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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7057317 | Electric motor In order in the case of an electric motor, in particular a brushless electric motor, comprising a rotor, a stator, a motor housing receiving the rotor and the stator, a first bearing, disposed on the motor housing, and a second bearing, disposed opposite the first b... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057318 | Electric motor An electric motor comprises a stator 13, a rotor 11, windings on tlhe stator, a sleeve 15 at one end of the motor for supporting or defining a bearing for the rotor and for attachment to a fuel pump. The sleeve 15 forms the sole means of ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053510 | Electrical actuator An electrical actuator has a DC motor which is provided with a rotor having a permanent magnet for forming a plurality of magnetic poles around a periphery thereof and a stator having a plurality of energizing coils and being disposed around a periphery of the rotor... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053516 | Back cover having carbon brush holder for motor A back cover for a motor includes a shell body, two carbon brush holders and two covering caps. The shell body has two receiving holes cut through inside and outside walls thereof. The carbon brush holders are respectively mounted in the shell body for holding a res... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7044761 | Transparent insulating enclosure An enclosure formed from a first compartment and an identical second compartment to house an electrical connector. Each compartment has a main body that is defined by a first wall, a second wall and ends. The first wall of each compartment has an outer tab with at l... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045921 | Small-sized motor A small-sized motor of a structure not requiring any metal holder frame in a surface mounting process to a printed circuit board by reflow soldering, wherein the motor case is provided with a level flat part, a pair of left and right first side parts bent downward f... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045922 | Permanent-magnet synchronous electric motor with isolated rotor for circulation pumps of heating and/or conditioning systems A permanent-magnet synchronous electric motor with isolated rotor for circulation pumps of heating and/or conditioning systems having: a motor casing; a stator in the motor casing and having associated coils; a housing tightly isolated from the stator for hosting a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045919 | Rotor assembly A rotor assembly includes a hub and a hood. The hub provides a shoulder wall extending the center thereof and a hub wall connecting the shoulder wall. The hood provides a top wall and a lateral wall connecting the top wall. The shoulder wall of the hub has a fixing ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042124 | Electric motors for washdown, food processing, and chemical applications An electric motor includes a motor casing, a stator assembly, a rotor shaft assembly, first and second end bells, respectively, attached to each end of the motor casing, and an electrical inlet in the motor casing for supplying power to the motor. The motor further ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036206 | Process for preparing an over molded motor stator structure A process for preparing an over molded motor stator structure comprises constructing a bobbin assembly; constructing an intermediate stator assembly including assembling the bobbin assembly to a stator core having an internal and external diameter; disposing the int... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038340 | Bearing device and AC generator for vehicles using the same An AC generator for a vehicle includes front and rear bearings held by a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor having a rotation shaft rotatably supported by the front and rear bearings, and a multiple-helical wave washer disposed to apply a pre-load to... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036207 | Stator assembly made from a plurality of toroidal core segments and motor using same A plurality of stator arc segments form a toroidal core for a stator assembly used to make a motor. In a preferred embodiment, a plurality of magnetic fields is created when electrical current is conducted through wire wound around poles on the toroidal core. A mono... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036892 | Electric powered pump An electric powered pump includes a pump body having a suction chamber, a discharge chamber and an accommodation concave portion for accommodating a pump rotor, a rotational shaft rotatably supported by the pump body, the pump rotor is fixed at a first end of the ro... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038336 | Construction of power assisting synchronous motor An improved synchronous electric motor incorporating a stator and large current terminal unit made into a single unit with solidified molding resin thus a separate casing is unnecessary and thus the constitution is simplified. The large current terminal unit and a m... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038344 | Housing comprising at least one functional element of an electrical machine Functional elements are difficult to mount on a housing based on known methods, on which at least one functional element for an electric motor is situated. A housing is configured such that functional elements to be mounted on the housing are mountable on the housin... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034418 | Axial fan motor including a casing of laminated metal plates Disclosed is an axial fan motor for air-cooling a heat sink of a heating element and thermally connected to the heat sink. The casing of the axial fan motor is formed of a plurality of laminated metal plates. The plurality of metal plates include a single first meta... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034416 | Vented end cap with integrated splash shield for permanent magnet DC motor A permanent magnet D.C. electric motor 36 includes a motor housing 29 having first and second ends. The second end 42 is substantially closed and has an end of a shaft 35 extending there from. The second end includes vent holes 20 ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030530 | Permanent magnet element and electric machine A permanent magnet element intended especially for electrotechnical devices and an electric machine, the element (1) comprising at least one permanent magnet piece (10). The permanent magnet element (1) also comprises a protective cover (11 | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030526 | Integrated drive motor/differential/inverter unit with improved housing for a vehicle An integrated drive motor unit which is integrally constituted of a motor, an inverter and a reducer differential unit arranged in a row, and a frame member. The reducer differential unit is connected to an output shaft of the motor, and distributes torque of the mo... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030525 | Method for manufacturing motor yoke, motor yoke, and motor A cylindrical portion of a motor yoke has a securing portion to secure a stator core at an axial section except the axial ends of the cylindrical portion. When manufacturing the yoke, at first, a work is prepared that corresponds to the yoke before the securing port... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030524 | Motor for driving blower fan A reinforcing ring (22) includes a ring portion (23) and a cylinder portion (24) is press fitted on a portion which is slightly shifted toward the rear end side from portions on which stators (2) are fixed on parts of a case body (1 | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030520 | Drive device A drive unit including an electric motor, a drive unit casing accommodating therein the electric motor, an inverter that controls the electric motor and a flow passage in which a refrigerant passes therein in order to cool the inverter, wherein the inverter is mount... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030521 | Motor having two or more circuit boards A motor having a sleeve, a first board, a second board, a rotating part, a stator, a bracket and a bearing. The sleeve includes a sleeve main body having a cylindrical part into which a shaft is inserted, a first board supporting part having a first board supporting... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021973 | Electric rotating machine An output terminal board of this invention is capable of improving easy and simple installation of an electric rotating machine and wiring output harnesses so as to avoid thermal influence from a stator. The electric rotating machine 2 for vehicle acting as a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021418 | Electric power steering apparatus An electric power steering apparatus can improve heat dissipation of a power board. A heat sink is mounted on the power board in surface contact therewith, on which power board there is mounted a bridge circuit including a plurality of semiconductor switching elemen... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023114 | Vibration motor and its board mounting structure A vibration motor comprised of a motor body, a motor shaft projecting from the motor body, an eccentric weight attached to the motor shaft, and a mounting frame for setting the motor body on one surface of a board, wherein the mounting frame has a pair of feet strad... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019425 | Device for noise suppressing of small electric motors The invention is related to a device for the noise suppression of small electric motors with a Cx capacitor to be installed between two connections (A1, A2) of the small electric motor as well as Cy capacitors installed between ea... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015610 | Axial tube assembly for a motor An axial tube assembly for a motor includes an axial tube and a sleeve mounted in the axial tube. The axial tube is securely mounted to a casing, and a stator is mounted to the axial tube. The axial tube includes at least one engaging member on an inner periphery th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015608 | Method and apparatus to suppress electrical noise in a rotor assembly for an electrical machine A dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor having a rotor shaft; two flux carrying segments rotatably disposed on the rotor shaft; a field coil disposed between the two flux carrying segments, the field coil having a pair of coil leads; an insulative member disposed ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015609 | Machine with a high-speed rotor A machine, having a high-speed rotor, and stationary components having connection surfaces for connecting the machine with external components and/or the stationary components with each other and provided with outer surface layers having a high friction coefficient.... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012346 | Low profile d.c. brushless motor for an impeller mechanism or the like An impeller and at least a portion of a cooperating peripheral volute may be integrated into, and preferably are integrally injection molded with, concentric outer rotor and inner stator assemblies, respectively, to achieve a low profile precision impeller mechanism... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009318 | Electric refrigeration compressor having a cooling system for an electrical circuit In an electrical compressor having a motor and an electrical circuit integrated with a compression portion, a part of electrical components of the electrical circuit is disposed in spaces between a cylindrical outer surface of a motor housing and an imaginary flat s... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005767 | Snap-fit coverplate and gearhousing for electric motor A coverplate 10 and gearhousing 22 are provided for an electric motor 23. The coverplate 10 includes loop structure 14 and the gearhousing includes guides 28 such that the loop structure engages with the guides in a snap-fit... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7005769 | Sleeve bearing assembly with acoustic/vibration decoupling and endplay adjustment An electric motor 10 has an armature assembly 12 coupled with a rotatable shaft 16; a clamshell frame assembly 18 including first and second halves joined together, each of the first and second halves includes locking structure 32;... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002267 | Method and apparatus for cooling a hybrid transmission electric motor The present invention is drawn to a method and apparatus for cooling a hybrid transmission electric motor. More precisely, an annular chamber is formed between a housing for the electric motor and a transmission housing. Coolant is disposed in the annular chamber an... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997684 | Fan motor with digital controller for applying substantially constant driving current The invention relates to a fan arrangement comprising a radial or diagonal fan (370) with which a direct current motor (32) is associated as drive motor, further comprising a digital control element (23, 24) such as a microcontroller or micropro... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998746 | Electric motor sleeve bearing assembly with acoustic/vibration decoupling and endplay adjustment An electric motor includes an armature structure 12 having a shaft 14, a lamination stack 11 coupled with the shaft, a commutator 16 coupled with the shaft, and windings 13 carried by the lamination stack and connected to the commu... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999315 | Radiator mechanism and electronic apparatus having same It is an exemplified object of the present invention to provide a radiator mechanism and electronic apparatus having the radiator mechanism that can prevent destruction, deterioration, and malfunction due to heat of exoergic components or other electronic components... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995487 | Endplay adjustment and bearing decoupling in an electric motor An electric motor (10) has an armature structure (12) including a shaft (14), a lamination stack (11) coupled with the shaft, a commutator (16) coupled with the shaft, and windings (13) carried by the lamination stack and co... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6989620 | Electric motor The invention relates to an electric motor, in particular for high speed operation, comprising a motor housing (4); inside the housing (4), a stator (2) having a core (8) and windings (9) toroidally wound on the core (8); an... | 01/24/2006 |
