. Another end side of the rotor shaft to be a bearing support-free side is capable of being joined to an end of a shaft of a prime mover via a flange formed at an end of the shaft. The rotor shaft is configured such that, upon a state of not being coupled to the prime mover shaft, the flange on the bearing support-free side is joined to an end face of the casing through a retaining member to be prevented from moving in any of an axial, radial and circumferential directions of the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Akiyoshi Komura, Masahiro Hori, Seikichi Masuda, Masayasu Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20150076949
    Abstract: The OPEN thermodynamic system for vehicles must have these main ingredients, Every drive shaft, Axle or wheels that are a moving major part of the vehicle must have the components of the 3 phase generator system to create a rotating magnetic field with a stator to harness the clean electric power by converting the natural mechanical kinetic energy that all vehicles create when they move. Every drive shaft, Axle or wheel is a generator because they have all of the 3 phase generator components to make electricity from mechanical kinetic energy. These generator systems can be sized to fit any vehicle and they can create from 0 to 300 KW of clean electricity or more. This present invention will advance vehicles by using 100% of the mechanical kinetic energy to convert it into clean 3 phase electricity. The Closed system for vehicles uses the components that cannot harness or convert anything.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Abuanthony Abdul Alim
  • Publication number: 20150048703
    Abstract: A system for generating and recovering energy comprising an electric generator integrated with a consumer's utility provider's network to generate electrical energy. Electrical power is transmitted from an electric power grid to a control box at a location requiring energy (e.g., home or business) via a bidirectional meter which measures power delivered by and to the power grid. The control box powers an AC driver which feeds a load to and controls the speed of a motor. A torque multiplier multiplies a first torque output from the motor to produce a second torque output which is fed to an alternator. The power generated by the electric generator is transmitted to a remote location for consumption. In one embodiment, exported energy is returned to the utility provider in exchange for credit against the consumer's account or for payment. In an alternative embodiment, the present invention functions as an independent power plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Gustavo Adolfo Maldonado, Manuel Padilla
  • Publication number: 20150042186
    Abstract: An electrical power system is disclosed having at least a first magnetic power generator and at least a second magnetic power generator wherein a first part of the first magnetic power generator is positioned within the at least second magnetic power generator and a second part of the first magnetic power generator is positioned outside of the second magnetic power generator. Other systems and a method are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Mario A. Galvan
  • Publication number: 20150042193
    Abstract: An electrical power system is disclosed including a first magnetic power generator and a second magnetic power generator wherein the first magnetic power generator is positioned within the second magnetic power generator. Also disclosed is an electrical power system including a first core having a first magnet rotor and a first stator and a second core haying a second magnet rotor and a second stator with the first core positioned within the second core. The first magnet rotor is capable of operating in either an opposite rotational direction or a same rotational direction as the second magnet rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Mario A. Galvan
  • Patent number: 8946961
    Abstract: A motor with power-generating coil set including a base, a rotor, a driving circuit and a power-storing unit is disclosed. The base has a shaft coupling portion and a supporting surface, wherein the supporting surface surrounds the shaft coupling portion, and a driving coil set and a power-generating coil set are disposed above the supporting surface. The rotor has a carrier, a shaft and a magnetic member, wherein the carrier has a coupling surface, the shaft rotatably couples with the shaft coupling portion of the base, and the magnetic member is mounted on the coupling surface and has a magnetic face facing the driving coil set and the power-generating coil set. The driving circuit electrically connects with and sends a driving signal to the driving coil set. The power-storing unit electrically connects with and stores electric power generated by the power-generating coil set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Alex Horng
  • Publication number: 20150021913
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for initiating rotation of blades of a wind turbine when wind speed is less than a cut-in speed. A solar powered wind turbine apparatus includes a solar dome with photovoltaic cells, operably connected to a rotor assembly, and an electric motor. The photovoltaic cells convert solar energy from incident sunlight into electrical energy. The electric motor electrically connected to the photovoltaic cells rotates the blades of the rotor assembly using the electrical energy from the photovoltaic cells. The electric motor powered by the photovoltaic cells initiates the rotation of the blades of the rotor assembly when wind speed is less than the cut-in speed, and therefore reduces or eliminates the cut-in speed required to rotate the blades. The blades of the rotor assembly thereafter continue to rotate in response to a force of wind on the blades and/or the powered electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: William Edward Lee, Baldev Krishan
