Connectors, Terminals Or Lead-ins Patents (Class 310/71)
  • Patent number: 12374952
    Abstract: An insulator includes a teeth cover portion and a crossover-wire guide portion. The crossover-wire guide portion guides a crossover-wire portion of a coil and an introduction crossover-wire portion of an introduction coil into a terminal connection portion. The crossover-wire guide portion has a guide groove that guides the crossover-wire portion and the introduction crossover-wire portion substantially in a core circumferential direction that is a circumferential direction of the stator core. In a state in which the plurality of the split cores are assembled in a ring shape, the guide groove is formed in a shape that does not coincide with a circular arc of a circle having a center corresponding to a ring center of the assembled split cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Araki, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Masaaki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12366267
    Abstract: A rotor grounding system for an electric machine includes a rotor including a shaft assembly configured to rotate about an axis. A housing supports the shaft assembly for rotation of the rotor. A bearing assembly has an outer circumference disposed against the shaft assembly. A discharge bar extends through at least a part of the bearing assembly. The bearing assembly has an inner circumference disposed against the discharge bar. A discharge circuit is defined between the rotor and the housing, where the discharge circuit extends through the bearing assembly and the discharge bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sen Jiang Zhou, Jack M Gayney, Alireza Fatemi
  • Patent number: 12368336
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core, coils, and a power line. The stator core includes slots. The coils are individually inserted in the slots and attached to the stator core. The power line couples a power source to the coils. Each coil includes projections and insertion portions. The projections are opposite ends of the corresponding coil and project from the stator core. The insertion portions are portions of the corresponding coil and inserted in the slots. The coils include general coils and power-line coils. The projections of each general coil serve as a first coupler and a second coupler. The projections of each power-line coil serve as a power-line coupler and a general coupler. The power-line coils and at least one of the general coils are same in length. The power-line coupler is coupled to the power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka Kojima, Nobuhiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12368337
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a motor body, a bracket, and a power supply structure for supplying power to the motor body through a through hole in the bracket. The motor body includes a stator having a core with teeth and a coil formed of a winding wound around the teeth. The power supply structure includes, for each phase, a winding pair including a first lead portion and a second lead portion of the winding, a guide part that guides the winding pair, and a connector part where the lead portions are electrically connected. The winding pair includes a first portion guided by the ide part and a second portion formed by bending the winding pair at an axially outer end of the first portion along a surface of the bracket. The first portion passes through the through hole in the axial direction. The second portion extends to the connector part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagamoto, Shingo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12348089
    Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core including teeth; pins including a working portion extending in an axial direction in a slot between the teeth; and bus bars electrically connected to the pins. In each slot, the working portions are disposed over stages in a radial direction. The pins include the two working portions disposed across the teeth, a first pin and a second pin each including a connection portion connecting the working portion in a circumferential direction, and a third pin connected to the bus bar. Each of the working portions of the second pin and the third pin is disposed in one of an outermost stage and an innermost stage of the slot. A number of teeth straddled by the second pin is smaller than a number of teeth straddled by the first pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hibiki Takada, Tomoya Ueda, Takahiro Hiwa
  • Patent number: 12344225
    Abstract: A vehicle including: a battery; a voltage control unit that boosts an output voltage of the battery; a main drive unit, including an engine and a main drive motor driven by electric power with a boosted voltage, that outputs a main driving force for driving one of a front wheel and a rear wheel by at least one of the engine and the main drive motor; a sub drive unit, including a sub drive motor driven by the electric power with the boosted voltage, that outputs a sub driving force for driving another of the front wheel and the rear wheel; and a control unit, in which, when a temperature of the sub drive unit makes equal to or higher than a predetermined value while the main drive unit outputs the main driving force including a driving force of the engine, the control unit increases the boosted voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kozeki, Takuya Honjo, Daisuke Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12348101
