Liquid Coolant Patents (Class 310/54)
  • Patent number: 12651942
    Abstract: An electric drive unit includes an electric motor, and a housing enclosing the electric motor. The housing includes a first wall including an inner surface and an outer surface. The outer surface is opposite of the inner surface. The electric drive unit further includes a heat exchanger attached to the housing. The heat exchanger includes an inner cover configured for defining a first fluid flow channel between the inner cover and the outer surface of the first wall and an outer cover attachable to the inner cover. The inner cover is configured to transfer heat between the first fluid flow channel and the outer cover. The heat exchanger further includes a phase changing material radially between the inner cover and the outer cover. The phase changing material is configured for latent heat transfer with the inner cover to maintain a temperature of fluid in the first fluid flow channel in a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Antonio Eduardo Mogro Zambrano, Diego Alberto Abreu, Andrea Lopez
  • Patent number: 12651949
    Abstract: A motor core assembly and a manufacturing method for the motor core assembly include a permanent magnet inside a motor that may be recovered, in its original state without damage and at a low cost, from a motor to be disposed of together with a device when the device to which the motor is applied is disposed of in a state in which the permanent magnet wrapped with an injection part is inserted into a rotor core. Accordingly, the number of manufacturing processes and the cost may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Hwa Do, Nyeon Han Hong, Kyoung Bum Kim, Yong Sung Jang
  • Patent number: 12644471
    Abstract: A compressor assembly (300) can include an electric motor (400) that includes a stator (420) and a rotor (440), where the stator defines an axis and where the rotor includes a shaft (460) substantially centered along the axis; a compressor wheel (500) coupled to the shaft; a back disk (600) disposed between the compressor wheel and the electric motor; a housing (700) that includes a bore wall (720) that seats the stator and an outer wall (740) that includes a coolant inlet (752) and a coolant outlet (754) in fluid communication with a coolant passage (760) defined by and at least in part between the bore wall and the outer wall; and at least one pin (810) disposed at least in part in the coolant passage, substantially parallel to the axis, that diminishes flow area within the coolant passage to define multiple flow paths within the coolant passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Milan Nejedly, Vit Houst, Sanketh
  • Patent number: 12636672
    Abstract: A coating device includes a backup roll configured to transport a workpiece; a coating die configured to discharge a coating liquid onto the workpiece; a drive section capable configured to drive the backup roll; and a heat dissipation section configured to dissipate heat generated in the drive section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Battery Co., Ltd., Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Taichi Urakami, Seiji Ishizu, Yu Ichino, Masakazu Umehara, Naohiro Ishizuka, Naoya Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 12640626
    Abstract: An electric machine for a vehicle that has a housing, a rotor assembly which can rotate about a rotational axis in the housing, a contactless power transmission device for transmitting electricity to the rotor assembly, in which the power transmission device contains a housing transmitter and a rotor transmitter, wherein the housing transmitter contains a primary core and primary coil, and the rotor transmitter contains a secondary core and a secondary coil, wherein there is a fluid tube for supplying the rotor assembly with fluid that runs coaxially through the rotor assembly, in which the fluid tube has at least one fluid outlet inside the power transmission device, such that a fluid flow path runs through the power transmission device in order to cool the power transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Jörg Bender, Tobias Dieckhoff, Philipp Neidhardt, Joao Bonifacio, Alexander Büttner, Tobias Höche, Rene Budach, Robert Lechner, Jens Schönekäs
  • Patent number: 12627187
    Abstract: A rotor of an electric asynchronous machine including a shaft, a rotor core and short-circuit rings attached to end faces of the rotor. The shaft has an outer lateral radial surface, a cavity extending axially, at least one passageway located on the lateral surface, and at least one channel connecting the cavity to the passageway. The rotor core has at least one channel extending therein. At least one of the short-circuit rings is composed of at least two ring-shaped disks interconnected to form a disk pack. At least one disk of at least one short-circuit ring has recesses arranged such that a channel structure is formed in the short-circuit ring and is in fluidic connection with at least one channel of the rotor laminated core and fluidically connects the at least one passageway on the shaft lateral surface to at least one channel of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf, Jochen Walliser
  • Patent number: 12627201
