Circulation Patents (Class 310/58)
  • Patent number: 12266985
    Abstract: A motor assembly can include a motor shaft, a stator assembly, and a rotor assembly, and can include a cooling jacket. The cooling jacket can include an inner wall facing radially inwardly towards the stator assembly and an opposite outer wall facing radially outwardly, a circumferential internal fluid passageway for allowing a cooling fluid to be pumped through an interior of the cooling jacket, the internal fluid passageway being disposed between the inner and outer walls and extending between an inlet and an outlet, a mounting pad receiving, at an opening in the outer wall, a heat generating component associated with the motor assembly, the opening being in fluid communication with the internal fluid passageway such that the cooling fluid can provide cooling to the heat generating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Mikhail Goykhman, Galen Chui, Armen Baronian
  • Patent number: 12261490
    Abstract: A varnish application system includes an electric motor, a clamp, and a varnish injector. The clamp includes a beam, a first end plate fixed to the beam and engageable to a first end of the electric motor, and a second end plate releasably connected the beam and engageable to a second end of the electric motor. The varnish injector is arranged to apply varnish to the electric motor when the clamp engages the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12253095
    Abstract: A blower device including: a motor holder having an opening; a motor housed within the motor holder; a blower fan coupled to the motor; an electronic circuit adapted to control the motor. The motor holder includes an air inlet and an air channel configured to supply the electronic circuit and the motor with an airflow from the air inlet. The air channel includes a first deflector wall and a first liquid trap wall arranged in series between the air inlet and the electronic circuit. The first deflector wall and the first liquid trap wall extend in opposite directions and form a meandering path for the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Jonathan Yestrepsky, Jonathan Atwater, Andrew Eggebroten
  • Patent number: 12249893
    Abstract: An electric machine assembly includes a housing defining an inner cavity, a rotatable shaft extending through the inner cavity, and at least one electrical component positioned within the cavity. The electric machine assembly also includes an internal fan coupled to the shaft and positioned within the inner cavity such that rotation of the fan provides a cooling airflow to the at least one electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey William Crosson
  • Patent number: 12247572
    Abstract: An electric machine for a work vehicle including a housing, a stator assembly positioned inside the housing, and a rotor assembly rotatably connected to the housing via a bearing. The rotor assembly is positioned to form an air gap between the stator assembly and the rotor assembly. A front air dam is positioned at a first end of the housing and adjacent to the air gap. The front air dam includes an external barrier, an internal barrier, an opening in the internal barrier, and a passageway in the internal barrier. A fan is attached to the rotor assembly and positioned within the housing. The fan generates a first air flow towards the air gap and a second air flow through the passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald D. Bremner
  • Patent number: 12249892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling jacket for cooling a permanent magnet synchronous electric motor, wherein the cooling jacket comprises bearing housing cooling portion and a stator cooling portion, wherein the stator cooling portion comprises stator coolant guiding channel having an enlarged middle section. The flow splitter having a shape that corresponds to the enlarged middle section is disposed at the middle of this enlarged section. The flow splitter has the same height as that of the partition wall, and the upper surface of the flow splitter is curved to form a seal with the inner surface of the stator outer housing. At the middle of the stator coolant guiding channel, there is provided a middle rib that extends in the spiral shape around the circumference of the stator cooling portion. The middle rib has a lower height than the height of the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: VINFAST TRADING AND PRODUCTION JOINT STOCK COMPANY
    Inventors: Mohammad Naeem Khan, The Quynh Nguyen, Van Hoan Nguyen, Van Tho Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12249870
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator core, a stator coil, and a shower pipe. An upper part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core includes a circumferential groove that extends in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Axial grooves are located at positions that are spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction, and extend in a direction that intersects the circumferential groove. The axial grooves each open in opposite end faces of the stator core in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. Each axial groove includes opposite ends in the axial direction. The opposite ends have a groove width that becomes narrower as the opposite ends become farther from the circumferential groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12244178
