Electrical generator or motor structure inventions 12/07

20070296281 - Electrical motor: Disclosed is an electrical motor.... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20070296312 - Drive apparatus: A drive apparatus having a shortened axial dimension. First and second magnets are each formed into a semi-cylindrical shape and each provided with a magnetized pattern portion. A rotor yoke includes a shaft portion and a magnetic pole portion facing magnetized surfaces of the magnets. First and second stator yokes... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070296313 - Self-generating system for an exercise apparatus: A self-generating system for an exercise apparatus including a flywheel having a flange with a plurality of permanent magnets fixed on the circumference of thereof. At least one set of induction coils opposing to the permanent magnets is supported on the a mounting foot such that the induction coils surround... Agent: Kuo-hsiung Chiu

20070296291 - Submersible electric motor terminated for auxiliary tools: A submersible electric motor in a submersible pump system is provided that facilitates connecting auxiliary tools with the motor and disconnecting auxiliary tools from the motor without draining the fluid from the motor. The motor includes electrical terminals for connecting the auxiliary tool with the motor and may include a... Agent: Schlumberger Reservoir Completions

20070296293 - Motor assembly having improved flux properties: A motor assembly having improved flux properties comprises a rotor lamination rotatably disposed within a field lamination. The field lamination comprises a constant cross-sectional dimension, and is configured to provide a pair of opposed, tapered yokes that provide constant impedance to the rotor lamination. The rotor lamination includes a plurality... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20070296282 - Movable assembly for cylinder type linear motor: A movable assembly used in a cylinder type linear motor is provided which can be manufactured at low cost without requiring a cutting process while preventing its magnetic characteristics from deteriorating. The movable core is constructed of a laminated yoke which is formed of a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070296283 - Magnetostrictive / piezo remote power generation, battery and method: A power generation device generates power by subjecting a composite of magnetostrictive material and piezo material to a magnetic field. The composite of magnetostrictive material and piezo material may be incorporated in a battery or other storage device.... Agent: Emch, Schaffer, Schaub & Porcello Co

20070296284 - Magnetic motor: A magnetic motor is disclosed and claimed having a magnetic drive assembly magnetically coupled to a magnetic slave assembly. The drive assembly has at least one drive magnetic. In one embodiment the drive magnet is mounted on a cowling. In another embodiment the drive magnet is mounted on a drive... Agent: Vermette & Co.

20070296285 - Multiphase claw-pole type electric rotary machine, cogging torque adjustment system of the same, generator system, and motor system: A multiphase claw-pole type electric rotary machine has two or more phases-stator units. The stator units are arranged phase by phase in an axial direction of the electric rotary machine. Each phase stator unit comprises a pair of complementary-opposed claw pole core blocks and a ring-shaped stator coil sandwiched therebetween.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070296286 - Powered hand tool: The invention relates to a hand tool for use with attachments. The hand tools of the invention may be used with attachments with various speed and torque requirements. Preferred hand tools comprise a body with a brushless DC motor and means. which control the energisation of the motor. In use... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman

20070296287 - Cooling structure of superconducting motor: In a cooling structure of a superconducting motor in which a superconducting coil is attached to a rotor, grooves are concavely provided on an outer surface of a rotating shaft that penetrates and is fixed to the rotor. A refrigerant is circulated through a refrigerant circulation pipe disposed inside the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070296288 - Hermetic motors with windings directly coupled to on-winding motor protectors: A hermetic motor includes a stator having at least one winding formed by a winding wire, and an on-winding motor protector having at least one contact. To improve the reliability and reduce the cost of the hermetic motor, the winding wire is directly coupled (without a lead wire) to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070296289 - Five-phase generator: The invention relates to a five-phase electric generator (1), in particular for a motor vehicle, said generator comprising five electric branches (12) for five different phases, the latter being electrically connected at interconnection points (14). The electric angle (α) ranges between 25° and 36° at said interconnection points (14).... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20070296292 - Electric motor: An electric motor has a rotor (52) rotatable around a rotation axis (56) and has a stator (60) arranged around said rotor (52), which stator is equipped with poles (11′ to 16′). Each pole has an individual winding (11 to 16), and the latter together form a winding arrangement (30)... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070296290 - Motor module: A cable (150) for supplying electric power to a motor is electrically connected to an inner conductor (125) of a terminal block (120) via a contact (124) by a mating structure of a male connector (200) and a female connector (108). A connecting member (130) for electrically connecting the inner... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070296294 - Electric motor and electronic apparatus: To provide an electric motor efficiently operating a torque to a rotor by a stator while preventing an increase in a friction load by a slider and capable of achieving small-sized formation of a total of an apparatus in an axis line direction, an electric motor 1 includes a rotor... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070296295 - Centrifugal magnetic clutch: Disclosed herein is a device that relates to a centrifugal magnetic clutch device. The device comprising an input shaft and, a plurality of input magnets that are rotatable about an axis of the input shaft, and are radially movable relative to the input shaft axis, and are rotationally fixed to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20070296296 - Motor using working fluid distributed into chambers, which are provided for rotating rotors in opposite relative rotation directions: A motor includes inner-peripheral and outer-peripheral rotors which rotate coaxially and have permanent magnets along a circumference of each rotor; and a phase varying device for relatively rotating the rotors so as to vary a relative phase therebetween. The device has a forward-angle working chamber for relatively rotating the inner-peripheral... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070296297 - Crimped rotor for an electric brushless direct current motor: A rotor having a substantially cylindrical configuration for use in a brushless direct current electric motor having a high torque to size ratio. The rotor has an outer peripheral surface. The rotor also has a central rotor shaft and a first and second retaining ends mounted on the central rotor... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070296298 - Electric machine having segmented stator: An electric machine, such as a brushless direct current motor, includes a number of stator formed as stator sections. The stator sections are longitudinally offset from each other along a common central axis of the electric machine. The stator sections are magnetically independent of one another, but are electrically driven... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070296299 - Electrical machine with improved windings: This document discusses, among other things, a stator with transposition between the windings or coils. The coils are free from transposition to increase the fill factor of the stator slots. The transposition at the end connections between an inner coil and an outer coil provide transposition to reduce circulating current... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070296300 - Stator core: A stator core is disclosed. The stator core is constructed in a structure in which stress and spring back of the stator core are minimized when a stator is manufactured in a spiral fashion, whereby workability is improved. The stator core includes a yoke formed in the shape of a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070296301 - Stator core: A stator core is disclosed. The stator core is constructed in a structure in which stress of the stator core is minimized when a stator is manufactured in a spiral fashion, whereby workability is improved. The stator core includes a yoke formed in the shape of a band, a plurality... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070296302 - Segmented inner stator and brushless permanent magnet motor with the same: A segmented inner stator comprises a stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes a plurality of core segments which are retained together in a circular arrangement by at least one retaining ring and are mated with each other. At least some of the core segments are provided... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070296303 - Acoustic transducers having localized ferroelectric domain inverted regions: An acoustic transducer comprises a ferroelectric crystal having a plurality of spaced apart ferroelectric domain inverted regions and at least one non-inverted region. An electrode layer is disposed on one side of the crystal electrically contacting both the domain inverted portion and the non-inverted portion of the crystal. On a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070296304 - Acoustic wave device and method of manufacturing acoustic wave device: An acoustic wave device capable of exhibiting good characteristics for a prolonged period of time and a method of manufacturing an acoustic wave device are provided. An acoustic wave device of the invention includes a piezoelectric body layer having piezoelectricity and one surface, a pair of electrodes for, when electrified,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070296305 - Frequency coded sensors incorporating tapers: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate on which is formed a transducer that generates acoustic waves on the surface of the substrate from electrical waves received by the transducer. The waves are carried along an acoustic track to either a second transducer or a reflector. The transducers... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070296306 - Saw-component having a reduced temperature path and method for the production thereof: Elements and methods for forming elements that operate with acoustic waves are disclosed. The element includes a piezoelectric electric substrate that has a first thermal coefficient of expansion, electrically conducting element structures on an upper side of the substrate, a compensation layer on an underside of the substrate, and an... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070296307 - Driving device for piezoelectric actuator: In a driving device for a piezoelectric actuator, when a driving signal is input, a charging switch is repetitively turned on/off to charge and expand the piezoelectric actuator under the state that a discharging switch is turned off. Thereafter, when the input of the driving signal is stopped, the discharging... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070296308 - Driving device: A driving device includes a drive source, a driving unit, and a driven member. The drive source is configured and arranged to generate a driving force. The driving unit is coupled to the drive source to move with a reciprocating motion between first and second directions by the driving force.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070296310 - Micro manipulator for movement of electrode, driving method thereof, and measuring device of brain signal using the same: A micro manipulator for electrode movement, a driving method thereof, and a brain signal measuring device using the same are provided. The micro manipulator has a guide member having a rectangular hollow hole therein, first and second piezo-electric clamp bodies installed perpendicular to the movement direction of the electrode between... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070296309 - Multifunction sensor system for electrical machines: A multifunction sensor system for an electrical machine includes a piezoelectric vibration sensor a resistive temperature and partial discharge sensor which may optionally be integral with the piezoelectric vibration sensor; and packaging enclosing the vibration, the resistive temperature, and the partial discharge sensors.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070296311 - Piezoelectric actuator and manufacturing method thereof, magnetic disk apparatus: A piezoelectric actuator comprises a body of a piezoelectric material, electrode patterns embedded in the body, and a sidewall protective film of a piezoelectric material covering at least a sidewall surface of the body, the sidewall protective film covering the electrode patterns at the sidewall surface of the body.... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070290556 - Servo actuator with self positioning rotor and method: A linear actuator is provided with an integral permanent magnet, brushless motor capable of axial, self adjustment of the rotor position within the stator for field weakening. Axial displacement of the rotor within the stator allows for significantly improved speed performance from aligned rotor/stator components during light axial loading. Upon... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20070290581 - Active control mount magnetic optimization for an engine: A solenoid (10) includes a shell (12), a lower stator member (20) associated with the shell, and an upper stator member (30) in the shell. The upper stator member is separate from the lower stator member and has a wire receiving member (34). A half bobbin (40) is associated with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070290580 - Driving unit for analog meter: The present invention provides a driving unit for an analog meter. The size of the driving unit is modified into a column shape, so that the first tape and second tape of the stator unit can be placed in double layers, guiding more pins of the input terminal from the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070290557 - Automotive alternator: A cooling airflow introducing guide portion is disposed on a portion of a connector that faces fins of a voltage regulator heatsink so as to extend in a direction of array of the fins so as to ensure a predetermined clearance relative to the fins. An air intake aperture is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070290582 - Axial air-gap type motor: An axial air-gap type motor includes a rotor having a magnet, a stator, having an accommodating space therein, separated from the magnet in an axial direction of the motor by an air gap, and a printed circuit board disposed in the accommodating space of the stator.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070290559 - Fluid bearing with a variable width groove: A fluid bearing that utilizes a variable width groove is described. The fluid bearing includes two surfaces that are rotatable relative to one another, with a groove on at least one of the surface. The borders of the groove are a non-constant width from one another.... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070290561 - Spindle motor: A spindle motor can include a base, a bearing housing supported by the base, a bearing installed in the bearing housing, where oil is impregnated in the bearing, a rotating shaft rotatably installed in the bearing and having a groove at a predetermined surface thereof facing the bearing, a stator... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070290562 - Dc motor and attachment structure of dc motor: A DC motor including: a substantially cup-shaped housing; and an attachment board which closes an opening of the housing, and to which the motor is attached in a predetermined position; wherein the board has a fitting portion which is provided at a central part of this board, and to which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070290558 - Pneumatic tool with integrated electricity generator: A rotor for a pneumatic tool having electricity-generating capabilities comprises a shaft and an integral rotor body. The rotor body includes recesses dimensioned to receive an insulated subassembly comprising a magnet received within a nonmagnetic insulator. The nonmagnetic insulator acts to allow flux to be concentrated against stator windings. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070290560 - Motor and electric apparatus using the same motor: A motor includes a stator formed of an iron core wound with windings, a rotor placed opposing to the stator, a rotary shaft coupled to the rotor, a bearing holder for holding a bearing that supports the rotary shaft, and plural cooling fins placed around the bearing holder.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070290563 - Brushless motor with double rotors: It is a type of brushless motor with double rotors which is composed of one inside motor with radial-vertical permanent magnetic circuit and one outside motor with magnetic excitation circuit. The inside motor is made up of the input shaft, the inner rotor core, the permanent magnetic steel of the... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070290564 - Magnet retaining arrangement: The present invention provides a permanent magnet rotor arrangement that is particularly suitable for low-speed large-diameter electrical generators. The arrangement includes a rotor 2 having a radially outer rim 4. A circumferential array of magnet carriers 12 is affixed to the outer rim 4 of the rotor and have a... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070290565 - Rotor structure of rotating electric machine: A rotor includes a rotor core and disk-shaped end plates provided to sandwich the rotor core in the direction of a rotation shaft. The end plates are each formed to have one end face relatively closer to the rotor core and larger in outer diameter with the center at the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070290566 - Rotor and method of manufacturing: A rotor includes a rotor core, a permanent magnet inserted into an opening formed along a circumferential direction of the rotor core, and end plates provided to sandwich the rotor core in a direction of a rotation axis. The permanent magnet is fixed to the rotor core with an adhesive.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070290567 - Electric motor, stator of electric motor, and manufacturing method for the stator: A stator of an electric motor includes teeth, coils each wound about one of the teeth, and a yoke. Each tooth includes a tooth main body and a tooth reinforcing portion, which is integrally molded with at least a part of the surface of the tooth main body. The tooth... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070290568 - Electric motor: The invention relates to an electric motor having a permanent magnetic rotor supported in a rotatable fashion around a central axis, a wound stator with a cylindrical stator winding, claw poles, perpendicular in reference to the disc-shaped stator plates and arranged around the central axis, and a tubular return ring... Agent: Law Offices Jacobson Holman