  • Patent number: 8901761
    Abstract: A variable speed electric machine and a method for generating electric energy is provided. The electric machine includes an outer stator with a first set of field windings. Further, the electric machine includes a modulator outer rotor that is concentric and is located proximate to the outer stator. The modulator outer rotor is operatively coupled to an input shaft. Furthermore the electric machine includes a permanent magnet inner rotor concentric to the modulator outer rotor. The electric machine also includes an inner stator with a second set of field windings. The inner stator is concentric to the inner rotor and is operatively coupled to an electric grid. The outer stator, the modulator outer rotor, inner stator and the inner rotor are magnetically coupled with each other so as to maintain a constant electric frequency at the inner stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jan Erich Hemmelmann, Manoj Ramprasad Shah
  • Publication number: 20140339943
    Abstract: An energy harvester for harvesting energy from a rotating machine having a rotatable machine shaft includes a non-magnetic housing, a harvester shaft, a rotor, and a plurality of electrically isolated stators. The housing is adapted to couple to the rotating machine. The harvester shaft is disposed within the housing and is adapted to couple to and rotate with the machine shaft or in some cases becomes the rotating shaft of the machine. The rotor is disposed within the housing and is coupled to and surrounds at least a portion of the harvester shaft. The rotor comprises an N-pole permanent magnet. The plurality of stators are disposed within and coupled to the housing. Each stator surrounds the rotor and is spaced apart therefrom by an air gap. Each stator also has a set of windings wound thereon. Different numbers of stators could be operating together, whereas other stators are disconnected to extend the rotational speed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Peczalski, Todd Hanson
  • Patent number: 8890378
    Abstract: An electrical power supply device (10) for electrically powering equipment on a rotary rotor (2) of an aircraft (1), which rotor is driven by a shaft (5), said device (10) comprising a removable stick (11). The stick (11) includes an upper alternator (20) and an upper tube (12) secured to said shaft (5) so as to be constrained in rotation therewith, said upper alternator (20) having a plurality of upper coils (21) fastened to an upper inside peripheral surface (12?) of said upper tube (12), said stick (11) having a rod (13) carrying an upper permanent magnet (22), said device (10) having a mechanism (30) so that said rod (13) and said upper tube (12) move with distinct rotary movements, said mechanism (30) having connection means (31) so as to be connectable to a reference member (8, 9) of an aircraft (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Helicopters
    Inventors: Vincent Bourget, Serge Giordano, Nicolas Imbert, Charles Chuc
  • Publication number: 20140320055
    Abstract: An electrical gear configured to supply electrical drive power to a machinery to be rotated at high speed, such as a subsea motor/pump or a subsea motor/compressor assembly, the electrical gear including a high input voltage AC-motor having a low pole number, the AC-motor drivingly connected to a medium output voltage AC-generator having inverted design, wherein in the AC-generator the field windings are supported on a rotor which is journalled for rotation inside an outer stator carrying a high number of magnet poles, the AC-motor is configured to run on high voltage alternating current at a first frequency, and the AC-generator is configured to deliver medium voltage alternating current at a second frequency, higher than said first frequency, to an AC-motor to be energized having a low pole number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: VETCO GRAY SCANDINAVIA AS
    Inventor: Ole Petter Tomter
  • Patent number: 8872403
    Abstract: An electrical power system capable of sustaining an electrical load, the system including at least one rechargeable battery, a charger configured to recharge the at least one rechargeable battery, an electric motor configured to receive electrical power from the at least one rechargeable battery to operate the electric motor, a generator configured to provide power for use by an external load and to the charger, the generator further including a dual core generation system with a first magnet core operating in an opposite direction of a second magnet core to increase output generated by the generator and a torque conversion system configured to connect the electric motor and the generator for rotating a magnet rotor in the generator at a rate in agreement with a rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Mario A. Galvan
  • Patent number: 8866358
    Abstract: An incorporated electric motor-generator (IEMG), including: a plurality of disk surfaces each having a main longitudinal axis, at least one peripheral motor section and at least one central generator section; a plurality of stationary support structures, each of which sustains an array of electromagnetic coils; and a rotating shaft affixed to the disk surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Inventor: Uri Rapoport
  • Patent number: 8860281
    Abstract: The multiple-gap electric rotating machine includes a rotor cantilever-supported at a first axial end thereof by a rotor arm coupled to a rotating shaft. The rotor includes a laminated core of core sheets made of soft magnetic material and an end-surface core disposed on a surface of the laminated core on a second axial end of the rotor. The laminated core includes segments joined in a ring and each formed with a salient pole structure at each of radially inner and outer peripheries thereof. The end-surface core includes soft magnetic sections made of steel and non-magnetic sections made of stainless steel, which are joined together in a ring. The laminated core is held between the rotor arm and the end-surface core, and fixed to the rotor arm by rivets penetrating through the rotor arm, laminated core and the end -surface core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Maekawa, Shin Kusase, Keiji Kondou
