Liquid Coolant Patents (Class 310/54)
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 12166407
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor including a rotary shaft defining a first fluid channel configured to carry a cooling fluid, a rotor core including a plurality of permanent magnets and defining a second fluid channel in communication with the first fluid channel, and end rings mounted on opposite end portions of the rotor core. Each end ring includes injection holes in fluid communication with the second fluid channel and configured to inject the cooling fluid. Each end ring includes a plurality of rotary pins that are circumferentially arranged on an outer surface of the end ring, that are spaced apart from one another, and that are configured to circulate the cooling fluid injected through the plurality of injection holes into the first fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinsu Oh, Jiwon Lee
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12149129
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a core including a plurality of rotor poles circumferentially spaced apart from one another about a hub. A winding is wound about the rotor poles. The winding passes longitudinally through a respective winding gap between each circumferentially adjacent pair of rotor poles. A cooling tube extends through at least one of the respective winding gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 12126238
    Abstract: An electric machine comprising a stator (50), a rotor (29) radially inward of the stator and comprising a plurality of surface permanent magnets (44) and a rotor sleeve (46) surrounding the rotor. The rotor sleeve comprises a plurality of layers of fibre reinforced matrix material (56, 60). The rotor sleeve defines a rotor sleeve radius to radial thickness ratio (r:t) between 20 and 40, and the electric machine has a maximum rotor rotational speed greater than 15000 RPM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE ELECTRICAL NORWAY AS
    Inventor: Jørg Høyland
  • Patent number: 12126240
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a stator, a rotor arranged radially within the stator, and a plastic body fixing the stator relative to the housing. The plastic body is electrically insulating. Further, the plastic body radially surrounds an outside of at least one soft magnetic core of the stator and first and second winding overhangs of the stator, and axially surrounds an end face of the first winding overhangs and an end face of the second winding overhangs. Additionally, the plastic body defines at least one channel for accommodating a coolant, the at least one channel having a first portion extending circumferentially along at least 40% of the end face of the first winding overhangs, a second portion extending along an outer circumferential surface of the stator, and a third portion extending circumferentially along at least 40% of the end face of the second winding overhangs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Timo Wehlen, Eckhardt Lübke, Andreas Hölscher, Martin Jelinewski, Manfred Till
  • Patent number: 12101016
    Abstract: An electric motor unit includes: a case; a stator accommodated in the case; a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator; a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case; a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator; a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage. The gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., AMPERE S.A.S.
    Inventors: Daisuke Asakura, Karim Mikati
  • Patent number: 12095345
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electric motor that includes a stator having a plurality of slot windings and a rotor, coaxial with the stator, having a plurality of magnets, includes a coolant inlet to the motor and a coolant outlet from the motor. A coolant pathway is in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. Heat is transferable from the slot windings to the coolant pathway. A coolant flows through the coolant pathway and is in a liquid phase as it enters the coolant inlet, changing into a gaseous phase as heat is transferred to the coolant from the slot windings. A cooling loop is in fluid communication with the coolant inlet and the coolant outlet. The cooling loop cools the coolant so that substantially all of the coolant is in the liquid phase when it enters the coolant inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Yogendra K. Joshi, Wenming Li
  • Patent number: 12095324
    Abstract: A stator winding includes a plurality of conductors including ducts. The ducts can be connected to a heat pipe or a conduit providing a coolant flow to directly cool the winding. The heat pipe can be connected to a heat exchanger that includes a coolant flow. The stator winding can be produced using additive manufacturing, with hollow ducts extending through leg sections and solid end sections. The heat exchanger can also be additively manufactured. A circuit for driving an electrical machine can be in thermal communication with the heat exchanger, such that the thermal system manages both the stators and the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Marquette University
    Inventors: Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Fan Wu
  • Patent number: 12068665
    Abstract: A motor coil cooling structure, includes: a rotor core fixed to a rotation shaft having an internal supply path for coolant, and that includes a rotor-side flow path in communication with the supply path and passing through to a radial direction outer side of the rotor core; a stator core disposed at the rotor core so as to form a space between the stator core and the rotor core, and that includes slots each housing a coil; first flow paths formed so as to include the slots and pass through the stator core in a radial direction; second flow paths formed in an upper portion of the stator core relative to the rotation shaft, including the slots, extending in a radial direction and passing through the stator core only at a radial direction outer circumferential side thereof; and a supply section that supplies coolant from above the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12068667
