61 |
THERMALLY PROTECTED ELECTRIC MOTOR |
US14554351 |
2014-11-26 |
US20150076946A1 |
2015-03-19 |
RAINER SCHOELE; FRANK HARTMANN; PETER STOCKMANN; FRANK CAPRISTO, III |
An electric motor for driving a motor vehicle component, such as a fan motor for cooling cooling water, has a thermal fuse with a contact spring. The contact spring has attached ends that are connected to a conducting path section between which an interruption point is formed. The springy ends of the contact spring are in soldered contact with each other in a spring-biased manner. The thermal fuse is a fuse module with a plastic support in which the conducting path sections are partially embedded in such a way that the contact spring lies in a window opening in the support. Terminals of the conducting path sections protrude from the plastic support. |
62 |
ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE |
US14371039 |
2012-03-09 |
US20140339931A1 |
2014-11-20 |
Kazunori Tanaka; Toshiyuki Oonishi |
In order to prevent poor operability caused by entanglement of the fins in the heat sink during assembly without a drop in the cooling efficiency of the cooling flow along a rotation shaft, a plurality of fins 23c of the heat sink in a vehicle AC generator 1 is constituted by fin groups 123 in which fins are aligned in parallel in one direction, and an entanglement preventing portion 23d is disposed only on the respective outer side surfaces of a pair of outermost fins. |
63 |
ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS |
US14353435 |
2012-07-05 |
US20140326530A1 |
2014-11-06 |
Yoshihito Asao; Akihiko Mori |
An electric power steering apparatus (1) is provided with a heat sink (5) and an intermediate member (4) whose surface portions are perpendicularly placed with respect to an axial direction of a motor's shaft center, and arranged in such a way that each of power modules (51a, 51b) of a plurality of driving circuits is attached on a surface portion of the heat sink (5) so that an extending direction of a maximum outer dimension of the power modules (51a, 51b) is perpendicular to the axial direction, and each of electric devices (C1a-C1b) of the plurality of driving circuits is attached on a surface portion of the intermediate member (4) so that an extending direction of a maximum outer dimension of the electric devices (C1a-C1b) is perpendicular to the axial direction. |
64 |
Systems and methods for cooling bearings |
US11498271 |
2006-08-01 |
US07753646B1 |
2010-07-13 |
James A. Keck; Donald M. Hudson; Paul C. Peterson |
Systems and methods are provided for cooling bearings or other objects. Such cooling may be accomplished by expanding a compressed gas in a cooling channel surrounding a bearing and allowing the expanded air to come into direct contact with the bearing. Expanding a compressed gas in local proximity of the bearing takes advantage of the Joule-Thompson expansion of gas, resulting in a substantial drop in gas temperature, thereby maximizing the cooling potential of the gas being directly applied to the bearing. Cooling bearings in this manner extends their operational life and enables them to operate at the desired speeds. A housing may be provided for receiving a compressed gas, expanding the compressed gas to a predetermined pressure, enabling the expanded gas to directly contact the bearing, and exhausting the expanded gas. |
65 |
Phase change assisted heat sink |
US09820399 |
2001-03-29 |
US20020024221A1 |
2002-02-28 |
Timothy
Michael
Grewe; Steve
William
Osovski |
In an electric vehicle, the traction motor is driven from a battery by way of a controllable electric power switcher. In operation of the switcher, the power losses of the switches depends upon the power being handled; during acceleration the power is high, and at constant speed on level ground the power is small. Thus, the power nulldissipatednull by the switches varies with time. A cooler transfers heat from the switcher. During acceleration, the cooler may not be sufficient to limit the instantaneous switch temperature. A phase-change heat nullsinknull coupled to the switches absorbs heat from the switches during hard acceleration, and returns the heat to the cooler under more constant-speed conditions. |
66 |
CONDUCTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING THEREOF |
US15606123 |
2017-05-26 |
US20180342919A1 |
2018-11-29 |
Hao Huang; Wei Zhang; Xiaochuan Jia |
A conductor a method of forming a conductor can include providing a hollow base conductor defining a fluid channel along the base conductor, and a solid conductor arranged about the perimeter of the hollow base conductor, wherein the fluid channel can be configured to allow a fluid to flow via the channel. |
67 |
Electrical rotating machine with one-sided cooling and method for one-sided cooling |
US15543659 |
2015-12-02 |
US10008906B2 |
2018-06-26 |
Frank Seibicke |
An electrical rotating machine includes a laminated stator core having a first axial duct to convey a cooling air stream generated by a turbomachine through the laminated stator core to a rear stator winding overhang, and a second axial duct to return the cooling air stream from the rear stator winding overhang back through the laminated stator core. An air guide is attached to the laminated stator core on a side of the rear stator winding overhang to redirect the cooling air stream via the rear stator winding overhang. Radial slots between the ducts and an air gap between the laminated stator core and a rotor are spaced from one another at an axial distance which decreases toward a turbomachine-distal side of the laminated stator core so as to compensate a temperature gradient caused by the one-sided cooling. |
68 |
Electric drive, vehicle having an electric drive, and method for operating an electric drive |
US14460710 |
2014-08-15 |
US09941768B2 |
2018-04-10 |
Thomas Bock; Karl-Heinz Gaubatz |
An electric drive, particularly for vehicles, includes at least one first and at least one second electric machine. The electric machines are arranged relative to one another in a manner comparable to the cylinders of a conventional opposed-cylinder internal-combustion engine. |
69 |
PUMP MOTOR WITH COMPONENT MOUNT SUPPORT PLATE |
US15483104 |
2017-04-10 |
US20170302126A1 |
2017-10-19 |
Jürgen Ehrsam; Klaus Weiske; Harald Rausch; Florian Stückl; Jens Weiss |
A centrifugal pump motor comprising a permanent magnet rotor, a wound stator that is separated from the permanent magnet rotor by means of a containment shell, a circuit board having a large electronic component electrically connected to it, and a motor housing with a plug connection. The centrifugal pump motor provides a robust design for a generic centrifugal pump motor, so as to prevent damage during installation and operation, as well as additionally ensuring a space-saving and compact arrangement of the electronic components, in order to enable optimal heat dissipation of the electronic components. Furthermore, a simple way of manufacturing is provided. |
70 |
Brush system for an electric motor |
US14555192 |
2014-11-26 |
US09774231B2 |
2017-09-26 |
Rainer Schoele; Frank Hartmann; Peter Stockmann |
A brush system for an electric motor, having a substantially semiannular resistor housing into which an electric flat resistor is introduced, two resistor terminals which protrude from the resistor housing and can be coupled in an electrically conducting manner to a conductor path of the electric motor, and a substantially semi-circular support plate that includes two bus bars to electroconductively couple the conductor path to the terminals and to two brush elements. The two terminals are arranged on the same narrow side of the resistor housing. |
71 |
Thermally protected electric motor |
US14554351 |
2014-11-26 |
US09742247B2 |
2017-08-22 |
Rainer Schoele; Frank Hartmann; Peter Stockmann; Frank Capristo, III |
An electric motor for driving a motor vehicle component, such as a fan motor for cooling cooling water, has a thermal fuse with a contact spring. The contact spring has attached ends that are connected to a conducting path section between which an interruption point is formed. The springy ends of the contact spring are in soldered contact with each other in a spring-biased manner. The thermal fuse is a fuse module with a plastic support in which the conducting path sections are partially embedded in such a way that the contact spring lies in a window opening in the support. Terminals of the conducting path sections protrude from the plastic support. |
72 |
Cooling structure of rotary electric machine |
US14126019 |
2012-06-22 |
US09729027B2 |
2017-08-08 |
Tomohiko Miyamoto; Shuhei Matsusaka; Koji Kato |
A cooling structure of a rotary electric machine (10) that includes a rotating shaft (16), a rotor (18), and a stator (20) that includes a coil end (22), includes a coolant passage (38) that is included in the rotating shaft (16) and through which coolant flows, and a squirt hole (42) that is included in the coolant passage (38). The squirt hole (42) is included in the coolant passage (38). An opening portion of the squirt hole (42) is positioned on an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft (16) and to an outside of the coil end (22) in the axial direction. The squirt hole (42) squirts the coolant such that the coolant is distributed to an inner peripheral surface (C1, C2) of the coil end (22) and an end surface (A1, A2) of the coil end (22) in the axial direction. |
73 |
Electric power steering apparatus |
US14353435 |
2012-07-05 |
US09586615B2 |
2017-03-07 |
Yoshihito Asao; Akihiko Mori |
An electric power steering apparatus (1) is provided with a heat sink (5) and an intermediate member (4) whose surface portions are perpendicularly placed with respect to an axial direction of a motor's shaft center, and arranged in such a way that each of power modules (51a, 51b) of a plurality of driving circuits is attached on a surface portion of the heat sink (5) so that an extending direction of a maximum outer dimension of the power modules (51a, 51b) is perpendicular to the axial direction, and each of electric devices (C1a-C1b) of the plurality of driving circuits is attached on a surface portion of the intermediate member (4) so that an extending direction of a maximum outer dimension of the electric devices (C1a-C1b) is perpendicular to the axial direction. |
74 |
A MAGNETIC GEAR |
US14907783 |
2014-07-25 |
US20160172957A1 |
2016-06-16 |
Andrew Farquhar Atkins; Joshua Dalby; Hing Wung To; Simon Shepherd |
A magnetic gear comprising: first and second members arranged for relative movement therebetween, the first member having a first array of magnetic field generating elements and the second member having a second array of magnetic field generating elements; and a coupling member having an array of coupling elements for coupling magnetic flux between the first array of magnetic field generating elements and the second array of magnetic field generating elements, wherein for at least one of the coupling elements, there is provided a cooling path in thermal communication with the at least one coupling element, wherein the cooling path is provided within at least one of the at least one coupling element and the coupling member. |
75 |
MODULAR COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC MACHINE |
US14376669 |
2013-02-19 |
US20150028728A1 |
2015-01-29 |
Bruno Carpentier; Benjamin Martineau |
A cooling arrangement for electric machines where cooling plates are maintained against the inner surface of the stator and are interconnected by a cooling tube that carries the stator generated heat outside of the machine. |
76 |
Electric Drive, Vehicle Having an Electric Drive, and Method for Operating an Electric Drive |
US14460710 |
2014-08-15 |
US20140353062A1 |
2014-12-04 |
Thomas BOCK; Karl-Heinz GAUBATZ |
An electric drive, particularly for vehicles, includes at least one first and at least one second electric machine. The electric machines are arranged relative to one another in a manner comparable to the cylinders of a conventional opposed-cylinder internal-combustion engine. |
77 |
ADJUSTABLE INSULATING COVER FOR A BAR-TO-BAR CONNECTION OF A STATOR WINDING IN A DYNAMOELECTRIC MACHINE |
US13873525 |
2013-04-30 |
US20140319962A1 |
2014-10-30 |
David Thomas Allen; Travis John Vitello |
An insulated cover (10) for insulating at least two electrically-connected stator bar winding ends (18, 20) in a dynamoelectric machine. The cover (10) comprises a first member (12) for mating with a second member (14), a first interlocking structure (52) on a surface of the first member (12) and a second interlocking structure (50) on a surface of the second member (14). When the cover (10) is installed to insulate the bar winding ends (18, 20) by placing the first (12) and second (14) members in contact, the first (52) and second (50) interlocking structures positively lock to prevent relative displacement of the first (12) and second (14) members. |
78 |
COOLING STRUCTURE OF ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE |
US14126019 |
2012-06-22 |
US20140125165A1 |
2014-05-08 |
Tomohiko Miyamoto; Shuhei Matsusaka; Koji Kato |
A cooling structure of a rotary electric machine (10) that includes a rotating shaft (16), a rotor (18), and a stator (20) that includes a coil end (22), includes a coolant passage (38) that is included in the rotating shaft (16) and through which coolant flows, and a squirt hole (42) that is included in the coolant passage (38). The squirt hole (42) is included in the coolant passage (38). An opening portion of the squirt hole (42) is positioned on an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft (16) and to an outside of the coil end (22) in the axial direction. The squirt hole (42) squirts the coolant such that the coolant is distributed to an inner peripheral surface (C1, C2) of the coil end (22) and an end surface (A1, A2) of the coil end (22) in the axial direction. |
79 |
ELECTRONIC DEVICE ASSEMBLIES AND VEHICLES EMPLOYING DUAL PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS |
US13561229 |
2012-07-30 |
US20140029203A1 |
2014-01-30 |
Shailesh N. Joshi; Ercan Mehmet Dede |
Electronic device assemblies employing dual phase change materials and vehicles incorporating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic device assembly includes a semiconductor device having a surface, wherein the semiconductor device operates in a transient heat flux state and a normal heat flux state, a coolant fluid thermally coupled to the surface of the semiconductor device, and a phase change material thermally coupled to the surface of the semiconductor device. The phase change material has a phase change temperature at which the phase change material changes from a first phase to a second phase. The phase change material absorbs heat flux at least when the semiconductor device operates in the transient heat flux state. |
80 |
Electric motor with rotor being a drive wheel |
US09212127 |
1998-12-15 |
US06703742B1 |
2004-03-09 |
Adam K. Brandley; John R. Irwin |
An electric motor with rotor being a drive wheel. The drive wheel has one or more permanent magnets attached to said drive wheel with opposite magnetic poles adjacent to one another. One or more electromagnets are attached to the structure to which the drive wheel is rotatably connected. A sensor determines the location of the permanent magnets. This information is utilized to assure that the electromagnets are energized only when the resultant magnetic fields will interact with the magnetic fields of the permanent magnet to produce a force on the drive wheel that will cause rotation in the desired direction. Three principal embodiments are employed. In a first embodiment, a computer periodically activates a switch to send pulsed voltage to the electromagnets; the percentage of the period of each pulse during which the voltage is non-zero determines the speed of the drive wheel. In a second embodiment, the computer is replaced with a timing circuit that controls the switch. And in a third embodiment, the output from the sensor directly controls the switch. |