  • Publication number: 20140265695
    Abstract: A regenerative power supply system and method comprises a dynamo-electric generator, an electric drive motor coupled to the generator, a transmission device coupling the generator to the electric drive motor, and an energy storage device configured to provide a backup power supply to the regenerative power supply system. An electronic control device is configured to control a flow of electricity to the electric drive motor. An energy storage management device is configured to control a flow of electricity between the electronic control device and the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Barry Thompson
  • Publication number: 20140252774
    Abstract: The invention provides a system, apparatus and method for generating continuous electricity from a variety of sources, using high torque, high efficiency motors, and optionally a wind turbine to operate at least one generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventor: Paul Boaventura-Delanoe
  • Patent number: 8816541
    Abstract: An electricity generating apparatus utilizing a pendulum held by a support. The pendulum includes a first portion which rotates on the support and a second portion which travels in a arcuate path. The second end portion of the pendulum includes a magnetic which interacts with a switchable coil to urge the pendulum into a swinging motion. At least one coil is mounted adjacent to the pendulum and interacts with a permanent magnet which is fixed to an element which extends from the pendulum arm. The swinging motion forces the permanent magnet through the coil to generate a electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Inventor: Theodore R. Bristow
  • Patent number: 8810099
    Abstract: A power magnetic planetary gear set uses stator of a motor to provide electrically generated magnetic sections. The electrically generated magnetic sections are variable under the excitation control of coils and driver so that either the outer stator or the sun stator of the magnetic planetary gear set may be stationary and still provide self-revolutionary magnetic forces toward the planet gears disposed therebetween. The planet gears are also mounted on planet arms so as to revolve on their own axes and have orbital revolution with respect to the sun stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Inventor: Cheng-Chi Huang
  • Patent number: 8766500
    Abstract: A system and method for power purification is provided. The system contains a power source. A motor is connected to the power source. A plurality of rotating elements is provided, each rotatable about a primary axis, wherein each of the plurality of rotating elements supports at least one magnet, wherein each of the magnets is located along a common plane. A first rotating element of the plurality of rotating elements is mechanically connected to the motor. At least one flywheel element is mechanically connected to each of the plurality of rotating elements. At least one output device is mechanically connected to at least one of the plurality of rotating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventor: James M. Porter, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8742641
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided and includes a hub, including first and second opposing faces, a first sidewall fixed at opposite ends thereof to the first and second opposing faces to define a first interior between the first and second opposing faces and a second sidewall fixed to one of the first and second opposing faces to define a second interior within the first interior, a first assembly, disposed within the second interior, to generate current from input mechanical energy and a second assembly, electrically coupled to the first assembly and disposed within the first interior, to generate mechanical energy from current associated with the current generated by the first assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Larry Kubes, David Fulton
  • Patent number: 8723382
    Abstract: An electromagnetic motor-generator unit (MGU) includes a motor and a generator. The motor includes permanent magnets disposed on a rotor hub, a rotor shaft connected to the hub, and stator brackets arranged in a ring. Each of the brackets forms a generally U-shaped profile. The side walls and base of each bracket includes a post, around which is wound a coil. A first chassis circumscribes the brackets, with the base of each bracket connected to an inner wall of the first chassis. The generator includes insulating rotor plates each having equally spaced teeth. The plates are connected to the shaft. Wedge-shaped permanent magnets are stacked within gaps of the plates. A second chassis circumscribes the plates and the wedge-shaped permanent magnets, and includes coils disposed on an inner face of the second chassis. The coils are connectable to a battery pack to selectively recharge the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Matthew A. Lebenbom
    Inventor: Matthew A. Lebenbom
  • Patent number: 8710709
    Abstract: A motor with power-generating coil module includes: a base that has a shaft tube, a supporting surface surrounding the shaft tube, a first coil module mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft tube, and a second coil module disposed above the supporting surface; a rotor that has a carrier extending a lateral wall toward the base, a shaft rotatably coupling with the shaft tube, and a magnetic member mounted on the lateral wall and having an axial extension and a radial extension, with a first magnetic face on the axial extension and facing the first coil module and a second magnetic face on the radial extension and facing the second coil module; a driving circuit electrically connecting with one of the first and second coil modules; and a power-storing unit electrically connecting with the other one of the first and second coil modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Alex Horng
  • Publication number: 20140111048
    Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle and a method of assembling a modular motor assembly in the transmission are disclosed. The transmission includes a housing defining a cavity along a longitudinal axis. The transmission further includes a first motor/generator and a second motor/generator each disposed in the cavity. The transmission also includes a first support supporting the first motor/generator such that the first motor/generator is mounted to the first support to define a first modular unit. The first modular unit is attached to the housing within the cavity. The transmission further includes a second support supporting the second motor/generator such that the second motor/generator is mounted to the second support to define a second modular unit. The second modular unit is attached to the first modular unit such that the first and second modular units align with each other along the longitudinal axis within the cavity of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
  • Publication number: 20140103766
    Abstract: A centrifugal dynamic power generating system using a lever structure is provided. A motor is used to drive a transversal shaft and then the transversal shaft will drive a lever. The lever will further drive a heavy ball. Then the heavy ball drives a centrifugal unit. The centrifugal force from the centrifugal unit causes the power to be transferred to a power generating unit. Through the driving flywheel, the power is transferred to the power generator to be converted into electric power. By above mentioned structure, the power is enhanced one unit to next unit. As a result, mechanic power is converted to electric power. Advantages of the present invention are that only a small area is need. The process for generating power is safe and without any pollution to environment. The voltage and frequency generated are steady with a lower cost. Therefore, the present invention can effectively replace conventional power generating systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Jhao-Tang Huang, His-Liang Chiu
  • Publication number: 20140070650
    Abstract: An electric motor turbine apparatus for generating additional electricity is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an electric turbine that spins a magnet within a suspended stationary ring magnet. An electric current is induced in a conductor element attached to the stationary ring magnet and located at least partially between the stationary ring magnet and the spinning magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Chris Brantley
  • Publication number: 20140042850
    Abstract: The invention “compass-effect magnetic rotor” refers to an iron bar winding to which a DC current is applied to convert it into an electromagnet, this iron bar being centrally mounted on a shaft in such a way that when the whole assembly is oriented North-South the bar will point North-South because it acts as a simple compass, however; when the iron bar is aligned with the Earth's magnetic north, the polarity of the bar is changed, changing the direction of electricity supply and hence the iron bar will rotate permanently and successively thereby attaining continuous rotation of the iron bar on the shaft perpendicular to the center thereof. The energy generated by the Earth's magnetic field is thus utilized and converted into mechanical energy through the permanent rotation of the “compass-effect magnetic rotor,” which in turn converts said energy into electricity by means of a generator connected to the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Augusto Eric Reijer Picozzi, Marco Antonio Fernandez Ordenes
  • Publication number: 20140035415
    Abstract: A motive power transmission device capable of suppressing deformation of matching surfaces of cases is provided. A motive power transmission device is used as a transmission for a hybrid vehicle containing a first rotating electric machine and a second rotating electric machine as two rotating electric machines. The first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine each serving as a motor/generator are housed in independent first case and second case, and the both are coupled to constitute the transmission for a hybrid vehicle. A first stator and a second stator are fastened and fixed to the first case and the second case on sides opposite to a first matching surface and a second matching surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 8643238
    Abstract: A intelligent cascaded synchronous electric motor-generator tandem of cumulative compound excitation comprises at least a synchronous electric motor-generator tandem (namely MG tandem), a storage battery cluster and an autotransformer. Each MG tandem comprises at least a pair of motor and generator having a common stator and a common rotor shaft. The storage battery cluster, which provides a DC power to general loads and motor, serves as a DC power reservoir to be recharged by generator. The autotransformer serves to regulate the AC voltage output from generator via multiple output taps thereon for supplying various AC voltages to different external loads. By integrating all components aforesaid with common magnetic flux interacted mutually, upon being energized by DC power from storage battery cluster, the motor will transfer rotational torque to drive the generator in enhanced synergistic manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Inventor: Gangqin Ling
  • Publication number: 20140001905
