Supports Patents (Class 310/91)
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Patent number: 12259022Abstract: A drive apparatus for adjustment devices of components of motor vehicles, such as, but not limited to, power windows, cargo area covers, and sunroofs, has an at least two-part housing (1). An electric drive unit (2) and a gear unit (3) that is operatively connected to the electric drive unit are arranged in the housing (1). The housing (1) is designed as part of the gear unit (3).Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Küster Holding GmbHInventor: Manuel Stotz
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Patent number: 12258958Abstract: A mounting bracket and an auxiliary mechanism are disclosed. The mounting bracket includes a mounting base, a first mounting plate, a second mounting plate and a tubular connection structure; the first mounting plate and the second mounting plate are fixed on the mounting base; the second mounting plate and the first mounting plate are oppositely arranged and spaced apart; the first mounting plate includes at least one first mounting hole and a first fixing hole, the second mounting plate includes a second fixing hole, and the first mounting hole is configured to mount a motor or an oil pump; one end of the tubular connection structure is connected with an edge of the first fixing hole, and another end of the tubular connection structure is connected with an edge of the second fixing hole.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianwei Wang, Xiaolei Ji, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Zhuqing Mao, Chunqiang Lan, Yipeng Wu
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Patent number: 12255507Abstract: An electric machine assembly including a body part; a stator stationarily supported to the body part; a rotor adapted to rotate relative to the stator, and adapted to receive a shaft inside thereof; and a locking system for providing a locking state for the electric machine assembly in which the rotor is locked relative to the stator. The locking system includes at least one locking member adapted to be in a separating position between the rotor and the stator; and a plurality of radial bolt holes provided in the rotor, extending in a radial direction, and adapted to receive centring bolts such that distal ends of the centring bolts press the at least one locking member in the separating position radially outwards relative to the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Ari Vartiainen, Teemu Laukkanen
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Patent number: 12234107Abstract: A substrate transferring apparatus including a non-contact type driving unit is provided. The substrate transferring apparatus comprises a stator assembly including a driving surface and an electromagnetic generating module, a first mover including a first magnet module facing the electromagnetic generating module and floating and moving on the driving surface, and including a first inclined surface, a second mover including a second magnet module facing the electromagnetic generating module and floating and moving on the driving surface, and including a second inclined surface, and a transfer member disposed between the first mover and the second mover and moving along the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface according to a distance between the first mover and the second mover.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Myung Jin Lee, Sang Oh Kim, Hee Jae Byun, Na Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 12224645Abstract: The motor support (16) comprises an inner ring (20) able to receive an element of the motor and an outer ring (22) able to be fastened to a housing, and a means (24) of decoupling between the two coaxial rings (20; 22) comprising a plurality of pads (46) of elastomer material that are interposed between the inner ring (20) and the outer ring (22). Each pad (46) is substantially “H”-shaped in form. The two arms (46int, 46ext; 461, 462) of the «H» are separated by a distance B. Each arm (46int, 46ext; 461, 462) has a width D measured in the radial direction. The web (46a) of the “H” has a width A measured in the orthoradial direction. The ratio A/B B is greater than or equal to 1.4, and the ratio A/D is greater than or equal to 2.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Clara Degorce-Dumas, Clémence Kwaczewski, Stéphane De Souza, Vincent Guilbot, Saad Bennouna
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Patent number: 12212187Abstract: An electric drive motor has a permanent magnet rotor with a motor shaft on which a permanent magnet carrier is fastened. A first axial end portion of the motor shaft has a seat for an impeller and the permanent magnet carrier carries at least one permanent magnet at a second axial end portion of the motor shaft. The permanent magnet carrier is pot-shaped with a pot base portion, fastened to the second axial end portion and extending radially to the motor shaft, and a circular cylinder wall portion directly adjoining the outer periphery of the pot base portion and coaxially surrounding the motor shaft. The pot base portion and the circular cylinder wall portion have an at least approximately identical or exactly identical wall thickness. There is also described a wet-rotor pump and a household appliance with such an electric drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Michal Kalavsky
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Patent number: 12202443Abstract: The invention relates to a geared motor comprising a first brushless electric motor part having a stator, a rotor and a drive shaft, a second part having an output shaft and a reduction gear mechanism and an electronic part. The reduction gear mechanism comprises an output shaft, a worm and a toothed wheel designed to be engaged by the worm and to drive the output shaft in rotation. The geared motor comprises at least one rolling guide bearing disposed on the drive shaft and a multipolar magnet for measuring the position of the rotor. The rolling bearing is disposed between the measurement magnet and the worm such that the electric motor can be controlled depending on the measurement of the position of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Valeo Systemes d'EssuyageInventors: Jose-Luis Herrada, Alain Servin, Mehdi Belhaj
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Patent number: 12191740Abstract: A drive device for an actuator for a brake device of a motor vehicle. The drive device has an electric machine having a rotor rotatably mounted in a housing and a stator fixed to the housing. A bearing shield is situated in the housing that has an axially extending sleeve-shaped bearing segment for the rotatable bearing of a drive shaft, which bears the rotor. The bearing shield has an axially extending sleeve-shaped retaining segment held with a frictional fit in a sleeve-shaped end segment of the housing and has a diameter that is greater than the diameter of the bearing segment. A radially extending annular disk-shaped floor segment of the bearing shield is between the retaining segment and the bearing segment. The retaining segment has a first axial partial segment connected to the floor segment, and a second partial segment connected to the first partial segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Andreas Krueger, Benjamin Haufe, Konstantin Haberkorn, Vincent Fix
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Patent number: 12184133Abstract: A device for adhering magnetic pole shoes on a rotor includes a soleplate, wherein a support seat is arranged on the soleplate; a magnet positioning seat is arranged above the support seat; the magnet positioning seat has a support frame, which includes an upper plate and a lower plate, with the lower plate having a first evading groove for evading a rotor core, and the upper plate having a second evading groove for evading an upper end of a rotor shaft; and fixation units and a plurality of positioning plates being provided between the upper and lower plates, each fixation unit including a push rod in sliding fit with the support frame and the push rod can move axially, a magnet positioning block being fixed at an inner end of the push rod, each positioning plate being located between two adjacent fixation units.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: HENGDIAN GROUP INNUOVO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kedi Shan, Junjian Lu, Caiping Xu, Chenhui Jin
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Patent number: 12184121Abstract: A support structure for supporting a lamination stack and a winding structure in order to form a stator segment for an electric machine, in particular a wind turbine generator including (a) a frame including two parallel end plates and two side plates, the side plates extending between corresponding end portions of the end plates, (b) a plurality of internal connecting members extending within the frame between the end plates, and (c) a plurality of external connecting members extending outside of the frame, each external connecting member forming an extension of a corresponding internal connecting member beyond one of the end plates, wherein (d) the internal and external connecting members are adapted to engage with corresponding fastening members for securing a lamination stack. A stator segment, a wind turbine generator, and a method of manufacturing a support structure are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/SInventor: Simon Vyff Jensen
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Patent number: 12176788Abstract: The motor support (16) for a motor-fan unit of a ventilation installation for a vehicle comprises: two coaxial rings (20; 22), including an inner ring (20) capable of receiving one or more elements of the motor and an outer ring (22) capable of fixing fastened to a housing forming a structural element, a decoupling element (24) between the two coaxial rings (20; 22); and a means (44) for limiting the relative movement of one of the two rings (20; 22) relative to the other, in a plane normal to the common axis (A) of the two rings (20; 22), comprising at least one radial abutment (44) fastened to one of the two rings (20; 22), with a radial clearance between the radial abutment (44) and the other of the two rings (20; 22).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Clara Degorce-Dumas, Clémence Kwaczewski, Stéphane De Souza, Vincent Guilbot
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Patent number: 12157445Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an actuator for an electronic parking brake and, more particularly, to an actuator for an electronic parking brake, whereby a motor may be stably fixed using a simple structure. To this end, an actuator for an electronic parking brake according to the present disclosure comprises: a motor having a bracket to fix a position of a motor housing; a main housing in which the motor is accommodated; and a main cover seated on an upper end of the main housing, wherein a first fastening protrusion extending downward to be inserted into a first fastening groove formed in the motor housing and a second fastening protrusion extending outward in the radial direction to be inserted into a second fastening groove formed in the main housing are formed on the bracket, and when the motor is assembled, the second fastening groove supports the second fastening protrusion to prevent the axial direction movement of the second fastening protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Daejune Jung
