Cooling Or Fluid Contact Patents (Class 310/52)
  • Patent number: 12658744
    Abstract: A stator for an electrical machine includes: an annular housing extending around a central axis (X-X); a first circumferential flow channel extending around the housing; a second circumferential flow channel axially spaced from the first circumferential flow channel and extending around the housing; and a plurality of windings. The plurality of windings are circumferentially spaced about the housing to form a passage between each two adjacent windings. Each passage is in fluid communication with both the first circumferential flow channel and the second circumferential flow channel. The first circumferential flow channel is closed to flow at a first circumferential location and the second circumferential flow channel is closed to flow at a second circumferential location, removed from the first circumferential location so as to form a first set of passages (S1) connected in parallel and a second, separate set of passages (S2) connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward Graham Charles Pocock, Andrew E. Page, Tadashi Sawata
  • Patent number: 12620870
    Abstract: A power electronics arrangement for an externally excited synchronous machine, may include an inverter power module for each phase of the synchronous machine to form an inverter, an exciter power module including an exciter circuit as well as a common heat sink, to which the power modules are secured and thermally coupled for cooling. The heat sink may comprise a cavity including cooling structures for each inverter power module, each cooling structure being situated adjacent to a respective inverter power module. The cavity may receive a flow for active cooling of the power modules of a cooling fluid entering through an inflow opening of the heat sink to an outflow opening of the heat sink. A cooling structure may be associated with the exciter power module, the cooling structure being adjacent to the excited power module in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Daniel Ruppert
  • Patent number: 12592605
    Abstract: A case (1) that houses a rotary electric machine (2) and an inverter device (INV) has an inlet (11) through which coolant flows, and a channel (4) along which the coolant flows. The channel (4) includes a first heat exchange portion (41) where heat is exchanged between the inverter device (INV) and the coolant, and a turbine disposition portion (43) where a turbine (7) is disposed. The turbine (7) is rotated by a flow of the coolant passing through the turbine disposition portion (43), and a pump rotor (88) of an oil pump (8) that discharges oil to be supplied to the rotary electric machine (2) is drivingly connected to the turbine (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Torii, Shoichi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 12560386
    Abstract: An oscillating heat pipe device can include a body formed to be at least partially flexible, one or more channels within the body and defined by the body, an evaporator portion within the body at a first end of the one or more channels and in fluid communication with the one or more channels, and a condenser portion within the body at a second end of the one or more channels and in fluid communication with the one or more channels. The body can be configured to flex between the evaporator portion and the condenser portion. The device can include a heat transfer fluid trapped within the channels to transfer heat between the evaporator portion and the condenser portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Abbas A. Alahyari, Jinliang Wang, Ram Ranjan
  • Patent number: 12549070
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for thermal management of an electric motor via a coolant flow around portions of the electric motor, where the coolant flow is disrupted by an arrangement of pin-fins. In one example, an electric motor comprises: a casing including a coolant inlet arranged opposite to a coolant outlet across a central axis of the electric motor; a stator housed within the casing and forming a plurality of pin-fins extending straight outward radially, relative to the central axis, from outer circumferential surfaces of the stator in a staggered arrangement around an entire perimeter of the stator; and a plurality of clearances formed between adjacent pin-fins of the plurality of pin-fins, the plurality of clearances adapted to flow a coolant from the coolant inlet to the coolant outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: DANA BELGIUM
    Inventors: Jaywant S. Pawar, Chetan Prashant, Amol G. Thakare, Steven Vanhee
  • Patent number: 12542469
    Abstract: The motor includes a case, a stator having a stator coil, a rotor facing the stator, and a terminal unit provided in an opening formed in the case. The terminal unit includes a main body and external connection terminals. A main body is fixed in the opening and is at least partially composed of an insulating material. The external connection terminals are held by the main body, extend inside and outside the case, and are electrically connected to the stator coil inside the case. The main body of the terminal unit is provided with an oil flow path. The oil flow path communicates the inside and outside of the case and is configured to supply oil to the inside of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiichi Kaneshige
  • Patent number: 12537406
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a shaft connected to a rotor, and a facing member fixed to the shaft and facing an end surface of the rotor via a space. The shaft includes an inner flow path through which a refrigerant flows, and a communication hole that allows the inner flow path to communicate with the space. The facing member includes first blade portions arranged along a circumferential direction. The first blade portion has a first inclined surface inclined with respect to a radial direction such that a distance to the end surface becomes shorter from the inner side in the radial direction toward the outer side in the radial direction. The first inclined surface comes into contact with a refrigerant sprayed from the inner flow path through the communication hole by rotation of the shaft, and sprays the refrigerant toward a coil end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouichi Takahata, Shigehisa Aoyagi, Noriyuki Maekawa, Daisuke Satou, Ryuuichirou Iwano
  • Patent number: 12519374
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine is disclosed. The stator comprises a stator core comprising a number of stator slots extending through an axial end surface of the stator core and a number of wire windings arranged in the stator slots. The stator further comprises a sealing arranged against the axial end surface of the stator core such that the sealing covers at least a section of the axial end surface located radially inside the wire windings. The present disclosure further relates to an electric machine, a vehicle comprising an electric machine, and a method of assembling a stator for an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Johannes Nyberg, Christian Ness, Mattias Forslund
  • Patent number: 12510148
    Abstract: An electric drive for a vehicle comprises: an electric machine, a stator connected to a housing and comprising stator end-windings, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a driveshaft connected to the rotor; a transmission to transmit a rotary movement from the driveshaft to a driveline; a sump containing fluid to cool and/or lubricate the electric machine and the transmission; a hydraulic arrangement comprising at least one bi-directional pump, a first suction line hydraulically connected with the pump, a stator path for cooling the stator, a second suction line connected with the pump, and a transmission path for cooling the transmission; a valve arrangement with multiple valves configured such that fluid is either supplied from the sump through the first suction line to the stator path, or through the second suction line to the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Theodor Gassmann, John Foulsham
  • Patent number: 12506386
    Abstract: A vehicle, system, and method of operating a motor of the vehicle. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. A motor controller controls a motor torque of the motor. A sensor measures a motor speed. A rotor temperature sensor measures a temperature of the rotor. A stator temperature sensor measures a temperature of the stator. A processor determines a stator heat loss at the stator based on the motor torque, the motor speed, and the stator temperature, determines a rotor heat loss at the rotor based on the motor torque, the motor speed, and the rotor temperature, and controls flow of a stator coolant stream through the stator at a stator coolant flow rate based on the stator heat loss and a rotor coolant stream through the rotor at a rotor coolant flow rate based on the rotor heat loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Farzad Samie, Peng Peng, Xiaofeng Yang, Derek Frei Lahr
  • Patent number: 12496894
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electric traction machine includes a looped conduit system for conducting a first cooling liquid and a circulation pump for conveying the first cooling liquid in a first circulation direction. The cooling system includes an expansion tank filled at least partially with the first cooling liquid and a gas, and a motor input terminal for fluidically connecting the looped conduit system on an input side to the electric traction machine. The cooling system includes a motor output terminal for fluidically connecting the looped conduit system on an output side to the electric traction machine and a first heat exchanger for dissipating heat from and/or supplying heat to the first cooling liquid. In the first circulation direction, the first heat exchanger is arranged downstream of the electric traction machine and connected via the motor input and output terminal and upstream of the expansion tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Oechslen, Simon Kuebler
  • Patent number: 12489326
    Abstract: A stator for an axial flux motor having a laminated stator core which is fastened to a flange, wherein the laminated stator core has a rear side which is interlockingly and frictionally fastened to a front side of the flange, and/or a cooling channel between the laminated stator core and the flange is formed in the region of the fastening. An axial flux motor is also provided having a rotor which is arranged between two stators, of which one or both are as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Witt, Michael Menhart, Stefan Riess, Johann Oswald, Carsten Sonntag, Andrä Carotta, Daniel Mahler
  • Patent number: 12482595
    Abstract: A component carrier includes a stack with electrically conductive layer structures, at least one electrically insulating layer structure, and a magnetic inlay embedded in the stack. The electrically conductive layer structures form at least part of an electrically conductive coil structure surrounding at least part of the magnetic inlay. The coil structure includes at least one vertical segment with at least one plated slot filled with electrically conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG
    Inventors: Ivan Salkovic, Gerald Weidinger, Johannes Stahr
  • Patent number: 12483089
    Abstract: An electrical machine, in particular for use in a hybrid or fully electrical power train of a motor vehicle includes a stator and a rotor coaxially and rotatably arranged therein; a balancing disk for receiving and/or removing at least one balancing mass arranged on the rotor for conjoint rotation therewith, the balancing disk rotating in a radial plane of the rotor and being impinged by cooling fluid that is conducted radially outwards along at least one face under the effect of centrifugal force when the balancing disk rotates. On its face, the balancing disk includes a first fluid conducting element which runs radially more and more outwards in the axial direction out of the balancing disk such that the cooling fluid can be directed from the balancing disk toward the stator at an angle ? relative to the radial plane when the balancing disk rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Kahlenberg, Ingo Schulz, Tim Ferebauer
  • Patent number: 12483096
    Abstract: A motor system includes: a motor including: a motor housing, a stator core, a stator winding, and a rotor core, the stator core mounted in the motor housing, the stator winding wound around the stator core, the rotor core rotatably disposed with respect to the stator core, a rotor flow path formed at least in the rotor core, the rotor flow path configured to transport coolant to the stator winding; and a valve configured to control a flow of the rotor flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: BYD Company Limited
    Inventors: Yubo Lian, Heping Ling, Zhen Zhai, Linlin Zhao, Linna Liu
  • Patent number: 12472342
    Abstract: A catheter device having a catheter (24) in which a rotating shaft (25) which is made at least partially from a magnetic material is arranged, and a separating device which contains a housing (27) surrounding the rotating shaft and having a cavity containing a magnetic body (13?), the magnetic body being arranged downstream from a point at which the shaft (25) exits the catheter (24) which it surrounds with respect to the direction of flow of the fluid through the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Sami Er, Cornelia Simon, Joerg Schumacher, Reiner Liebing
  • Patent number: 12463515
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes: first spool including first compressor and first turbine drivingly coupled by first main shaft; second spool including a second compressor and second turbine drivingly coupled by second main shaft; combustion equipment; electrical machine arrangement including: first rotor drivingly coupled to first main shaft and carrying array of rotor elements; second rotor drivingly coupled to second main shaft and carrying array of rotor elements; and stator arrangement including array of stator coils arranged around an axis, axis being coaxial with an axis of rotation of first rotor and an axis of rotation of second rotor. Stator arrangement is axially translatable relative to first and second rotors, between: a first axial position in which array of stator coils interacts with array of rotor elements of first rotor; and a second axial position in which array of stator coils interacts with array of rotor elements of second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Matthew S Cartwright
  • Patent number: 12463509
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator carrier includes the step of fashioning a stator carrier body that includes a side wall that extends circumferentially about a hollow. The side wall has an interior surface that defines the hollow and an exterior surface opposite the interior surface. The method of manufacturing the stator carrier further includes the step of, subsequently, providing a fin on the exterior surface of the side wall of the stator carrier body. The fin is coupled to the exterior surface of the side wall and extends axially and circumferentially along the exterior surface of the of the side wall in a winding fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Kyle Nelson
  • Patent number: 12454016
    Abstract: A core drill includes: a motor having a rotor, which is rotatable relative to a stator about a rotational axis extending in the front-rear direction; a speed-reducing mechanism, which is disposed more forward than the stator; an output shaft, at least a portion of which is disposed more forward than the speed-reducing mechanism and which, in the state in which a core bit is mounted thereon, is rotated by the rotational force of the rotor transmitted via the speed-reducing mechanism; a battery-mounting part, on which a battery pack is mounted; a motor-housing part, which houses the motor; a grip part, at least a portion of which is disposed along the extension of the rotational axis more rearward than the motor-housing part; and a controller, which controls the motor. In the front-rear direction, at least a portion of the controller is disposed between the motor and the grip part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiko Imae
