Molded Plastic Patents (Class 310/43)
  • Patent number: 11831207
    Abstract: A generator rotor assembly can include a diode holder configured to hold one or more diodes. The diode holder can be formed of a first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The assembly can include a rotor housing configured to hold the diode holder within the rotor housing. The rotor housing can be formed of a second material having a second CTE. The second CTE is different than the first CTE. The assembly can include one or more CTE compensation spacers interfacing the diode holder to the rotor housing such that the diode holder and the rotor housing are connected via the one or more CTE compensation spacers. The one or more CTE compensation spacers can be configured to have a third CTE different than the first CTE and the second CTE to compensate for relative length change between the diode holder and the rotor housing to prevent and/or reduce temperature induced stress growth at the interface of the diode holder and the rotor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Kanthi Gnanam Kannan
  • Patent number: 11831200
    Abstract: An axial gap motor includes a rotor configured to rotate around a rotation axis and a stator disposed to be opposed to the rotor across a gap in an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis. The rotor includes a hub, an annular rim located on the outer side of the hub and holding a permanent magnet, a coupling section coupling the hub and the rim and including a recess having a first opening opened on a surface facing one end side in the axial direction, a first plate member disposed on the one end side of the coupling section and covering at least a part of the first opening in plan view from the axial direction, and a member disposed in the recess and having density lower than the density of the coupling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Koeda
  • Patent number: 11824421
    Abstract: In resin molding, potting to be conducted with a male terminal bonded to a female terminal increases costs and processes. A resin-molded stator includes a coil, a female terminal, a male terminal, and an insulator. The female terminal includes a female terminal connection portion and a spring portion. The male terminal includes a male terminal connection portion, a wire connection portion, and a second surface contact portion. The insulator accommodates the female terminal connection portion, the spring portion, and the male terminal connection portion, and electrically connects the male terminal to the female terminal. The second surface contact portion faces a second surface of the insulator wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takayama
  • Patent number: 11804744
    Abstract: An axial flux electric machine comprises a stator including a plurality of stator core segments each comprising a lamination comprising a plurality of layers. A first soft magnetic composite (SMC) portion is arranged adjacent to the plurality of layers of the lamination. An insulating layer arranged between circumferential side surfaces of the plurality of layers of the lamination and the first SMC portion. A rotor is arranged axially adjacent to the stator and including a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor and stator are configured to generate magnetic flux that is aligned parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chengwu Duan, Zhen Gao, Jian Yao
  • Patent number: 11803047
    Abstract: An actuator may include a stator supporting a magnet; a stationary pole; and a bobbin supporting a winding of a coil, the bobbin being coaxial with the stator and stationary pole, and positioned inside the magnet and outside the stationary pole. A gap may be provided between the bobbin and the stationary pole. A beam steering mechanism may include a mirror; a frame; a pivot anchor fixed to the frame and connected to the mirror; and an actuator. An output end of the actuator may be connected to the rear surface. A beam steering mechanism may alternatively include a flexure; a mirror attached to the flexure; a frame; supports fixed to the frame and the flexure; a pivot anchor fixed to the frame and connected to the mirror or the flexure; and an actuator. An output end of the actuator may be connected to the flexure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Thorlabs Measurement Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Raab, Mark S Longmuir
  • Patent number: 11799335
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotor core in a shape of a shaft; a permanent magnet; and a connecting member interposed between the rotor core and the permanent magnet and connecting the permanent magnet to the rotor core. The connecting member contains a thermally conductive filler made of a non-magnetic material. Only ends of the filler have magnetism, and the ends are in contact with either or both of the rotor core and the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayumu Yageta, Hiroshi Kimpara
  • Patent number: 11791672
    Abstract: A core for use in an axial gap rotating electric machine, the core including: a yoke having an annular plate shape; and a plurality of teeth having a columnar shape arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the yoke, wherein the yoke has: an outer-circumferential face; an inner-circumferential face; a first face having a flat shape connecting the outer-circumferential face and the inner-circumferential face to each other; and a plurality of recessed portions connected to the first face, each of the plurality of teeth has an outer-circumferential face protruding in an axial direction of the yoke with respect to the first face, each of the plurality of recessed portions are connected to at least a portion of each one of the plurality of teeth in a circumferential direction of the outer-circumferential face, all shortest distances between at least one of an outer-circumferential edge of the first face and an inner-circumferential edge of the first face and the outer-circumferential faces of the plu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saito, Tomoyuki Ueno, Yuka Fukunaga, Hijiri Tsuruta, Shinichi Hirono
