Electrical generator or motor structure inventions 07/07

20070170789 - Noise suppression structure of blower motor: In a noise suppression structure of a blower motor according to the present invention, a noise reduction member is disposed inside of a peripheral wall part of an end bracket member in such a manner that the noise reduction member is located in a position opposite side of the peripheral... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070170821 - Brushless automotive alternator having improved structure for minimizing temperature of auxiliary rectifying elements: According to the present invention, a brushless alternator includes a stationary field winding, a rotor with a rotary shaft, a bearing rotatably supporting an end portion of the rotary shaft, a stator, a protective cover, and a rectifier covered by the protective cover. The rectifier includes a plurality of main... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070170793 - Rotating electrical machine and method for producing such a machine: A rotating electrical machine (10) has a rotor (11), which rotates about an axis (13) and is surrounded concentrically by a stator (12) having a stator winding (30) inserted into a stator body (21), the stator winding (30) including, in a concentric arrangement, a lower layer (16), which is more... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy LLP

20070170794 - Starter: In a starter, a motor terminal is composed of a rigid body made of metal, supported by a grommet, and welded to a connection bar in order to construct a terminal assemble (ass'y). The terminal assemble is constructed into a yoke assemble under the grommet is attached to an opening... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070170795 - Motor for movable body and body moving apparatus: A motor for driving a movable body includes a cylinder portion that holds a field magnet, a coil holder disposed rotatably to the cylinder portion, a conducting coil wound on the coil holder and generates a rotational force between the same and the cylinder portion when a current flows in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070170797 - Motor: A motor may include a rotor provided with a permanent magnet, a stator whose inner peripheral face faces an outer peripheral face of the permanent magnet, a first radial bearing fixed to an end portion on an output side of the stator for rotatably supporting the rotor shaft on an... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070170786 - Moving-magnet-type linear slider: A moving-magnet-type linear slider is constructed with a linear guide that movably supports and guides a table (3) with respect to a fixed base (1), a linear motor in which a permanent magnet (4) for a magnetic field is arranged on a table (3) side and an armature (2) is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070170787 - Motor-driven power steering apparatus: The invention provides a motor-driven power steering apparatus which can achieve a predetermined speed reduction ratio even in the case that the motor-driven power steering apparatus is constituted by a pair of spur gears or helical gears, and can secure a sufficient gear strength on the basis of a simple... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070170790 - Blower: A drive motor 42 is supported and fixed onto a motor support plate 44 composing a support member through vibration proof rubber 45 which damps vibration, the frequency of which is not less than 1 kHz, to be not more than 50%. Due to the foregoing, it becomes difficult for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070170788 - Method and device for altering the vibration characteristic of a motor system: The invention relates to a method for operation of a motor system (1), or a motor system (1), comprising an electrical motor (2) and an add-on module (3), whereby the add-on module (3) is mounted on the electrical motor (1), by means of a fixing system (11). A first fixing... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070170791 - Magnet wheel alternator/ generator electricity producing wheel: The Magnet Wheel Alternator/Generator Electricity Producing Wheel is applicable to an Electric Vehicle. The Electric Vehicle is mainly the same as any other Vehicle used by people to transport people as well as goods. These Vehicles are in the form as Cars, Pick Up Trucks and Tractor-Trailer Rigs. However, any... Agent: Michael Steven Hargett

20070170792 - Electric machine with a circuit support: The invention relates to an electric machine (1) comprising a stator (21) and a rotor. The stator (21) includes at least one winding system having a plurality of coils (2) wherein start and end of the corresponding coils (21) is fixed on an end face of the stator (21) by... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070170796 - Sealing device for a radial swivel motor: Swivel motors have a large number of tightness problems on the inside, in particular in a broad operating temperature range. Therefore, to improve the tightness over a temperature range of −40° C. to +130° C., a sealing device (20) is provided with an inner soft sealing element (20) and a... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070170798 - Levitation device: Device of levitation of an item over an optimized base by means of permanent magnets. The equilibrium is stable along one or two axes by means of these permanent magnets, and along the one or two others by means of a combination of electromagnets of near zero consumption at equilibrium.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070170799 - Snyder pulley-gear system powered by permanent magnets: Snyder Pulley-Gear System Powered by Permanent Magnets is a design to configure permanent magnets, a pulley, and a counter-weight such that they form a system that can produce a positive work output that can be used to drive gears. The core idea of this design is the specific concept of... Agent: Carl R. Snyder

