Having Additional Means To Remove Heat From Pump Or Motor Patents (Class 417/423.8)
  • Patent number: 11339769
    Abstract: An electric drive pump system includes a power end and a detachable transmission assembly. The transmission assembly is mounted to the power end and is configured to provide rotational power to the power end through a plurality of electric motors. The plurality of electric motors use a gearbox to drive an output spline that engages the power end. A control module is used to regulate the performance characteristics of the plurality of electric motors. A temperature regulation assembly is configured to regulate the temperature of the transmission assembly and the power end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ST9 Gas and Oil, LLC
    Inventor: Chris Buckley
  • Patent number: 10590944
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for cooling a compressor in an engine. In one example, a compressor with a liquid coolant passage extending through a section of a housing of the compressor adjacent to a bypass passage, is provide. The bypass passage enable airflow to be directed around a portion of a compressor impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Leon Hu, Jianwen James Yi
  • Patent number: 10072621
    Abstract: A circuit housing portion integrally molded above a lid main body portion has a bottom portion, which forms a vent space with the lid main body portion, and a vent hole, which extends through a portion between a protection space and an external space in the side portion. In a terminal, in which an intermediate portion is embedded in a bottom portion to extend between a fuel pump and a drive circuit through the bottom portion, an interface between the bottom portion and the intermediate portion is exposed to a protection space above the vent hole. A liquid-impermeable and gas-permeable membrane is mounted on an outer surface of the side portion to cover the vent hole to allow the fuel vapor to be discharged from the vent hole to the external space and to restrict liquid from entering the vent hole from the external space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO KOREA AUTOMOTIVE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Fukuoka, Kiyoshi Nagata, Sanghoon Lee
  • Fan
    Patent number: 9670932
    Abstract: In a fan, a housing includes decreased thickness portions and increased thickness portions arranged alternately in a circumferential direction. A distance between a central axis and an edge increases from an air inlet toward an air outlet. An inner circumferential surface has a minimum radius smaller than a distance between the central axis and an outermost portion of the edge. At a boundary between upper and lower housing portions of the housing, the inner circumferential surface has a radius greater than the distance between the central axis and the outermost portion of the edge. The increased thickness portions include component fastening structures defining a fastening structure arranged to fit the upper and lower housing portions to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Iwamoto, Tomotsugu Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Oguma, Yasuyuki Kaji
  • Patent number: 9156087
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems for transferring molten metal from one structure to another. Aspects of the invention include a transfer chamber constructed inside of or next to a vessel used to retain molten metal. The transfer chamber is in fluid communication with the vessel so molten metal from the vessel can enter the transfer chamber. A powered device, which may be inside of the transfer chamber, moves molten metal upward and out of the transfer chamber and preferably into a structure outside of the vessel, such as another vessel or a launder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Paul V. Cooper, Vincent D. Fontana
  • Patent number: 9115721
    Abstract: The present invention provides a turbofan and a graphics card with the turbofan. The turbofan comprises: a turbofan assembly which admits air in an axial direction and dispenses air in a radial direction; an inlet fan assembly disposed at an inlet of the turbofan assembly and disposed coaxially with the turbofan assembly; and a driving means for driving the turbofan assembly and the inlet fan assembly to rotate. The turbofan provided by the invention gathers the ambient air to the inlet through the inlet fan assembly disposed at the inlet of the turbofan assembly, so as to change a negative pressure state at the inlet. Consequently, the cooling efficiency of the turbofan is improved effectively and the noise of the turbofan is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Pengwei Xu, Yuan Yuan, Songliang Ni
  • Patent number: 9109607
    Abstract: A motor arranged to rotate an impeller includes a rotor magnet fixed to a shaft, and a stator arranged opposite to the rotor magnet. The motor is arranged on an axially lower side of an impeller cup. The stator is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of a stator support portion. An opening-side end portion of the impeller cup is arranged opposite to an upper surface of the stator support portion. The upper surface of the stator support portion includes an expanded portion defined in a portion thereof which is opposed to the opening-side end portion of the impeller cup. The expanded portion is preferably located a greater distance from the opening-side end portion of the impeller cup than a distance between the opening-side end portion and a remaining portion of the upper surface of the stator support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenobu Takeshita, Tomotsugu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20150147208