  • Patent number: 11791673
    Abstract: A stator for a vehicle includes a body defining a central bore that is adapted to receive a rotor. The stator also includes a plurality of electrical conductors radially disposed on the body. Each of respective electrical conduction of the plurality of electrical conductors includes a corresponding magnetic core wound in a conductive wire. The stator also includes a wired frame that includes one or more conductive wires. Each of the one or more conductive wires includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. Each respective first end of the one or more conductive wires is connected to corresponding terminals of the stator. Each respective second end of the one or more conductive wires is bent at an angle and adapted to mate with a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Mangesh Bramhe, Eric D. Pattok
  • Patent number: 11791699
    Abstract: A rotor arrangement (1a, 1b) for an electric machine of a vehicle. The rotor arrangement (1a, 1b) comprises a rotor lamination stack (4) and the rotor arrangement further comprises a rotor support (2a, 2b). The rotor support (2a, 2b) carries the rotor lamination stack (4), which is arranged on the radially outer side (6a, 6b) of the rotor support (2a, 2b). A retaining element is arranged on the outer side (6a, 6b) of the rotor support at the end on the rotor lamination stack (4). The retaining element is a one-piece, closed retaining ring (5a, 5b) with an axial ring width (SR) and with at least a first ring diameter (R1). The first ring diameter (R1) is smaller than or equal to the rotor support diameter (TR), so that the rotor laminate stack (4) is secured axially in a rotationally fixed manner. The invention also relates to two production methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Rayk Gersten, Stefan Spühler
  • Patent number: 11784528
    Abstract: A stator includes a wound member that includes a wound portion extending in a radial direction, and a pair of outer extension portions which extend in a circumferential direction from a radially outer end portion of the wound portion, and a coil wound on the wound portion. On an inner side in the radial direction of a base portion of the outer extension portions, a concave portion is recessed radially outward from the winding outermost diameter position. The first layer of the coil includes a first coil, a center of which is positioned radially inward from the winding outermost diameter position and in a range between 0.5 times a coil wire diameter and 1.5 times the coil wire diameter with respect to the winding outermost diameter position, and a second coil, a part of which is disposed in the concave portion on the radially outer side of the first coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takumi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11764635
    Abstract: A slinger for an electric motor broadly includes a hub and a wheel. The motor includes a housing in which a stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The motor also includes a rotatable output shaft projecting upwardly through a shaft opening in the housing. The hub is fixedly attachable to the output shaft of the motor so that the slinger rotates with the output shaft. The wheel is configured to divert liquid radially away from the shaft opening. The wheel includes a wheel plate and a plurality of radially extending blades cooperatively forming a series of passages extending radially outward relative to the shaft opening, when the hub is attached to the output shaft. The wheel plate is supported by the hub so as to be positioned above the housing when the hub is attached to the output shaft. The blades present radially inboard ends intersecting the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. Eason, Chetan O. Modi, Kevin L. West
  • Patent number: 11764626
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets positioned radially outside the rotor core, a rotor cover having a tubular portion surrounding the rotor core and the magnet, and a resin portion coupling the rotor core and the magnet with each other. The resin portion has a first lid portion positioned on one axial side of the rotor core and the magnet. The rotor cover has a flange portion projecting radially inward from the tubular portion on one axial side of the first lid portion. The first lid portion has a recess portion depressed from a surface on one axial side of the first lid portion. The recess portion is positioned at a position overlapping between the circumferentially adjacent magnets. The flange portion has a first swage portion swaged to the other axial side and positioned inside the recess portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Aono, Hideaki Uchise, Tatsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 11745394
    Abstract: A mold includes a first mold portion, a second mold portion, and a projection. The second mold portion is secured against the first mold portion along a draw axis to form at least one mold cavity. The second mold portion includes an internal surface oriented at an oblique angle relative to the draw axis. The projection extends from the internal surface along a projection axis. The projection forms an elongated profile including a first end, a second ends, and a pair of side surfaces extending between the first end and the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Ray Melton Lazalier, Matthew Raymond Bednara
  • Patent number: 11742715
    Abstract: A motor housing (2) has a shaft section to receive a motor shaft (4) and a motor section to receive motor electronics (5) and motor windings (6). The shaft section and the motor section are separated from each other in a sealed manner by a separating pot (7) arranged in the motor housing (2). A metal ball bearing pot (8) with a ball bearing (9) is arranged in the separating pot. The ball bearing pot (8) lies indirectly against a motor housing section that is connected to the outer surroundings, via the separating pot (7). Thus, the motor housing functions as a cooling body. Accordingly, heat generated by the ball bearing (9) during operation is dissipated onto the motor housing and the outer surroundings, via the ball bearing pot (8) and the separating pot (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Kisch, Wilhelm Weisser, Jochen Scheffczyk, Hassan Ghodsi-Khameneh, Daniel Hauer, Marcus Hellmann, Alexander Zwetkow
  • Patent number: 11735973
    Abstract: A motor device may include: a motor housing including a mounting hole; a motor cover mounted on the motor housing, and including a connection hole facing the mounting hole; a coupling member inserted into the mounting hole and the connection hole, and mounted in the mounting hole and the connection hole; and a fastening member coupled to a main housing through the coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Il Ryong Kim
  • Patent number: 11722046
    Abstract: An electromagnetic coupling device includes an electromagnetic coil, a field core including a recessed portion containing the electromagnetic coil, and a terminal block inserted in a hole passing through the wall of the recessed portion. The terminal block includes a terminal portion projecting outside the field core, a pair of terminals provided at the terminal portion, and a pair of through holes passing through the terminal block via the pair of terminals. The winding start end and winding termination end of the electromagnetic coil pass through the pair of through holes, project from the pair of terminals, and are soldered to the pair of terminals together with a pair of external connection lead wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: OGURA CLUTCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Fujisawa, Yukihiro Hara, Shinya Ozaki, Toshihiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 11705789
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotating portion rotatable about a center axis that extends vertically and a stationary portion that rotatably supports the rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stator facing at least a part of the rotating portion in a radial direction, a circuit board disposed axially below the stator, and a resin portion covering at least a part of the stator, and the circuit board. The stator includes a plurality of coils disposed in a circumferential direction. The circuit board includes an axially upper surface mounted with an electric element that is disposed at least at one of positions including a position between two coils of the plurality of coils, adjacent to each other in the circumference direction, and a position below the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinobu Shiraishi, Takashi Uchino, Tsuyoshi Yasumura
  • Patent number: 11677280
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes a lower terminal portion, a bent portion, and an upper terminal portion. The bent portion extends radially inward from an upper end of the lower terminal portion. The upper terminal portion extends axially upward from a radially inner end of the bent portion. The upper terminal portion is located radially inside a radially inner end surface of a tooth. In a process of manufacturing a motor, a rotor main body is inserted into a radially inner side of a stator core, using a space defined radially inside the lower terminal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takahashi, Takayuki Migita, Takumi Okada
  • Patent number: 11670976
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a rotor core that is fabricated from a plurality of laminations stacked along a rotational axis of the electric machine. The rotor core has a plurality of arcuately arranged, axially extending magnet-receiving slots. The rotor core includes a plurality of magnets received in respective ones of the magnet-receiving slots. Each of the laminations includes opposed deflectable magnet-retaining prongs that extend into a corresponding one of the magnet-receiving slots. The magnet-retaining prongs are deflected by and engage the magnets to exert a reactive force against the magnets and hold them in place. Each of the laminations also includes respective support posts axially adjacent the magnet-retaining prongs. The support posts extend alongside and thereby limit the deflection of the magnet-retaining prongs when engaged with the corresponding one of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventor: John M. Tucker
  • Patent number: 11664696
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stator assembly of a hairpin winding motor. The stator assembly includes a stator core and hairpin coils. The hairpin coils include a first end including a pair of respective ends of first two hairpin coils arranged adjacent to each other in a radial direction, a second end including a pair of respective ends of second two hairpin coils arranged adjacent to each other outside the first end in the radial direction, and a third end including a pair of respective ends of third two hairpin coils arranged adjacent to each other outside the second end in the radial direction. Here, such first to third ends are repetitively arranged in plural along a circumferential direction, and a fixing cap fixes a preset number of ends among the plurality of first to third ends repetitively formed along the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong Jun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11654544
    Abstract: Inserts disposed in a housing of a pneumatically or hydraulically powered tool having a motor adapted to rotate a drive lug in either of first and second rotational directions. The insert is composed of a material resistive to creep and/or stress relaxation. The insert contacts fasteners applying a clamping force to the tool and remove the housing from the load path of the clamping force, thereby reducing the possibility of fluid leaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Bothmann, Brian C. King, Ray Kinsley
  • Patent number: 11658529
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor (100) for an electric motor comprises a bell housing (110) comprising an annular wall (112) and at least one permanent magnet (120) fixed to the annular wall by adhesive means (126) sited between a rear face (124) and the annular wall (112). The rear face (124) of the permanent magnet (120) has a receiving zone (134) accepting said adhesive means (126) and defined by a radius of curvature (R?, R2) which is greater than the radius of curvature (R) of the annular wall (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Cordula Quitsch, Maxime Pagnard, Aziz Bougrassa, Omar Bougrassa, Laurent Labaste-Mauhe, Benjamin Loret, Anthony Brisset
  • Patent number: 11646619
    Abstract: An electronically commutated machine, in particular an electronically commutated electric motor is disclosed. To detect an angle of rotation completed by a rotor shaft of the machine or a rotational speed, this rotor shaft is equipped with a signal generator of a sensor device. This latter component has a magnet element, which is fastened on the rotor shaft by way of a holding element. A clamping body is included, which is arranged on the rotor shaft with force fit and onto which the holding element is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Loeffler, Michael Schlitzkus, Thomas Zander
  • Patent number: 11641147
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to providing a motor capable of removing electric noise sufficiently. The present disclosure is also related to providing a motor capable of handling cases where no choke coil is disposed. A motor comprising a choke coil, a terminal electrically connected to a lead wire led out from the choke coil, and a bracket including a first wall part, a second wall part and an elastic part located between the first wall part and the second wall part in an axial direction of the choke coil, in which the choke coil is located between the elastic part and the second wall part in the axial direction, the terminal is sandwiched between the first wall part and the elastic part in the axial direction and the lead wire is led out from the elastic part side to the first wall part side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventor: Masami Ota
  • Patent number: 11641138
    Abstract: A motor for a laundry appliance includes a drive shaft coupled to a drum at a first end. The rotor frame is coupled proximate the second end of the drive shaft, where the rotor frame includes at least one polymeric material. A central hub includes a core and a perimetrical ring that extends circumferentially around the core. A plurality of recesses are defined within a planar surface of the perimetrical ring, wherein a portion of the polymeric material is received within the plurality of recesses to secure the rotor frame to the central hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Krati Bhargava, James Hull
  • Patent number: 11641141
    Abstract: A stator (10) of an electric machine has a stator lamination stack (16) that includes stator laminations. The stator (10) also has at least one stator winding (15) defined by conductor bars (11-14) arranged in slots (17) of the stator lamination stack (16) and fixed in the slots (17) of the stator lamination stack (16) with the aid of a fixing device (22). The fixing device (22) in a slot (17), a nonwoven material (20) which can be saturated with a cooling liquid (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Johannes Stoll, Rolf Graef
  • Patent number: 11637465
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating machine includes a rotor core in which a plurality of assembly holes is provided in an axial direction, and a first magnet and a second magnet. The first magnet and the second magnet are assembled to the rotor core by being inserted into the assembly holes in accordance with a predetermined arrangement pattern. An outer peripheral surface of any one of the first magnet and the second magnet, including end faces in the axial direction, being entirely covered with an insulating coating, and an outer peripheral surface of the other of the first magnet and the second magnet, excluding at least a part of end faces in the axial direction, being covered with an insulating coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Okochi, Keisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 11629719
    Abstract: An electric coolant pump includes a pump house, a motor connected to the pump house, and an impeller housed in the pump house and driven by the motor. The motor includes a stator and a movable unit rotatably mounted within the stator. The stator is provided with a central shaft. The movable unit includes a support body, a bearing assembly fixedly embedded in the support body, a rotor core fixed to the support body, and a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the rotor core. The bearing assembly includes at least one bearing rotatably sleeved on the central shaft. The support body is formed by an injection-molding process to wrap the bearing assembly and fixed connecting bearing assembly and the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Guoyuan Zou, Hongliang Zhang, Daigang Li, Anbang Chen, Ruifeng Qin, Guanyin Liang
  • Patent number: 11626774
    Abstract: A system and method that converts rotational movement of a crank shaft into electrical energy is provided. The crank shaft is caused to rotate using a series of electromagnets powered by a power source. The electromagnets are arranged to encircle and magnetically affect a central magnet coupled to the shaft. The system effectively amplifies the energy supplied from the power source and saves the resulting excess energy to an energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Chad Gray-Cingcade
  • Patent number: 11611255
    Abstract: A rotor having multiple poles is provided and includes at each pole an end winding support forming a channel, a bus bar disposed in the channel and edge-wound coils disposed to extend around the end-winding support and the bus bar. The edge-wound coils are stacked radially and include an inner diameter coil routed to an adjacent pole and brazed to an inner diameter coil of the adjacent pole and an outer diameter coil brazed to the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dhaval Patel, Andrew R. Wilkinson, Eric A. Brust, Edward C. Allen
  • Patent number: 11594924
    Abstract: A stator core is integrally moulded with an insulator employing an insulating resin material, together with a fixed shaft which is inserted into a centre hole in a core back portion, and the stator core and a motor circuit board are assembled as a single piece by mating a plurality of circuit board insertion pieces protruding on an axial end of the insulator on the opposite side to an output end with circuit board insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shou Tomiyama, Makoto Aida, Mario Fiorucci, Andreas Furrer, Stefan Wildhaber
  • Patent number: 11572884
    Abstract: A direct current (DC) brushless fan and a drive apparatus are provided. The drive apparatus includes a housing, a DC brushless motor, a control unit, an adaptation unit, an alternating current (AC) input interface, a DC input interface, and a power storage. The housing includes a first portion and a second portion. A projection path defined by orthogonally projecting the first portion toward the second portion is defined as an installation range. The DC input interface is arranged in the installation range and is electrically connected to the control unit. The AC input interface is arranged in the installation range and is electrically connected to the adaptation unit. The power storage is detachably arranged at an installation position of the housing. When the power storage is arranged at the installation position, the power storage covers the AC input interface and is electrically connected to the DC input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Chia-Yuan Liu
  • Patent number: 11563358
    Abstract: A rotary actuator for use in a shift-by-wire system of a vehicle includes a motor, a controller for controlling the motor, and a case housing the motor and the controller. An upper case of the case includes a resin molded body, which integrally has a housing that houses the motor and a connector that is used for external connection, and a plurality of external connection terminals, which are embedded in the resin molded body and are capable of connecting the controller to an outside member. Each of the external connection terminals includes a base protruding into an installation space for a control board in a board extending direction, a bend bent from the base toward the control board, and a tip portion extending from the bend to the control board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikine Kume, Hiroyuki Kado
  • Patent number: 11557849
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cover for protecting a regulator and a rectifier of a motor vehicle alternator, comprising at least two removable sections that are each compatible with at least two possible configurations for the connector of the regulator, and/or at least two removable sections that are each compatible with at least two possible configurations for the terminal of the rectifier, which cover can be used to protect more than one possible configuration of a motor vehicle alternator and reduces manufacturing time and costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO SISTEMAS ELECTRICOS, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Andrés Montes Gomez, Juan Carlos Loyola Salazar
  • Patent number: 11539276
    Abstract: A molded product in which a parting line can be disposed at an inconspicuous position on the appearance of the product. The molded product includes a main body having a cylindrical shape and a hole penetrating through the main body in a radial direction, or a protrusion protruding in the radial direction from the main body, and in the molded product, a parting line corresponding to a matching surface of molds is formed in the molded product, and the parting line has a first line extending from the hole or the protrusion to one side in a circumferential direction of the main body, and a second line extending from an end point on the one direction of the circumferential direction of the first line to an end portion in an axial direction of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuya Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11527932
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator may include providing an annular stator body including a plurality of stator teeth arranged spaced apart from one another. The method may also include at least partially overmoulding at least two adjacent stator teeth with a first plastic mass. The method may further include arranging at least one stator winding on at least one stator tooth of the at least two stator teeth and fixing the at least one stator winding on the at least one stator tooth via at least partially overmoulding the at least one stator winding with a second plastic mass. The method may additionally include, prior to fixing the at least one stator winding, introducing a mask into an intermediate space defined between the at least two stator teeth to cover a surface portion of the stator body bounding the intermediate space radially outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markie, Sentance Graham, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Patent number: 11527940
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor disposed outside the shaft, a stator disposed outside the rotor, a sensing magnet coupled to the rotor, a circuit substrate disposed above the sensing magnet and including a sensor configured to detect a magnetic flux change due to the sensing magnet, and a cap member which covers the sensor, wherein the circuit substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to be spaced apart from the first substrate, and connecting portions connecting the first substrate to the second substrate, the sensor is mounted on the second substrate, and the cap member is disposed to pass through a separating space between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Ho Choi, Hong Shik Yun
  • Patent number: 11522406
    Abstract: A vehicle electric machine assembly including a stator core and a terminal block is provided. The stator core includes one or more three-phase terminals connected to end windings. The terminal block includes a connector for each of the three-phase terminals. A portion of the end windings extending from the stator core, the three-phase terminals, and the terminal block are overmolded as a single unit such that a portion of each of the connectors is exposed for connection to an inverter. The terminal block may further include one or more threaded apertures, each sized to receive a threaded stud to facilitate an electrical connection between one of the one or more three-phase terminals and the inverter. Each of the one or more three-phase terminals may extend axially along an axis substantially parallel to a central axis of a rotor disposed within a cavity defined by the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Degner, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti, Franco Leonardi
  • Patent number: 11522410
    Abstract: In this molded structure of the brushless fan motor, at least a part of a circuit board is supported by a notch portion in a distal end portion of a projecting end formed on a board storage portion side and a rotary shaft side of an insulator, the board storage portion and the insulator are placed in such a manner as to surround a periphery of a bearing support tube portion, a part of a molded portion is disposed between the bearing support tube portion and the insulator and between the board storage portion and the insulator, and the entire circuit board located inside a storage chamber, excluding the portion supported by the projecting end formed on the board storage portion side of the insulator, is covered with the part of the molded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munenori Takakuwa, Kakuhiko Hata, Yukihiro Nagatsuka
  • Patent number: 11522419
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator for an electric machine, having the following steps: inserting a cast body with a nozzle from a first side of the stator into the stator, inserting a cast counterbody from a second opposing side of the stator into the stator, casting the stator with thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic, or resin by means of the nozzle, curing the thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic, or resin, wherein following the curing a cast-on piece of the thermoplastic, thermosetting plastic, or resin is sheared off using a rotational movement of the cast body or cast counterbody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Florian Balling
  • Patent number: 11502588
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polymeric electrical machine includes manufacturing a stator including a laminated stator core and a plurality of windings including winding overhangs; applying a surface treatment to the stator core constructed to reduce defects at an interface between a polymeric material and the stator core and enhance adherence between the polymeric material and the stator core; mounting the stator onto a mandrel; inserting the stator into an electrical machine housing mold; molding an electrical machine housing including a stator band with an integral non-drive end endplate, including overmolding the stator and winding overhangs within the stator band; molding a drive end endplate, including forming polymeric ribs in the drive end endplate and overmolding a metallic structure into the endplate, the metallic structure enhancing mechanical stiffness of the endplate; installing a rotor assembly into the electrical machine housing; and installing the endplate onto the electrical machine housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Sheng Zhong, Dariusz Bednarowski, Colin E. Tschida, Darren Tremelling, Lukasz Malinowski
  • Patent number: 11499548
    Abstract: Gerotor pump comprising an inner gerotor and an outer gerotor and an electric motor in a pump housing, and the outer gerotor is formed integrally with the rotor of the electric motor, wherein magnets are integrated into the outer gerotor, and the rotor is rotatably mounted on a shaft that is fixed on one side to a housing or a housing base of the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS EFP DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Hinrichs, Tilo Schäfer, Bernd Denfeld
  • Patent number: 11496027
    Abstract: A motor case has a first case portion and a second case portion coupled to the first case portion. The stator has a stator core and an insulator fixed to the stator core. The insulator has a tubular portion having an outer circumferential surface and a polygonal shape in the cross-sectional view, and on the outer circumferential surface, insulator flat portions lined up in a circumferential direction. The first case portion includes: three or more core supports which project inward in the radial direction from an inner circumferential surface of a circumferential wall of the first case portion, come into contact with the core outer-circumferential surface, and are disposed at intervals from each other in the circumferential direction; and at least one first detent which is in contact with or is disposed to come into contact with the insulator flat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Kobayashi, Yoshifumi Kuwano
  • Patent number: 11489422
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an armature (1) includes: a coil disposing step involving using a thermally expandable resin (Q) that expands by application of heat, and disposing a coil (30) in a core (10) such that the thermally expandable resin (Q) before expansion is disposed between a slot-housed portion (31) and an inner surface of a slot (11); a resin disposing step involving, before or after the coil disposing step, using a thermally melting resin (P) that melts by application of heat, and disposing the thermally melting resin (P) before melting such that the thermally melting resin (P) comes into contact with coil end portions (32); and a heating step involving, after the coil disposing step and the resin disposing step, heating, expanding, and then curing the thermally expandable resin (Q), and heating, melting, and then curing the thermally melting resin (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11484978
    Abstract: A machine tool having a tool holder for exchangeably holding a tool is provided, the machine tool including: a machine tool housing; a spindle rotatably mounted in the machine tool housing a drive end being connected to a drive for rotating the spindle about an axis of rotation and a holding end being coupled to the tool holder; and a locking device arranged in the machine tool housing and which has a locking element reversibly movable between a release position and a locking position, a locking end of the locking element having an interlocking connector and the spindle having a mating interlocking connector, the interlocking connector being disengaged from the mating interlocking connector in the release position to enable rotational motion of the spindle, and the interlocking connector being engaged with the mating interlocking connector in the locking position to prevent rotational motion of the spindle and to enable an exchange of the tool of the tool holder, the locking device also including an electrica
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Tobias Möglich
  • Patent number: 11489406
    Abstract: A drive device includes an electric motor and a gear unit that is driven by the electric motor. The electric motor has a laminated stator core which includes stator windings and is accommodated in a stator housing. The stator housing has recesses that are axially uninterrupted, i.e. in particular in the direction of the rotor shaft axis, and the stator housing is surrounded, especially radially surrounded, by a housing of the drive device, in particular a tubular housing and/or a cup-shaped housing, and the housing is set apart from the stator housing, in particular such that an especially circulating airflow is able to be provided within the housing, the recesses in particular guiding the airflow through in the axial direction, and the airflow being returned in the opposite direction in the set-apart region between the stator housing part and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Waldemar Becker, Domenik Hettel, Thomas Rung, Jens Schillinger
  • Patent number: 11469636
    Abstract: A stator of an electric motor comprises a pole chain, which is made of a stack of a plurality of straight transformer sheets and rounded to a circular configuration by bending the stacked transformer sheets, wherein the pole chain has a plurality of pole portions each comprising a pole tooth; a plurality of winding cores attached to the respective pole teeth for accommodating coils of a three-phase winding comprising wires; wherein the wires of respective phases of the three-phase winding are routed spatially separated from each other and without mutual contact at an axial end surface of the pole chain between and along adjacent winding cores around the pole chain; and wherein the wires are supported and guided such that their positions relative to the pole chain are substantially maintained when the pole chain is rounded from its straight configuration to its circular configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Bleckmann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinz Frederic Hackl, Georg Görg
  • Patent number: 11469633
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor with one or more magnets, a rotor core holding the one or more magnets, a spacer that contacts the one or more magnets, and a rotor holder. The rotor holder includes a holder lid portion and a holder tubular portion in a tubular shape extending to one side in the axial direction from a radially outer edge of the holder lid portion. The holder lid portion includes a holder first surface that extends radially inward from an inner surface of the holder tubular portion, a holder second surface that extends radially and is radially inward of the holder first surface and on the other side in the axial direction, and a connecting surface connecting the holder first surface and the holder second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Sho Fukuhara, Shinji Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11454233
    Abstract: A device provides a pneumatic pressure medium via a pressure medium source for at least one pressure medium chamber in particular of a vehicle seat of a motor vehicle. The device has a pressure medium source for the pressure medium and a pressure medium line disposed between the pressure medium source and at least one valve. At least one connection for a pressure medium line is disposed between the valve and the pressure medium chamber. A control module actuates the pressure medium source and the at least one valve. The device further has a housing. A motor of the pressure medium source is located between the control module and a pump of the pressure medium source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schuetze, Klaus Spreng, Stefan Bauer, Jan Sedenka
  • Patent number: 11456648
    Abstract: A rotor-grounded motor including a stator, a rotor and a conductive plate. The stator is disposed with a bearing seat, and the bearing seat accommodates a bearing. The rotor includes a rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft is inserted in the bearing and electrically connected therewith. The conductive plate is disposed on the bearing seat, and one end of the conductive plate is connected to the bearing and the other end is electrically connected to a grounding terminal. The rotating shaft and the grounding terminal are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Han-En Chien, Hung-Chi Chen, Meng-Yu Chen