Cooling Or Fluid Contact Patents (Class 310/52)
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Patent number: 10530221Abstract: A cooling structure integrated with an electric motor and a controller includes a shell and a rear water jacket. The controller includes a power module and a control module. The electric motor has a rotor and a stator. The shell, shaped as a cylinder, is to sleeve the stator. The rear water jacket includes at least one assembly hole. The assembly hole is to allow at least one conductive pillar to penetrate therethrough. The rear water jacket, mounted to an axial end of the shell, is furnished with a plurality of rear water-jacket waterways. The stator electrically couples one end of the conductive pillar, while another end of the conductive pillar is connected with the power module.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Huan-Lung Gu, Shao-Yu Lee, Shih-Kai Hsieh, Shih-Hsiang Chien
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Patent number: 10507926Abstract: A conveying device for conveying a fluid stream comprising a mechanical unit, including a movable conveying element, and an electrical unit comprising a housing as well as electronic elements arranged in the housing. The mechanical unit and the electrical unit are detachably connected to one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Dariusz Krakowski, Stephan Risse
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Patent number: 10498199Abstract: A rotary electric machine of the present invention includes, inside a housing, a rotor and a stator that are concentric with each other. The stator has a plurality of coil portions in a circumferential direction. In the stator, a first flow channel and a second flow channel, through which cooling water flows, are provided along the plurality of coil portions, each of the channels having one end connected to a flow channel inlet and the other end connected to a flow channel outlet. The lengths of the first flow channel and the second flow channel are mutually different. A temperature detection element is provided in a coil portion on a high temperature side among the coil portions positioned along the first flow channel and the coil portions positioned along the second flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ken Nishikawa, Norihiro Watanabe, Koichi Ojima
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Patent number: 10483822Abstract: A motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor, a stator, a bracket, and a control device mounted on the bracket. The bracket includes a cylindrical bracket main body, and a stator frame which faces the bracket main body across a clearance and holds an outer surface of the stator on the radially inward side of the bracket main body. The control device is mounted on the bracket main body. The bracket is provided with a cooling passage, and an inflow port and an outflow port connected with the cooling passage. The cooling passage includes a control device cooling passage provided between the bracket main body and the control device, a stator cooling passage provided between the bracket main body and the stator frame, and a communication passage coupling the control device cooling passage and the stator cooling passage.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Nakanishi, Yasuo Ishiyama, Yoshinobu Nakamura, Takumi Okada
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Patent number: 10461608Abstract: A motor includes a stator unit having a stator, a rotor, a first bearing for supporting a first shaft portion of a shaft of the rotor in a first portion of the stator unit, a second bearing for supporting a second shaft portion of the shaft in a second portion of the stator unit, a first sensor for measuring a first parameter related to an operating state of the first bearing in the first portion of the stator unit, and a guide path provided in the stator unit, for guiding a first signal line of the first sensor from the first portion to the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yuusuke Fukushima
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Patent number: 10454338Abstract: A case for an electric motor includes a case body provided with an inner case and an outer case together forming a cooling fluid flow path penetratingly formed in an axial direction of the case body, and a circuit component mounting portion protruding from an outer surface of the outer case to mount a circuit component such that the circuit component is cooled by cooling fluid. Case covers are coupled to both end portions of the case body so that the electric motor and the circuit component can be simultaneously cooled by the single cooling fluid flow path. In this way, a separate circuit component case for mounting the circuit component can be excluded, thereby reducing a size and weight of the case.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungmo Jung, Taehee Kwak, Hyeongjun Kim
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Patent number: 10439475Abstract: An electric motor with a stator housing (2) and with an electronics housing (8), has a first section (A) of the electronics housing arranged on the radial side of the stator housing (2), and a fan (24) arranged on a first axial end (22) of the stator housing (2). The electronics housing (8) extends in the axial direction (X) beyond the first axial end (22) of the stator housing in a manner such that a second section (B) of the electronics housing (8), in whose inside at least one first heat-producing electronic component (58, 60) is arranged, is situated on the radial side of the fan (24). A pump assembly with such an electric motor is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/SInventors: Palle Madsen Obel, Lars Østergaard
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Patent number: 10427709Abstract: A frame is an aluminum die-cast product and includes a frame main body and a frame hole. The frame main body is placed at an inside of an opposite part of a case tubular portion, which is opposite from a case bottom portion. An outer wall of an outer peripheral portion of the frame main body is opposed to an inner wall of the case tubular portion. A receiving space is formed by the frame main body, the case tubular portion and the case bottom portion. The frame hole is formed in a center part of the frame main body. A stator is received in the receiving space. A rotor is rotatable together with a shaft. A seal member is placed between the case tubular portion and a housing of a rack gear and can liquid tightly seal between the case tubular portion and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Tomizawa
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Patent number: 10404139Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: an annular cooling oil channel that is configured inside an externally mounted frame so as to face axially toward coils that are arranged in an annular shape and such that a surface that faces the coils is made into an opening; an oil pump; a nozzle that sprays cooling oil that is conveyed under pressure from the oil pump into the cooling oil channel from above; and a plurality of oil flow direction changing projections that are respectively disposed inside the cooling oil channel and are arranged circumferentially so as to face gaps between the coils and such that cooling oil receiving surfaces face upstream in a direction of flow of the cooling oil so as to change the cooling oil that flows through the cooling oil channel to an axial flow so as to be supplied to the gaps between the coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaki Horii, Hiroyuki Higashino
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Patent number: 10404138Abstract: Gas coolers one of which is housed in a gas cooler chamber provided at an upper portion of a casing and installed near an opening of the casing above each stator coil end, are provided. A gas circulation passage is formed in which a cooling gas circulates through a space A provided at an intake side of each fan?a space B surrounding the fan?the gas cooler chamber?the gas cooler?a space C including the stator coil end?a gap between a rotor and a stator and gas passages formed in the rotor and the stator?a space D between an outer periphery of the stator and the casing?the space A.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kawashima, Shingo Kingetsu, Masahiro Kondo
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Patent number: 10385917Abstract: A motor capable of replacing a lubricant more easily is provided. A motor includes: a rotor supported by an output shaft-side bearing and an anti-output shaft-side bearing; a front housing that supports the output shaft-side bearing; a rear housing that supports the anti-output shaft-side bearing; a stator having both ends attached to the front housing and the rear housing, the stator surrounding the rotor; and a pair of pipelines which has an opening formed in a surface of the rotor close to the rear housing and which is provided inside the rotor, the pipelines communicating with at least one of the output shaft-side bearing and the anti-output shaft-side bearing and capable of circulating a lubricating liquid.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Taku Oohara
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Patent number: 10340771Abstract: A fan motor including: a motor body; a fan; a controller that includes a circuit board and a circuit element; a heat sink that is attached to the controller and that includes a heat dissipating section; a case body that includes a motor holder, and a center piece supporting the stator, with the heat dissipating section disposed between the center piece and the motor holder and the center piece forming an airflow passage along which airflow passes; an introduction section through which airflow flowing toward the heat dissipating section is introduced; a discharge section through which the airflow that has been introduced through the introduction section is discharged toward the fan side; and a facing section that is disposed at a downstream side of the airflow with respect to the heat dissipating section and that extends in a direction to obstruct the airflow.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Otsuka, Yoshikazu Fujii, Akinori Hiroyama, Hideaki Ishii
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Patent number: 10326395Abstract: An electrical system (2) includes a transformer (16) coupled to an AC source (6) that provides a main AC voltage, the transformer having a number of sets of primary windings (18) and secondary windings (20), and a charging module (32) structured to generate a magnetizing AC voltage. The charging module is structured to selectively provide the magnetizing AC voltage to: (i) one of the number of sets primary windings, or (ii) one of the number of sets secondary windings. The magnetizing AC voltage is such that responsive to the magnetizing AC voltage being provided to one of the sets of primary windings or one of the sets of secondary windings, one or more of the sets of primary windings will be magnetized in a manner wherein a flux of the one or more of the number of primary windings is in phase with the main AC voltage provided from the AC source.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: Irving A. Gibbs, Thomas A. Farr, Ron C. Schueneman
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Patent number: 10305345Abstract: A motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor, a stator, a bracket, and a control device mounted on the bracket. The bracket includes a cylindrical bracket main body, and a stator frame which faces the bracket main body across a clearance and holds an outer surface of the stator on the radially inward side of the bracket main body. The control device is mounted on the bracket main body. The bracket is provided with a cooling passage, and an inflow port and an outflow port connected with the cooling passage. The cooling passage includes a control device cooling passage provided between the bracket main body and the control device, a stator cooling passage provided between the bracket main body and the stator frame, and a communication passage coupling the control device cooling passage and the stator cooling passage.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Nakanishi, Yasuo Ishiyama, Yoshinobu Nakamura, Takumi Okada
