Electrical generator or motor structure inventions 08/08

20080203828 - Displacement device: Especially for use in the semiconductor industry, a displacement device (701) is disclosed comprising a first part comprising a carrier (714) on which a system of magnets (710) is arranged according to a pattern of row and columns extending parallel to the X-direction and the Y-direction, respectively. The magnets in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080203829 - Vibrating-type motor: A vibrating-type motor is provided, in which only a restoring force is reduced without reducing a thrust increasing effect by auxiliary magnets, thereby reducing size while increasing efficiency. Specifically, a vibrating-type motor is provided that includes a moving part having a main magnet and auxiliary magnets individually junctioned coaxially to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080203830 - Economical module for engine cooling applications: A cooling module includes a shroud (38) having an integral cover (42). The cover receives bearing structure (40). A fan (36) is provided for moving air. A rotor and stator assembly (30) has an opened end and includes a stator (29) having permanent magnets. A rotor (31) includes a lamination... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080203831 - Magnetic drive apparatus: A primary disc and the secondary discs are each fitted with magnetic means, typically in the form of permanent magnets of the same polarity, located along a radial line from the centre point of the discs, and arranged generally transverse to the axis of rotation of the respective disc. As... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080203832 - Rotary electric machine: In a power generator provided with a stator frame having a stator iron core incorporating a stator coil therein in an inner portion thereof, and a rotor in which a rotor coil rotating so as to oppose to the stator frame and the stator iron core is incorporated, the power... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080203833 - Brush holder: A brush holder includes a base member and a retaining member mounted on the base member. The retaining member includes a first brush retaining portion and a first coil retaining portion. A first choke coil is electrically connected to a first brush. The first choke coil includes a first coil... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080203835 - Motor drive assembly: An electronic control unit (ECU) for a motor is mounted to a drum housing or the like in a plane parallel to the plane defined by the surface of the drum housing on which the motor is mounted. The housing for the motor includes an aperture window. Power contacts from... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20080203834 - Motor used to drive optical elements: A motor used to drive optical elements includes a stator, a rotor revolved relative to the stator, and a feedback apparatus used to sense the position of the rotor. The feedback apparatus is an encoder. The invention utilizes such described structure so as to eliminate the system's instability caused by... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080203859 - Electric actuator for aircraft flight control: The invention relates to an actuator (9) comprising a rotary electric motor (12) a screw Old) driven n rotation by the motor, a mechanical member (15) driven in translation by the screw, a first position sensor (40) sensitive to a position of the electric motor and/or of the screw, a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080203836 - Direct current motor: A gear housing accommodates a worm shaft. A brush holder includes a base member and a retaining member loosely fitted to the base member. The base member is located between the gear housing and the retaining member. The retaining member retains a first brush and a second brush. The retaining... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080203837 - Ceiling fan d. c. motor: A ceiling fan D.C. motor includes a stator and a rotor fitted around the outer circumference of the stator. The rotor is composed of a holder, annular base, a plurality of permanent magnets and a cover. The holder has its circumferential edge provided with an annular wall formed inside with... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080203839 - Bearing unit and motor using bearing unit: A bearing unit includes a radial bearing; a thrust bearing; a path forming member; a housing; viscous fluid; and a communicating path. The communicating path has an axial path formed in the axis direction on a circumferential face of the radial bearing and a second end side path formed on... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080203840 - Drive unit with a rotationally fixed bearing element: The invention relates to a drive unit (10) and to a method for producing said drive unit, especially for adjusting mobile parts in a motor vehicle. Said drive unit comprises a drive shaft (12), received in a housing (24) by means of at least one bearing element (22). Said housing... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080203838 - Dynamic bearing device: A dynamic pressure generation portion is formed on the outer circumferential surface 2a1 of a shaft portion 2a. This allows for forming a bearing member 7 into which a housing and a sleeve-shaped member that were conventionally separately configured due to the machinability of the dynamic pressure generation portion are... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080203841 - High-torque motor: A motor that delivers high force linear motion or high torque rotary motion to a moving element. The motor may include a driving brake, a driver, a holding brake and a flexible moving element. Operation of the motor may involve activating the holding brake, activating the driver to flex the... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080203842 - Motor: A motor includes a stator formed of a stator iron-core having salient pole iron-cores and windings, and a rotor having a rotor iron-core in which permanent magnets are buried. A magnetic pole centerline connecting a rotary center of the rotor to a magnetic pole center crosses an external shape of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080203843 - Rotor with clamping device: Manufacturing costs of releasable permanent magnet rotors or asynchronous squirrel cages should be reduced. Accordingly, a rotor is proposed which includes at least one ring-shaped fastening device (23) secured in fixed rotative engagement to one of the end faces of a magnet device (21, 22) and for form-fitting or force-locking... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080203844 - Slot seal: The invention relates to a slot seal for an electric machine (13) comprising at least one slot (4) provided with a slot opening for arranging an electric conductor arrangement (6), wherein said slot sealing comprises, on the face thereof oriented towards the conductor arrangement (6), at least one bulge (1)... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080203845 - Insulating mask arrangement, armature and electrical machine: The invention relates to an insulating mask arrangement for electrically insulating an electric winding from an iron core (13) of an electrical machine (20), at least one mask element (11, 12) being arranged on the iron core (13). The invention provides that the iron core (13), in its axial extension... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080203846 - Horizontal axis washing machine having 4 pole 36 slot motor: A horizontal axis washing machine includes a clothing receptacle rotated by a 4 pole rotor. A 36 slot stator having an interior bore with an interior diameter receives the 4 pole rotor in magnetic coupling relation and capable of operating within a flux weakening range of at least 5:1. The... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080203847 - Planar commutator, rotor and direct current electric motor: In a direct current electric motor, segment pieces of a commutator are generally planar and are arranged one after another in a circumferential direction about a rotational axis of the commutator. A slidably engaging surface of each segment piece, which is slidably engageable with a plurality of brushes of the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080203848 - Electrical motor/generator having a number of stator pole cores being larger than a number of rotor pole shoes: The present invention relates to an electrical multipole motor/generator or electrical machine with axial magnetic flux, wherein the machine has a number of stator pole cores being larger than the number of rotor pole shoes. Thus, a motor/generator or electrical machine is provided in which the machine comprises a rotor... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080203849 - Energy converting apparatus, generator and heat pump provided therewith and method of production thereof: A high-efficiency thermionic energy converter comprises a multilayer vacuum diode, the layers of which are very thin and the intermediate spaces between the layers are several nanometres thick. The layers are held at a distance from each other by arranging insulator elements embedded in the layers. One of the intermediate... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080203850 - Flexible member energy conversion device: Flexible member energy conversion device (550) converts flexible member (100) deflection mechanical energy to electrical energy. Flexible member (100) deflects and conforms to surface (40) as wheel (20) rotates while transporting load (10). Energy conversion device (550) is comprised of single or multiple electroactive polymer transducers (500), charge exchange mean... Agent: Phillip Reed Martineau

20080203852 - Circuit and method for analog-driving a capacitive load, in particular a piezoelectric actuator: A circuit for analogously controlling a capacitive charge, has a drive source used to provide an operating voltage or an operating flow used to charge the capacitive charge, a circuit arrangement used to charge and discharge the charge, and a storage capacity used to intermediately store the charge of the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080203851 - Piezoelectric package with porous conductive layers: A piezoelectric package comprises a piezoelectric plate having a first planar surface and a second planar surface that are electrically isolated from each other. The piezoelectric package further comprises a first electrically conductive layer electrically coupled to the first planar surface, and a second electrically conductive layer electrically coupled to... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080203853 - Method for producing a monolithic piezo actuator with stack elements, monilithic piezo actuator with stack elements, and use of the piezo actuator: A piezo actuator has a stack element and at least one further stack element, wherein each of the stack elements has stacked piezoceramic layers and electrode layers arranged between the piezoceramic layers, each of the electrode layers extends to at least one of at least two lateral surface sections of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080203854 - Ground insulated piezoelectric sensor for the measurement of acceleration of pressure: The invention describes a sensor comprising an element package 2 including piezoelectric elements with an upper area 6 and a lower area 7. A preload sleeve 3 surrounds the said upper area 6 of the said element package 2, while an insulation sleeve 1 sits between the upper area 6... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080203855 - Broadband, nonreciprocal network element: A magneto-electric (ME) gyrator, which is a discrete, passive network element, comprises a laminated composite of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive layers. The ME gyrator approximately meets the following criteria: Vy=−α/,, where V is voltage, /is current, and a is a conversion (or gyration) coefficient between voltage and current and non-reciprocity is... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080203856 - Piezoelectric element, liquid ejection head and printer: A piezoelectric element includes a base substrate; a lower electrode formed above the base substrate; a piezoelectric layer that is formed above the lower electrode, and formed from a perovskite type oxide expressed by a general formula ABO3, where A includes lead (Pb), and B includes zirconium (Zr) and titanium... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080203857 - Monolithic piezoactuator with rotation of the polarisation in the transition region and use of said piezoactuator: A piezoactuator has at least one piezoelectric-active partial stack with piezoceramic layers arranged one over the other with piezoceramic material and electrode layers arranged between the piezoceramic layers, at least one piezoelectric-inactive terminating region arranged over the partial stack and at least one transition region between the partial stack and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080203858 - Sc cut crystal resonator: The outer shape of a quartz crystal blank is processed to have a predetermined shape, thereby providing an SC cut crystal resonator capable of reliably and reproducibly suppressing B mode resonance. In this SC cut crystal resonator, the surface of the quartz crystal orthogonal to the Y axis is rotated... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080197718 - Electrical machine with ferrofluid components: An electrical machine includes a primary part and a secondary part which are spaced apart from one another by an air gap and capable of moving relative to one another. The primary part and/or the secondary part is/are constructed for generating magnetic or electromagnetic fields, with the primary part and... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20080197719 - Linear actuator: An object of the present invention is to provide a linear actuator in which reliability is improved, and performance is also easily improved. The present invention provides a linear actuator including a stator, a movable element having an iron member, and being reciprocatable with respect to the stator, a permanent... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080197720 - Vibrating-type motor: A vibrating-type motor is provided, in which a restoring force is reduced without reducing a thrust increasing effect by auxiliary magnets, thereby to reduce the size and expense of the motor while increasing efficiency. The vibrating-type motor includes a moving part having a main magnet and auxiliary magnets individually junctioned... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080197721 - Apparatus and method using an induced magnetic field to turn a crankshaft in an engine: The present invention is a method for modifying a current gas or diesel engine, or building a new one, which utilizes a magnetic field produced by solenoids in the cylinders or cylinder cover to exert force on a modified piston to turn a crankshaft. The present invention removes the need... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080197722 - Electric motor with a commutator-side rotor bearing: An electric motor has a housing (2) with a stator (3) and a rotor (5) located therein, a rotor bearing (4) for rotatably supporting a rotor shaft (6) around a rotor axis (A), a commutator (7), and a brush holder (8) with carbon brushes (9) associated with the stator (3)... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080197723 - Electric motor: An electric motor includes a rotation shaft, a commutator fixed to the rotation shaft, an armature provided with armature coils electrically connected to the commutator, the armature rotatably housed in a motor housing, a brush slidably contacting with the commutator, a power feeding terminal including a positive electrode plate and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080197724 - Cooling arrangement of an electrical machine: A component of an electric machine 46, the component comprising a core 10; two or more teeth 14 extending radially therefrom; at least one electromagnetic winding 12, each winding 12 around at least one of the teeth 14; wherein the core 10 having a cooling arrangement including at least one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080197725 - Cooling arrangement for a variable reluctance electric machine: A variable reluctance electric machine comprising a rotor and a stator; the stator having two or more electromagnetic windings and the rotor having a plurality of salient poles, the salient poles defining axially extending cooling fluid channels; wherein the salient poles and the cooling fluid channels are circumferentially skewed along... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080197726 - Assembly of electronic components for electrical rotating machine: An assembly of electronic components for a rotary electrical machine and power and signal interconnection pieces cooperating with the electronic components in order respectively to distribute power to the electronic components and convey control signals between electronic components for the functioning of the rotary electrical machine, wherein the electronic components... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080197727 - Heat sink for electronic components of a rotating electric machine: A dissipator for discharging heat from electronic components, the electronic components being intended for the functioning of a rotary electrical machine, the rotary electrical machine comprising a rear bearing, the dissipator comprising a top face and a bottom face integrating fins, wherein the dissipator is disposed between the rear bearing... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080197729 - Optical encoder device for small-sized motor: A photo sensor module includes a holder made of resin and a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element accommodated in the holder. A printed circuit board is fixed to a flat side wall portion of a motor. The resin holder has a guide portion which is formed integrally therewith and... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080197728 - Rotary single-phase electromagnetic servo actuator comprising an actuator and a position sensor: The invention concerns a rotary single-phase electromagnetic servo actuator consisting of a rotary actuator designed to move a mobile member along a limited travel, including a 2N pole stator structure, N being equal to 1 or 2, and at least one field coil, said stator structure being made of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080197730 - Nested variable field dynamoelectric machine: A dynamoelectric machine comprises a first rotor shaft, a second rotor shaft and a central element. The first rotor shaft rotates about a central axis of the machine and has a first magnetic drive element disposed about an outer circumference of the first rotor shaft. The second rotor shaft rotates... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080197731 - Brushless motor and pump mounted with brushless motor: A bottom portion side rib and a flange portion side rib are respectively formed on the bottom portion and the flange portion of the inner cover. The bottom portion side rib includes a plurality of bottom portion side radial ribs and a plurality of bottom portion side circular ring shaped... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080197732 - Adjustable bent housing with single offset: An adjustable bent housing comprises a stator connector, an adjustable housing having a first axial deviation and a first offset point and a plurality of spaced teeth, a crown which is disposed between the stator connector and the adjustable housing, and has a plurality of spaced teeth which are complementary... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20080197733 - Electric motor and transmission drive unit for actuators in a motor vehicle: The invention relates to an electric motor (10) and gearing/drive unit (12) for actuators in a motor vehicle, comprising an armature shaft (32) mounted inside a pole casing (18), which has a jacket (20) and, on at least one face (22, 24), a bearing cover (26, 28) for accommodating a... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080197734 - Electric motor with split magnetic return element: The invention relates to an electric motor (10) and to a method for producing said electric motor, especially for adjusting mobile parts in a motor vehicle. Said electric motor comprises a rotor (12), a lower housing part (16) and an upper housing part (18) which can be radially assembled in... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080197735 - Rotor and stator fixture of electric motor: The present invention discloses a stator and rotor fixture of an electric motor, and the fixture includes a frame, a stator and a rotor, both contained in the frame. The center of the stator installs a sheathing portion, and the sheathing portion has an embedding groove extended inwardly from an... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080197736 - Magnet retention system for permanent magnet motors and generators: A rotor for a brushless permanent magnet generator/motor comprises a retention slot extending into a rotor flange for receiving a root of a permanent magnet. The retention slot comprises a base extending axially into the rotor flange, a pair of side walls extending radially from the base, and a pair... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080197737 - Permanent magnet rotor assembly: An illustrative embodiment of the present invention is concerned with a permanent magnet rotor for an electric machine provided with an internal stator and a coaxial external rotor. To overcome the drawbacks associated with the use of an adhesive to mount the permanent magnets to the rotor body, permanent magnet... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080197738 - Rotating field machine with bell shaped rotor: An electrical drive comprising stationary outer and inner stators; a rotatably mounted rotor with at least one pot-shaped element having a cylindrical wall and a base wall, wherein the cylindrical wall is thin-walled and made of magnetic material, wherein the base wall extends perpendicular and a cylindrical coaxial to a... Agent: Robert W. Becker & Associates

20080197739 - Motor and control unit thereof: A motor is provided, which includes: a rotor having rotor pole groups, in which N-poles and S-poles are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction; an N number (N is a positive integer) of stator pole groups, in which a plurality of stator poles are arranged for individual phases along or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080197740 - Modular motor or alternator assembly: A modular motor or alternator assembly which comprises an alternator or a motor having a rotor with longitudinal lobes and no windings, commutators, slip rings, magnets, or laminations. A number of modules are provided including two end bell modules, a stator and field coil module, a field coil module, and... Agent: Gene R. Woodle

20080197741 - Electrical machine comprising a winding system with coil groups: Disclosed is an electric machine (1) comprising a stator (2) that encompasses a winding system (10) with three winding branches, and a certain number of effective pole pairs. Each winding branch is provided with at least one coil group, each of which contains an even number of serially connected individual... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080197742 - Electrical machine having a three-phase winding system: The electrical machine has a stator, which comprises thirty-six slots and thirty-six teeth with an alternating sequence and a winding system (10) which is arranged at least partially in the slots and has three winding phases (34, 35, 36). The winding system (10) contains in total eighteen coil elements (11-28),... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080197743 - Electric motor and electric power steering apparatus: An electric motor (9) has a core (22) formed by a magnetic material having a hysteresis proportion not greater than 67% against the entire iron loss W expressed as a total of a hysteresis loss Wh and an eddy current loss We which has been measured under conditions of a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080197744 - Slip-ring module for a rotor of an electric machine electric machine with a slip ring module and method for production of a slip ring module: A slip ring module (76) for a rotor (40) of an electrical machine (10), in particular, an alternator is disclosed, comprising at least one first slip ring (79) with at least one first connecting conductor (103) held in sections of an insulation material (101) for the slip ring module (76),... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080197745 - Brush holder assemblies: Brush holder assemblies are detailed. The assemblies permit on-line brush replacement and are interchangeable with devices currently provided by original equipment manufacturers. As well, they allow use of brushes longer than those employed in existing on-line replacement assemblies.... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080197746 - Vehicle alternator with improved brush device: A vehicle alternator is disclosed having a stator, a rotor having a field winding, a rotary shaft formed with slip rings, and a field winding electrically connected to the slip rings, and a brush holder accommodating therein the brushes in sliding contact with the slip rings. The brush holder has... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080197747 - Integrated thermoelectric/ thermionic energy converter: A device for converting heat into electrical energy that is an integrated combination of thermionic and thermoelectric energy converters in a single device, or “TITE”. The electron output of thermionic portion of the TITE is the input of the thermoelectric portion of the device. The electron collector is covered by... Agent: Jill L. Robinson

20080197749 - Mems micromotor and timepiece equipped with this micromotor: The invention proposes a MEMS micromotor produced in a plate made of crystalline or amorphous material, in particular based on silicon, which comprises a lower layer forming a substrate, and an upper layer in which at least one actuator and a rotor is etched, the actuator driving the rotor in... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080197748 - Vertical comb drive and uses thereof: A method for providing a vertical comb drive. The method comprises: fabricating a device comprising rotor comb element, the rotor element comb comprising a main body and a plurality of substantially parallel extensions in a comb arrangement, and at least one of a plurality of stator comb elements, comprising a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080197751 - Micro-electro-mechanical transducers: A micro-electro-mechanical transducer (such as a cMUT) is disclosed. The transducer has a substrate, a top plate, and a middle spring layer therebetween. The substrate and the middle spring layer define cavities therebetween sidewalled by standing features. The middle spring layer is anchored by the standing features to create cantilevers... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080197750 - Piezoelectric thin film resonator: A method of producing a polycrystalline film of a metal compound, AlN or ZnO, on a substrate with a non-zero mean tilt of the c-axis relative to the surface normal of the substrate, is disclosed. The method comprises deposition of crystallites of said compound onto the substrate that has a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080197752 - Stress sensitive element: A stress sensitive element includes a vibrating arm having an electrode, a beam portion integrated with the vibrating arm at both ends of the vibration arm, and a connecting portion interposed between the beam portion and the vibrating arm. The element is placed by providing a fixing portion to one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080197753 - Longitudinal pulse wave array: An acoustic pulse array is described. The pulse array may include a plane wave pulse generator having a first side from which a first wave emanates, and a second side from which a second wave emanates. A first waveguide array may be attached to the generator on the first side... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080197754 - Method for making an acoustic transducer: The present invention relates to a process for producing a block of low-frequency piezoelectric composite material having rows of superposed ceramic posts embedded in a dielectric. This process includes the production of the block of composite material from two superposed identical half-blocks, produced by cutting into a single pre-machined piezoelectric... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080197755 - Surface-mount type crystal unit: A surface-mount type crystal unit includes a package body which is made of a laminated ceramic and has a bottom wall layer and a frame wall formed on the bottom wall layer, the frame wall layer having an opening. In the package body, a concavity is constructed of the opening.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080191562 - Axial air gap type electric motor: An axial air gap type electric motor realizes a torque up without an increase of the size of the electric motor. In the axial air gap type electric motor including a stator and two rotors each of which is molded almost with a discoid shape and which are arranged as... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080191563 - Portable power tool with an electric motor and an electronic control and communication module: An electric power tool has a motor with a stator and a rotor, an electronic module for operation control and signal and power communication, and a connector for a cable plug connecting the tool to a stationary remote control unit. The electric power tool includes an electric interface between the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080191564 - Motor with integrated drive unit and shared cooling fan: An integrated motor and drive assembly includes a motor, a fan, and a drive unit. The motor is responsive to at least one drive signal. The fan is axially aligned with the motor and operable to generate a cooling flow. The drive unit is axially aligned with the fan and... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20080191565 - Motor battery systems: A combined motor-battery system comprising an electric power source adapted to convert self-originating electrical current to mechanical power utilizing a set of common functional structures. Preferred embodiments include an electrochemical cell comprising field reactive electrodes that directly produce extractable mechanical forces in the presence of a magnetic field.... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20080191587 - Brushless direct current motor, compressor and air conditioner having the same: A brushless direct current motor, includes a rotor which comprises a permanent magnet, a stator which comprises coils associated with a plurality of phases which form an electrical field for generating a torque by interaction with a magnetic field which is generated by the permanent magnet, and a load prevention... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080191588 - Signal interconnecting part for electrical rotating machine: A dissipator for electronic components, the electronic components being intended for the functioning of a rotary electrical machine, the machine comprising a rear bearing, the dissipator comprising a top face and a bottom face including fins. The present invention applies to any type of polyphase rotary electrical machine, synchronous or... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080191566 - Motor and stator structure thereof: A stator structure of a motor includes a magnetically conducting element, a circuit board, a bus line and a housing. The magnetically conducting element has at least one coil. The circuit board is positioned adjacent to the magnetically conducting element and electrically connected to the coil. The bus line is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080191567 - Electromagnetic brake device for small-sized motor: An electromagnetic brake device (3) is assembled to a rear end section of a small-sized motor (1). The electromagnetic brake device (3) has a rotating disc (11) fixed to a motor rotation shaft (4), a sliding disc (12) slidable in an axial direction, a coil spring (13) pressing the sliding... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080191568 - Structure of motor generator: A motor generator that suppresses vibration that may be generated when power is transmitted through meshed gears includes: a stator; a case, a plurality of bolts that are used to attach the stator to the case; a rotor, rotatably mounted inside die stator; a first gear, coupled to and arranged... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080191569 - Drive unit with a housing: The invention relates to a drive unit (10), especially for adjusting mobile parts in a motor vehicle, and to a method for producing such a drive unit. The drive unit comprises a housing (12) which is provided with an opening (18), leading towards the surroundings (23), on which a gas-permeable,... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080191570 - Pivot bearing device, particularly for a rotating circular table of a machine tool: A pivot bearing device, particularly for a rotating circular table of a machine tool is provided, and includes a first device part, which is to be connected to an element that is to be rotatably mounted, particularly to the circular table, and a second fixed device part. The device parts... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080191571 - Electric motor mounting structure: When a bracket to which an electric motor for wipers has been attached is attached to a vehicle body via a rubber mount therebetween for antivibration, vibrations generated when the electric motor is actuated are prevented from being transmitted to the body while allowing a part not tightened with a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080191572 - Skewed magnetic torque coupling systems and methods thereof: Torque coupling systems and methods thereof include concentric cylindrical inner and outer rotor systems. The inner rotor system extends at least generally along the axis of the cylinder and comprises two or more inner magnets which have equal numbers of alternating positive poles and negative poles. The outer rotor system... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080191573 - Magneto generator: A magneto generator can increase a suppression force to suppress permanent magnets from being moved to an opening side of a flywheel with easy construction and at low cost. In this magnet generator, the flywheel has a groove formed on its inner peripheral wall surface at an opening side thereof,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080191574 - Stator with winding for electric rotating machine and method of manufacturing the stator: A stator has conductor segments serially wound on a core. Each segment inserted in one of slots of the core has a slanting portion protruding from the slot and inclined toward circumferential and axial directions of the core. Each slanting portion has an oblique portion with a film removal surface... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080191575 - Motor winding wire for a hydrocarbon application: A motor winding wire. The motor winding wire may be configured for use in, and direct exposure to, a hydrocarbon environment. The motor winding wire may be electrically insulated by one polymer layer, whereas another, outer, polymer layer is employed to provide moisture resistance as well as other contaminant and... Agent: Schlumberger Ipc Attn: David Cate

20080191576 - Stator for motor: A projecting portion 23h is integrally provided at a first connecting portion 23e of a bobbin 23. The projecting portion 23h has a triangular cross-section taken in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a laminating direction of the steel plates 21 and parallel to magnetic steel plates 21. The section of... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080191577 - Reluctance laminations for a motor assembly: A system and method for a multiple degrees of freedom motor includes an output shaft. A stator is provided having at least a first lamination stack. Each lamination stack has an interior curved surface. The lamination stacks are disposed adjacent the output shaft. A rotor is fixed to the output... Agent: Hayes, Soloway P.c.