    Abstract: Provided is a compact and lightweight motor complex cooling system with compatibility in which by providing a structure that circulates internal air without introducing air from the outside, an air-cooled radiator used in the conventional air cooling scheme is unnecessary, and only a water-cooled radiator is required, contributing to miniaturization and weight reduction of a device, and the compact and lightweight motor complex cooling system can be installed in an existing motor, and thus has compatibility, and is configured by a combination of air cooling and water cooling using coolant, allowing direct cooling to the end coil windings and the front of shafts of a rotor and a stator and by air cooling, and has excellent cooling efficiency through water cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: GEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younggyun Kim, Seungsoo Hong
  • Patent number: 12068671
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electric motor having a stator and a rotor. The rotor is fitted with permanent magnets which are surrounded by a rotor packet. A heat dissipating element is attached to the rotor packet. A gap seal is formed between an outer diameter of the heat dissipating element and an inner diameter of a component connected to the stator. In some examples, the component may be a coil body connected to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: METABOWERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Enrico Floete, Matthias Hiller, Thomas Stenzel
  • Patent number: 12015327
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicle apparatuses are provided. A system provides a gravity drive to distribute coolant oil flow including a nozzle for directing a flow of coolant oil over a surface of an electric motor wherein the flow of the coolant oil is caused by a gravity drive; a connector that is coupled to the nozzle that enables the nozzle to sway in response to external forces encountered by a vehicle operation and to distribute coolant oil over the exterior surface of the electric motor; and a counterweight that is coupled to the nozzle that provides a countermeasure to the external forces encountered by the vehicle operation to cause the nozzle to sway in a manner that enables the coolant oil distributed evenly across the exterior surface of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: SeungHwan Keum, Jun-mo Kang, Insu Chang, Young J. Kim
  • Patent number: 12015329
    Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor including a shaft, and configured to rotate about a motor axis extending in a horizontal direction, and a stator located radially outside of the rotor; a housing including a housing space to accommodate the motor; an oil passage configured to circulate an oil in the housing space to cool the motor; a gear portion connected to the shaft on one side in an axial direction of the motor axis; and a pump arranged in the oil passage and arranged to the housing. The housing includes a partition arranged to divide a gear chamber to accommodate the gear portion and a motor chamber to accommodate the motor. The partition includes a second connection hole portion opened on the other side in the axial direction toward an inside of the motor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuhei Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 12015323
    Abstract: A stator cooling housing for a stator of a rotary electric motor includes a cylindrical frame adapted to be mounted around an iron core and having an outer lateral surface and inlet and outlet channels. A cylindrical jacket is arranged against the outer lateral surface of the cylindrical frame. The cylindrical jacket comprises an inner side having a plurality of cylindrical grooves forming with the outer lateral surface of the cylindrical frame adjacent fluid cooling channels arranged around the cylindrical frame from a frame upper portion to a frame lower portion. Fluid communication portions are arranged such that a cooling fluid is enabled to run from the inlet channel, through the adjacent fluid cooling channels from the frame upper portion to the frame lower portion, and through the outlet channel to form a cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ETEL S.A.
    Inventors: Johann Pourchet, Dmitry Chechenev, Ivan Garcia-Herreros
  • Patent number: 12009732
    Abstract: An assembly including a winding and a cooler in contact with conductors of the winding, the cooler including a container forming a heat dissipator and including a phase change material having the ability to absorb a surplus quantity of heat when the conductors of the winding are subject to an increase in their current density and the heat dissipator is composed of at least two hollow parts separate and nestable with one another and intended to house the phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Sabrina Ayat, Camel Serghine, Thomas Klonowski
  • Patent number: 11990808
    Abstract: A motor cooling system, a motor stator and a disc motor. The motor cooling system comprises an insulated cooling pipeline (2); the insulated cooling pipeline is mounted on a stator housing, the top surface of the insulated cooling pipeline is lower than or flush with the top surface of a stator iron core, and the bottom surface of the insulated cooling pipeline touches a coil of the motor stator for use in cooling the coil; the top surface of the stator iron core is configured to being arranged relative to a rotor, so that a magnetic field generated by the coil can interact with a rotor permanent magnet. Since the outer bottom surface of the insulated cooling pipeline touches the coil of the motor stator, a liquid coolant in the insulated cooling pipeline can cool the coil by means of heat conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG PANGOOD POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingcheng Tian, Zheng Yuan, Houjia Huang, Chenyu Xia