20070290570 - Motor: A motor includes a shaft including upper and lower shaft members spaced axially away from each other. A shaft connecting member made of electrically insulating material is arranged axially between the upper and lower shaft members. The shaft connecting member is provided with fitting portions to which the upper and... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070290571 - Spindle motor: A spindle motor can include a base; a bearing housing supported on the base and having a bearing therein; a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the bearing; a stator installed around the bearing housing and having a core and a coil; and a rotor coupled with the rotating shaft and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070290569 - Rotor for electric motor, compressor unit provided with rotor, method for producing a rotor for an electric motor: A rotor for an electric motor according to the invention comprises a substantially cylindrical core, conductive rods and two short-circuit rings. The cylindrical core is formed from a core material and provided with a plurality of longitudinal grooves which extend substantially in the direction of the cylinder axis. The conductive... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070290572 - Micro-electro mechanical system device using in-plane motion: A micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) device using in-plane motion is provided. The MEMS device includes a stage which is supported by an axle and an actuator which provides a push-pull exciting force to the axle at upper and lower eccentric positions of an axis of the axle. The actuator includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070290573 - Method of controlling a piezoelectric actuator: A method for controlling the displacement of a stack of a piezoelectric actuator for use in a fuel injector comprises determining a desired amount of charge (ΔQ) to be added or removed from the stack. The method further comprises determining an operating parameter of the fuel system and selecting a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070290574 - Method for driving ion conducting actuator and ion conducting actuator: An ion conducting actuator includes a substrate which is made of a polymer material, and facing electrodes for generating an electric field. In the ion conducting actuator, a shape of the substrate is deformed to a desired shape by distributing unevenly ions and/or polar molecules in the substrate by applying... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070290575 - Ultrasonic energy system and method including a ceramic horn: An acoustic system for applying vibratory energy including a horn connected to an ultrasonic energy source. The horn defines an overall length and wavelength, and at least a leading section thereof is comprised of a ceramic material. The leading section has a length of at least ⅛ the horn wavelength.... Agent: Daniel R. Pastirik Office Of Intellectual Property Counsel