20080191578 - Stator for an electric machine: The invention relates to a stator for an electric machine, which has a core comprised of laminated sheet metal (1), the pole teeth (2) of each laminated sheet metal (1) of the core being connected to one another via respective webs (3). The laminated metal sheets (1) of the core... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080191579 - Stator of motor and manufacturing method thereof: A manufacturing method of a stator of a motor includes steps of providing a silicon steel sheet set, which includes a plurality of tightly stacked silicon steel sheets; disposing the silicon steel sheet set in a single mold; infusing a molding material into the mold and solidifying the molding material... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080191580 - Harmonic energy exchange device: This invention converts inertial impulses into electric currents. Specifically, it converts impulses created by the impacts of high-energy particles from the Sun and other cosmic sources into the Earth's Magnetosphere and the varying D, E, F1 and F2 layers of its Ionosphere to controlled electric currents. This invention presents a... Agent: Harold S Deyo, Jr.

20080191581 - Devices for intrabody delivery of molecules and systems and methods utilizing same: A device for controlled release of molecules is provided. The device including: (a) a device body having at least one reservoir therein for containing the molecules, the at least one reservoir being formed with a barrier impermeable to the molecules thereby preventing release thereof from the at least one reservoir;... Agent: Faegre & Benson, LLP 32469

20080191582 - Generating device for generating a useful stream of a medium, in particular for generating sound: A generating device (1) for generating a useful stream of a medium (2) comprises at least a medium stream source (14) for generating a high-frequency medium stream (15) and at least a medium stream diode (36, 37) for cooperating with the generated medium stream (15), and at least one medium... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080191583 - Linear drive and method for displacing an object by a linear drive: A linear drive for driving a moveably mounted object comprises at least one piezoelectric actuator that can be driven by a control device. The piezoelectric actuator has a piezoelectric element held by a holding body and a transducer coupled to said element. A mechanical frictional engagement is embodied for transmitting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080191584 - Spring disc energy harvester apparatus and method: An energy harvesting apparatus and method that is especially well suited for harvesting low frequency broadband vibration energy from a vibrating structure is presented. The apparatus includes a pair of disc springs that are arranged in an opposing relationship. A threaded fastening member and a threaded nut extend through apertures... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, Plc

20080191585 - Electroactive polymer electrodes: Described herein are transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that conform to the shape of a polymer included in a transducer.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080191586 - Piezoelectric actuator and enclosure therefor: An enclosure for enclosing piezoelectric elements of a piezoelectric actuator comprises a side wall that is shaped to define at least one strain compensation formation selected from a longitudinally-extensible part at which the side wall can be extended or contracted parallel to a longitudinal axis of the enclosure; and an... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080185921 - Chip-guiding structure of a linear motor processing machine: A chip-guiding structure of a linear motor processing machine comprises an outer cover covers an outer portion of a processing head and can be moved along with a mover and a processing head of the linear motor. A rear end of the outer cover is fixed to the mover to... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080185922 - Electric drive unit for generating an oscillating displacement: An electric drive unit for generating an oscillating movement, having a stator, a rotor, a torsion element and a tuning element. The tuning element acts upon the torsion element and serves to mechanically tune the resonant frequency of the drive unit.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080185923 - Motor: A motor that is operable in response to an external power supply includes a stator core that is electrically connected to the external power supply and a rotor core positioned adjacent the stator core and rotatable about an axis in response to power being delivered to the stator core by... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080185924 - Electric motor cooling jacket: A cooling jacket of an electric motor or generator includes a cylindrical inner sleeve, a cylindrical outer sleeve coaxially surrounding the inner sleeve and forming a circular space between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve, and a passageway extending within the circular space between the outer sleeve and the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080185925 - System and method to control temperature of an alternator and/or an engine in a vehicle: A method of controlling alternator temperature and engine temperature for a vehicle is provided. The method comprises rotating a first drive shaft to generate electricity during an operation of an engine; rotating a second drive shaft to cause pumping of coolant to cool at least portion of the alternator and... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080185926 - Self-disengaging fan for an elecromagnetic retarder: The invention relates to a self-disengaging embodiment for a fan in an electromagnetic retarder. The retarder comprises a rotating shaft, a rotor rotationally fixed to the rotating shaft, induction coils, arranged in a crown on the rotor, a generator with a rotor mounted on one end of the rotating shaft... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080185927 - Polyphasic multi-coil generator: A polyphasic multi-coil generator includes a drive shaft, at least first and second rotors rigidly mounted on the drive shaft so as to simultaneously synchronously rotate with rotation of the drive shaft, and at least one stator sandwiched between the first and second rotors. The stator has an aperture through... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080185928 - Rotor shaft for a magnetic bearing device: A rotor shaft (200) for a magnetic bearing device (1) is disclosed. The shaft comprises an inner portion on whose periphery a plurality of targets (240, 260, 280) separated by spacers (250, 270) are mounted. This is achieved exerting an axial pressing force (F, F′) to the peripheral parts, rather... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080185929 - Yoke assembly for stator of starter motor: A yoke assembly for a stator of a starter motor is disclosed including auxiliary poles and magnet springs, with each of auxiliary poles and each of the magnet springs taking the form of a subassembly. The subassembly, composed of each of the auxiliary poles preliminarily mounted on each of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080185930 - Rotor for an electrical machine: The present invention relates to a rotor for an electrical machine, in particular a brushless DC motor, having a rotor body (2), which has an essentially cylindrical shape, and having at least one magnet (5) having a bearing face (6), the magnet being arranged on the circumference of the rotor... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080185931 - Asynchronous electrical machine with tooth-woud coils in the stator winding system: The invention relates to an electrical asynchronous machine comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator winding system comprising a plurality of toothed coils which are partially arranged in stator grooves. The rotor has a rotor winding system consisting of a plurality of short-circuited electrical lines arranged... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080185932 - Tooth module for a primary part, with permanent-magnet excitation, of an electrical machine: The invention relates to a module (1,3,5,7,9) for a primary part (13,15,17) of an electric machine (19, 21) which is excited by a permanent magnet. Said module(1,3,5,7,9) comprises a permanent magnet (23). Said primary part is produced in a simplified manner due to the use of modules (1,3,5,7,9) for constructing... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080185933 - Three-phase rotating electrical machine: A magneto generator can be made small in size and light in weight, and improved in power generation efficiency. The magneto generator includes an iron core having an iron core main body and a plurality of teeth (9) radially extending from the iron core main body, and an armature having... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080185934 - Squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine: The invention relates to an asynchronous motor comprising a stator or a cage rotor, said cage rotor comprising a shaft (1) and a laminated bundle (2) and rotor rods (3) are arranged within the laminated bundle, running through the openings (10) of each end plate (9) at both ends of... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080185935 - Brushless dc machine and its return ring packet, gear rim packet, and top piece, and production method therefor: The invention relates to a brushless DC machine comprising a rotor and a stator that supports a winding assembly. The stator encompasses a gear rim with tooth tips that extend radially outward as well as a return ring. The gear rim and the return ring are embodied so as to... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080185936 - Optically driven carbon nanotube actuators: Methods for actuating, actuator devices and methods for preparing an actuator device capable of converting optical energy into mechanical energy are provided. An actuator includes a carbon nanotube film having a first optical absorption coefficient and an actuation material having a second optical absorption coefficient different from the first optical... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080185937 - System and method for design and fabrication of a high frequency transducer: Techniques for fabricating high frequency ultrasound transducers are provided herein. In one embodiment, the fabrication includes depositing a copperclad polyimide film, a layer of epoxy on the copperclad polyimide film, and a polyvinylidene fluoride film on the epoxy. The assembly of materials are then pressed to bond the polyvinylidene fluoride... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20080185938 - Monolithic piezo actuator with a change in the electrode structure in the junction region, and use of the piezo actuator: A piezo actuator in a monolithic multilayer design, has at least one piezoelectrically active stack element, wherein the stack element has stacked piezoceramic layers made of piezoceramic material and electrode layers arranged between the piezoceramic layers, at least one piezoelectrically inactive terminating region arranged above the stack element, and at... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080185939 - Vibrator and production method therefor: A vibrator includes a vibrating body having a substantially quadrangular prism shape and including four side surfaces extending in the longitudinal direction of the vibrating body. A common electrode is formed on substantially an entire surface of one of the side surfaces of the vibrating body. Split electrodes extend in... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP