With Control Means Patents (Class 310/53)
  • Patent number: 11949316
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a motor configured to drive a component of the HVAC unit and a jacket disposed about the motor and comprising a cavity defined by a housing of the jacket. The jacket is configured to receive a flow of working fluid and to place the working fluid in a heat exchange relationship with the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Praveena Alangar Subrahmanya, Deepak Dilipsingh Dixit
  • Patent number: 11760190
    Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system includes a vehicle control unit (VCU), a coolant pump controller, a motor controller, a motor, a vehicle charger, an electronic coolant pump, and a cooling plate. The electronic coolant pump, the vehicle charger, the motor controller, the motor, and the cooling plate are connected in sequence to form a closed coolant loop for a coolant. Either the VCU or the coolant pump controller of the electronic coolant pump can control the electronic coolant pump to switch between an idle mode and a normal mode according to a coolant temperature detected from the closed coolant loop. Under the normal mode, the VCU controls the electronic coolant pump to have an ideal pumping speed according to the coolant temperature detected from the closed coolant loop and a rotational speed of the motor, ensuring good cooling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei-Lin Hsu, Min-Tse Hsu
  • Patent number: 11715987
    Abstract: In a motor, a motor housing includes a motor housing main body having a cylindrical portion and a lid portion holding a first bearing, a cover holding a second bearing, a stator housing forming a radial flow path, first and second seal members, and a positioning portion for radially positioning the motor housing main body and the cover. The stator housing includes a stator housing main body and a flange portion positioned between the motor housing main body and the cover in the axial direction. The first seal member seals a gap in the radial direction between the cylindrical portion and the stator housing main body. The second seal member seals a gap in the axial direction between the motor housing main body and the flange portion. The positioning portion positions the stator housing in the radial direction with respect to the motor housing main body and the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Masami Sugino
  • Patent number: 11639724
    Abstract: Provided is a turbo compressor for compressing a gas such as air and supplying the compressed gas to outside, the turbo compressor including a compression unit including a compression gas inlet for sucking the gas, an impeller for compressing the gas sucked through the compression gas inlet, a compression gas outlet for discharging the gas compressed by the impeller, and a compression gas channel connected from the compression gas inlet to the compression gas outlet, a motor including a rotary shaft having a front end coupled to the impeller, to rotate the impeller, a housing having a motor accommodation space to accommodate the motor, and a cooling gas channel passing through the motor accommodation space and enabling circulation of a cooling gas contained therein, wherein the compression gas channel is spatially separate from the cooling gas channel and thus the gas in the compression gas channel does not permeate into the cooling gas channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TNE KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyeong Su Kim
  • Patent number: 11283330
    Abstract: An integrated apparatus of water-cooled motor and driver includes a motor housing and a driver housing. The motor housing includes a motor-housing inner wall, a motor-housing outer wall, an inlet, a heat-dissipation flow channel and an outlet. The motor-housing inner wall surrounds and receives a motor assembly. The motor-housing outer wall surrounds the motor-housing inner wall, and the exterior thereof has a first connecting surface. The inlet is disposed on the motor-housing outer wall. One end of the heat-dissipation flow channel is connected to the inlet, the end contacts and is received between the motor-housing inner wall and the motor-housing outer wall. The outlet is connected to the other end of the heat-dissipation flow channel and is disposed on the motor-housing outer wall. The driver housing receives a driver assembly, and the exterior thereof has a second connecting surface connected with and bonded to the first connecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Wu-Chen Lin, Chi-Hsiang Kuo, Chien-Chung Shih, Chia-Hsiang Yang, Yi-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 11218045
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a case, a stator that includes end-windings, a rotor coupled to the case via at least one rotor bearing, at least one drive motor fluid pump, and drive motor electronics. The rotor includes a hollow cylindrical body, a first shaft portion, and a second shaft portion, a fluid feed tube having a fluid receive end and a fluid feed end, the fluid feed end extending into the hollow cylindrical body, and a plurality of fluid exit ports. The drive motor electronics power the stator with or without causing rotation of the rotor. The drive motor fluid pump pumps fluid into the hollow cylindrical body via the fluid feed tube, pumps the fluid out of the plurality of fluid ports, and onto the stator end-windings to collect heat from the rotor and the stator. The heated fluid may be used for heating a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Bozhi Yang, Tomas Vianna Martins, Scott Michael Graves, Ethan Swint, Eric Bellemare, Lev Fedoseyev, Benjamin Dellal, Leif E. Olsen, Alexander Hain