20070170800 - Rotor for brushless motor: [Means For Solving Problems] A hollow cylindrical rotor core 6 is installed on a shaft 5, and magnets 2 with a circular arc cross section are installed on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core 6. The rotor core 6 has an outer ring section 12 having a thickness... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070170801 - Radial anisotropic cylindrical sintered magnet and permanent magnet motor: In a radially anisotropic sintered magnet of annular shape, the remanence in a radial direction of the annulus increases and decreases at intervals of 90° in a circumferential direction of the annulus, and the remanence in a radial direction over the entire circumference of the annulus has a maximum of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070170802 - Permanent-magnet excited synchronous motor: To reduce the torque ripple of permanent-magnet excited synchronous motors (1) having tooth coils (6), constructive means are proposed for damping or eliminating the fifth and/or seventh harmonic wave of the rotor field which mainly cause torque ripple.... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070170803 - Rotor of synchronous induction motor and compressor: It is an object to obtain a highly efficient synchronous induction motor by letting the magnetic flux hardly pass in the direction of a q axis without interrupting a magnetic path in the direction of a d axis and by increasing a salient pole difference. A slit next to a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070170804 - Stator winding of a rotating electrical machine and a method for the production of such a stator winding: A stator winding (10) of a rotating electrical machine, in particular at operating voltages of above 6 kV, is provided with preformed coils or bar windings, wherein the individual conductors of the preformed coils or bar windings are inserted into slots in the region of the stator body and are... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy LLP

20070170805 - Armature, motor using the armature, and disk drive device using the motor: An armature core of an electric motor includes a core plate having a plurality of tooth portions arranged circumferentially about a center axis and extending in a radial direction, and a supporting ring portion supporting the plurality of the tooth portions along outer circumferential surfaces thereof. Each tooth portion includes... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070170806 - Rotating electrical machine: A rotating electrical machine, especially a turbogenerator, includes a rotor and a stator, which concentrically surrounds the rotor and is terminated at each of the two axial ends by a laminated press plate (14), which is constructed from a stack of individual press plate laminates (30). The electrical properties are... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy LLP

20070170807 - Commutator, direct current motor, and manufacturing method of commutator: A commutator has a tabular holding portion defining a thickness direction. A plurality of segments are arranged in one end in the thickness direction of the holding portion in a radial pattern. Each of the segments has a slidable contact surface which is perpendicular to the thickness direction. A feeding... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070170808 - Motor and manufacturing method therefor: A motor includes a motor case having an opening part and a stator core disposed in an inside of the motor case. The motor case may include a bottom face part, sidewall parts extended on the opening part side from an outer periphery of the bottom face part, and cutout... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070170809 - Vehicle alternator: A vehicle alternator has a rotor having plural claw poles and a stator placed at the outer circumference of the surface of the rotor. Plural grooves are formed in a specified rear area on a surface of each claw pole faced to the stator. The specified rear area is an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070170810 - Stator coil arrangement for an axial airgap electric device including low-loss materials: A dynamoelectric, rotating electric machine includes a stator assembly that includes stacked stator coil windings. The machine is preferably a polyphase, axial airgap device. Improved slot filling results from the stacked stator coil configuration. Device performance capability is thereby increased. The stator assembly of the electric device has a magnetic... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff & Associates, LLC

20070170811 - Hysteretic mems thermal device and method of manufacture: A MEMS hysteretic thermal device may have a cantilevered beam which bends about one or more points in at least two substantially different directions. In one exemplary embodiment, the MEMS hysteretic thermal device is made from a first segment coupled to an anchor point, and also coupled to a second... Agent: Jaquelin K. Spong

20070170812 - System apparatus and methods for processing substrates using acoustic energy: A wafer cleaning system having a crystal or ceramic transducer assembly. The transducer assembly is adapted to convert electrical energy into sonic energy. The crystal or ceramic has a first conductive surface. The transducer assembly also has a transmitter made of an inert non-reactive plastic that transmits the sonic energy... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070170813 - Surface acoustic wave device and method of manufacturing the same: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a comb-shaped electrode formed on a first principal face of the piezoelectric substrate, and a supporting substrate bonded to a second principal face of the piezoelectric substrate. The second principal face of the piezoelectric substrate is bonded to the supporting substrate... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070170814 - Piezo stack temperature estimator: The invention relates to a method of estimating the temperature of a piezoelectric actuator body for controlling the operation of a fuel injector mounted within an engine housing and supplied with fuel from a high pressure fuel pump. The piezoelectric actuator body is housed within a volume of fuel. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070170815 - Acoustic data coupling system and method: A data coupler includes an acoustic isolation transformer operable to develop an isolated output signal in response to an input signal. A transmitter is coupled to the acoustic isolation transformer and generates the input signal responsive to a data input signal. A receiver is coupled to the acoustic isolation transformer... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070170816 - Piezo-electric speaker: A piezo-electric speaker capable of easily ensuring a uniform broad-band sound pressure and reproducing a large acoustic signal has a piezo-electric member (10) to generate vibration in accordance with an applied electric signal. A piezo-electric vibration plate (15) is adhered to the piezo-electric member (10). The piezo-electric vibration plate (15)... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070170817 - Piezoelectric/electrostrictive device: A piezoelectric/electrostrictive device has a rotor substantially in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped, and a rotary actuator for angularly displacing the rotor 12. The rotary actuator includes a stationary member, a first vibratory plate and a second vibratory plate extending in one direction from opposite sides of the stationary... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070170818 - Laminated piezoelectric/electrostrictive device: There is realized a piezoelectric/electrostrictive device of a laminated type from which a large displacement is obtained and which is highly reliable over a long period. A laminated piezoelectric/electrostrictive device 1 has: a laminated columnar article 10 constituted by alternately laminating a plurality of piezoelectric/electrostrictive layers 14 and inner electrode... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070170819 - Hermetically sealed structure, pieroelectric device and improvement of method for manufacturing the same: A hermetically sealed structure in which a base substrate 31 and a lid 33 are hermetically sealed, the base substrate serving as a part of a containing body for uniformly forming or bonding an electronic part, the lid being a lid body to be hermetically bonded to the base substrate,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070170820 - Methods of manufacture of sonar and ultrasonic transducer devices and composite actuators: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing piezoelectric transducers that improves performance by reducing the mechanical losses in the component interfaces. The method involves the epoxy impregnation and encapsulation of the components within the piezoelectric stack assembly. Impregnation is achieved by capillary action that results in a chemical bond.... Agent: Elaine C. Stracker

20070170822 - Electroactive polymer pre-strain: The present invention provides electroactive polymers, transducers and devices that maintain pre-strain in one or more portions of an electroactive polymer. Electroactive polymers described herein may include a pre-strained portion and a stiffened portion configured to maintain pre-strain in the pre-strained portion. One fabrication technique applies pre-strain to a partially... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070164616 - Electromagnetic exciter: An electromagnetic exciter includes a first suspension having a cylindrical side wall portion coaxial with respect to a cylindrical wall of a yoke of a magnetic circuit assembly, and a spring portion integrally formed at the lower end of the cylindrical side wall portion to support the lower end of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070164640 - Step motor for a driving mechanism of camera: A step motor mounted inside a camera for moving a driven member is disclosed to include a yoke iron, which has a base, two arms respectively extended from two sides of the base, and four magnetic poles respectively formed on the free ends of the arms and each junction between... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070164627 - Device for magnetically suspending a rotor: The device for magnetically suspending a rotor relative to a structure comprises at least one axial active magnetic bearing with a main electromagnet coil disposed in a stator and having load-bearing surfaces placed facing an armature extending essentially perpendicularly to the axis of the rotor. A device for detecting the... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070164626 - Fuel-cell compressed-air supplying device: A fuel-cell compressed-air supplying device 6 includes a centrifugal compressor 12 provided in a casing 11, and a bearing device 14 for supporting a rotation shaft 13 of the compressor 12. The bearing device 14 includes a pair of radial foil bearings 21 and 22 provided coaxially with the rotation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164615 - Tubular electrical machines: An improved synchronous tubular electrical machine comprises a radially outer member that has a substantially cylindrical inner surface and radially inner member that is substantially cylindrical and is coaxially disposed within the outer member such that it may move reciprocally relative to the outer member in the axial direction. A... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070164617 - Symmetrical two phase motor with a bipolar permanent magnet rotor and method of making such a motor: The two phase motor of small size is formed by a stator comprising principal magnetic poles (8, 10, 12) arranged in the same general plane and by a rotor provided with a bipolar permanent magnet (6). The first and second principal poles are connected to the third principal pole by... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070164618 - Rotary electrical machine: The main body of a rotary electrical machine is accommodated in a frame (1). A circulatory device (5) is provided that is rotated by a rotor (3) of said rotary electrical machine, in which there is accommodated cooling liquid (7) that cools at least the main body of the rotary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164619 - Motor with rotational sensor: An electric motor including a rotational sensor is provided. Certain examples of the rotational sensor are operative to output a sinusoidal signal that corresponds to the rotational position of the motor armature in response to the potential at a single point or multiple points on the commutator. Certain other examples... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 004954