    Abstract: A power system with regeneration may include an electric power storage element, an electric motor in electrical communication with the electric power storage element, a rotatable shaft operably coupled to the electric motor for rotation by the electric motor and adapted to provide rotational energy to a power take-off device, and a regeneration component operably coupled to the rotatable shaft and adapted for converting rotational energy of the shaft to electrical energy, the regeneration component being in electrical communication with the electric power storage element and adapted to recharge the electric power storage element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventor: Kevin Schawitsch
  • Publication number: 20130320789
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided and includes a hub, including opposing faces, a first sidewall fixed to the opposing faces to define a first interior and a second sidewall fixed to one of the opposing faces to define a second interior within the first interior, a first assembly, disposed within the second interior, to generate current from input mechanical energy, a second assembly, electrically coupled to the first assembly and disposed within the first interior, to generate mechanical energy to be transmitted to external mechanical elements from current associated with the current generated by the first assembly and first and second couplings, the first coupling being disposed to mechanically couple the first and second assemblies and the second coupling being disposed to mechanically couple the second assembly and the external mechanical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Larry Kubes
  • Publication number: 20130193793
    Abstract: A motor with power-generating coil set including a base, a rotor, a driving circuit and a power-storing unit is disclosed. The base has a shaft coupling portion and a supporting surface, wherein the supporting surface surrounds the shaft coupling portion, and a driving coil set and a power-generating coil set are disposed above the supporting surface. The rotor has a carrier, a shaft and a magnetic member, wherein the carrier has a coupling surface, the shaft rotatably couples with the shaft coupling portion of the base, and the magnetic member is mounted on the coupling surface and has a magnetic face facing the driving coil set and the power-generating coil set. The driving circuit electrically connects with and sends a driving signal to the driving coil set. The power-storing unit electrically connects with and stores electric power generated by the power-generating coil set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Alex Horng
  • Patent number: 8497612
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating machine includes a rotating shaft and two end rotors. The rotating shift includes at least one inner rotor capable of rotating integrally with the rotating shaft, and being arranged in the space formed by the two end rotors so as to be separate from the two end rotors, and at least two stators isolated from the rotation of the rotating shaft, and being arranged in the spaces formed by the end rotors and the inner rotor. The end and inner rotor permanent magnets are arranged at equal intervals at the end and inner rotating disks; and the three or more stator coils are arranged circumferentially at equal intervals in the concentric circles of each of the fixed disks so as to face the two or more concentric circles of the end and inner permanent magnets on which the permanent magnets are arranged on the rotating disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehisa Minowa, Yuhito Doi, Hideki Kobayashi, Minori Miyata, Atsushi Miyata
  • Patent number: 8456045
    Abstract: A heat-generating portion cooling structure of vehicle drive apparatus that sufficiently supplies cooling oil to heat-generating portions to enhance efficiency of the vehicle drive apparatus when the heat-generating portions generate maximum heat includes drawing means for drawing oil in a case into a catch tank, and an oil circulation passage for circulating the oil through the catch tank while supplying the oil to first and second heat-generating portions. The oil circulation passage includes a first passage for the oil to flow to the first heat-generating portion when the oil surface in the catch tank is at a first height and a second passage for the oil to flow to the second heat-generating portion when the oil surface is at a second height lower than the first height, and more amount of oil flows to the second heat-generating portion than to the first heat-generating portion when the oil surface is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Makoto Tomita, Shinichi Kojima, Ryuichi Hasegawa, Takahiro Miki
  • Patent number: 8432073
    Abstract: A power generating device includes a carrier module, a stator module, a rotor module and a power generating module. The stator module is assembled to the carrier module, and has a first circuit board and a plurality of driving coils. The rotor module is located in an electromagnetic field, and has a multipolar magnetic rotor and a rotating axle. A magnetic field of the multipolar magnetic rotor interacts with the electromagnetic field to make the rotor module rotating relative to the stator module, and make the multipolar magnetic rotor producing a varying magnetic field. The power generating module is located in the varying magnetic field, and has a second circuit board and a plurality of induction coils. The induction coils induct the varying magnetic field to output an induction circuit to the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Lone Chang, Chi-Yuan Chin
  • Publication number: 20130099601
