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Assignee: Nidec America Corporation


Location: Torrington, CT
No. of patents: 10

NumberTitleIssue Date
7011504Fan, fan guard and related method
An assembly includes a fan housing that includes a casing and a stator disposed radially inward of the casing and adapted to receive a rotor assembly. Struts attach the stator to the casing. One or more of the struts may define a channel for routing one or more elec...
03/14/2006
6650072Apparatus and method of regulating the speed of a brushless DC motor
A control circuit is provided for regulating the rotational speed of a brushless DC motor by pulse width modulating at least one power transistor to pass a motor supply signal to the motor armature. A voltage averaging circuit generates an averaged signal...
11/18/2003
6485260Fan assembly and method of making same
A fan assembly has a fan housing defining mounting apertures, a sheet metal mounting member for mounting the fan housing thereon, mounting tabs extending outwardly of the mounting member and received within the mounting apertures of the fan housing, and t...
11/26/2002
6285146Apparatus and method of regulating the speed of a brushless DC motor
A control circuit is provided for regulating the rotational speed of a brushless DC motor by pulse width modulating at least one power transistor to pass a motor supply signal to the motor armature. A voltage averaging circuit generates an averaged signal...
09/04/2001
6239991Control circuit compensating for malfunction of pulse width modulation circuitry
A control circuit for a pulse width modulation (PWM) driven electric motor is provided for operating a fan or motor at a full duty cycle in the event that the PWM input signal should malfunction or fail. The control circuit includes a pulse width modulati...
05/29/2001
6222437Surface mounted magnetic components having sheet material windings and a power supply including such components
A blank formed from electrically conductive sheet material defines a continuous conductive path which includes two terminal ends and at least three loops disposed along the path. The blank is foldable at preselected folding locations on the path to positi...
04/24/2001
6208528Power supply with surface mounted magnetic components having sheet material windings
A blank formed from electrically conductive sheet material defines a continuous conductive path which includes two terminal ends and at least three loops disposed along the path. The blank is foldable at preselected folding locations on the path to positi...
03/27/2001
6188187Apparatus and method of regulating the speed of a DC brushless motor
A control circuit for regulating the rotational speed of a DC brushless motor includes an electrical conduction switch having an input, an output and a control terminal for passing a motor supply signal to a DC brushless motor. A voltage averaging circuit...
02/13/2001
5982066Electric motor
The invention provides a motor and a bearing support and motor housing assembly, wherein the bearing support is detachably mounted to the housing with a flexible fastener, such as a snap ring. A resilient member, such as a spring washer, is seated between...
11/09/1999
5565837Low profile printed circuit board
In a low-profile printed circuit device, a first substrate is provided with a planar magnetic transformer and a planar magnetic inductor. The transformer and the inductor each have a primary winding defining spiral conductive patterns disposed on opposite...
10/15/1996
 
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