  • Patent number: 11984781
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about a rotational axis, by which an axial direction is defined, and a stator with stator windings, a coolant distributor space and a coolant collector space. The coolant distributor space communicates fluidically with the coolant collector space to cool the stator windings with a cooling duct. The stator includes stator teeth supporting the stator windings and protruding radially inward from a stator body of the stator. A stator groove is formed between two stator teeth which has a radially outer groove zone extending radially inward away from the stator body into a radially inner groove zone, the radially inner zone width of which is smaller than the radially outer zone width, when measured along the circumferential direction, of the radially outer groove zone. At least one stator winding is embedded, for thermal coupling, into an electrically insulating plastic arranged in the stator groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: John Cunningham, Philip Grabherr, Ian Webb, Tim Male, Stojan Markic, Graham Sentance, Peter Sever, Josef Sonntag, Jon Witcombe
  • Patent number: 11967878
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling channel for a winding head of an electric machine, where the cooling channel is formed to be annular for guiding a cooling fluid with at least one inflow and at least one outflow and for being arranged around the winding head With the aim of an improved sealing property, the cooling channel comprises an axially movable pressing member which is arranged such that a cooling fluid can flow onto the pressing member and a pressing force against the cooling channel can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JHEECO E-DRIVE AG
    Inventors: Andreas Iwaschtschenko, Martin Stöck
  • Patent number: 11956933
    Abstract: No consideration is given to heat transferred from a semiconductor module to a capacitor via a bus bar module. The heat generated by a semiconductor module (1) is transferred to a bus bar module (3) via a DC terminal (1A) of the semiconductor module (1). As illustrated in FIG. 4(B), the heat transferred to the bus bar module 3 is then transferred to the pressing member 5 via the annular conductor 8 and the bolt 5A. Since the pressing member 5 is in close contact with the second cooler 2B, the heat transferred to the pressing member 5 is cooled by the second cooler 2B. On the other hand, the heat transferred to the convex portion 6A of the housing 6 is transferred to the first cooler 2A via the housing 6 and cooled. As a result, in the configuration in which a capacitor (4) is connected to the semiconductor module (1) via the bus bar module (3), the heat transferred from the semiconductor module (1) to the capacitor (4) can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hirao, Takeshi Tokuyama, Noriyuki Maekawa, Akira Matsushita, Toshiya Satoh
  • Patent number: 11942833
    Abstract: An intelligent power generation module includes a motor having a motor housing; a cooling water flow path; a first oil flow path extending along a circumferential direction of the motor housing such that oil flows through one end portion of the motor housing; a plurality of first injection nozzles being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the first oil flow path and configured to inject the oil into the motor housing; an oil injection housing mounted at the other end portion of the motor housing; a second oil flow path formed along a circumferential direction of the oil injection housing such that oil flows inside the housing for oil injection; and a plurality of second injection nozzles being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the second oil flow path and configured to inject the oil into the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., Ltd., AVL SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Hanbyul Kang, Kyunghoon Lee, Robert Poschl, Gernot Fuckar, Markus Preuss, Florian Bodensteiner, Deukhyun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11938806
    Abstract: The invention is related to an integrated drive system including an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, an inverter configured to control the electric motor, a gearbox configured to transmit a torque provided by the electric motor, and a coolant system, wherein the coolant system includes a cooling fluid, configured to follow one cooling path for cooling the inverter, the rotor, the stator and the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Finger-Albert, Alexander Frank
  • Patent number: 11942826
    Abstract: An example rotor assembly includes a rotor core having an axial length and configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis. The rotor core includes a first wall and a second wall radially within the first wall and defining a fluid flow path configured to guide a fluid along an inner surface of the first wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Electrical Norway AS
    Inventor: Ken Flydalen
  • Patent number: 11923754
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a system for cooling an electric motor that includes a rotor shaft rotatably mounted inside a motor housing, a lamination stack integrally connected to the rotor shaft, an encoder-end balance plate integrally connected to a first end of the lamination stack and a first end of the rotor shaft, an output-end balance plate integrally connected to a second end of the lamination stack and a second end of the rotor shaft, an oil supply coupled to the output-end balance plate and the rotor shaft. A closed-looped coolant pathway is formed between the transmission, the rotor shaft, the encoder-end balance plate, the lamination stack, and the output-end balance plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.
    Inventors: Shawn P. A. Jackson, Steven Vanhee
  • Patent number: 11894751
    Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a third flow path, and a fourth flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The third flow path supplies a part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to the outer surface of a stator. The fourth flow path supplies the other part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to a hollow portion of a shaft. A minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the fourth flow path is smaller than a minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the third flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Yuki Ishikawa, Kouhei Oba
  • Patent number: 11876405
    Abstract: A stator of an electric motor includes a stator core including a rim and a plurality of stator teeth extending from the rim. The plurality of stator teeth define a plurality of tooth gaps between circumferentially adjacent stator teeth. A plurality of stator windings are wrapped along the plurality of stator teeth. The plurality of stator windings include a plurality of core segments extending along the plurality of tooth gaps, and a plurality of end turn segments connecting adjacent core segments. A plurality of non-electrically conductive cooling channels are located in the stator core. The plurality of cooling channels are configured to direct a cooling fluid flow therethrough to cool the plurality of stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimberly Rae Saviers, Ram Ranjan, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
  • Patent number: 11870311
    Abstract: A conductive coil for an electric application having a cooling channel for a coolant liquid or gas. The coil includes a wire winding of a plurality of wire turns. The wire winding is compressed about a cooling channel which is disposed between adjacent turn segments of the plurality of wire turns. The wire winding is formed and pressed against a shaping element to form the coolant channel within the compressed winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Ian Patrick Brown
  • Patent number: 11863051
    Abstract: A thermal management system including a fluid flow mechanism. The fluid flow mechanism includes an electric machine. A conduit is formed through the electric machine allowing a heat transfer fluid to flow therethrough. The fluid flow mechanism includes a flow device configured to provide a first portion of the heat transfer fluid to a first heat exchange circuit and a second portion of heat transfer fluid to a second heat exchange circuit. The conduit is in fluid communication with the second heat exchange circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Kevin Edward Hinderliter
  • Patent number: 11855511
    Abstract: A wind power generation unit, an electric motor, and an airflow delivery for an electric motor air gap are provided. The airflow delivery device for the electric motor air gap comprises an annular air distribution chamber, wherein the annular air distribution chamber is located at at least one end of the air gap, and the annular air distribution chamber has a delivery port facing the air gap so as to deliver a hot or cold airflow to the air gap. The annular air distribution chamber is arranged at an end part of the air gap, the required airflow is introduced into the annular air distribution chamber, and the annular air distribution chamber can output the accumulated airflow to the air gap, facilitating the airflow in flowing smoothly through the air gap, such that the flow of the air gap is relatively easy to control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengjun Ma
  • Patent number: 11843305
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing configured to receive at least a portion of an electric motor. The apparatus also includes a manifold disposed on an upper surface of the housing. The manifold includes a number of vertical jets configured to target one or more portions of the electric motor, the vertical jets includes multiple vias extending between (i) a cavity within the manifold and (ii) an interior portion of the housing. The cavity within the manifold is defined by (i) at least a portion of the upper surface of the housing, (ii) one or more side walls extending from the upper surface of the housing, and (iii) a cover lid coupled to the one or more side walls and configured to cover the cavity and the vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canoo Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: John Mason, Charles Garmel, Samuel Anson Jantzi, Saul Guzman Carranza, Jackson George Diebel, Garrett Thomas Allen, Evan J. Filter
  • Patent number: 11843309
    Abstract: An oil recovery structure for cooling a motor includes a rotor connected to a rotary shaft, a stator disposed on the rotor, a housing surrounding the rotor and the stator, and an oil housing disposed on the housing, in which the oil housing includes a first inlet through which the oil is introduced from a space defined on one side of the rotor, a second inlet through which the oil is introduced from a reducer connected to the rotary shaft, and a discharging port discharging the oil inside the oil housing to an oil filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Jong Kim, Jong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11843281
    Abstract: A vehicle electric machine includes a housing and a stator having windings and a stator core. The core defines a plurality of axially extending cooling channels each having an entrance port at one end of the stator and an exit port at the other end of the stator. An end cover is connected to a first end of the housing defining a recessed cavity configured to receive the windings and defines an arcuate inlet manifold channel that extends in a circumferential direction of the stator to partially circumscribe the first cavity and that is in fluid communication with first ones of the axial cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 11837940
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including a hollow shaft, and a bearing supporting an outer face of the shaft. A holder holding the bearing is on the inner face of a housing of the transmission mechanism. The holder has a facing face facing an end of the shaft, a tubular portion holding the bearing and protruding in the axial direction radially from the facing face, and a rib inside the tubular portion and protruding in the axial direction from the facing face. The rib extends in a concave shape opening upward. A lower end of an inner face of the rib is below an upper end of an inner face of the shaft when viewed from the axial direction. At least one end of the rib in an extending direction faces an inner face of the tubular portion via a gap when viewed from the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Yuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11837939
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a stator, an oil film, and at least one first seal. The housing has an internal surface defining an internal cavity. The stator has an outer peripheral surface and is disposed within the internal cavity such that a clearance gap is defined between an outer peripheral surface and the internal surface. The oil film is disposed within the clearance gap and is in contact with the internal surface and the outer peripheral surface. The at least one first seal is disposed along a first end of the stator and is configured to retain the oil film within the clearance gap along the first end of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 11804750
    Abstract: The motor includes a sealing material (dry body of a liquid gasket 41) interposed between a joint surface 3b of a motor housing 3 and a joint surface of an inverter housing, and an O-ring 39. The O-ring 39 is interposed between the motor housing 3 and the inverter housing and disposed so as to surround the communication port 3a1 of the refrigerant flow path 3a. The motor housing 3 includes a groove 3d disposed between the sealing material and the O-ring 39 on the joint surface 3b in a surface direction of the joint surface 3b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromichi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11760189
    Abstract: Electric drive (100, 200, 300, 400) for a vehicle, comprising: at least one hollow shaft (101, 201, 301, 401) mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation; at least one rotor unit (102, 202) being arranged rotationally fixed with the hollow shaft (101, 201, 301, 401); at least one coolant circuit being provided at least partially between the hollow shaft (101, 201, 301, 401) and the rotor unit (102, 202); the coolant circuit comprising at least one cooling section (105, 205) being provided adjacent to the rotor unit (102, 202); and wherein the cooling section (105, 205) has an increasing radius at least partially along its extension parallel to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joakim Ehn, Håkan Sandström
  • Patent number: 11764651
    Abstract: An electrical sub-assembly comprises a stator having a plurality of coils and cooling means attached to the stator. The electrical sub-assembly further comprises a plurality of pairs of diodes attached to the cooling means, each pair of diodes being in antiparallel configuration and having three electrical terminals. One of the three electrical terminals is a common terminal shared by both diodes in each pair of diodes in each pair of diodes. A plurality of busbars electrically connect each of the diodes to at least one of the plurality of coils via one or more of the electrical terminals. In use, the cooling means is configured to simultaneously cool the stator and the plurality of diodes. The electrical sub-assembly may have particular application as a part of a switched reluctance machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Electric Machines Group Limited
    Inventors: James Dumesnil Widmer, Richard Martin, Barrie Charles Mecrow
  • Patent number: 11757325
    Abstract: A motor device includes a motor case, an inverter case, a motor, an inverter, and a terminal block. The inverter case is attached to the motor case. The motor is disposed in the motor case. The inverter is disposed in the inverter case. The terminal block is disposed in the inverter case and has a terminal block channel. The terminal block is coupled to an energizing member that extends from the motor. The terminal block channel is configured to guide a coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Morika, Yutaka Iino, Yasufumi Tanaka, Hayata Mimatsu
  • Patent number: 11739619
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) electric motor. The ESP electric motor comprises a housing; a stator retained within the housing; a drive shaft; and an at least one rotor mechanically coupled to the drive shaft and located concentric with and inside of the stator, wherein an inside surface of the stator defines a groove extending from an upper end to a lower end of the stator, an outside surface of the at least one rotor defines a groove extending from an upper end to a lower end of the at least one rotor, an inside surface of the at least one rotor defines a groove extending from an upper end to a lower end of the at least one rotor, or an outside surface of the drive shaft defines a groove extending from below an male splines at an upper end to a lower end of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, Dezhi Zheng, Robert Charles De Long
  • Patent number: 11722029
    Abstract: To provide a rotary electric machine which is improved in cooling performance. The rotary electric machine includes a rotor; and a stator which, being disposed opposite the rotor, has a stator core having a plurality of slots therein and a stator winding wound in the plurality of slots, wherein the stator has a plurality of coil ends which are formed protruding from an axial end face of the stator core and between adjacent ones of which is provided a radial clearance passing through from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side, and wherein the stator includes a bus bar which, being disposed on the inner diameter side of the plurality of coil ends so as to occlude the clearances between the plurality of coil ends, guides a refrigerant, which is supplied from the radial direction of the stator, to the plurality of coil ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Hino