20070164620 - Device for arranging connections and method for application of said device:

20070164621 - Motor cover and electric motor equipped with the same: A heat sink (35) is fixed by insert molding to a resin-made motor cover covering a case body fixed to a motor body. A flow-in portion (51) extending along a straight line and branch portions (62) to (66) formed so as to be branched to the flow-in portion (51) are... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070164622 - Linear actuator having mechanism for stopping linear movement of output shaft without touching rotor: A stopper member is included in a linear actuator comprising a stator assembly, a rotor assembly, an output shaft, and a stopper pin which is fixedly disposed at a frontward portion of the output shaft, and which is adapted to axially control the mode and amount of movement of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070164623 - Housing assembly for a medium voltage solid-state reduced voltage starter: The present invention provides a single housing assembly for a reduced voltage motor starter assembly. The housing assembly has a medium voltage compartment and a low voltage compartment. In this configuration the housing assembly ins structured to enclose both the medium voltage portion and the low voltage portion of the... Agent: Martni J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20070164625 - Motor: A motor includes a rotor part having a rotor shaft and a rotor magnet, a stator part oppositely disposed to the rotor magnet via a gap space, a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor shaft, a spring member abutting with one end of the rotor shaft to urge the rotor shaft... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070164624 - Positioning ring structure for motor: A positioning ring structure for a motor includes an axial tube, a bearing mounted in the axial tube, and a positioning ring mounted in the axial tube for retaining the bearing in place. The positioning ring includes a central hole extended through by a shaft. The positioning ring includes at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164628 - Electric transmission for transmitting mechanical power, in particular for a motor vehicle transmission: An electric transmission, in particular for a motor vehicle, including two electric motors, whereby the shaft of one of the electric motors is connected to a mechanical energy source, the motor converts mechanical energy into electrical energy, the other electric motor converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, and the shaft... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164629 - Driving apparatus: A driving apparatus that can be made compact, without increasing the number of component parts and decreasing diameters of a rotating shaft and bearings. When a first unit assembled from a first stator and a first bobbin is coupled to a second unit assembled from a second stator and a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070164631 - Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer: A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer having an ultrasonic wave transmission/reception surface formed by arranging a plurality of transducer cells each of which includes a membrane having a first electrode and a supporting film for supporting the first electrode, and also includes a second electrode arranged being opposite to the first... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070164632 - Capacitive ultrasonic transducer, production method thereof, and capacitive ultrasonic probe: It becomes possible to obtain high sound pressure in a high frequency domain by a capacitive ultrasonic transducer which comprises a membrane on which one electrode is formed, a cavity constructed in its backface, and a substrate on which these are mounted and supported and on whose surface an electrode... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070164630 - High temperature piezoelectric material: Piezoelectric devices with excellent high temperature operation capabilities are described, including piezoelectric sensors and actuators that use a rare earth calcium oxyborate or langanite as the piezoelectric material.... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070164633 - Quartz saw sensor based on direct quartz bonding: A SAW sensor module can be produced with a true all quartz sensor package (TAQSP) attached to a substrate. The TAQSP has a quartz cover direct quartz bonded to a SAW sensor on a quartz substrate. The TAQSP can be mass produced by direct quartz bonding a quartz cover wafer,... Agent: Attorney, Intellectual Property Honeywell International Inc.

20070164634 - Micro-electromechanical device: An electromechanical device includes a support structure formed by attaching inner surfaces of second and third substrates to a first substrate. The support structure includes at least one cavity between the second and third layers. An electromechanical active element is provided on an outer surface of at least one of... Agent: HorizonIPPte Ltd

20070164635 - Drive unit: A drive unit for the movement of an active element with respect to a passive element, wherein the active element includes a resonator and at least one excitation device for exciting oscillations of the resonator. The resonator includes contact regions for exerting forces onto the passive element. The active element... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070164636 - Vibration body for cutting, vibration cutting unit, processing apparatus, molding die and optical element: In a vibration cutting unit, a root portion of a holding member for supporting a vibration body is fixed on a fixed portion of a node portion which is common to axial vibration and bending vibration, on a jointless basis. Therefore, the node portion, namely, a vibration body main part... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070164637 - Surface-mount saw device: The present invention provides a surface-mount SAW device configured to prevent sealing resin layer coated all over the top surface of a piezoelectric substrate from becoming charged even if the piezoelectric substrate forming the SAW device is made of a pyroelectric material. The SAW device is composed of: a mounting... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070164638 - Laminate-type piezoelectric element and method of producing the same: A laminate-type piezoelectric element 1 having a ceramic laminated body 10 obtained by alternately laminating piezoelectric layers 11 made of a piezoelectric material and inner electrode layers 20 having electrical conductivity, and having outer electrodes 34 joined to the side surfaces 101 and 102 of the ceramic laminated body 10... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070164639 - Multilayer piezoelectric devices and method of producing same: A multilayer piezoelectric device has a laminated body 1 having piezoelectric layers 2 laminated in the direction of a given axis “A” and internal electrode layers 4, 5 each disposed between two respective neighboring piezoelectric layers 2. The device further has a underlying layer 3 disposed on a side of... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070164641 - Electroactive polymer devices for moving fluid: The invention describes devices for performing thermodynamic work on a fluid, such as pumps, compressors and fans. The thermodynamic work may be used to provide a driving force for moving the fluid. Work performed on the fluid may be transmitted to other devices, such as a piston in a hydraulic... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070159010 - Axially actuating device having elastic joining portion: An axially actuating device having an elastic joining portion is provided, which is used for carrying an object and actuating the object to move axially, and comprises a fixed portion, a moving portion, and a joining member. The joining member is used to combine the fixed portion with the moving... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070159030 - Magnet rotor and electromagnetically-driving device using the same, and optical apparatus with light quantity-control device: An electromagnetic device includes a magnet rotor having a rotary shaft and a stator having an excitation coil configured to apply a rotation force to the rotor. The magnet rotor includes a hollow cylindrical permanent magnet, a rotary shaft disposed in a hollow space portion of the permanent magnet, and... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070159020 - Water pump and bearing thereof: A bearing of a water pump is adapted to be used with a washer and includes an approximately cylindrical body with an axial hole defined in its center. One end surface of the bearing, which faces the washer, has a nick for forming a water membrane so as to reduce... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159011 - Optimized electrical generators: An electrical generator and a method of generating electricity are achieved by utilizing a disc-shaped permanent magnet having opposite faces with opposite magnetic poles. The magnet is rolled through a passageway having electrically conductive conductors that intersect the magnetic flux lines of the rolling magnet, thereby generating electrical voltage and... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070159012 - Acoustic equipment: An acoustic equipment has a columnar magnetostrictor 51, a drive coil 54, and a vibration transmitter 55. The columnar magnetostrictor 51 has one end where a partition 22 (stopper) is disposed to define the one end as a fixed end, and has the other end defined as a free end... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070159013 - Motor drive device: A motor is inserted in the axial direction from an opening section into a motor case, one end surface in the axial direction of a stator is butted against an inner wall surface of the case, and the stator is urged toward axially one end surface side from axially the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159014 - Stator structure: A stator structure includes at least one stator part having a single rolled steel sheet to serve as a waist post with a gap. A first stator part includes a first engaging portion. A second stator part includes a second engaging portion corresponding to the first engaging portion. The first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159015 - Centrifugal fan and its stator structure: A base structure of a centrifugal fan comprises a base and a fixing element. The base has a recess disposed at the edge of the base. The fixing element has a first end and a second end. The first end is connected with the base. The second end covers the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159016 - Vibration generator and assemblies embodying same: A vibration generator (11) is provided that comprises a housing (1), a weight (3) that is movable relative to the housing in a manner operatively imparting a vibratory movement to the housing, and means for imparting movement to the weight in a manner causing said vibratory movement of the housing.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070159018 - Explosion-proof motor: A novel explosion-proof motor, which, in certain embodiments, features a housing with flame paths between various joints in the housing. These flame paths may contain and cool hot gases and flames produced by a detonation within the housing. In certain embodiments, the explosion-proof motor includes a stator having a plurality... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20070159017 - Explosion-proof motor with integrated sensor/lead housing: A novel explosion-proof motor, which includes an integrated explosion-proof housing. In some embodiments, the integrated explosion-proof housing contains various electronic components that support the operation of the explosion-proof motor. To this end, embodiments of the explosion-proof motor may include a stator having an end ring, a plurality of stator coils... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20070159019 - Fluid dynamic bearing assembly for directing bubbles: The present invention pertains to a fluid dynamic bearing assembly for directing bubbles. The assembly includes a stator with a stator bearing surface. A rotor with a rotor bearing surface rotates with respect to the stator such that the rotor bearing surface opposes the stator bearing surface. Lubricating fluid is... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070159021 - Composite magnet structure for rotor: An interior permanent magnet electric motor. A rotor comprising a slot radially spaced from its longitudinal axis of rotation extending parallel to the axis. First and second magnets are positioned in the slot and extend parallel to the axis. A first magnet is positioned between a second magnet and the... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070159022 - Stator assembly for an electrical machine: The present invention relates to a stator assembly for an electrical machine, including a housing and a stator, in which the housing has at least one inward-oriented bead extending in the axial direction.... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070159023 - Brush system for an electromotive drive unit: A brush system for an electric drive unit has a base to which brush system elements are fastened. Strip conductors via which required electrical connections are established are also provided on the base. Furthermore, a flat resistor that is disposed in a resistor housing is inserted into the brush system... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070159024 - Electric motor: An electric motor comprising a rotor and a stator is disclosed. The rotor is supported on a substantially spherical bearing and is of a substantially spherical design facing the stator, which has a high degree of efficiency. The stator may have a magnetic return-path body which is made of a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070159025 - Micro actuator and device having micro actuator: A microactuator according to the present invention comprises a base 1, a movable section 7 which is capable of displacement relative to the base 1, an elastic supporting member 5 for supporting the movable section 7, and driving sections 4a to 4c for causing the movable section 7 to be... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070159026 - Boundary acoustic wave device: A boundary acoustic wave device is provided in which an increase in the conductor resistance can be suppressed and a satisfactorily high electromechanical coupling coefficient K2 can be achieved even when the frequency is increased. The boundary acoustic wave device includes a first medium, a second medium, and an IDT... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070159027 - Surface acoustic wave bio-chip: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) bio-chip is designed with signal processing circuits. The chip can achieve precise measurements or detection quantitatively via the difference between the experiment-control mode, and followed by amplification and filtering of the signal processing circuits. By changing the designs of the substrate, quantitative detection toward different... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070159028 - Piezoelectric actuator: (d) The pyroelectric coefficient shall be equal to or smaller than 400 μCm−2K−1 over the temperature range from −30° C. to 160° C. (e) The mechanical quality factor Qm calculated according to the resonance-antiresonance method shall be equal to or smaller than 50 over a temperature range from −30° C.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159029 - Manufacturing method of piezoelectric vibrating piece, piezoelectric vibrating piece, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic equipment and radio-controlled timepiece: There are provided a piezoelectric vibrating piece, which has been more miniaturized and whose efficiency has been more increased, by easily and certainly electrode-dividing an exciting electrode, and a manufacturing method of the same. There is provided a manufacturing method of a piezoelectric vibrating piece, characterized by having an exposure... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070159031 - Actuator and method for manufacturing planar electrode support for actuator: An actuator as a drive source of robots and the like usable for housekeeping assistance, job assistance, and nursing help, in which a drive source itself is small-size, light-weighted, and flexible as well as safe, and a manufacturing method for a planar electrode support therefor are provided. The actuator has... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070152511 - Generating device: A generating device to supply electricity to a monitoring device of abnormal state of tire at a lower cost for a long time. The generating device includes a single pendulum 4, a hammer 6 supported at a point S′ on the circumference of a wheel 2, a spring 7 joining... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070152513 - Coreless linear motor and canned linear motor: In a magnetic field system of a coreless linear motor 1a, two rows of permanent magnets 201a are disposed on the opposite sides in a magnetic field yoke 202, and an armature 101a is disposed so that armature coils 102a and 103a including a plurality of coil groups centrally wound... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070152514 - High speed assembly actuator: Apparatus and associated systems or methods include a linear machine with an elongate, axially-slidable core member (i.e., shaft). In one embodiment, the shaft includes at least one radial aperture to provide fluid (e.g., air) communication from an interior volume of a winding tube that contains one or more stationary windings,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152515 - High speed valve assembly: Apparatus and associated systems or methods include a linear machine with an elongate, axially-slidable core member (i.e., shaft). In one embodiment, the shaft includes at least one radial aperture to provide fluid (e.g., air) communication from an interior volume of a winding tube that contains one or more stationary windings,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152512 - Linear motor controller improvements: A free piston gas compressor has a cylinder, a piston, the piston reciprocable within the cylinder in alternating compression and expansion strokes. A reciprocating linear electric motor is drivably coupled to the piston. A controller is programmed to control or adjust power input to the linear motor on the basis... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070152516 - Linear motor and linear compressor using the same: There are provided a linear motor and the linear compressor using the linear motor. The linear motor includes a bobbin, a coil wound in the bobbin, an outer core provided on the bobbin, an inner core provided to perform a linear reciprocating motion with a moving body, and a magnet... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070152517 - Linear motor and linear compressor using the same: A linear motor and a linear compressor using the linear motor are provided. Since an inner core is linearly and reciprocally moved together with a target movement body and a magnet insertion recess is formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, the forward/backward vibration movement of a magnet can be... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070152518 - Cooling assembly for electric machine: A cooling assembly to be inserted in electric machines includes a generally cylindrical body to be inserted inside the internal stator of an electric machine. The body includes a top surface provided with angled bores forming V-shaped channels inside the body. Intersecting V-shaped channels are closed by plugs to thereby... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070152519 - Blade and yoke arrangement for cooling stator windings: A fan comprises a hub and a stator coil disposed with the hub. A first set of blades is disposed about the hub. Second blades are disposed on an interior of the hub. An opening is provided through the face of the hub. When the fan is operating, a flow... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070152520 - Rotating machinery: In a rotating machinery having armature windings constituted by a lot of strands, when the armature winding is constituted by four layers, a step number of the strands becomes half with respect to two layers of armature windings so as to facilitate manufacturing an armature winding of 540 degree transposition... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070152521 - Motor of washing machine: The present invention relates to a motor for a washing machine for enhancing rigidity of a rotor frame, easy verification and adjustment of a gap, and improving a cooling performance of the motor. To achieve the objects of the present invention, a motor for a washing machine includes a stator... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070152522 - Rotating electrical machine with a transmission and a driving apparatus using the same: A rotating electrical machine with a transmission, comprises a stator including a field coil arranged annularly, a cylindrical-shaped rotor, which rotates within the stator, transmissions provided within the cylindrical-shaped rotor, and housings to contain at least the rotor, the transmissions, and lubricating oil, and wherein the stator comprises the annular... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070152523 - Submersible motor with molded encapsulated stator: A submersible motor is disclosed. The motor comprises a combination stator core/end bell assembly comprising a stator core encapsulated in a polymeric material and a first end bell integrally molded to a first end of the stator core, the stator core having an outer surface and an inner surface defining... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070152524 - Motor plate: A throttle body assembly including an end plate. The throttle body assembly includes a housing having an inner wall, and a motor located within the housing. The motor end plate is coupled to the motor and is in contact with the inner wall of the housing. The end plate includes... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070152525 - Rotor rotational structure for motor: A rotor rotational structure for a motor includes a shaft, an axial tube having a closed bottom end, a self-lubricating bearing mounted in the axial tube; and a retaining member mounted in the axial tube and between the closed bottom end of the axial tube and the self-lubricating sleeve. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152526 - Ultra-thin motor structure: An ultra-thin motor structure including a stator assembly and a rotator assembly is provided. The stator assembly includes at least one bearing with a bore, a base, and a winding plate. The base has a protruding portion and a deck disposed in the protruding portion. The winding plate is stacked... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070152527 - Reluctance motor: To form magnetic poles P on a rotor, a plurality of slits extending along a radial direction in a region close to the magnetic poles P and extending along a circumferential or chord direction in mid areas between the magnetic poles P are formed. The width b of circumferential slit... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20070152528 - Permanent magnet excited transverse flux motor with outer rotor: Disclosed herein is a permanent magnet-excited transverse flux motor with an outer rotor. The permanent magnet-excited transverse flux motor comprises: a stator including a stator powdered iron core formed by an extruded molding through a mold, a pair of stator laminated iron cores stacked respectively at an upper layer portion... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070152530 - Self-magnetized motor and stator structure thereof: A self-magnetized motor includes a stator adapted to rotate by electromagnetic interaction with a rotator, a plurality of slot teeth formed on and surrounding a through-hole of the stator, and an excitation pole adjacent at least one slot tooth having fewer projections than remaining ones of the slot teeth. The... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070152529 - Vehicle drive system and vehicle incorporating the same: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The tip of a salient pole portion of the rotor is bilaterally asymmetrically provided with a cut. The effect of the cut reduces torque ripple during a regenerative running mode. The regenerative running mode is not performed during low speed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070152531 - Motor, commutator, short-circuit member, and a method for manufacturing the commutator: A commutator connected to armature coils includes circumferentially arranged segments, short-circuit conductors, and a surge absorbing element. The number of the segments is a multiple of the number of the armature coils. The segments include a plurality of pairs of segments. The segments in each pair are adjacent to each... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070152532 - Electrical machine with commutator rotor: An electrical machine having at least four exciter poles in the stator and having a commutator rotor, which has a number of slots pole teeth on its circumference that is greater than the number of exciter poles, and having twice as large a number of commutator laminations, which via at... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070152533 - Two-stage eutectic metal brushes: A two-stage eutectic metal brush assembly having a slip ring rigidly coupled to a shaft, the slip ring being electrically coupled to first voltage polarity. At least one brush is rigidly coupled to a second ring and slidingly engaged to the slip ring. Eutectic metal at least partially fills an... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC Office Of Intellectual Property

20070152535 - Dynamo-electric machine: In a dynamo-electric machine having two rotors, at least one of the rotors is constructed to have a first magnetic path that extends in a circumferential direction of the rotor, at least one of the rotors is constructed to have a second magnetic path that extends in a radial direction... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070152534 - Gas turbine, particularly an aircraft engine: The invention relates to a gas turbine, particularly an aircraft engine. The gas turbine comprises at least one stator, at least one rotor and at least one generator (19) for generating electrical energy. A rotor has a rotor shaft (11) and rotor disks (12, 13, 14), which are driven by... Agent: Fasse Patent Attorneys, P.A.

20070152536 - Three-phase opposite rotating motor and fan: A three-phase opposite rotating motor of a fan comprises a stator having a three-phase coil set without a core, a first rotor and a second rotor. The number of the poles of the first rotor is unequal to the number of the poles of the second rotor. The ratio of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152537 - Micro electro mechanical system, semiconductor device, and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention provides a MEMS and a sensor having the MEMS which can be formed without a process of etching a sacrifice layer. The MEMS and the sensor having the MEMS are formed by forming an interspace using a spacer layer. In the MEMS in which an interspace is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152538 - Surface acoustic wave device with electro-static discharge protection: Sacrificial electrodes with fractal-shaped are formed on a SAW (surface acoustic wave) device. The sacrificial electrodes discharge electro-static charge in the SAW device for protecting the IDT (inter-digital transducer) from electrostatic break. Moreover, the sacrificial electrodes can control the path and the discharging degree of the electro-static discharge to avoid... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070152539 - Multi-output piezoelectric inverter and transformer thereof: In the present invention, a dual-output piezoelectric transformer for driving at least two loads is provided. The dual-output piezoelectric transformer comprises a piezoelectric piece, a set of input electrodes mounted centrally on a first and a second sides of the piece with a first polarization direction along a thickness direction... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070152540 - Piezoelectric thin film resonator and manufacturing method thereof: A piezoelectric thin film resonator which can reduce variations in resonant frequency and resonant resistance by uniformly planarizing a structural film, and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric thin film resonator. The piezoelectric thin film resonator has a substrate having at least one flat major surface; a dielectric film having... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070152541 - High pressure cavitation chamber with dual internal reflectors: A cavitation chamber separated into three volumes by a pair of gas-tight and liquid-tight seals, each seal formed by the combination of a rigid acoustic reflector and a flexible member, is provided. During chamber operation, only one of the three volumes contains cavitation fluid, the other two chamber volumes remaining... Agent: Patent Law Office Of David G. Beck

20070152542 - Piezoelectric actuator: Piezoelectric actuators having ceramic layers and electrode layers, and being provided with an outer cover layer on each end face of the piezoelectric actuator. The ceramic layers and the outer cover layers each have a predetermined dielectric constant. Rapid switching of the actuator results in considerable electromagnetic interference, which must... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070152543 - Piezoelectric body, electric generator and polymer actuator: A piezoelectric body comprising a powder compact 1 formed from conductive powder comprising a conductive polymer and a dopant, and an ion donor 2, to generate an electromotive force by stress change, and an electric generator or a polymer actuator comprising the piezoelectric body.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP