Bearing Or Air-gap Adjustment Or Bearing Lubrication Patents (Class 310/90)
  • Patent number: 11473628
    Abstract: A bearing includes an integrated electrical shunt. The shunt includes electrically conductive fibers sandwiched between two washers, at least one of which is electrically conductive. The fibers are fastened to the electrically conductive washer by electrically conductive epoxy. An outer shield protects the fibers. The outer shield is held to the washers by a drawn cup. The washers, the drawn cup, and the outer shield all have oil drain holes to allow lubricant to flow to the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marion Jack Ince, Venkata Kottapalli, Guihui Zhong
  • Patent number: 11469642
    Abstract: A three-phase drainage motor for a washing machine includes a stator, a rotor and an upper cover. The rotor is sealed inside the stator through the upper cover and includes an iron core, a coil bobbin, a three-phase coil and a plastic package portion. The iron core includes a hub, an inner ring and teeth radially connecting the hub to the inner ring, the coil bobbin covers the teeth, the three-phase coil is wound around the coil bobbin. The plastic package portion is wrapped around the coil bobbin, the three-phase coil and the iron core to form a spigot, a rotor cavity and a rotary shaft cavity. The spigot is located above the rotor cavity. The rotary shaft cavity is at a bottom of the rotor cavity, the plastic package portion includes a housing, a wall surface of the rotor cavity and a wall surface of the rotary shaft cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Xiachun Wang, Ben Wang
  • Patent number: 11466731
    Abstract: Magnetic levitation bearing structure includes a cylinder body, a rotating shaft, a motor stator, a motor rotor, an axial bearing, a radial bearing and a displacement sensing device; the displacement sensing device, the axial bearing stator, and the radial bearing stator are directly fixed on an inner wall of the cylinder body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Penghui Liu, Xiaobo Zhang, Fang Zhang, Gao Gong, Chao Zhang, Jiuzhan Su, Xin Li, Ruhao Dong, Mingxing Deng, Fei Wang
  • Patent number: 11444506
    Abstract: The invention relates to a line bushing (1) in a housing (2) of an electrical machine (1) in explosive atmospheres, having a threaded bush (100) and a terminal stud (200), wherein the threaded bush (100) is an insulator and is located in, particularly screwed into, a recess in the housing (2), wherein the terminal stud (200) is made from an electrically conductive material and is provided, at least in sections, with a thread, wherein connection options (206) for lines and braids are provided at either end of the terminal stud (200), wherein the terminal stud (200) can be screwed into the threaded bush (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Meyer, Thomas Mutzl, Josef Sebastian Schneider
  • Patent number: 11441660
    Abstract: A hollow strain-wave gear device (1) has a wave generator (5), a wave generator plug (5a) of which is integrally formed in a portion of a hollow rotating shaft (6). A plug reinforcement part (5d), which is adjacent to the wave generator plug (5a), has a thickness larger than that of the wave generator plug (5a), and is integrally formed in the hollow rotating shaft (6). The wave generator plug (5a) is reinforced by the highly rigid plug reinforcement part (5d) formed adjacently to the wave generator plug (5a). It is thus possible to prevent or suppress a decline in the rigidity of the wave generator plug (5a) when the hollow rotating shaft has a thin thickness in order to reduce the weight of the hollow rotating shaft (6) and increase the diameter of the hollow portion thereof. Consequently, it is possible to suppress a decline in ratcheting torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka Miyazawa, Noboru Takizawa
  • Patent number: 11428232
    Abstract: A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ResMed Motor Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Aziz Mebasser, Peter Jeffrey Thomas, Roman Vinokur, Kevin Gene McCulloh, William S Lane, Yeu-chuan Hsia, Michael David Bednar, John Paul Freese, Karl Yutaka Iwahashi, David Brent Sears, Barton John Kenyon, Richard G Krum, Par Egron Dannas, Hiroshi Suzuki, Malcolm Edward Leader
  • Patent number: 11431218
    Abstract: A motor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a rotary shaft; a rotor mounted on the rotary shaft; a stator surrounding an outer periphery of the rotor; an impeller mounted on the rotary shaft to be spaced apart from the rotor; a bearing housing positioned between the impeller and the rotor and formed with a through-hole through which the rotary shaft passes; and a gas bearing disposed in the bearing housing, wherein a thickness of the gas bearing is equal to or greater than 50% of a gap between an inner surface of the bearing housing and an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft and is equal to or less than 0.3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunggi Kim, Byungjik Kim, Changlae Kim
  • Patent number: 11428452
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor; a gear box in which the BLDC motor is installed; and a power transmission part having a plurality of gears installed in the gear box so as to transmit power generated by the BLDC motor to an ice bin. The BLDC motor comprises: a stator and a rotor rotating with respect to the stator, wherein the rotor may be connected to the power transmission part by a shaft and the stator may be coupled to the gear box in a separable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Aejin Byun, Hongseok Park
  • Patent number: 11418096
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator, which has at least one first magnet and at least one second magnet, and a rotor, which can be driven by the magnets and can rotate about an axis of rotation relative to the stator. The first magnet is held on a first ring and the second magnet is held on a second ring following the first ring in the axial direction of the electric machine. The second ring can, together with the second magnet, rotate about the axis of rotation relative to the first ring and the first magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Darius Jedrzejewski
  • Patent number: 11401967
    Abstract: A bearing unit has at least one outer ring and at least one spring unit mounted axially adjacent to the at least one outer ring and connected to the at least one outer ring by a snap fit. The spring unit includes a support element having a connecting element such as a rib or a plurality of lugs, for connecting the support element to the bearing outer ring and a wave spring fastened to the support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Andreas Heile, Sebastian Kraus
  • Patent number: 11390384
    Abstract: A system may include an aircraft galley insert; an aircraft galley insert motor mount; and an aircraft galley insert motor. The aircraft galley insert motor may include: a motor housing; a dynamic seal seat extending from an exterior of the motor housing toward the aircraft galley insert motor mount; a dynamic seal installed within the dynamic seal seat and on the exterior of the motor housing, the dynamic seal preventing matter from an inner cavity from entering an interior of the motor housing; and a shaft driven by the aircraft galley insert motor, the shaft extending from within the aircraft galley insert motor, through the motor housing, through the dynamic seal, and into the inner cavity of the aircraft galley insert, wherein the dynamic seal forms a seal around the shaft as the shaft is driven and as the shaft is deflected at least by gravity effects, turbulence, and vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklifke Fabriek Inventum B.V.
    Inventor: Frederik A. S. Panjer
  • Patent number: 11381143
    Abstract: A motor may include a rotor and a stator. The stator may include first and second stator assemblies. Each stator assembly may include a coil wound around a tube-shaped body part of a bobbin comprising a terminal block; and first and second stator cores disposed on opposite sides of the coil. The first stator cores of the first and second stator assemblies are welded together at outer peripheries of the first stator cores of the first and second stator assemblies. The welded portion may be covered by the terminal block of one of the first stator assembly or the second stator assembly on an outer side in the radial direction with a predetermined space between the welded portion and the terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumi Furubayashi
  • Patent number: 11368068
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bearing pressure plate and a dynamo-electric machine using the bearing pressure plate which are capable of avoiding breakage of a bolt by dispersing a stress when a load due to vibrations etc. is applied. A bearing pressure plate 5 has an annular inner ring portion 11 abutting against an outer ring 3Ba of a rolling bearing 3 that supports a rotation shaft 4, an annular outer ring portion 12 located at a radial direction outer side of the inner ring portion 11 and having a plurality of bolt holes 12b through which the outer ring portion 12 is secured to a fixing portion side with a plurality of bolts 12a, and bridge portions 13 integrally connecting the inner ring portion 11 and the outer ring portion 12 at positions except the bolt holes 12b in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihumi Shimizu, Koji Nagata, Takashi Abe, Yoshiharu Naito
  • Patent number: 11362562
    Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes a motor body and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a magnetic core mounted to a rotor shaft. The rotor assembly may include standoffs for accurately axially locating the magnetic core relative to rotor bearings. A drive nut adjustment arrangement may be provided. A mechanical interconnection between the drive nut and rotor shaft may be provided. A trailing end lead screw support may be provided. An axial preload arrangement may be provided to axially locate the rotor assembly within the motor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Pacific Bearing Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Schroeder, Jonathan R. Schroeder, Timothy Joseph LeCrone, Kent Proffitt, Kollin Proffitt, Keith Cummings
  • Patent number: 11356008
    Abstract: The VCM according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base unit, a mover including a bobbin arranged at an upper surface of the base unit and formed with a plurality of rotation prevention units along a periphery and a first driving unit arranged at a periphery of the bobbin, a stator including a yoke configured to the base unit to surround the mover and inner yoke units each extended to between the rotation prevention units, and a second driving unit oppositely arranged to the first driving unit, and an elastic member elastically supporting the mover, wherein an object occurrence preventing portion is formed between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units to decrease a contact area between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae Jin Jung
  • Patent number: 11355997
    Abstract: Flywheel for energy storage, comprising a rotor, a housing enclosure, means for charging energy by transferring electric energy to stored kinetic energy in the rotating rotor and means for discharging energy by transferring stored kinetic energy in the rotating rotor to electric energy, distinctive in that the rotor is vertically oriented, the rotor has mass of over 5000 kg, the rotor comprises a central vertical shaft, a radial bearing is arranged to an upper end of the vertical shaft, an axial-radial hydraulic bearing, or separate axial and radial bearings, is arranged to a lower end of the vertical shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BERGAN TECHNOLOGY AS
    Inventor: PĆ„l G. Bergan
  • Patent number: 11333046
    Abstract: An internally cooled valve (2) includes a valve body having a valve head (4) and a valve stem (6). The valve body has at least one cavity (8) in which coolant (10) is situated. The coolant is a nanofluid (12) in which nanoparticles (14) are dispersed in a dispersion medium (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Valvetrain GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Matthias, Antonius Wolking, Fernando Arias, Florian Ringeling
  • Patent number: 11336164
    Abstract: A holder is used while attached to a chassis of a vibration generator that moves a vibrator to generate a vibration. The holder includes a vibrator retention unit retaining the vibrator, a fixed unit fixed to the chassis, and an arm. The arm connects the fixed unit and the vibrator retention unit, and the arm supports the vibrator retention unit while the vibrator retention unit can be displaced with respect to the fixed unit. The fixed unit, the arm, and the vibrator retention unit are integrally formed using resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Minoru Kuroda, Makoto Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11336143
    Abstract: A stator assembly for use in a motor includes an annular stator and a circuit board. The stator having an annular shape is centered on a central axis extending vertically. The circuit board is above the stator in an axial direction. The stator includes a stator core, an insulator, a conductive wire, and a terminal pin. The stator core includes teeth. The insulator covers at least a portion of the stator core. The conductive wire is wound around the teeth via the insulator to define a coil. The terminal pin extends axially upward from an upper surface of the insulator and is connected to an end portion of the conductive wire. The circuit board includes a solder portion on an upper surface. The solder portion enables electrical connection with the terminal pin and is covered with a coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yasumura, Yuta Iwasaki, Kohei Kurazono, Yuya Horii
  • Patent number: 11306727
    Abstract: A fan dynamic pressure structure having a plastic frame integrally formed around an oil-containing sintered metal powder bearing includes an oil-containing sintered metal powder bearing, a plastic frame having a middle tube integrally formed around a peripheral of a bushing body of the oil-containing sintered metal powder bearing, a blade assembly having an axial shaft penetrating through a shaft hole of the oil-containing sintered metal powder bearing, the axial shaft protruding downwardly and having an annular groove, and an annular dynamic pressure piece having an insertion hole and an annular body surrounding the insertion hole. The insertion hole is engaged with the annular groove of the fan assembly, the annular body has a plurality of curved radial dynamic pressure ditches on a surface adjacent to the oil-containing sintered metal powder bearing, of the annular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: F&P PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ping-Ling Wang
  • Patent number: 11300142
    Abstract: A fan includes a base, a motor and an impeller, and the motor includes a sleeve, a rotor, a position limiting element and a composite elastic element. The sleeve is disposed on the base, and the sleeve has a bottom portion and a side wall, which constitute an accommodation space. The rotor has a rotating shaft disposed within the accommodation space, and the rotating shaft has an outer wall. An annular groove is formed on the outer wall and has a surface. The position limiting element is disposed on the sleeve and extended from the side wall toward the rotating shaft, and the position limiting element has a bottom surface. The bottom surface faces toward the bottom portion, and the bottom surface is interfered with the surface, thereby eliminating the gap between the bottom surface and the surface. Therefore, noise of the up and down vibration is avoided from generating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-I Ling, Chih-Chung Chen, Meng-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11300131
    Abstract: A radial load of a drive shaft is supported by only a plurality of bearingless motors. Maximum values of the radial load acting on the plurality of bearingless motors are not uniform. The bearingless motor, the maximum value of the radial load acting on which is the largest, has a greater maximum value of supporting magnetic flux generated to generate an electromagnetic force for supporting the radial load, compared with the bearingless motor, the maximum value of the radial load acting on which is the smallest. This configuration allows a reduction in size of a rotary system including a load and a drive shaft in an electric motor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Nakazawa, Atsushi Sakawaki
  • Patent number: 11283310
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator, an electric machine comprising the stator, a vehicle comprising the electric machine, and a method for producing the stator. The stator comprises a stator laminated core and a housing element. The stator laminated core comprises a plurality of layered stator laminations, wherein each stator lamination has a plurality of tooth portions, each formed radially inwardly at an angular position, and indentations radially outwardly at each of the angular positions, each of which indentations has an at least partially curved edge having two radially outwardly curved edge portions, which meet at a point of intersection and describe an arc of a circle segment. The housing element comprises a cylindrical inner volume, in which the stator laminated core is arranged, the indentations forming cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Boris Dotz, Sebastian Waider
  • Patent number: 11271451
    Abstract: A generator assembly for harvesting energy in a bearing arrangement having a first ring and a second ring is provided. The generator assembly includes a plurality of coils attached to the first ring and configured to interact with a magnet ring with alternating magnetization directions attached to the second ring, and a plug connector for supplying power generated by the generator assembly to external devices. The coils are encapsulated and mounted in an outer carrier ring such that the winding axis is oriented in a radial direction of the bearing and the magnet ring is composed of plural permanent magnets attached to an inner carrier ring attached to the inner ring of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Georgo Angelis, Nicolaas Simon Willem Den Haak, Koos Welling
  • Patent number: 11239716
    Abstract: A three-dimensional magnet structure (6) made up of a plurality of individual magnets (4), the magnet structure (6) having a thickness that forms its smallest dimension, the magnet structure (6) incorporating at least one mesh (5a) exhibiting mesh cells each one delimiting a housing (5) for a respective individual magnet (4), each housing (5) having internal dimensions just large enough to allow an individual magnet (4) to be inserted into it, the mesh cells being made from a fibre-reinforced insulating material, characterized in that a space is left between the housing (5) and the individual magnet (4), which space is filled with a fibre-reinforced resin, the magnet structure (6) comprising a non-conducting composite layer coating the individual magnets (4) and the mesh structure (5a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: WHYLOT SAS
    Inventors: Vasile Mihaila, Loic Mayeur, Huguette Tiegna, Romain Ravaud
  • Patent number: 11218047
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plastic motor for a handheld stabilizer, comprising an upper bearing, a lower bearing, motor iron cores, an iron core carrier, a hollow metal motor shaft, a locking structure, a motor shell and a motor end cover, wherein at least one of the iron core carrier, the motor shell and the motor end cover is made of plastic material, the hollow metal motor shaft passes through the center of the upper bearing, the iron core carrier and the lower bearing in sequence, and a locking structure is provided at the other end of the hollow metal motor shaft. By the plastic motor for a handheld stabilizer disclosed in the present invention, problems in the prior art such as high cost of motors for handheld stabilizers, low production efficiency, difficulty in threading, tending to deform after loading and short service life are solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: GUILIN ZHISHEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yilun Liao
  • Patent number: 11209047
    Abstract: A liquid guiding structure for a fluid dynamic pressure bearing, comprising: a fluid dynamic pressure bearing having an inner recess chamber and a liquid guiding trench which is formed between two sides of the inner recess chamber so as to form a circular close liquid guiding structure; wherein the liquid guiding trench includes at least two small V shape paths and at least one large V shape path; the large V shape path is larger than the small V shape paths and is located between the at least two small V shape paths. First angles at tip ends of the at least two small V shape paths are equal. A second angle between connections of the small V shape path and a respective large V shape path is larger than the first angle at tip ends of the at least two small V shape paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: John Wun-Chang Shih
  • Patent number: 11211842
    Abstract: An inner-rotor motor including: an armature assembly including a rotating shaft, an armature unit coupled to the rotating shaft and a pressing unit; a frame assembly including a frame housing the armature unit, a first bearing unit located on one side with respect to the armature unit in an axial direction, and a second bearing unit located on another side with respect to the armature unit in the axial direction; and an urging structure that urges the rotating shaft in a direction away from the second bearing unit and that presses the pressing unit toward the first bearing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Mochizuki, Minoru Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11168736
    Abstract: A thrust washer according to an embodiment has an annular washer body having a first thrust surface and a second thrust surface that receive a thrust load, and a tapered portion formed on at least one of the first thrust surface and the second thrust surface, and the washer body has a waviness larger than a difference in height of the tapered portion in a direction perpendicular to the thrust surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventor: Shinya Arasaki
  • Patent number: 11149737
    Abstract: To provide a deposit detection device capable of detecting with accuracy and alarming deposits deposited in an exhaust pump used for various processes regardless of kinds and flow rate of process gas, and to provide an exhaust pump equipped with the deposit detection device. A pump control device 50 of an exhaust pump P comprises a deposit detection device which executes, as initial process, steps of reading electric current value of a motor for rotating a rotor and obtaining and storing an initial electric current value of the motor based on the electric current values read; and then executes, as next process, steps of reading the electric current value of the motor, obtaining a current value of the motor based on the electric current values read, and obtaining quantity of fluctuation of the current value of the electric current value of the motor relative to the initial value of the electric current value of the motor, thereby detecting the deposit in the pump based on the quantity of fluctuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11146130
    Abstract: This motor includes a stationary portion including a stator; and a rotating portion supported to be rotatable about a central axis extending in a vertical direction with respect to the stationary portion, and including a shaft arranged to extend along the central axis. The stationary portion includes a bearing arranged to rotatably support the shaft, and a base portion arranged to hold the stator. The rotating portion includes a rotor hub portion arranged to extend in an annular shape around the shaft; a magnet directly or indirectly fixed to the rotor hub portion, and arranged opposite to the stator; a flywheel arranged axially above the rotor hub portion; and a seal portion arranged to have a thickness smaller than the thickness of the magnet. At least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the rotor hub portion is a metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Mizukami, Yoichi Sekii, Takeyuki Shuto, Naohiro Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 11125103
    Abstract: A radial flow gas turbine generator (10) where the gas turbine generator (10) includes a shaft (30) having a rotor (20) of the generator (10), a compressor wheel (16) and a turbine wheel (18) fixed thereto. The shaft (30) is supported for rotation by a single bearing arrangement (38 provided at an axial position on the shaft (30) that is between the rotor (20) and the compressor wheel (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Delta Motorsport Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas Carpenter, Scott Herring, Mark Wilksch
  • Patent number: 11114906
    Abstract: A stator in an electric motor and to a method for producing the stator in which a plurality of individual coils are wound on laminated stator poles and are provided with an insulation, wherein the insulation bears connection contacts for bringing the individual coils into contact with a printed circuit board, wherein the connection contacts are press-fitted into the printed circuit board. The present stator provides for a compact size and for simple and economical joining processes. In a preferred embodiment, the electric motor is a dosing pump motor for drug delivery systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: BƜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: JĆ¼rgen Brettschneider, Richard Guttenberger
  • Patent number: 11108297
    Abstract: An aspect of a motor according to the invention includes a stator, a rotor, a detector configured to detect a rotating position of the rotor, a holder disposed between the stator and the detector in the predetermined direction, and a bearing held by the holder and configured to rotatably support the shaft. A recess opened toward the stator and housing the bearing and an injection hole including a first opening opened toward the detector, the injection hole communicating with the recess, are provided in the holder. A groove into which an adhesive is injected is provided on the inner surface of the recess. The outer circumferential surface of the bearing is fixed to the inner surface via the adhesive. The injection hole includes a second opening opened in the inner circumferential surface of the recess and connected to the groove. The injection hole is closed by a screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11021140
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved plunger assembly for a vehicle brake system. The plunger assembly is operable as a pressure source to control brake fluid pressure supplied to one or more wheel brakes. The plunger assembly comprises a housing defining a cylinder; a reversible motor supported by the housing and having a rotor; and a linear actuator such as a ball screw/nut mechanism driven by the motor. A plunger head is mounted in the cylinder and driven by the linear actuator in first and second opposite directions. Improvements include a linear actuator rotationally supported on the housing by a bearing to actuate the plunger head connection to a ball screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety US Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Starr, Blaise Ganzel
  • Patent number: 11018547
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor with a rotor shaft mounted in at least one bearing bush of a friction bearing, a stator which surrounds the rotor, and at least one circular bearing plate which, relative to the rotor shaft, is mounted on the rotor shaft for co-rotation. An inner contour of the bearing plate surrounds a circumference of the rotor shaft by press-fit. The inner contour of the bearing plate is defined by at least two internal dimensions, wherein at least one internal dimension is smaller than the diameter of the rotor shaft. The at least one bearing plate is deformed in an axial direction when the bearing plate is in the pressed-in state on the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Hong Jian Zhang, Bin Shi, Daniel Gerhard Pahner
  • Patent number: 11005349
    Abstract: An electric motor system includes a drive shaft that rotationally drives a load, a bearingless motor, a power source unit, and a control unit. The bearingless motor includes a rotor and a stator having armature and support windings. The bearingless motor rotationally drives the drive shaft and supports a radial load of the drive shaft in a contactless manner. The power source unit applies a voltage to the armature and support windings. The control unit controls the power source unit so that a radial support force that is a sum of a radial support force caused by a support current and a radial support force caused by both the support current and an armature current is output, and so that one of an armature voltage across the armature winding and the support current is increased and the other of the armature voltage and the support current is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Ono, Yusuke Irino, Yuji Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 10965199
    Abstract: An electric motor system includes a drive shaft that rotationally drives a load, a bearingless motor, a power source unit, and a control unit. The bearingless motor includes a rotor and a stator having armature and support windings. The bearingless motor rotationally drives the drive shaft and supports a radial load of the drive shaft in a contactless manner. The power source unit applies a voltage to the armature and support windings. The control unit controls the power source unit so that a radial support force that is a sum of a radial support force caused by a support current and a radial support force caused by both the support current and an armature current is output, and so that one of an armature voltage across the armature winding and the support current is increased and the other of the armature voltage and the support current is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Ono, Yusuke Irino, Yuji Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 10937572
    Abstract: A method for forming an article of manufacture using additive manufacturing, includes: a processor executing program instructions to: (a) rotate an object continuously about a horizontal axis using a first rotational stage, wherein the object is partially submerged in a bath of energy curable liquid formulation during the rotation; (b) control a rate of rotation of the object to achieve a desired radial thickness of a sub layer of uncured liquid formulation at a desired rotational location on the object; (c) direct an energy source to provide an energy dose onto the object at a desired rotational location, wherein the energy dose is configured to cure and solidify the sub layer; and repeat (a), (b) and (c) until a desired radial thickness of a cured liquid formulation layer is a achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Elio Alberto Perigo, Kathryn F. Murphy, Cherif Ghoul, Jonah Kadoko, Matthew Hetrich, Nikolaus Zant, Krzysztof Kasza, Lukasz Matysiak, Robert Sekula, Lukasz Malinowski, Jens Rocks
  • Patent number: 10882156
    Abstract: In a spindle device, a cover member covers a surface of a flange portion on the front side of the spindle shaft, the flange portion projecting radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the spindle housing, and the outer peripheral surface of the spindle housing extending from the surface of the flange portion toward the front of the spindle shaft. In the cover member, a flow path for allowing a coolant to flow therethrough is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Murota
  • Patent number: 10879757
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic motor with two bearings. The motor is structured so that, when loaded, the majority of the load (e.g., a radial load) is borne by one of the bearings. The bearing that bears a greater load may be larger and, thus, better suited for a heavy load. In some embodiments, the larger bearing may include rolling elements that have respective radii larger than respective radii of rolling elements of the other bearing by a ratio of at least 1.5 (150%). In some embodiments, the larger bearing may have an outer race with a radius that is greater than a radius of the outer race of the smaller bearing by a ratio of at least 1.5. In some embodiments, the motors may include a third bearing between the two bearings. The third bearing may reduce vibration in the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Himay Rashmikant Shukla
  • Patent number: 10873237
    Abstract: A motor includes a stationary portion, a rotating portion that includes a shaft rotating about a vertically extending central axis, and a bearing portion that rotatably supports the shaft with respect to the stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a cylindrical bearing housing portion that holds the bearing portion, a stator that is radially outward of the bearing housing portion and includes a stator core, a circuit board that is below the stator core, and an annular spacer that is between the stator core and the bearing housing portion. The spacer includes multiple side wall portions that contact a radially inner surface of the stator core and a flange portion that protrudes radially outward more than the side wall portion and contacts a lower surface of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Takemoto, Keizo Furukawa, Tsuyoshi Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 10840769
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine apparatus, a rotor portion provided in a cylindrical portion and a stator portion provided in a recessed portion in which the rotor portion is housed are aligned along the rotation axis of a rim such that a force is generated in a direction opposite to the direction of a load that acts along the rotation axis of the rim of loads that act on the rim following rotation of a blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Suzuki, Ryoma Matsuo, Satoshi Ishikawa, Noriyoshi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 10830988
    Abstract: The subject of this invention is a laterally unconstrained magnetic joint and application of said joint in tip-tilt and piston-tip-tilt optical mounts. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint in its basic embodiment comprises two interfacing parts: one having a flat surface interfacing a convex surface of the other, wherein one or both parts are made from permanent magnets that are magnetized along the axis of the joint, and the other of the said parts is made from a ferromagnetic material thus creating magnetic force attraction between the two parts. The resulting lack of lateral mechanical constraint between the two parts of the joint is utilized in tip-tilt mounts by decoupling an adjustor and/or actuator from the payload resulting in a simple, uniform design, while magnetic force provides retention sufficient for a wide variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Light Steering Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Vladimir G. Krylov
  • Patent number: 10830276
    Abstract: A bearing assembly including a chamber provided with a rolling bearing supporting a rotary shaft with respect to a fixed housing. The rolling bearing has a first ring and a second ring in relative rotation one each other, at least one row of rolling elements being arranged between the rings. The chamber having Ethanol in liquid and/or gaseous state. The rings are coated with diamond-like carbon (DLC) material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Samuel Viault, BenoƮt Hauvespre, Michael Wahler
  • Patent number: 10804764
    Abstract: Systems and methods include a channel (114) through an upper endshield (50) that directs an air stream to cool bearings (30), lubricant, and electrical originated heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: WOLONG ELECTRIC AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Gannon Michael Ramy, Madhava Prasad Tunuguntla, Sasidharan Nair, Balasubramaniam V., Sreeja Chandran, Kenny Loyd
  • Patent number: 10801543
    Abstract: A radial bearing arrangement of an exhaust gas turbocharger for mounting a shaft in a bearing housing is disclosed. The radial bearing arrangement comprises a radial bearing bush arranged between the shaft and the bearing housing, wherein the radial bearing bush features a radially outwardly projecting collar, which interacts in the axial direction with an axial stop on the bearing housing. The geometry of the radially outwardly projecting collar is interrupted by cut-outs, such that a force acting on the collar as a result of an oil feed pressure is minimized, and wherein the radial bearing bush is configured such that a lubricating film can form between an end surface of the radial bearing bush and a counterpiece arranged on the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Bruno Ammann, Christian Kreienkamp, Antje Hertel, Philippe Achtnich
  • Patent number: 10781821
    Abstract: Provided herein is a fan motor including a columnar portion including a first accommodating portion, a second accommodating portion, and a third accommodating portion, wherein the first accommodating portion and the second accommodating portion are disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion, respectively, and have an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of an inner circumferential surface of the columnar portion, the third accommodating portion is disposed between the first accommodating portion and the second accommodating portion, an inner diameter of the third accommodating portion is smaller than a diameter of the inner circumferential surface of the columnar portion, and the inner diameter of the first accommodating portion and the inner diameter of the second accommodating portion are larger than the diameter of the inner circumferential surface of the columnar portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae Gil Byeon
  • Patent number: 10781906
    Abstract: A motor-driven power steering system includes a worm shaft unit having a worm gear, a worm wheel unit rotatably engaging with the worm gear, a housing unit having a worm receiving part formed therein to receive the worm shaft unit, and a shaft support unit having a support part located between the housing unit and the worm shaft unit to support the worm shaft unit, and a shaft pressing part located between the support part and the worm shaft unit to press the worm shaft unit towards the worm wheel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi Ho Lee, Byeong Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10749410
    Abstract: A motor assembly of the present disclosure improves a combined structure between an impeller and a rotor to more firmly combine them. Furthermore, the impeller is combined with a rotor shaft without deformation, so the durability of the respective components may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myung Bae Bang, Jong Jin Park, Byung Ryel In