20070290576 - Wide frequency range electromechanical actuator: An electromechanical motor (1), using at least two bimorph, monomorph or multimorph electromechanical actuating elements (6) interconnected by a common actuator backbone (5) is disclosed. The actuating elements (6) are controllable in both a longitudinal direction (L), i.e. in the main extension direction of the actuating element (6), and a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070290577 - Electroactive polymer torsional device: The present invention relates to mechanical-electrical power conversion systems. The systems comprise one or more electroactive polymers that convert between electrical and mechanical energy. When a voltage is applied to electrodes contacting an electroactive polymer, the polymer deflects. This deflection may be converted into rotation of a power shaft included... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070290578 - Electronic module including piezoelectric device: An electronic module, comprises: a circuit board; a piezoelectric device having a lid, the piezoelectric device being mounted on the circuit board; and an electronic component mounted on the circuit board. The electronic component includes an adjustment terminal for at least one of adjusting and inspecting an electrical characteristic thereof.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070290579 - Piezoelectric crystal elements of shear mode and process for the preparation thereof: Piezoelectric crystal elements are provided having preferred cut directions that optimize the shear mode piezoelectric properties. In the discovered cut directions, the crystal elements have super-high piezoelectric performance with d15, d24 and d36 shear modes at room temperature. The d15 shear mode crystal gives a maximum d value and is... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20070284950 - Stage apparatus, exposure apparatus, and method for manufacturing device: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a stage apparatus which comprises a first stage that is movable with respect to a horizontal plane that is defined by a first axis and a second axis that intersect each other at right angles, and a second stage that is movable... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070284951 - Dynamic magnet apparatus for generating electrical power: A dynamic magnet apparatus for generating electrical power adapted to connect with a rectifier and accumulator, including a hollow elongated carrier having two opposite ends, a pair of fixed magnets positioned at outer surface of the opposite ends, a slidable magnet, and a supplemental weight, wherein the hallow elongated carrier... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070284953 - System and method for an efficient rotor for an electric motor: A rotor assembly for an electric motor is constructed by adding bars made out of a conducting material such as copper, to spaces between the teeth of a stack of discs, inserting bars referred to as “slugs”, also made out of a conducting material such as copper, in the spaces... Agent: Innovation Partners