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine including a stator body, a winding having at least one bundle axially projecting from the stator body and winding ends extending from the stator body. An interconnector is mounted on the winding, the interconnector including an insulating body and traces including trace ends extending from the insulating body, the winding ends being assembled on the trace ends, wherein the interconnector also includes at least one means for positioning the interconnector on the winding in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: VALEO EQUIPEMENTS ELECTRIQUES MOTEUR
    Inventors: Mathieu D'Amico, Christopher Riche
  • Patent number: 12323002
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor with a housing and an electric motor includes a stator that includes a stator core including a yoke and teeth, an insulator including an insulator base in contact with an end face of the yoke, and three-phase windings, each being wound around the corresponding teeth in a concentrated manner so as to form coils. The winding of each phase forms connection wires locked on an outer circumferential surface of the insulator base. Each connection wire connects adjacent coils of the corresponding phase. The outer circumferential surface includes a locking surface including accommodation grooves, each accommodating the corresponding connection wire, and a non-locking surface that does not lock the connection wires. The stator core includes an engagement recess that engages with part of a jig. The engagement recess is located radially outward from the insulator base on the end face and located radially outward from the non-locking surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shuji Takimoto, Taku Adaniya, Kensuke Ikai
  • Patent number: 12316184
    Abstract: Described herein are fractional-slot-winding motors and electric vehicles using such fractional-slot-winding motors. In some examples, a fractional-slot-winding motor comprises a stator, a bus-bar assembly, and a plurality of coil units. The stator comprises a plurality of stator slots (e.g., 63 slots) extending through the core and radially offset relative to each other. Each dual-leg coil unit extends through two different stator slots and is electrically coupled to two other coil units on the coil-interconnection side of the rotor. Each single-leg coil unit extends through one coil slot and is electrically coupled to one other coil unit on the coil-interconnection side. At least some single-leg coil units can be coupled to a bus-bar assembly. Furthermore, the ends of the coil unit can have radial offsets relative to protruding portions, e.g., closer to the motor primary axis at the coil-interconnection side and further away on the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Harbinger Motors Inc.
    Inventors: Jackson George Diebel, Alex Tylee, James Dameron, Phillip John Weicker
  • Patent number: 12316193
    Abstract: To provide a rotary apparatus able to facilitate assembly of the rotary apparatus, and an attaching structure of the rotary apparatus. A rotary apparatus (1) includes a motor (10) having motor terminals (13), terminal members (21) and (22), a first housing (60), the terminal members (21) and (22) being attached to the first housing (60), and a second housing (40) having an accommodating part configured to accommodate the motor (10), the first housing (60) being attached to the second housing (40). The first housing (60) is attachable to or separable from the second housing (40) in a predetermined direction. The terminal members (21) and (22) are electrically connected to the motor terminals (13). The terminal members (21) and (22) have externally-connected terminal portions (33) and (34) to be connected to an external unit. The predetermined direction is a longitudinal direction of the externally-connected terminal portions (33) and (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventor: Minoru Kuroda
  • Patent number: 12301066
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a housing, and an encoder assembly. The housing defines a motor chamber in which the stator and rotor are at least partly housed. The housing includes an endshield that defines in part the motor chamber. The encoder assembly is configured to sense an operational parameter of the motor and includes an encoder and an encoder cover. The encoder is adjustably positioned within an axially recessed channel of the endshield. The encoder cover is secured relative to the endshield to at least partially overlie the encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Tucker, Jeffrey M. Hutsler
  • Patent number: 12294270
    Abstract: A device may include a coil unit assembly that includes a first, second, and third coil unit annularly arranged. Further, may include a busbar provided on an outer peripheral surface of the coil unit assembly, wherein when a direction in which an axis of the stator extends is defined as an axial direction, a direction which is orthogonal to the axial direction and in which outer peripheral surface and inner peripheral surface of the stator face each other is a radial direction, and a direction along an outer periphery of the stator when viewed from the axial direction is a circumferential direction, wherein the coil units each include a split core that includes a tooth that extends in the radial direction, an insulator mounted to overlap at least the tooth of the split core, and a coil that includes a winding wound around the tooth of the split core with the insulator interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisato Amano, Mitsutoshi Natsumeda, Eiji Sakaguchi, Takashi Sakurada, Takahiro Sato, Masashi Uno
  • Patent number: 12294263
    Abstract: A stator coil including a continuous three-phase coil group the linear portions in the linear portion groups of the respective phases being arranged side by side in order in the continuous three-phase coil group, wherein in each of first slots that are every other slots from among the slots, the linear portions of a same phase are accommodated in order and stacked in a radial direction of the stator core, and in each of second slots that are every other slots different from the first slots from among the slots, the linear portions of two phases that are same as two phases of the linear portions in the first slots on opposite sides of the second slot are accommodated in a number of layers stacked, the number being equal to a number of layers stacked in the first slots, and stacked in the radial direction of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Omagari, Masashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 12294257
    Abstract: There is provided a rotating electric machine stator manufacturing method for forming a resin film on coil film peeled-off portions of a rotating electric machine stator by liquid resin material, the method including: an immersion process of immersing the coil film peeled-off portions of the rotating electric machine stator in the liquid resin material; and a heat curing process of heat curing the liquid resin material after release of the immersing to form the resin film, wherein the liquid resin material has thixotropy; and the immersion process includes a process of causing the rotating electric machine stator to move in a direction other than a vertical direction at least once at least while the coil film peeled-off portions are immersed in the liquid resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takayuki Kogure, Kazuya Nagasawa, Kenji Miyanaga, Takafumi Hei, Satoshi Shikata, Hideki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12294252
    Abstract: A busbar unit is provided with a busbar, a temperature sensor and a covering member made of insulating resin for covering the busbar and the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor includes a thermistor element and a case for accommodating the thermistor element. The busbar includes a sensor holding portion for holding the temperature sensor. The sensor holding portion includes a first supporting portion having a first contact surface, a second supporting portion having a second contact surface facing the first contact surface and a coupling portion coupling one end parts of the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion. The sensor holding portion holds the temperature sensor by sandwiching the case by the first contact surface and the second contact surface. The covering member covers outsides of the sensor holding portion and the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Ito
  • Patent number: 12283860
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that includes a shaft along a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a stator that includes coils and opposes the rotor in a radial direction, a casing that supports the rotor and the stator, and a terminal attached to the casing and electrically connected to lead wires extending from the coils. The terminal includes a lead wire terminal portion that is in contact with the lead wire, an external terminal portion that is electrically connected to the lead wire terminal portion and extends toward an outside of the casing, and a holding portion that holds the lead wire terminal portion and the external terminal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Inoue, Tomoyuki Kubota
  • Patent number: 12283865
    Abstract: Notch bottom parts 152a, 152b are arranged side-by-side with terminal accommodation boxes 100a, 100b in a circumferential direction of an insulator 134, and a routing direction of a pair of coil ends 44a inside the terminal accommodation boxes 100a, 100b is directed to a direction intersecting with an insertion direction of flat-type male terminals T1, T2. Accordingly, at the time of inserting the flat-type male terminals T1, T2 into the terminal accommodation boxes 100a, 100b, an unreasonable force is suppressed from being applied to the pair of coil ends 44a, and, as a result, a defect such as disconnection of the pair of coil ends 44a can be prevented from occurring. In addition, it is possible to orderly route the pair of coil ends 44a on the insulator 43 via the notch bottom parts 152a, 152b, and, as a result, a short circuit with another coil 44 can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Inoue, Tetsuya Watanabe, Tomonori Saito
  • Patent number: 12274526
    Abstract: A tether connector configured to form an electrical connection with a sensor connector through a sterile barrier disposed over the sensor connector. The tether connector can include a housing, an electrical lead extending from the housing, and a first piercing element in the housing orthogonally connected to the electrical lead, the first piercing element configured to pierce the sterile barrier to form the electrical connection with the sensor connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chase Thompson, Kent F. Beck, Jerry Zhao
  • Patent number: 12274517
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various robotic and/or in vivo medical devices having compact joint configurations and at least three degrees of freedom. Other embodiments relate to various medical device components, including forearms having grasper or cautery end effectors, that can be incorporated into certain robotic and/or in vivo medical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick, Lou Cubrich
  • Patent number: 12278548
    Abstract: A smart motor having an electromechanical converter endowed with a rotating portion defining an axial direction and a radial direction, an electronic control unit, an electrical filter and a housing having a cooling device, the electromechanical converter, the electronic control unit and the filter being accommodated inside the housing, and the electronic control unit comprising an electrical converter configured to power the electromechanical converter. The housing is cylindrical and the electrical converter includes one or more electronic board(s) forming a hollow cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Jérémy Cuenot, Olivier Berry, Julie Danchin, Laurent Cartailler, Jean-Michel Bernard Paul Chastagnier, José Soler, Philip Indge, Samuel Lewis
  • Patent number: 12272991
    Abstract: A motor stator assembly includes stator yoke, coil sets connected to the stator yoke, and a positioning plate removably connected to the stator yoke. Each coil set has a coil member with two terminal legs. The positioning plate has though openings. The terminal legs of each coil set extend through one of the through openings. The electrical conductor set has conductor layers and an insulating part encapsulating the conductor layers. Each conductor layer has conductor components each having connection holes exposed from the insulating part. One of the terminal legs of each coil set extends through one of the connection holes of one of the conductor components of one of the conductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SINPRO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Sheng Chou, Hung-Han Chiu
  • Patent number: 12255503
    Abstract: A motor system includes a motor including a motor cover and a shaft of which a first end portion is exposed to an outside of the motor cover, a permanent magnet provided at the exposed first end portion of the shaft, and a rotation angle detector disposed at a periphery of the permanent magnet, and configured to detect a magnetic field change due to rotation of the permanent magnet during rotation of the shaft to detect a rotation angle of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Jae Hoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 12249877
    Abstract: A power pack of an EPS may include: a motor unit including a motor having a plurality of windings; a plurality of driving units each including an inverter configured to drive the motor by supplying power to any one of the plurality of windings; a plurality of control units each including a controller configured to control the inverter in order to control the operation of the motor; a plurality of power supply units configured to supply power to the motor; and a board unit coupled to the motor unit, and including a first circuit board and a second circuit board, which are electrically connected to each other, wherein the power pack includes a plurality of single ECUs, each of which is constituted by connecting any one of the control units, any one of the driving units and any one of the power supply units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 12244175
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having stacking coil units with a nonmagnetic body arranged between, and a rotatable rotor. Each of the coil units includes a coil, and a stator core. The coil includes an annular winding. The stator core is arranged to surround at least part of the winding. The stator core includes projections formed on axial ends of the stator core, alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, and projecting radially toward the rotor from the axial ends. The coil includes the winding and two leads extending from the winding. At least one of a first and a second of the two leads extends between stator cores of two of the coil units. A magnet pole is arranged in one of inner and outer circumferential portions of the stator core, and the first and second leads are arranged in an other one of inner and outer circumferential portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiro Kido, Yoshinari Asano, Tsukasa Asari, Hiroshi Hibino
  • Patent number: 12244197
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine comprises a cylindrical core defining an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface with a plurality of slots formed between the inner cylindrical surface and the outer cylindrical surface. Windings are positioned on the cylindrical core. The leads of the windings include a plurality of inner leads associated with conductors in an inner layer of the slots and a plurality of outer leads associated with conductors in an outer layer of the slots. A bus bar assembly includes a plurality of inner bus bars and a plurality of outer bus bars, the plurality of inner bus bars connected to the plurality of inner leads, and the plurality of outer bus bars connected to the plurality of outer leads. The plurality of outer bus bars are positioned radially outward from the end turns of the windings and radially inward from the outer cylindrical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Beatty, David Lee Durant, Ryan J. Jones, Kirk Neet
  • Patent number: 12237747
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a housing with a front surface, a rear surface, and side surfaces. A first wall extends between the front surface, the rear surface and the side surfaces. A second wall extends between the front surface, the rear surface and the side surfaces, the second wall having a radiused reference surface. An alignment projection extends from the radiused reference surface in a direction away from the first wall. Compression clips extend from the side surfaces. The compression clips have bases, beams and a latching projections, with the beams extending at angles relative to the side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH, Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Brian Keith Weaver, Jeffrey Hummel, Divya Shukla, William James Moyer, II, Heath McClung
  • Patent number: 12237731
    Abstract: An electric work machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor, a driver, and a temperature sensor. The motor includes a stator, and a rotor. The stator includes a cylindrical body, a tooth, and a coil. The cylindrical body includes a first inner circumferential surface. The tooth is disposed to stand on the first inner circumferential surface. The coil is wound around the tooth. The coil generates a magnetic force in response to receiving an electric power. The temperature sensor is installed in/on the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Niwa, Kei Kouda
  • Patent number: 12227151
    Abstract: An actuation device for a hydraulically operating brake system may include: a master cylinder in a housing and having at least one piston, to which a force can be applied by, e.g., a brake pedal; pressure supply device(s), at least one of which is a piston pump or double stroke piston pump having a piston and driven by an electromotive drive, the drive moving the piston directly or via a step-up gear; at least one valve assembly with magnetic valves; and at least one electronic control and regulating unit. The brake system has at least two hydraulic circuits, and a pressure change can be carried out in at least one wheel brake via the pressure supply device(s). A first housing or module, hydraulically connected to the housing, may contain the valve assembly and the at least one piston and pressure chamber of at least one of the pressure supply devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: IPGATE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Leiber, Heinz Leiber
  • Patent number: 12231054
    Abstract: A motor integrated inverter apparatus includes a drive motor on which a decelerator is installed, and an inverter installed to be directly connected to the drive motor. The inverter includes an inverter cover installed on a side of the drive motor and having an installation space defined therein, a capacitor having the installation space defined in the inverter cover so that an end of the drive shaft is inserted into the installation space, a control board installed on a side of the capacitor, and a cooling part installed between the control board and the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jaehoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 12212202
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary electric machine, in particular for a motor vehicle, including: a stator (100) comprising a stator body (110) and an electrical coil, said electrical coil including a plurality of phase windings (120) forming a bundle (125) that protrudes from an axial end face of the stator body, each phase winding including an end forming a coil connection point (122); and at least one electrical connection member (150) positioned in continuation of the stator (100) and comprising at least one electrically conductive element (155) which is overmolded with an electrically insulating material (126) and extends radially out of the electrically insulating material to form at least two connection outputs (153, 154) to which the connection points are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Vincent Romagnolo, Christopher Riche, Ronald Malbranque
  • Patent number: 12184129
    Abstract: A grounding apparatus for an electrical drive assembly configured for conducting an electrical charge and/or voltage from a rotor of an electric motor via a shaft as a first grounding partner to a second grounding partner. The grounding apparatus has: a supporting body device with a connecting section for electrical and mechanical connection to one of the grounding partners, and a supporting section; a contacting device having a contacting section for electrical connection to the other of the grounding partners, the contacting device having an attachment section and being connected to the supporting section of the supporting body device via the attachment section. The grounding apparatus bridges an annular gap between one grounding partner and the other, and the grounding apparatus has at least one opening which forms or helps to form an air passage in the annular gap in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Schamin, Sebastian Giehl
  • Patent number: 12184141
    Abstract: A stator for a motor includes a hole formed at a center thereof by arranging a plurality of assemblies along a circumferential direction (C) of the stator. Each of the plurality of assemblies includes: a stator core; a bobbin; a coil; and a plurality of bus bars disposed on the bobbin. The plurality of bus bars include first to third bus bars. In the plurality of assemblies, both ends of the first bus bar in the circumferential direction (C) and both ends of the second bus bar in the circumferential direction (C) are spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction (C) while being spaced apart from each other in a radial direction (R) or an axial direction (A) of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Jung, Seong Jun Hwang, Yeong Woo Seo
  • Patent number: 12184142
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 3-phase connector integrated stator and an electric compressor including the same. The 3-phase connector integrated stator includes: a stator including a plurality of teeth formed to extend from a cylindrical core, insulators coupled to the core and the teeth so as to surround outer sides of the core and the teeth, and coils wound on outer sides of the insulators at the respective teeth; a motor cover coupled to an upper insulator in a central axis direction of the stator and having a connector coupling part protruding upwardly from an upper plate; and a 3-phase connector inserted into and coupled to the connector coupling part of the motor cover and having connection pins connected to 3-phase coils of the stator. Therefore, the 3-phase connector may be easily assembled to the stator, and the connector pins may be easily assembled to the 3-phase connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Chan Ho Baek, Sae Bom Kim, Gwang Hoon Song, Hyo Keun Jeon, Suk Jae Chung, Kyung Ah Hong
  • Patent number: 12170471
    Abstract: A device for attaching a motor protector includes: an accommodating member; and a fixation member to which the accommodating member accommodating a motor protector is detachably attached. The fixation member includes a base portion and at least two arm portions. The two arm portions sandwich and hold the accommodating member once the accommodating member is pushed to inside of the two arm portions. The fixation member further includes assisting portions that extend from the base portion to a side of the accommodating member, are caused to pass through assisting portion insertion holes provided in the accommodating member and stick out inside the accommodating member and at positions where the assisting portions sandwich the accommodating member with the arm portions, and cause an elastic force to act on the accommodating member in a case where the accommodating member moves in a direction that is parallel to the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: UBUKATA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Tsukamoto, Takashi Adake, Tatsuya Ino
  • Patent number: 12170465
    Abstract: An electronic module for controlling a motor includes a module housing including a bottom surface, walls, and an open face, a printed circuit board (PCB) arranged along a plane within the module housing; a plurality of power terminals; and a plurality of power switches mounted on the PCB to switchably connect a supply of electric power from a power source to the plurality of power terminals. The plurality of power terminals includes first portions projecting outside the module housing through one of the walls along a direction substantially parallel to the plane for coupling to a plurality of wires couplable to the motor, and second portions extending substantially perpendicularly to the plane and electrically contacting the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Madhur M. Purohit, Alastair G. Valentine, Joshua M. Lewis, Timothy A. Smith, Christopher W. Shook
  • Patent number: 12166394
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an interconnection assembly for a stator of an electrical machine. The interconnection assembly comprises a shaped bus bar, which has a first region, which comprises a connection point of the interconnection assembly for an external connection, a second region, in which a connecting point for forming a connection of the bus bar to a stator winding is formed, and a central region, which connects the first region and the second region. The first region and the second region are arranged in parallel planes. The central region is oriented in such a way that an angle of a transition between the first region and the central region and an angle of a transition between the second region and the central region deviate from a right angle. The disclosure also relates to a stator having an interconnection assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Ralf Wittstadt, Katja Willacker, Jochen Wittmann, Sebastian Baumgart, Norbert Lohaus, Tobias Schrenk, Roland Lindwurm, Christoph Wieder
  • Patent number: 12160150
    Abstract: To provide a rotary electrical machine having a novel configuration adapted to provide axial downsizing of the rotary electrical machine when connecting an electrical connection conductor to a welded side terminal section of a coil end of a segment coil. The rotary electrical machine includes: a stator core 21 including slots radially extended in a radial fashion; a plurality of segment coils 34 radially stacked and accommodated in the slot 37; and a neutral point bus-bar 33 laid on a side of a welded coil end of the segment coil 34 and including a connection wiring section and a connection section for interconnecting the different segment coils. In a state where the segment coils 34 are mounted, at least a part of the connection wiring section is laid in a radial space RS radially defined by the segment coils 34.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigo Misaki, Takayuki Koizumi, Shingo Kitajima, Hisaya Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12160145
    Abstract: A drive unit for an electrically driven vehicle with an inverter module, an electric machine a stator which is controllable by the inverter module. The rotor of the electric machine rotationally drivingly communicates with at least one shaft of the drive unit, the shaft being rotatably supported in a respective associated housing by a bearing arrangement. The housing and the inverter module are grounded. Further, the drive unit has a grounded, low-impedance electrical connection between the shaft and the inverter module so that, when a potential difference occurs between the shaft and the inverter module, a short circuit is produced. Low-impedance potential equalizer is provided between the shaft and the associated housing. It is provided that the shaft is formed as a rotor shaft or as a transmission shaft, the bearing arrangement has two bearings spaced apart axially from one another, and the potential equalizer is formed axially between the two bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Matthias Wesa, Andreas Jung
  • Patent number: 12155279
    Abstract: A method for producing a stator includes the steps of: providing a stator, which has one or more windings and a winding head, the winding head having one or more cable ends; positioning a phase connection assembly by way of a retaining element on the winding head, the phase connection assembly having at least one cable element; connecting the at least one cable element to a corresponding cable end of the winding head; and removing the retaining element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jens Richter
  • Patent number: 12155294
    Abstract: An electric work machine includes: a motor having a rotor disposed in an interior of a stator and being rotatable about a rotational axis; and an output shaft, on which a tool accessory is mountable and which is configured to be driven using motive power output from the motor. The stator includes: a stator core; a coil wound on a portion of the stator core; and a fusing terminal disposed more inward in a radial direction of the stator core than the coil and being connected to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Niwa
  • Patent number: 12155284
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, and a busbar disposed above the stator, wherein the stator includes a stator core and coils, the busbar includes a terminal connected to the coils, the terminal includes bodies and a plurality of connection ends which extend from the bodies and are in contact with end portions of the coils, a plurality of extension parts extending from the plurality of bodies are combined to constitute any one of the plurality of connection ends, and the plurality of extension parts are in contact with the same end portion of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyoung Min Park
  • Patent number: 12152460
    Abstract: Wellbore equipment that are used in a wellhead electrical connection that prevents inadvertent safety consequences of explosion or fire by providing a condulet with safety barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Tally USA, LLC
    Inventors: Neil Rasik Mehta, Wayne S Hill
  • Patent number: 12149136
    Abstract: A method and arrangement is disclosed herein for making a stator with 3D printed end turns. The stator includes a stator lamination stack with semi-closed slots. Straight I-pin wire segments are housed in the slots of the stator lam stack and form the in-slot segments of a stator winding arrangement. The end turns of the winding arrangement are provided by a conductive material that is 3D printed material at both axial ends of the straight I-pins. The end turns result in a winding arrangement with diamond coils that are inter-locked. The 3D printing of the end turns makes the winding arrangement possible, as the winding arrangement is configured such that it cannot be inserted into the lamination stack in a radial direction (i.e., via any slot openings at the inner diameter or outer diameter).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Domingues, Joshua B. Lahrman, Matthew R. Conner, Kirk Neet, David A. Fulton
  • Patent number: 12146505
    Abstract: The invention relates to an impeller machine comprising an impeller housing (15) and a motor housing (19), wherein the motor housing (19) is arranged in an interior of the impeller housing (15). An aerostator (20) forms a connection between the impeller housing (15) and the motor housing (19). A cable (26, 30) extends between the impeller housing (15) and the motor housing (19). The aerostator (20) comprises an aerostator body (34) and an aerostator cover (35) which together span a contour in the form of a wing profile. The cable (26, 30) is guided in a cavity (32) which is arranged between the aerostator body (34) and the aerostator cover (35). The invention also relates to a method for mounting an impeller machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: MDGROUP Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Schübeler
  • Patent number: 12149135
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electric motor stator and an electric motor. The electric motor stator comprises: a stator core, the stator core being provided with a plurality of stator core slots, the plurality of stator core slots being formed on a radial inner surface of the stator core and being separated by a preset slot distance along a circumferential direction of the stator core; a stator winding, the stator winding being mounted on the stator core, the stator winding being provided with Q pole pair coils, wherein Q/a number of slots per pole per phase=P, P being an integer; wherein the stator winding being a three-phase winding, the number of slots per pole per phase being 3; the stator winding comprising: a first coil set and a third coil set successively sleeved from outside to inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BorgWarner PowerDrive Systems (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rongjian Bai, Yanhai Liu
  • Patent number: 12142991
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a bearing, a motor housing, a bearing holder, and a bus bar. The rotor includes an axially extending shaft. The stator radially opposes the rotor. The bearing rotatably supports the shaft. The motor housing accommodates the stator and opens to one axial side. The bearing holder holds the bearing and covers the opening of the motor housing. The bus bar is connected to the conductive wire drawn out from the stator and is located on the bearing holder. The bearing holder includes a recess radially outside of the bearing and including an upper surface recessed to the other axial side. The bus bar includes a base portion and a connection portion. The base portion is located radially outside of the recess and extends in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NYDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 12142989
    Abstract: An electrical connector arrangement for a turbomachine includes a support structure and a terminal with a terminal post projecting from the support structure along an axis. The electrical connector arrangement includes a connection stack that is supported by the terminal and arranged along the axis of the terminal post. The connection stack includes a bus bar that is electrically connected to the terminal post and that extends from the terminal post and the support structure. The connection stack includes a first deformable seal member and a second deformable seal member. The first deformable seal member is deformed against the terminal post to define an inner radial seal within the connection stack. The second deformable seal member is deformed against the support structure to define an outer radial seal within the connection stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC
    Inventors: Milan Nejedly, Petr Koplik, Vit Houst
  • Patent number: 12139208
    Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a motor housing of an electric motor. The motor housing includes an end face part opposite to an output part of a rotating shaft of the electric motor. An electronic control part is arranged at the end face part. A connector assembly is arranged on a side of the electronic control part opposite to a side of the electronic control part that faces the end face part. A metal cover for the electronic control part includes a bottom part and a lateral peripheral part. The bottom part includes: an exposure hole through which an external terminal forming part is exposed to outside; and an annular reinforcing projecting portion formed at an edge of the exposure hole. The lateral peripheral part is angled from the bottom part, and forms an opening through which the lateral peripheral part is fixed to the end face part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 12142994
    Abstract: A hollow shaft motor includes: a motor housing 11 having a cylindrical shape; a housing cover assembly 12 coupled to an upper portion of the motor housing 11; a rear cover 15 coupled to a lower portion of the motor housing 11; a stator assembly 20 located in the motor housing 11 and in a lower portion of the housing cover assembly 12; and a rotor assembly 30 located in the stator assembly 20 to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: BMC CO., LTD., HL Mando Corporation
    Inventors: Ok Yun Kim, Kea Ho Lee, Haeng Chul Sin, Gwan Seon Jeong
  • Patent number: 12136860
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine (1) having: a rotor (3); a stator (2); multiple winding pieces (5) which are in the form of hollow conductors, form different coils of a winding (4) of the electric machine (1) and are each part of a coolant circuit of the electric machine (1); and multiple external phase connections (L1-L3) which are electrically connected to the winding pieces (5). According to the invention, a hydraulic connection part (15) to which a number of the winding pieces (5) are hydraulically connected, and a seal (27) which has multiple passages (28), in each of which an end portion (8) of one of the winding pieces (5) is situated, are provided, the hydraulic connection part (15) and the seal (27) having opposing surfaces (29, 30) which rest against each other in order to ensure sealing of the individual connections of the winding pieces (5) to the hydraulic connection part (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: dynamic E flow GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Naderer, Nikolaus Schweinert, Manuel Hartong