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electric traction machine, including a circulation system for guiding a first cooling liquid, a first circulation pump for conveying the first cooling liquid in the circulation system, and a motor inlet connection for fluidically connecting the circulation system on an inlet side to a first winding head region of an electric traction machine intended to be temperature-controlled. The cooling system includes a motor outlet connection for fluidically connecting the circulation system on an outlet side to a second winding head region of an electric traction machine intended to be temperature-controlled, and a first heat exchanger for dissipating heat from and/or supplying heat to the first cooling liquid. A plurality of cooling grooves are arranged between the winding head regions to guide the first cooling liquid. Respective highest locations on the winding head regions are fluidically connected to each other by a second deaeration line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Oechslen, Simon Kuebler
  • Patent number: 12603541
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle includes an electric motor, an output shaft, and a housing. The electric motor includes a rotor shaft having an inner surface with a hollow accessible via an opening at an axial end of the rotor shaft and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. The output shaft extends into the hollow through the opening. The housing houses the electric motor and defines a fluid flow path for fluid. The housing has a collar portion about the output shaft, a first holding portion on a first axial side of the collar portion and having baffles that are circumferentially offset from each other, a second holding portion on a second axial side of the collar portion opposite the first axial side, such that the collar portion is positioned axially between the first and second holding portions, and conduits extending between the first and second holding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Antonio Eduardo Mogro Zambrano, Diego Alberto Abreu, Maximilian Podschwadt
  • Patent number: 12597830
    Abstract: An e-machine includes a housing and a rotating group supported for rotation about an axis of rotation within the housing. The e-machine includes a stator with a plurality of end windings. The e-machine further includes a plurality of nozzles that is removably supported by the housing and spaced apart in a circumferential direction about the axis of rotation. The plurality of nozzles is directed generally radially toward the axis of rotation and toward the plurality of end windings for spraying a cooling fluid on respective ones of the plurality of end windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle Bauman
  • Patent number: 12592607
    Abstract: The liquid-cooled motor for BSG includes a motor housing, which has a cooling structure. A cooling structure includes: an outer water jacket; an inner water jacket fitted into the outer water jacket; a first cooling water passage disposed on the inner water jacket; a second cooling water passage disposed on an inverter; a first transfer water passage and a second transfer water passage both disposed on the outer water jacket and a rear end cover. Cooling water enters into the first cooling water passage and the first transfer water passage synchronously from a transfer water inlet, and enters into the second cooling water passage through the first transfer water passage, thereby realizing simultaneous cooling and heat dissipation of a stator, a rotor and the inverter of the liquid-cooled motor for BSG, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Prestolite Electric (Weifang) Limited
    Inventors: Ruirui Zhao, Dahu Dong, Jian Cao
  • Patent number: 12562615
    Abstract: A motor assembly including: a housing that forms an accommodating space therein; a stator that is provided inside the housing; and a rotor that is rotatable with respect to the stator, wherein the housing includes: a cooling water passage through which cooling water exchanges heat while moving therein; and an air flow passage through which air inside the accommodation space exchanges heat while moving through the housing in the axial direction. Accordingly, the air inside the housing can be cooled to a preset temperature or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungdo Han, Sangjin Son, Sungjung Kim, Sohyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 12556061
    Abstract: An induction motor cooling system is disclosed. The induction motor cooling system comprises a plurality of interconnected cooling channels and a plurality of air ducts characterized between inner circumference and outer circumference of the stator frame. The plurality of interconnected cooling channels is designed in a pre-designed meandering fashion to envelop the stator frame. And similarly, each of the plurality of air ducts of pre-defined dimension is axially positioned in equidistance spread to envelop the stator frame. Cooling channels enable flow of coolant liquid to dissipate heat produced by the stator coils. Air ducts helps in cooling the stator coil temperature and the rotor temperature by inflow and outflow of air. Air entry and exit to the plurality of air ducts is enabled by a set of inflow air openings and a set of outflow air openings fabricated on the inner circumference of the stator frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: ENTUPLE E-MOBILITY PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Tijo Thomas, Deshmukh Laxman Vitthalrao