20070284955 - Heat dissipating fan: A heat dissipating fan includes a frame, a first rotor having a shaft and a hub, a base disposed in the frame, a second rotor disposed at one side of the first rotor and coupled to the first rotor, and a driving element supported by the base for driving the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070284972 - Spindle motor: A spindle motor is disclosed. The spindle motor includes a base including a PCB, a bearing housing installed on the base and having a bearing therein, a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, a stator including a core arranged around the bearing housing and a coil wound around the... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070284956 - Assembly for generating energy by magnetic polar repulsion: An energy-generating assembly comprises a disc assembly, multiple driver magnets, and magnet holders. The disc assembly comprises a disc member, an axle, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced propeller magnets. The magnets each comprise opposing pole ends. The propeller magnets are fastened to the disc member adjacent its outer periphery... Agent: Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20070284957 - Limit structure for motor spindle: The present invention relates to a limit structure for motor spindle, which includes a base equipped with a shaft tube and a stator set. A limit member and a bearing are disposed inside a shaft tube such that a spindle can be inserted and rotated in the bearing. The inner... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070284952 - Permanent magnet rotor: The invention is related to a permanent magnet rotor having a shaft, a hollow cylindrical permanent magnet and an elastic connecting medium between the shaft and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is arranged co-axially around the shaft. The task of the invention is to ensure that the permanent magnet... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070284954 - Totally enclosed fan cooled motor: A motor assembly comprises a first end frame, a second end frame including at least one air outlet aperture, an air shroud surrounding a stator between the first end frame and the second end frame, the air shroud cooperating with the stator to form at least one air passage, and... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070284958 - Motor for driving a container-holder plate in a labelling machine: A motor for a plate of a labelling machine comprises a housing with a connecting portion for connecting the motor to a carrousel of the labelling machine, a motor shaft pivotally supported within the housing, a coupling flange having a first end connected to the motor shaft and a second... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20070284960 - Magnet for a dynamoelectric machine, dynamoelectric machine and method: Disclosed herein is an apparatus relating to a magnet member for a dynamoelectric machine comprising, a first portion of the magnet member made of a first magnetic material and a second portion of the magnet member made of a second magnetic material. Further disclosed is a method that relates to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070284959 - Electric machine: An electric machine which has an arched stator and a cylindrical rotor fitted inside it and in which the flux flows in the radial direction between the stator and the rotor as in a permanent-magnet radial-flux synchronous electric machine, and in which the stator of the machine consists of stator... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070284961 - Permanent magnet synchronous motor, rotor of the same, and compressor using the same: The inventive self-initiated permanent magnet synchronous motor has a rotor that has two-pole permanent magnets, as well as magnetic substances in a peripheral direction between the magnetic poles of the permanent magnets. The present invention provides a high-efficiency, high-torque permanent magnet synchronous motor with an improved power factor, its rotor,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070284962 - Rotary electric machine and method for mounting a coil on core for rotary electric machine: A method for mounting coil onto stator for rotary electric machine. The method includes forming coil pieces by winding wire with flat cross section into single row lamination state including wire layers aligned along perpendicular line to flat surfaces of wire. The coil is formed for first portion to be... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070284963 - Rotor for tandem type alternator and tandem type alternator using such rotor: A rotor for a tandem type alternator and a tandem type alternator having such a rotor are disclosed. The rotor comprises front and rear Lundell-type rotor cores, carried on a rotary shaft adjacent to each other, which include front and rear rotor coils, respectively, and front and rear claw-shaped pole... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070284964 - Micro-electro mechanical system device and method of forming comb electrodes of the same: A micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) device and a method of forming comb electrodes of the MEMS device are provided. The method includes forming a plurality of parallel trenches at regular intervals in one side of a first silicon substrate so as to define alternating first and second regions at different... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070284965 - Boundary acoustic wave device and process for producing same: In a method for producing a boundary acoustic wave device that includes a first medium, a second medium, and a third medium laminated in that order, and electrodes disposed at the interface between the first medium and the second medium, the method includes the steps of preparing a laminate including... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070284966 - Surface wave sensor apparatus: A surface wave sensor apparatus has a structure such that, on a first principal surface of a base substrate having first through-hole conductors, surface acoustic wave devices are bonded via thermo-compression anisotropic conductive sheets, on first principal surfaces of piezoelectric substrates of the surface acoustic wave devices, electrodes, such as... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070284967 - Actuator device and liquid-jet head: An actuator device includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements formed on a surface of a substrate. Each piezoelectric element is configured of a piezoelectric layer, an upper electrode, and a lower electrode that is formed across the plurality of piezoelectric elements. The actuator device also includes a thin film portion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070284968 - Piezoelectric actuator, imaging element moving device using the same, and imaging device using the same: A piezoelectric actuator having a well-balanced mechanical structure is obtained by means of stacking a plurality of cross units, in each of which a pair of bimorph piezoelectric elements (21a and 21b, 21c and 21d) are crossed in the form of the letter X, into two layers (an even number... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070284969 - Micromachined, piezoelectric vibration-induced energy harvesting device and its fabrication: A micro-sized power source. A piezoelectric power generator, capable of harvesting energy from environmental vibration with lower level frequency, including a dielectric frame loosely containing a piezoelectric panel. The piezoelectric panel includes an electrode and a piezoelectric layer formed over an electrode and dielectric layer and an end mass formed... Agent: Kris Fredrick Attorney, Intellectual Property

