Electrical generator or motor structure inventions 08/07

20070200464 - Hybrid permanent magnet type electric rotating machine and manufacturing method thereof: A stator is constructed by winding excitation coils around respective main poles. A rotor is constructed by fixing a first rotor unit, which consists of a pair of rotor cores and a magnetic material sandwiched between the rotor cores, and a second rotor unit, which has the same construction as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070200439 - Cooling oil delivery structure for a vehicular generator, and engine including same: In an engine having a generator mounted thereon, an oil passage is formed within the engine's crankcase to supply oil to an oil jet for cooling one or more pistons. In addition, oil is supplied to an oil jet for cooling the generator, using the oil passage in common with... Agent: Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C.

20070200465 - Disc drive apparatus mounted with improved clamping mechanism: A disc drive apparatus mounted with an improved clamping mechanism for driving a disc to rotate is composed of a rotor and a stator, which supports the rotor rotatable freely. The rotor includes a rotor yoke, a clamping section for clamping down a disc on the rotor yoke, a boss... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070200443 - Jacketed active magnetic bearing: The jacketed active magnetic bearing is applied to a rotary machine having a rotor in contact with a process gas and placed in a leaktight enclosure. The magnetic stator is protected by a first jacket of magnetic anti-corrosion material that constitutes a portion of the leaktight enclosure and that is... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070200437 - Stator assembly and manufacturing method: The apparatus of the present invention provides a stator assembly for an electric device such as a motor or a generator. The stator assembly preferably includes a generally annular stator core having a plurality of stator teeth. A stator wire is wound around each of the stator teeth to form... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070200438 - Methods and apparatus for using an electrical machine to transport fluids through a pipeline: An electrical machine to facilitate transporting fluids through a pipeline is provided. The machine includes a stator, a rotor magnetically coupled to the stator, and a housing enclosing the rotor and the stator. The housing includes a wall that facilitates channeling a first fluid at a first pressure through a... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)

20070200440 - Thermally-conductive stator support structure: A stator assembly including a plurality of stator coil assemblies and a stator coil support structure constructed of a non-magnetic, thermally-conductive material. The stator coil support structure includes an axial passage for receiving a rotor assembly and a plurality of channels positioned radially about the axial passage. Each channel is... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070200441 - Cooling system for a stator assembly: A stator assembly is provided having a generally annular stator core including a plurality of radially inwardly extending stator teeth. A stator wire is wound around each of the plurality of stator teeth to form a plurality of stator coils. Each of the plurality of stator coils are spaced apart... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070200442 - Magnetic levitation actuating motor: A magnetic levitation actuating motor includes a hollow base externally wound with a coil, at least one magnetic element fixedly mounted to at least a free open end of the hollow base, and a magnetizable actuator axially movably disposed in the hollow base. When the coil is supplied with a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070200444 - Small-sized motor having polygonal outer shape: A small-sized motor having a polygonal outer shape includes four or more field magnets attached to the inner surface of a motor casing made of metal. A tubular portion of the motor casing is formed into a polygonal tubular shape such that flat side portions equal in number to field... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070200445 - Motor, blower, compressor, and air conditioner: It is an object of the present invention to provide techniques for improving efficiency and torque of a motor while achieving thinning of the motor. In a brushless DC motor, a rotor includes a magnetic-field creating magnet and a stator includes an armature winding. The magnetic-field creating magnet and the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070200446 - Electrical machine: An electrical machine includes at least one permanently excited rotor and/or stator, a magnetic field for operating the electrical machine being able to be generated, using a plurality of permanent magnets that are arranged along the circumference of the rotor and/or stator. The permanent magnets are each assembled from a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070200447 - Permanent magnet embedment rotating electric machine, motor for car air conditioner, and enclosed electric compressor:

