Including Means Utilizing Pump Fluid For Augmenting Cooling, Lubricating, Sealing, Or Cleaning Of Motor Patents (Class 417/366)
  • Patent number: 11953001
    Abstract: A horizontal type rotary compressor includes a case including an inlet and an outlet and configured to store oil, a compressor having a compression space in which refrigerant is accommodated, a driver to drive the compressor, a rotating shaft to connect the driver and the compressor, an oil feed pipe disposed at a side of the compressor, a first plate configured to divide the case into a first area for the driver and a second area for the compressor. The first plate including a discharge hole through which compressed refrigerant is discharged from the compressor to the first area. A second plate dividing the case into the second area and a third area in which the oil feed pipe communicates with the outlet, and includes a second hole formed at the upper side to communicate the second and third areas. The first and second plates forming an oil flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soodol Park, Joonhyung Kim, Munseong Kwon, Jaewoo Park, Hyolim Heo
  • Patent number: 11946487
    Abstract: A compressor has a stator assembly, a rotor assembly, and a housing within which the stator assembly and the rotor assembly are located. The housing has a first end, a second end, and an air inlet disposed between the first and second ends. The compressor has a flow guide disposed within the air inlet. The flow guide is configured to split air flowing through the air inlet in use into a first airflow toward the first end of the housing and a second airflow toward the second end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Hannah Kathryn Barnes, Nigel Youatt Dymond, Adam Janiszewski
  • Patent number: 11835045
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism, a casing, a motor stator and a motor rotor. The motor stator includes stacked steel plates, teeth, and slots. The stacked steel plates are fixed to an inner surface of the casing. A number of the teeth and slots is nine. The motor rotor rotates a crankshaft to drive the compression mechanism. The stacked steel plates have first to ninth areas radially outside the nine teeth, first concave portions provided in five of the areas, and a second concave portion provided in at least one of four areas other than the five areas. The five first concave portions and an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion form five first passages. The second concave portion and the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion form at least one second passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Yamamoto, Makoto Adachi
  • Patent number: 11802528
    Abstract: A fuel delivery assembly has a sheet-metal casing that sealingly encloses an electric motor and a pump by rolling, a suction-side inlet opening, and a pressure-side outlet opening. The electric motor has a first stator and a rotor, the first stator is provided with a plastic extrusion coating which forms a ring running in encircling fashion between the first stator and the pump. A fuel delivery unit for use in a fuel tank of a vehicle, having a fuel delivery assembly and having a surge tank in which the fuel delivery assembly is arranged in order to deliver fuel from the surge tank to an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Deichmann, Dirk Becker
  • Patent number: 11761438
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fluid pumping device and a horizontal compressor. The fluid pumping device comprises a pump structure in the form of an internal-meshing gear pump and is provided with first and second pump members, a pump housing structure for accommodating the pump structure, and at least two suction paths and/or at least two discharge paths. Suction and compression cavities are defined between the first and second pump members; the at least two suction paths are configured to rotate with the pump structure, and a fluid can be sucked into the suction cavity via the at least two suction paths respectively; and the at least two discharge paths are configured to rotate with the pump structure, and the compressed fluid can be discharged from the fluid pumping device via the discharge paths respectively. The fluid pumping device is assembled in the horizontal compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingfeng Sun, Donghui Yang
  • Patent number: 11655819
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a base seat portion which is integrally formed with one end surface of a shaft and in which a press-fitting hole exposing a first hole portion is formed. The base seat portion is disposed in a second portion of a penetration portion with a gap interposed between a drive bush body and the base seat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ichise, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Goshi Iketaka, Shinya Hamamoto
  • Patent number: 11466683
    Abstract: A compressor includes a motor, a balance weight and a partition. The motor includes a rotor having a first end surface and a second end surface. The balance weight is disposed on the first end surface or the second end surface. The partition is disposed on the first end surface or the second end surface. The rotor has a through hole extending from the first end surface to the second end surface. The partition divides, from the through hole, at least one of a front region and a rear region. The front region is located in front of a front edge of the balance weight in a rotational direction of the rotor. The rear region is located behind a rear edge of the balance weight in the rotational direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryohei Deguchi