20070284970 - Piezoelectric oscillator and method of manufacturing the same: A piezoelectric oscillator includes a semiconductor chip which includes an electrical circuit, a piezoelectric vibrator which is provided on a main surface of the semiconductor chip, and an external electrode which is provided on the main surface of the semiconductor chip.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070284971 - Electronic device: An electronic device includes: a lower electrode; a first piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode provided on the first piezoelectric film. At least one of the lower electrode and the upper electrode is made of an alloy composed primarily of aluminum and doped with at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070278864 - Linear motor cooling apparatus with air amplification: A cooling apparatus is provided for a linear motor that comprises a coil assembly and a magnet assembly, wherein the coil assembly generates heat during operation. The cooling apparatus comprises a compressed air inlet positioned to discharge compressed air in a direction directly towards a gap between the coil assembly... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070278866 - Sliding system with onboard moving-magnet linear motor: A sliding system has a coil spring to keep balance in weight when a table moves up and down on the bed placed in upright posture. The sliding system is comprised of a bed, a table allowed to move relatively to the bed, a linear motor including a field magnet... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070278867 - Expoxy encapsulated stator: A stator having electromagnetic poles that face an interior or center of a generally circular lamination of the stator includes coils that are encapsulated in epoxy. The outer surface of the epoxy and the outer surface of a laminate of the stator are in combination cylindrical. A method of manufacture... Agent: Overhauser Law Offices, LLC Paul B. Overhauser

20070278909 - Housing for an electronic device: Embodiments of the invention are directed to electronic device housings and may be particularly applicable to portable electronic devices. In an embodiment, an assembly comprises a first housing element that forms a first recess, a second housing element that contacts the first housing element, wherein the first recess faces away... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070278875 - Motor: A motor includes a stator including a core back having a circular or substantially circular shape, a plurality of tooth portions extending radially inwardly from the core back, a plurality of insulators covering the tooth portions, a plurality of coils formed by winding wires around the tooth portions via the... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070278876 - Motor: A motor includes a stator and a bus bar supported axially above the stator. The bus bar includes a concave portion arranged in a lower surface thereof facing toward coils of the stator. In a gap defined between the coil and the concave portion, a portion of the wire extracted... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070278878 - Sliding-type electronic device with a semi-automatic and magnetic opening mechanism: An electronic device includes a plurality link bars, a plurality of magnetic devices, a first module and a second module connected to the first module in a slideable manner. The magnetic devices are disposed at connecting nodes where the link bars are connected to each other. One connecting node of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070278879 - Methods and apparatus for using an electrical machine to transport fluids through a pipeline: A stator for an electrical machine includes teeth assembled from a plurality of stacked laminations mounted on a cylindrical protective surface thereby forming a plurality of slots. The stator also includes an armature winding assembled within the teeth by inserting components of the armature winding into the plurality of stator... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)

20070278882 - Motor shaft supporting structure for refrigerator: Provided is a motor shaft supporting structure for reducing noises when a motor operates in a refrigerator. In the motor shaft supporting structure for a refrigerator, a bearing housing supports a motor shaft in an axial direction of the motor shaft. The motor shaft is coupled to a blower fan.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070278884 - Vacuum pump: Disclosed is a magnetic bearing system for use in a vacuum pump including a rotor provided with a rotary blade. The magnetic bearing system comprises a rotary shaft rotationally holding the rotor, a motor for rotationally driving the rotary shaft, a magnetic levitation section for supporting the rotor relative to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070278865 - Electric machine: The invention relates to an electric motor (1-8), comprising a primary piece (21,22,52-57) and a secondary piece (15,16,17), whereby the primary piece (21,22,52-57) has a side (82) facing the secondary piece and the secondary piece (15,16,17) has a side (83), facing the primary piece (21,22,52-57), whereby said facing sides (82,83)... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070278863 - Moving magnet type linear actuator: A moving magnet type linear actuator long in service life having no effect on a linear guide even in the case of performing a highly-frequent acceleration/deceleration operation is provided. In a moving magnet type linear actuator comprising a stator unit including a stator base, a magnetic core and an armature... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070278868 - External-rotor motor having a stationary bearing shaft: An improved drum motor, preferably electronically commutated, features a unitary stationary central shaft (18) supporting a stationary inner stator (52), and an external rotor (49), including permanent magnets (54), secured to an inner surface of a generally cylindrical rotatable casing part (18). This permits variable speed operation while avoiding any... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070278869 - Rotating electric machine: A rotating electric machine, comprising a stator, a rotor, a case storing the stator and the rotor, and an oil pump. Oil discharge ports are formed at the terminal part of an oil discharge passage of the case, and a cooling oil is supplied to the upper cutout parts of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070278870 - Arrangement in an electrical machine: The invention relates to an arrangement for indicating a fault in an electrical machine having a stator and a rotor with an air gap between it and the stator. In order to detect impurities or similar objects entering the air gap, a means of supervision is arranged on the stator... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070278874 - Airplane engine accessory box: An airplane engine accessory box carrying an electrical machine such as an alternator, having a rotor that is guided in rotation in a bearing carried by a support part made of a material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion, itself carried by a stator cover that acts as a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070278872 - Electric machine and stator provided for same: A stator for an electric machine, in particular for an alternator for motor vehicles, having a stator (16), which supports a stator winding (18) that has winding ends (78). The winding ends (78) are connected to an additional conductor element (80), which joins a plurality of individual wires of the... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20070278873 - Gear motor in particular for motor vehicle wiper mechanism: The invention is remarkable in that the connection means comprise at least one conductor track which is overmolded inside the closure casing 5, and which is provided with at least one notch suitable for co-operating by interfitting with a connection plug of one of the electrical components of the motor... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070278871 - Vibration generating motor: [Solution] A motor for generating vibration comprising a vibration generating mechanism having a rotating shaft attached with a weight, a housing case for accommodating at least a part of the aforementioned vibration generating mechanism, and a pair of power supply terminals protruding from the aforementioned housing for electrically connecting the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070278877 - Dc motor with supressor: A DC motor (1), in particular for a blower device of a motor vehicle, having a pole housing (10), a plurality of contact elements (13) effecting the bonding to a collector (12), a pole housing opening (16) making it possible to feed electrical connection lines (18) through into the pole... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20070278880 - Disk apparatus: A disk apparatus comprises a rotor frame 221 in which disk holding member is placed on a center of an upper surface of the rotor frame 221, a shaft 222 mounted on a center of the rotor frame 221, a bearing metal 231 which holds the shaft 222, a holder... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070278883 - Rotor, related manufacturing process, and induction machine employing the rotor: A rotor (7) for induction machines, includes a core (10), apt to face a stator (5) of an induction machine, and an axis (8) that is coaxial with the core (10). The core (10) and the axis (8) are made enbloc, and in that it includes a jacket (11) externally... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070278881 - Shaft member for hydrodynamic bearing apparatuses and a method for producing the same: A shaft material 10 integrally having a shaft portion 11 and a flange portion 12 is formed by a forging process, and the cylindricity of a part or the entire outer circumferential surface 11a of the shaft portion 11 is corrected. The end face 11b of the shaft portion of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070278885 - Rotor for motors: A first divided rotor magnetic pole unit 15 and a second divided rotor magnetic pole unit 17 are disposed side by side on a surface of a rotor core 13 in an axial direction of a rotary shaft 11. The first divided rotor magnetic pole unit 15 includes P (P... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070278886 - Ipm electric rotating machine: f

20070278887 - Single field rotor motor: A single field rotor motor comprising a rotor mounted for rotation with respect to a stator. The stator has a plurality of stator poles each having a coil for creating a magnetic pole force. The rotor has a plurality of circumferentially spaced salient rotor poles formed thereon, wherein the flux... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070278889 - Rotating machine and gas turbine system: A rotating machine including a stator iron core having a plurality of slots installed in the direction of a rotary shaft, a plurality of armature windings alternately inserted and wound round an outer layer of one of the slots and an inner layer of another slot, and a rotor having... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070278888 - Salient-pole machine comprising at least one field coil: The invention relates to a salient-pole machine comprising at least one field coil that extends in an axial direction of the salient-pole machine and is located below a pole shoe on a rotor body. Said machine is characterized in that the field coil is pressed against the pole shoe by... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070278890 - Switching pattern ac induction motor: Both the stator core and the rotor core of a switching pattern AC induction motor are fabricated by soft magnetic material laminations or ferrite material, etc., both of which have corresponding frequency characteristic. The excitation voltage is sine wave pulse width modulated or sine wave pulse amplitude modulated within the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070278891 - Magnetic powder metal composite core for electrical machines: t

20070278892 - Laminated body of motor and manufacturing method thereof: A laminated body of a motor includes: a yoke spirally laminated to form a hollow cylindrical shape; a plurality of teeth protruding from one side edge of the yoke disposed along a longitudinal direction of the yoke and being separated apart at a predetermined distance; a plurality of notch portions... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070278893 - Fuel pump, motor device for the same, and method for manufacturing the same: A fuel pump includes a pump portion for pumping fuel. The fuel pump further includes a magnet having magnetic poles circumferentially alternate with each other. The fuel pump further includes an armature on a radially inside of the magnet. The armature includes a rotor core provided with a coil formed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070278894 - Polyphase claw pole type motor: In a motor having a pawl-shaped magnetic pole, if a coil is wound like a ring shape so as to be formed, one leader line can be generally drawn out to an external portion from a position close to an outer periphery of a stator, however, the other leader line... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070278895 - Rotor of a vehicular ac generator: In a Lundell type rotor core of a rotor in a vehicular AC generator, each interposing magnet is supported at a base part of each claw-shaped magnetic pole part in an axial direction of the rotor. This configuration prevents the transmission of deformation at a front end part of each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070278896 - monolithic nanoscale actuation: An apparatus including an actuator configured for controllable deflection, and also including a piezoresistive element integral to the actuator and having first and second piezoresistive portions and a plurality of contacts. One of the plurality of contacts is configured to pass a received feedback signal through the first and second... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070278897 - Method of producing surface acoustic wave device and the surface acoustic wave device: A method of producing a surface acoustic wave device includes a sacrificial-layer forming step of forming a sacrificial layer on a piezoelectric substrate so as to cover comb electrodes and reflectors, a space-forming-member forming step of forming a space-forming member while openings are formed near the reflectors along a surface... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070278898 - Acoustic boundary wave device, resonator and filter: An acoustic boundary wave device includes a first medium having piezoelectricity, electrodes that are provided on the first medium and excite acoustic waves, a second medium made of a material different from the first medium and provided on the first medium so as to cover the electrodes, and a third... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070278899 - Piezoelectric thin-film resonator: A piezoelectric thin-film resonator and a method of manufacturing thereof eliminate and prevent breaking of a piezoelectric thin film, disconnection of electrodes, and other known problems. The piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes a substrate and a suspended portion including a vibrating portion in which a piezoelectric thin film is disposed between... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070278901 - Piezoelectric actuator and method for producing the same: A piezoelectric actuator includes a first ceramic sheet having an individual electrode formed thereon, a second ceramic sheet having a common electrode formed thereon, a top ceramic sheet having a surface electrode for the individual electrode and a surface electrode for the common electrode formed thereon, wherein the surface electrode... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070278900 - Thin film piezoelectric actuator: A thin film piezoelectric actuator comprises a driving part at least one end of which is supported by an anchor portion. The driving part includes: a piezoelectric film, a first lower electrode provided under a first region of the piezoelectric film, a second lower electrode provided under a second region... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070278902 - Impact powered devices: A device including: a housing; a powered element disposed on or in the housing; and an impact power producing element housed on or in the housing and operatively connected to the powered element, the impact power producing element producing power upon an impact of at least a portion of the... Agent: Thomas Spinelli

20070278903 - Piezoelectric device: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric element, a circuit board on which the piezoelectric element is mounted, an IC component having at least a function of oscillating the piezoelectric element and connected to a bottom face of the circuit board, an insulating section covering at least a part of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070278905 - Piezoelectric actuator and liquid-droplet jetting head: A piezoelectric actuator includes a first ceramic sheet having individual inner-electrodes formed thereon, a second ceramic sheet having a common inner-electrode formed thereon, a third ceramic sheet having individual surface-electrodes formed thereon, and a fourth ceramic sheet having a plurality of connection electrodes connecting the individual surface-electrodes and the individual... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070278904 - Piezoelectric thin-film element: A piezoelectric thin-film element formed with a niobate lithium potassium sodium thin-film having a well-developed Perovskite structure and having an excellent piezoelectric characteristic. The piezoelectric thin-film 4 is a dielectric thin-film composed of a alkaline-niobic oxide represented by (Nax1Ky1Liz1) NbO3 (0<x1<1, 0<y1<1, 0≦z1<1, x1+y1+z1=1) and having a Perovskite structure, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070278906 - Piezoelectric transformer: A piezoelectric transformer with a base body containing a piezoelectric material is disclosed. The piezoelectric material is polarized in an input part of the base body along a first axis and in an output part of the base body along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. In a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070278907 - Multi-layer piezoelectric element and method for manufacturing the same: A multi-layer piezoelectric element having high durability which allows it to increase the amount of displacement of a piezoelectric actuator under high voltage and high pressure and does not undergo a change in the amount of displacement during continuous operation in a high electric field and under a high pressure... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070278908 - Piezoelectric actuator and liquid-droplet jetting head: A piezoelectric actuator includes individual inner-electrodes arranged between stacked ceramic sheets, individual surface-electrodes arranged in a row in a row-direction on a top surface of the stacked ceramic sheets, and connection electrodes connecting the individual inner-electrodes and the individual surface-electrodes respectively. The connection electrodes each have a size enough to... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department