    Abstract: The air compressor contains a casing member, a driving member, and a cylinder member. The casing member has a first accommodation section, a second accommodation section, and a connection section connecting the first and second accommodation sections. The first accommodation section has a number of first inlets and first outlets. The driving member is located between the first and second accommodation sections, and is adjacent to the first outlets. The cylinder member is located both in the second accommodation section and the connection section, and is adjacent to the second outlets. The outside cool air is drawn into the casing member through the first inlets. A portion of the drawn air is released through the first outlets, forming a first flow path for cooling down the driving member. Another portion is released through the second outlets, forming a second flow path for cooling down the cylinder member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Chi-Wen Chen
  • Publication number: 20150139822
    Abstract: Cooling devices for use with electric submersible pump motors include a refrigerator attached to the end of the electric submersible pump motor with the evaporator heat exchanger accepting all or a portion of the heat load from the motor. The cooling device can be a self-contained bolt-on unit, so that minimal design changes to existing motors are required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicants: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Andrew Jankowski, Jose A. Gamboa
  • Patent number: 9022754
    Abstract: A fan impeller structure includes an annular body. The annular body has a top section and a receiving space. At least one first bending section is formed between the top section and the annular body. At least one recess is formed at the first bending section. At least one flow guide hole is formed between the first bending section and the recess in communication with the receiving space. In operation, the airflow conducted into the receiving space is increased. Moreover, no matter whether the fan impeller structure is clockwise rotated or counterclockwise rotated, the airflow can be conducted into the receiving space through the flow guide hole. Accordingly, the heat dissipation effect will not be affected by the rotational direction of the fan impeller structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chu-Hsien Chou
  • Publication number: 20150104340
    Abstract: A furnace assembly comprising a non-condensing furnace with a draft inducer. The draft inducer includes a permanent magnet electrically commutated motor and a draft inducer blower fan. The motor includes a stator, a rotor, a motor cooling fan, and a controller. The rotor being rotatable relative to the stator, the fan being operatively coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor causes rotation of the fan, the controller being configured to selectively operate the motor in first and second different torque ranges of the rotor, with the first and second torque range operating within a fixed percentage and within a fixed percentage of each other. The controller being configured such during normal operation, the motor is not operable at any torques between the first torque range and the second torque range except during transitionary periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Bobby D. Garrison, Michael D. Smith, Jeffrey J. Long
  • Publication number: 20150093256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining a desired differential pressure between a cooling oil of an electric motor and a process gas working fluid of a compressor connected axially to the electric motor. The cooling oil acts as a coolant for the motor compartment of the electric motor and the gas working fluid acts as a coolant for the rotor compartment of the electric motor. At least one bellow is configured to provide two sealed compartments in a pressure equalizer and a spring means is configured to add a differential pressure to the cooling oil, assuring no leaks between the two fluids flows from the cooling oil to the process gas working fluid and no contact of the process gas working fluid with the electric motor stator, in particular electric motor laminations and electric motor windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Massimiliano Mariotti, Claudia Cagnarini, Francesco Del Medico
  • Publication number: 20150078938
    Abstract: An air compressor includes a cooling fan having a back plate serving as a plate shape part formed on a flat plate, a normal line thereof being set to a direction along a rotational shaft of a motor, blades extending parallel with the rotational shaft from an inner side of the back plate towards an outer periphery thereof and being centrifugally formed on the back plate, and a ring part having a cylindrical shape substantially parallel with the rotational shaft and extending from the back plate towards a heat generation surface. When the motor is operated, exterior air sucked by the cooling fan is guided to a central part thereof, flows towards an outer periphery thereof along the back plate, deflected by the ring part, flows towards and collides with the heat generation surface and further flows radially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Naoto Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 8974194
    Abstract: An impeller of an advection-type fan includes a metal base plate, a shaft and a plurality of plastic blades. The metal base plate includes a shaft-coupling portion and a peripheral portion, with a first plane facing in a first direction and a second plane facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction arranged between the shaft-coupling portion and the peripheral portion. The metal base plate is in a plane form between the shaft-coupling portion and the peripheral portion. The shaft has a fixing end and a free end. The fixing end is coupled with the shaft-coupling portion, and the free end extends in the first direction. Each plastic blade has a coupling portion and an air-driving portion. The coupling portion is coupled with the peripheral portion, and the air-driving portion extends in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tso-Kuo Yin, Chih-Hao Chung, Yuan-Jie Zheng
  • Patent number: 8974198
    Abstract: A counterweight cover for a compressor is provided and may include an annular body having a recess at least partially defined by an outer circumferential portion, an inner circumferential portion, and an upper portion connecting the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion. A suction baffle may be disposed on the annular body and may direct a flow of suction gas within the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Schaefer, Stephen M. Seibel, Daniel L. McSweeney, Robert J. Comparin
  • Publication number: 20150064026
    Abstract: A cooling system for a motor-compressor and a method for cooling the motor-compressor are provided. The cooling system may include a discharge assembly having a hub portion disposed radially outward of a rotary shaft of the motor-compressor. A plurality of arms may be fluidly coupled with and may extend generally tangential from the hub portion of the discharge assembly. The hub portion may define an annular volume fluidly coupled with the plurality of arms. The cooling system may also include a blower impeller disposed in the annular volume and coupled with the rotary shaft. The blower impeller may be configured to rotate with the rotary shaft and draw a cooling fluid into the discharge assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: DRESSER-RAND COMPANY
    Inventor: William C. Maier
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20150044077
    Abstract: A fan includes a motor, an impeller and a heat dissipating structure. The impeller includes a hub and a plurality of first blades. The hub receives the motor, and the hub comprises at least a heat dissipating hole. The first blades are disposed around the hub. The heat dissipating structure is disposed outside the hub. The heat dissipating structure includes a baffle and at least a second blade extending from the baffle and disposed corresponding to the heat dissipating hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shih-Han HUANG, Shun-Chen CHANG
  • Publication number: 20150044073
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump for a kitchen appliance has a pump head and a pump body having a motor. The stator of the motor has a stator core, windings and an end cap fixed to one side of the stator core. The pump head has a volute and an impeller. The volute has a chamber with an inlet and an outlet. The chamber has an opening facing the pump body. The end cap is made of thermally conductive material and has an annular sidewall and a base plate. The sidewall surrounds the stator core. The base plate seals the opening of the chamber. Heat generated by the stator is transferred to liquid in the chamber via the end cap to cool the motor and to heat the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Awade BADAFEM, Min LI
  • Publication number: 20150037181
    Abstract: Pump arrangement (20) for conveying a fluid, with a housing (22), with a first rotatably mounted pump member (24), and with a second rotatably mounted pump member (26), wherein a fluid-conveying effect is produced by means of a relative rotary movement between the first and the second pump member (24, 26), wherein the first pump member (24) can be driven by an electric motor (42) which is arranged concentrically to the first pump member (24) and which has a stator (44) and a rotor (46), wherein the rotor (46) is fixed to the first pump member (24) and wherein the pump arrangement (20) is constructed in such a way that fluid is present in an annular gap (58) between the rotor (46) and the stator (44). In this case, the pump arrangement has temperature control means for heating the fluid in the annular gap (58).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Elmar Hoppach
  • Publication number: 20150023818
    Abstract: An air compression system includes an air compression device and a cooling structure. The air compression device includes a liquid-cooled motor and a compressor. The cooling includes a radiator, a cooler, a first liquid conveying tube, a second liquid conveying tube, a third liquid conveying tube, a fourth liquid conveying tube and a cooling liquid. The radiator interconnects the compressor for cooling a lubricating liquid in the compressor; the first liquid conveying tube interconnects the radiator and the cooler; the second liquid conveying tube interconnects the radiator and the cooler; the third liquid conveying tube interconnects the liquid-cooled motor and the cooler; the fourth liquid conveying tube interconnects the liquid-cooled motor and the cooler; and the cooling liquid is filled into the cooler, so as to reduce the space occupied by the cooling structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Feng-Yung LIN, Chih-Chung CHEN, Li-Yung YAN
  • Publication number: 20150017032
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a ship's propulsion unit which includes: a closed liquid cooling system having an inner space containing liquid. The inner space is partly limited by a cylindrical outer surface of a cylindrical section of a motor housing section of the propulsion unit for exchanging thermal energy between an electric motor arranged in the cylindrical section of the motor housing section and liquid in the inner space. The inner space of the closed liquid cooling system is partly limited by the shell structure of the propulsion unit so that liquid in the inner space is in direct contact with the shell structure of the propulsion unit for exchanging thermal energy between liquid in the inner space and water surrounding the propulsion unit via the shell structure of the propulsion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: ABB OY