  • Patent number: 11111961
    Abstract: A compact, energy efficient air cooling system for a rotating shaft bearing module includes a Coanda surface having a periphery that smoothly curves from a radial center to axial alignment with a side of the module. A fan blade mounted on the shaft directs an airflow radially parallel and adjacent to the Coanda surface, causing the airflow to be bent by the Coanda effect from radial to axial, and to be directed along the side of the housing. Embodiments that can be applied to existing housings include a Coanda panel adjacent to the housing end face. A double suction fan blade can draw both external air and air from between the panel and the housing. In other embodiments the housing end face itself is a Coanda surface. A fan cover can have an inwardly curved periphery that forms a reduced gap or nozzle with the Coanda surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Flowserve Management Company
    Inventors: Scott C. Judge, Andrew Todd Koehler, Stephen R. Schappert
  • Patent number: 11075552
    Abstract: A motor is cooled with a coolant. The motor includes a rotor rotatable about an axis, a stator including a stator core and windings wound about the stator core, a housing enclosing at least a portion of the stator, and a resiliently deflectable spray ring extending circumferentially relative to the axis. The spray ring defines at least one orifice configured to direct coolant on the stator. The spray ring presents first and second arcuately spaced apart ends defining a gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond D. Heilman, Andrew F. Poag, S. Duke Snider, John T. Scoble, III, Thomas E. Kirkley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11011961
    Abstract: A system for cooling an electric machine, including as components a stator and a rotor, wherein each component has a cooling circuit, the system including at least one regulator for regulating a volume flow of a coolant from a coolant reservoir and a control unit, wherein in each case an input of each cooling circuit is connected to at least one regulator for regulating the volume flow of the coolant from the coolant reservoir, wherein the control unit is adapted to set at least one regulator for regulating the volume flow of the coolant into the cooling circuit of a respective component, while taking into account at least one temperature of the respective component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Felix Winkelmeyr
  • Patent number: 11005341
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing structure for sealing a peripheral area of a fan of a generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Sung Ha Kim
  • Patent number: 10965185
    Abstract: A rotor hollow shaft for a rotor of an electric machine may include a cylinder barrel that is closed off on both sides by end flanges. On each side, a shaft journal may be positioned or formed on the end flanges. At least one of the shaft journals may include an access bore that provides access to a shaft cavity surrounded by the cylinder barrel. A leadthrough element may be fitted into the access bore so as to impart a sealing action with respect to the shaft cavity. The leadthrough element may extend through the shaft cavity to the shaft journal on the other side of the cylinder barrel, where the leadthrough element may likewise be fitted so as to impart a sealing action with respect to the shaft cavity. The leadthrough element may permit the leadthrough of a liquid or gaseous medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Presta TecCenter AG
    Inventors: Christian Kötschau, Daniel Paul
  • Patent number: 10840782
    Abstract: An assembly and a method for connecting ends of generator stator coils with a manifold are presented. The assembly includes an adapter having a sleeve connection conduit connected to a sleeve of the manifold and two hose connection conduits. Two hoses are connected between the two hose connection conduits and end of top stator coil and end of bottom stator coil respectively. The adapter provides two separate coolant flow paths from one sleeve of the manifold to the top stator coil and the bottom stator coil through two hoses. The assembly provides a simple modification to resolve connection issues between generator stator coils and manifold during stator coil rewinding as well as a possibility to monitor coolant temperatures of top and bottom stator coils independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Eberhardt, Stefan Dunkel
  • Patent number: 10815868
    Abstract: A cooling control device includes a switching valve, an electric motor, and a controller. The switching valve has a coolant outlet. The coolant outlet is configured such that a coolant flows through the coolant outlet. The electric motor is configured to operate the switching valve to switch connecting and shutting off between the coolant outlet and a coolant transporting unit. The controller is configured to determine a duty ratio of a signal for controlling the electric motor on a basis of the temperature of the coolant over a predetermined period of time after the electric motor starts operating the switching valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shogo Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 10794619