  • Patent number: 12549060
    Abstract: A coolant flow passage structure is provided in a rotating machine capable of reducing the pressure loss of a coolant flowing through a flow passage, thereby securing a smooth flow of the coolant and improving efficiency. A coolant flow passage structure on a cylindrical frame in a motor and cooling the motor includes a flow passage main body in a wall portion of the frame to extend while meandering, and a bypass flow passage to extend along a circumferential direction of the frame at one of both end portions in an axial direction of the frame. The bypass flow passage communicates front side reverse flow passage portions with each other. The flow passage main body includes straight flow passage portions disposed in a circumferential direction of the frame, and reverse flow passage portions connected to the end portions of the straight flow passage portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Takahashi, Takahiko Oishi
  • Patent number: 12539973
    Abstract: A motor assembly for a propulsion system, the motor assembly including a motor housing; a rotor; a power inverter; a main shaft; wherein the main shaft extends through the rotor; and a fluid distribution system including a fluid reservoir; a pump configured to distribute a fluid to a component of the motor assembly; and a filter having a circumferential side, wherein the filter is configured to filter the fluid through the circumferential side, wherein the filter is located adjacent to the main shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: Archer Aviation Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Graves, Robert Wayne Moore
  • Patent number: 12525831
    Abstract: Various implementations include a six-phase electric motor including an annular stator and a rotor. The stator defines an opening having an inner surface. First and second three-phase sets of concentrated windings are circumferentially spaced along the inner surface of the opening. The first and second sets of concentrated windings are circumferentially offset from each other. The stator defines voids located radially outwardly from, and circumferentially between, each of the windings. The rotor includes permanent magnets circumferentially spaced around the rotor axis. The outer circumferential surface of the rotor defines grooves located circumferentially between each of the permanent magnets. The rotor is disposed within the stator opening such that the stator and rotor are coincident with each other. Flux from the permanent magnets interacts with a stator magnetic field created by a current flowing through the first and second sets of concentrated windings to cause the rotor to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama
    Inventors: Yang-Ki Hong, Hoyun Won, Jonathan Platt
  • Patent number: 12512709
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a rotor core (22) that has magnet insertion holes (22b) (22c); permanent magnets (21) that are inserted into the magnet insertion holes (22b) (22c); and a groove (21cc) (21dc) that is formed in at least one of a plurality of non-magnetic pole surfaces (21c) (21d) of the permanent magnet (21) so as to allow a refrigerant (101) to flow through the groove (21cc) (21dc).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Goto, Shigehisa Aoyagi, Takaki Itaya
  • Patent number: 12476500
    Abstract: A motor, a powertrain, and a device. A plurality of first oil channels are formed between an inner surface of a housing and an outer surface of a stator core, second oil channels are formed at groove roots of coil slots of the stator core, to form double-layer oil channels at the outer surface of the stator core and the root of the coil slot of the stator core, and ensure effective cooling of the stator core and a coil winding. After cooling oil is injected from an oil filling port, a flow direction of the cooling oil in some of the second oil channels is opposite to that of cooling oil in a remaining second oil channel, so that interleaved reverse flows are implemented, and axial temperature of the stator core and the coil winding is more even.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbing Liu, Haisong Xu, Bayaer Eerhemu, Shaobo Yang, Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 12454151
    Abstract: An electric axle assembly includes a banjo axle housing, first and second half shafts, and an electric drive unit. The banjo axle housing has a central portion that defines a receiving space and first and second openings providing access to the receiving space, first and second beams extending from the central portion in opposite first and second axial directions, and defining first and second beam hollows in communication with the receiving space. The half shafts extend within the first and second beam hollows. The electric drive unit includes a motor, a differential, and a housing having first and second housing components. At least one of the first and second housing components defines a motor housing region, the first and second housing components define a gearbox region, and the first and second housing components define first and second apertures that provide access for coupling the half shafts with the differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rodrigo Bahena, Patrick Lindemann, David Burky, Angel Salvador Flores
  • Patent number: 12451765
    Abstract: An electric propulsion motor system includes a rotary electric propulsion motor that has a stator and a rotor. An air gap is present between the stator and rotor. A fluid circulation system provides pressurized liquid and gas, which is directed through fluid passages in the stator and/or rotor and into the air gap to establish a mixture of pressurized liquid and pressurized gas therein. The pressurized gas dilutes the mixture and pushes the pressurized liquid and pressurized gas against the stator and rotor, forcing it to exit the air gap at the opposite ends of the motor leaving the air gap free of accumulated liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Yang, Peng Peng, Farzad Samie
  • Patent number: 12451744
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine of a motor vehicle, having an annular yoke, with an inner side directed inwards in the radial direction of the yoke, wherein a plurality of pole teeth are connected by form fit to the yoke on the inner side of the yoke, a stator winding which is formed as a mat and which is arranged between the pole teeth, a first cooling channel through which a cooling medium may flow and which extends in the longitudinal direction of the stator, wherein the first cooling channel is arranged in a recess, and a second cooling channel through which a cooling medium may flow, wherein the second cooling channel is arranged between two adjacent pole teeth between an inner side of the stator winding directed inwards in the radial direction of the stator and a pole shoe of the pole tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Astrid Haas, Wilhelm Hackmann
  • Patent number: 12431781
    Abstract: A magnetic geared electrical machine includes: a stator including a stator coil; a first rotor which includes a plurality of pole pieces arranged with a first radial gap between the stator and the plurality of pole pieces, a first cooling passage including the first radial gap being formed between the first rotor and the stator; a second rotor which includes a plurality of rotor magnets, is arranged opposite to the stator across the first rotor in a radial direction with a second radial gap between the pole pieces and the plurality of rotor magnets, a second cooling passage including the second radial gap being formed between the first rotor and the second rotor; an inlet cavity for cooling gas formed on one end side in an axial direction with respect to the stator, the first rotor and the second rotor; and an outlet cavity formed on another end side in the axial direction with respect to the stator, the first rotor and the second rotor, the outlet cavity being configured to receive the cooling gas that has p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Yasutaka Aoki, Takatoshi Matsushita, Mikito Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12432892
    Abstract: A pulse inverter includes a pulse inverter housing, in which at least one power electronics is provided, wherein at least the pulse inverter housing is configured to be cooled by a flowing coolant through housing means. The power electronics includes at least one controller, a gate driver, and a semiconductor element. For switching a semiconductor element, the gate driver provides a turn-on voltage UGS and a turn-off voltage U0 and is actuatable by the controller for this purpose. The controller includes control means, via which a withstand voltage UR<UGS is adjustable, whereby a power dissipation PV can be generated, causing the power electronics and/or the coolant to heat up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Timijan Velic, Maximilian Barkow, Pascal Heusler, Stefan Gatzemann, Jannik Maier
  • Patent number: 12413116
    Abstract: A motor rotor includes a wound rotor comprising a rotating shaft, a rotor core, and a plurality of rotor coils. The rotor core is fixedly sleeved on the rotating shaft, a plurality of winding holes surrounding the rotating shaft are provided at intervals on the rotor core, each winding hole penetrates through two ends that are of the rotor core and that are disposed in an axial direction, each rotor coil is wound on hole walls of two adjacent winding holes, and two adjacent rotor coils share one winding hole. A gap is formed between two adjacent rotor coils, a first shaft hole is formed on the rotating shaft, the gap is configured as a first heat dissipation channel connected to the first shaft hole, and the first heat dissipation channel is used for inflow of coolant in the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhua Chen, Chaoqiang Wu, Zhao Zhou, Jianxin Huang, Shaohua Wang
  • Patent number: 12407206
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine includes a laminated stator core having stator slots arranged along an axial direction parallel to a stator axis, electric conductors arranged in the stator slots; and fluidtight slot insulators arranged in the stator slots between the electric conductors and the laminated stator core, wherein the slot insulators each have a cooling channel spaced apart from the electric conductors in a radial direction arranged orthogonally to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tobias Engelhardt, Stefan Oechslen
  • Patent number: 12407224
    Abstract: A motor oil-cooling structure for cooling, with oil, coils wound around split stator cores of a motor includes injection holes arranged in a circumferential direction of the split stator cores. The motor includes a motor case, a rotor rotatably supported by the motor case, and a stator including the split stator cores fixed to the motor case and arranged along a cylindrical outer periphery of the rotor. Each of the injection holes is structured to inject oil toward a corresponding one of coil gaps each of which is formed between two of the split stator cores adjacent to each other. Furthermore, each of the injection holes is structured to inject oil in a direction inclined by a circumferential inclination angle with respect to a direction of a motor axis, wherein oil injected to the coil gaps in the direction of the motor axis passes straight through the coil gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Masahiro Kosaka
  • Patent number: 12401238
    Abstract: A stator for a motor includes a stator core of a hollow columnar structure. The stator core includes a first end and a second end in an axial direction. The stator core defines a first oil cooling channel and a second oil cooling channel through in the axial direction. The first oil cooling channel has a first oil inlet at the first end and a first oil outlet at the second end. The second oil cooling channel has a second oil outlet at the first end and a second oil inlet at the second end. At the first end, the first oil inlet and the second oil outlet are arranged along a circumferential direction of the stator core and located on a same circumference centered around an axis of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: XIAOMI EV TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenhui Luo
  • Patent number: 12374954
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an electric axle in a vehicle. The electric axle comprises an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a coolant manifold mounted to an end plate of the rotor, wherein the coolant manifold is configured to flow coolant to rotor coolant lines extending axially through the rotor, and a spray ring comprising coolant lines coupled to the coolant manifold, wherein coolant flowing from the coolant manifold to the spray ring flows in a direction angled to an axial direction, wherein the spray ring is positioned circumferentially about axial stator end windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: DANA TM4 INC.
    Inventors: Carl Trudel, Steven Vanhee, Luke Miller
  • Patent number: 12362607
    Abstract: An electric machine for an electrified vehicle includes a stator core configured to receive a plurality of windings. The stator core including a plurality of interchangeable stacked laminations arranged in sub-stacks. The sub-stacks having an outer diameter surface divided into circumferential quadrants, each quadrant having a cutout extending inwardly at a predetermined depth and radial position to define a serpentine cooling path on the outer surface of at least a portion of the sub-stacks. The sub-stacks are circumferentially rotated relative to each other such that two quadrants have a first cutout orientation, and the two other quadrants have a second cutout orientation, the first cutout orientation is different than the second cutout orientation and when rotated in sequence each cutout aligns to form the continuous serpentine cooling path in a quadrant of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 12355335
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor is disclosed. The rotor includes a rotor shaft with a hollow space arranged in the rotor shaft at least in regions. The hollow space is structured as a cooling channel and has an inner surface. The inner surface of the hollow space comprises structures for an enlargement of a surface area, and/or at least one structural element is provided in the hollow space directly or indirectly connected to the inner surface of the rotor shaft for at least one of the enlargement of the surface area and/or for the mixing of coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Mohler, Christoph Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 12355337
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cooling an electric motor, the electric motor being fluidically coupled to a coolant sump of a gearbox. In one example, a system may include the gearbox including the coolant sump, the electric motor coupled to the gearbox, an outer shaft fluidic ally coupling the electric motor to the coolant sump, an inner shaft extending through each of the coolant sump and the outer shaft, and one or more surface features disposed along a portion of the inner shaft extending within the outer shaft. Upon rotation of the inner shaft during operation of the electric motor, a coolant in the coolant sump may be drawn through the outer shaft from the coolant sump into the electric motor. In this way, the coolant may be passively directed to the electric motor with minimal cost, packaging size, and system complexity and without significant losses in overall system efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.
    Inventor: Fabrice Boon
  • Patent number: 12348082
    Abstract: A stator is disclosed. The stator has a stator core that has stator poles protruding in a radial direction and a stator. The stator core has an axial groove formed on its outer surface along a longitudinal axis that is used to direct a cooling fluid from a first end of the stator core towards a second end of the stator core that is opposite the first end. Further, the stator core has an annulus groove formed on its outer surface, with the annulus groove in fluid communication with the axial groove. The annulus groove receives the cooling fluid from the axial groove, and is located between the first end and the second end of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Allen Garety, Matthew Elliott Giannis, Josh W. Dorothy
  • Patent number: 12345321
    Abstract: A drive train for an electric vehicle, including at least one transmission, with at least one power electronics system and a housing. A transmission compartment and a power electronics system compartment are provided in the housing in particular adjacently situated horizontally. The transmission and/or at least two gearwheels for forming at least one gear stage of the transmission is situated in the transmission compartment and the power electronics system is situated in the power electronics system compartment. The transmission compartment and the power electronics system compartment are separated from one another by a partition wall. The transmission includes an oil sump, which in particular is formed by the housing, and a collection container, so that during operation of the transmission, transmission oil present in the oil sump may be spun upwardly by at least one of the gearwheels and thus be supplied to the collection container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lukas Nennstiel, Thomas Schroeder, Frank Mueller, Raimar Warnecke
  • Patent number: 12328044
    Abstract: An electric motor including a stator between a first and second rotor. The stator and the rotors are mounted to non-rotating shaft. The stator includes a plurality of windings and the first and second rotors include a plurality of magnets on a side thereof facing the stator. An opening internal to the electric motor is to provide cables and cooling to the stator. A hub is secured to opposite side of the first rotor as the plurality of magnets and rotates with rotation of the rotors. The hub includes a plurality of bolts extending therefrom to mount a rim thereto by placing the bolts through aligned holes in the rim. The motor is mounted in each wheel assembly of an electric automobile so that each wheel thereof is controlled by its own motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Inventor: Yuriy Radzikh
  • Patent number: 12294275
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device including a case, a rotary electric machine provided in the case and including power lines 1U, 1V, and 1W electrically connected to a power supply via a power converter (inverter IV), bus bars 7U, 7V, and 7W extending inside the case and joined to the power lines, a hydraulic pump (electric hydraulic pump 72), and an oil passage including ejection holes through which oil discharged from the hydraulic pump is ejected toward at least one of the power lines and the bus bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryohei Inoue
  • Patent number: 12289029
    Abstract: A drive unit includes an electric drive motor for driving and an electric generator motor in a series hybrid vehicle. Each of the motors includes a helical cooling passage helically surrounding an outer periphery of its stator. The first and second electric motors are housed in an outer housing such that the rotor axes are parallel. The helical cooling passages of the motors are connected in series via a connecting passage. The coolant outlet of the upstream helical cooling passage is connected to the connecting passage. The coolant inlet of the downstream helical cooling passage is connected to the connecting passage. The coolant outlet of the upstream helical cooling passage and the coolant inlet of the downstream helical cooling passage are arranged at end portions on the same side in a direction of the rotor axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.
    Inventor: Yuki Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 12287031
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor assembly comprising: a housing; a motor that is received at one side inside the housing in the axial direction; a gear train that is provided at the other side inside the housing in the axial direction; oil that is received inside the housing to be in contact with the gear train; and an oil storage unit that temporarily receives the oil moving upward when the gear train rotates, wherein the oil storage unit includes an oil outlet formed to discharge the oil received therein in a preset amount. Accordingly, the rotational resistance can be suppressed from increasing due to the oil received therein, and the oil can be continuously supplied (scattered) upward in a preset amount, and thus, continuous cooling can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: LG MAGNA E-POWERTRAIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungwook Lim, Deukhyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 12278540
    Abstract: A vertical motor with a cooling structure for an electrical operation machine is provided. The vertical motor includes a driving shaft, having a rotational axis and arranged along a vertical direction; a rotor, rotating with the driving shaft; a stator, arranged around the rotor; a winding, arranged around the stator; a housing, having a wall portion and a bottom portion and accommodating the driving shaft, the rotor and the stator; and an oil sump, provided on the bottom portion of the housing for accumulating a cooling fluid in a manner that a lower portion of the winding is immersed in the cooling fluid. The oil sump has an inner peripheral side wall, the inner peripheral side wall is vertically arranged with respect to the bottom portion of the housing and positioned at an inner side than the lower portion of the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 12273011
    Abstract: An induction motor rotor shaft assembly may include an induction motor rotor shaft rotatable about a center axis, the induction motor rotor shaft including a hollow cylindrical base including an outer circumferential surface, an inner circumferential surface, a first axial end and a second axial end. The induction motor rotor shaft can include a helical structure extending about the center axis on or in the inner circumferential surface. The induction motor rotor shaft assembly may include a coolant supply for providing coolant inside of the hollow cylindrical base onto the helical structure for flow axially inside the hollow cylindrical base along the helical structure as the induction motor rotor shaft rotates about the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Rentfrow, Eric Ubelhart, Charles Clark
  • Patent number: 12261500
    Abstract: A thermal management system for an electrical machine. The thermal management system has a housing circumferentially enclosing a bushing that has a tubular section. At least one fluid channel for a thermal medium is formed by channel walls within the housing and the bushing. A gap is provided or located between the tubular section of the bushing and the channel walls of the housing. The tubular section closes the at least one fluid channel off against a stator of the electrical machine, enabling a heat transfer between the stator and the thermal medium in the at least one channel across the tubular section of the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Daniel Kutrovich
  • Patent number: 12244179
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to an electric motor that includes a stator. The stator includes a stator body having stator coils. The stator also includes a first substrate coupled to a first end of the stator body and configured to receive a fluid via a first manifold. The stator also includes a second substrate coupled to a second end of the stator body and configured to receive the fluid via a second manifold. The first substrate includes entry slots that form respective axial channels with exit slots of the second substrate to distribute the fluid across the stator body in a first direction. The second substrate includes entry slots that form respective axial channels with exit slots of the first substrate to distribute the fluid across the stator body in a second direction different from the first direction. Accordingly, the temperature of the electric motor can be regulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Harish Kumar Kunatharaju, Logan Noel Balliett, Dang Dinh Dang
  • Patent number: 12244187
    Abstract: A system to convert electrical power to torque is disclosed where the system includes one or more motor controllers, each motor controller adapted and configured to receive power input commands and to receive high-voltage, direct-current (HVDC) input power and convert the HVDC input power to multiphase high-voltage, alternating-current (HVAC) output power, wherein each motor controller varies its respective multiphase HVAC output power in response to the power input commands received; and an electric motor assembly having a main shaft for supplying torque, the electric motor configured and adapted to receive input power as multiphase HVAC from the one or more motor controllers to rotate the main shaft. The system in an embodiment is configured as a propulsion system, wherein the shaft of the electric motor assembly is configured to supply torque to a propulsor of an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAGNIX USA, INC.
    Inventors: David B. T. Sercombe, Roei Ganzarski
  • Patent number: 12233704
    Abstract: A cooling device for an electric drive unit of a motor vehicle includes a housing and at least one cooling structure. The housing is configured to receive the at least one component of the drive unit. The housing, at least in some regions thereof, is a cooling jacket for the at least one component and being configured to cool the at least one component. The cooling jacket having at least one cooling duct through which a cooling fluid is flowable. The at least one cooling structure is an insert inserted into the at least one cooling duct and is configured to increase a flow resistance of the cooling fluid by generating turbulences of the cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Herrmann, Thinh Nguyen-Xuan, Fabian Rattei, Rene Treffler, Juntao Zhu
  • Patent number: 12224652
    Abstract: In a motor cooling structure including a rotor connected to a rotary shaft, a stator disposed on the rotor and including a stator core and coils, and a housing surrounding the rotor and the stator, the motor cooling structure includes: a first cover provided to extend along the inner circumferential surface of the coil between the stator core and the coils disposed on both sides of the stator core and a second cover disposed on the outsides of the coils with respect to the stator core and provided to extend along the inner circumferential surfaces of the coils, and the oil for cooling a motor through a chamber and a channel flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Jong Kim, Byoung Hoon Choi, Jong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12218551
