Plural Sets Of Magnets Patents (Class 310/154.06)
  • Patent number: 11587802
    Abstract: A method of processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes installing upper lid. The installation of the upper lid includes placing an inlet manifold on a water box; inserting a jig into a lower gas channel in the water box and inserting into an upper gas channel in the inlet manifold; fastening the water box to the inlet manifold; and removing the jig after the water box engaging with the inlet manifold. The method also includes connecting a shower head on a lower side of the water box; and connecting the upper lid to a housing. The method further includes placing a semiconductor wafer into the housing. In addition, the method includes supplying a process gas over the semiconductor wafer through the upper gas channel, the lower gas channel and the shower head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Che Chen, Wen-Tane Liao, Ming-Hsien Lin, Wei-Chen Liao, Hai-Lin Lee, Chun-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10365019
    Abstract: A magnetocaloric thermal apparatus (1) with a structure that rotates about a longitudinal axis (L), comprising a magnetic arrangement that defines at least two air gaps (E1, E2) parallel to each other and configured to create, in each of the air gaps, a magnetic field variable about the longitudinal axis (L). Two supports (S1, S2) carry magnetocaloric elements (2) and are positioned each in the midplane (P1, P2) of one of the air gaps. The magnetic arrangement and the supports are in relative movement with respect to one another and positioned angularly with respect to one another about the longitudinal axis (L) so as to generate a phase shift between the magnetic cycle undergone by the magnetocaloric elements (2) of one of the supports (S1) in one of the air gaps and the magnetic cycle undergone by the magnetocaloric elements of the other support (S2) in the other air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: COOLTECH APPLICATIONS
    Inventor: Christian Muller
  • Patent number: 10348165
    Abstract: A noise suppression circuit for use with a noise source connected to ground may include a first capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal of the first capacitor being connected to the noise source; and a first impedance element having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal of the first impedance element being connected to the second terminal of the first capacitor and the second terminal of the first impedance element being connected to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC AUTOMOTIVE MOTOR AMERICAS LLC
    Inventors: Jon C Everhart, Jr., Shakim S Qureshi, John R Suriano
  • Patent number: 10277084
    Abstract: One example device includes a rotor platform that rotates about an axis of rotation. The device also includes a rotor coil comprising a first plurality of conductive loops disposed along a planar mounting surface of the rotor platform. The device also includes a stator platform and a stator coil comprising a second plurality of conductive loops disposed along a planar mounting surface of the stator platform. The rotor coil and the stator coil are coaxially arranged about the axis of rotation. The stator coil remains within a first predetermined distance to the rotor coil in response to rotation of the rotor platform. The device also includes a magnetic core extending along the axis of rotation and through the stator coil. The magnetic core remains within a second predetermined distance to the stator coil in response to rotation of the rotor platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: Paul Karplus
  • Patent number: 10263480
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a motor/generator comprising: a rotor adapted to rotate about a longitudinal axis, the rotor comprising a first partial toroidal magnetic cylinder defining a semi-circular tunnel, wherein the plurality of magnets forming the first partial toroidal magnetic cylinder have substantially all like poles facing inward toward the semi-circular tunnel, the semi-circular tunnel having an entrance and an exit forming an open throat defined by a space between the entrance and the exit, and a stator positioned about the longitudinal axis within a rotational path of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Linear Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
  • Patent number: 9899897
    Abstract: A permanent magnet buried type electric motor includes a rotator having a rotator core and a stator. The rotator core includes: a plurality of magnet accommodating holes formed as many as the number of poles; a plurality of permanent magnets; air holes through which a coolant and a refrigerant oil pass; and a fastening hole. The magnet accommodating hole is formed into a shape that projects toward a radially inner side and is recessed toward a radially outer side. The air hole portions and the fastening holes are arranged so as to be alternately positioned. The air hole portion is formed into such a shape that includes a portion extending in an arc shape along an outer peripheral surface of a rotary shaft in a circumferential direction of the rotator core so that an area of the air hole portion is larger than an area of the fastening hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 9887597
