Magnetic Bearing Patents (Class 310/90.5)
  • Patent number: 12292045
    Abstract: The piston compressor for compressing a gas having a cylinder and also including a piston, a piston rod, packing, a crosshead and a drive, wherein: the piston is disposed for movement in a longitudinal direction L inside the cylinder; the piston is connected to the crosshead by means of a piston rod; packing is disposed between the piston and the crosshead, through which packing the piston rod runs; the crosshead is driven by the drive; in addition an activatable magnetic bearing is disposed between the piston and the crosshead; the magnetic bearing can generate a magnetic force Fm on the piston rod, at least perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction L; and an activation device activates the magnetic force Fm generated by the magnetic bearing on the piston rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BURCKHARDT COMPRESSION AG
    Inventor: Alexandre Voser
  • Patent number: 12292354
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a modular structure for fixing radial electromagnetic actuators for non-destructive tests and failure simulations in rotating machines without disassembly of bearings and comprises the following components: ferromagnetic core (1), armature (4), cover (6), load cell (10), upper reinforcement (15), lower reinforcement (16), lower plate (17), side plate 1 (18), side plate 2 (19), upper plate (20), beam (7), spool (2), adjustment 1 (11), captive pin (3), chassis (5), lock (8), plate (9), adjustment 2 (13), captive screw (12), adjustment 3 (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.—Petrobras, Universidade Federal De Uberlândia—UFU
    Inventors: Iago Alves Pereira, Raphael Timbo Silva, Ademir Aparecido Cavalini, Jr., Túlio Torezan Silingardi Del Claro, Valder Steffen, Jr., Vergílío Torezan Silingardi Del Claro
  • Patent number: 12294241
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stator core, a magnetic levitation bearing, and a motor. The stator core is used in the magnetic levitation bearing and includes an annual yoke. The annular yoke has an inner circumferential wall and an outer circumferential wall, a plurality of pole pillars are disposed on the inner circumferential wall, and each of the plurality of pole pillars extends towards an axis of the inner circumferential wall, there is a distance D between an axis of the outer circumferential wall and the axis of the inner circumferential wall, and D?0 is satisfied. According to the stator core, the magnetic levitation bearing, and the motor of the present disclosure, the stator core has a non-centrosymmetric structure, so that a cross-sectional area of a magnetic path in some region of the stator core is increased, which is beneficial to an improvement of an output force of the magnetic levitation bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Weilin Guo, Gao Gong, Fang Zhang, Xin Li, Zhehao Deng, Jianhui Wang
  • Patent number: 12286887
    Abstract: Turbomachine including: a fan arranged along a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, a primary duct able to channel a primary air flow from the fan through a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine of the turbomachine, an annular nacelle surrounding the fan so as to delimit a secondary duct able to channel a secondary air flow from the fan the temperature of which is less than that of the primary air flow of the fan, the secondary air flow extending around the primary air flow of the fan and, engine support arms arranged around the longitudinal axis between the annular nacelle and a hub which delimits the primary and secondary ducts characterized in that it also includes an electrical energy generation device mounted facing or so as to be able to be arranged facing one of the support arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Clément Raucoules, Jean-Pierre Serey
  • Patent number: 12283501
    Abstract: An object transfer device includes: a motor; a motor drive circuit; an encoder that detects a motor output shaft rotation angle; a drive system that transmits motion of the output shaft to an object; an origin sensor that detects arrival of a predetermined site of the drive system interlocked with the object at a predetermined position; a drive circuit-including servo amplifier that records a current position of the object based on detection by the encoder and the origin sensor, and controls the object to a target position; an absolute position holder that acquires an absolute position of the predetermined site based on detection by the encoder at least while the drive circuit is off; and a power saving controller that is bidirectionally communicable with the servo amplifier and can resume servo control with the absolute position as a current position of the predetermined site when the drive circuit is on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Ota
  • Patent number: 12269382
    Abstract: A body weight adjustment mechanism for automatic adjustment to a balanced point is provided to improve vibration absorption characteristics and impact absorption characteristics. A torsion angle of a lower frame-side torsion bar when an upper frame is at a balanced point is found in advance, a torsion angle of the lower frame-side torsion bar in a state in which a person is seated is detected, the detected torsion angle is compared with the aforesaid balanced point torsion angle, a control signal is sent to an elastic force adjusting unit, and torsion angles of upper frame-side torsion bars are adjusted so that the torsion angle of the lower frame-side torsion bar becomes equal to the balanced point torsion angle. The upper frame can be set to an appropriate position in an initial state and a static state in which a person is seated and vibration and impact absorption characteristics are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DELTA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Etsunori Fujita, Soichi Makita, Shinichiro Maeda, Shogo Masumura, Masaru Oka
  • Patent number: 12270435
    Abstract: A rotor for a thrust magnetic bearing is a rotor (51) of a thrust magnetic bearing (50) supporting a rotary shaft (30) that is driven to rotate by a motor (20) in an axial direction, and has a rotor passage (93) that penetrates the rotor (51) and constitutes part of a refrigerant passage (Z) for sending a refrigerant to the motor (20). It is preferable that the rotor passage (93) includes an opening (93b) on one side in the axial direction and an opening (93a) on the other side in the axial direction, and the opening (93b) on the one side is located radially outside (Q2) of the opening (93a) on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Fujiwara, Satoru Yatake
  • Patent number: 12264710
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing having a colocated eddy-current displacement sensor, comprising an electromagnet unit including a circular casing having a hollow portion therein, and a plurality of electromagnets disposed along an inner periphery of the casing, an amplifier unit coupled to one side of the electromagnet unit, a coil wiring unit coupled to the other side of the electromagnet unit, and a plurality of sensor units disposed along an inner periphery of the electromagnet unit and each having two opposite ends respectively coupled to the coil wiring unit and the amplifier unit, the plurality of sensor units being provided between the coil wiring unit and the amplifier unit, in which the sensor unit is disposed colocatedly with a suspended body supported by the electromagnet unit and configured to measure a displacement of the suspended body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventor: Hyeong Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 12257873
    Abstract: A vehicle, suspension system and method of dampening a force on the suspension system is disclosed. The suspension system includes a damper having a first damping element and a second damping element configured to rotate relative to each other in response to a force received at the suspension system. The second damping element induces an eddy current in the first damping element during relative rotation. A feature of one at least one of the first damping element and the second damping element provides a first electrical resistance to the eddy current during relative rotation in a first direction and a second electrical resistance to the eddy current during relative rotation in a second direction. The first electrical resistance generates a first damping force and the second electrical resistance generates a second damping force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Thomas W. Nehl, Chandra S. Namuduri, Brian K Saylor, Nilesh D. Mankame, Anthony Michael Coppola
  • Fan
    Patent number: 12261481
    Abstract: A fan is provided. The fan has a motor and a first rotating shaft. The motor has a stator assembly, a rotor and a winding. The stator assembly has a stator yoke portion and a stator tooth detachably connected to each other. The winding is wound on the stator tooth. The stator yoke portion has a stator yoke slot and/or a stator projection, adapted to the shape of the stator tooth. The stator tooth axially pass through the stator yoke slot and/or the stator projection to form a stator core. A first fan blade is arranged at an end of the first rotating shaft to rotate the first fan blade when the first rotating shaft rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: GUANGDONG WELLING MOTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA WELLING MOTOR TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Wu, Guyu Wu, Yiming Hu, Liming Gong, Ping Li
  • Patent number: 12249869
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a central shaft, a rotor configured to rotate about the central shaft, wherein the rotor includes a plurality of rotor permanent magnets arranged with a first polar orientation relative to the central shaft, a stator arranged proximate to the rotor. The stator includes a plurality of stator permanent magnets arranged in a second polar orientation relative to the central shaft, wherein the plurality of stator permanent magnets are oriented to repel the rotor permanent magnets, and a plurality of magnetic interruption devices (MIDs) corresponding to the plurality of stator permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Variant Motion Inc
    Inventor: Michael G. Tkadlec
  • Patent number: 12241734
    Abstract: A fault processing method for a displacement sensor includes: receiving a plurality of detected signals from a plurality of detecting probes and a given signal of a spare probe, wherein the detecting probes are configured to detect a displacement value of a rotation shaft of a magnetic levitation motor to obtain the detected signals, and the spare probe is configured to replace a faulty probe among the plurality of detecting probes; determining whether there is a faulty probe among the plurality of detecting probes based on the plurality of detected signals and the given signal; and connecting the given signal of the spare probe to the faulty probe corresponding to a case that a determination result is yes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Weilin Guo, Yongling He, Daofu Hu
  • Patent number: 12216972
    Abstract: The method for obtaining a temporal model of a magnetic bearing provides the generation of reference data representative of characteristics of the bearing. The method includes the production of the temporal model of the magnetic bearing from the reference data having temporal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SKF Magnetic Mechatronics
    Inventors: Francois Caire, Lakdar Sadi-Haddad
  • Patent number: 12188462
    Abstract: The packing seal for a piston compressor, having a longitudinal axis L as well as, following one after the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis L, a fastening part and a cylindrical part, wherein a magnetic bearing and at least one chamber ring with a sealing ring arranged therein are arranged following one after the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis L in the cylindrical part, wherein the magnetic bearing includes at least one controllable electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BURCKHARDT COMPRESSION AG
    Inventor: Alexandre Voser
  • Patent number: 12184123
    Abstract: Various examples are provided related to 3D airgap electric machines and winding embedded liquid cooling. In one example, an electric machine includes a stator assembly with stator windings supported by a stator core and an outer rotor assembly includes a radial plate surrounding the stator assembly and an endplate at a first end of the radial plate adjacent to the first end of the stator core. The stator windings can include a first portion extending along an axial length of the stator core and a second portion at a first end of the stator core that extends radially inward towards a shaft of the electric machine. The radial plate can include magnets distributed about the radial plate. In another example, a stator assembly includes stator windings supported by a stator core with a winding support including cooling channels distributed between the stator windings. The winding support can be nonmagnetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION
    Inventors: Md Sariful Islam, Iqbal Husain, Ritvik Chattopadhyay, Gregory D. Buckner
  • Patent number: 12157453
    Abstract: A method for determining a rotational frequency of a wheel, in particular of a motor vehicle, uses a rate of rotation sensor that has a rotary sensor assigned to the wheel and a sensor element assigned to the rotary sensor. The rotary sensor has pulse generators that are arranged in a manner distributed over its circumference and spaced evenly from one another and whose edges are recorded by the sensor element so as to determine the rotational frequency of the rotary sensor. There is provision to use an optimal filter in order to compensate a modulation caused by an eccentricity, and to adapt modulation parameters of the optimal filter through a sequential least-squares method. A time-equidistant frequency signal is subjected to short-term averaging, for example using a PT1 filter, and the modulation is modelled as sinusoidal interference and compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Scheuing
  • Patent number: 12158157
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises a centrifugal pump, an electric motor mechanically coupled by a drive shaft to the centrifugal pump, wherein the electric motor comprises a stator and a rotor, a bearing, wherein the bearing is disposed inside the electric motor, and a magnetic shield disposed in the electric motor between bearing and the rotor and stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David Christopher Beck, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Robert Charles De Long
  • Patent number: 12149146
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electrical motor comprising a stator (101) being a stationary part in the electrical motor, the stator (101) having a plurality of poles mounted in a radial direction, a rotor (102) having a plurality of magnets and arranged to rotate freely around the stator (101), the stator (101) and the rotor (102) are moulded into an epoxy layer of a housing of the motor in such a way that a channel (106) is formed allowing a cooling medium flowing through the internal part of the electrical motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ZPARQ AB
    Inventors: Mikael Sundberg, Jonas Genchel, Ivan Stenius
  • Patent number: 12140491
    Abstract: Provided is a large high-speed rotary equipment gap stacking assembly apparatus and assembly method based on digital twin, and relates to the technical field of engine assembly measurement. The disclosure solves the problem of unbalanced rotation of the rotary parts caused by large assembly error during multi-stage rotary parts are stacked in a gap way. The disclosure includes the assembly apparatus entity and the assembly method; the assembly apparatus entity is configured to establish data communication with the upper computer through data acquisition apparatus, and upper computer is configured to establish a virtual assembly model; the virtual assembly model and optimal coaxiality of the multi-stage rotary parts in gap stacking can be obtained according to the assembly method, and the assembly process can be controlled by using the virtual assembly model and the optimal coaxiality. The disclosure is suitable for controlling the assembly process of the rotary parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Harbin Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Chuanzhi Sun, Huilin Wu, Yongmeng Liu, Jiubin Tan
  • Patent number: 12142980
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator having a stator core, a suspension winding group, and an armature winding group. The stator core includes a back yoke and a plurality of teeth. The suspension winding group includes a plurality of suspension windings wound on the teeth. The suspension windings generate an electromagnetic force that supports the rotor in a non-contact manner, and generate a magnetic pole inside the stator. The armature winding group includes a plurality of armature windings wound on the teeth. The armature windings generate an electromagnetic force that rotationally drives the rotor, and generate a magnetic pole inside the stator. One of the suspension or armature winding groups includes a plurality of series winding sets with a plurality of series connected windings of a same phase. Each series winding set is connected in parallel with an other one of the series winding sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Sakuragi, Yusuke Irino
  • Patent number: 12131727
    Abstract: A force generating device includes: a support unit; a link unit rotatably coupled to one side of the support unit; a transfer unit that is coupled to the link unit and transfers wave energy to the outside; and a drive unit that operates the link unit. In particular, the transfer unit is moved on an imaginary sphere by a motion of the link unit, and the transfer unit transfers the wave energy to a center of the imaginary sphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Woong Jeung, Suk Hyung Jang
  • Patent number: 12126223
    Abstract: A machine system includes a shaft, a first rotor, a first stator, a second rotor, a second stator, a first, first-phase coil and a second, first-phase coil of a first stator winding, a first, second-phase coil and a second, second-phase coil of a second stator winding, and a first, third-phase coil and a second, third-phase coil of a third stator winding wound about the first stator, a first, first-phase coil and a second, first-phase coil of a fourth stator winding, a first, second-phase coil and a second, second-phase coil of a fifth stator winding, and a first, third-phase coil and a second, third-phase coil of a sixth stator winding wound about the second stator, and an inverter drive system. The stator windings are configured to provide a torque and a suspension force under control of an inverter drive system consisting of only three inverters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Eric Loren Severson, Zhouzhou Wang
  • Patent number: 12110615
    Abstract: An axial bearing for a spinning rotor of an open-end spinning machine includes a static bearing component having axially polarized permanent magnet rings delimited on both sides by ferromagnetic pole disks arranged in a bearing housing, the static bearing component interacting with a dynamic bearing component formed by ferromagnetic webs arranged on a rotor shaft of the spinning rotor. Each pole disk includes a disk ring, a central opening, a vertical axis, and a horizontal axis. The disk ring includes an area of reduced ferromagnetic material on an inner circumference thereof at the vertical axis as compared to a remaining inner circumferential area of the disk ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventor: Gernot Schaeffler
  • Patent number: 12099655
    Abstract: The technology provides a multi-actuator haptic vibration device that has a mounting platform and a pair of linear resonant actuators (LRAs) attached to the mounting platform. Each LRA has an axis of vibration and a moveable mass constrained to move backwards and forwards therealong, with the axes of vibration being arranged in a same direction. A controller is configured to produce haptic feedback as a combined output waveform on the mounting platform, by obtaining an input waveform corresponding to a haptic effect and computing a control component waveform for each LRA via either (i) pre-determined performance-timing tables or (ii) pre-determined performance-timing functions. The controller estimates a position of each moveable mass, controls the position of each moveable mass, and controls each LRAs with its respective computed control component waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: General Vibration Corporation
    Inventors: Nikhil Bajaj, George T.-C. Chiu, John Houston, Rob Morris
  • Patent number: 12101007
    Abstract: A flywheel system includes a fixture providing a base and a stator, rotor having a cavity to receive the stator, a generator/motor module having a plurality of permanent magnets mechanically coupled to the rotor and an active magnetic bearing module. The active magnetic bearing module includes a plurality of magnetizable elements mechanically coupled to or integrated in the rotor, and a plurality of electromagnets mechanically coupled to a shaft and configured to magnetically couple with the plurality of first magnetizable elements to actively stabilize the rotor relative to the fixture. The windings of the generator/motor module are arranged around the rotation axis of the rotor at a first distance from the rotation axis of the rotor, the electromagnets of the active magnetic bearing module are arranged around the rotation axis of the rotor at a second distance, and the first distance is greater than or equal to the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: WattsUp Power A/S
    Inventors: John Røn Pedersen, Martin Speiermann, Jamshid Zamany
  • Patent number: 12092123
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a constant storage portion that stores constant values of an electromagnet coil including a resistance value Rm, an inductance Lm, a sampling time Ts, etc. A current storage portion stores previous current command values Ir having been regularly sampled by a microcomputer inside a current control circuit. A low-frequency feedback circuit generates a signal for suppressing an error between DC components and low-frequency components of an input current command value Ir and a detected current value IL and outputs the signal. An output voltage computing circuit calculates, based on the input current command value Ir[n+1], a stored value Ir[n] of the current storage portion, a stored value of a constant storage portion, and the signal of the low-frequency feedback circuit, a voltage for suppling the electromagnet coil with a current in accordance with a command, and outputs the calculated voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 12081103
    Abstract: Modified magnetic levitation system for flying vehicle Modified magnetic levitation system for flying vehicle includes a propeller system (11, 12, 13), an axial levitation system (101, 102), radial levitation system (part of 201), rotary propulsion system (part of 201) and passive magnetic bearing system (301). An axial levitation system includes plurality of halbach array pairs connected on rotor and special short circuited coil windings connected on stator. A propulsion mechanism (part of 201) is provided for rotating rotor along the centre axis. Radial levitation and propulsion system (201) includes halbach arrays (53) located at outer circumference of rotor and interweaved active and passive coil windings (43) located at inner circumference of stator. Passive magnetic bearing system (301) includes parts of rotor and stator around centre axis of the system. Passive magnetic bearing (PMB) is utilized to levitate rotor at rest, below lift-off speed, and start and end condition of rotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Harshad Babulal Patel
  • Patent number: 12053849
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vibration damping system and a method for estimating a cutting force of a machine tool using the same, and according to the present disclosure, disclosed is technology including a housing; a stator rotatably positioned at an arbitrary angle in an internal space of the housing; a rotor positioned in a space inside the stator and rotating around an axis of rotation; a spindle rotating with the rotor; a first expander applying an attractive force that pulls the stator when the stator rotates; a second expander applying an attractive force in an opposite direction to the attractive force of the first expander; a first compressor applying a repulsive force that pushes the stator; and a second compressor; to suppress the generation of vibrations of the machine tool, thereby improving machining quality and machining accuracy of a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventor: Hyeong Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 12046982
    Abstract: During rotation of a shaft of a downhole-type wellbore system, a first signal corresponding to an axial position of the rotating shaft is transmitted by a sensor. The shaft is axially levitated by a plurality of magnetic thrust bearings. A controller determines an amount of axial force to apply to the rotating shaft to maintain axial levitation of the rotating shaft based on the first signal. The controller transmits a second signal corresponding to the determined amount of axial force to the plurality of magnetic thrust bearings. The plurality of magnetic thrust bearings applies the amount of axial force on the rotating shaft to maintain the axial levitation of the rotating shaft based on the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Upwing Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick McMullen
  • Patent number: 12040667
    Abstract: A salient pole type hybrid excitation motor, belonging to the field of motors, and including a rotor assembly, where the rotor assembly includes: an electromagnetic rotor with radial salient poles and constructed in an annular shape and sleeving a magnetic yoke; a permanent magnet rotor installed on one side of the electromagnetic rotor; and axial salient pole blocks installed on one side of the permanent magnet rotor away from the electromagnetic rotor and arranged alternately with the radial salient poles, a plurality of axial salient pole blocks being matched with a plurality of radial salient poles of the electromagnetic rotor, and a polarity of the permanent magnet steels corresponding to the axial salient pole blocks being opposite to that of permanent magnet steels corresponding to the radial salient poles of the electromagnetic rotor. The present invention combines electric excitation and permanent magnet excitation to adjust an air gap magnetic field of a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: WUXI INFIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shengchuan Zhang, Xuebo Xiong, Liang Fang, Tao Han, Haisheng Yu, Yanjun Tan, Xiaozhe Lin, Ruiping Wang, Ingo Scholten
  • Patent number: 12009727
    Abstract: A maglev generator assembly has a main axle extending through a casing. The main axle has its two ends magnetically levitated by maglev supports, and has its lateral side magnetically levitated by maglev bearings. A generator is configured on the main axle, which includes at least a rotating disc as rotor, with multiple inductive magnets circularly arranged around the rotating disc, and a number of coils fixed around the main axle as stator. A top end of the main axle is coupled to a transmission mechanism, which in turn is coupled to a fan unit or a motor as power source. The fan unit or motor drives the main axle, as well as the rotating disc to spin, and electrical current is induced as the inductive magnets rotates relative to the coils. The main axle is fully magnetically levitated and its rotation undergoes minimum friction to achieve high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: Meng-Theng Wang
  • Patent number: 12003160
    Abstract: An eddy current deceleration device includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a hub, a rotor body, and a spoke. The spoke has neutral axes. The first neutral axis is a neutral axis when the spoke is bent in a circumferential direction of the rotor body. The first neutral axis is positioned forward in a rotating direction of the rotor with respect to a center line of the spoke in the circumferential direction. The second neutral axis is a neutral axis when the spoke is bent in an axial direction of the rotor body. The second neutral axis is positioned on a rotor body side with respect to a center line of the spoke in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Noguchi, Hiroshi Nogami, Kenji Imanishi, Takuya Fujita, Yozo Okuda
  • Patent number: 12001012
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device, including a rotor and a first piezoelectric actuator mechanically coupled to the rotor. The first piezoelectric actuator is electrically coupled between a first signal node and a common voltage node. A second piezoelectric actuator is mechanically coupled to the rotor, and is electrically coupled between a second signal node and the common voltage node. Control circuitry includes a drive circuit configured to drive the first and second piezoelectric actuators, a sense circuit configured to process sense signals generated by the first and second pizeoelectric actuators, and a multiplexing circuit. The multiplexing circuit is configured to alternate between connecting the drive circuit to the first piezoelectric actuator while connecting the sense circuit to the second piezoelectric actuator, and connecting the drive circuit to the second piezoelectric actuator while connecting the sense circuit to the first piezoelectric actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Ltd
    Inventors: Davide Terzi, Gianluca Mendicino, Dadi Sharon
  • Patent number: 11978602
    Abstract: A switch apparatus, includes: a base module including a base case, and a moving magnet movably mounted in the base case; and a manipulation module including a manipulation case, and a first magnet fixedly mounted in the manipulation case, wherein the moving magnet moves between a hold position and a releasable position, the hold position refers to a position in which the manipulation module is held onto the base module as an attractive force acts between the moving magnet and the first magnet, and the releasable position refers to a position in which the manipulation module is releasable from the base module as a repulsive force acts between the moving magnet and the first magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, NOVATECH CO., LTD, ALPS ELECTRIC KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Shin, Hoo Sang Lee, Jong Hyun Choi, Dae Woo Park, Youn Tak Kim, Nam I Jo, Choon Teak Oh, Hong Jun Choi, Kon Hee Chang, Woo Joo Ahn
  • Patent number: 11978589
    Abstract: A magnetic actuator for a magnetic suspension system includes a core section having an annular yoke and radially directed teeth joining the yoke. The magnetic actuator includes coils surrounding the teeth and a mechanical structure having a first section and a second section. The first section is attached to the yoke and conducts magnetic flux axially. The second section joins the first section and conducts the magnetic flux radially in a direction opposite to a direction of the magnetic flux in the teeth. The magnetic actuator includes a mechanical safety bearing that is between the second section and the teeth. Thus, the safety bearing is in a room surrounded by a magnetic flux circulation path. Therefore, the safety bearing does not increase an axial length of the magnetic suspension system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SPINDRIVE OY
    Inventor: Nikita Uzhegov
  • Patent number: 11965685
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic bearing compressor, an air conditioner and a protective air gap value setting method. The magnetic bearing compressor includes: a rotor, a magnetic bearing, a sensor, and a control device. The magnetic bearing is sleeved on the rotor; the sensor is arranged on the magnetic bearing and is configured to detect a distance value between the rotor and the sensor on a preset plane; the control device is configured to receive the distance value and determine the minimum distance value and the maximum distance value between the rotor and the magnetic bearing according to the distance value, and obtain an absolute value of a difference of the maximum distance value and the minimum distance value; and the control device obtains a protective air gap value according to the absolute value and a preset protection coefficient when the absolute value is less than or equal to a preset air gap value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., GD MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. Foshan (CN)
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Fengshuang Wang
  • Patent number: 11964831
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first device configured to support a substrate thereon; a first transport having the first device connected thereto, where the first transport includes: rails or maglev guides; a magnetic system configured to vertically space the first device over the rails or maglev guides with a gap between the first device and the rails or maglev guides, where the magnetic system comprises a first electromagnetic actuator at a first corner of a first side of the first device, a second electromagnetic actuator at a second corner of the first side of the first device, and a third electromagnetic actuator at a second opposite side of the first device, where the third electromagnetic actuator is not located proximate a corner of three sides of the first device; and a linear actuator configured to move the first device along the rails or maglev guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Persimmon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Hosek, Sripati Sah, Scott Frash
  • Patent number: 11955277
    Abstract: Today, chemical rockets are the most expensive components of a launch; even reusable boosters require costly fuel, ongoing maintenance, and long durations between launches. As a result, far too many space bound opportunities are prohibitively expensive. However, kinetic launchers offer an economical alternative for projecting payloads into orbit. Harnessing angular velocity, a centrifuge gradually accelerates its payload to hypersonic speeds within a vacuum sealed chamber; upon reaching the desired speed, its airlock opens and the payload is released into the atmosphere. Flux-Pinned Superconductors offer a radical advancement to this technology; wherein, Flux Pinning is used to levitate and stabilize the launch package while reinforcing the entire platform against centrifugal stress. These Flux-Pinned joints require no power, lubricant or physical contact, while providing limitless stiffness that is essentially impervious to mechanical wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Christopher Hugh Powell
  • Patent number: 11944543
    Abstract: The application is directed to devices and methods where one or more magnetic or magnetizable implants provides therapeutic benefits to a patient. The implant may be useful for expanding the range of motion of joints or dynamically providing different responses to changing conditions in the body where the implant is placed. An electromagnet is placed on or in a bone on one side of a joint, and another electromagnet or magnetically active material is placed on or in a bone on the opposing side of the joint. The electromagnet may be continuously energized to relieve pressure in the joint space, or may be energized in response to forces applied to the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: P TECH, LLC
    Inventors: Peter M. Bonutti, Justin E. Beyers
  • Patent number: 11940086
    Abstract: A table rotation device includes a bearing assembly, a table support member, a support block, and a cooling block. The bearing assembly includes a fixed ring, a movable ring, and rolling elements provided between the fixed ring and the movable. The movable ring is rotatable about the rotation axis. The table support member is connected to the movable ring so as to fix a position of the table support member relative to a position of the movable ring. The support block is connected to the fixed ring so as to fix a position of the support block relative to a position of the fixed ring. The cooling block is connected to at least one of the fixed ring and the support block such that the cooling block is in contact with both the fixed ring and the support block. The cooling block provides a cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jojiro Kimura, Makoto Tahara, Nobuhiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 11923737
    Abstract: A flywheel system includes a rotor and a fixture. The rotor forms an aperture. The fixture includes a bottom support, a top support, and a shaft connecting the bottom support to the top support. The shaft passes through the aperture. The bottom support and the top support are outside opposite ends of the aperture. The rotor is configured to rotate about the shaft. A method for operating a flywheel system includes converting between rotational energy of a rotor and electrical energy in windings of a generator stator that is implemented in a stationary shaft passing through an aperture of the rotor, while the rotor is rotating about the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WATTSUP POWER A/S
    Inventors: John Røn Pederson, Martin Speiermann, Jacopo Granata, Valère Combescot, Mikael Eronen
  • Patent number: 11915863
    Abstract: A passive magnetic constant-force apparatus comprises a geometry and arrangement of permanent magnets, ferromagnetic components, and non-magnetic structural components. The apparatus is easily and precisely adjustable, cost-effective, with a high load capacity, and with minimal parasitic forces. The apparatus is suitable for use as a counterbalance for vertical linear motion applications and may be integrated with or attached to a linear motion stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zaber Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Daniel Bayless, Graham Daniel Kerr, Jacob William Hardes
  • Patent number: 11906411
    Abstract: A method and a device for the measurement of one or more fluid-mechanically effective parameters of a fluid, with a fluid pump which comprises a delivery element which is mounted in a magnet bearing, and the delivery element of the fluid pump is excited into an oscillation by way of an excitation device, wherein the oscillation parameters as well as, as the case may be, the oscillation behaviour is measured, and parameters of the fluid are determined from this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Berlin Heart GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Graichen, Andreas Arndt, Peter Nuesser
  • Patent number: 11905993
    Abstract: A turbomachine according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a rotary shaft, a magnetic bearing including a core body configured to surround the rotary shaft, a plurality of poles radially extending from an inner surface of the core body toward the rotary shaft, and coils wound around the plurality of poles to levitate the rotary shaft by using a magnetic force generated by a magnetic field formed by applied electric current, a sleeve journal bearing disposed between the rotary shaft and the magnetic bearing so as to surround the rotary shaft and configured to levitate the rotary shaft by generating a dynamic pressure when the rotary shaft rotates, and a permanent magnet disposed between the plurality of poles and configured to support the rotary shaft by using a magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yong Bok Lee, Jungwan Kim, Yunseok Ha, Byul An, Wonil Kwak, Yeong-do Lee
  • Patent number: 11899081
    Abstract: A wireless sensor for an associated machine or machine part which includes a communications module that wirelessly transmits data related to the associated machine or machine part. The communications module is mounted on the sensor and the sensor is disposed under the bottom side of the control circuitry. A sensor is configured to measure one or more properties of the associated machine or machine part. The wireless sensor can be used with a smart device app such that information from the wireless sensor can be received and displayed on the smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BARNES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Kevin R. Darrah, Michael O. Culbertson, Steven J. Reilly, Kelvin L. Knipl, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11876431
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing contactlessly supporting a rotor by magnetic force includes: a bearing rotor member made of a magnetic material; and a bearing stator member arranged around bearing rotor member. The bearing stator member includes a core made of a magnetic material and a coil wound around the core. A longitudinal cross-sectional shape of the core has a first part extending in a first direction orthogonal to a direction opposed to the bearing rotor member and wound around with the coil, a pair of second parts extending from both end portions in the first direction of first part to the bearing rotor member side and subsequently extending in a direction approaching each other in the first direction, and a pair of third parts extending from respective distal end portions of the pair of second parts toward the bearing rotor member side. The bearing rotor member also includes a permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: IWAKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Oniduka, Shinichirou Koreeda, Toshiaki Kamei, Takuya Seki
  • Patent number: 11855519
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic suspension bearing stator, a compressor and an air conditioner. The bearing stator includes a frame, a bearing iron core and an axial winding, the frame is provided with an accommodation recess used to position the axial winding. A position-limiting portion is disposed in the accommodation recess, and the position-limiting portion is used to keep the axial winding in the accommodation recess. The frame is provided with a first positioning portion for connecting with the bearing iron core on the outer wall surfaces of both sides of the accommodation recess. The frame is not easy to come out from the bearing core, and the axial winding is not easy to come out from the frame, so that the relative position between the axial winding and the bearing iron core is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Chao Zhang, Fang Zhang, Gao Gong, Jiuzhan Su, Xin Li, Ruhao Dong, Mingxing Deng, Penghui Liu, Fei Wang, Rui Wu, Weijie Zhao, Zhitao Wei, Jianhui Wang, Dunying Zhong, Zhanqin Liu
  • Patent number: 11837972
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a soft robot using diamagnetic levitation. Such a soft robot using diamagnetic levitation is formed of a diamagnetic material to levitate on the ground on which a magnetic field is formed, and moves in a direction toward a predetermined point of a head part when the predetermined point of the head part is heated, and may thus move and change its direction in a state in which it is not in contact with the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Taek-Soo Kim, Ji Hun Kim, Jae-Bum Pyo
  • Patent number: 11808272
    Abstract: A pressure difference of liquid is generated between an upper end and a lower end of a thread groove by the action of a thread groove pump formed between the thread groove and a lower end wall portion of a rotating rotor shaft. As a result, liquid of a bottom space is sucked up and passes through a hollow hole and is discharged to the outside of the rotor shaft through communication holes. The discharged liquid passes through the inside of a hub of a rotating body and reaches an extension member where it is sprayed radially in the form of droplets from a protrusion. The droplets are received by a partition wall. Due to the presence of a protrusion in an upper portion of the partition wall, the droplets cannot cross over the partition wall. The accumulated liquid drops through a communication hole to the bottom space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Takashi Kabasawa
  • Patent number: 11811340
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotating electric machine, the control device being configured to control an inverter configured to apply a voltage to each phase winding of a rotating electric machine, to thereby control, for the each phase winding, a current to be supplied to the each phase winding, the control device including a control unit configured to: calculate a voltage command value to be applied to the each phase winding so that a phase difference between harmonic components of the same order in a radial magnetic flux density and a circumferential magnetic flux density of an air gap portion between a stator core and a rotor core of the rotating electric machine becomes a phase difference target value determined in advance, and to control the inverter in accordance with the calculated voltage command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Kan Akatsu, Yuki Sakai, Hiroki Hijikata