    Inventor: Petri SÄKKINEN
  • Publication number: 20150017033
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a ship's propulsion unit including a shell structure arranged below a hull of the ship and an electric motor for rotating a propeller. The propulsion unit can include a closed gas circulation cooling system containing gas and include a gas circulation device for circulating gas through channels in the electric motor, a closed liquid cooling system having an inner space containing liquid, and a gas-liquid-heat exchanger in fluid connection with the closed gas circulation cooling system and with the closed liquid cooling system for exchanging thermal energy between gas circulating in the closed gas circulation cooling system and liquid in the closed liquid cooling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: ABB OY
    Inventors: Petri SÄKKINEN, Olli TOIVANEN
  • Publication number: 20140377102
    Abstract: A system, compressor, and method that cools an electronics module with a low-pressure refrigerant. The system, compressor, and method utilize a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the low pressure refrigerant and communicates with the electronics module. Based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor, the electronics module controls a liquid dry out point of the refrigerant that is used to cool the electronics module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Jean-Luc M. Caillat
  • Publication number: 20140371919
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor for compressing a refrigerant vapour in a refrigeration cycle. The compressor comprises an impeller drive shaft (28) supported by first and second radial bearings (32) for rotation within the compressor housing and an impeller assembly including at least one centrifugal impeller wheel mounted on the impeller drive shaft to rotate with the impeller drive shaft. The first and second radial bearings are hydrodynamic fluid bearings in which the bearing fluid is the refrigerant vapour. The compressor further comprising a conduit (36) for supplying a portion of the refrigerant vapour from the impeller assembly to the first and second fluid bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Creamer
  • Patent number: 8884480
    Abstract: A fan includes an air movement implement including a blade and a motor that drives the air movement implement. The motor includes a rotor that includes an internal diameter heat exchanger and a heat pipe having a first end and a second end, the first end in thermal contact with the internal diameter heat exchanger and the second end in thermal contact with the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Debabrata Pal, Craig R. LeGros
  • Patent number: 8876501
    Abstract: A motor housing that accommodates a pump-driving electric motor and a controller that controls the electric motor is fixed to a pump body of a pump that sucks and discharges oil. A sealed motor chamber that accommodates the electric motor is formed within the motor housing. A cooling oil is filled in the motor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kawano, Hiroki Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20140314598
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor mount (20) for a drive motor (17) for the impellor (15) of a motor-fan unit (1), comprising:—a base (21) comprising at least one cooling opening (50) for the circulation of a stream of cooling air for cooling the drive motor (17), and—a receptacle (30) situated partly at least inside the base (21) and comprising a peripheral wall (35) forming a housing (36) to house the drive motor (17), the peripheral wall (35) comprising at least one cooling aperture (51) for the circulation of the stream of cooling air toward the housing (36) housing the motor. The motor mount comprises at least one cooling sleeve (52) connecting the cooling opening (50) and the cooling aperture (51). The invention also relates to a motor-fan unit incorporating such a motor mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventor: Morgan Le Goff
  • Patent number: 8840380
    Abstract: An annular device for the temperature control of a pump is provided. That device is in fluid communication with the radiator coolant system of a vehicle, and the engine-warmed coolant flows through the annular device to warm the pump and thaw ice buildup. The device is removable and can be added on to an existing pump without any redesign of the existing pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tenghua Tom Shieh, Kyle Thomas Bernier, James Guitar, Shohei Nomura
  • Publication number: 20140241903
    Abstract: An electric pump may comprise a pump portion including an impeller, a motor portion configured to activate the pump portion, and a housing configured to contain the pump portion and the motor portion. The motor portion may comprise a rotor configured to activate the impeller, a stator configured to rotate the rotor, a control circuit configured to control a rotation of the rotor, a resin portion configured to cover the stator, and a heat transferring portion contacting the control circuit and the housing, thermal conductivity of the heat transferring portion being higher than thermal conductivity of the resin portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Honda
  • Patent number: 8807971
    Abstract: A turbo compressor for air includes a compressor housing and an impeller arranged in the compressor housing. The turbo compressor also has a drive motor with a stator and a rotor. On the rotor shaft of which the impeller is seated, in such a manner that the drive motor is cooled in an optimum manner, the drive motor is positioned to be cooled with a flow of cooling air by way of a closed cooling air circuit. The flow of cooling air in the cooling air circuit flows through at least one cooling bore which penetrates a section of the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Piller Industrieventilatoren GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Ring, Joel Kofi Adomako
  • Patent number: 8810086
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotor (1) for an electric rotor motor, consisting of a rotor bell (2) with a peripheral wall (4) and at least one one-sided rotor base (6) to enclose a stator, in particular as a part of a motor housing with a high IP rating, for example IP54 per DIN/IEC-EN 60034-5. The rotor bell (2) features a heat sink (12) with high heat conductivity that extends through the rotor base (6) in such a way that the motor heat arising on the inside can be removed via the heat sink (12) through the rotor base (6) to the outside into the environment. Further, the invention relates to an electric rotor motor, in particular with an encapsulated motor housing with a high IP-protection system, for example IP54 per DIN/IEC-EN 60034-5, consisting of a stator and a rotor (1) enclosing the stator in an embodiment of the above-described type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: EBM-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Best, Werner Müller
  • Patent number: 8807970
    Abstract: A multistage electric motor includes a plurality of motor stages connected in series, each motor stage comprising a stator, and a rotor; a plurality of cooling fluid paths, each cooling fluid path forming a recirculating loop independent of the other cooling fluid paths, each cooling fluid path in communication with the stator of one of motor stages; and a cooling fluid flowing through each cooling fluid path, the cooling fluid removing heat from the stator of each motor stage. A submersible pump including the multistage electric motor, and a method of cooling the multistage electric motor are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Flowserve Management Company
    Inventors: Behrend Goswin Schlenhoff, Axel Helmut Tank-Langenau, Charles James Powers, Thomas Albers
  • Patent number: 8801398
    Abstract: A turbocompressor assembly is provided, which is divided along a rotor axis into at least three sections. The three sections include a bearing section having an active magnetic bearing, a motor section including a motor having a stator arranged along the rotor axis, the stator enclosing a circumferential motor gap formed between the stator and the rotor, and a compressor section having a compressor for compressing a cooling fluid. A gas-tight housing encloses the rotor, the bearing section, the motor section and the compressor section. A cooling system is provided having an inlet for supplying the pressurized cooling fluid to the bearing section and the motor section through a fluid channel positioned between the bearing section and the motor section. The cooling system includes a throttling device positioned adjacent to the motor gap for limiting the flow of cooling fluid from the fluid channel to the motor gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gerard Korenblik
  • Patent number: 8757990
    Abstract: A blower fan including a motor having a rotating shaft, a bracket, a fan housing having a cavity, a fan wheel, and fan blades. The motor is disposed on the fan housing via the bracket. An extended portion of the rotating shaft extends into the cavity of the fan housing and connects with the fan wheel. The fan blades are disposed on the rotating shaft and between the motor and the fan housing. On the casing of the motor is disposed with air vents. The bracket forms an annular side wall. A cavity is formed inside the annular side wall. The annular side wall is outfitted with air outlets which are connected with the cavity of the annular side wall and the fan blades are disposed in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Ping Lu, Miao Zhang
  • Patent number: 8740586
    Abstract: A heat exchanger to serve ESP equipment installed on the seabed located in either a caisson or skid. A hot oil line connects the base of the ESP motor with the externally located heat exchanger, allowing hot motor oil to be circulated through coils externally exposed to seawater. The heat from the oil is rejected to the seawater and the cooled oil is reintroduced to the motor via a cold oil line that communicates with the seal section. The heat exchanger arrangement reduces the temperature of an ESP motor, thus allowing the motor to operate longer and more reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Ignacio Martinez, Dan A. Merrill
  • Patent number: 8714949
    Abstract: In a washer fluid pump (2) for a window cleaning system (3) of a motor vehicle, a ventilation duct (21) of an electric motor (9) is guided in a labyrinth from a first plane (22) arranged in the electric motor (9) into the environment via a second plane (24) arranged in a collecting space (23). For this purpose, the ventilation duct (21) has two first sections (20) which lead vertically from the electric motor (9) into the collecting space (23), and two second sections (26) which open out vertically from the collecting space (23) into the environment. The first and the second sections (20, 26) are offset with respect to one another by 90°, so as to prevent an infiltration of spray water into the electric motor (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Opel, Dirk Ringler
  • Patent number: 8708675
    Abstract: Systems and methods of cooling a motor of an electrical submersible pump (ESP) assembly employed in an electrical submersible subsea booster pumping system, are provided. A supporting frame structure such as an ESP mounting skid or top end assembly of a caisson having structural members exposed to environmental seawater, is modified or designed to include fluid conduits within the structural members to establish lubricant pathways for lubricant to flow. A heated/hot lubricant line connects between a supporting structure lubricant inlet port and an ESP motor lubricant outlet port. A cooled lubricant line connects between a supporting structure lubricant outlet port and an ESP motor lubricant inlet port. A pump or other fluid moving device circulates lubricant from the ESP motor to the lubricant pathways within the supporting frame structure, whereby the seawater cools the lubricant contained therein, which is then circulated back into the motor to assisting cooling the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Ignacio Martinez, Donn J. Brown, John J. Mack, Steven K. Tetzlaff, Dan A. Merrill
  • Patent number: 8702404
    Abstract: Provided is an air blower for a fuel cell vehicle, and in particular, an air blower for a fuel cell vehicle having a cooling water passage formed in a motor case and an air flowing groove to increase cooling efficiency and reduce a shaft load to improve durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Halla Visteon Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Kyung Seok Cho, Soon Ho Choi, Hyun Sup Yang, Cha You Lim
  • Patent number: 8696334
    Abstract: A submersible pumping system for downhole use in extracting fluids containing hydrocarbons from a well. In one embodiment, the pumping system comprises a rotary induction motor, a motor casing, one or more pump stages, and a cooling system. The rotary induction motor rotates a shaft about a longitudinal axis of rotation. The motor casing houses the rotary induction motor such that the rotary induction motor is held in fluid isolation from the fluid being extracted. The pump stages are attached to the shaft outside of the motor casing, and are configured to impart fluid being extracted from the well with an increased pressure. The cooling system is disposed at least partially within the motor casing, and transfers heat generated by operation of the rotary induction motor out of the motor casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Francis Alan Hunt, F. Coyne Prenger, Dallas D. Hill, Todd Andrew Jankowski
  • Patent number: 8696327
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump motor has motor oil flowing through external circulation tubes for cooling the motor. A substantial portion of the exterior of each tube is submerged in and exposed to wellbore fluid. Heat is transferred from the motor to the motor oil, and then circulated through the external circulation tubes to conduct heat to the wellbore fluid. Internal or external motor oil pumps may be used to propel the motor oil through the circulation tubes. Guards or baffles may be used to protect the circulation tubes and to influence the flow of production fluid over the circulation tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael A. Forsberg
  • Patent number: 8678791
    Abstract: The fan comprises a first electromechanical module including a wheel supported by a shaft coupled to a driving motor, a second mechanical module including a body delimiting a space for receiving the first electromechanical module in which the wheel and the driving motor are received, and a third electronic module including a plurality of electronic components. The third electronic module includes a housing in which the plurality of electronic components is housed, the housing also comprising a deflagration protection exhaust comprising an upper wall and two inclined walls extending on either side of the upper wall so as to form a space extending substantially axially between the upper surface of the housing and the upper wall in order to allow the discharge of overpressures in case of deflagration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Technofan
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Nicolas Sentenac
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20140079577
    Abstract: A fan includes a fan frame, a motor and an impeller. The motor is disposed in the frame. The impeller is connected with the motor and driven by the motor. The impeller includes a hub, an inner blade and an outer blade. The hub has a first surface facing the motor and a second surface facing away from the motor. The inner blade is disposed on the first surface, and the outer blade is disposed on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shun-Chen CHANG, Bo-Chun CHEN, Chao-Yu CHEN
  • Patent number: 8672651
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module used for a car, and more particularly, to a fuel pump module with a driver equipped inside a fuel tank capable of solving a problem of space limitation due to the installation of the driver by disposing the driver for controlling a BLDC fuel pump between a flange and a reservoir and mounting it in the fuel tank, minimizing the degradation in performance of the BLDC fuel pump caused by voltage drop and efficiency degradation due to a wire by reducing a length of a wire for electrically connecting the driver with the BLDC fuel pump, and achieving a sufficient heat radiation effect by directly transferring the heat energy generated from electrical devices such as FET, MCU, or the like, mounted in the driver to the fuel in the fuel tank through the case cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Wan-Sung Pae, Hyung-Min Kim, Kyeong-Hwan Kim, Inseok Sohn
  • Patent number: 8628309
    Abstract: A turbomolecular pump having a pump main unit having, at least, a rotary vein provided on a rotor, a static vein for working in cooperation with the rotary vein to perform a vacuum exhaust, and a motor for driving the rotor, comprising: a controlling device that includes a motor driving circuit for converting into thermal energy, in a regenerative braking resistance, the regenerative electric current that is produced at the time of regeneratively driving the motor; and a cooling device for cooling the controlling device. A rod-shape heating resistive element is used as the regenerative braking resistance, where this resistive heating element is routed along the inner peripheral surface of an end portion 14a of the controlling device case that contacts the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nagano, Junichiro Kozaki
  • Patent number: 8613604
    Abstract: The provision of the components requiring cooling on top of the cooling mechanism enables the cooling efficiency to be increased. Furthermore, a case of a control device is attached to the cooling mechanism whereon the components requiring cooling are disposed. The cooling mechanism fulfills the role of the contact surface of the case of the control device with the turbomolecular pump main unit, where the case does not have a case panel on the contact surface with the turbomolecular pump main unit. The cooling mechanism fulfills the role of one surface of the case for the control device, where the cooling mechanism is structured integrally with the control device. Additionally, the turbomolecular pump main unit, the cooling mechanism, and the control device are structured integrally by the turbomolecular pump main unit and the cooling mechanism being in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nagano, Toshiki Yamaguchi, Takuto Onishi, Masaki Ohfuji, Junichiro Kozaki
  • Patent number: 8597001
    Abstract: An electric machine comprising a stator having a stator winding, a housing accommodating the stator, a rotor, and an air gap having a generally cylindrical configuration. A plurality of circumferentially distributed, radial, first cooling gas ducts are provided in a stator core. Jets of cooling gas are directed to regions of an end winding which are relatively distant from the stator core, in order to achieve impingement cooling thereof. Flows of cooling gas are directed to portions of the end winding which are between the impingement cooled regions of the end winding and the respective front face of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Gardner Denver Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Juha Saari, Charles B. Powell, Arttu Reunanen, Erkki Lantto
  • Patent number: 8585374
    Abstract: An example fan assembly impeller moves air along a secondary flow path when driven by a motor. The motor also drives a fan rotor to move air along a primary flow path of the fan assembly. Air moving along the primary flow path moves in a first direction. Air moving along the secondary flow path moves in a second direction opposite the first direction. An example fan shroud communicates air used to cool a motor into a primary flow path of a fan assembly. The shroud communicates the air into the primary flow path so that the flow of air is at least partially aligned with air moving through the primary flow path of the fan assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Craig M. Beers, Harold W. Hipsky, Brent J. Merritt, Darryl A. Colson, Roberto J. Perez
  • Patent number: 8556600
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pump system, especially for boosting the flow rate of a fluid through a pipe (1, 2, 6), comprising a pump positioned in a pump chamber (10) for pumping at a chosen rate, and a motor driving said pump, the motor being positioned in a chamber (9) being provided with a pressurized fluid, the pressure of which being higher than the pressure in the pump chamber, the motor and the pump chambers being separated by a seal (8), the seal allowing a leakage of said pressurized fluid between them, wherein the pressurized fluid is acceptable to the pump environment and the system comprises a discharge branch line (3) coupled to the pipe(6) and positioned downstream from said pump, the discharge branch line having an outlet into the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Aker Subsea AS
    Inventors: Audun Grynning, Stein Vegar Larsen, Geir Inge Olsen
  • Patent number: 8540497
    Abstract: A fan self-cooling structure with heat pipe includes a stator assembly, a fan circuit board, and at least one heat pipe. The fan circuit board is flatly connected to a bottom end of the stator assembly and has at least one heat-producing electronic element provided thereon. The at least one heat pipe is provided on the fan circuit board for absorbing and transferring heat energy produced by the at least one electronic element. With these arrangements, it is able to lower the temperature of the electronic elements in a fan and enhance the characteristics of the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shu-Kang Chang
  • Patent number: 8529217
    Abstract: A method for operating a compressor device and associated compressor device including a compressor chamber and a cooling chamber adjoining the compressor chamber is provided. The pressure of a cooling medium in the cooling chamber is held above the pressure of a compressor medium in the compressor chamber during operation of the compressor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludger Alfes, Wolfgang Zacharias