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motor winding assembly including a flexible base plate and a winding assembly. The flexible base plate includes a plurality of supports. A bridge is connected between adjacent two of the plurality of supports. Each of the plurality of supports has a center, and the flexible base plate has a reference line extending through the centers of the plurality of supports. The bridge is not located on the reference line. The winding assembly includes a plurality of winding units. Each of the plurality of supports is provided with at least one winding unit. An electrical path is located on the bridge between the adjacent two of the plurality of supports and electrically connected to the winding units of the adjacent two of the plurality of supports. In this arrangement, the total length of the flexible base plate is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Guan-Ming Chen, Li-Yang Lyu, Chang-Yu Lin, Jui-Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 9787158
    Abstract: A working assembly (1) suitable for use in an agriculture machine, comprising a driving system (2) with a dynamic member (4) and a static member (6) and a working tool (3) received on the dynamic member (4), wherein essentially flat surfaces of the static and the dynamic member (4, 6) are provided opposite to each other. Further, the application contains an agriculture machine, namely one of spreader, seeder, and mower, comprising the working assembly (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kverneland A/S
    Inventor: Antonius Theodorus Maria van de Voort van de Kley
  • Patent number: 9385577
    Abstract: An axial gap-type power generator has: a rotor fixed to a crankshaft of an engine; a stator fixed to a crankcase of the engine and opposing the rotor across a spacing in an axial direction; and a housing to house the rotor and the stator and to fix the stator. The stator is configured by arraying, in a peripheral direction, a plurality of coils C each configured through winding of a winding about a stator core. The housing is formed of a resin-based material. Winding ends of the coils are wired using connector fittings each of which is formed of a metal plate, is held on the housing, and has a clamp into which the winding end is inserted and clamped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Furuya
  • Patent number: 9373983
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine comprising an armature; a yoke; and a plurality of magnets arrayed in a ring shape along an inner peripheral face of the yoke. The magnets are respectively formed in circular arc shapes fit with the inner peripheral face of the yoke, and are fixed to the yoke. The magnets are arrayed along the circumferential direction of the yoke with gaps between each other, a central portion in a circumferential direction of each of the magnets is disposed so as to be opposed in a yoke diameter direction to the gap between other magnets arrayed adjacent to each other, a boundary portion between a pair of magnetic poles in each of the magnets is positioned at central position in the circumferential direction of each of the magnets, and each of the magnets is formed thicker at end portions than at the central portion in the circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeo Noda, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8890389
    Abstract: An electric motor includes an inner stator including inner magnetic poles arranged circumferentially, an outer stator including outer magnets arranged circumferentially, and a rotor rotatably disposed between the inner and outer stators. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and a winding wound on the rotor core. The rotor core includes a ring shaped yoke having a plurality of inner teeth extending inwardly and a plurality of outer teeth extending outwardly. The winding includes a plurality coils each including an inner side received in a corresponding inner slot formed between adjacent inner teeth and an outer side received in a corresponding outer slot formed between adjacent outer teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Mao Xiong Jiang, Jian Zhao, Zhi Jun Wang, Ya Ming Zhang, Hai Hui Xiang
  • Patent number: 8823234
    Abstract: An electric motor has a rotor and a stator. The rotor or the stator has arced permanent magnets that have essentially the same inner radius (IR) and outer radius (OR). In an aspect, the stator has a stator housing having a plurality of poles. Each pole includes a plurality of flat magnets affixed to an inner surface of the stator housing. In an aspect, flats on the outside of the stator housing key the stator assembly in a power tool housing. In an aspect, flat magnets are pre-magnetized, pre-assembled with alternating magnetic polarities, inserted into a stator housing, and remagnetized to a final, desired magnetic polarity configuration. In an aspect, pre-magnetized magnets and unmagnetized magnets are pre-assembled with unmagnetized magnets between magnetized magnets, the pre-assembled magnets inserted into a stator housing, and the unmagnetized magnets magnetized to a final, desired magnetic polarity configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Earl M. Ortt, Hung T. Du, Sankarshan Murthy
  • 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: 8193671
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor which is simple to design and manufacture, and can be operated by a small current. The electric motor is comprised of a stator 55 having a first disk 45 and a second disk 50, a first ring core 10 having a first switching winding 15 divided into a winding part and a gap part, a second ring core 12 having a second switching winding 20 divided into a winding part and a gap part, and a first rotor 35 having a third disk 25 and a second rotor 40 having a fourth disk 30 mutually connected by a driving shaft 60. The first and second switching windings 15, 20 include first and second power supplies 125-1, -2, and first and second switches 75-1, -2, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Koueidenshi Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7834503
    Abstract: A rotating electromagnetic apparatus has a stator frame supporting spaced apart pairs of permanent magnets which are arranged with like magnetic poles mutually facing. A toroidally shaped rotor frame is radially wound with a plurality of wire coils immersed within slots in the in rotor frame, the slots positioned adjacent to the opposing magnets. An electromechanical commutator is used to direct current between an outside source or sink through brushes to rotating multiple contacts simultaneously. The brushes are triangular in cross section. The coils may be connected in series or parallel interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Clearwater Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventor: Dumitru Bojiuc
  • Publication number: 20080246365
    Abstract: A machine (FIG. 3B) includes inner and outer stator (5 and 6) and a rotor (2) located therebetween. The rotor includes a wall with a constant thickness and an elongates S-ribbon (172) overlapping the gaps in the wall of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Doris Wilsdorf
  • Patent number: 7402929
    Abstract: A magnetic motor that includes a plurality of rotor magnet assemblies, a plurality of drive magnet assemblies that are laterally moveable with respect to the rotor magnet assemblies, a timing assembly for generating power pulses selectively supplied to the drive magnet assemblies and electromagnetic coils associated with the drive magnet assemblies to receive the power pulses from the timing assembly to momentarily disrupt the magnetic field of such assemblies at selected times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Inventor: Monte Dilliner
  • Patent number: 7159295
    Abstract: A miniature PMDC motor 10 has a permanent magnet stator comprising two arcuate ceramic magnets 20 fitted to a can-like housing 11 and circumferentially separated by interdisposed rubber magnets 21 wedging or nipping the ceramic magnets 20 in place within the housing 11 without the use of circumferential magnet stops formed in the side of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: James Ching Sik Lau
  • Patent number: 7038565
    Abstract: A permanent magnet assembly is disclosed that utilizes at least two rotating magnet subassemblies, and first and second stationary magnet subassemblies arranged so that their magnetic vectors oppose each other. At a first rotational position of the rotating magnet subassemblies, the magnetic vectors of the rotating magnet subassemblies align with the magnetic vector of the first stationary magnet subassembly and oppose the magnetic vector of the second stationary magnet subassembly. At a second rotational position, the magnetic vectors of the rotating magnet subassemblies are reversed, thereby aligning with the magnetic vector of the second stationary magnet subassembly and opposing the magnetic vector of the first stationary magnet subassembly. By locating air gap portions where the magnetic vectors of the rotating magnetic subassemblies meet the magnetic vectors of the stationary magnetic subassemblies, the air gap portions are subjected to a time-varying magnetic flux density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Astronautics Corporation of America
    Inventor: Jeremy Chell
  • Patent number: 6927518
    Abstract: When one of armature coils is in a beginning of a commutation process, a center line of a trailing end tooth of a corresponding group of teeth, around which the one of the armature coils is wound, is generally aligned with a corresponding boundary between magnets. When the one of the armature coils is in an end of the commutation process, a center line of a leading end tooth of the corresponding group of the teeth is generally aligned with another boundary between the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 6845617
    Abstract: An electric assisted turbocharger has an electric motor with a stator and a rotor that is coupled to a turbocharger shaft carried by a bearing assembly. The stator has a left-hand winding and a right hand-winding each projecting axially outwardly therefrom. The winds each extend a different distance radially along the motor (and are thus asymmetrical with respect to one another), thereby forming a radial gap along an axial end of the stator. The so-formed stator is disposed within a motor housing and together, the stator and motor housing, facilitate placement center housing axial end therein to minimize turbocharger axial length. The rotor is configured to prevent migration of oil into the motor housing, to improve dynamic balance, and comprises an integral thrust washer for placement against the bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc
    Inventors: John F. Allen, Gerhard E. Delf
  • Publication number: 20040251760
    Abstract: When one of armature coils is in a beginning of a commutation process, a center line of a trailing end tooth of a corresponding group of teeth, around which the one of the armature coils is wound, is generally aligned with a corresponding boundary between magnets. When the one of the armature coils is in an end of the commutation process, a center line of a leading end tooth of the corresponding group of the teeth is generally aligned with another boundary between the magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 6831387
    Abstract: An improved rotating electrical machine having permanent magnets and method for attaching the magnets that permits the use of thin, high flux density materials. The magnets and their mounting plate have facing cylindrical surfaces that are spaced slightly apart and through which an adhesive is introduced by capillary action through a groove formed at one end of the permanent magnets for providing attachment without having excess adhesive that can protrude beyond the surface of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Moric
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kondo, Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6806607
    Abstract: A miniature PMDC motor 10 has a permanent magnet stator comprising two arcuate ceramic magnets 20 fitted to a can-like housing 11 and circumferentially separated by interdisposed rubber magnets 21 wedging or nipping the ceramic magnets 20 in place within the housing 11 without the use of circumferential magnet stops formed in the side of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: James Ching Sik Lau
  • Patent number: 6703746
    Abstract: An electric traction motor for a vehicle including a housing, a wound stator field located in the housing, a rotor magnetically interacting with the wound stator field, high energy magnets configured in the rotor, and low energy magnets configured in the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Biais, Khwaja M. Rahman
  • Publication number: 20030173848
    Abstract: In the case of a small-sized motor of the present invention, a printed board to which an electric circuit including an electric element is attached is mounted on a case cover. The printed board has a soldering part to be connected to a member attached to an interior of the case cover for being connected to an electric power source supplied from an outside and a soldering part to be connected to a projection in a notch provided on an opening part side of the metal case to body-earth the electric circuit. In the soldering part for the body-earthing, at the time of assembling the motor, after fitting the case cover to the metal case opening part, a pair of electrodes are brought into contact from an outside of the metal case near the soldering part, to weld the soldering part by a principle of the electric resistance welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Matsushita, Hideo Tamura, Kenji Tsuyama
  • Patent number: 6564732
    Abstract: An actuating device intended for a sewing device or sewing machine includes a material pressing device for holding down the material to be sewn during stitch formation and transport, and at least one linear motor which serves as regulating element for the material pressing device. The drive rod of the actuating element is connected to the material pressing device so as to control the pressure the pressing device exerts on the material to be sewn. The drive rod is linked to the pressing device via at least one elastic low-mass coupling element and the pressing device can be placed by the linear motor back and forth between a raised and a lowered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Quick-Rotan Elektromotoren GmbH
    Inventors: Sevki Hosagasi, Helmet Jung, Michael Kilian
  • Patent number: 6496002
    Abstract: A rotation detector includes a rotor having a shaft. Projections are located at predetermined intervals on the periphery of the rotor and extend in an axial direction. Magnets are located between the projections and the shaft. The flux of each magnet is detected by a corresponding magnetism detection element. Each magnetism detection element has magnetic resistors. Movement of the projections changes the direction of flux of the magnets. Each resistor is switched between a first state, in which its magnetic resistance is great, and a second state, in which its magnetic resistance is small, in accordance with the change of the flux direction. The resistors are divided into two groups. The groups are substantially symmetrical relative to a centerline of the groups such that, when the direction of the flux changes, the resistors in one group are in the opposite state from the resistors in the other group. The centerline of changes in the direction of the flux matches the centerline of the resistor groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Katsuya Kogiso, Yasushi Nishibe, Masahiro Taniguchi, Shinji Usui