  • Patent number: 11359642
    Abstract: This electric compressor includes a rotation shaft including a first end and a second end, a compressor impeller which is mounted on the first end of the rotation shaft and includes a back surface facing the second end, a motor disposed between the first end and the second end of the rotation shaft, a wall portion which separates an impeller space and a motor space from each other and includes a reference wall surface having a shape along the back surface of the compressor impeller, and a bypass hole which is formed in the wall portion to connect the impeller space to the motor space and includes a first opening which opens to the impeller space. In the wall portion, a recessed portion which is disposed around the first opening of the bypass hole and recessed from the reference wall surface is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kuniaki Iizuka, Yuji Sasaki, Tatsumi Inomata, Ryosuke Yumoto, Kai Iijima, Tatsuya Fukui, Hikaru Sugiura, Yoshihito Katsu, Takashi Yoshida, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 11346368
    Abstract: An electrical multi-purpose apparatus includes a base frame unit, and an internal combustion engine, an electric generator, an output unit, an air compressor, and a jet cleaner that are disposed on the base frame unit. The internal combustion engine includes a combustion engine motor. The electric generator is driven operably by the internal combustion engine for generating electric power. The output unit, the air compressor, and the jet cleaner are electrically connected to the electric generator. The air compressor includes an air compressor motor. The jet leaner includes a jet cleaner motor. The combustion engine motor, the air compressor motor, and the jet cleaner motor have different motor speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventors: Hsi-Yung Sun, Antonio La Petina, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11346353
    Abstract: A fluid transfer pump assembly that includes a motor enclosure assembly that forms a motor cavity sized to receive a motor. The motor enclosure includes a flame path that extends from an interior joint to an exterior joint. The interior joint faces the motor cavity and the exterior joint faces exterior of the motor enclosure assembly. A heat sink is located in the motor cavity of the motor enclosure assembly. A portion of the heat sink abuts the interior joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Tuthill Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Wenger, Nicholas G. Till, Wayne A. Hughes, Jr., Jacob J. Berry, Lester B. Ashe
  • Patent number: 11339801
    Abstract: A radial fan (1) or centrifugal blower is provided having a fan housing (2) with a spiral pressure chamber (D) and a rotor assembly (10) comprising an internally axially open bearing tube (20), in which a shaft (40) carrying a fan wheel (30) is mounted with a rotor (50) of a canned motor. An air-guiding channel (L) between a first pressure-chamber region (2a) and a second pressure-chamber region (2b) of the spiral pressure chamber (D) is formed between the bearing tube (20) and the wall (W) of the canned motor, so that an air flow flows through the air-guiding channel (L) from one pressure-chamber region (2a, 2b) to the other and in the process dissipates heat from the bearing tube (20) into the pressure chamber (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Volker Ehlers, Andreas Kuhlmey
  • Patent number: 11339791
    Abstract: A high-speed dual turbo machine enabling cooling thermal equilibrium. The high-speed dual turbo machine maximizing the cooling efficiency thereof by compressing and discharging external air suctioned therein at both ends, cooling an air compressor in a suction air-cooling method, decreasing a flow path of air for cooling the inside of the dual turbo machine and the air compressor, and optimizing the flow path. Accordingly, the present invention uses the suction air-cooling method and guides the flow of air for cooling the turbo machine through a specific path, so that it 15 maximizes the efficiency and durability of the turbo machine, the cost reduction owing to the structural simplification of the turbo machine, and the easiness of maintenance by preventing an increase in temperature of the inside of the turbomachine casing (100) and the air compressor (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TURBOWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11293389
    Abstract: A fuel supply structure for a saddled vehicle, includes: an upstream-side fuel supply system guiding fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel pump side; a downstream-side fuel supply system guiding the fuel from the pump to a fuel injection valve side; and an excess fuel return system returning excess fuel from the downstream-side fuel supply system to the tank side. A fuel hose joint is attached to the tank and includes: an insertion tube portion inserted into the tank and formed into a dual tube structure where an inner tube is covered by an outer tube; a first connection tube portion communicating with inside of the inner tube; and a second connection tube portion communicating with inside of the outer tube. A fuel suction hose is connected to one of the first and second connection tube portions, and a fuel return hose is connected to an other thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Higashiyama, Takeshi Kamiyama, Tomoyuki Katayama
  • Patent number: 11268505
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a casing which accommodates an inverter and includes a bottom plate on which a power board of the inverter is mounted and a cooling water passage which is provided in a housing and opens to a bottom plate of the casing. The bottom plate of the casing includes a first surface on which a power board is mounted and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A metal plate is buried at a position corresponding to the power board in the bottom plate and a rear surface of the metal plate is exposed to the second surface side and faces the cooling water passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sasaki, Takashi Yoshida, Tatsumi Inomata, Kuniaki Iizuka, Takuya Ozasa, Ryosuke Yumoto
  • Patent number: 11221012
    Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes a housing, a rotating member, and a motor. Part of fluid compressed by a compressor impeller is introduced into a motor accommodation space through an inlet-side flow passage that has an inlet-side fixed throttle, and is discharged from the motor accommodation space through an outlet-side flow passage that has an outlet-side fixed throttle. The outlet-side flow passage includes a connection part connecting to the motor accommodation space. The connection part is formed separately from a clearance between a second partition wall and a shaft, and is located opposite to a connection part of the inlet-side flow passage connecting to the motor accommodation space across the motor in an axial direction of the shaft. The inlet-side fixed throttle and the outlet-side fixed throttle are configured such that pressure in the motor accommodation space is higher than pressure in a turbine-wheel back pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hidefumi Mori, Junya Suzuki, Kazuki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11196321
    Abstract: A canned motor device includes a fixed seat, a motor unit, and a heat-dissipation cover. The heat-dissipation cover is mounted to the fixed seat and has an inner surface facing and positioned relative to the fixed seat, an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, a protrusion opposite to the inner surface, a mounting groove indenting from the inner surface and having a large-diameter section and a small-diameter section, and a plurality of heat-dissipation fins protruding from the outer surface and surrounding the protrusion. A case body of the motor unit is partially sleeved to a large-diameter section, and a closed end of the cylindrical portion is sleeved to the small-diameter section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ZI YI ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ting-Tsai Huang
  • Patent number: 11193490
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a balancer that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft. A bushing includes a cylindrical portion and an auxiliary weight portion. The auxiliary weight portion is arranged on the outer side of the cylindrical portion. The fitting hole is provided at a position where a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the movable scroll due to rotation of the rotary shaft and a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the auxiliary weight portion due to rotation of the rotary shaft are in the opposite directions. As viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft, the center of gravity of the bushing is located on the same side of a straight line including the center of the cylindrical portion and the center of the rotary shaft as the center of the eccentric shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kuma, Kazuo Murakami, Masashi Wakui
  • Patent number: 11146157
    Abstract: An electrical machine for use in a vehicle, comprising a stator configured to output a rotating magnetic field, a primary rotor located radially between an output shaft and the stator, a secondary rotor, wherein the secondary rotor is located radially between the stator and the output shaft, and a hydraulic pump attached to the secondary rotor, wherein the hydraulic pump is configured to output lubricant to an outlet in response to the rotating magnetic field generated therebetween by the stator and the secondary rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Steinberger, Gregory Heeke, Md. Wasi Uddin
  • Patent number: 11125222
    Abstract: An air compressor contains: a torque gear on which a central orifice and a connection rod are arranged. The central orifice has screw threads defined thereon and corresponds to one of multiple positioning orifices of a base, the one positioning orifice is configured to accommodate a bearing, and a screw bolt is inserted through the bearing in the base so as to screw with the central orifice via the torque gear. The connection rod of the torque gear is rotatably connected with a piston so that the piston moves in a cylinder to produce compressed air, the torque gear matingly contacts with the bearing along the screw bolt, and the bearing is not broken in the one positioning orifice, thus moving the piston in the cylinder reciprocately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: UNIK WORLD INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen-San Chou
  • Patent number: 11085441
    Abstract: An electric gear pump comprising: a gerotor rotatable about an axis of rotation A; a support base for the gerotor; a cover which can be joined to the base; a feed duct and a delivery duct; electronic components of the control unit which are fastened on the outer surface of the cover; wherein the feed and delivery ducts are at least partly formed in the cover and comprise an axial section parallel to the axis A and a radial section parallel to the outer surface of the cover; wherein the outer surface of the cover comprises an inset portion; wherein at least a portion of the radial sections of the feed and delivery ducts is configured so as to project externally from the inset portion of the outer surface of the cover and form projecting support portions for the electronic components of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Antonio Scamarcio, Nello Medoro
  • Patent number: 11067097
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ventilator with an electrical drive and at least one rotating or non-rotating functional unit associated with the drive or with a structural component of the drive for generating and/or influencing an air current, wherein the functional unit is arranged coaxially around the drive or in front of it or after it, and wherein the association takes place directly or indirectly in a positive and non-positive manner by the intermeshing and mutual bracing of connection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG SE
    Inventors: Matthias Göller, Lothar Ernemann
  • Patent number: 10968871
    Abstract: An engine system may include an engine including a plurality of intake lines through which outside air supplied to combustion chamber flows, a first electric supercharger and a second electric supercharger disposed respectively in the plurality of intake lines, a first exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device including a first EGR line branched from an exhaust manifold and joining an intake manifold and a first EGR valve disposed in the first EGR line, and a controller determining an engine target torque according to a driving condition of the engine, setting an engine torque within an operation region of the first EGR device when the engine target torque is in a torque dead band between the operation region of the first EGR device and a non-operation region thereof, and compensating a difference value between the engine target torque and the engine torque by a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seungwoo Hong, Jong Il Park, Heechang Oh, Kwanhee Lee, Jaegu Kang, Dong Hee Han, Yeongseop Park
  • Patent number: 10952583
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner having a handle, the having a front end, a rear end, a sidewall extending between the front end and the rear end and a longitudinal axis extending between the front end and the rear end. The handle includes a battery compartment configured to house at least one battery having a battery axis, wherein at least a portion of the sidewall has a plurality of recesses extending in a direction of the battery axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Nina Conrad
  • Patent number: 10927827
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism of an air compressor contains: a piston, a torque gear, a connection rod rotatably connected with the piston, a cylinder configured to accommodate the piston, wherein a central orifice of the torque gear corresponds to an internal ring of a bearing in a second positioning orifice of a base, and a screw bolt is inserted through the torque gear to screw with the central orifice from the internal ring of the bearing, such that the torque gear matingly contacts with the bearing along the screw bolt, and the bearing is not broken, thus moving the piston in the cylinder stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventor: Wen-San Chou
  • Patent number: 10907644
    Abstract: A pump impeller consisting of at least three different material regions, wherein an impeller wheel with a hollow shaft defines a first material region, a bearing component defines a second material region, and a permanent magnet defines a third material region. The invention furthermore relates to a method for producing the pump impeller, and to a centrifugal pump with the pump impeller. The object of the invention is to provide a robust construction, optimal venting, secure attachment of the bearing component, economic production, and a possibility of axial length tolerance compensation given a pump impeller with plastic-bonded permanent magnets. Furthermore, an optimally accurate unbalance-reduced connection between the bearing component and the magnet material should be producible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BÃœHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Krippner, Andrea Bindig, Harald Rausch, Jürgen Ehrsam, Klaus Weiske
  • Patent number: 10865701
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a compressor coolant chamber. In one example, a system comprising dividing the coolant chamber into two portions, a first portion adapted to couple to a second portion and shape a coolant chamber therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Liangjun Hu, Jianwen James Yi
  • Patent number: 10823171
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scroll compressor comprising a housing; a crankshaft rotor assembly and a stator assembly which are disposed inside the housing; a frame, which is provided inside the housing and corresponds to the refrigerant inlet, the frame dividing the interior cavity of the housing into an independent upper cavity and an independent lower cavity; a first baffle component is arranged on the frame at a position corresponding to the refrigerant inlet; a second baffle component extends through the frame and connects the upper cavity to the lower cavity; the frame is provided with an oil guide hole; an oil dispersing device is arranged at an outlet of the oil guide hole to disperse oil. Also provided is an electrical product comprising the scroll compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Jian Diao, Qiuhe Guo, Yusheng Hu, Zhenwen Cao, Xiaolei Li
  • Patent number: 10815996
    Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to a method for controlling the rotational rate of a compressor, which controls, in particular, the rotational rate of a rotating compression element of the compressor. The invention furthermore relates to a compressor, e.g. a compressor for generating pressurized air. The compressor is to be operated at a rotational rate, when in operation, with a mean value that is at least as high as a minimum mean value, in order to ensure the functionality of the compressor. According to the method, a temporally variable target rotational rate of the compressor that is necessary for obtaining a temporally variable output performance from a compressor is determined. In accordance with the invention, a lower rotational rate limit is raised if the temporal mean of the variable target rotational rate is lower than the minimal mean value for the rotational rate of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: GARDNER DENVER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Georg Klaus, Norbert Rheinländer
  • Patent number: 10774841
    Abstract: A fan motor assembly capable of improving efficiency of a motor by minimizing flow loss, and a vacuum cleaner having the same includes a case, a motor installed inside the case to form a suction force, an impeller rotatably installed on a shaft of the motor, and a guide fan configured to guide air that is suctioned by the motor, wherein the guide fan includes a first guide unit configured to increase pressure of the suctioned air and a second guide unit provided at an upper side of the first guide unit to be in contact with the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyeon Joon Oh
  • Patent number: 10618637
    Abstract: A cooled compressor system is provided including: a compressor that in operation compresses air; an electric motor that in operation drives the compressor, the electric motor having a back iron, a motor stator radially inward from the back iron, and a motor rotor radially inward from the motor stator; an airflow system fluidly connected to the compressor, the airflow system in operation directs air through the back iron and in between the motor stator and motor rotor; an airflow inlet that in operation allows an inflow of air to the airflow system; and an airflow outlet that in operation allows an outflow of air from the airflow system; wherein the air travels from the airflow inlet to the airflow outlet through the compressor and the airflow system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 10590939
    Abstract: A fluid transfer pump assembly that includes a motor enclosure assembly that forms a motor cavity sized to receive a motor. The motor enclosure includes a flame path that extends from an interior joint to an exterior joint. The interior joint faces the motor cavity and the exterior joint faces exterior of the motor enclosure assembly. A heat sink is located in the motor cavity of the motor enclosure assembly. A portion of the heat sink abuts the interior joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Tuthill Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Wenger, Nicholas G. Till, Wayne A. Hughes, Jr., Jacob J. Berry, Lester B. Ashe
  • Patent number: 10400801
    Abstract: A compact unit has an electric motor accommodated in housing parts (7, 55) of a unit housing (45) and driving at least one hydraulic pump and giving off heat at the same time, an air heat-exchanging device, and a fan (19) drivable to produce an air flow. A flow-conducting device (47, 55) divides the air flow at least in a first partial flow flowing around the electric motor and a second partial flow flowing to the heat-exchanging device in the unit housing (45). Alternatively, arranged in series, the air flow first flows against the electric motor and then the heat-exchanging device, or that the incidence of the air flow occurs at least partially in the reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HYDAC FLUIDTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Boehler, Markus Kuhn
  • Patent number: 10323642
    Abstract: A pump motor having a permanent magnet rotor, a containment shell, a wound stator, a motor housing, a pump head, a shaft, which is secured in the containment shell on the one hand and in the pump head on the other hand, and a fixed bearing, which is pressed or injected into the permanent magnet rotor and rotatably mounts it on the shaft. The pump motor provides a reliable and economically producible bearing of the permanent magnet rotor on the shaft in a generic pump motor, in which the bearing abutting uniformly against the shaft over the entire bearing length and during a complete rotation can be achieved, small angle errors can be compensated, and noises can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: BÃœHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Weiske
  • Patent number: 10260503
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a compression mechanism, and a housing. The electric motor has a stator including a cylindrical stator core and a coil that has a coil end. The housing has a suction port and a main passage through which a fluid is flowed. An introduction hole through which the fluid is introduced into the compression mechanism is disposed opposite from the main passage. The housing has a coil end area in which a coil end of is disposed. The suction port and the introduction hole are connected via the main passage and the coil end area. The housing further has a groove including a first groove portion and a second groove portion having a depth greater than the first groove portion. A cross sectional are of a first passage portion is smaller than a cross sectional area of the main passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Onara, Yumin Hishinuma, Hiroyuki Gennami, Muneharu Murase
  • Patent number: 10240504
    Abstract: An amount of electric power consumption by a battery is reduced, and deterioration of a coil is suppressed by efficiently heating an injector and melting urea crystals at an early stage. A control device for a reducing agent injection device fills the device with a reducing agent at a start-up of an internal combustion engine and executes control for injecting the reducing agent into an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine by the injector. The control device includes an energization control section that executes energization control in which, after an exhaust temperature of the internal combustion engine becomes equal to or higher than a specified threshold value, a temperature of the injector is increased by energizing the coil of the injector for a specified time and melting of the crystals of the reducing agent precipitated in the injector is promoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Nakao, Fumiyasu Kurogi, Akira Kunishima, Atsushi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Syogo Tashiro, Wataru Domon
  • Patent number: 10197058
    Abstract: Screw compressor with a compression chamber that is formed by a compression housing, in which a pair of meshed helical compressor rotors in the form of a screw are rotatably mounted and with a drive motor that is provided with a motor chamber formed by a motor housing, in which a motor shaft is rotatably mounted. The motor shaft drives at least one of the aforementioned two compressor rotors, where the compression housing and the motor housing are connected directly together to form a compressor housing, where the motor chamber and the compression chamber are not sealed off from one another and where the rotor shafts of the compressor rotors, as well as the motor shaft, extend along axial directions that are oblique or transverse to the horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Andries Jan F. Desiron
  • Patent number: 10174761
    Abstract: A synchronous electric motor for operating a pump includes a motor body, a stator and a rotor coupled to an impeller of the pump. The motor also comprises a cylindrical element that extends towards the inside of the motor body from one of its outer walls so as to define a first cylindrical cavity open to the outside to insert inside the rotor, wherein the rotor has a circular cross section essentially corresponding to the inner section of the cylindrical element so that the rotor is in contact with the cylindrical element and then there is a friction between the rotor and the cylindrical element when the rotor rotates, and the rotor is shaftless and axially and directly coupled to the impeller of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: HYDOR SRL
    Inventor: Valerio Bresolin
  • Patent number: 10119542
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a cover. The cover is reinforced by forming straight ribs, ring ribs, connection ribs, or hexagonal ribs having a honeycomb structure. The straight ribs, rings ribs, connection ribs, or hexagonal ribs are formed on the inner side or the outer side of a body of the cover on a side of an inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Eun Seok Kang, Jung Seon Kim, Sung Jun Park, Seung Hwan Shin, Young Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 10060432
    Abstract: A motor pump unit with a multipart housing comprises a reversible internal gear machine and an electric motor with a rotor and a stator, which is coupled to the internal gear machine via a shaft rotatably mounted in the housing. One shaft end extends from the internal gear machine axially through the rotor that is carried by the shaft. First and second connecting channel ends in the working chamber of the internal gear machine are connected via check valves in the housing to a leakage channel loop, which is fluidically connected to a leakage channel that is fluidically connected to the working chamber, and which has a shaft leakage channel extending axially through the shaft and a rotor leakage channel that is fluidically connected thereto and extends axially through the rotor and/or a gap leakage channel between the rotor and stator, which is fluidically connected to the shaft leakage channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Eckerle Industrie-Elektronik GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Pippes, Dominik Ketterer
  • Patent number: 10047767
    Abstract: A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning appliance is provided, in which the cleaning liquid conveyed by the pump assembly is used for cooling the motor, comprising a motor housing which surrounds the motor, and a cooling channel which surrounds the motor and through which the cleaning liquid can flow for heat dissipation. To provide a motor pump unit having a level of electrical safety which is higher than that of a conventional motor pump unit, the cooling channel surround the motor housing, and the motor pump unit comprise at least one thermally conductive spacer element by way of which the cooling channel is spaced from the motor housing. A high-pressure cleaning appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sven Dirnberger, Timo Spengler, Rudi Bareiter, Markus Fischer, Juergen Kloepfer, Alexander Rubbe
  • Patent number: 9973055
    Abstract: An electric compressor including a compression mechanism, an electric motor driving the compression mechanism, a housing accommodating the compression mechanism and the electric motor, an inverter box located on an outer surface of the housing, an inverter substrate accommodated in the inverter box and having an inverter circuit supplying electric power to the electric motor, the inverter substrate having a first surface and a second surface that is a reverse surface of the first surface, a plurality of fastening members fixing the inverter substrate to the inverter box, and a reinforcing member having a first end fixed to the inverter box and a second end soldered to the first surface or the second surface of the inverter substrate. The reinforcing member extends toward the first surface or the second surface of the inverter substrate in the inverter box. The reinforcing member is not electrically connected to the inverter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ken Suitou, Kazuhiro Kuroki, Takuro Mizuno, Tatsuya Koide, Yusuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9915254
    Abstract: A compressor frame structure is provided for providing flow paths of cooling substance near an upper region of a cylinder, and includes a center ring on the frame structure having an opening for accommodating insertion of the cylinder, a plurality of flow channels near the upper region of the cylinder around an inner surface of the frame structure, and wherein the plurality of flow channels include a plurality of outer flow channels around an outer circumferential surface of the center ring, and a plurality of inner flow channels around an inner circumferential surface of the center ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: MAT INDUSTRIES, LLC.
    Inventor: Mark W. Wood
  • Patent number: 9863424
    Abstract: A subsea pump, distinctive in that it comprises a pressure housing divided into two compartments; a compartment with pump or impellers arranged on a shaft and a compartment with motor or a stator; a diaphragm arranged sealingly between the compartments, a magnetic coupling between the compartments, through the diaphragm; and a pressure compensation system for balancing the pressure on the diaphragm of the motor or stator compartment side to the pressure on the diaphragm of the pump or impeller compartment side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Aker Subsea AS
    Inventor: Gunder Homstvedt
  • Patent number: 9850901
    Abstract: A compressor may include a compression mechanism and a shell assembly. The shell assembly may include first and second snap rings, a body, and first and second caps cooperating with the body to enclose the compression mechanism therein. The body may include first and second ends and an inner surface extending between both ends. The first cap may be received within the first end and may include a first side wall having a first groove. The second cap may be received within the second end and may include a second side wall having a second groove. The first snap ring may be disposed within the first groove and may engage the first end to restrict removal of the first cap from the body. The second snap ring may be disposed within the second groove and may engage the second end to restrict removal of the second cap from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirill M. Ignatiev, John Sheridan
  • Patent number: 9829000
    Abstract: The pump has a pump body having a pump body portion with a vent hole to allow air entrapped in the pump body to bleed out to atmosphere and allow liquid to fill the pump body in order to get the pump running, and also includes a tab receiving portion having a rim defining an opening; and a pump/strainer assembly that includes a base with slots/openings formed therein to receive and strain liquid to be pumped, and includes a strainer retaining tab with a raised rim to be received in the opening of the tab receiving portion and circumferentially engaged by the rim of the opening to hold together the pump/strainer assembly and the pump body. The at least one tab receiving portion and the strainer retaining tab are dimensioned to conceal the vent hole and substantially prevent the liquid from bleeding through the vent hole and squirting outside of the pump body when the pump is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Flow Control LLC.
    Inventor: Randall H. Moormann
  • Patent number: 9810219
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor that includes a compression unit, an electric motor, a housing, a cover, and a motor driving circuit. A metal terminal electrically connects the electric motor to the motor driving circuit. A coupling base is coupled to the housing, and the motor driving circuit is coupled to the coupling base. Each of the coupling base and the housing includes an insertion portion through which the metal terminal is inserted. At least one of the coupling base and the housing includes a protrusion. The protrusion is separated from the insertion portions. At least the other of the coupling base and the housing includes a receiving portion that receives the protrusion. The coupling base is positioned relative to the housing by connection of the insertion portion of the coupling base and the insertion portion of the housing and by engagement of the protrusion and receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ken Suitou, Yusuke Kinoshita, Shingo Enami, Junya Yano
  • Patent number: 9765651
    Abstract: A heat exchange system for producing superheated working fluid for a steam turbine from expected supercritical hydrothermal fluid from a geothermal reservoir, including a header-type heater with a shell is provided. An inlet is conducted to a feed pipe for transporting the expected supercritical hydrothermal fluid from the geothermal reservoir into the shell and where an outlet is conducted to a drain pipe for transporting the condensed hydrothermal fluid from the shell to a disposal, working fluid pipes circulating feed water from a condenser of the steam turbine into a heat exchange bundle system within the shell and retrieving superheated steam from the heat exchange bundle system for the steam turbine, a spraying device is arranged within the shell for spraying a first bundle of the heat exchange bundle system, and a mixing device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: NEM Energy B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Simon Rop
  • Patent number: 9677548
    Abstract: A pump comprises at least one piston slidable within an opening along a movement direction in order to vary the volume of a chamber. The pump further comprises a casing within which a driving device is housed for moving the piston, and a head within which the chamber is at least partially obtained, the chamber being partially delimited by the piston. A high pressure sealing element is located in a proximal position with respect to the chamber and a low pressure sealing element is located in a distal position with respect to the chamber to stop any quantities of liquid that the high pressure sealing element has let through. The high pressure sealing element is housed inside the head and the low pressure sealing element is housed inside the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LEUCO S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianni Paderni, Fabio Pedroni
  • Patent number: 9651044
    Abstract: An electric compressor is provided with a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a motor housing, discharge housing and an intermediate pressure housing. The compression mechanism has a compression chamber and is driven by the electric motor. The motor housing accommodates therein the electric motor and the compression mechanism and formed therein an injection port. The discharge housing has therein a discharge chamber into which compressed refrigerant is discharged. The intermediate pressure housing has therein an introduction port for introducing intermediate pressure refrigerant from an external refrigerant circuit and a communication passage that provides communication between the introduction port and the injection port of the motor housing. The motor housing, discharge housing and the intermediate pressure housing has a bolt fastening hole, and a bolt is inserted in the bolt fastening holes to integrally fix the motor housing, discharge housing and the intermediate pressure housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ken Suitou, Kazuo Murakami, Yoshikazu Fukutani, Shinji Tsubai
  • Patent number: 9500393
    Abstract: The various embodiments of the present system disclose a system for an optimal cooling by a thermoelectric cooling module and an electric fan thereof. The system comprises a thermoelectric cooling module, an electric fan and a housing. The thermoelectric cooling module comprises a plurality of thermoelectric sub-modules, a hot side management module, a cold side management module and an integrated control module. The present invention provides an optimal cooling on the basis of an external weather condition. The present invention further provides an optimal cooling by implementing an efficient fluid circulation mechanism. The present invention also provides a dynamic management over the working of various modules of the said system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Inventor: Vaidyanathan Anandhakrishnan