    Abstract: A driving device includes an alternating magnetic field producing member, a piston member and a crankshaft member. The alternating magnetic field producing member is for producing an alternating magnetic field. The piston member is adapted such that an eddy current is produced therein by an alternating magnetic field produced by the alternating magnetic field producing member, and is movable by a repulsive force between a magnetic field produced by the eddy current and the alternating magnetic field. The crankshaft member is connected to the piston member and can convert the movement of the piston member into a rotational motion. The driving device that can obtain driving force in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner can thus be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventor: Sueharu MAENOSONO
  • Patent number: 8427090
    Abstract: To develop a motor which can directly drive a brushless motor using a conventional circuit for an inverter without smoothing circuit and a circuit for a matrix converter that are for a brushed motor that operates on single-phase 100 V. Magnetic cores are attached to a motor shaft to increase inertial force. A magnetic-drive-pulsation motor which modulates torque is realized using force of attraction and repulsion generated by outer magnets and magnetic cores. The magnetic-drive-pulsation motor can be driven using the inverter and the matrix converter on single-phase 100 V power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Otsuka, Yuji Kudoh, Daisuke Ueda, Hitoshi Taya
  • Publication number: 20130093379
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a generator unit and a battery. The generator unit includes a fan assembly and a first winding, and the fan assembly includes a fan which has a plurality of fan blades made of magnetic material. The battery is electrically connected to the first winding. Rotation of the fan causes the first winding to cut magnetic lines of force generated by the fan blades, such that induction current is generated in the first winding due to electromagnetic induction and charges the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: YU-SHENG LIN
  • Publication number: 20130088110
    Abstract: The SMT System works like water paddle or windmill only instead of using wind or water as propulsion the unit uses the magnetic repelling forces of South North and North South magnetic fields to propel a Turbine. A magnetic beam array is located at the base of the system. The magnets inside the magnetic beam array are pole oriented to the South North. The magnetic beam array and its adjustable arm point at the generators flywheel flipper arm that pass by on each rotation. Each flywheel flipper has an attached magnet embedded on each tip of its channels. The magnets embedded into the flywheel flipper arms poles are oriented to the North South creating a repelling force that turns the Flywheel Flipper arm and rotates the low speed shaft on the Turbine creating electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Charles Bertsch
  • Publication number: 20130076182
    Abstract: A non-polluting electric generator having at least one battery, an electric motor connected to the battery by electric wires, an alternator, a belt member connected between the alternator and the electric motor, and electric wires extending from the alternator adapted to connect with an electric appliance, such that the generator uses the stored energy of the battery to run the electric motor, which then runs the alternator, which then sends the desired electricity to an electric appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Stephane Mercier
  • Publication number: 20130025330
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a motor usable with a washing machine, which includes a drive shaft to enable supply of electric power to an electric device within a drum, and a washing machine having the same. The washing machine may include a cabinet, a tub placed within the cabinet, a drum rotatably placed within the tub and configured to accommodate laundry therein, at least one electric device mounted to the drum and configured to be operable by electric power, a motor including a ring-shaped stator mounted to a rear wall of the tub and a rotor placed around the stator so as to be rotated via electromagnetic interaction with the stator, the motor being driven by an external power source, and an electric power generating device including a power-generation unit to generate electric power to be transmitted to the electric device via driving of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Il Sung Bae, Moo Hyung Lee, Jae Seuk Park, Sung Jin Cho, Sung Jong Kim
  • Publication number: 20130015668
    Abstract: An electric power generator device includes: a dynamic force source device for generating a dynamic force driving a rotor of a generator to perform a rotary motion via moment transmission mechanism; the generator for generating an electric power, the generator including the rotor; the moment transmission mechanism disposed between the dynamic force source device and the rotor of the generator and adapted to lengthen a moment arm between a point of application of the dynamic force and the rotor, such that the moment arm thus lengthened allows the dynamic force transmission mechanism to impose a moment amplifying effect on the rotor, thereby driving in a labor-saving manner the rotor to perform the rotary motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: SHENG-CHUANG CHANG, Feng-Chen Chang
  • Publication number: 20130009502
    Abstract: The electricity generation device is for fully harnessing the power of a continuously rotational member of an electrical appliance. The electricity generation device is installed on the continuously rotational member of an external device, and contains a rotational assembly configured on the external device and having an axle running axially through the rotational assembly, and a generator axially mounted on the axle. The axle is axially connected to an axle of the external device and is engaged by a power system of the external device to spin continuously. As such, the generator starts producing electricity so that the rotational energy of the axle is converted and recycled into electrical energy continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: Sheng-Lian LIN
  • Patent number: 8350502
    Abstract: An electromagnetic motor having a frame, and at least one disc rotatably mounted to the frame. At least one permanent magnet is mounted on the disc, and at least one electromagnet is mounted to the frame in magnetic proximity to the at least one permanent magnet. A battery is electrically coupled to the motor for powering the at least one electromagnet. A switch controls electrical power between the battery and the at least one electromagnet, and a sensing means is provided for controlling the switch to activate the at least one electromagnet with respect to the at least one permanent magnet to cause the at least one disc to rotate. Preferably, a generator is mechanically coupled to the motor and electrically coupled to the battery for generating electrical power to the battery, and a renewable energy source such as a photovoltaic cell is electrically coupled to the motor to supplement any net electrical loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Inventor: Clifford R. Rabal
  • Patent number: 8350428
    Abstract: A tubular drive has a hollow shaft and at least one drive wheel mounted on the hollow shaft so as to rotate. The hollow shaft is rotatably mounted in a flange. An electric motor with an integrated generator is supplied for relative rotational adjustment of the drive wheel on the hollow shaft. A vibration exciter, particularly for a vibration pile driver, has at least two axles disposed parallel to one another, as well as at least two imbalance masses, which are attached on one or more of the axles. There is at least one such tubular drive for adjusting the relative rotation position of the imbalance masses with regard to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: ABI Anlagentechnik-Baumaschinen-Industriebedarf Maschinenfabrik und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Christian Heichel, Albrecht Kleibl
  • Publication number: 20130002077
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical energy multi-generator comprising a series of radial magnetic circuits, each one formed by two columns (2 and 3) connected by a lower magnetic radius (4) and by another, upper magnetic radius, constituting the rotor (8) for opening, closing and varying the magnetic flux circulation. The outer column (3) is provided with an induction coil (6), and the central column (2) common to all of the radii is provided with an excitation coil (5). The multi-generator comprises a main drive wheel (10) that drives all of the rotors (8) in rotation, by means of a mechanical coupling and a motor, varying the circulation of the magnetic flux and generating an electromotive force in the induction coils (6). The central column (2) is common to all of the radial magnetic circuits. In this way, a substantial increase in the efficiency of the generator is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Abrahan Conde Mendez
  • Patent number: 8344567
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a flange provided at one end of a hollow frame in an axial direction; a rotor including a shaft, the shaft being rotatably supported by the flange; and a stator fixed to an inner section of the frame, the stator surrounding the rotor. The rotor includes a first rotor core and a second rotor core arranged in the axial direction and having recesses formed in the axial direction, and a rotor-core space defined by the recesses that are formed in the first rotor core and the second rotor core and that face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventor: Yasuaki Kamiki
  • Publication number: 20120319517
    Abstract: An incorporated electric motor-generator (IEMG), including: a plurality of disk surfaces each having a main longitudinal axis, at least one peripheral motor section and at least one central generator section; a plurality of stationary support structures, each of which sustains an array of electromagnetic coils; and a rotating shaft affixed to the disk surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventor: Uri RAPOPORT
  • Publication number: 20120299425
    Abstract: A closed energy combined cycle system and an operation method. This includes a power supply mechanism, for providing a high voltage; a driving device, controlled by the high voltage of the power supply mechanism; and a power generation device, in which the driving device rotates the power generation device to generate power through a transmission shaft, and the power generated by the power generation device supplied to the power supply mechanism and a load, in which the driving device rotates the transmission shaft at a high rotational speed, the transmission shaft rotates the power generation device to generate the power. Power generation efficiency of the power generation device may be enhanced, thereby greatly improving overall efficiency of the system, and resources used by the driving device for rotating the power generation device may be reduced, thereby effectively reducing consumption of earth resources and providing earth environmental protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SHEN YANG TECHNOLOGIES ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Yen TSAI, Wen-Lon CHENG, Chiu-Rong FAN, Tien CHUANG
  • Publication number: 20120299414
    Abstract: TJ POWER is a process that follows the guideline mechanical energy is equal to the primary driving energy plus the secondary energy. The primary driving energy must be able to supply enough torque to drive the mechanical energy at its full output and the secondary driving energy must be able to drive the primary driving energy. This is accomplished by the use of weight, rpm's and the size of connectors to adjust the torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventor: Thomas R. Laita