Electrical generator or motor structure inventions

20080100151 - Brushless motor: The brushless motor includes a first permanent magnet magnetized in a direction perpendicular to the drive direction, and a electromagnetic coil wound around an axis parallel to the drive direction. The drive control circuit supplies a drive current in a given first electric current direction to the electromagnetic coil without... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080100150 - Heat dissipater: A heat dissipater within a linear motor system comprising a core, the core having a base and a projecting portion projecting from the base; the heat dissipater in thermal contact with the core; and a coil wrapped around both the core and the heat dissipater.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080100149 - Positioning apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: This invention provides a positioning apparatus which improves the throughput by accelerating a stage in a shorter period of time while ensuring a fine positioning characteristic. A movable element is arranged on the side of a stage while a stator is arranged on the side of a base guide such... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080100152 - Sliding door comprising a magnetic support and/or drive system comprising a row of magnets: A magnetic drive system for driving a door leaf in a driving direction is disclosed. The drive system includes a row of magnets disposed in the driving direction and having a longitudinal direction, the magnets being arranged so that magnetizations of the magnets reverse in accordance with a predetermined pattern;... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080100153 - Electrical device and accessory for an electrical device: In an electrical device, in particular a power tool, equipped with a commutator motor, and in an accessory for an electrical device of this kind, a carbon brush shape adapting device is an integral component of the electrical device or of the accessory.... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080100155 - Spindle motor having radial and axial bearing systems: The invention relates to a spindle motor having a stationary part and a rotating part that are rotatably supported with respect to each other by means of radial and axial bearing systems, the radial bearing system being a fluid bearing and the rotating part being driven by an electromagnetic drive... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080100157 - Axial gap coreless motor and positioning unit: An axial gap coreless motor includes a stator including a stator yoke having a surface and being composed of a plurality of laminated layers of silicon steel sheets secured together, a wiring substrate having a surface and being disposed on the stator yoke surface, and a plurality of coreless coils... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080100156 - Method and device for compensating vibrations of an electrical machine, and electrical machines comprising one such device: A method of compensating vibration of an electrical machine comprising a stator and a moving portion, said stator being subjected to magnetic forces generated by alternating electrical excitation and leading to deformation thereof. The method comprises exciting piezoelectric actuators secured at predetermined action locations on the outside surface of the... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20080100158 - Superconductivity rotor having torque tube: A superconductivity rotor has a field coil portion wound with a superconductivity wire, a support portion for supporting the field coil portion, torque tubes positioned at both ends of the support portion and transmitting a torque to an outside from the field coil portion, an inner casing for housing the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080100159 - Apparatus for cooling stator lamination stacks of electircal machines: A coaxial stack of laminations for a stator of an electrical machine uses laminations that are substantially identical and in direct abutment with one another. Each of the laminations has an outer periphery and an inner periphery with the outer periphery being defined by an array of outwardly projecting pins... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080100183 - Bicycle electric generator: A bicycle electric generator is provided with a power generation unit and a controller. The power generation unit includes a rotor arranged to rotate and a stator with a coil arranged to produce a plurality of electrical output states in which a number of turns of the coil that are... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080100184 - Protector mounting apparatus for protector mounted adjacent the windings of a motor: A motor includes a stator core and windings extending through the stator core. The windings include end turns extending from the stator core that form a coil. A protector is electrically connected to the windings and is positioned adjacent the coil. A bracket is sized and shaped to receive the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080100161 - Ceiling fan motor: A ceiling fan motor includes a housing having top and bottom casing parts, a stator disposed in the housing and having a stator axis, and a rotor unit including a mounting seat that has an inner tubular wall surrounding the stator, an outer tubular wall spaced apart from and surrounding... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080100163 - Magnetic suspension with integrated motor: A passive magnetic suspension acts as an electric motor with the introduction of lead means, such as motor windings, to harness and output the generated torque or voltage from the magnetic fields. The magnetic suspension consists of at least one magnetic element (typically a disc) fixed to a stator element... Agent: Law Office Of Polly L. Oliver

20080100154 - Compacted magnetic core with high resistance, manufacturing method thereof, and motor for electric car: A compacted magnetic core with a high resistance, which comprises compacted magnetic powder of an iron powder or an alloy powder containing iron as a main ingredient and a layer of a rare earth metal fluoride or an alkaline earth metal fluoride on the surface of the powder, wherein the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080100160 - Fan apparatus: A fan apparatus includes a motor, a circuit board, an impeller having a plurality of rotator blades rotatably driven by the motor, a supporter, an outer frame, and a plurality of stator blades connecting the supporter and the outer frame. An accommodation groove is arranged at least one of the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080100162 - Magnetic bearings: A magnetic bearing has two bearing members each of which carries a set of bearing elements. The bearing elements carried by one member are interleaved with the bearing elements carried by the other member to define three or more substantially parallel interleaf gaps between successive elements, so that bearing forces... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080100164 - Inductor-type synchronous machine: An inductor-type synchronous machine includes field stators having field elements by which an N-pole and an S-pole are concentrically formed, rotors to which a rotating shaft is fixed and has N-pole inductors disposed so as to face the N-pole of the field elements and S-pole inductors disposed so as to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080100165 - Integrated permanent magnet motor and blower: An integrated blower and motor is provided. The integrated blower and motor can include a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor is disposed with a central bore of the stator. The integrated blower and motor includes a fan, wherein the fan can be attached to the rotor. According to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080100166 - Motor having stator with generally planar windings: An electric motor features liquid cooling capability. A rotor is coupled to a shaft for rotation therewith. The rotor comprises a first annular member and magnets secured to the first annular member. A stator is spaced axially apart from the rotor. The stator comprises one or more generally planar windings... Agent: Deere & Company

20080100167 - Permanent magnet machine rotor: A rotor for an interior permanent magnet machine has a rotor body having an output shaft and a first cavity filled with magnetic material. Second cavities are disposed inboard of the first cavities and are not filled with magnetic material. Non-magnetic rods extend through the second cavities and protrude beyond... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080100168 - Dual rotor electromagnetic machine: The invention relates to an electric synchronous machine. There is a need for a dual rotor electric synchronous machine which has a mechanism for adjusting the rotor relative angular displacement while the machine is running in order to reduce back emf. There is a need for such an adjusting mechanism... Agent: Deere & Company

20080100169 - Homopolar electrical generator: The present invention relates to a homopolar generator which comprises a plurality of stationary electrically conductive plates, a plurality of rotary magnetic plates, a drive device for effecting the rotation of the rotary magnetic plates, and an electrical circuit assembly for extracting electrical current from the generator.... Agent: Lin Yu

20080100170 - Carbon brush with wear-protecting means: A carbon brush (2) has an end contacting side (4) and an end application side (10) remote of the latter, and four side surfaces (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d), wherein wear-protecting means are arranged at an end area (24) facing the end application side (10). The wear-protecting means are formed as... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080100171 - Stator, motor and record medium drive apparatus and method of fabricating stator: A stator includes a base board, a plurality of coil patterns patterned on one face of the base board, a stator core having a ring-like portion formed in a ring-like shape, a plurality of teeth base ends of which are fixed to the ring-like portion and front end portions formed... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080100172 - Electric fan: An electric fan includes a stator having a bobbin (121) with coil (127) wound thereon, a first magnetic pole plate (122) arranged on a first side of the bobbin, and a second magnetic pole plate (123) arranged on a second side opposite to the first side of the bobbin. Each... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang J

20080100173 - Magnet rotor, movable magnet-type instrument with the magnet rotor, and stepping motor with the magnet rotor: A magnet rotor in which rotation prevention and positional displacement (rattling, and misalignment of axes) between a magnet and a rotor body can be restricted, a movable magnet type-instrument with the magnet rotor, and a stepping motor with the magnet rotor. In the magnet rotor, projections (11) and recesses (12)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080100174 - Motor having stator with generally planar windings: An electric motor features liquid cooling capability. A rotor and a secondary rotor are coupled to a shaft for rotation therewith. The rotor comprises a first annular member and magnets secured to the first annular member. The secondary rotor comprises a second annular member and secondary magnets secured to the... Agent: Deere & Company

20080100175 - Self-stabilizing, floating microelectromechanical device: The present invention relates to MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), devices and applications thereof in which a proof mass is caused to levitate by electrostatic repulsion. Configurations of electrodes are described that result in self-stabilized floating of the proof mass. The electrical properties of the electrodes causing floating, such as currents and/or... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080100176 - High sensitivity microsensors based on flexure induced frequency effects: Acoustic sensing utilizing a cantilever structure coupled about at least one side of said cantilever to a base substrate, wherein said cantilever includes a piezoelectric section and has at least one acoustic wave device on a portion of the cantilever, wherein a flexure of the cantilever produces force-frequency effects measurable... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080100177 - Method of providing tactile feedback: A method provides tactile feedback emulating a click like feedback provided by one or more low cost, thin piezoelectric devices (142) to an input device (110) of an electronic device (100), the piezoelectric devices (142) being driven by two or more low voltage pulses (804, 806) within the temporal acuity... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080100178 - Electrical-to-mechanical transducer apparatus and method: A piezoelectric transducer able to convert an electrical signal into a mechanical motion. In various embodiments the transducer is used to form a motor and an actuator. In one embodiment a piezoceramic stack is supported as to experience a compressive load from a flexible beam. The flexible beam is installed... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080100179 - Enhanced displacement piezoelectric motor: A mechanical energy generating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a shape changing flexure beam connected at opposing distal ends to first lever arms of a pair of opposing tilt connectors. The apparatus additionally includes a bias beam connected at opposing ends to second lever of the tilt connectors. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080100180 - Broadband energy harvester apparatus and method: A broadband vibration energy harvesting apparatus and method. In one embodiment, a straight piezoelectric beam and a straight biasing beam are disposed parallel to one another and axially compressed by a support structure such that both of the beams are slightly bowed. This buckles and reduces the axial stiffness of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080100182 - Electric power generating apparatus for movement type equipment and self-generation system having the same: Provided are an electric power generating apparatus for a movement type equipment and a self-generation system having the same. The electric power generating apparatus for a movement type equipment includes: a piezoelectric beam having an end fixed to a movement type equipment and other end with a mass; and a... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080100181 - Non-linear piezoelectric mechanical-to-electrical generator system and method: A non-linear, piezoelectric mechanical-to-electrical generator especially well adapted for use with a Stirling engine, to thus form an electrical power generation system. In one form the generator includes a flexible beam that is configured in a bowed orientation to exert a compressive stress on a piezoceramic stack. A mechanical, linearly... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080093936 - Linear motor having dual coil configuration: A linear motor is provided that comprises a magnetic assembly, a movable element and a coil assembly that is operative to interact with the magnetic assembly to drive the movable element along a direction. The coil assembly further comprises a first coil section having a first motor force constant and... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080093938 - Motor cooling device: A motor cooling device has an impeller (2) pivotally supported by the rotary shaft (1a) of a motor (1), and a fan cover (4). The fan cover (4) covers the front region and outer peripheral region of the impeller (2) and has an air suction port (5) in the front... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080093939 - Quiet gear assembly: A gear assembly with a first gear having a first coupling portion and a vibration absorbing adaptor inserted into the first coupling portion of the first gear. The first coupling portion and the adaptor are interlocking The adaptor also includes a second coupling portion. A second gear is inserted into... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080093955 - Electricity generating wheel system: An system and apparatus for capturing electricity comprised of: a wheel and a fixed conducting rod, both in electrical contact with the wheel and at least one electrical component or system in which the wheel is rotatable about an axis. The wheel is comprised of: a rotatable hub; a rotatable... Agent: Absolute Technology Law Group LLC

20080093941 - Assembly for connecting the electrical stator windings of an electric motor: An assembly for connecting the stator windings of an electric motor to the respective power supply, comprising a first box-like connector provided with first internal passages for accommodating respective first electrical terminals, which is substantially L-shaped. The first connector has an engagement for engaging the stator assembly which is adapted... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20080093940 - Assembly for connecting the stator windings of an electric motor: An assembly for connecting the stator windings of an electric motor to the respective power supply. The connection assembly comprises a first box-like connector provided with first internal passages which are open at their ends and are designed to accommodate corresponding first electrical terminals. The first connector is provided with... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20080093942 - Step-by-step motor able to carry out up-and-down motion: A step-by-step motor able to carry out up-and-down motion includes a housing, a bearing, a connecting member, a magnet, a rod unit, a right-handed coil, a reverse coil and a bayonet socket combined together. After the electric wires of the bayonet are electrically connected, the right-handed coil and the reverse... Agent: Hsian-yi Huang

20080093937 - Electrical machine: An electrical machine, preferably a blower drive mechanism for a motor vehicle, having a shaft which is supported in at least two bearings with a specified axial play; a cylindrical bearing is secured in a bearing seat of an end shield and rests directly on the bearing seat. The cylindrical... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080093943 - Method for the production of a rotor winding for an electric machine, and electric machine having a corresponding rotor winding: The invention relates to a method for producing the rotor winding of an electric machine comprising at least four exciter poles in the stator and a commutator rotor with a number of pole teeth which deviates from the number of exciter poles as well as a number of individual tooth... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

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20080093945 - Arrangement for fastening permanent magnets to rapidly rotating rotors of electric machines: The invention is directed to an arrangement for fastening permanent magnets to rapidly rotating rotors of electric machines. It is the object of the invention to find a novel possibility for fastening permanent magnets to the rotor of rapidly rotating electric machines which allows the magnets to be fixed so... Agent: Gerald H. Kiel. Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20080093946 - Electric generator: An electric generator 10 of the present invention comprises a permanent magnet 14, a coil 30, a yoke 20, and attracted means 19 composed of a plurality of attracted pieces 18 which are arranged radially around the rotation axis 12 and are magnetized by the permanent magnet 14. The permanent... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080093947 - Direct current motor: A stator has four or more magnetic poles. A commutator has a plurality of segments arranged in the circumferential direction and a short-circuit conductor for short-circuiting predetermined segments from among these segments. Each segment has an angular width WS, and there is a gap of an angular width WU between... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080093948 - Rotary electric machine, crank-shaped continuously winding coil, distribution winding stator and forming method thereof: In a distribution winding stator using a coil for a rectangular conductor, a coil end is made smaller than before, and the reduction in the current density is aimed, so that a rotary electric machine of a small size and a high power output is obtained. A conductive wire of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080093949 - Rotary electric machine and related commutator: A rotary electric machine and a commutator for the rotary electric machine are disclosed wherein the commutator includes an insulating member carrying thereon a plurality of commutator segments each having a brush contact surface. Each commutator segment has an embedded portion formed with a tab tail, molded to the insulating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080093950 - Polyphase claw-pole machines with a segmented magnetic circuit: A polyphase claw-pole armature for an electrical machine is made with several identical segments regularly distributed along the direction of motion and spaced by a magnetic air gap. The number of segments is equal or a multiple of the number of winding phases. Each segment includes a magnetic circuit with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080093951 - Electric machine with teeth and bridges: An electric machine includes a rotor, a first tooth portion, and a second tooth portion spaced apart from the first tooth portion and cooperating with the first tooth portion to at least partially define a rotor opening. At least a portion of the rotor is disposed within the rotor opening.... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080093952 - Hypersonic transducer: This invention provides methods and apparatus for focusing a hypersonic beam to control both a direction and depth of audible information delivery. Signals that are delivered to each of a plurality of hypersonic transducer elements are adjusted in phase so that transmitted hypersonic signals are focused at a focal point... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080093953 - Piezoelectric motor: A piezoelectric motor for generating an elliptic motion by adding a longitudinal vibration to a bending-direction vibration is provided. The piezoelectric motor includes a piezoelectric member which generates a first vibration mode and a second vibration mode simultaneously by an applied power and a frictional member of which a portion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080093954 - Elastomer actuator and a method of making an actuator: A tubular elastomer actuator with a shape in a cross-sectional view which shape exposes at most one single axis of symmetry of a specific length, e.g., an oval shape. The actuator could be made from a sheet made from a plurality of plate shaped elements which are laminated together and... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080088209 - Stepping motor: A stepping motor is provided. The stepping motor comprises a bracket, a lead screw having a first side rotatably supported by the bracket, and a housing. A second side of the lead screw is disposed in the housing such that the lead screw is rotatably supported thereto, and a portion... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080088187 - Electric motor with reduced emi: An electric motor particularly suited for a hybrid electric automotive vehicle. The motor includes a stator housing and a rotor having a core and rotatably mounted to the housing by a bearing assembly. An electrical conductor separate from the bearing assembly provides a low impedance electrical conductive path for high... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080088191 - Vibration motor: A vibration motor is provided, comprising a case having an upper case and a lower case which are coupled to each other; a shaft installed in the case while being supported by the case; a rotor rotatably coupled with the shaft; a stator arranged around the shaft; a first substrate... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080088192 - Water-repellent motor assembly for rotisserie and casing thereof: The present invention is to provide a water-repellent motor assembly for rotisserie and casing thereof, which comprises an inner shroud, a motor provided in the inner shroud and an outer shroud mounted around the inner shroud. A plurality of parallel bent, elongated projecting plates are projected out of an outer... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080088188 - Sliding door comprising a magnetic drive system provided with a path measuring system: A magnetic drive system for a door leaf is disclosed. The drive system includes a carrying slide for carrying the door leaf; a row of magnets disposed in the driving direction and having a length L and a longitudinal direction, the magnets being arranged so that magnetizations of the magnets... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080088189 - Submersible direct-current electric motor: The claimed invention relates to a submersible direct-current electric motor to be used, in particular, for driving a submersible pump in downhole oil production. The claimed motor includes a fixed armature winding; a housing which encloses the armature winding and rotates around it; magnetic field generation means which are fixed... Agent: Schlumberger Reservoir Completions

20080088190 - Drive apparatus for electric vehicle: A drive apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a rotating electric device that drives vehicle wheels; a battery that supplies electric power to the rotating electric device; and a terminal block which is fitted to the rotating electric device, and which is connected to a power-supply cable through which electric... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080088193 - Rotor for a permanent-magnet machine: The object of the invention is a rotor for a permanent-magnet machine including a rotor body structure. Magnetising means formed from permanent magnets are fastened to the rotor's body structure and are used to create two or more poles spaced at essentially equal distances in the circumferential direction of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080088194 - Permanent-magnet rotor and a method for manufacturing a permanent-magnet rotor: The object of the invention is a rotor for a permanent-magnet machine with an outer circumference curved towards the stator of the machine and permanent magnets fitted into openings arranged in the pole piece. According to the invention, the pole piece includes several parallel permanent magnets, leaving a neck of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080088195 - Outside rotor electric machine: An electric machine including an outside rotor having a first member providing a magnetic path between adjacent ones of a circumferential array of magnets, and a second member surrounding and inducing a compression load in the first member.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20080088196 - Electric rotating machine: An electric rotating machine comprising a stator core having a plurality of slots that are equally spaced on the inner surface of the stator core in the peripheral direction, a rotor that rotates inside the stator core, and an armature winding that is applied to each of the slots, wherein... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080088197 - Dynamoelectric machine: The stator core is configured into a cylindrical shape by abutting a laminated core that is obtained by bending and forming a rectangular parallelepiped lamination and integrating the stator core by welding. The lamination is configured by laminating a predetermined number of thin strip-shaped magnetic plates that are formed so... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088198 - Triple-phase brushless motor for a ceiling fan: A triple-phase brushless motor for a ceiling fan includes a rotor and a stator made of compressed silicon steel sheets. The stator includes a central tubular shaft located at its center and bored with a sidewise hole at a preset position for plural wires to pass through, and plural wire... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080088199 - Lundell type rotor of alternator for vehicle: A Lundell type rotor of an alternator has a rotor core disposed on an outer side of a field coil in a radial direction of the rotor, and a non-magnetic claw pole joint ring. The rotor core has claw poles disposed along a circumferential direction of the rotor at predetermined... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088200 - Poly-phasic multi-coil generator: A polyphasic multi-coil generator includes a driveshaft, at least first and second rotors rigidly mounted on the driveshaft so as to simultaneously synchronously rotate with rotation of the driveshaft, and at least one stator sandwiched between the first and second rotors. The stator has an aperture through which the driveshaft... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080088201 - Sensor: A sensor includes a substrate, a medium on which a surface acoustic wave propagates, a reference electrode, an antenna, a transducer that includes a first electrode connected to the antenna and a second electrode connected to the reference electrode and arranged opposite to the first electrode, and that has a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088202 - Generator for exciting piezoelectric transducer: A generator for exciting a piezoelectric transducer, includes at least one digital processor unit. The digital processor unit is configured to operate at least in an iterative operation stage including more than two successive iterations. Each iteration includes: exciting the transducer at a plurality of frequencies in a frequency band... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080088203 - Ultrasonic driving device with current limiting protection: An ultrasonic driving device includes a protection module that receives a first drive signal from a signal generating module, detects an operating current of an output module, and provides the first drive signal to the output module when the detected operating current is smaller than a threshold current value. The... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080088204 - Ion introducer employing piezoelectric bimorph element: A piezoelectric bimorph element two piezoelectric elements to produce an electromotive force by imparting a stress to respective piezoelectric elements. The piezoelectric bimorph element is arranged in an oscillator such that the piezoelectric bimorph element is deformed in the electromotive force generating direction. An electrode having a predetermined area connected... Agent: Snider & Associates

20080088205 - Method and device for precisely resisting and moving high load: A precise and high load resistance moving method and device is provided, in which a piezoelectric element which generates a shear deformation and a wedge, or, a piezoelectric element which generates a shear deformation, a piezoelectric element which generates a vertical deformation, and a wedge are combined, and a moving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080088206 - Resin substrate and ultrasonic sensor using the same: An ultrasonic sensor includes a resin substrate and an ultrasonic oscillator. The ultrasonic oscillator is provided approximately at the center of a component side of the resin substrate and generates and detects an ultrasonic wave. The resin substrate is made of, for example, a polycarbonate resin, i.e., the same material... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080088207 - Actuator device, liquid-jet head, and method of manufacturing actuator device: A method of manufacturing an actuator device includes forming a Zr layer on one surface of a substrate, forming a ZrO2 layer by oxidizing the Zr layer, forming a lower electrode on top of the ZrO2 layer, forming a piezoelectric layer on top of the lower electrode, and forming an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088208 - Actuator system: An actuator using a piezoelectric element is stably operated at high speed. The actuator includes driving units provided to face a carrier stage and moving the carrier stage in an X-axis direction, piezoelectric elements provided to the driving units respectively and expanding and contracting in the X-axis direction, a carrier... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080084124 - Dynamoelectric machine brush holder assembly and method: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that relates to a dynamoelectric machine brush holder assembly. The apparatus comprising, a plurality of brushes, a plurality of brush holders each having a cavity receptive of one of the plurality of brushes and having two protrusions extending in opposite directions along a surface of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080084140 - Fan for air conditioner: Fan apparatus for an air conditioner including a fan (50), a shaft (68) coupled to the fan (50), a rotor (60) for transmission of driving force to the shaft (68) for rotating the fan (50), a stator (65) on an inside of the rotor (60) to form a BLDC motor... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080084139 - Motor having rotor position sensor: A motor includes a rotor having at least one magnet. A stator includes multiple teeth and a sensor adjacent the magnet, or adjacent an air gap that is defined between the rotor and the stator. The majority of the teeth are identical in shape, or at least substantially identical. However,... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080084141 - Converter motor: In a converter motor, the converter unit and the electric motor together form a mechatronic unit. The converter unit is located behind the electric motor and is thermally coupled with the rear bearing shield. The converter unit includes a through hole, through which the rear end of the motor shaft... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080084142 - Motor and storage disk drive using the same: In the base bracket of the motor, the bottom-inner surface of the base bracket includes a first bottom-inner area arranged over a circuit board attaching portion of a bottom-outer surface to which the circuit board is attached, and a second bottom-inner area arranged other than the first bottom-inner area in... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080084128 - Single track layer stator terminal assembly: Disclosed is a terminal assembly for a stator of a dynamoelectric machine. The terminal assembly includes a at least five electrically conductive tracks arrayed in a single layer, each track configured and positioned for electrical communication with corresponding leads extending from the stator providing electrical connection between at least one... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080084129 - Starter: In a starter, a grommet attached to a yoke of a motor supports a motor terminal plate made of metal. The motor terminal plate is inserted in a penetration hole formed in the grommet. A pig-tail of a positive electrode brush is connected to one end of the M terminal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084130 - Actuator: An actuator comprises a drive input arranged to drive a shaft for rotation, a secondary drive train through which the drive input drives a first input to a comparator device, and a tie bar connected to the shaft whereby the shaft is connected to a second input to the comparator... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080084122 - Moving apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: A moving apparatus including a movable portion which is supported so as to move in a first direction, a first actuator having a movable element and a stator, the movable element being connected to the movable portion, a reference structure which has a guide surface parallel to the first direction... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080084121 - Tubular electrical generators: A tubular linear generator comprises an elongate translator (12), containing a series of permanent magnets (13, 14 . . . ) and one or more annular coils (not shown) contained within and affixed to a ferromagnetic sleeve (31). Relative movement between the translator and armature causes the generation of electricity... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080084123 - Motion induced electrical generator for charging and operating devices: A motion induced generator is mounted to a vehicle or conveyance to harness the oscillatory motion generated during travel of the vehicle or conveyance, and may be coupled to at least one device or system, such as an external rail car lighting system, a global positioning device, a diagnostic device,... Agent: Robert R. Waters, Esq. Waters Law Office, Pllc

20080084126 - Outer rotor type motor for drum type washing machine and method for fabricating the same: Direct coupling type motor for drum type washing machine having a stator which can reduce material required for fabrication, and a weight after fabrication, simplify a fabrication process, and can be mounted on a fixing side, such as a tub or a bearing housing securely, and a rotor which can... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080084125 - Stepping motor: A stepping motor which is capable of obtaining desired driving torque without sacrificing magnetic properties of a magnet with respect to a stator, reducing inertia mass of a rotor by decreasing a use amount of a magnet material, and thereby, can enhance driving performance including control responsiveness is provided. In... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080084127 - Brushless motor: To reduce the occurrence of vibration without any need for adding an electronic component, changing an existing layout space, and the like. In each of magnetic pole teeth 42 of yokes 41a to 41d, a ratio of a length of a side 44c, which is a tip portion, to a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080084131 - Stepping motor: A stepping motor is provided and includes: a rotor; a stator comprising a stator yoke having pole teeth; and a molded case comprising a case body and a mounting flange. The case body is resin-molded such that outer faces of the pole teeth of the stator yoke are exposed, and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080084132 - Dynamoelectric machine conductor and method: Disclosed herein relates to a dynamoelectric machine conductor. The conductor comprising, a bus including a central portion, a first connectable site of the central portion connectable with a first conductor and a first arm having a second electrically connectable site connectable with a second conductor. A first fused portion of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080084133 - Dynamoelectric machine brush and method: Disclosed herein relates to a dynamoelectric machine brush. The brush comprising, a first brush surface electrically engagable with a rotatable conductor of a dynamoelectric machine in response to the brush being urged toward the rotatable conductor, and a contoured brush surface on a side of the brush opposite the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080084135 - Universal platform for surface acoustic wave (saw) based sensors: A universal platform for surface acoustic wave (SAW) based sensors uses a selective sensing film coating on a piezoelectric substrate depending upon the application and the measurand to be measured. A SAW substrate with one or more IDTs and associated microcontroller-based electronics with a power supply can be implemented in... Agent: Bryan Anderson Honeywell International Inc.

20080084134 - Surface acoustic wave device: A surface acoustic wave device is provided. The surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and an IDT which is disposed on the piezoelectric substrate and made of Al or an alloy containing Al as a main component and using an SH wave as an excitation wave, wherein the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084136 - Bulk acoustic wave resonator: A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a resonator region having electrodes and a piezoelectric layer among the electrodes. The piezoelectric layer has a groove that bounds at least part of an electroacoustically active region of the piezoelectric layer. A depth of the groove is at least 50% of a thickness... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080084137 - Electronic radial type ultrasonic transducer, ultrasonic endoscope and its production method: An electronic radial type ultrasonic transducer, in which electrode pads to be electrically connected to signal wires are formed on a printed circuit board, forms the electrode pads on the top surface of the printed circuit board in a radial pattern and also exposes the electrode pads relative to the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080084138 - Apparatus for piezoelectric generation of power to propel an automobile and method of making: A standard automotive tire is altered to include a piezoelectric layer coupled to a battery driven propulsion system. The weight of the automobile when moving creates a force that presses against the portion of the piezoelectric layer between the automobile and the road, thereby creating a voltage according to the... Agent: Joseph A. Micallef