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Patent number: 10294953Abstract: A centrifugal multiblade blower includes: an electric motor; and an impeller blowing off air outward in a radial direction by being rotated by the electric motor. A main plate of the impeller has an uneven part on one surface adjacent to the electric motor in a thickness direction of the main plate. The one surface is in contact with air passing through inside of the electric motor. A surface shape of the uneven part is formed in manner that, among a whole surface of the uneven part, a total surface area of a surface facing inward in a radial direction of the motor is larger than an imaginary smooth surface on which the surface shape of the uneven part is defined to be a smooth surface without the uneven part.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshifumi Kamiya, Hiroaki Shiraishi
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Patent number: 10291175Abstract: A rotary electric machine system includes: a rotary electric machine; a lubrication mechanism configured to supply lubricating oil to a bearing of the rotary electric machine; and a control unit configured to control the supply of lubricating oil from the lubrication mechanism. The control unit is configured to acquire an operation status of the rotary electric machine and determine whether there is a possibility of occurrence of electrolytic corrosion in the bearing. The control unit is configured to, when it is determined that there is a possibility of occurrence of electrolytic corrosion, increase the supply of lubricating oil to the bearing by controlling the lubrication mechanism as compared to the supply of lubricating oil to the bearing at a time when it is not determined that there is a possibility of occurrence of electrolytic corrosion.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoya Matsubara
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Patent number: 10284049Abstract: An electric motor including a labyrinth having a function for preventing foreign particles from entering an inside of the motor. A labyrinth member having a generally annular shape is fixed to a portion of a rotation shaft positioned on a front side than a front bearing with respect to an axis, by interference fit, etc., and the labyrinth member is configured to rotate integrally with the rotation shaft. The labyrinth member has at least one first opening formed on a front surface of thereof, and at least one second opening formed on an outer lateral surface thereof. The first opening and the second opening are fluidly communicated with each other within the labyrinth member.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhito Mukai
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Patent number: 10273959Abstract: A pump assembly has an electric drive motor which is designed as a canned motor which has a bearing (22) in the interior of motor can (14), on which a motor shaft (20) is supported. The bearing (22) has an outer diameter that is smaller than an inside diameter of the motor can (14) and the bearing (22) in the interior of the motor can (14) is supported on a bearing holder (24) which has multiple steps (40) extending traversely to an inner circumference of the motor can (14).Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Grundfos Holding a/sInventor: Kåre Iversen
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Patent number: 10270311Abstract: A superconducting electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator defines a cavity. The rotor is configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis. The rotor is disposed at least partially within the cavity. The rotor includes a shaft configured to rotate with the rotor, a rotor active section including at least a rotor torque tube and a superconductor, and a first re-entrant end attaching the shaft to the rotor active section. At most a threshold fraction of a bending force applied to the shaft is communicated to the rotor active section.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: KATO ENGINEERING INC.Inventor: Darrell Morrison
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Patent number: 10211705Abstract: A stator is fixed to a frame of an electric motor. A rotor is rotatably mounted to the frame to face the stator in a radial direction. A heat sink, to which a control substrate is attached, is mounted in one end of the frame. A heat transfer plate is interposed between heat-generating elements formed on the control substrate and the heat sink to absorb variations in a distance therebetween, the heat transfer plate allow heat to be transmitted from the heat-generating elements to the heat sink. The heat transfer plate includes a frame body mounted to the heat sink and a plurality of contact strips that flexibly protrude from the frame body and that abut the heat-generating elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Jirou Hayashi
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Patent number: 10211706Abstract: A frame of an electric motor opens in one end. A heat sink, to which a control substrate is connected, closes an opening of the frame. The frame includes a cylinder portion to which a stator is fixed, and a bottom portion that extends inward in the radial direction from the cylinder portion. A rotor is rotatably mounted in the frame to face the stator in the radial direction. A circumferential groove is formed in the bottom portion to face a stator coil in an axis of rotation direction. The circumferential groove is filled with a heat transfer gel. A coil end portion of the stator coil is inserted into the heat transfer gel.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Jirou Hayashi
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Patent number: 10178997Abstract: A surgical device comprising: a handpiece comprising a distal end and a proximal end; a chamber formed within the handpiece; a motor disposed within the chamber; an exhaust port in fluid communication with the chamber, the exhaust port being configured for attachment to a suction source so as to apply suction to the chamber; and at least one inlet port in fluid communication with the chamber, the at least one inlet port being configured to allow ambient air to be drawn into the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.Inventor: Kevin C. Edwards
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Patent number: 10164487Abstract: A motor includes a rotation shaft, a stator, and a rotor. The stator includes an armature winding and a stator core including a main core portion with an axial stack of core sheets and a magnetic plate on an end thereof. Each core sheet includes a tooth formation portion around which the armature winding is wound. The magnetic plate includes a stacked portion and an axially extending portion. The stacked portion stacked on the axial end of the main core portion and includes an end located toward the rotor. The axially extending portion extends toward the outer side in the axial direction from the end of the stacked portion located toward the rotor and is opposed to the rotor in a radial direction of the motor. The axially extending portion is shaped to be magnetically skewed in a circumferential direction relative to the tooth formation portion and the stacked portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsunori Banba, Hiroshi Katai, Yuusuke Tateishi, Yuuji Yamashita, Takumi Suzuki, Kenji Obata, Yoshimasa Kinpara, Takashi Nagaya
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Patent number: 10164564Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for controlling a wound rotor synchronous motor including: a current/voltage determiner configured to determine optimum rotor current using a map from real-time motor operating information and to determine and output a rotor voltage according to the determined optimum rotor current, and a temperature estimator configured to calculate and output a rotor coil temperature from the rotor voltage and the optimum rotor current output from the current/voltage determiner using a rotor coil temperature estimation equation set from a correlation equation between the rotor voltage and the rotor coil temperature for each rotor current.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Kyung Su Kim
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Patent number: 10155231Abstract: A separator drum having a vertical rotation axis and an inflow line for a material which is to be processed by centrifuging is driven by a drive apparatus via a drive spindle. The drive spindle is rotated by a motor designed as a direct drive and having a stator and a rotor. The drive apparatus is arranged in a drive housing having a motor housing section designed as an explosion-protected structure that is encapsulated in a pressure-resistant manner and in which the motor is accommodated.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbHInventors: Dieter Strauch, Thomas Bathelt, Andreas Bolte
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Patent number: 10151318Abstract: A unique low cost and efficient submersible, hermetically sealed, variable speed system intended to drive submersible boosting units. The system includes a unique combination of a liquid filled electrical motor connected to a hydraulic coupling and a magnetic coupling driver section, in a hermetically sealed container, with a magnetic coupling follower driving a booster unit. The system further includes integrated cooling, lubrication and control functionality. The drive unit has an actuating system connected to internal guide vanes which controls the liquid flow between the pump impeller and turbine wheel of the hydrodynamic coupling and hence the torque and speed. The combined system is a sealed seal-less and topside-less submersible drive unit that can operate in harsh subsea environments. The drive unit opens up for use of thin walled pressure casings and low pressure electrical penetrators.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Fuglesangs Subsea SAInventors: Tommy Westberg, Alexander Fuglesang
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Patent number: 10136555Abstract: An inverter (300) is disposed toward an opening in a motor side metal housing (201). A power module (301) is disposed on a metal cover (207) that is in contact with the metal housing (201). The power module (301) includes a semiconductor element, a metal terminal connected to the semiconductor element, and resin that seals the semiconductor element and the metal terminal. A metal plate (306) is disposed on a surface of the power module (301) that is positioned opposite the metal cover (207). Heat generated by the power module (301) is dissipated from the metal cover (207) and from the metal plate (306). This improves the heat dissipation performance. Thus, the size of the power module can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takuro Kanazawa, Kinya Nakatsu, Haruaki Motoda
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Patent number: 10097028Abstract: An electromagnetic generator comprising an antenna that receives radiofrequency energy. The antenna is connected to a rectifier circuit, which is used to charge a first battery using the radiofrequency energy received by the antenna. The first battery supplies power to a control unit, which powers at least one electromagnet to generate a magnetic field. A flywheel having at least one magnet is configured to rotate when the magnetic field is generated. An alternator, connected to the flywheel, charges a second battery based on the rotation of the flywheel. The second battery is then used to supply power to an external device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Inventor: Eddie Oquendo Virella
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Patent number: 10079529Abstract: A method for manufacturing a core of a rotating electric machine includes arranging a permanent magnet in a receptacle of a core body and injecting an anchoring material into a gap between a wall surface of the receptacle and an outer surface of the permanent magnet. A liquid crystal polymer, more specifically, liquid crystal polyester is used as the anchoring material. The liquid crystal polymer is injected at a velocity of 100 to 300 millimeters per second.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiaki Masubuchi, Masaki Sugiyama, Masaaki Takemoto, Masayuki Kito
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Patent number: 9989061Abstract: The invention proposes an electric pump (1) for delivering a fluid. The electric pump (1) has a first pump component (3) with a first interface (7) and has a second pump component (5). The first pump component (3) and the second pump component (5) are in contact with one another at the first interface (7). Here, the first interface (7) has an incline (11) with respect to a plane running perpendicular to a longitudinal axis (13) of the electric pump (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Erwin Franieck, Joerg Sigrist, Bernd Osswald, Eric Plantier
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Patent number: 9985493Abstract: A housing includes a housing center axis, a first end surface, a second end surface opposite to the first end surface in a direction of the housing center axis, a housing large inner peripheral surface, a housing small inner peripheral surface, and a housing step surface connecting the housing large inner peripheral surface and the housing small inner peripheral surface to face toward the first end surface. A stator holder includes an annular wall, a first flange fixed to the housing so that the first flange surface contacts the first end surface, and a second flange having a second flange second surface which faces the housing step surface. A annular sealing member is provided between the second flange second surface and the housing step surface to be pressed toward the second end surface via the second flange.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshiyuki Nagumo
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Patent number: 9981544Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes a left motor 4L that drives a left drive wheel 12L and a right motor 4R that drives a right drive wheel 12R, a cooling liquid circulation flow path 7 connected to the left motor 4L and the right motor 4R, and a cooling liquid distribution mechanism 6 that, according to a travel state, adjusts a ratio between a cooling liquid flow amount that flows from a pump 72 disposed on the cooling liquid circulation flow path 7 to the left motor 4L, and a cooling liquid flow amount that flows from the pump 72 to the right motor 4R.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Ito, Kazuo Koike
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Patent number: 9982687Abstract: A compressor is provided that comprises; a compression mechanism compressing a fluid; a motor driving the compression mechanism; and a housing that houses the compression mechanism and the motor. The compressor includes a low-temperature fluid passage forming unit having a surface forming a low-temperature fluid passage in which a low-temperature fluid flows and provided in the housing so as to cool the motor, and an oil passage forming unit having a surface forming an oil passage through which oil supplied into the housing flows. At least a part of the oil passage forming unit is arranged so as to face the low-temperature fluid passage forming unit with an interposed portion interposed therebetween such that the oil is cooled by heat exchange with the low-temperature fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Satoru Mitsuda, Ryo Umeyama
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Patent number: 9985500Abstract: An electric machine with fluid cooling. The electric machine includes a stator, the stator having a stator winding and a stator core having a plurality of stacked magnetic laminations, each of the laminations of the stator core having a plurality of apertures overlapping to form a plurality of stator fluid channels, a stator fluid channel of the plurality of stator fluid channels being not entirely axial. The electric machine further includes a rotor, the rotor having a shaft and a rotor core having a plurality of stacked magnetic laminations, each of the laminations of the rotor core having a plurality of apertures overlapping to form a plurality of rotor fluid channels, and a rotary fluid coupling in fluid communication with the rotor fluid channels. The rotor and the stator are configured to form a magnetic circuit comprising an air gap between the rotor and the stator.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Prippell Technologies, LLCInventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric E. Rippel
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Patent number: 9972429Abstract: A superconducting current pump arranged to cause a DC electrical current to flow through a superconducting circuit accommodated within a cryogenic enclosure of a cryostat comprises a rotor external to the cryogenic enclosure and a stator within the cryogenic enclosure, the rotor and stator separated by a gap through which passes a thermally insulating wall of the cryogenic enclosure, the rotor and the stator comprising at least in part a ferromagnetic material to concentrate magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit across the gap between the rotor and the stator and through the wall, so that movement of the rotor external to the cryogenic enclosure relative to the stator within the cryogenic enclosure induces a DC transport current to flow around the superconducting circuit within the cryogenic enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Inventors: Rowan Martin Walsh, Christopher William Bumby, Rodney Alan Badcock, Robert Andrew Slade, Zhenan Jiang, Kent Anthony Hamilton, Michael Graeme Fee
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Patent number: 9966810Abstract: Electric motors are disclosed. The motors are preferably for use in an automated vehicle, although any one or more of a variety of motor uses are suitable. The motors include lift, turntable, and locomotion motors.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Philip S. Johnson, Daniel E. Hilton
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Patent number: 9935520Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic assembly (10) for a rotary electric machine (1) for a motor vehicle. Said electronic assembly is characterized by comprising: blocks (100, 200, 300) of electronic components, the blocks having different heat dissipation needs, the blocks being: a power block (100), a filter block (200), a control block (300), and a device (10?) for cooling said blocks (100, 200, 300); said cooling device (10?) comprising: a protective cover (400) suitable for covering the power, filter and control blocks (100, 200, 300), said protective cover comprising openings (401, 402, 403, 404) suitable for generating cooling air flows which differ according to the heat dissipation needs of each of the power (100), control (200) and filter (300) blocks; and cooling elements (101, 201) coupled with said protective cover (400).Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Manuel Falguier, Alexis Hosni, Michel Fakes, Fabien Guerin, Yannick Le-Meitour, Philippe Baudesson
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Patent number: 9915156Abstract: An annular stator assembly includes a plurality of stator segments. Each stator segment includes a plurality of laminates having magnetic permeable properties; a plurality of thermally conductive laminates positioned between the permeable laminates; and a cooling pipe extending through the laminates for transferring heat from the laminates to coolant flowing through the cooling pipe. The stator segments are constructed independently. Coils are wound on each segment. The stator segments with the wound coils are subsequently arranged to form the annular stator assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Moog Inc.Inventors: Franklin B. Jones, Stuart A. Jones, Andrew I. Nehring
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Patent number: 9912210Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cooling an alternator using a fan that is operationally independent of the alternator and a duct system that at least partially surrounds the alternator. Example vehicles include an alternator cooling system that comprises a fan configured to be operationally independent of the alternator and disposed adjacent to an end of the alternator, and a duct system encasing the end of the alternator. The vehicles further include a control module configured to control operation of the fan based on one or more inputs related to operation of the alternator. Example methods include receiving, at a processor, an input related to operation of the alternator; determining, based on the input, that a preset condition has been met, using the processor; and responsive thereto, generating a control signal to adjust an operating speed of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nancy Gagnon, Vince Paul Solferino, William Taylor
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Patent number: 9893593Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a cooling frame. The cooling frame includes a flow passage through which the first liquid coolant circulates, a flow inlet connected to one end of the flow passage so as to make the first liquid coolant flow from the outside into the flow passage, and a flow outlet connected to the other end of the flow passage so as to make the first liquid coolant having flown through the flow passage flow to the outside. The machine is configured that, when the flow passage is divided into a front half portion closer to the flow inlet and a latter half portion closer to the flow outlet, the front half portion becomes a portion where the first liquid coolant mainly cools the second liquid coolant, and the latter half portion becomes a portion where the first liquid coolant mainly cools the gas coolant.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Sugimoto, Daisuke Kori, Yuji Kanazawa, Hirotaka Kinoshita
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Patent number: 9850777Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may include a turbocharger having a turbine, a turbine housing, a variable valve, a first plate, a second plate and a heat shield member. The turbine housing accommodates the turbine and has a flow path. The variable valve rotates about each pivot member provided thereon, thereby adjusting the flow velocity of fluid guided from the flow path to the turbine. The first plate supports one end of each pivot member, and defines the flow path. The second plate supports the other end of each pivot member or the variable valves, and defines the flow path. The heat shield member covers a wall surface of the turbine housing, and defines the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Tsuyoshi Uesugi
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Patent number: 9834247Abstract: A connector unit of a drive device includes an electric power supply connector, a signal connector, a base portion and leg portions and is fixed to an opposite side of a heat sink, which is opposite from an electric motor. The leg portions are formed at an outer peripheral edge of the base portion. A cover member receives the connector unit and the heat sink in the state where the electric power supply connector and the signal connector are exposed from the cover member. A connector side O-ring is installed between the base portion and the cover member. A height position of a first end surface of each leg portion is on a first side of a second base end surface of the base portion. With this construction, it is possible to limit deterioration of waterproofness of the drive device caused by a thermal load.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Abe, Yasufumi Matsuo, Shuhei Miyachi
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Patent number: 9837876Abstract: A motor apparatus for a vehicle includes a motor unit, an inverter unit, a case, and a pump. The case has a motor space, an inverter space, and a cooling passage, the motor space accommodating the motor unit, the inverter space accommodating the inverter unit, the cooling passage being configured to let cooling medium flow through the cooling passage to cool the motor unit and the inverter unit. The pump is configured to forward the cooling medium to the cooling passage, and is disposed in a surrounding space within the motor space, the surrounding space being at a periphery of a rotation angle sensor fixed to a shaft of the motor unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiji Ishimaru, Ryunosuke Furusawa
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Patent number: 9809186Abstract: A vehicle including a housing supported on a framework member of the vehicle via a supporting member, a liquid medium supply unit fixed to the housing and driven by a motor to supply a liquid medium to a cooled or lubricated portion, and a first atmosphere communicating mechanism that establishes a communication between an inside of a motor portion of the liquid medium supply unit and atmosphere, the first atmosphere communicating mechanism including a volumetric member that is disposed apart from the liquid medium supply unit in a position higher than the liquid medium supply unit, that has a predetermined volumetric space, and that is fixed to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hoshinoya, Shigeru Nakayama, Hirotomi Nemoto, Masahiko Akiyama, Yuji Minoda
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Patent number: 9806586Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing having a first hollow cylinder-shaped housing element for guidance of a first cooling medium in a first axial direction, and a second hollow cylinder-shaped housing element in which the first housing element is arranged. Arranged in the first housing element is a hollow cylinder-shaped stator and a rotor which is mounted in the stator for rotation about a rotational axis. A heat exchanger cover is arranged between the first and second housing elements and includes a guide element running helically about the rotational axis, and pipes extending axially and passing through the guide element. The heat exchanger cover guides the first cooling medium between the pipes in a helical manner along the at least one guide element in a second axial direction which runs opposite to the first axial direction, and guides a second cooling medium through the pipes in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Gerd Granat, Walter Putz
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Patent number: 9793767Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, an electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of axial protrusions forming a plurality of stator cooling channels on a radially outer surface of the stator and a tapered portion located adjacent a distal end of at least one of the plurality of protrusions. Additionally, the disclosure includes a method for cooling the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Mark Hamilton Severson, Debabrata Pal, Joseph Kenneth Coldwate
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Patent number: 9774237Abstract: A slide-block-type shaft linear motor platform includes a mover and a stator. An air gap is defined between the mover and the stator. The air gap can communicate with outer side via a fluid inlet space. Accordingly, air convection can take place between the heat source, that is, the winding inside the mover and the outer side. Therefore, the heat generated by the winding can be continuously dissipated to prevent the components from deforming due to the heat. In this case, the precision of operation can be ensured and the performance of the motor will not deteriorate due to the heat.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: HIWIN MIKROSYSTEM CORP.Inventors: Yung-Tsai Chuo, Yu-Jung Chang, Sheng-Shiun Huang
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Patent number: 9768661Abstract: An electric two-wheeled vehicle includes a case, an electric component accommodated in the case and having an electric part producing heat during operation, and a traveling wind guide body for cooling the electric component by traveling wind, and the traveling wind guide body has a traveling wind inlet taking in traveling wind from front, a traveling wind path through which the traveling wind taken in by the traveling wind inlet flows, and a traveling wind outlet ejecting the traveling wind flowing through the traveling wind path toward a radiation fin of the case.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 9748821Abstract: A cooling arrangement for electric machines where cooling plates are maintained against the inner surface of the stator and are interconnected by a cooling tube that carries the stator generated heat outside of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: TM4 INC.Inventors: Bruno Carpentier, Benjamin Martineau
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Patent number: 9742242Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, first inclined surfaces that intersect a plane that includes a central axis of a shaft at a predetermined angle are disposed radially outside gaps between coil ends of circumferentially adjacent concentrated winding coils, and cooling air that is blown out from a cooling fan and has flowed radially outward through the gaps between the coil ends is converted into an axially outward flow by the first inclined surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Watanabe, Masao Morita, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hideaki Arita