20070200448 - Vehicle alternator and stator for vehicle alternator: A vehicle alternator and a stator for the vehicle alternator are disclosed wherein a stator winding includes a plurality of base segments wound on slots of the stator, each of the base segments including a large segment and a small segment disposed in the same slots distanced from each other... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200449 - Rotary electric machine and stator for rotary electric machines: In a rotary electric machine, output ends of first and second three-phase windings of first and second sets included in a first group are separated from those of third and fourth three-phase windings of third and fourth sets included in a second group. Each of the first to fourth three-phase... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200450 - Stator of motor: A stator of a motor according to the invention includes a stator core 1 annularly continued, a plurality of insulators each having a body part which is engaged with an outer peripheral surface of a tooth part of the stator core and a flange part which is projected at a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070200451 - Electric motor assembly device: An electric motor assembly device includes a carrier member with a central passage that receives a rotor shaft with a commutator. Brushes secured onto flexible, brush holders urge the brushes towards the central passage into a contact position with the commutator. The carrier member has mechanical elements for restraining the... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070200452 - Brushless motor: A brushless motor with a rotor having a magnet and a magnetic return, the magnet and magnetic return being arranged to form a gap therebetween, and a stator having a coil disposed in the gap. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an... Agent: Attn: Craig A. Gelfound Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070200454 - Electroactive polymer actuated lighting: Devices employing electroactive polymer actuators are disclosed. Acrylic dielectric material based actuators are optionally provided in which architectures are presented that allow for improved power output as compared with other known acrylic dielectric material based transducers. Such technology may be applied in motor-driven applications, lightweight flight applications and lighting applications... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070200453 - Electroactive polymer actuated motors: Devices employing electroactive polymer actuators are disclosed. Acrylic dielectric material based actuators are optionally provided in which architectures are presented that allow for improved power output as compared with other known acrylic dielectric material based transducers. Such technology may be applied in motor-driven applications, lightweight flight applications and lighting applications... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070200455 - Power supply apparatus, and image forming apparatus having the same: A power supply apparatus with a plurality of power supply circuits each having a piezoelectric transformer and a voltage-controlled oscillator which generates a signal at an operating frequency used to drive the piezoelectric transformer in accordance with a control signal, includes a frequency-dividing circuit which divides the operating frequency generated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070200456 - Device for combined rotation of a shaft about its own axis: A device for the combined rotation of a shaft about its own axis, having a first body elongated diametrically with respect to the axis of the shaft, the first body being rigidly coupled to an actuation for simple rotation about the axis, and a second diametrically elongated body arranged transversely... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070200458 - Piezoelectric thin film device: The present invention is directed to improving characteristics of a piezoelectric thin film device. A piezoelectric thin film filter including four film bulk acoustic resonators has a configuration where a filter section and a base substrate are bonded to each other via an adhesive layer, the filter section including a... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070200459 - Piezoelectric thin film device: The present invention is directed to preventing characteristic variations and damage caused by a difference in thermal expansion coefficient. A piezoelectric thin film filter, including four film bulk acoustic resonators, has a configuration where a filter section for providing a filter function of the piezoelectric thin film filter is bonded... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070200457 - High-speed acrylic electroactive polymer transducers: Devices employing electroactive polymer actuators are disclosed. Acrylic dielectric material based actuators are optionally provided in which architectures are presented that allow for improved power output as compared with other known acrylic dielectric material based transducers. Such technology may be applied in motor-driven applications, lightweight flight applications and lighting applications... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070200460 - Composite piezoelectric apparatus and method: The present invention relates to composite piezoelectric apparatus, transducers and methods of manufacture. In an embodiment, a composite piezoelectric apparatus has a sacrificial base and pillar array. Different volume percents of piezoelectric material are used in the sacrificial base and pillar array. A first volume percent in the base is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070200462 - Electronic component package: In an electronic component package in which an electronic component mounted through an external electrode disposed on a mounting board is covered with a molding resin, the electronic component has a structure in which IDT electrodes disposed on the lower surface of a component substrate made of a piezoelectric material... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070200461 - Apparatus and methods for manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator device: The invention provides a piezoelectric resonator device having excellent frequency accuracy and aging characteristics. The piezoelectric resonator element can be packaged in an exclusive hollow space formed in the package in advance to packaging an IC chip. After mounting a lid on the opening of the hollow space while the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200463 - Piezoelectric actuator, inspection method, and liquid eject apparatus: A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric vibrating plate including piezoelectric ceramics, an internal electrode formed on a first surface of the piezoelectric vibrating plate, a piezoelectric layer formed on the internal electrode, and a plurality of surface electrodes that are provided on a surface of the piezoelectric layer. When the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070200467 - Compliant electroactive polymer transducers for sonic applications: Described herein are compliant electroactive polymer transducers for use in acoustic applications. A compliant electroactive polymer transducer includes a compliant electroactive polymer at least two electrodes. For sound production, circuitry in electrical communication with the transducer electrodes is configured to apply a driving signal that causes the electroactive polymer to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070200468 - High-performance electroactive polymer transducers: Transducers employing electroactive polymer films are disclosed.... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070200466 - Three-dimensional electroactive polymer actuated devices: Devices employing electroactive polymer actuators are disclosed. Acrylic dielectric material based actuators are optionally provided in which architectures are presented that allow for improved power output as compared with other known acrylic dielectric material based transducers. Such technology may be applied in motor-driven applications, lightweight flight applications and lighting applications... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070194632 - Linear motor: A linear motor having a more preferable braking function is realized with a low cost. A linear motor has a slider and a stator. A driving winding is wound around the slider. A plurality of permanent magnets forming magnetic poles which invert at a predetermined period are provided on a... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20070194635 - Vibrator: A vibrator includes a voice coil and a vibrating member that vibrates along the axial direction of the voice coil when it is excited by application of an alternating current thereto. A suspension supports the vibrating member vibratably in the axial direction. A casing houses the voice coil, the vibrating... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070194668 - Centrifugal fan: An arrangement of a low air inlet and a circuit for driving a torque generator in an ultra-compact centrifugal fan is disclosed. In the ultra-compact centrifugal fan, a region occupied by the circuit is not completely arranged radially inside a cup-shaped portion to which an impeller is attached. At least... Agent: Judge & MurakamiIPAssociates

20070194642 - Eccentric rotor and flat motor comprising same: A printed wiring board includes a commutator at a rotation center thereof on one side and a bearing at the rotation center on the other side, first, second and third wound air-core coils having an effective conductor opened to the magnetic pole opening angle, and an eccentric weight comprising a... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070194644 - Spindle motor: In a motor arranged to rotate a color wheel of a projector unit, a rotor yoke is fixed to a rotor hub by crimping the entire circumference thereof in order to prevent lubricating oil from leaking to the outside of the motor. A joint portion between the rotor yoke and... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070194630 - Mems device having a layer movable at asymmetric rates: A microelectromechanical (MEMS) device includes a substrate and a movable layer mechanically coupled to the substrate. The movable layer moves from a first position to a second position at a first rate and from the second position to the first position at a second rate faster than the first rate.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070194631 - Steel wheel-type linear motor: The invention provides a steel wheel-type linear motor in which a protective cover 11 having insulating properties and coming in direct contact with a stator coil 9 is located on the ground side of the stator coil 9 protruding from a stator core 7; a vent hole 11a is formed... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070194634 - Electromechanical generator for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy: An electromechanical generator comprising an electromechanical device for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy, the electromechanical device comprising a housing, an electrically conductive coil fixedly mounted in the housing, a magnet assembly movably mounted in the housing for linear vibrational motion along an axis, the magnet assembly having a... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070194633 - Multifunction-type vibration actuator and mobile terminal device: Secured positions 3e where a magnetic circuit part 2 is secured to a suspension 3 are provided near to each other. From among the secured positions 3e, secured positions 3e suitable for the characteristics of a suspension 3 to be mounted and the weight of a magnetic circuit part 2... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070194636 - Magnetostrictive actuator: A magnetostrictive actuator has magnetostrictive element having a magnetostrictive, a driving rod mving in a displacement direction of the magnetostrictive element, which is connected with the magnetostrictive element and made of a ferromagnet, a solenoid coil applying magnetic field to the magnetostrictive element, which is arranged around the magnetostrictive element,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070194637 - Rotor assembly with balancing member: A rotor assembly for an electronic machine such as a motor includes a rotor on a shaft having a bearing at each end portion, the bearings being arranged to rotatably support the rotor and shaft. The assembly further includes a balancing member, from which material may be removed for balancing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070194638 - High power generator with enhanced heat removal: A high speed, high power generator has its main stator and main rotor configured to provide enhanced cooling capability. The generator includes a generator housing, a stator, a shaft, and a rotor. The stator is mounted within the generator housing. The shaft is rotationally mounted within the generator housing, and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070194639 - High power generator with enhanced stator heat removal: A high speed, high power generator has its main stator configured with one or more reduced-diameter sections. The generator includes a generator housing, a main rotor, and a main stator. The generator housing has a main stator cooling flow passage formed therein that is configured to receive a flow of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070194640 - Electric motor: An electric motor, e.g., a fan motor for an air conditioning fan of a motor vehicle, includes a receiving housing serving as a motor housing, which has a receiving opening into which the electric motor at least partially extends, as well as including connection elements for supplying power to the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070194641 - Motor: A stator of a motor has a stator core and a wire wound around the stator core via an insulator. The wire is connected to an electric connection portion of a flexible printed circuit board arranged on an attachment plate of a housing. The flexible printed circuit board has an... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070194643 - Motor protector endshield mounting bracket: A bracket for mounting a motor protector on an endshield of a motor comprises a tube sized and shaped for receiving the protector. The tube includes at least one integrally formed fastener for fastening the protector to the bracket. At least one integrally formed projection extends outwardly from the tube... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070194645 - Fluid dynamic bearing motor: The present invention relates to the fluid dynamic bearing motor. The fluid dynamic bearing motor having a ring-shaped housing having a coil joined to an edge thereof, a sleeve including a protruded part joined to a central part of the housing and a ring-shaped contact part formed as a single... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070194646 - Electrical connector for a small electric motor: A electric motor and motor housing assembly includes an electric motor body having spaced apart sockets for receiving and frictionally engaging spaced apart electrical power supply terminals. A housing supports the motor. The housing defines an aperture over the sockets. The assembly also includes a connector body. A pair of... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070194647 - Magnetic drive apparatus: A magnetic drive apparatus, which has a rotor; and a stator having a stator magnetic flux generator, and a stator magnetic guidepath for guiding magnetic flux from the stator magnetic flux generator to the rotor, and which rotationally drives the rotor relative to the stator by controlling the flow of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070194648 - Rotor for an electrical machine with improved temperature stability: The present invention relates to an electrical machine including a rotor shaft, a hollow-cylindrical magnet element, a first covering disk, and a second covering disk, in which the first and second covering disks are secured to the rotor shaft, and the magnet element is secured on its first axial end... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070194649 - Electric camshaft adjuster comprising a pancake motor: An electric camshaft adjuster for adjusting and fixing the phase angle of a camshaft of an internal combustion engine relative to a crankshaft thereof is provided. The camshaft adjuster is provided with a triple-shaft gear drive having a driving pinion that is fixed to the crankshaft, an output part which... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070194650 - Electric machine: In a rotating electric machine including a field pole unit having ten magnetic poles (P=10) and an armature having twelve teeth (Q=12), armature coils are wound around the successive teeth with phase relationships and winding polarities arranged in the order of U+/U+, U−/V+, V−/V−, W−/V+, W+/W+, W−/U+, U−/U−, U+/V−, V+/V+,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070194651 - Electric machine and magnetic field modifying assembly therefor: Provided is an magnetic field modifying assembly (10) for an electric machine (18) having a stator (24) arranged to generate a primary magnetic field, and a rotor (30) arranged to interact with the primary magnetic field generated by the stator and be movable relative to the stator. The assembly comprising... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070194652 - Dynamoelectric stator core and method for manufacture thereof: A core assembly is manufactured by punching core segments at a predetermined pitch in a short-side direction thereof with long sides aligned in a width direction of a rolled steel plate, the long sides of the core segments having lengths that are half a length of a long side of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070194653 - Primary element for an electrical machine: A primary element for an electrical machine has a magnetically conductive body including a lamination stack with a plurality of axially extending teeth disposed in a star pattern, and a winding of annular coils wound separately as coil-body-less air coils and mounted radially onto the teeth. To attain an axially... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070194654 - Protector mounting apparatus for protector mounted on the windings of a motor: A motor includes a protector electrically connected to the windings and positioned on the coil. A rigid bracket is sized and shaped to receive the protector. A fastening system extends over the coil, bracket and the protector and compresses the bracket against the coil. The bracket inhibits transmission of the... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070194655 - Automotive ac generator designed to establish shaft-to-shaft connection with engine: An automotive AC generator is provided which includes a rotary shaft and a generator connector jointed to the rotary shaft. The generator connector is designed to establish a mechanical connection between the rotary shaft and a motor connector joined to a drive shaft of the motor for transmitting the drive... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070194656 - Bimorph element, bimorph switch, mirror element, and method for manufacturing these: There is provided a bimorph element including a silicon oxide layer, a high expansion coefficient layer that is formed on the silicon oxide layer and has a thermal expansion coefficient higher than a thermal expansion coefficient of the silicon oxide layer, and a deformation preventing film that covers a surface... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070194657 - Surface acoustic wave device: An object of the invention is to provide a SAW device where a device size is made smaller than that of a conventional structure, has a high Q value, and is excellent in a frequency temperature characteristic in a SAW device using a quartz substrate. Therefore, IDTs 2 including pluralities... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070194658 - Systems and methods for performing acoustic hemostasis of deep bleeding trauma in limbs: An inflatable cuff having integrated ultrasound transducers is used to effect hemostasis of deep bleeding wounds in limbs. The cuff includes a chamber defined by a bladder or a series of dams into which a fluid may be introduced and pressurized. The pressure of the fluid stops or slows bleeding... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070194659 - Transducer circuit coupled to a control unit through a cable: The transducer circuit includes a transducer components a drive circuit for the transducer component, a control port for coupling the drive circuit to a control unit and a modulator. The modulator has an input port for receiving a signal or data from another device. The modulator has an output which... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070194660 - Piezoelectric actuator, drive control method of piezoelectric actuator, and electronic device: A piezoelectric actuator includes: a ring-shaped piezoelectric element, vibration of the piezoelectric element being transmitted to an object; a first vibration area and a second vibration area provided on both sides of a bisector bisecting the piezoelectric element along a diameter of the piezoelectric element, the first vibration area and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070194661 - Ultrasonic horn assembly stack component connector having threadless segment: An ultrasonic horn assembly for applying ultrasonic energy at an operating location which assembly includes a connector between horn assembly components which provides uniform clamping pressure between transfer faces of the components.... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070194662 - Thin film piezoelectric resonator, method of manufacturing the same, and filter including the same: A thin film piezoelectric resonator includes: a substrate having a cavity; a first dielectric layer provided on the substrate to cover the cavity; a second dielectric layer provided on the substrate and disposed in a peripheral region of the cavity, and having a thickness larger than the first dielectric layer;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070194663 - Packaging and integration system for micro sensors in the marine environment: The integrated unmanned, affordable, microsystem in accordance with the present invention is used to deploy physical or chemical sensors for continuous monitoring of sea space over large time periods. The microsystem is capable of measuring ocean physical parameters over large time spans weeks, with higher accuracies and resolution and at... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070194664 - Composite electronic component: A composite electronic component provided is one with sufficient impact resistance. In this resonator 1, a piezoelectric element 2 is supported by receivers 73, 83 in platelike holding portions 72, 82, and edge parts 74a, 84a in the holding portions 72, 82 are in contact with a capacitive element 3.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070194665 - Composite electronic component: A composite electronic component provided is one with sufficient impact resistance. In this resonator 1, a capacitive element 3 has a projection 37 projecting outside a piezoelectric element 2, from a portion of the capacitive element 3 coinciding with a vibration region 2a. The projection 37 is provided on each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070194666 - Motor for electric power steering apparatus and method of manufacturing dynamic damper: To reduce the vibration appearing at a motor for an electric power steering apparatus and further reduce noise caused by the vibration generated from the motor for an electric power steering apparatus. The motor for an electric power steering apparatus includes a rotor, a stator and a yoke 12 which... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070194667 - Piezoelectric transformer: A piezoelectric transformer with a base body is specified that has an input part and an output part, wherein at least three groups of internal electrodes are contained in at least one of these parts. The internal electrodes of each group are interconnected in an electrically conductive way. In this... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070188027 - Motor: A motor includes a yoke housing, an armature, a commutator, a brush, a brush holder, and a yoke side joining part. The yoke housing has an opening. The armature is received by the yoke housing. The commutator is joined to the armature. The brush supplies electricity to the commutator. The... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070188034 - Electric motor and fan unit employing the same: A ring-shaped member is secured to a shaft of a motor between a portion of the shaft connected to a rotor and a sleeve accommodating the shaft and impregnated with lubricating oil. The ring-shaped member is coated with a repellent agent repelling the lubricating oil. An outer diameter of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070188026 - Damping structure for a rotor assembly of a motor: A damping structure for a rotor assembly includes holes defined in a rotor and in a side board respectively and damping elements inserted into the holes of the rotor to be located between the rotor and the side board. Each damping element is received in a corresponding to one of... Agent: Thomas E. Sisson Jackson Walker, LLP

20070188028 - Cooling conduit for a rotary electric machine and a rotary electric machine comprising said conduit: The section of a cooling channel or conduit for a rotary electric machine comprises at least one tube which is mounted along at least one coolable part thereof and is provided with input and output axes, at least one coolant input and output connections, wherein the tube extends between said... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070188029 - Pump and pumping system: To provide a pump and pumping system in which the mounting efficiency is improved and which can be controlled without pulling out a flexible tape, etc. from a pump in order to satisfy a demand for smaller information systems and a demand for mounting various kinds of electronic components with... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070188030 - Connection arrangement for the stator winding of a turbo machine having two or more parallel circuits: A simplification of the manufacture and assembly as well as a reduction in space requirements and an improvement in the thermal properties are achieved by the phase rings (32) of a phase group each being led together as a phase ring group (11, . . . , 14) from the... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy LLP

20070188031 - Servo motor with large rotor inertia: A servo motor with large rotor inertia includes a casing, a stator, a rotor and an inertial disk. The casing includes a hollow chamber and axial stages at front side and rear side thereof. The stator is arranged in the chamber and includes a ring and a plurality of coils... Agent: Hdsl

20070188032 - Motor apparatus: A drive rotor has a coupled portion to which a coupling portion extending from a rotary shaft is loosely fitted. A driven rotor can be engaged with the drive rotor with respect to a rotating direction of the drive rotor. A restricting member is fixed to the rotary shaft so... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070188033 - Manufacturing method of bearing member and manufacturing method of sleeve unit: A sleeve housing for a motor includes a bearing member, which includes a cylindrical portion and a collar portion and is formed by press working or by forging. The bearing member is retained by a retaining portion which is a portion of a cutting tool and which relatively rotates with... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070188035 - Motor: A motor having a fluid dynamic bearing generating a fluid dynamic pressure by forming an oil gap between a rotor and a stator such that oil is accommodated in the oil gap, and a first and second air dynamic bearing generating an air dynamic pressure by forming an air gap... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070188036 - Motor/generator: A motor/generator includes a rotor member, a shorting member and a stator. The rotor member has a plurality of permanent magnets. The shorting member is configured and arranged to selectively establish a short-circuit in magnetic flux of the permanent magnets to switch between a normal state in which the magnetic... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070188037 - An add-on kit comprising a ring of magnets installed onto a bicycle/car wheel; electromagnets installed onto a bike fork or car suspension which then provide assisted rotation.: An add-on kit comprising a (1) ring of (2) magnets (easy to install) is installed onto a (6) wheel of bike or car. An arrangement of (3) electromagnets and (5) inductors (detectors) is installed onto the (4) fork of a bike or suspension of car in the proximity of the... Agent: Shing Lung Lau

20070188038 - Self magnetizing motor: A self magnetizing motor is disclosed, which comprises a stator which is comprised of a plurality of sheets including a plurality of stator slots and exciter slots formed at fixed intervals along an outer circumferential surface of the center, a teeth provided between each of the stator slots, and an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070188039 - Motor armature manufacturing method: An insulator covering the teeth (31) of an armature (3) in an inner-rotor motor is composed of a tooth insulator (321), outer-side insulator (322), upper-end insulator (323), and lower-end insulator (324). The tooth insulator (321) is composed of substantially annular top and bottom members that are assembled from above and... Agent: Judge & MurakamiIPAssociates

20070188040 - Electric motor: In an electric motor having high-speed and low-speed brushes, durability is improved and vibration/noise is reduced. The electric motor has a low-speed brush 21a, a high-speed brush 21b, and a common brush 21c. Formed in the electric motor are a first coil 7A1 which is wound between given slots 11,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070188041 - Fluid-dispensing reservoir for large-diameter slip rings: The invention provides an improvement in a slip ring (20) adapted to provide electrical contact between a stator (21) and a rotor (22). The improvement includes: a current-carrying conductor (23) mounted on the stator; a brush tube (24) mounted on the conductor; a fiber bundle composed of a number of... Agent: Phillips Lytle LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070188042 - Vehicle-use ac generator having rear cover formed to prevent intrusion of foreign matter into vicinity of slip rings: The rear cover of a vehicle-use AC generator is integrally formed with a portion that is shaped to enclose at least a part of a circumferentially extending region around the slip rings of the generator. Hence the rear cover, alone or in combination with an appropriately shaped brush holder, serves... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188043 - Dynamoelectric rotor: Reinforcing body retainers are formed on an inner peripheral surface near a tip and near a root of first and second claw-shaped magnetic poles. Reinforcing bodies have a trapezoidal base portion and a pair of wing portions formed on two sides of the base portion, and slits are formed completely... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188044 - Dynamoelectric rotor: Reinforcing body retainers are formed on an inner peripheral surface near a tip and near a root of first and second claw-shaped magnetic poles. Reinforcing bodies have a trapezoidal base portion and a pair of wing portions formed on two sides of the base portion, and slits are formed completely... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188046 - Energy recovery device: A device for recovering mechanical energy from a mobile support and/or from a fluid in movement. The device includes a part fixed to the support or fluid, and a mobile part in suspension. The fixed part is of lower mass than the mobile part. The mobile part includes a case... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070188045 - Oscillator device and method for manufacturing the device: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact and highly reliable oscillator device having stable vibration characteristics, the object being achieved by constructing the oscillator device by bonding an oscillator in place by accurately positioning it, in a prescribed position and at a prescribed angle, inside a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070188047 - Lamb wave type frequency device and method thereof: A Lamb wave type high frequency device comprises: a piezoelectric substrate; an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode formed on a first main surface of the piezoelectric substrates a reinforcing substrate connected to a second main surface of the piezoelectric substrate; a space portion formed in one of the piezoelectric substrate and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188048 - Piezoelectric actuator and device: A generally diamond-shaped detection electrode is formed in the approximate center of the piezoelectric element. The strain resulting from the bending secondary vibration mode in the vicinity of the detection electrode is minimized because the detection electrode is formed in such a manner as to include a vibrational node of... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070188049 - Monolithic rf circuit and method of fabricating the same: A monolithic radio frequency (RF) circuit and a method of fabricating the monolithic RF circuit are provided. The monolithic RF circuit includes: a base substrate; a filter part including first and second support layers formed on the base substrate, a first air gap formed between the first and second support... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188050 - Piezoelectric vibrator, intrinsic frequency adjusting method of piezoelectric vibrator, piezoelectric actuator and electronic device: A piezoelectric vibrator includes: a flat plate piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric vibrator vibrating in a mixed mode of stretching vibration that generates a displacement in a first direction within a plane of the piezoelectric element and a bending vibration that generates a displacement in a second direction orthogonal to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070188051 - Motor, lens barrel, camera system, and method for producing motor: An oscillatory wave motor, a lens barrel, and a camera system are provided, which have long service lives and which are stable. An oscillatory wave motor includes an oscillator which generates oscillation on an elastic member in accordance with excitation of an electromechanical conversion element, and a relative movement member... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188052 - Piezoelectric/electrostrictive device: A piezoelectric/electrostrictive device is provided with a stationary portion, a thin-plate portion supported by the stationary portion, and piezoelectric/electrostrictive element formed by alternately laminating a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of piezoelectric/electrostrictive layers. The piezoelectric/electrostrictive device is produced by cutting a thin-plate body that composes the thin-plate portion afterward... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070188053 - Injection molded energy harvesting device: Embodiments of an injection molded energy harvesting device are described. In one embodiment, a piezoelectric cantilever is produced via an injection molding method to harvest vibration energy from an environment being sensed. The cantilever device consists of a piezoelectric material member, a proof mass of high density material coupled to... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070188054 - Surface acoustic wave packages and methods of forming same: A sensor package generally includes a substrate and one or more sensing elements, located on a surface of the substrate. A lid, such as for example a glass cap, is coupled to the substrate such that the lid and substrate define a sealed cavity accommodating the sensing element(s). The lid... Agent: Bryan Anderson Honeywell International Inc.

20070188055 - Piezoelectric resonator element and piezoelectric device: A tuning fork-type piezoelectric resonator element includes a base section made of a piezoelectric material, and at least a pair of resonating arms formed integrally with the base section that extend parallel to each other from the base section. Based on a displacement vortex generated by flexural vibration of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070182261 - Electronically commutated motor: For many applications, it is desirable to use fans which weigh less than 30 grams and are driven by electric motors not more than a few centimeters in size. Mass-producing products this small, which nevertheless must be extremely reliable, poses unique manufacturing challenges, which are best overcome by an improved... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070182256 - Linear reluctance motor: A linear reluctance motor includes a stator with a set of spaced blades each extending in the direction of the actuation axis, each blade including a plurality of alternating low permeability and high permeability teeth. A shuttle also includes a set of spaced blades each extending in the direction of... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070182257 - Vibrator: A vibrator includes a voice coil and a vibrating member supported by first and second suspensions so as to be vibratory in the axial direction of the coil. Each of the first and second suspensions has an inner ring portion fixed to the vibrating member and an outer ring portion... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070182258 - Electric motor for a drive of a vehicle, in particular railroad drives, and a drive having such an electric motor: The invention relates to a drive unit for a vehicle and an electric motor that is suitable therefore, comprising a rotor and a stator (1) which is formed by a sheet metal pack (2) and is provided with grooves, at least one winding (3a) being disposed in said grooves (3).... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070182259 - Electric pump unit: In an electric pump unit in which a single shaft (main shaft) functions both as a rotation shaft of a pump section and that of a motor section, a rotor of a motor has a structure in which a magnet is embedded in a rotor core (IPM structure). According to... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070182260 - Motor rotor structure: A motor rotor structure includes a rotor having a center from which an axial seat protrudes for coupling with a shaft. The axial seat extends into an axial tube through which the shaft extends. A gap smaller than 1 mm exists between the axial seat and an inner circumferential wall... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182262 - Magnetic transmission: A magnetic transmission having an input shaft and an output shaft with two or more gear assemblies, each gear assembly having an input sprocket affixed to the input shaft, an output armature with peripheral electromagnets affixed to the output shaft, a transfer drum concentric with the output armature and having... Agent: J. David Nelson Nelson, Snuffer, Dahle & Poulsen, P.C.

20070182263 - Hybrid induction motor: Disclosed is an induction motor providing a method of increasing a motors revolutions by connecting a plurality of stators and a plurality of rotors in a specific configuration that will result in an increase in RPM's.... Agent: Michael I Kroll

20070182264 - Motor and washing machine including the same: Provided are a motor and a washing machine using the motor. The motor has a stator, a rotor, a rotor frame, a permanent magnet, and a comb polarizing ring. The rotor rotates against the stator. The permanent magnet is installed on the rotor frame and has protrusions with alternating North... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070182266 - Motor with simplified structure and related control device: A brushless motor and a related control device are disclosed in a structure wherein a stator has U-phase, V-phase and W-phase stator poles, with two of the U-phase V-phase and W-phase stator poles carry thereon respective phase windings, in the absence of a selected phase winding related to a remaining... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182265 - Stator: A connecting wire extends from a first tooth to a second tooth so as to connect a plurality of coils. An extension portion is provided to an insulator so as to extend in the axial direction. The extension portion has a distal end in the axial direction, a proximal end,... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070182267 - Dynamoelectric machine having reduced magnetic noise and method: where S=number of slots P=number of poles PH=number of phases M=a whole integer greater than or equal to 0 N=a whole integer selected from a group of integers ranging from, and including, 1 through the number of phases minus 1. A method for reducing magnetic noise in an automotive alternator... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20070182268 - Magnetoelectric generator: A stator core includes: a laminated body in which a plurality of intermediate plates that have dowels are laminated so as to be integrated by dowel crimping between layers; and a pair of end plates that are disposed so as to be positioned on opposite sides of two end surfaces... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182269 - Power tool and method for assembling the same: A power tool 1 includes a cylindrical-shaped yoke 31, magnets 32 provided in the interior of the yoke 31, an armature 41 disposed rotatably in the interior of the yoke 31, a cooling fan 7 rotatably secured to the armature 41, a fan guide 8 disposed on the periphery of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070182271 - Manufacturing method of stator, and stator: In a state in which a first divisional core and a second divisional core are arranged in a state spaced from each other and adjacent to each other, a first coil and a second coil are each wound around a tooth. The first coil and the second coil are in... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070182270 - Motor stator device: This invention relates to a motor stator device comprising a stator, a plurality of coils, and a rotor. The stator includes a plurality of serrate portions, and a positioning slot disposed between two serrate portions at an internal wall of the stator, and each positioning slot having a tooth; each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182272 - Brush device for rotary electric machine: A brush device assembled in a vehicular alternator is composed mainly of a pair of brushes, a pair of springs, and a brush holder. The brush holder accommodates the brushes and the springs. The springs push the brushes toward slip rings placed on and fixed to a rotary shaft of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182273 - Turbine with constant voltage and frequency output: The disclosure relates to a turbine wherein the rotor windings receive current from a CPU-controlled high speed operational amplifier and the stator windings include four-stage poles with configurations controlled by the CPU. The control of the current to the rotor and the control of the configuration of the four-stage poles... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070182274 - Apparatus for generating sine waves of electromotive force, rotary switch using the apparatus, and generators using the rotary switch: An apparatus generates sine waves of electromotive force (i.e. alternating current) from a battery. The battery includes a given number of cells connected in series. A stator and commutator is formed by a multiple of segments. Each of the segments is connected in sequence to a respective cell of the... Agent: Herbert Pardo

20070182275 - Dynamoelecrtric rotor: Reinforcing body retainers are formed on an inner peripheral surface near a tip and near a root of first and second claw-shaped magnetic poles. Reinforcing bodies have a trapezoidal base portion and a pair of wing portions formed on two sides of the base portion, and slits are formed completely... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182276 - Multi-step microactuator: A multi-step microactuator is provided with the multiple supports in a stepper plate to give multi-step displacement to a controlled object. The microactuator has advantages such that multiple motion can be applied to the controlled object and that the object can be controlled in a low driving voltage and that... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20070182277 - Piezoelectric drive unit and piezoelectric drive element: A piezoelectric drive unit and a piezoelectric drive element are provided, which are compact and lightweight, and able to be stably displaced and positioned, in addition, efficiently driven even at low voltage. One end of a rod is fixed to an approximate center of a main surface of a piezoelectric... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070182278 - Surface acoustic wave device and electronic apparatus: H/λ≧0.1796η3−0.4303η2+0.2071η+0.0682, with the thickness of the IDT electrode defined as H, the width of an electrode IDT finger defined as d, the pitch between the electrode fingers of the IDT electrode as P, the wavelength of the surface acoustic wave as λ, and where η=d/P.... Agent: Anderson Kill & Olick P.C.

20070182279 - Surface acoustic wave device and electronic apparatus: A surface acoustic wave device includes: (a) a substrate; (b) a piezoelectric film formed on top of the substrate; (c) an electrode for generating a surface acoustic wave formed on top of the piezoelectric film; (d) a first covering film formed on the electrode to cover the electrode, and made... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070182280 - Method for determining the activation voltage of a piezoelectric actuator of an injector: A method for determining the activation voltage of a piezoelectric actuator of at least one injector which is used to inject a liquid volume under high pressure into a cavity, in particular into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the activation voltage being varied as a function of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070182281 - Exciting method for elastic vibration member and vibratory driving device: Disclosed herein is an exciting method for an elastic vibration member which may include arranging two support members each formed from an electromechanical energy transducer; supporting the elastic vibration member to the two support members at their front ends; and supplying drive signals having the same frequency and a phase... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070182282 - Piezoelectric transducer drive circuit and cold cathode tube lighting device having the same: A piezoelectric transducer drive circuit comprising a variable current source being controlled by a differential operational amplifier, a constant current source and a switch means connected in series with the variable current source between a power supply voltage VDD and the ground potential, and a capacitor having opposite ends connected... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070182283 - Rotational angle detecting sensor: A rotational angle detecting sensor has a cylindrical housing including an end wall at a first end thereof. A covering member covers the second open end of the housing. A rotary shaft extends through the end wall of the housing and includes a large-diameter portion having a shoulder surface and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070182284 - Support and decoupling structure for an acoustic resonator, acoustic resonator and corresponding integrated circuit: An acoustic resonator assembly includes a layer of high-acoustic-impedance material and a layer of low-acoustic-impedance material made of a low-electrical-permittivity material. This assembly may support the resonator over an interconnect layer or act as a decoupling assembly between two active elements of the resonator. The assembly may alternatively include three... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation

20070182285 - Megasonic processing apparatus with frequency sweeping of thickness mode transducers: A megasonic processing apparatus and method has one or more piezoelectric transducers operating in thickness mode at fundamental resonant frequencies of at least 300 KHz. A generator powers the transducers with a variable-frequency driving signal that varies or sweeps throughout a predetermined sweep frequency range. The generator repeatedly varies or... Agent: Stephen Everett, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070182286 - Small piezoelectric air pumps with unobstructed airflow: A T-shaped blade, or one or more hollow tubes, are vibrationally excited by one or more piezoelectric elements to generate an airflow from a free end of the blade or tube(s). The airflow may be directed to, or drawn away from, an electronic component to cool the electronic component.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070182287 - Arrayed ultrasonic transducer: An ultrasonic transducer comprises a stack having a first face, an opposed second face and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The stack comprises a plurality of layers, each layer having a top surface and an opposed bottom surface, wherein the plurality of layers of the stack comprises a piezoelectric layer... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070182288 - Multilayered piezoelectric element and method of manufacturing the same: A multilayered piezoelectric element in which braking to displacement of piezoelectric material layers is suppressed and insulating films suitable for thinning of the piezoelectric material layers are formed. A method of manufacturing the element includes the steps of: (a) forming a multilayered structure including piezoelectric material layers, at least one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182289 - Electronic component package: The present invention is to prevent melted sealant from flowing into the interior of a case of an electronic component package that is provided with a shielding electrode on the inner surface of the case, fill a through-hole with the sealant with reliability, and perform vacuum airtight sealing. The electronic... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070182290 - Fabrication of broadband graded transducer using piezoelectric partial composites: Broadband ultrasound imaging is capable of achieving superior resolution in clinical applications. An effective and easy way of manufacturing broadband transducers is desired for these applications. In this work, a partial composite in which the piezoelectric plate is mechanically graded with a number of rectangular grooves is introduced. Finite Element... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070182291 - Thin film tuning-fork type inflection resonator and electric signal processing element: A compact resonator has a wide bandwidth and a small variation of the specific vibration frequency. The resonator is a thin film tuning-fork type inflection resonator in which a thin film made of a piezoelectric material is formed on a substrate on which a lower electrode is formed, and an... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070176498 - Ultrasonic wave generating device: An ultrasonic wave generating device includes a substrate, a heat insulation layer on the substrate, a membrane heating portion on the heat insulation layer, and a membrane oscillator on the heating portion. The heating portion is electrically driven with a predetermined period, and produces heat for thermally displacing a surface... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070176522 - Three-phase induction motor: The preferred embodiment the invention proposes pertains to a three-phase induction motor, and operates on the premises of having the extension cords on two ends of the motor embedded with several balancing eccentric washers and a balancing eccentric block added, of which the eccentric block contains a sleeve bearing, and... Agent: Nath & Associates PLLC

20070176503 - Motor mounted with improved dynamic pressure fluid bearing mechanism: A motor is composed of a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a shaft, a hub having a cylindrical wall and a thrust ring. The stator includes a motor base, an inner seal and a sleeve having a flange section. The rotor is supported in a thrust direction by... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070176504 - Motor: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. A shaft of the rotor is received in a sleeve. A face of the sleeve and a face of the shaft, that are opposed to each other, form a bearing supporting the rotor in a rotatable manner relative to the stator. A... Agent: Judge & MurakamiIPAssociates

20070176496 - Device for moving a body linearly between two predetermined positions: A device (1) suitable for moving a body (2) along a linear path (F) between two predetermined positions, and comprising: first and second electromagnets (5, 8) respectively having first and second moving cores (6, 9) that are secured to the body and that are arranged to have axes of action... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070176495 - Heat dissipation apparatus for a linear motor: A heat dissipation apparatus for a linear motor comprises a motor iron core wound with windings, and a pair of covers and a pair of dissipation mechanisms being arranged at two pairs of opposite sides of the motor iron core, respectively, which is characterized in that: a groove is defined... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070176497 - System and method to control a rotary-linear actuator: A system and method are disclosed for controlling an integrated rotary-linear actuator system that may be coupled to a network via a network interface. The integrated rotary-linear actuator system includes a control system and a rotary-linear actuator having a moveable plunger and associated coils. The coils may be energized to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070176499 - Cooling system and method for electric motors with concentrated windings: The present invention relates to a cooling system and method for the concentrated motor stator windings of an electric motor. The cooling system and method provides coolant directly onto the motor stator windings and between each adjacent stator winding. The motor housing assists in distributing coolant between each stator winding... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070176501 - Automotive alternator: The automotive alternator according to the present invention includes: a case; a rotor that is disposed inside the case and that is fixed to a shaft; a stator that is disposed so as to surround the rotor and in which alternating current arises by means of a rotating magnetic field... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176500 - Electric machine having a tilted voltage adjustment: A terminal board includes an attachment portion engageable with an end cap and defines an attachment plane that is substantially parallel to an end plane defined by the end cap, and a first terminal portion adapted to receive a first terminal wire. The first terminal portion defines a first terminal... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070176502 - Compact fan motor and electric device comprising a compact fan motor: A compact fan motor including a motor body having a tubular case accommodating a rotor, a permanent magnet, and brushes, and a pair of spring terminals that are connected to the brushes, sticks out from a peripheral wall of the tubular case, and has elasticity in a direction perpendicular to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070176505 - Permanent-magnet switched-flux machine: A permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) apparatus comprises a plurality of permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) devices, wherein each of the plurality of PMSF devices comprises a ferromagnetic outer rotor coupled to a shaft, wherein the ferromagnetic outer rotor comprises a plurality of permanent-magnets coupled to an inner surface of the ferromagnetic outer rotor,... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070176506 - Permanent magnet bonding construction: Bonding geometries are disclosed between permanent magnets and steel portions of magnetic assemblies. When employed in permanent magnet motors, this particular bonding construction reduces or even eliminates the loosening of permanent magnets inside of electric motors. The bonding geometry consists of interlocking protrusions and voids at the bonding interface. A... Agent: Frank A. Palase

20070176507 - Motor and power steering apparatus: A motor with a rearranged bearing configuration for reducing an axial length, hence dimensions thereof, is to be provided. In a motor including a stator fixed to an inner circumferential wall of a housing, a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the housing via bearings, and a rotor fixed to the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070176508 - Brushless motor, brushless type fan motor and electric device comprising a brushless type fan motor: In a fan motor, there are provided protruding portions provided integrally with a base member so as to face a magnet and protrude toward the magnet, and openings facing the magnet, in the base member made of magnetic material. As to the positional relation between the protruding portions and the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070176509 - Stator coil assembly: A stator coil assembly includes a cylindrical support tube with first and second pluralities of stator coils disposed radially around the support tube. Each stator coil includes first, second, third, and fourth linear segments, each having first and second planar broad sides. The second and fourth linear segments extend in... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070176510 - Armature for a direct current motor: An armature for a direct current motor, in particular for a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor, has an armature body, with armature teeth joined in one piece together via a short-circuit ring and offset by equal circumferential angles, each with a tooth neck for receiving an armature winding and with a tooth... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070176511 - Motor and a fuel pump using the same: A motor includes a stator core, insulators, coils and a rotor. The stator core includes a plurality of coil cores, which are circumferentially arranged, wherein each of the plurality of coil cores includes a tooth that radially extends, and an outer peripheral core that circumferentially extends at a radially outer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070176512 - Electric pump: A rotary shaft is rotatable relative to a motor rotor. A first end face of the motor rotor is exposed to the outside of a stator. A hammer portion is provided at the first end face. The hammer portion is configured to be movable as the motor rotor rotates. A... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070176513 - Thin-film piezoelectric resonator and filter circuit: It is possible to provide a resonator structure that does not cause a variation in anti-resonant frequency can be achieved, even if the cavity and the upper and lower electrode shift. A thin-film piezoelectric resonator includes: a lower electrode provided on the principal surface of the substrate so as to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070176514 - Electromechanical actuator structure: An electromechanical actuator structure is disclosed to include an electric actuator affixed to a base, a resilient drive member, which has a fixed segment fixedly connected to the electric actuator for synchronous reciprocating movement and a resilient segment extending out of the electric actuator and terminating in a conduction portion,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070176515 - Stator and carriage for a piezoelectric liner motor: A piezoelectric linear motor apparatus and method is provided. The apparatus comprises a carriage configured to be actuated and a stator configured to actuate the carriage. The stator comprises a meander line structure and a gear teeth structure, coupled to the top of the meander line structure and a contact... Agent: Wpat, PC

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20070176518 - Surface mount type crystal device: A crystal device for surface mounting is provided with at least: a container body having a substantially rectangular outer shape and mounting electrodes formed in the four corners of the outside bottom surface of the container body; and a crystal blank hermetically sealed within the container body. The spacing of... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070176517 - Surface mount type crystal oscillator: A surface mount type crystal oscillator is provided with: a container body having a bottom plate layer and a frame wall layer which has an opening, the frame wall layer being laminated on the bottom plate layer wherein a recess of the container body is formed by the opening; a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070176519 - Oscillator: A compact oscillator in which the oscillation frequency can be adjusted to a desired value is provided. The oscillator includes: a magnetoresistive effect element comprising a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer of which magnetization direction is changeable that are stacked in that order, a magnetization... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070176520 - Piezoelectric/electrostrictive actuator: A piezoelectric/electrostrictive actuator includes a piezoelectric body, a plurality of internal electrode layers, side-surface electrodes, and a plurality of electrode lead portions. The internal electrode layers formed only at a central portion of the piezoelectric body. Thus, an active portion is formed at the central portion of the piezoelectric body,... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070176521 - Multi-layer piezoelectric element: A multi-layer piezoelectric element of high durability wherein the internal electrodes and the external electrodes do not break even when operated continuously over a long period of time under high electric field and high pressure is provided. The first multi-layer piezoelectric element according to the present invention comprises a stack... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.