  • Patent number: 12445022
    Abstract: A switching element module includes a first switching element and a second switching element connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a direct current power supply, a smoothing capacitor connected between the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the direct current power supply, and a cooling block thermally connected to a cooler. The first switching element is fixed to one side face of the cooling block. The second switching element is fixed to the other side face of the cooling block. The smoothing capacitor is fixed to a positive terminal of the first switching element and a negative terminal of the second switching element, and is provided to face a first connection surface of the cooling block that connects the one side face and the other side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Mizuno, Yutaka Hotta, Ryota Sato, Hirosato Ihara
  • Patent number: 12424907
    Abstract: Provided is an oil-cooled motor cooling system. The oil-cooled motor cooling system includes: a motor, an oil collection assembly, and an oil spraying pipe; wherein the oil spraying pipe is disposed over the oil collection assembly, a plurality of oil spraying holes with openings are arranged in the oil spraying pipe, and the oil spraying pipe is configured to spray cooling oil to the oil collection assembly through the plurality of oil spraying holes; and the oil collection assembly includes a first oil collection tray and a second oil collection tray, wherein the first oil collection tray and the second oil collection tray are respectively disposed over a first end and a second end of a stator winding, each of the first oil collection tray and the second oil collection tray is in an arc shape matching the stator winding in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: CHERY AUTOMOBILE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cunxing Gu, Lizhen Geng, Zhiguang Zhou, Yanan Li
  • Patent number: 12424906
    Abstract: The cooling structure of the in-wheel motor is a cooling structure of an in-wheel motor provided in a wheel of a tire-wheel assembly. The cooling structure of the in-wheel motor includes a rotary electric machine configured to rotate a hub to which a wheel is fixed, a knuckle rotatably supporting the hub, and a plurality of flow paths through which a coolant for cooling the rotary electric machine flows, and a pump configured to circulate the coolant between the rotary electric machine and the knuckle via a plurality of flow paths provided inside the knuckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Miyazono
  • Patent number: 12418219
    Abstract: A stator structure of a magnetic levitation flux-switching motor includes a stator of a modular structure and a motor housing. A modular stator includes front and rear side winding end heat dissipation modules, modular stator left and right wings, a modular stator permanent magnet, front side magnetic conduction column left and right wings, an inter-front side and inter-rear side magnetic conduction column permanent magnets, insulating layers, a stator winding, and rear side magnetic conduction column right and left wings. The front side and rear side winding end heat dissipation modules are of hollow structures, and are symmetrically provided with a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet, a cooling medium channel is disposed inside a hollow cavity, one side of the heat dissipation module is a smooth curved surface, and good thermal contact can be achieved between the heat dissipation module and the stator winding and the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2025
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Zhiheng Zhang, Wenfei Yu, Peixin Wang
  • Patent number: 12388324
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor; a stator including a stator core and a coil and including a radial protrusion for fastening located above a rotation center of the rotor; a housing member that houses the rotor and the stator and to which the radial protrusion is fastened; and an oil passage portion located above the rotation center of the rotor and extending in an axial direction within a range in which the stator core extends in the axial direction, the oil passage portion having a discharge hole that discharges oil in a direction toward a position radially outward of the radial protrusion as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koki Tanaka, Takahiro Yoneda
  • Patent number: 12381427
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor comprising: a double rotor comprising: an inner rotor and outer rotor secured to a rotor housing having a plurality of N-pole and S-pole magnets, a stator comprising: a stator base portion, a plurality of cooling structures distributed around the stator base portion, a plurality of stator teeth, each of the plurality of stator teeth being disposed in a slot and having a plurality of windings wound around the stator tooth; and a liquid distribution comprising: a liquid introduction module comprising: a liquid introduction base portion, and a plurality of fluid channels being secured to the liquid introduction top surface, and housed within the plurality of cooling structures, and a liquid injection portion configured to channel liquid into the cavity and the plurality of cooling structures; a liquid egress module comprising: a liquid egress base portion secured to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: RH Motor Industry, LLC
    Inventor: Reza Norollahisomarin
  • Patent number: 12374981
    Abstract: Superconducting joints and methods of forming the same are described. A particular method includes arranging two or more terminals relative to one another and to one or more interconnect layers, wherein each terminal includes bulk high-temperature superconductive material and each terminal is coupled to at least one end of one or more high-temperature superconductive tapes. The method also includes heating the one or more interconnect layers to form a high-temperature superconductive electrical connection between the two or more terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: John R. Hull, John Hay Durrell, Jasmin Vivien Joan Congreve
  • Patent number: 12355336
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a disk electric motor, and a disk electric motor are provided. The cooling structure includes: a stator core, a stator housing, multiple first baffles and multiple second baffles. Multiple coils are arranged on the stator core, and there is a gap between adjacent ones of the coils; a stator housing enclosing two end faces of the stator core, where a first cavity is defined by the stator housing and an outer side of the stator core, a second cavity is defined by the stator housing and an inner side of the stator core, where the first cavity and the second cavity are in communication with each other through the gap, and a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet which are in communication with the first cavity are arranged on the stator housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI PANGOOD POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jinhua Chen, Wenxiong Yang, Guangquan Zhang, Yixiong Li, Lei Tang, Li Xia
  • Patent number: 12344088
    Abstract: A drive device has two electric drive machines for distributing the torque between two wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle and an inverter unit which is electrically connected to the drive machines for converting an electrical DC signal into a drive-machine-specific electrical AC signal. The two drive machines are arranged spaced apart from one another in the axial direction to form an intermediate space, and components of the inverter unit are arranged in a first area, located in the intermediate space and oriented in a first direction transversely with respect to the axial direction, of the drive device, and in a second area, adjoining the intermediate space and oriented parallel to the axial direction, of the drive device, to form a low-inductance, T-shaped inverter architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Amann, David Bock, Christophe Lafaye
  • Patent number: 12332659
    Abstract: In an aspect, a system for propeller parking control for an electric aircraft. The system include at least a sensor and a computing device. A sensor may be configured to generate angular datum. The computing device may be configured to generate a trajectory as a function of angular datum. The computing device may also be configured to initiate the transition from hover to fixed-wing flight as a function of a trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR LLC
    Inventor: Collin Freiheit
  • Patent number: 12323009
    Abstract: A drive shaft of a dynamoelectric machine includes at least two different heat conduction paths that are thermally separate from one another. Each of the at least two heat conduction paths has two physically separate ends and is embodied such that heat is able to couple into the drive shaft at a first one of the two ends and to couple out of the drive shaft at a second one of the two ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Innomotics GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Hoesle
  • Patent number: 12294248
    Abstract: A rotor shaft arrangement for an electric motor or for an electrodynamic machine. The rotor shaft arrangement has a rotor shaft, and a fluid passage, which is arranged at least partially within the rotor shaft and is designed to carry a cooling fluid along a longitudinal extent direction of the fluid passage. The rotor shaft arrangement furthermore has at least one feed channel, which is arranged at least partially within the rotor shaft and is connected to the fluid passage at one end of the fluid passage. The at least one feed channel is configured and/or designed to produce fluid communication between the fluid passage and a fluid feed that stores the cooling fluid, wherein the feed channel is arranged with respect to the longitudinal extent direction of the fluid passage so as to form a bend at the end of the fluid passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Isao Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 12278541
    Abstract: A cooling system for a belt starter generator, which has at least one housing portion, a plurality of flow apertures integrally formed as part of the housing portion, a heat sink connected to the housing portion, the heat sink cooled by liquid cooling, and a plurality of fins integrally formed as part of the heat sink. A rotor having a shaft is at least partially disposed in the housing portion, and a plurality of slots are integrally formed as part of the rotor. An impeller having a plurality of blades is mounted on the shaft. As the shaft rotates, the rotor and the impeller also rotate, and the blades generate air flow to create a flow path such that air flows between each of the fins, through the flow apertures, and through the slots of the rotor, and through the blades, achieving air cooling of the belt starter generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies USA, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Wisniewski, Laura Noel Church
  • Patent number: 12273015
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an advanced electric propulsion system comprises: a housing; an electric motor within the housing; a motor drive coupled to the motor; a thermal management system comprising: a manifold-mini-channel heat sink integrated into the housing, the manifold-mini-channel heat sink comprises: an inlet manifold having air inlets formed in front of the housing; a set of plurality of circumferentially grooved micro-channels formed in the housing and coupled to the air inlets and conductively thermally coupled to stator windings of the electric motor; an outlet manifold having an air outlets formed at a back of the housing and coupled to the set of plurality of circumferentially grooved micro-channels; wherein the electric motor comprises PEW stator windings that provide a low thermal resistance path from the stator of the electric motor to the housing; wherein the PEW stator windings comprise a high temperature tolerant thermally conductive electrical insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed A. Salam, Robert A. Dietrich, Evgeni Ganev, Stephen L. White
  • Patent number: 12249878
    Abstract: An inverter is disposed adjacent to one end of a motor in a rotational axis direction. The inverter includes a plurality of power modules, a smoothing capacitor, busbars that connect the power modules to the smoothing capacitor, and a thin case that accommodates these components. The plurality of power modules are disposed at the periphery of the smoothing capacitor. The smoothing capacitor and each of the power modules are disposed in an inner portion of the thin case and arranged on the same plane orthogonal to the rotational axis direction. The busbars are formed to extend in the circumferential direction. An inner edge portion of each of the busbars has an arc shape or a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Masashi Hayashiguchi
  • Patent number: 12244212
    Abstract: A coolant supply system for a drive device of an electrically operated vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle with an electric machine. The coolant supply system has an electric machine hydraulic circuit in which a coolant tank, the interior of a cylindrical stator housing and a stator housing sump are integrated, in which the coolant draining from the stator housing collects, which can be returned from there to the coolant tank by at least one return pump. The stator housing sump has a suction point on each of its axially opposite axial sides, from which the coolant can be sucked off by the return pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Ivo Greiter, Harald Gloede, Herbert Tschentscher, Frank Röthlingshöfer
  • Patent number: 12237755
    Abstract: A coolant supply system for an electric vehicle axle drive having an electric machine, in the electric machine housing of which a stator interacts with a rotor. The electric machine outputs to at least one vehicle wheel of the vehicle axle via a transmission arrangement. A coolant separator is arranged in the electric machine housing, which divides the interior of the electric machine housing into a radially outer stator chamber, in which the stator with its stator windings is arranged, and into a radially inner rotor chamber, which is separated therefrom in a largely fluid-tight manner and in which the rotor is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Ivo Greiter
  • Patent number: 12218570
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine including a rotor, a stator, and a case forming outflow holes through which a refrigerant flows out toward an extra-slot conductor of a stator coil. The outflow holes are arranged above the extra-slot conductor, and when the bending direction of the extra-slot conductor with respect to an intra-slot conductor arranged on the outermost diameter side in a slot in the stator coil on an upper portion of the stator is a coil bending direction, the first outflow hole is arranged on the bending direction side with respect to a vertical line passing through the rotation center axis, and the second outflow hole is arranged on a side opposite to the bending direction with respect to the vertical line, and the arrangement angle of the second outflow hole with reference to the vertical line is larger than the arrangement angle of the first outflow hole with reference to the vertical line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Jing, Satoshi Yamamura, Kenichi Nakayama, Tomohiro Adachi, Shinji Yamazaki, Hiromitsu Okamoto, Yuuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12206338
    Abstract: An inverter is disposed adjacent to one end of a motor in a rotational axis direction. The inverter includes a plurality of power modules each including a switching element, a smoothing capacitor, busbars that connect the power modules to the smoothing capacitor, and a thin case that accommodates these components. The plurality of power modules are disposed at the periphery of the smoothing capacitor and arranged in the circumferential direction. The busbars are formed to extend in the circumferential direction. An inner edge portion of each of the busbars connected to a terminal of the smoothing capacitor has an arc shape or a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Masashi Hayashiguchi
  • Patent number: 12206296
    Abstract: A motor controller includes a housing, a power circuit board, and a control circuit board. The housing includes a first mounting platform, a second mounting platform, and a side wall. There is a height difference between the first mounting platform and the second mounting platform. The first mounting platform is disposed on an upper part of the side wall, and the second mounting platform is disposed on a middle part of the side wall. The second mounting platform is disposed on one side of the first mounting platform. The first mounting platform and the side wall form an upper chamber, and the control circuit board and the power circuit board are disposed in the upper chamber. The control circuit board is closer to the first mounting platform than the power circuit board. The second mounting platform and the side wall form a lower chamber communicating with the upper chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianhui Li, Gui Zhang, Hairong Sun, Chao Guan, Xiaosan Xu, Yunsheng Chen
  • Patent number: 12199492
    Abstract: A rotor shaft for an electric motor includes an axially extending tubular body having an inner circumferential surface defining a hollow interior thereof with at least a portion of the hollow interior configured to receive a coolant therein. A plurality of circumferentially spaced splines extends radially inwardly from the inner circumferential surface into the portion of the hollow interior configured to receive the coolant therein. Each of the splines is configured to provide a heat exchanging structure for transferring heat from the rotor shaft to the coolant. The splines are one of integrally formed with the tubular body or provided as inserts captured by the tubular body during a flow forming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: METAL FORMING & COINING, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy John Cripsey, Robert Herston, Nicholas Brockett
  • Patent number: 12184150
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine in which the casing containing the rotor/stator assembly comprises an intermediate closing cover that closes one end of the casing, a roller bearing immersed in oil and seated inside the oil tank of the machine, which has a casing with an outer wall that is spaced apart axially from the intermediate closing cover. The spacing between the outer wall and the intermediate closing cover forms a path for air to flow from a fan or a space to be filled with thermally insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: WEG EQUIPAMENTOS ELÉTRICOS S.A.
    Inventors: Marcelo Verardi, Thiago Schwinden Leal, Douglas Eyng Fritzen, Cassiano Antunes Cezario
  • Patent number: 12170475
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a rotor assembly includes a rotor core having a through-hole disposed at a central portion thereof along an axial direction of the rotor core, and a rotor shaft that passes through the through-hole and coupled to the rotor core, the rotor shaft includes a shaft body having a hollow portion in an interior thereof, a cooling fluid hole part including a plurality of cooling holes passing through the shaft body to discharge a cooling fluid introduced through the hollow portion to an outside of the shaft body and arranged to be spaced apart from each other along an axial direction of the shaft body, and a support flange protruding radially on an outer surface of the shaft body to restrain axial movement of the rotor core and having a passage communication hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 12132376
    Abstract: A fluid compressor device includes a housing and a rotating group supported for rotation within the housing about an axis. The device also includes a controller for an e-machine of a turbomachine having a rotating group that is supported for rotation about an axis including a support structure, a first bus bar that is elongate and that extends about the axis, a second bus bar that is elongate and that extends about the axis, the second bus bar stacked on the first bus bar in an axial direction with respect to the axis, and a fastener arrangement that attaches the first bus bar and the second bus bar to the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC.
