Johnson Electric S.A. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150140671 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLING A MICROFLUIDIC SENSOR - A microfluidic sensor ( | 05-21-2015 |
20140356200 | Electric Pump - A pump for pumping liquid has an electric motor driving an impeller disposed within a pump chamber. The motor has a stator, a rotor, and an end cap. The end cap has a printed circuit board upon which are mounted two brushes connected to a pair of motor terminals through a thermistor. Optionally, the motor may include, singularly or in combination, one or more inductors located between the brushes and the motor terminals, a varistor for preventing excessive voltage spikes electrically connected between the motor terminals, and one or more capacitors electrically connecting the motor terminals to ground. | 12-04-2014 |
20140348675 | PUMP - A liquid pump has a pump housing defining a pump chamber. A motor is accommodated within the pump housing and separated from the pump chamber by an end cap. An impeller disposed within the pump chamber is driven by the motor. The pump chamber has an inlet and one or more outlets. The outlets are located on a sidewall of the pump chamber and extend in a direction substantially tangential to an outer circumference of the pump chamber. Each outlet has a first end near the pump chamber, and a second end remote from the pump chamber. A cross-sectional area S | 11-27-2014 |
20140346380 | Electrically Operated Valve Assembly - An electrically operated valve assembly has a valve element moved by an actuator. The actuator has a motor connected to an output via a gear train. The output is connected to the valve element. The gear train has a gear ratio which is variable depending on the actuation angle of the output shaft. Optionally, a return spring is arranged to resiliently return the output shaft to an initial actuation angle when the motor is not active. | 11-27-2014 |
20140345400 | Actuator with Progressive Gear - An actuator for a grille shutter assembly of a vehicle has a motor connected to an output via a gear train. The output has a connection for connecting to louvers of the grille shutter assembly. The gear train has a gear ratio which is variable depending on the actuation angle of the output shaft. Optionally, a return spring is arranged to resiliently return the output shaft to an initial actuation angle when the motor is not active. | 11-27-2014 |
20140306016 | CONTACT SMART CARD - A contact smart card has a smart card contact pad and an IC chip. The smart card contact pad includes a circuit substrate, a card-reader contact element on a first side of the circuit substrate, and a connection element on a second side of the circuit substrate. The card-reader contact element has a noble metal electrically conductive surface, and the connection element has a chip terminal connection surface which is not a noble metal. The IC chip is preferably flip-chip mounted at the second side of the circuit substrate and electrically connected to the chip terminal connection surface. Furthermore, the chip terminal connection surface is preferably an organometallic electrically conductive corrosion protection layer. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306014 | Security Wrap with Tearable Substrate - An electronic device is protected from unauthorized access by use of a security wrap having a security screen connected to an alarm circuit of the electronic device. The security screen has a pair of screen terminals interconnected by a conductor. The conductor is formed on a substrate. The substrate is arranged such that attempts to remove the security wrap will result in the substrate being torn and the conductor being damaged or broken whereby the resistance of the conductive path formed by the conductor changes to indicate an alarm condition. | 10-16-2014 |
20140300238 | Electric Motor - A rotor for an electric motor has an iron core and a winding wound about teeth of the rotor core. Slots are formed between the teeth to accommodate coils of the winding. The winding includes several layers of windings distributed in the radial direction of the rotor. Each winding layer has a plurality of coils with the coils of each winding layer being wound on the teeth in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The overall center of gravity of the winding layers is substantially positioned at the geometric center of the rotor. Thus the center of gravity of the entire winding is located substantially at the geometric center of the rotor, thereby preventing noise caused by unstable rotation due to the deviation between the center of gravity of the winding and the geometric center of the rotor. | 10-09-2014 |
20140294627 | LIQUID PUMP - A liquid pump ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140292163 | ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH COOLING APPARATUS | 10-02-2014 |
20140287258 | METHOD FOR AFFIXING A METAL SHEET TO A CARBON STRUCTURE USING A BRAZING AND SOLDERING PROCESS - An assembly comprises a carbon structure ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140286747 | PUMP HAVING SELECTABLE OUTLETS - A liquid pump ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140285059 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COMMUTATOR USING A BRAZING AND SOLDERING PROCESS - A commutator ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140285042 | DC ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING AN INSULATING SLEEVE - A DC electric motor ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140284123 | Grille Shutter Actuator - An actuator for opening and closing grille shutters includes a drive unit, a wheel driven by the drive unit, and a pair of shafts attached to the wheel and configured for driving the grille shutters to open or close. At least one of the shafts is pivotally coupled to the wheel so that an angle formed between the shafts and the wheel is adjustable. | 09-25-2014 |
20140270921 | HYBRID TORQUE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM - A hybrid torque transmission mechanism ( | 09-18-2014 |
20140265712 | Electric Motor - An electric motor has a rotatable armature having two pairs of poles, including a lamination stack which has a shape which is symmetrical about its axis and which forms twenty radial teeth and twenty slots and which has, associated therewith, a commutator with twenty segments, and a distributed closed winding, the conductors of which extend into the slots and are connected to the segments of the commutator in a predetermined manner. The winding of the armature has a lap-type winding or coil section connected to two adjacent segments of the commutator and, in series therewith, a plurality of wave-type winding sections or coils. All of these sections or coils encompass a same number of slots. | 09-18-2014 |
20140232495 | RELAY ASSEMBLY WITH FASTENING CLIP - A relay assembly comprises a relay mounted on a board. The relay may be a single or individual relay or a polyphasic relay. The relay has a housing and at least one dip solder pin extending from the housing and soldered to a circuit board. The relay is mounted on the circuit board via at least one fastening clip having a fitting part fitted into a hole in the housing, a latching part latched to a bore in the board, and a central flange between the fitting part and the latching part. | 08-21-2014 |
20140218143 | ROTARY SOLENOID - In one of its aspects the technology disclosed herein concerns a process of making a rotary solenoid. In a generic mode, the process comprises fitting together two mating core half members ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140217847 | BRUSHLESS PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR - A brushless permanent magnet electric motor ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140210299 | ROTOR WINDINGS FOR DC MOTOR - A commutated DC motor ( | 07-31-2014 |
20140209781 | VIBRATION SAFE MOTOR FIXATION IN AN ACTUATOR - An actuator ( | 07-31-2014 |
20140184415 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TAMPER RESISTANT ENCLOSURE - A tampering resistant device has housing, a circuit board fitted with electronic components, and a key pad for command input. A security wrap is disposed between the circuit board and the key pad. The security wrap has a substrate and a security screen formed thereon and connected to a first alarm. The security screen has a conductive trace extending over the substrate between a pair of screen terminals that are electrically connected to respective alarm terminals. An alarm switch is located between the substrate and the circuit board and connected to a second alarm. The alarm switch is held closed by a spigot pressing on the alarm switch through the substrate. The spigot extends from the housing and releases the alarm switch when the housing is opened. | 07-03-2014 |
20140176462 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK DEVICES - In one of its aspects the technology disclosed herein concerns a haptic feedback device ( | 06-26-2014 |
20140167553 | MODIFIED WAVE WINDINGS FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR - A permanent magnet DC motor with 2P magnetic poles, where P is an integer greater than 1, comprising a stator ( | 06-19-2014 |
20140167539 | LINEAR ACTUATOR - A linear actuator has a stator with two stator coils and pole plates forming stator poles. A rotor is rotatably mounted to interact with the stator poles. The rotor has a hollow cup shaped permanent magnet fitted to a screw shaft. An output shaft, which is co-axial with the rotor, is driven by the rotor through a screw connection. The rotor is supported by a single rotary bearing located within the magnet, axially between axial ends of the permanent magnet. | 06-19-2014 |
20140159521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING NOISE OR ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCES IN A ROTATORY DEVICE - An apparatus includes multiple brushes ( | 06-12-2014 |
20140135166 | PLANETARY GEARBOX AND PROCESS FOR ASSEMBLING THE SAME - A gearbox assembly ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140132121 | TRANSVERSE FLUX MOTOR - A transverse flux electric motor ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140131346 | CONVECTION COOKING APPLIANCE WITH A LOW-VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT MOTOR - A cooking appliance ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140128216 | TORQUE TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND POWERTRAIN INCORPORATING A PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR | 05-08-2014 |
20140125152 | ELECTROMAGNETIC DRIVE MECHANISM - An electromagnetic drive mechanism ( | 05-08-2014 |
20140111040 | BRUSHED ROTATORY DEVICE - A brushed rotatory device ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140070125 | VALVE DRIVE ASSEMBLY AND VALVE USING THE SAME - The invention concerns an valve drive assembly for a valve unit for regulating a flow of fluid with a lead-through of an operating rod ( | 03-13-2014 |
20140064973 | IMPELLER AND METHOD FOR DRIVING FLUIDS USING THE SAME - Disclosed are mechanisms for an impeller ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140064941 | FAN MODULE FOR A HEAT EXCHANGER - A fan module ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140062266 | FUSE COMPONENT AND ELECTRIC MOTOR INCORPORATING THE SAME - A fuse component ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140062242 | TRANSVERSE FLUX PERMANENT MAGNET ROTATORY DEVICE - A transverse flux motor ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140049887 | STACKABLE SECURITY WRAPS - The present invention provides a security assembly for protecting a device includes first and second security wraps fitted to the device. The first security wrap covers a first area of the device. The second security wrap partially overlaps the first security wrap and covers a second area of the device. Each of the first and second security wraps has a security screen having first and second screen terminals and a conductive track extending between the first and second screen terminals. A conductive structure is disposed in an overlapping area between the first and second security wraps and coupled to the second screen terminal of the first security screen and to the first screen terminal of the second security screen. | 02-20-2014 |
20140049126 | ROTATORY DEVICE END CAP WITH UNPACKAGED FILTERS - A rotatory device ( | 02-20-2014 |
20140042866 | MOTOR CORE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR INCREASING MATERIAL UTILIZATION AND SLOT FILL RATIO THEREOF - A motor core component ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140035420 | PERMANENT MAGNET ROTOR AND METHOD FOR REDUCING TORQUE RIPPLE IN ELECTRIC MOTOR - A permanent magnet motor ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140034348 | POWER TOOL - A power tool includes a case and a motor installed within the case. The motor has a motor housing and a rotor with shaft. A gear train having a gear train housing and a speed reduction mechanism is installed within the gear train housing and connected to the shaft of the motor. The motor housing and the gear train housing are integrally formed as a common housing and fixed relative to the case. | 02-06-2014 |
20140033331 | MULTILAYER SECURITY WRAP - A security wrap ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140028335 | SECURITY WRAP WITH BREAKABLE CONDUCTORS - A security wrap ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140027159 | SECURITY WRAP - A security wrap ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140027028 | SECURITY WRAP - An electronic device ( | 01-30-2014 |
20130319733 | CONTACT PAD CARRIER STRIP AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A contact pad carrier strip includes a substrate having a lateral extent of or substantially of 35 mm or a multiple of or substantially of 35 mm, and at least three smart card contact pads formed along the lateral extent of the substrate. The contact pads are aligned widthwisely across the lateral extent of the substrate. Each smart card contact pad includes a plurality of contacts. A majority of contacts of the contact pads are oriented to extend widthwisely across the lateral extent of the carrier strip. | 12-05-2013 |
20130309109 | Motor and Fuel Pump - A motor includes a stator and a rotor disposed in the stator. The stator includes a housing and a plurality of magnets attached to an inner surface of the housing. The rotor includes a shaft, with a rotor core and a commutator. Windings are wound on the rotor core and terminated on the commutator. The rotor core includes a plurality of teeth extending outwardly about which the windings are wound. Radially outer surfaces of the teeth are coated with a Zn-Al film. | 11-21-2013 |
20130307380 | Electric Motor - An electric motor has a stator, a rotor, two motor terminals and a filter circuit for suppressing electromagnetic interference. The filter circuit includes a flexible circuit assembly having a FPCB. Multiple filter elements are mounted to the FPCB. There are less connection points between the filter circuit and the motor terminals, which leads to higher reliability of the motor. | 11-21-2013 |
20130307360 | Motor - A motor assembly for a window lift mechanism has a motor and a gearbox. The motor includes a stator having a metal housing, and a rotor with a commutator, rotatably received in the housing. An end cap assembly is connected to the housing. The end cap assembly includes a plurality of brushes making sliding contact with the commutator, a plurality of connecting pieces for connecting an external power source, inductors connected between the brushes and the connecting pieces, and shielding layers cladding the inductors and electrically connected to the housing. | 11-21-2013 |
20130285503 | Commutator Motor - A commutator motor has a stator, brushes and a rotor. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a number of coils wound about the rotor core and a commutator fixed to the shaft next to the rotor core. The commutator has a base and a number of commutator bars fixed to the base in sliding contact with the brushes. The rotor core includes a number of pole bodies extending substantially radially outwards. Each pole body includes a connecting surface at an axial end of the rotor core. The commutator base includes a number of connecting arms extending substantially radially outwards and contacting the connecting surfaces of corresponding pole bodies. At least two of the coils are wound around a corresponding pole body and the connecting arm contacting the connecting surface of this pole body. | 10-31-2013 |
20130285484 | ACTUATOR CASING - A casing configured for receiving a motor. The motor includes a shaft, two end plates substantially perpendicular to the shaft, and two bosses respectively protruding from the two end plates along the shaft. The casing includes two abutting plates. Each abutting plate includes an arcuate resisting surface that substantially faces the other abutting plate for abutting against a corresponding end plate. The distance between the two resisting surfaces increases from the middle thereof to the side thereof. Each abutting plate comprises a notch formed in an edge thereof and extending along the middle of the corresponding resisting surface for receiving a corresponding boss. | 10-31-2013 |
20130284574 | Switch for an Electric Device - A switch has a housing and an actuating element retained on a travel path in the Housing. A restoring member ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130278098 | LINEAR ACTUATOR - A linear actuator with a high holding force providing good irreversibility, has a high efficiency, low friction screw mechanism and a stepper motor with high magnetic detent torque but a low output torque ripple. The phase torque is modified to minimize the effect of the detent torque on the output. torque. Preferably, the motor has asymmetric phases to compensate for the detent torque. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278086 | STEPPER MOTOR WITH ADJUSTABLE DETENT TORQUE - A stepper motor has a rotor having a permanent magnet, a stator housing and a plurality of stator coil assemblies disposed within the stator housing. Each coil assembly has a bobbin, a coil wound about the bobbin, and two pole plates having pole fingers extending axially inside of the bobbin. The bobbin is disposed between the two pole plates and defines a space accommodating the rotor. A number of magnetic detent plates are disposed about the permanent magnet rotor. Each magnetic detent plate has a central opening accommodating the rotor and a plurality of projections extending inwardly, spaced about the central opening. The projections interact with the magnetic field of the rotor magnet. | 10-24-2013 |
20130274049 | ELECTRIC CART WITH GEAR MOTOR - The electric cart has a main body, wheels at the bottom of the main body and a gear motor to electrically drive the wheels. The gear motor includes a motor having a motor shaft, an output shaft connected to at least one of the wheels, and a gear reduction unit connecting the motor shaft to the output shaft. The gear reduction unit has a helical gear train. | 10-17-2013 |
20130271246 | SWITCH ARRANGEMENT - A switch arrangement for electric currents has at least two contacts to be closed and opened. At least one of the contacts is formed by sections of an electrically conductive pathway of a foil. At least one magnet assigned to the foil. At least one magnetic component is placeable in the magnetic field of the magnet and facing the magnet on the other side of the foil. When the magnetic body is placed in the magnetic field of the magnet it is attracted to the magnet causing the foil to be squeezed and the contacts to make contact, closing the switch. | 10-17-2013 |
20130269987 | ELECTRICAL COMPONENT - In an electrical component having at least one flexible carrier material, the connecting surfaces formed on conductive pathways thereof are joined to the connecting surfaces of individual metal bodies via individual bonded connections. At least one rail profile is conformed in the surface structure of each bonded connection; each bonded connection having at least one ultrasonic welding bond. In order to produce the electrical component, individual metal bodies are arranged on the conductive pathways of a flexible carrier material. Connecting surfaces of the individual metal bodies and connecting surfaces of the conductive pathways are materially bonded to each other. One of the connecting surfaces to be bonded is produced from a foil that is fully furnished with conductive pathways, and energy directors made from aluminium are integrated in the conductive pathway or the metal body. | 10-17-2013 |
20130269305 | DRIVE UNIT - The planetary gear train includes a first sun gear driven by the motor, a first ring gear, a first carrier, and a plurality of first planetary gears arranged at one side of the first carrier and meshing with the first sun gear and the first ring gear. The first sun gear, first planetary gears and first ring gear are helical gears so that meshing surface is increased. Helical teeth formed on an inner surface of the first ring gear mesh with the helical teeth of the first planetary gears. Therefore, the operation is stable and the noise is low. The planetary gears are made of plastic to further decrease the noise. The first ring gear is made by sintered powder metallurgy. | 10-17-2013 |
20130264979 | Controller for a Three-Phase Brushless D.C. Motor - Controller for a three-phase brushless D.C. motor has a full bridge circuit and an electronic control unit (ECU). The full bridge circuit has three branches each with switches connected to the motor windings. The switches are driven by signals from the ECU. The drive signals are arranged in two sets of three signals. The two sets are offset by 180 electrical degrees. The drive signals of each set are offset by 120 electrical degrees and each have an active portion, alternating with an inactive portion. The active portion includes an initial interval of pulsed activation, an intermediate interval of continuous activation, and a final interval of pulsed activation. The active portion of the drive signals is greater than 120 electrical degrees, with each initial interval of pulsed activation of a switch overlapping the final interval of the previously activated switch. | 10-10-2013 |
20130264906 | Multi-Layer Brush - A multi-layer brush for making sliding contact with a commutator of an electric motor, includes a body and a shunt. The body includes a first electrically conductive layer, a second electrically conductive layer, and a partition layer disposed between the first and second conductive layers and electrically separating the first and second conductive layers. The shunt is coupled to the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer has a thickness greater than a thickness of the second conductive layer and the partition layer has a lateral leakage resistance greater than the longitudinal resistance of the first and second conductive layers. | 10-10-2013 |
20130251560 | BLOWER - A blower includes a casing having an air inlet, an electric motor having a rotor and a stator, an impeller driven by the motor, and a diffuser for directing air from the impeller. The impeller and the diffuser are received in the casing. The impeller has a base and blades supported by the base. The diffuser has a plate like portion with diffuser vanes surrounding the impeller. Inlet angles of the impeller blades is between 20˜30 degrees and outlet angles of the impeller blades is between 26˜38 degrees. | 09-26-2013 |
20130248342 | FOIL SWITCH FOR ELECTRIC CURRENTS - A switch arrangement for electric currents, has a switch housing; a switching element slidably received in the switch housing; a foil, having electrically conductive pathways for carrying the electric currents, attached to the housing; and at least two contacts that are to be short-circuited and/or opened. At least one of the contacts is formed by a section of the pathway of the foil. The switching element is movable to short-circuit or open the at least two contacts and has a travel path of ≧ | 09-26-2013 |
20130248339 | ELECTRICAL SWITCH ARRANGEMENT - An electrical switch arrangement has a switch housing and a button guided in the switch housing. The button can be brought into two fixed switching states. A display indicates when at least one of the switching states is reached. A U-shaped spring is arranged inside the button approximately at right angles to the direction of movement the button. The spring is guided in a guide track formed in sections of the switch housing. | 09-26-2013 |
20130241325 | POWER TOOL - A power tool has a casing and a motor assembly installed within the casing. The motor assembly comprises a motor, a heat dissipation device, a fan and a guiding member. The motor has a stator and a rotor. The heat dissipation device has an annular heat absorbing section which is fitted to a housing of the stator and a plurality of fins extending from the heat absorbing section for dissipating heat. Air flow generated by the fan is guided to the fins of the heat dissipation device by the guiding member to cool the motor. | 09-19-2013 |
20130233669 | TORQUE TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY AND COUPLING - A torque transmission assembly has a first shaft, a second shaft and a coupling. The coupling has a first connecting member and a second connecting member. The first connecting member is coaxially fixed to the first shaft. The second connecting member is fixed to the second shaft. The first connecting member has a base with a metallic engaging member embedded inside. The engaging member directly connects to the first shaft. A plurality of projecting members is formed on the base. The projecting members extend in the axial direction and are circumferentially spaced. The second connecting member has a main body and a plurality of drive arms radially extending from the main body. The drive arms are sandwiched between corresponding projecting members of the first connecting member so that the first connecting member and the second connecting member rotate together. | 09-12-2013 |
20130229245 | DRIVING DEVICE AND RELAY - A relay has a driving device that includes a magnet portion, two electromagnets, a yoke portion fixed to the above elements, and a rocking armature. The magnet portion includes a ferrite permanent magnet polarized in a direction perpendicular to the yoke portion and a bearing surface facing way from the yoke portion. Each electromagnet includes an iron core fixed to the yoke portion and a coil wound thereon. The two iron cores are arranged at opposite sides of the magnet portion. The rocking armature includes two arms connected to each other with an included angle formed therebetween and a convex joint of the two arms. The convex joint abuts against the bearing surface and the rocking armature pivots about the convex joint between a first position and a second position in which the rocking armature contacts a respective one of the iron cores. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229082 | PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR - A permanent magnet motor has a stator and a rotor surrounded by the stator. The stator includes a stator core having twelve teeth and coils wound around the teeth. The rotor includes a shaft and a magnet core group secured to the shaft. The magnet core group includes eight rotor core segments and eight ferrite permanent magnets. Each magnet is sandwiched between adjacent rotor core segments and is polarized in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The magnets are alternately magnetized such that adjacent rotor core segments have opposite polarities. | 09-05-2013 |
20130229071 | ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric motor has a stator, a shaft and a rotor. The stator has an annular yoke portion; a plurality of stator teeth inwardly extending from the yoke portion; stator windings wound on the stator teeth; and a molded member made of heat conductive plastic material. The molded member has a plurality of fins arranged on an outer wall of the yoke portion, a covering portion disposed in the spaces between adjacent stator teeth, and two connecting portions respectively located at axially outer end faces of the yoke portion and connected to the covering portion and the fins. The covering portion covers an inner wall of the yoke portion and the stator windings, and connects to the fins via the connecting portions. Heat generated by the stator windings is transmitted to the fins via the covering portion and the connecting portions, where it is dissipated. | 09-05-2013 |
20130220445 | PLUG VALVE WITH A SPRING BIASED PLUG - In a plug valve with a plug supported around its axis of rotation in a flow passageway of the valve housing, the plug is supported in a floating manner against a spring force pressing the plug against an annular sealing element. The spring force is provided by a spring element bearing against the valve housing and engaging with a trunnion of the plug. The sealing element is supported in a fixed position against a flow passage opening. | 08-29-2013 |
20130213166 | DRIVE UNIT - A drive unit includes an electric motor, a worm shaft coupled to the motor, a worm gear engaging with the worm shaft, and an output shaft connected to the worm gear. The motor has a motor shaft on which the worm shaft is fixed. The worm shaft is made of plastic. The drive unit further includes a metallic sleeve press fitted to the motor shaft. An outer profile of the sleeve is non-circular. A correspondingly shaped receiving hole is formed in the worm shaft to receive the sleeve. The sleeve rotates with the motor shaft and drives the worm shaft. | 08-22-2013 |
20130200733 | POWER TOOL - A power tool includes a casing with an inlet and an outlet extending in a radial direction of the casing, a motor installed within the casing between the inlet and the outlet. The motor includes a stator and a rotor with a shaft, an air passage being formed between a radially outer surface of the stator and an inner surface of the casing. The air passage extends in the axial direction of the casing. A heat dissipation device is arranged on the radially outer surface of the stator for absorbing heat from the stator, and is disposed in the air passage. A fan is fixed to the shaft of the rotor. Air flow generated by the fan enters the casing via the inlet and exits the casing via the outlet after passing through the air passage and the heat dissipation device, | 08-08-2013 |
20130193797 | ELECTRIC MOTOR - A DC electric motor has a stack of laminations defining a rotor with at least two pairs of poles and an even number of slots at least equal to 8. The rotor also has a commutator with an even number of segments and a closed distributed rotor winding. The winding extends in the slots and is connected in a predetermined manner to the segments of the commutator. The rotor winding has a winding section of the lap type, connected to two consecutive segments of the commutator and, in series with this, a plurality of winding sections of the wave type. These winding sections all span an identical number of slots. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193110 | CONTACT ARRANGEMENT FOR HIGH-POWER ELECTRICAL SWITCHING - In a contact arrangement for high-power electrical switching devices having at least two circular contact piece pairs in a convex/flat or convex/convex contact piece pair of contact pieces directly connected in parallel, mechanically and electrically in a circuit. A central recess, the largest diameter of which is approximately ⅕ of the contact diameter of a contact piece, is provided in the contact surface of at least one contact piece partner of a contact piece pair. In a convex/concave or flat/concave contact piece pair of contact pieces, however, a positive projection is arranged within the centre of the concave contact surface of a contact piece partner, the largest diameter of which is approximately ⅕ of the contact diameter of the contact piece. | 08-01-2013 |
20130187434 | SAFETY BELT SYSTEM AND BELT WINDER - A belt winder for a safety belt system includes a belt reel for tightening or loosing the safety belt, and an electric motor for driving the belt reel. The motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor includes an motor shaft, a commutator fixed to the motor shaft, a rotor core fixed to the motor shaft and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and electrically connected to segments of the commutator. The rotor windings include a plurality of winding units. Each winding unit includes at least two coils, the coils of each winding unit being wound about the same teeth and electrically connected to a same pair of segments in parallel. A safety belt system incorporating the belt winder is also provided. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187373 | SEAT BELT PRESENTER - A seat belt presenter for moving a tongue plate of a seat belt system to a desired position includes a transmission mechanism for moving the tongue plate and an electric motor for driving the transmission mechanism. The motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor includes a motor shaft, a commutator fixed to the motor shaft, a rotor core fixed to the motor shaft and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and electrically connected to segments of the commutator, the rotor windings comprises a plurality of winding units. Each winding unit includes at least two coils, the coils of each winding unit being wound about the same teeth and electrically connected to a same pair of segments, in parallel. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187372 | SEAT BELT BUCKLE ASSEMBLY - A buckle assembly for a seat belt system includes a belt buckle, a transmission mechanism arranged to move the belt buckle from a first position to a second position, and an electric motor for driving the transmission mechanism. The motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor includes a motor shaft, a commutator fixed to the motor shaft, a rotor core fixed to the motor shaft and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and electrically connected to segments of the commutator. The rotor windings include a plurality of winding units. Each winding unit includes at least two coils, the coils of each winding unit being wound about the same teeth and electrically connected to a same pair of segments, in parallel. | 07-25-2013 |
20130169092 | BEARING HOLDER - A bearing holder for fixing a bearing to a support structure such as a casing of a gearbox uses a single plate-like body. The body has a through hole, a plurality of hooks extending from a first side of the body and defining a first axial step limiting the axial movement of the bearing through the hole, and a plurality of projections extending from a second side of the body and arranged to be radially deformed to define a second axial step limiting the axial movement of the bearing through the hole in a second axial direction. Centering lips extending inwardly from the edge of the hole may be provided to fix the lateral position of the bearing. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169086 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A brushless motor includes a stator core having | 07-04-2013 |
20130167680 | GEAR MOTOR ASSEMBLY - A gear motor assembly includes a casing having a through hole, a motor fixed to the casing, an output shaft, a gear fixed to the output shaft and driven by the motor, and a substantially tubular bearing fixed in the through hole of the casing. The gear has a shaft portion that is sleeved in the bearing. A slot is formed in the inner surface of the bearing and/or the outer surface of the shaft portion and is filled with lubricant. | 07-04-2013 |
20130164159 | MOTOR ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRIC FAN - A motor assembly for a fan for a radiator of a motor vehicle, has an electric motor with a stator and an outer rotor driving an impeller. A support connected to the stator has a plurality of arms for fixing to a carrier structure. A casing includes a basin-like container and a heat dissipater forming a cover for the container. The casing contains a circuit board carrying components of a control circuit connected to the motor. The container has retention attachments engaged in a snap-fitting manner in snap seats provided in the arms of the support in order to bring about relative prepositioning of the container with respect to the support before the heat dissipater is fixed to the support. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163910 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A SHAFT IN A BEARING CARRIER AND BEARING CARRIER - A bearing carrier for a shaft of an electric motor has a carrier member supporting two bearings supporting the shaft. The carrier member has a single bearing seat accommodating the two bearings to ensure the two bearings are coaxially mounted. A spacing member axially separates the two bearings. The spacing member has a central passage through which the shaft extends with radial play, as well as two end surfaces parallel with each other, orthogonal to the axis of the passage and axially separated by a distance which corresponds to the desired mounting distance between the bearings. During assembly, the bearings and spacing member are mounted on the shaft to form a preassembled group. The preassembled group is pressed into the bearing seat of the carrier member, with one bearing being pressed against a stop formed at one end of the bearing seat. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162090 | PERMANENT MAGNET ROTOR - A permanent magnet rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a bracket fixed to the rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets contacting an outer surface of the rotor core. The bracket includes a base at one axial end thereof, a plurality of arms axially extending from the base and spaced in a circumferential direction, and an end ring connecting the arms at the other axial end thereof. The base has an opening for the insertion of the shaft. The rotor core is positioned between the arms. Each magnet is sandwiched between two adjacent arms. An inner diameter of the end ring is greater than an outer diameter of the rotor core. | 06-27-2013 |
20130160442 | ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR WITH AN INTEGRATED BRAKE - An electro-hydraulic actuator has a master cylinder, an electric motor and an electro-mechanical brake. The master cylinder has a hydraulic cylinder and an actuation piston slidably received within the hydraulic cylinder to vary pressure within a hydraulic circuit. The electric motor is adapted to drive the actuation piston into the hydraulic cylinder. The motor has a stator and a rotor. The electro-mechanical brake is arranged to selectively and releasably hold the rotor with respect to the stator to prevent relative rotational motion there between. | 06-27-2013 |
20130156619 | FAN UNIT FOR A HEAT EXCHANGER - A fan unit for a heat exchanger, particularly for a motor vehicle, has a support structure or cowling having a main aperture forming a passage for a flow of air, and an electric fan having an impeller and an electric motor. A flexible electrical cable connects the motor to a source of supply voltage and/or to an associated control circuit. The cable has a terminal electrical connector having a body with one end connected to the cable, and another end provided with at least one connection aperture. A seat is provided in the support structure or cowling for receiving and retaining the terminal electrical connector, and for covering the at least one connection aperture of the connector. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156572 | FAN UNIT FOR A HEAT EXCHANGER - A fan unit for a heat exchanger of a vehicle, has a plate-like support structure or shroud which has a main opening defining a passage for a flow of air for ventilation of the heat exchanger, and an electric fan arranged to cause the flow of air. The fan has a drive motor and an impeller connected to the motor. The support structure or shroud has a top side intended to extend at a small distance from a horizontal cross-member of the heat exchanger or the vehicle, so that an interspace is defined between them. This top side of the support structure or shroud has a flexible sealing gasket which has a configuration such that, in the assembled operating condition of the fan unit, the gasket is able to close off the interspace. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155619 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT FOR THE MOTOR OF AN ELECTRIC FAN - An electronic control unit for a motor of an electric fan, has a support casing including a metal body adapted to act as a heat dissipator, a shell of an electrically insulating material coupled with the metal body, and a circuit board, mounted in contact with the dissipator body. The circuit board has a conductive connection member in the form of a flexible metal blade, electrically connected to the dissipator body, to provide an earth connection for the circuit board. The blade has a portion that projects beyond the edge of the board. The insulating shell has an internal formation which, upon coupling the shell with the dissipator body, interacts with the projecting portion of the blade, deforming it so as to bring it and thereafter maintain it in contact with the dissipator body in a resiliently loaded manner. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154415 | Electric Motor - A motor for a cooling fan of a vehicle has a rotor including a driving shaft mounted so as to be rotatable in a stator and a bowl-shaped metal case, having a lateral skirt wall which extends around the stator, and having a bottom wall in which there is constructed a tubular fixing formation through which the shaft extends and which is fixed to the shaft. The tubular fixing formation of the rotor case has an internal diameter which is greater than the diameter of the driving shaft. The motor further has an intermediate insert including a tubular portion which is fixed to the shaft and on which there is fixed the tubular formation of the rotor case, and a transverse connecting portion which extends adjacent to the external surface of the bottom wall of the rotor case, and which is connected or connectable to the impeller. | 06-20-2013 |
20130153181 | FAN UNIT FOR A HEAT EXCHANGER - A fan unit for a heat exchanger, has a plate-like support structure or shroud with a main opening defining an air passage for ventilation of the heat exchanger. An electric drive motor is fixed to the support structure or shroud. An impeller is arranged inside the main opening and driven by the drive motor. A spray protection screen associated with a side of the motor remote from the impeller is fixed to the support structure or shroud in such a way that, during use, it is substantially vertical and defines an inlet opening for an air flow for cooling the motor. The spray protection screen has an outwardly projecting deviating formation designed to deflect outside of the inlet opening, water which may flow over the outer surface of the screen during operation of the fan unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130152733 | STARTER AND MOWER USING THE STARTER - A starter has a high voltage direct current electric motor, a speed reduction device, a clutch, an output gear and a switch box configured to turn on the electric motor. The output gear is driven by the electric motor via the speed reduction device and the clutch. The starter also has a stationary axle on which the output gear is installed. The electric motor has an output shaft. The speed reduction device has a drive gear fixed to the output shaft and a driven gear meshed with the drive gear, the driven gear being rotatably mounted to the axle via a bushing. | 06-20-2013 |
20130147312 | Brush Motor and Cooling Fan Incorporating the Motor - A brush motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes multiple magnets attached to an inner surface of a stator housing and a brush assembly fixed relative to the housing. The rotor includes a rotor core and a commutator located in a receiving space defined by a mounting portion and an annular sidewall of the rotor core. The commutator includes multiple conductive segments, each of which has a leg penetrating the rotor core and connected with windings on the rotor core. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147311 | BRUSH DC MOTOR WITH PERMANENT MAGNET ROTOR - A direct current motor has a wound stator, a permanent magnet rotor having a commutator assembly, and brush gear. The brush gear has a first pole brush, a second pole brush and a plurality of commutating brushes. The commutator assembly has a cylindrical insulating base, and first and second members fixed to the base. The first member includes a radially extending first slip ring and a number of axially extending first bars. The second member includes a radially extending second slip ring and a number of axially extending second bars. The first and second pole brushes make continuous sliding contact with the first and second slip rings respectively. The first and second bars are fixed to the outer cylindrical surface of the base and form a cylindrical surface against which the commutating brushes make sliding contact. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147301 | PERMANENT MAGNET ROTOR AND ELECTRIC MOTOR INCORPORATING THE ROTOR - A permanent magnet rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and multiple magnet sets. The rotor core has multiple groove sets for receiving the magnet sets. Each groove set has two grooves spaced apart by a first section of the rotor core. The first section has a width gradually decreasing from a radially inner end to a radially outer end. Each groove has a width gradually increasing from a radially inner end to a radially outer end. Each magnet set includes two magnets respectively received in the grooves of a respective groove set. The magnets of a magnet set are magnetized in a same direction, and every two adjacent magnet sets are magnetized in contrary directions creating multiple magnetic poles. The number of magnetic poles is equal to the number of magnet sets. | 06-13-2013 |
20130134811 | ELECTRIC DIRECT-CURRENT MOTOR - An electric D.C. motor, in particular for a cooling fan of a vehicle, has a brush holder. The brush holder has a carrier structure having a plurality of brush cages mounted therein. Brushes, radially displaceable within the brush cages are connected, respectively, to a positive supply terminal and a negative supply terminal. An electric supply connector and a filter for preventing the emission of electromagnetic interference, are associated with the brush holder. Components of the filter, including first and second inductors and at least one capacitor are housed inside the electric supply connector. | 05-30-2013 |
20130119790 | ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric motor has a wound stator and a permanent magnet rotor. The rotor has a plurality of rotor core portions and a plurality of permanent magnets, the rotor core portions and the permanent magnets being arranged alternately in a circumferential direction of the rotor. The permanent magnets are made of material containing ferric oxide and polarized generally in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The motor may be used in a power tool or a lawn mower. | 05-16-2013 |
20130115087 | Axial Fan - An axial fan has a hub whose axis coincides with the rotational axis of the fan, a plurality of vanes that extend from the hub, and an outer ring which is coaxial with the hub. The ring has a front portion and a rear portion. The outer ring defines within itself a passage towards the rear portion. The radially outermost ends of the vanes are connected to the inner surface of the passage. The rear portion of the ring has a plurality of appendages that extend axially away from the front portion of the ring, and which alternate circumferentially with corresponding intermediate recesses. Each vane has its radially outermost end connected to an inner surface of one of the appendages. | 05-09-2013 |
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20130102396 | COUPLING - A torque transmission assembly has a first shaft, a second shaft, and a coupling device. The coupling device includes a first coupling member rotating with the first shaft, and a second coupling member fixed with the second shaft. The first coupling member includes a bottom wall having a mounting face, and a plurality of arms extending axially from the mounting face. The arms are circumferentially spaced from each other with a receiving space defined between each two neighboring arms. The second coupling member includes a main body and a plurality of spaced arms extending radially from an outer periphery of the main body. Each of the arms of the second coupling member is received in a respective receiving space of the first coupling member, thus the first coupling member rotates with the second coupling member. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099717 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR AN ELECTRIC FAN FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - A control circuit for an electric fan, has a MOSFET transistor connected essentially in series with the motor of an electric fan between the two terminals of a first D.C. voltage source and having its source terminal connected to the motor; a transistor driving stage, having an input intended to receive a pulse-width modulation control signal and an output connected to the gate terminal of the MOSFET transistor, and a bootstrap capacitor connected between a second D.C. voltage source and the source terminal of the MOSFET transistor. A controlled electronic switch having a parallel-connected diode for conducting current from the bootstrap capacitor to the motor is arranged between the bootstrap capacitor and the source terminal of the MOSFET transistor. The electronic switch has a control input or gate connected to the output of the transistor driving stage. | 04-25-2013 |
20130076161 | SOLENOID - A solenoid includes a stationary member, a movable member being movable relative to the stationary member and spring disposed between the stationary member and the movable member. The stationary member includes a housing with an end wall and a side wall, a first permanent magnet attached to the end wall, a second permanent magnet attached to the side wall and a magnetic flux concentrator configured to concentrate a magnetic field generated by the second permanent magnet with a magnetic field generated by the first permanent magnet. The movable member includes a head inserted into the housing. The head is made of magnetically conductive material. The stationary member further includes a coil surrounding the head of the movable member. When the coil receives a pulse current, the movable member is driven from an extended/retracted position to a retracted/extended position. | 03-28-2013 |
20130074701 | FOOD PROCESSOR AND MOTOR ASSEMBLY - A food processor has a container, a working piece for processing food material in the container, and a motor assembly for driving the working piece. The motor assembly includes an electric motor and a speed reduction gear unit connected between the motor and the working piece. The speed reduction gear unit includes a damper for isolating the motor from vibrations from the working piece. | 03-28-2013 |
20130069479 | STATOR CORE - A stator core includes at least one bendable strip-shaped core. Each strip-shaped core is formed by stacking a plurality of laminations. Each lamination includes at least two yoke portions and at least two tooth portions. Every two adjacent yoke portions are connected to each other via a bendable portion and have two opposite end surfaces, one of the end surfaces having a groove and the other having a projecting rib. After the bendable portion is bent the projecting rib is engaged in the groove to form an interlock structure such that relative circumferential movement between the adjacent yoke portions is limited. | 03-21-2013 |
20120299411 | Actuator - An actuator includes a stator and a movable component movably mounted in the stator. The stator includes a yoke, a printed circuit board disposed at one axial end of the yoke, a bobbin mounted inside the yoke, windings wound about the bobbin; and multiple terminals mounted to the bobbin to electrically connect the windings ends to the printed circuit board. The bobbin includes a plurality of spaced extending portions extending towards the printed circuit board. The terminals are mounted to a respective end of the extending portions of the bobbin that face the printed circuit board. The terminals are spaced from the yoke. A free length of the terminal between the bobbin and the printed circuit board is short enough to avoid bending which may result in a short circuit between the terminals and the yoke. | 11-29-2012 |
20110203073 | BRUSH ROLL OF A VACUUM CLEANER - A vacuum cleaner has a brush roll which has a housing. A motor is disposed within the housing and has a pulley mounted on a shaft of the motor. A roller is disposed within the housing and has a drive wheel. A belt couples the pulley to the drive wheel, so that the motor can drive the roller. The roller has bristles for sweeping a surface to be cleaned. | 08-25-2011 |
20110147144 | MOTOR AND ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE SYSTEM - A motor for actuating brake members of an electric parking (EPB) system, comprises a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor comprises a shaft, a commutator, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and electrically connected to segments of the commutator. The rotor windings comprise a plurality of winding units, each of the wining units comprising at least two coils. The coils of each winding unit are wound about the same teeth and connected to a same pair of segments. | 06-23-2011 |
20110101704 | Starter - A starter comprises: an electric motor with an enclosure; a gear train mounted to one end of the motor; and a switch module for controlling operation of the motor. The switch module has an enclosure. The enclosure of the switch module and the enclosure of the motor are integrally formed as a single housing. | 05-05-2011 |
20110089789 | MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE - A motor drive device comprises a motor, a gearbox mounted to the motor and a control module. The gearbox comprises a gearbox housing that has an opening facing the motor. The motor has a shaft that extends into the gearbox housing through the opening to drive a worm gear of the gearbox. The control module has a PCB mounted to the gearbox and most of the PCB is accommodated in the opening of the gearbox housing. The PCB extends in a plane substantially parallel to the shaft. | 04-21-2011 |
20100013614 | HAPTIC SOLENOID SYSTEM - A supporting surface and a touch screen member mounted to a plastic frame having a first vibration transmitting slot and at least two mounting slots. A pair of similar L-shaped poles is mounted in the frame in juxtaposition to define gaps between them. One of the poles constitutes a stationary pole and the other of the poles constitutes a movable pole. A winding is mounted on the stationary pole. The frame defines a vibration transmitting slot, and the touch screen member is attached to the frame by a tab that is press fitted into the vibration transmitting slot so that vibrations created by the movable pole can be transmitted via the vibration transmitting slot to the touch screen member. The additional slots defined by the frame and tabs defined by the supporting surface mutually coact for mounting the frame to the supporting member in a stationary position. | 01-21-2010 |
20090245958 | POWER TOOL - An electric drill has a handle, a body and a drill chuck. The handle is provided with a battery and a switch. The body comprising a shell, a motor fixed in the shell and an impeller fixed to an axle or shaft of the motor. The shell is provided with a plurality of air outlets at a position corresponding to the impeller, the impeller being able to rotate with the axle of the motor to produce an air current to cool the motor. An enclosure of the battery is provided with a plurality of through holes. An air current channel is formed inside the handle and the body and connected to the environment via the through holes of the battery enclosure. A heat dissipating device is located in the air current channel and contacts the switch. A part of the cooling air current passes through the air current channel to cool the battery before getting to the motor. Thus, a part of the cooling air current can cool the battery and the switch before cooling the motor, so as to prevent the battery and the switch from overheating and shortening their service life. | 10-01-2009 |
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