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Patent number: 12135043Abstract: Disclosed is a motor mount, in particular for a motor-driven fan unit of a fan for a vehicle heating, ventilating and/or air conditioning system, including two coaxial rings of which an inner ring is capable of receiving one or more elements of the motor and an outer ring is capable of being attached to a housing constituting a structural element, and an uncoupling element positioned between the coaxial rings. The uncoupling element forms at least one radial stop capable of limiting a radial relative movement, in a plane normal to the common axis of the two rings, of one of the two rings with respect to the other.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Elmehdi Bensaih, Frederic Moulinas, Guillaume Robelet
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Patent number: 12098748Abstract: A flywheel system includes a fixture including a bottom support, a rotor characterized by a gravitational load and configured to rotate above the bottom support about a rotation axis, and a bottom magnetic levitation bearing. The bottom magnetic levitation bearing includes (a) a ring of first magnets mechanically coupled with a bottom end of the rotor, (b) a ring of second magnets mechanically coupled to the bottom support, beneath the ring of first magnets, the second magnets repelling the first magnets to magnetically support at least a portion of the gravitational load above the bottom support, (c) a ring of third magnets mechanically coupled with the bottom end, and (d) a ring of fourth magnets mechanically coupled to the bottom support radially outwards from the ring of third magnets, the fourth magnets repelling the third magnets to at least reduce radial decentering of the rotor relative to the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: WATTSUP POWER A/SInventors: Martin Speiermann, Christian Bahl, Kaspar K. Nielsen, Rasmus Bjørk, Valère Combescot, Jacopo Granata
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Patent number: 12046978Abstract: An electric generator protective cover has a protective cloth cover, a cover assembly, and a plurality of fixing feet. The cover assembly includes a central block located in the center of the top and four elastic supporting rods fixed to the central block. The protective cloth cover is jacked up through the central block and the four elastic supporting rods. One end of each fixing foot is connected to an elastic supporting rod, and the other end is mounted on an upper cross bar of an electric generator frame. The electric generator protective cover has the advantages that the protective cloth cover is arranged, which can isolate dirt such as rain, snow, mud, and sand.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Ningbo Zhongyuan Machinery Tech. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Haiquan Chen
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Patent number: 12040684Abstract: An actuator for generating vibration, including a shaft; a middle supporter having a fitting portion fitted into an upper portion of the shaft and a support portion below the fitting portion to form a first space where a lower portion of the shaft is exposed; a circuit board having a driving coil and a hollow formed through the middle supporter; a housing having an inner space that accommodates the middle supporter and the circuit board so the circuit board is fixed thereto; a first yoke plate having a first magnet installed to face an upper surface of the driving coil and coupled to an upper portion of the middle supporter; a second yoke plate having a second magnet installed to face a lower surface of the driving coil and coupled to a lower portion of the middle supporter; and a weight installed to at least one of the yoke plates.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: JAHWA electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyo Jun Kim, Soon Koo Shim, Jong Soo Ryu, Hyun Gyu Sung, Jung Hoon Jang, Jun Ki Lee
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Patent number: 12034354Abstract: A spring retention system for securing a motor in a desired position. The spring retention system includes a captive feature, which includes a plurality of recesses formed as a motor support spring having a circular opening, which are engaged with a motor bearing housing. The spring retention system reduces motor displacement in multiple directions when the motor is exposed to vibrations, which reduces the cantilever bending on the motor shaft and the motor housing, also improving motor pinion run out. The spring retention system also includes a formed opening feature, which allows for the spring retention system to fit with motor bearings having different sizes. The spring retention system also includes a plurality of spring leg retention features formed as part of the motor support spring, which support the motor bearing housing on an axis, and the module housing supports the motor support spring.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Vitesco Technologies USA, LLCInventor: Wai-Tak Ho
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Patent number: 12027919Abstract: A motor assembly is provided including a stator assembly and a rotor assembly rotatably disposed relative to the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core having magnet pockets formed therethrough along a longitudinal direction, permanent magnets received within the magnet pockets, and a spring structure disposed in contact with the end of the rotor core. The spring structure includes spring elements configured to apply biasing forces to the permanent magnets along the longitudinal direction of the magnet pockets. Optionally a magnet retention end cap is provided to secure the spring structure to the end of the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Ming Jin, Weifeng Qian, Changxing Lu, Tong Zheng, Fulong Liu, Yeli Gu
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Patent number: 12017230Abstract: Grinding mechanisms for food waste disposers, and food waste disposers having grinding mechanisms are disclosed herein. The grinding mechanisms include a stationary grinding ring that includes a plurality of grater teeth, and a rotating shredder plate that includes at least one lug. The at least one lug may have at least a portion that is movable with respect to the top surface of the rotating shredder plate, or may be fin shaped.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLCInventors: Matthew R. Sandoval, Clyde C. Verhoff, Charles A. Farago
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Patent number: 12000403Abstract: A limit ring for use in a pump arrangement includes a cylindrical body positioned about a central longitudinal axis, a first end and an opposite second end. A central passage is defined through the cylindrical body and is centered about, and extends, along the longitudinal axis between the first end and the second end. The central passage has a circular cross section when viewed along the longitudinal axis. The limit ring further includes a number of channels defined in the cylindrical body radially outward from the central passage, each channel extending between the first end and the second end of the cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: HAYWARD TYLER, INC.Inventors: Benjamin Gardiner Hardy, Patrick Aron DiRico, Drew James Van Norman
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Patent number: 12003138Abstract: A housing-free dynamoelectric rotary machine includes a stator having a material layer structure which includes a plurality of material layers arranged in a row along a rotation axis. The material layer structure includes a plurality of thickenings and a plurality of slots, with the slots arranged such that each of the slots is arranged between two respective ones of the thickenings. At least one of the slots is designed to receive a slot wedge, with a respective one of the thickenings being designed to fasten the slot wedge. An end element is arranged on an axial end of the stator and includes a connection box for supply with electrical energy. A connecting element connects the end element to the stator and is connected to the slot wedge.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Innomotics GmbHInventors: Klaus Büttner, Reiner Grillenberger, Klaus Kirchner, Matthias Warmuth
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Patent number: 11988587Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary assembly (1), in particular for a rheological measurement apparatus, comprising: a stator (3), a rotor (2) that can rotate with respect to the stator (3), the rotor (2) being axially retained by an axial retaining means (4) preventing the movement of the rotor (2) along the axis of rotation (A) thereof, the axial retaining means (4) comprising a flexible rod suitable for being attached to a frame (5) and which allows a radial movement of the rotor (2), a magnetic bearing comprising a rotor element (6) made of magnetic material mounted on the rotor (2) and a stator element (7) made of magnetic material mounted on the stator (3), at least one of the rotor and stator elements made of magnetic material being a spherical magnet, wherein the rotary assembly (1) has a stable position in which the rotor (2) is aligned with the axis of rotation (A) thereof, and the elements made of magnetic material are facing each other along the axis of rotation (A) of the rotor and areType: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: RHEONOVAInventors: Etienne Ghiringhelli, Jeremy Patarin, Didier Bleses
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Patent number: 11870302Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating an electric motor including multiple rotor and stator sections. In one example, a system may include the multiple rotor sections configured to be mechanically coupled and decoupled from each other concurrently with multiple stator sections configured to be electrically coupled and decoupled from each other, within certain regimes of operation of the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Joachim Druant, Steven Vanhee
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Patent number: 11870315Abstract: An electric pump includes an impeller, a rotor connected to the impeller, a housing housing the rotor, a plurality of divided iron cores surrounding an outer surface of the housing, a plurality of divided coil bobbins respectively attached to the plurality of the divided iron cores, a plurality of divided coils respectively wound around the plurality of the divided coil bobbins, and a bus bar unit including a plurality of bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Miyasaka, Takahisa Tezuka, Naomi Koyama, Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 11843282Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes: a rotating element extending along an axis; and a retaining body formed of metal and configured to hold the rotating element from an outer peripheral side, where the retaining body includes: a plurality of annular members annularly surrounding an outer peripheral surface of the rotating element and arranged at intervals in the axis direction; and a plurality of connecting members arranged in a circumferential direction between the annular members adjacent to each other so as to connect the annular members. As a result, a path of eddy current is limited and the eddy current can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Ikemi, Shinichi Isobe
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Patent number: 11815152Abstract: Motor dampening provisions are described. Incorporation and use of the motor dampener(s) in a rotary type drain cleaning machine enables elimination of a clutch in the machine. Also described are clutch-free drive systems using the motor dampener(s). Also described are torque countering members that are used in conjunction with the motor dampener(s).Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Ridge Tool CompanyInventors: Alex Michael Cole, Michael J. Rutkowski
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Patent number: 11777361Abstract: A motor assembly for a sunroof system is provided with a motor cover to prevent water intrusion. The motor assembly includes a motor including a motor yoke, a connector electrically connected to the motor, a central portion including a pinion gear rotated by the motor, and a motor cover. The motor cover includes a motor yoke cover that covers the motor yoke, a central cover that covers the central portion, and a connector cover that covers the connector, the motor cover configured to prevent water in the central portion from entering the motor yoke and the connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: AISIN TECHNICAL CENTER OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Michael Mixon, Jacob Grimaldo, Joel Runyan
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Patent number: 11742713Abstract: A method for fixing a first component in a second component. At least part of an internal side of the second component is overmolded for a plastic sleeve, and the first component is centered and fixed within the plastic sleeve of the second component by a press-fit. Secure fixing of the first component in the second component is achieved in this way. A unit is formed by a method of this type.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Eusebio-Marius Albert, Mihai Drienovsky
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Patent number: 11728700Abstract: A power tool includes a housing having a rear wall, a motor assembly coupled to the rear wall, and a plurality of mounting legs projecting from the rear wall toward the motor assembly. The motor assembly defines a motor axis, and includes a stator assembly defining a plurality of axially extending mounting apertures. Each mounting leg defines a threaded boss corresponding to a respective mounting aperture of the stator assembly, and each threaded boss is configured to receive a threaded fastener. The mounting legs are angularly spaced at unequal intervals about the motor axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Derek J. Schwab, Samantha L. Billetdeaux, Kyle Greunke, Hans T. Banholzer, Carmen J. Castanos
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Patent number: 11710997Abstract: A cooling-channel integrated motor housing includes a motor housing, a plurality of stator cores press-fitted into the motor housing, and a cooling pipe inserted into the motor housing and disposed in a circumferential direction of a circle along which the stator cores are arranged. The 1cooling pipe is disposed to overlap with the stator cores in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which a rotating shaft of a motor extends.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Sung Ik Bae, Jae Won Ha, Dong Jae Kim, Myung Kyu Jeong, Hee Ra Lee
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Patent number: 11708789Abstract: A generator module includes a housing arranged for mounting to a rear face of an internal combustion engine, a generator stator fixed in the housing, a generator rotor arranged radially inside of the generator stator, and a bearing arranged to support a radial inside of the generator rotor on the housing. The generator rotor may include a rotor carrier and a plurality of stacked plates secured to the rotor carrier. The bearing may be at least partially radially aligned with the plurality of stacked plates.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Matthew Payne, Markus Steinberger
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Patent number: 11622080Abstract: Disclosed are an automatic surround photographing method and system for a target. The method includes: obtaining an angle parameter of a yaw-axis gimbal, and processing an image obtained by a camera to obtain a distance parameter; obtaining, by means of calculation, a control parameter of a rotation angle of a steering gear according to the angle parameter of the yaw-axis gimbal and the distance parameter; and controlling, according to the angle parameter of the yaw-axis gimbal, the rotation of a gimbal of a gimbal camera so as to control the rotation of the camera, and controlling, according to the control parameter of the rotation angle of the steering gear, a rotation angle of the steering gear in a photographing-moving apparatus for placement of the gimbal camera, such that the photographing-moving apparatus surrounds and tracks a target, and performs surround photographing of the target.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: REMO TECH Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Peng, Ming Zhang, Long Huang
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Patent number: 11614141Abstract: The present invention relates to damping means of an electric motor of an airflow generating apparatus and an airflow generating apparatus having the damping device, the damping device having a first body, which defines a compartment for housing the electric motor (A); a second body for being arranged fixed to the apparatus, which defines a housing for housing the first body; and a damping element which is elastically deformable and has a longitudinal extension. The first body and the second body are separated from one another, the damping element being arranged such that it determines an attachment between the first body and the second body.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SOLER & PALAU RESEARCH, S.L.Inventor: Albert Bach-Esteve Burch
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Patent number: 11536359Abstract: An arrangement of at least one sensor track-scanning rotor position sensor (1, 1 A) of an electric machine (EM) in a hybrid transmission housing (2) that includes a torque converter (3) and a housing-affixed oil supply plate arrangement is provided. The rotor position sensor (1, 1 A) is attached on an oil-supply-plate side, and a sensor ring (8), as a sensor track, is attached on a converter side. A hybrid transmission housing (2) including the arrangement is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Linus Eschenbeck, Thomas Riedisser, Carl Schilling, Andreas Geiger, Gerald Viernekes, Matthias Weidner, Monika Rößner, Christopher Allnoch
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Patent number: 11509176Abstract: A rotating electrical machine is equipped with a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a magnet unit and a rotor core retaining the magnet unit. The rotor core is made of a stack of annular core plates and an annular end plate mounted on an end of the stack of the core plates. The end plate has a deformable wave shape. The stack of the core plates and the end plate has formed therein through-holes extending through a length thereof. Bar-shaped fastening members, such as rivets, which have flanges on ends thereof are inserted into the through-holes with the flanges pressing the end plate to elastically deform the wave shape of the end plate, thereby tightly gripping the stack of the core plates in the lengthwise direction. This minimizes concentration of stress on the core plates to eliminate a risk of damage or breakage of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11465266Abstract: A housing for an electric machine tool, in particular for a core drill, said housing in which a motor is accommodated, which has a motor shaft for driving a tool mount and to which cooling air is supplied through at least one air guide duct, which is delimited at one end by at least one air inlet and at the other end by at least one air outlet. A guide structure, providing air guidance for the cooling air and associated with a motor mount, in which the motor is at least partially accommodated, is disposed in the air guide duct downstream from the at least one air inlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: C. & E. Fein GmbHInventors: Aryon Shondel, Achim Hess, Ralf Gosnik, Boris Richt, Sergej Denzel
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Patent number: 11462969Abstract: A rotary apparatus includes a motor including a rotary shaft, a plurality of gears including an output gear, and a housing accommodating the motor and the plurality of gears. The housing is separable into a first housing and a second housing. The motor includes a first end portion and a second end portion located on an opposite side of the first end portion. The rotary shaft is derived from the first end portion. The second housing includes a first regulating portion regulating a position of a part of the motor on the first end portion. The first housing includes a projecting portion projecting toward the second housing side. The projecting portion urges the second end portion of the motor toward the first regulating portion side directly or via another member.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Koichiro Hirabayashi, Yukimasa Matsumura, Akiko Ikuta
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Patent number: 11453288Abstract: This disclosure details electrified vehicle drive systems equipped with electric machine integrated axle assemblies. An exemplary electrified vehicle drive system includes a leaf spring assembly and an axle assembly mounted to the leaf spring assembly. The axle assembly may include a cradle and an electric machine mounted within the cradle. Shocks and stabilizer bar assemblies may extend between the cradle and a vehicle frame of the electrified vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sahil Nagpal, Steven Michael Cyr, Robert Howard Saunders, Jr.
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Patent number: 11421812Abstract: A thermally insulating fixture includes a support bracket, and a thermally insulating member mounted on the support bracket. The support bracket has a middle provided with a sheet plate. The sheet plate includes two hollow portions formed on two ends thereof. Each of the two hollow portions is provided with an abutment laminating the sheet plate. The sheet plate is provided with a through hole. The thermally insulating member covers an exterior of the support bracket. In practice, when the self-tapping screw extends through the through hole of the sheet plate and is screwed and tightened, a force is applied on the abutment. Thus, the abutment reinforces the strength of the support bracket to reduce deformation of the support bracket.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventor: Wei-Chih Chen
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Patent number: 11391193Abstract: A doser mounting bracket for coupling a doser to an exhaust gas aftertreatment system component having a sidewall and an exhaust gas aftertreatment system component opening includes a lower surface, an engagement wall, a central structure, an upper surface, and an attachment structure. The lower surface is configured to be held in a position opposing the sidewall. The engagement wall extends from the lower surface. The central structure has an opening that extends therethrough and includes a centering structure that extends from the lower surface and is configured to be received within the exhaust gas aftertreatment system component opening. The attachment structure extends from the upper surface and is configured to be coupled to the doser. The engagement wall is configured to separate the lower surface from the sidewall when the engagement wall interfaces with the sidewall such that a pocket is formed between the engagement wall, the centering structure, and the lower surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Lakshmanan Arunachalam, Christopher A. Thompson, Pradnya Pranav Ballal, Elliot Dilger, Nathan Hansen, Taren DeHart, Mahendra Mittapalli, Aaron Riedel
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Patent number: 11381140Abstract: A motor includes a sheet-like gasket for sealing the gap between a stator core and an encoder. The gasket has a structure including a metal plate and a sealing member covering the metal plate, and the gasket includes a first portion that is disposed at least between the end face on one end side of the stator core and the encoder and a second portion that has a structure including the sealing member with no metal plate and extends inward from the first portion to contact the projection.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Fukuda, Nobuyuki Ootake
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Patent number: 11381141Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a center axis extending vertically, a stator radially opposing the rotor, a bracket holding the stator, a circuit board including an upper surface with a first wiring pattern and a lower surface with a second wiring pattern, and a first fixing portion having conductivity and fixing the circuit board to the stator. The stator includes a stator core having conductivity. The first fixing portion includes a board holding portion holding the circuit board, and a stator fixed portion fixed to a portion of the stator core. The board holding portion is in contact with the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Sho Fukuhara, Shinji Takemoto
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Patent number: 11371517Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes an electric motor, a fan assembly coupled to the electric motor and configured to rotate therewith about an axis. The fan assembly includes a hub including a cylindrical portion having an inlet end and an outlet end, the hub further including an inlet surface coupled to the inlet end. The fan assembly also includes a plurality of blades coupled to an outer periphery of the cylindrical portion, wherein the inlet surface is tapered to direct an inlet airflow toward the plurality of blades.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jeevan Gnana Robinson, Neha Kumari, Yunpeng Yang
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Patent number: 11333050Abstract: In an electric oil pump, a motor includes a main body including a coil, bus bars electrically connected to lead wires of the coil, and a shaft including a portion on one side in an axial direction protruding from an end of the main body on the one side in the axial direction and connected to a pump, a control board includes a power supply input portion and a power supply output portion and is disposed in a posture in which any one of a first surface and a second surface of the control board lies in the axial direction, the power supply input portion is at an end portion of the control board on the other side in the axial direction, and bus bar terminals are disposed on one side of the main body in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigehiro Kataoka
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Patent number: 11025131Abstract: An adaptor for connecting a generator to a prime mover. The adaptor includes a first flange member for connection to the prime mover, a second flange member for connection to the generator, and a plurality of angled cross members between the first and second flange members. By providing a plurality of angled cross members between the first and second members, the adaptor may use less material for a given stiffness.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies LimitedInventors: Swapnil Shankarrao Barekar, Rahul Balu Mule
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Patent number: 11009046Abstract: A blower device and a respirator including the blower device. The blower device comprises a case, a blower vibration source disposed within the case and a buffering assembly for associating the blower vibration source and the case, wherein the vibration absorption assembly comprises at least two of a locating buffering member associated with a top portion of the blower vibration source, a connection buffering member in which at least a part of the blower vibration source is received and a support buffering member associated with a bottom portion of the blower vibration source. The blower device is capable of effectively buffering vibration of the blower device, decreasing noise transmission and has a simple structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: BMC MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Bowei Jing, Shumin Gao, Zhi Zhuang
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Patent number: 10910907Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a bearing that rotatably supports the shaft, and a hub fixed to the shaft. The shaft includes a first shaft portion extending in an axial direction, a second shaft portion projecting axially upward from an axially upper end surface of the first shaft portion and including a diameter smaller than that of the first shaft portion, and a screw hole recessed axially downward from the axially upper end surface. The hub includes a shaft fixing hole into and in which the second shaft portion is inserted and fixed. An outer surface of the second shaft portion includes a first region, and a second region axially above the first region, and including surface roughness smaller than that of the first region.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Yamada, Atsushi Watashita, Keisuke Kawata
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Patent number: 10826338Abstract: An axial flux machine is described. The machine has a stator comprising a stator housing enclosing a plurality of stator bars disposed circumferentially at intervals around an axis of the machine, and a rotor comprising a set of permanent magnets and mounted for rotation about the axis of the machine. The rotor is spaced apart from the stator along the axis of the machine to define a gap between the stator and rotor and in which magnetic flux in the machine is generally in an axial direction. The machine also comprises a hub assembly comprising a rotating hub and a mount separated by a bearing to permit the hub to rotate relative to the mount, the rotating hub comprising a hub flange and the mount comprising a mount flange, each of the flanges being spaced axially apart from one another. The machine further comprises a bulkhead for mounting the hub assembly and stator, wherein the bulkhead is mounted to the mount flange of the hub assembly and the stator housing is mounted to the bulkhead.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Yasa LimitedInventors: Timothy Woolmer, Christopher Edward Miller
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Patent number: 10710628Abstract: The motor unit includes a motor case containing a stator and a rotor fixed to an output shaft; the control unit includes a unit case containing constituent members of the control unit that controls the motor unit; the motor unit and the control unit are fixed to each other in such a way that an axle-direction end, at the unit case side, of the motor case is made to abut on an axle-direction end, at the motor unit side, of the unit case and then the both ends are bonded to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
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Patent number: 10673298Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotor; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a front-side housing provided with an opening housing a part of the rotor; a rear-side housing clamping the stator between the rear-side housing and the front-side housing; a plurality of fastening members fastening the stator, the front-side housing, and the rear-side housing together; and an annular portion disposed on a surface, of the front-side housing, the surface facing the stator and having an annular shape that surrounds the opening, wherein respective heights of first sections of the annular portion that are in the vicinity of insertion holes of the fastening members are lower than respective heights of second sections, which are positioned at middle points between an adjacent pair of the first sections, among the first sections, the intermediate point is close to the adjacent pair of the first sections.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Fumito Yukawa