    Abstract: A rotor carrier for an electric machine having a sleeve-shaped receiving region and at least one flange-like carrier region connected to a hub or shaft. The receiving region has on its outer circumferential surface at least one driving groove extending in axial direction, and a plurality of radial oil bore holes are provided in the receiving region so as to be distributed over the circumference. An encoder wheel having a nonmagnetic material is provided at an axial end of the rotor carrier, and in that the encoder wheel protrudes over the receiving region in radial direction to serve as an axial limit for a rotor lamination stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Steffen Matschas, Steffen Einenkel, Thomas Walter, Gerald Viernekes, Günter Fahl
  • Patent number: 12212186
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement for cooling a stator for an electric machine. The cooling arrangement comprising a stator fixedly mounted relative to a rotational axis. The stator comprises a stator yoke and stator grooves. Windings are provided in the stator grooves, which form first and second winding heads. First and second fluid rings are provided at opposite ends on the stator yoke. The first fluid ring has a fluid inflow opening from a stator housing. The stator yoke has a plurality of axial stator ducts extending in the axial direction, which enable the inflowing fluid to flow through from the first fluid ring to the second fluid ring, and the second fluid ring redirects some of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Martin Christians, David Wörzler, Rayk Gersten, Stefan Spühler, Martin Jelinewski, Wolfgang Hübler, Timo Hele, Karlheinz Hoher
  • Patent number: 12212194
    Abstract: A switching module includes a housing that can be attached directly to an end of a stator and over line and neutral phase hairpins of the stator, electrically conductive platforms disposed in the housing and that can contact some of the hairpins, switches disposed in the housing, connected with the platforms, and that can selectively change connections of the hairpins between wye and delta configurations, and a conduit defining a coolant channel through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Joseph
  • Patent number: 12212216
    Abstract: An embodiment motor cooling apparatus includes a stator core including a plurality of metal plates made in a predetermined shape by lamination, an inlet channel formed from one side of the stator core and extending therethrough to a predetermined depth therein, a plurality of cooling channels branched from an internal end of the inlet channel and extending therefrom to either an upper side or a lower side of the stator core, and a cooling fluid supply apparatus configured to circulate cooling fluid from the inlet channel to the plurality of cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Chul Min Ahn, Baek Yu Kim, Sung Gon Byun, Su Hyeon Maeng, Dong Hui Cheon, Sun Sung Kwon, Won Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 12199471
    Abstract: An oil-cooled motor includes a casing, a rotor, and a stator. The casing is internally provided with an accommodating cavity. The rotor and the stator are accommodated in the accommodating cavity. The stator includes a stator core coaxially surrounding an outer side of the rotor. The stator core includes a first oil cooling channel, a second oil cooling channel, and a first end and a second end in an axial direction of the rotor. The first oil cooling channel penetrates the stator core from the first end to the second end, forming a first oil inlet in the first end and forming a first oil outlet in the second end. The second oil cooling channel penetrates the stator core from the first end to the second end, forming a second oil inlet in the second end and forming a second oil outlet in the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Xiaomi EV Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenhui Luo
  • Patent number: 12191732
    Abstract: An electric motor is provided that has a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator. The stator includes a plurality of motorettes, each having a ferrous metal core segment, and a conductive winding on the core segment. The plurality of motorettes are arranged in a circular arrangement, and a plurality of wedges are provided, with one of the wedges being positioned in each interface between the conductive windings of adjacent ones of the motorettes that presses the conductive windings of the adjacent ones of the motorettes towards respective ones of the ferrous metal core segments. This provides an arrangement with minimal or no air gaps between the conductive windings and the core segments, or an electric insulator on each of the core segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Eric Ubelhart
  • Patent number: 12166382
    Abstract: A stator (2) for an electric machine (1) includes a laminated core (3) arranged axially between a first end plate (4) and a second end plate (5). A cooling line (6) for introducing a coolant into at least one distribution duct (7) at the particular end plate (4, 5) is arranged outside the end plates (4, 5) and the stator (2) and is fluidically connected to the at least one distribution duct (7) in the particular end plate (4, 5). The laminated core (3) includes multiple axial ducts (8) for guiding the coolant through the stator (2). The axial ducts (8) are fluidically connected to the at least one distribution duct (7) in the particular end plate (4, 5) for the inflow of the coolant. An outflow for the coolant is formed by at least one end-face opening (9) in the particular end plate (4, 5). The at least one opening (9) is configured for spraying the coolant out of the axial ducts (8) onto winding overhangs (10) of the stator (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Martin Jelinewski, Stephan Scharr, David Wörzler, Mathias Döring, Andreas Hölscher, Manfred Till, Eckhardt Lübke