    Inventors: Valeriy Fedorikhin, Andrew Love, Ali Mohammadpour
  • Patent number: 12113404
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a housing and a plate-shaped first substrate. The housing houses a motor whose axis of rotation extends in the axial direction. Electronic components are mounted on the first substrate. The housing includes a tubular portion and a side wall portion. The tubular portion extends in the axial direction and accommodates the motor. The side wall portion protrudes from a radial outer surface of the tubular portion in a direction including at least the radially outward direction and the circumferential direction, and extends in the axial direction. An accommodation space to accommodate the electronic components is provided between the tubular portion and the side wall portion as viewed from the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Yamashita, Takashi Hattori
  • Patent number: 12103372
    Abstract: In a drive device, a housing includes a motor accommodation portion for accommodating a motor and an inverter accommodation portion for accommodating an inverter unit, the motor accommodation portion includes a tubular portion of a tubular shape extending in a first direction, the inverter accommodation portion includes a peripheral wall portion surrounding the inverter accommodation portion when viewed from a second direction and a plate portion extending from the tubular portion along one side in a direction perpendicular to the first direction and intersecting the second direction and continuous with the peripheral wall portion, and at least one of the pump and the oil cooler is fixed to the plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Hitoshi Kuroyanagi
  • Patent number: 12088152
    Abstract: Modular cooling assemblies are provided for simultaneously cooling both a power module and a vehicle motor. Each cooling assembly may include a first cooling structure defining at least one major surface in thermal communication with the vehicle motor. A second cooling structure may be provided, defining at least one major surface in thermal communication with a power module. An interlayer structure may be provided, configured to couple the first cooling structure to the second cooling structure. The first cooling structure, the second cooling structure, and the interlayer structure are positioned in a stacked arrangement and configured to provide a flow of coolant fluid from a fluid inlet defined in first cooling structure, through the interlayer structure, and to at least one heat sink feature of the second cooling structure. The coolant fluid is then directed through a fluid outlet defined in the second cooling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ercan Mehmet Dede
  • Patent number: 12062970
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a shaft supported rotatably around a rotation axis, a rotor located radially outward from the shaft and rotatable integrally with the shaft, and a stator radially opposing the rotor. At least one of the rotor or the stator includes a ventilation path that is a through hole. The ventilation path has a branched shape. A total length of inner circumferential surface lengths of branched ventilation paths in a cross section perpendicular to a penetration direction of the ventilation path is longer than an inner circumferential surface length of an unbranched ventilation path in the cross section perpendicular to the penetration direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hayami, Tetsuya Sakurada
  • Patent number: 12034360
    Abstract: A brushless motor with an internal integrated heat dissipation module thereof is provided. The brushless motor includes a stator including at least one recess to receive a corresponding heat dissipation module therein, and an outer rotor, the heat dissipation module sliding in the corresponding recess to contract to the bottom of the recess; an ejection element arranged in the recess for pushing the heat dissipation module outwards from the recess; two to four temperature sensors integrated in the heat dissipation module; the outer rotor including an annular pressing plate formed at a top thereof to bind and compress a wire harness at the end of a coil winding; an interior cavity inside the stator providing an annular baffle for dividing the cavity into inner and outer parts, and sealing the internal cavity, thereby air only flowing, through the external part near the outer side of the annular baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventors: Qicai Wu, Jichang Gan, Min Wu, Huaqiu Huang
  • Patent number: 12027953
    Abstract: A superconducting rotating machine includes a stator that includes a cylindrical stator iron core and a stator winding that is toroidally wound around the stator iron core and formed of a superconducting material, and generates a rotating magnetic field, an inner rotor rotatably held at an inner circumferential side of the stator, and an outer rotor rotatably held at an outer circumferential side of the stator. The inner and outer rotors each include at least one rotor winding selected from a superconducting squirrel cage winding including a single or a plurality of rotor bars and end rings that are formed of a superconducting material, and a normal conducting squirrel cage winding including a single or a plurality of rotor bars and end rings that are formed of a normal conducting material, and a rotor iron core including a plurality of slots that accommodate respective rotor bars of the rotor winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Taketsune Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11962189
    Abstract: A stator (1a, 1 b) for an electric machine. The stator (1a, 1b) is fixedly mounted relative to a rotational axis (Rot). The stator (1a, 1b) comprises a stator yoke (2) that extends in the axial (A) and radial (R) directions. Stator teeth (3), facing toward the rotational axis (Rot), are arranged in a ring shape on the stator yoke (2). The teeth are uniformly spaced apart from one another so that a stator groove (14) is formed therebetween. The stator (1a, 1b) is divided into a first stator section (5) and a second stator section (6). First and second outer walls (9, 10) are provided on the stator yoke (2) and serve to axially support the stator yoke (2). A cooling manifold disk (11) is integrated between the first stator section (5) and the second stator section (6). An electric machine with a stator of that type is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Rayk Gersten, David Wörzler, Stefan Spühler, Martin Jelinewski, Johannes Glückler, Timo Hele, Kai Bornträger