    Abstract: An axial flux electric motor includes a housing including an inner surface and a stator fixedly mounted in the housing. The stator includes a plurality of stator segments each supporting a winding, an inner support member defining a central passage, and an outer annular member constraining the plurality of stator segments. The outer annular member includes an outer surface portion abutting the inner surface of the housing. A thermal connection system is disposed between the outer surface portion of the outer annular member and the inner surface. The thermal connection system transfers heat from the stator into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John S. Agapiou, Jian Yao, Zhen Gao, SeungHwan Keum
  • Patent number: 12237720
    Abstract: An electric machine including a stator core having an outer circumferential surface and an axial row of raised projections that extend radially outboard from the outer surface. The raised projections are axially spaced from each other to define circumferential channels therebetween. A housing defines a cavity that receives the stator core. The housing has an inner circumferential surface in contact with the raised projections and radially spaced from the outer surface of the core to define a void space in fluid communication with the channels. The void space and the channels cooperate to form a fluid circuit that overlays the outer circumferential surface such that the fluid is in direct contact with the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dengfu Zhang, Brian Christian Orr, Alfredo R. Munoz, Franco Leonardi, Joel Hetrick
  • Patent number: 12237721
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core having a plurality of stacked laminations that are arranged in sets that each define a circumferentially extending slot through a thickness of the set. The sets are circumferentially rotated relative to each other in sequence such that each slot only partially overlaps with one or more adjacent slots to form a continuous helical cooling path around the stator core. Windings are supported on the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Akash Pradeepkumar, Singar Rathnam
  • Patent number: 12237727
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor located at and rotatable about a central axis and a stator positioned proximate to the rotor and defining a radial machine gap between the rotor and the stator. A cold plate is positioned proximate to the rotor. The cold plate is rotationally stationary relative to the central axis and is spaced apart from the rotor to define a cold plate gap between the cold plate and the rotor. The cold plate includes one or more coolant pathways therein such that thermal energy from the rotor is transferred to a flow of coolant circulated through the one or more coolant pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abbas A. Alahyari, Parag M. Kshirsagar, Beata I. Wawrzyniak
  • Patent number: 12228147
    Abstract: A quick connect mounting assembly for a ceiling fan. The quick connect mounting assembly includes two releasably attachable mounts that are easily interconnected to mechanically couple elements of a ceiling fan. The quick connect mounting assembly can be used to mount at least two elements of the ceiling fan, including a ceiling fan switch housing to a ceiling fan motor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Rickey Thomas Jones, James Caleb McMillen
  • Patent number: 12212189
    Abstract: There are provided: a rotor including a rotating shaft and a rotor core; a stator including a stator core and stator windings; bearings; a casing fixed to the stator core and connected to the bearings, which houses the rotor and the stator; and an electrostatic shield connected to the casing. The electrostatic shield has a plurality of opening holes by which a space in which the stator is disposed is communicated with a space in which the rotor is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaro Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 12212182
    Abstract: A stator composed of package of plates rotated symmetrically, in multiples or divisors of 120° and also multiple of 3, contributing to the construction of an electromagnetically symmetric stator, preferably providing the symmetry between the phases of the three-phase motor, in a second plan, the technical effects of a reduction of scrap waste in the stamping process of these plates, and the increase of the heat exchange area for internal cooling for any type of electric motor using this stator. The stator (1) has a plurality of packages of plates (2), each of the packages of plates rotated symmetrically in relation to the subsequent package of plates in the longitudinal radial direction (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: WEG EQUIPAMENTOS ELETRICOS S.A.
    Inventors: Alexandre Schmidt Ferreira, Robson Gomes Da Silva, Wellington Renan Holler
  • Patent number: 12212219
    Abstract: A rotary mechanical system includes an electric machine, such as an electric motor, and a housing at least partially housing one or more components of the electric machine. The housing defines an electrical cavity and a coolant cavity. The electrical cavity houses one or more electrical components, such as a stator, of the electric machine. The coolant cavity is configured to receive a liquid coolant, such as ethylene glycol and water, from a liquid coolant system. The housing is configured to seal a two-phase refrigerant within the electrical cavity to transfer heat from the one or more electrical components to a wall of the electrical cavity and from the wall of the electrical cavity to the liquid coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Tang, Ami Bhavsar, Michael Leighty
  • Patent number: 12199488
    Abstract: A linear transport system includes: a stator module including an iron core that includes a plurality of teeth and a coil wound around the iron core; a movable element that includes a plurality of identical magnets disposed on a side surface parallel to a moving direction, and is propelled by an electromagnetic force from the coil; and a motor drive control device that controls the movable element by supplying an independent current of single-phase AC individually to the coil included in the stator module. When Lm is a magnet pitch that is a pitch of the magnets disposed in the movable element, and Lt is a tooth pitch that is a pitch of the teeth, 1.3?Lm/Lt?1.4 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Takumi Tomatsu, Zaini Ariff, Jun Hosono, Hiroshi Wakayama
  • Patent number: 12191726
    Abstract: A component (20; 18; 100) is described for cooling the windings of an electric motor (10) comprising: an outer ring (30), an inner ring (40) concentric to the outer ring, linear segments (50) extending radially from the inner ring towards the outer ring, wherein the rings (30, 40) and the segments (50) are internally hollow and joined together to form a continuous channel inside them capable of carrying a cooling fluid along a path that stats at a ring and passes to the other ring, preferably coming back to the starting ring, the rings (30, 40) and the segments (50) being arranged to delimit pass-through openings (36) able to accommodate and surround the motor windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TEXA DYNAMICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Adriano Girotto, Massimiliano Giacometti
  • Patent number: 12188549
    Abstract: Provided is a unit including: a motor case configured to accommodate a motor, a gear case configured to accommodate a gear connected to the motor; and a cover having a portion sandwiched between the gear and the motor, in which the motor case communicates with the gear case via an opening of the cover, and the opening is positioned below a horizontal plane passing through an axis of the gear and orthogonal to a gravity direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro Kosaka, Hiroki Uehara, Yoonseok Choi, Doohee Yoon
  • Patent number: 12184122
    Abstract: A generator comprising a series of spaced annular stators sandwiched between a series of rotors, the rotors each being separated by annular collars, the annular collars defining a central cavity; at least one cooling gas source for supplying gas to the central cavity; vents through the annular collars for providing a means of egress for the cooling gas from the central cavity radially outwards over the rotors and the annular stators and the front, rear and side walls of coils embedded in the annular stators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Time To Act Limited
    Inventor: Hugh-Peter Granville Kelly
  • Patent number: 12184145
    Abstract: A breathing device includes a ventilator, which is arranged on an end surface of the control unit provided with a connector on an opposite side of an output shaft of a rotating machine so as to protrude from an inside of the electric power steering device toward an outside of the electric power steering device, and is configured to provide a breathing action through ventilation between the inside and the outside. The ventilator protrudes in a horizontal direction or upward with respect to the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoaki Udo, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 12176794
    Abstract: An outer-rotor brushless direct-current motor is provided. The motor includes a motor can that supports the motor components and a fan mounted on a rotor shaft inside the motor can to generate an airflow through the motor can. The motor can includes exhaust openings formed around the fan to allow the airflow to be expelled radially away from the fan, and intake openings formed at a distance from the exhaust openings to allow an airstream to be received radially into the motor can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Yuming Zhou, Fuchun Xie, Tong Zheng, Ming Jin, Fujun Jin, Weifeng Qian
  • Patent number: 12166442
    Abstract: An electric motor system (100), comprising: a motor unit (110) comprising: a first part (120); a second part (130) movable relative to the first part (120); a plurality of spaced activatable motor elements (140) provided on the first part (120), each activatable motor element (140) being operative when activated by application of an electric current thereto for creating relative movement between the first and second parts (120, 130); and a plurality of power electronics drive modules (150), each power electronics drive module (150) being operatively associated with a different subset of the plurality of activatable motor elements (140) and comprising a power converter (155) operative to convert direct current into a periodic current for powering the activatable motor elements (140); and a power supply arrangement (170) comprising: at least one direct current power source (180); and a plurality of n parallel direct current power supply lines (190), each of the parallel direct current power supply lines (190) b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DEREGALLERA HOLDINGS LTD
    Inventor: Martin Hugh Boughtwood
  • Patent number: 12160162
    Abstract: Heat sink for an electric motor, in particular for a wheel hub drive of a commercial vehicle, with a channel which connects a first connection of the heat sink and a second connection of the heat sink, wherein the channel winds around the heat sink in a spiral. With such a heat sink, a flow condition of coolant within the channel can be generated in which secondary vortices are formed, and the cooling capacity is significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG AUTOMOTIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Martens, Natale Cosmo Bifano, Sascha Klett, Maximilian Munz
  • Patent number: 12160158
    Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes a stator, a rotor, a motor housing, a rotatable shaft, a radial fan, and an air scoop. The motor housing at least partly houses the stator and rotor and presents an exterior motor surface. The rotatable shaft is associated with the rotor for rotational movement therewith, with the rotatable shaft extending along a rotational axis. The radial fan is mounted on the rotatable shaft exteriorly of the motor housing and is rotatable with the shaft to direct airflow in a radially outward direction. The air scoop extends radially outwardly relative to the radial fan and axially to receive radial airflow from the radial fan and turn the airflow axially to flow along the exterior motor surface. The air scoop includes spaced apart axially extending airflow vanes to guide the airflow as the airflow is turned axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. Eason, Michael L. Largent, Steven R. Palmer, Jeffrey Scott Sherman, Richard A. Belley
  • Patent number: 12155290
    Abstract: An electronically commutated rotating electric machine comprising a first housing part, housing the active core of the machine and a second housing part that houses the control drive, wherein the first and second housing parts are configured such that, after being connected to one another, a gap is formed between them; the parts having deflecting portions that are configured to direct an air flow into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Weg Equipamentos Elétricos S.A.
    Inventors: Roger Schipmann Eger, Ramon Gomes Da Silva, Rubens Fernando Missio
  • Patent number: 12155289
    Abstract: A housing for an electric machine includes a substantially cup-shaped outer housing having a first base portion and a first tubular portion adjoining the base portion. An inner housing, which has a substantially cup-shaped form, is arranged in the outer housing and has a second base portion and a second tubular portion adjoining the base portion. A cover is connected or connectable to the outer housing and/or the inner housing. At least one cooling channel is formed between the first tubular portion and the second tubular portion. A pocket is formed in the first base portion and forms a first cavity together with the second base portion, and a second cavity is formed in the cover. The first cavity is fluidically connected to the cooling channel via a first bore and the second cavity is fluidically connected to the cooling channel via a second bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lukas Legl, Andreas Penz, Alexander Dietrich, Gerhard Eibler
  • Patent number: 12136858
    Abstract: An axial flux machine having a stator which is located between a first rotor disk and a second rotor disk. The base part of the stator is a central support flange which defines a first lateral face and a second lateral face. The central support flange has a plurality of flow openings. A first, left stator cover is mounted, with a formed collection channel, on the first lateral face of the support flange, and a second, right stator cover is mounted, with a formed distribution channel, on the second lateral face of the support flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Bossecker, Holger Witt
  • Patent number: 12132373
    Abstract: An EC motor with an encapsulated electronic controller. The electronic controller is encapsulated by creating a silicone mold to include sufficiently detailed voids so that certain parts of the electronic controller adjacent the voids are encapsulated and other parts adjacent where the mold has no voids are left unencapsulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: East West Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Andrew Semidey
  • Patent number: 12130094
    Abstract: A water jacket includes a housing configured to be disposed on or adjacent to an outer periphery of a heat generating portion, and a coolant channel provided inside the housing. The coolant channel includes a plurality of main tubular channel portions that extend linearly and are configured to be arranged along and in proximity to the outer periphery of the heat generating portion, an inflow-side manifold portion that collectively connects upstream end portions of the main tubular channel portions and is configured to allow inflow of coolant, and an outflow-side manifold portion that collectively connects downstream end portions of the main tubular channel portions and is configured to allow outflow of the coolant. Each of the main tubular channel portions includes therein a vortex generation part that is disposed in proximity to the upstream end portion and configured to generate a vortex flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hirosumi Todaka, Yasunari Kimura, Takaaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12129747
    Abstract: A downhole electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The downhole ESP assembly comprises a hybrid permanent magnet motor (PMM) comprising a first drive shaft, a stator, and a rotor comprising a first permanent magnet element, a second permanent magnet element, and an induction squirrel cage, wherein the rotor is mechanically coupled to the first drive shaft and disposed within the stator; a seal section having a second drive shaft coupled to the first drive shaft; and a pump assembly having a third drive shaft coupled to the second drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hassan Mansir, Jeffrey Frey, Robert Charles De Long, Dezhi Zheng
  • Patent number: 12132352
    Abstract: A stator cooling structure in which the stator cooling structure includes a supporting member that has a cylindrical shape along an axial direction of a rotating electric machine, that supports a stator core of the rotating electric machine, and that forms a cooling water passage and oil passage, and the stator core, the cooling water passage, and the oil passage are disposed adjacent to each other in this order from an inner radial side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Masahiro Nagaya
  • Patent number: 12129864
    Abstract: An impeller is provided, including a metal housing, a shaft, and a plastic member. The metal housing has a shaft mounting hole. The inner surface of the shaft mounting hole includes three or more contact points, and the contact points are closer to the shaft than other portions of the inner surface of the shaft mounting hole. The shaft passes through the shaft mounting hole and is affixed by the contact points. The metal housing divides the shaft into an upper section, a middle section, and a lower section. The plastic member passes through the shaft mounting hole and is in contact with the middle section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-I Ling, Chao-Fu Yang, Chih-Chung Chen, Kuo-Tung Hsu
  • Patent number: 12126233
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine (1) having a rotor (3), a stator (2) and several rigid winding pieces (5) formed as hollow conductors, which form various coils of a winding (4) of the electric machine (1) and are each part of a cooling circuit of the electric machine (1). According to the invention, the winding pieces (5) each have at least one lateral tap (34) in the region of their end sections (8), via which tap a coolant can be fed into the winding pieces (5) or removed from the winding pieces (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: dynamic E flow GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Naderer, Nikolaus Schweinert, Manuel Hartong
  • Patent number: 12119710
    Abstract: The motor comprises: a stator around which coils are wound and which forms a rotating magnetic field rotating a rotor; and a first motor case housing the stator. The stator has: a core body portion forming an annular magnetic path; and a fastening portion projecting outside in the radial direction from the outer circumferential surface of the core body portion. The fastening portion has an attachment hole which is formed in a penetrating manner along the rotating axis line direction of the rotor and into which a fastening screw for fixing the stator to the first motor case is inserted. The first motor case has: first to third core receiving portions receiving an end portion of the core body portion in the rotating axis line direction; and first and second fastener receiving portions receiving an end portion of the fastening portion in the rotating axis line direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Ohori, Takeshi Kanai
  • Patent number: 12119732
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a hollow-cylindrical stator and at least two receiving elements, each receiving element at least partially enclosing the stator in a circumferential direction along an inner coverage length and conjointly connected to the stator in the circumferential direction along an inner fastening length. A stator housing is conjointly connected to the receiving elements in the circumferential direction along the outer fastening length. The inner fastening length extends at most along 120° in the circumferential direction, and the outer fastening length extends at most along 200° in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Friedl, Thomas Garhammer, Robert Gruber, Mesaros Akos Keceli, Oliver Memminger, Günther Ortmeier, Klaus Schifferer, Laslo Toldi, Anatoli Vogel
  • Patent number: 12113406
    Abstract: A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Dean P. Williams, Mark A. Playford, Daniel J. Kernan, Lee Empringham, Liliana V. De Lillo, Christopher J. F. Tighe
  • Patent number: 12107477
    Abstract: Electric machine, in particular an electric motor for driving at least one compressor or circulator, comprising a stator and a rotor that are disposed in a casing, the machine comprising a cooling device disposed around the stator and comprising a circulation circuit for a cooling fluid, characterized in that the cooling device comprises a circulation pipe for the cooling fluid, comprising a portion embedded in a mass of material with high thermal conductivity such as metal or a metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Fabien Durand, Loic Brunet Manquat, Guillaume Delautre
  • Patent number: 12101017
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative sprayer assemblies, electric motor assemblies, and vehicles with cooling assemblies for stator windings of electric motors. An illustrative sprayer assembly includes a first spray device assembly configured to receive a fluid and further configured to spray the fluid therefrom. A second spray device assembly is configured to receive the fluid and is further configured to spray the fluid therefrom. A connecting tube is fluidly couplable to the first spray device assembly and the second spray device assembly and is configured to provide the fluid from the first spray device assembly to the second spray device assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David S. McNaughton, Dang Dinh Dang
  • Patent number: 12101001
    Abstract: An energy conversion device includes a set of nozzles passing through the body of a shaft and configured to form an oil mist in the cavity under the effect of the rotation of the shaft in a range of rotational speeds, from a proportion of oil injected into the shaft, to cool a rotor module and a stator module, a duct secured to the shaft and comprising an inlet communicating with the internal volume so as to receive, under the effect of the rotation of the shaft, oil injected into the internal volume, the duct leading the other proportion of the oil as far as an outlet of the duct, a removal device for removing the oil leaving the duct to an oil reservoir without contributing to the oil mist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: François Bel, Maxime Migneau
  • Patent number: 12088170
    Abstract: Air circulation passages connect an accommodation space of an electronic control unit to the outside to circulate air to buffer internal pressure fluctuations. The accommodation space side of the air circulation passages is formed as a divided air circulation passage with a plurality of passages, a cooling object member is arranged to come in thermal contact with air flowing through the divided air circulation passage, and the total cross-sectional area of the divided air circulation passage is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the air circulation passages that are not divided. Because the accommodation space of the electronic control unit is connected to the outside, internal pressure fluctuations can be buffered, and increasing the flow velocity of the air flowing through the divided air circulation passage on the accommodation space side of the air circulation passages allows heat inside the accommodation space to be efficiently radiated to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 12078236
    Abstract: An electric drive unit and method of assembling the same is disclosed. The electric drive unit includes a rotor having a rotor shaft, and gear shaft, where the rotor shaft is inserted into the gear shaft. The gear shaft is supported by two bearings, while the rotor shaft supported directly at one end by a bearing and at the other by the gear shaft. A wave spring is also disclosed that provides an axial loading to the rotor shaft. Also disclosed is a balancing ring secured to an end of the rotor via a locknut. The balancing ring can be machined in order to balance the rotor. The rotor shaft can be connected to the gear shaft via a spline connection. The rotor shaft can bear against the gear shaft via a pilot journal and pilot bore defined on the rotor shaft and gear shaft respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Dellal, Scott Michael Graves, Luke Ottaway
  • Patent number: 12081099
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electric machine is provided that includes a housing at least partially enclosing a rotor, a stator, and a coolant jacket, the coolant jacket including a plurality of coolant channels that receive coolant from a coolant inlet. In the cooling system two or more materials that form boundaries of the plurality of coolant channels are configured to thermally expand at different rates and form a bypass flow passage of at least one of the plurality of coolant channels when the two or more materials are below a threshold temperature or within a lower temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Jordan M. Houser, Darren J. Ziskovsky
  • Patent number: 12081080
    Abstract: A partition wall of a drive device has a first partition wall and a second partition wall. The first partition wall extends in a direction intersecting with an axial direction and covers one end portion of a motor housing in the axial direction. The second partition wall extends in a direction intersecting with the axial direction and is disposed on one side in the first direction perpendicular to the axial direction with respect to the first partition wall, and covers the other end portion of the gear housing in the axial direction together with the first partition wall. The second partition wall is disposed on one side in the axial direction with respect to the first partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Nakamura, Keisuke Fukunaga, Shohei Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 12081096
    Abstract: An electric machine with a stator, a rotor, and a fluid cooling device. The rotor is supported by a rotor shaft and a first bearing arranged at a bearing shield. The fluid cooling device has a cooling tube secured to a carrier element in fluidic communication with a fluid input and output and extends inside a recess of the rotor shaft while forming an annular space. A sealing element is provided between the rotor shaft and the carrier element, which prevents fluid passage into a spatial region of the electric machine outside of the sealing region. A second bearing is axially spaced apart from the first bearing is between the rotor shaft and a second bearing shield for supporting the rotor. The rotor core extends in a space between the first bearing and second bearing, and the recess extends inside the rotor shaft axially to the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Michael Hacklberger, Sebastian Kornexl, Manfred Geier
  • Patent number: 12081147
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reducing the electromagnetic vibration of a fractional slot concentrated winding (FSCW) permanent magnet (PM) motor, which provides a guidance for the low vibration design of FSCW PM motor. The implementation of the method includes: Based on Nyquist Shannon sampling theorem, the modulation effect of electromagnetic force in the air gap is obtained, and the electromagnetic force component that contributes the most to the electromagnetic vibration of the FSCW PM motor is determined. The equivalent analytical model of PM flux density is established to obtain the phase relationship between different flux density harmonics. According to Maxwell stress equation, the internal relationship between each order of flux density harmonics and electromagnetic force harmonics is obtained. A new magnet structure of the PM motor is designed, and specific flux density harmonics are injected to reduce the electromagnetic force and electromagnetic vibration of the FSCW PM motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Wenxiang Zhao, Shengdao Zhu, Guohai Liu, Jinghua Ji
  • Patent number: 12071021
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is configured to generate rotational motion. The stator is disposed radially about the rotor. The stator has a core and windings. The core defines a first array of orifices about an inner diameter of the core and a second array of orifices radially outward from the first array of orifices. The windings are disposed within the first array of orifices. A magnetic material is configured to advance into and retract from the second array of orifices to adjust a magnetic flux within an airgap defined between the rotor and the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wenbo Liu, Jiyao Wang, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 12074492
    Abstract: A stator of an electrical coolant drive includes a stator assembly having a number of stator teeth that are provided with coils of a multi-phase stator winding, and a contact device disposed on the stator assembly on an end side for interconnecting the coils with the phase connections. A deflection region is provided on the outer periphery of the contact device in the region of an inlet of the coolant drive for a fluid flowing in through the inlet. A contact device and an electric coolant drive are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Marcus Podack, Stefan Wuest, Marco Grimm, Duc Van Tong
  • Patent number: 12074506
    Abstract: An electric machine system is provided. The system includes a stack of a plurality of stator laminations with at least a portion of the plurality of stator laminations each including a plurality of holes that are arranged radially outward from a plurality of teeth, where the plurality of holes include a first set of holes, a second set of holes, and a third set of holes, where the first, second, and third sets of holes has a different profile and/or area, where the second set of holes are positioned radially inward from the third set of holes; and where a plurality of oil channels are formed by an alignment of holes in adjacent stator laminations in the portion of the plurality of stator laminations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.
    Inventors: Joachim Druant, Steven Vanhee
  • Patent number: 12068670
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, a holder member is disposed to be radially closer to an armature coil than to a magnetic field generator. The holder member is configured to hold the armature coil. The holder member has a first portion that faces a first end portion of the armature coil, and a second portion that faces a second end portion of the armature coil. The first portion of the holder member is thermally coupled to the first end portion of the armature coil. The second portion of the holder member is thermally coupled to the second end portion of the armature coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akito Tamura, Yuki Mawatari, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 12062951
    Abstract: An embodiment may provide a motor comprising: a stator including stator teeth; and a rotor including a magnet, wherein the stator teeth include a first stator tooth and a second stator tooth disposed within the first stator tooth, wherein the first stator tooth includes a plurality of first teeth, the second stator tooth includes a plurality of second teeth, wherein the first teeth radially overlap the second teeth at the center of the stator in a radial direction, the motor further comprising: a sensor and a collector disposed between the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth in the radial direction, and the motor further comprising: a circuit board on which the sensor is disposed; and a housing accommodating the circuit board, wherein the collector includes a first collector and a second collector disposed within the first collector, the sensor is disposed, in the radial direction, between the first collector and the second collector, and the housing includes a first protrusion, wherein the first p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Chan Son, Se Ho Kim