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compression mechanism, a shaft, a motor, and a cooling medium delivery structure. The motor includes a rotor mounted on the shaft and a stator disposed radially outwardly of the rotor to form a gap between the rotor and the stator. The cooling medium delivery structure includes inlet and outlet conduits located to supply and discharge a cooling medium to and from the motor. The shaft has an external shape different than an internal shape of the rotor to form at least one axial passageway between the shaft and the rotor. The cooling medium is supplied through the gap and the at least one axial passageway to cool the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: DAIKIN APPLIED AMERICAS INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Layton Knopp, Jeffrey Allen Morgan, Ronald J. Formosa, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10790727
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: an intra-axle coolant supply unit supplying coolant into a rotation shaft of a rotating electrical machine; a coolant discharge unit pouring coolant onto the rotating electrical machine, wherein the coolant is conducted in a predetermined distribution ratio to the intra-axle coolant supply unit and the coolant discharge unit; a flow rate adjustment device capable of adjusting a supply flow rate of the coolant; and a control device functioning as: a determination device determining overheating of the rotating electrical machine caused by deviating allocation of the coolant to the intra-axle coolant supply unit in an increase direction as compared to the predetermined distribution ratio; and a recovery device controlling the flow rate adjustment device to implement a recovery operation in which the supply flow rate is decreased and then elevated, when the determination device has determined that the overheating of the rotating electrical machine is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inano, Shigeru Kimura
  • Patent number: 10693350
    Abstract: An electric machine, having a shaft as well as a cooling system, which has at least one cooling channel formed by at least one component of the electric machine. The cooling system is filled with an electrically conductive coolant. The shaft is in electrical contact with the coolant and is grounded via the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Martin Sorge, Bastian Heidler
  • Patent number: 10671132
    Abstract: An IHS includes an IHS chassis. A processor is located in the IHS chassis. At least one fan is located in the IHS chassis and in fluid communication with the processor. A temperature sensor is located in the IHS chassis. A fan controller is coupled to the processor, the at least one fan, the temperature sensor, and a storage device that includes a plurality of processor target temperatures that are each associated with a different ambient temperature. The fan controller is operable to receive a first ambient temperature from the temperature sensor, determine a first processor target temperature that is associated with the first ambient temperature, receive a temperature of the processor, and operate the at least one fan in order to reduce the temperature of the processor to the first processor target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Paul T. Artman, Dominick Adam Lovicott, Hasnain Shabbir
  • Patent number: 10333368
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 10270307
    Abstract: A front housing of an electric motor includes an air discharging member for discharging air toward a rotary shaft. The front housing includes an annular first air chamber that is formed in the air discharging member, and an annular second air chamber that is formed outside the first air chamber. The front housing includes an air supply path for supplying compressed air to the second air chamber, and a connection flow passage for causing the first air chamber to communicate with the second air chamber. The connection flow passage is formed at a position other than a position of the air supply path in the circumferential direction of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Kamiya
  • Patent number: 10218244
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine does not require management of the gap between a fan guide at a small-diameter portion and a fan fixing portion and can suppress the manufacturing and maintenance costs from increasing. An electric rotating machine is provided with a small-diameter portion fan guide that extends both in a circumferential direction and in an axial direction in such a way as to be provided a space in the radial-direction outer side of a small-diameter portion that is a portion of an extending axle portion, of a rotation axle, that extends in the axial direction from a rotor, the portion being at an axial-direction departing side than a fan fixing portion to which an axial-flow fan is fixed and in such a way that the small-diameter portion fan guide is disposed to be provided a space with the fan fixing portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kondo, Kiyonori Koga
  • Patent number: 10100893
    Abstract: A clutch assembly for coupling an internal combustion engine to a drive train of a motor vehicle, having a frictional clutch for coupling a drive shaft of the internal combustion engine to an output shaft, an actuating device for opening and/or closing the frictional clutch, an eddy current brake for introducing an actuating force into the actuating apparatus, and a control apparatus for applying a defined, predetermined current to the eddy current brake, wherein the control apparatus is configured, in an acceleration phase of a torsional vibration of the drive shaft, to specify a current for opening, in particular for adjusting a slip operation, of the frictional clutch and, in a deceleration phase of the torsional vibration of the drive shaft, to specify a current for closing, in particular for rotationally-fixed, frictional coupling, of the frictional clutch for the eddy current brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Helmer, Marc Finkenzeller
  • Patent number: 10079534
    Abstract: A superconducting electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes rotor windings configured to superconduct when cooled in a rotor cryostat to a temperature no greater than a rotor superconducting temperature. The stator includes a stator windings configured to superconduct when cooled in a stator cryostat to a temperature no greater than a stator superconducting temperature. The rotor cryostat surrounds the rotor and is configured to allow transport of a first coolant through a plurality of conduits adjacent to the rotor windings in order to draw heat from the rotor windings and reduce the temperature of the rotor windings to a temperature no greater than the rotor superconducting temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: KATO ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Darrell Morrison, Ted Daly
  • Patent number: 10041711
    Abstract: Provided are a superconducting rotating machine which improves the cooling efficiency of a rotor by using schemes of passively or actively circulating a coolant and a cooling method thereof. The superconducting rotating machine includes a rotor supported rotatably about a rotation axis and including: at least one superconductive coil; and a central cavity; and a cooling apparatus disposed at an exterior of the rotor and configured to communicate with the cavity, wherein the cooling apparatus includes: a condenser configured to condense a gas coolant supplied through a gas coolant supplying pipe to generate a condensed coolant; a coolant circulating unit configured to supply the condensed coolant into the cavity, configured to recover a vapor coolant evaporated in the cavity into the condenser and configured to circulate the condensed coolant; and a forced circulating unit configured to actively circulate the condensed coolant into the cavity in response to the rotor being tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: DOOSAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Woon Sik Kwon
  • Patent number: 10014750
    Abstract: A power generator for which assembly work can be performed under a state in which a separable body is separated from a first frame portion and a first partition plate portion when a stator is assembled inside a frame. Therefore, an end bell to be integrated with a second partition plate portion has a small diameter, and can be arranged close to a rotor. As a result, the end bell made of an insulating resin can be arranged only in a portion in which a flux-loss reduction effect is significant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masahiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 9948168
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a stator for manufacturing a stator by mounting a concentrated winding coil wound with a square wire conductor on each of a plurality of teeth in a stator core and welding end of the concentrated winding coil to corresponding end of another concentrated winding coil, characterized in that a first set of concentrated winding coils and a second set of concentrated winding coils are mounted on the teeth, and the welding of each end in the first set of concentrated winding coils and corresponding end in the second set of concentrated winding coils is started while a third set of concentrated winding coils is mounted on the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Kawamoto, Susumu Kato, Shingo Hashimoto, Takeshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuya Iwatsuki, Shingo Sato
  • Patent number: 9915224
    Abstract: An engine testing system comprises a rotary absorber that provides a variable resistance to an engine under test and heats coolant from a cold reservoir. A hot reservoir coupled to rotary absorber stores the heated coolant for later (or concurrent) use. Moreover, an organic Rankine cycle turbine-generator device is coupled to the hot reservoir, which converts heat from heated coolant into electrical power. A conditioning system is coupled to the organic Rankine cycle turbine-generator device that cools the coolant for storage in the cold reservoir. The available captured waste energy may be augmented with waste energy that is also available during engine testing. The additional waste energy may be in the form of exhaust gases, thrust, heat from engine coolant systems, residual engine heat, radiant or convective waste heat, friction etc. Variations of the above system may replace the primary energy re-capture from other than a rotary absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SYMBRIUM, INC.
    Inventor: G. Wesley Blankenship
  • Patent number: 9771670
    Abstract: An open-end spinning device of a rotor spinning machine has a spinning rotor with a rotor cup, in which fiber material is spun, and with a rotor shaft through which the spinning rotor is driven. A bearing is arranged in a contactless way with a drive to drive the spinning rotor. A rotor housing is provided in which the rotor cup is arranged and which is impinged with spinning negative pressure (pSU) during spinning operation through a negative pressure channel. A drive housing is provided in which the rotor shaft of the spinning rotor extends, and in which the drive and the bearing of the spinning rotor are arranged. The rotor housing and the drive housing are arranged spaced apart from one another in the open-end spinning device in the axial direction of the rotor shaft. In a method to operate such an open-end spinning device, the rotor housing is impinged with spinning negative pressure (pSU) during the spinning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Mathias Burchert, Josef Schermer
  • Patent number: 9419499
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, a cooling device and a pair of cooling liquid collection tanks. The stator includes an annular stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is disposed radially outside the rotor so as to surround the rotor. The stator coil is mounted on the stator core so that a pair of coil ends of the stator coil protrude axially outward respectively from opposite axial end faces of the stator core. The cooling device is configured to supply cooling liquid to vertically upper parts of the coil ends of the stator coil. Each of the cooling liquid collection tanks is arranged to surround a vertically lower part of a corresponding one of the coil ends so as to collect and temporarily reserve therein the cooling liquid moved from the upper part to the lower part of the corresponding coil end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirohito Matsui, Koji Asagara, Atsuo Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9407118
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a generator gas shield support device, and method of removing the generator gas shield using the support device. In one embodiment, the generator gas shield support device of a generator system includes a first support coupled to a generator rotor of the generator system. The first support of the generator gas shield support device is configured to releasably couple a first portion of a generator gas shield to the generator rotor of the generator system. The generator gas shield support device may also include a second support releasably coupled to the generator rotor. The second support is configured to support the first portion of the generator gas shield during a rotation of the generator rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Artur Marcin Chuc-Karmanski, Tony Lee Bombe, Marek Wojciechowski, Wiktor Jan Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 9407122
    Abstract: A motor housing includes a central body having a central cavity region configured to receive an electric motor. Also included is a first end portion having a first inner surface that defines a first internal cavity region configured to receive a first end winding of a stator of the electric motor, wherein the first internal cavity region comprises a first radius defined by a distance from a main axis of the motor housing to the first inner surface. Further included is a second end portion having a second inner surface that defines a second internal cavity region configured to receive a second end winding of the stator, wherein a ratio of the first radius to a first end portion wall thickness ranges from 19.89 to 27.85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Darryl A. Colson, Clarence J. Wytas, Jr., Murtuza Lokhandwalla
  • Patent number: 9377008
    Abstract: There is provided a wind power installation comprising a synchronous generator which has a generator stator and a generator rotor for producing electric energy. The wind power installation further has a fluid cooling system for cooling the generator rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventors: Arno Hildebrand, Christian Baumgaertel
  • Patent number: 9353439
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in semiconductor processing operations to distribute process gases across a semiconductor wafer. The apparatus may include one or more annular baffles arranged in a stack of annular baffle layers within a plenum volume of the apparatus. Each annular baffle may have a mid-diameter substantially equal to and inner diameter or outer diameter of a baffle in the annular baffle layer above it. The annular baffles may be arranged in a cascading fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Dhritiman S. Kashyap, David G. Cohen, Davinder Sharma
  • Patent number: 9246373
    Abstract: An assembly for cooling an electrical coil winding having a first coil, a second coil, a first end turn and a second end turn is provided. The assembly includes a supply header; a return header; and a plurality of flow members coupled in flow communication to the supply header and the return header. The flow members are configured to channel a flow agent from supply header to the return header. Each the flow member of the plurality of flow members includes a first portion coupled to the first coil; a second portion coupled to the second coil; a first end portion coupled to the first end turn and coupled in flow communication to the first portion and the second portion; and a second end portion coupled to the second end turn and coupled in flow communication to the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert M. Zirin, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran, Michael John Douglass, Rammohan Rao Kalluri
  • Patent number: 9170193
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a leak in a gas cooled generator is provided. The apparatus includes a subsystem for introducing a non-corrosive second gas having an infrared absorption spectrum into the generator. The apparatus also includes an imaging component adapted to detect radiation at the infrared absorption spectrum of the non-corrosive second gas. The imaging component is provided with a filter that filters wavelengths in a range encompassing the infrared absorption spectrum of the non-corrosive second gas. The imaging component displays an image of the tracer gas leaking from the generator on the imaging component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Jun Xu, Leonard Paul Squillacioti, Stephen Frank Francese, Brian Scott Shewchuk, Erich John Wollman
  • Patent number: 9097657
    Abstract: A safe, fast and accurate method of detecting a leak locale of a stator liquid cooling system especially in a plurality of stator windings in a liquid cooled generator is provided. The method includes the step of introducing a non-corrosive compatible gas or its air mixture having an infrared absorption spectrum into the plurality of stator windings of the liquid cooled generator and detecting leaks through the use of an infrared detection system. The infrared detection system includes an imaging component adapted to detect radiation at the infrared absorption spectrum of the non-corrosive gas or its air mixture. The imaging component is provided with a filter that filters wavelengths in a range encompassing the infrared absorption spectrum of the compatible, non-corrosive gas. The imaging component displays an image of the tracer gas leaking from stator liquid cooling system of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: James Jun Xu
  • Publication number: 20150145255
    Abstract: A system (for controlling cooling of an alternator) comprises a control system, an alternator, and a blower fan, the alternator having a stator and a rotor. The control system is adapted to estimate one or more temperatures of the stator and/or rotor of the alternator using a thermal model. The control system is also adapted to control the blower fan to cool the alternator by providing a specified amount of air flow across the stator and rotor of the alternator, based on the estimated one or more temperatures of the stator and/or rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Maksim V. Borisenko, Edward Thomas Petrak, Roy David Schultz, Rajeev Verma, Sunil Srinivasa Murthy
  • Publication number: 20150137630
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for cooling and lubrication of high power density electric machines with an enhanced fluid injection system. Multiple fluid flow passages may be provided within the electric machine, which may include one or more bearing fluid flow pathways and one or more rotor fluid flow pathways. The bearing fluid flow pathway may comprise one or more passages which may direct a fluid to contact one or more bearings for lubrication and cooling of the one or more bearings. The rotor fluid flow pathway may comprise one or more passages which may direct a fluid along the rotatable shaft toward the rotor and stator for cooling of the rotor and stator. The electric machine may also include a fluid flow passage leading to a junction, wherein the fluid flow pathway may split between the bearing fluid flow pathway and the rotor fluid flow pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Rudolph Garriga, Michael KUBIC
  • Publication number: 20150042184
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary-electric-machine temperature estimation system for a vehicle. The temperature estimation system includes a rotary electric machine, a cooler, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The rotary electric machine is fixed to a vehicle body of the vehicle and provided in the vehicle. The rotary electric machine includes a stator coil. The cooler has an injection outlet for injecting refrigerant, and cools off the stator coil by the refrigerant thus injected from the injection outlet. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the stator coil. The controller estimates an actual temperature of the stator coil by use of the measured temperature and a preset temperature correction value. The controller changes the temperature correction value according to a change in a posture of the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Takashi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20150035391
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a coolant to a stator and a rotor of an electric motor in a vehicle having a coolant pump is provided. The apparatus includes a base defining a plurality of first openings through at least one of which the coolant is flowable to the stator. The apparatus also includes at least one wall extending from the base to define a cavity configured to receive the coolant from the coolant pump. The apparatus further includes at least one first raised member within the cavity that extends from the base. The at least one first raised member defines at least one second opening substantially aligned with one of the first openings to form a first passageway through which the coolant is flowable to the rotor. The apparatus may be located above the electric motor such that the coolant is flowable by gravity to the stator and/or the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Micah Joel Fuchs, Paul F. Turnbull, Edward L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 8922073
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor disposed to be rotatable with respect to the stator, and a cooling unit including a cooling fluid and disposed between the stator and the inverter device to cool the stator and the inverter device. Weight can be reduced, and thus, power consumption of a battery can be reduced and a traveling distance of the vehicle can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kwangwook Chun, Jaeho Kim, Yunho Kim
  • Patent number: 8912695
    Abstract: A totally enclosed fan cooled (TEFC) induction motor or other type of induction motor auxiliary cooling system has a buffet thermal shroud that is oriented in opposed spaced relationship over existing motor housing cooling fins. An airflow channel is defined between the motor cooling fins and the shroud, for direction and passage of a cooling airflow. Tabs are oriented in the airflow channel between opposed cooling fins where they are in thermal and fluid communication with the cooling air flow. In some embodiments the tabs are shroud fingers that project inwardly from the shroud. The tabs or shroud fingers create turbulence in the cooling air flow that increases convective heat transfer efficiency and contact time between the cooling air and motor cooling fins. Tabs or shroud fingers also absorb heat from the cooling air flow. Shroud fingers also transfer that absorbed heat conductively to the shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Emam Hashish
  • Publication number: 20140339933
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing having an outer surface and an inner surface. A stator is fixedly mounted to the inner surface. The stator includes a stator core, and a plurality of windings supported by the stator core. The plurality of windings includes first and second end turn portions. A rotor is rotatably mounted within the housing. An adaptable cooling system is fluidically connected to the housing. The adaptable cooling system includes a first coolant circuit configured to guide coolant in a heat exchange relationship with the stator core, and a second coolant circuit configured to guide coolant in a heat exchange relationship with the at least one end turn portion. At least one flow controller is configured and disposed to selectively adapt coolant delivery through the first and second coolant circuits based on coolant temperature flowing from the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Noman Hossain, Anthony Trzaska
  • Publication number: 20140339932
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator. The stator includes a stator core, and a plurality of windings supported by the stator core. The plurality of windings include a first end turn portion and a second end turn portion. An adaptable cooling system is fluidically connected to the housing. The adaptable cooling system includes a first coolant circuit configured to guide a coolant in a heat exchange relationship with the stator core, and a second coolant circuit configured to guide a coolant in a heat exchange relationship with one of the first and second end turn portions. A thermal control module is operably connected to the adaptable cooling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Noman Hossain, Anthony Trzaska
  • Patent number: 8879044
    Abstract: A lithographic device includes a cooling device for removing heat from a motor. The cooling device has a cooling element provided in thermal contact with at least part of the motor. The cooling device further has a cooling duct assembly with a supply duct to supply a cooling fluid to the cooling element, and a discharge duct to discharge the cooling fluid from the cooling element. A pump causes the cooling fluid to flow through at least part of the cooling duct assembly. A flow control device controls a flow rate of the cooling fluid through at least part of the cooling duct assembly, to maintain a predetermined average temperature of the cooling fluid in the cooling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Frank Auer
  • Patent number: 8878403
    Abstract: An air-cooled motor-generator (10) includes a rotor (34) with a rotor shaft (11), which is arranged rotatably about a machine axis (15) and on which a rotor winding (16) is arranged, and a stator (35) with a stator laminate stack (18) and a stator winding (17) arranged therein, which concentrically surrounds the rotor winding (16) A closed cooling circuit operating with cooling air (24) is provided, with the cooling air in the cooling circuit flowing through the rotor winding (16) and the stator winding (17) radially from the inside outwards, the cooling air being cooled in coolers (19) arranged outside the stator (35) and being fed back to the rotor (34). Cooling which can be changed before or during operation is achieved in a simple manner by virtue of the fact that adjustable throttle devices are provided for adjusting the volume flow of the cooling air in the cooling circuit at the coolers (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Renewable Technologies
    Inventors: Alexander Schwery, Stefan Baumeister, Benjamin Jordan, Simon Andreas Frutiger
  • Patent number: 8875825
    Abstract: A power control unit that controls a rotary electric machine that drives a vehicle, and that is mounted onto a motor case in which the rotary electric machine is housed, includes a fixed base that is made of resin; a cooler that is arranged on the fixed base and that includes a power module; and a control substrate that is arranged on the cooler. The fixed base inhibits conduction of heat from the motor case to the power control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Asakura, Yutaka Hotta, Tatsuyuki Uechi
  • Patent number: 8872400
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cooling and lubrication of high power density electric machines with an enhanced fluid injection system. Multiple fluid flow passages are within the electric machine, which include a bearing fluid flow pathway and a rotor fluid flow pathway. The bearing fluid flow pathway comprises a passage which directs fluid to contact a bearing for lubrication and cooling. The rotor fluid flow pathway comprises a passage which directs fluid along the rotatable shaft toward the rotor and stator for cooling. A fluid flow passage may lead to a junction, and may split between the bearing fluid flow pathway and the rotor fluid flow pathway. Additionally, a fluid flow metering device at the junction between the bearing fluid flow pathway and the rotor fluid flow pathway, may determine the relative amount of fluid that flows to the bearing and that flows toward the rotor and stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Clean Wave Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruldolph Garriga, Mike Kubic
  • Publication number: 20140265656
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a stator including stator windings mounted to the housing, a rotor supported in the housing and configured to rotate relative to the stator, a temperature sensing system including one or more resistors mounted to one of the stator and the rotor, and a controller electrically connected to the one or more resistors. The controller is configured and disposed to determine a temperature of the one of the stator and the rotor based on an electrical parameter of the one or more resistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Paul Martin Dedrich
  • Publication number: 20140232218
    Abstract: A cooling system and a cooling method, capable of reducing a temperature gradient of a rotating electrical machine by means of a simple structure, in relation to both axial and circumferential directions thereof. The cooling system has a coolant conveying device such as a pump, and a coolant cooling device such as a heat pump. The conveying device is fluidly communicated with a flow path via a coolant pipe 32, whereby a circulatory coolant path is formed in which coolant conveyed from the pump flows in the path of a jacket and returns to the pump. The coolant conveying device is configured to reverse the flow direction of coolant, whereby the flow direction in the flow path can be properly reversed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Takano, Yohei Arimatsu
  • Patent number: 8803378
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine (100) is driven by a three-phase AC current and is provided with a stator core (13), a molded resin (12) for covering a coil wound on the stator core, a rotor core (40), a shaft (11) provided to the rotor core (40), a terminal base (20) provided to a coil end section, and a case (30) for covering the rotating electrical machine (100). Power cables extending from the terminal base (20) are led out of the case (30) through a case terminal box (31). A temperature sensor (22) is affixed in a hole in the molded resin (12) by the terminal base (20) and measures the temperature in the vicinity of a heat producing source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoka Sonohara, Hiroaki Urano, Yasuji Taketsuna, Satoshi Murata, Yasuaki Tahara, Kenji Ishida