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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120126650 | CONCENTRIC MOTOR POWER GENERATION AND DRIVE SYSTEM An apparatus is provided and includes a hub, including first and second opposing faces, a first sidewall fixed at opposite ends thereof to the first and second opposing faces to define a first interior between the first and second opposing faces and a second sidewall fi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126728 | INTEGRATED ELECTRIC MACHINE AND SILICON CARBIDE POWER CONVERTER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME An electric drive system comprising an electric machine comprising a rotor and a stator, a power converter electrically coupled to the electric machine and configured to convert a DC link voltage to an AC output voltage to drive the electric machine, and a single coolin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120104980 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE AND PM BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR DRIVE CONTROL FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE APPLICATION A method of operating an electrical machine having first and second phase windings. The method includes: (1) applying positive first current to the first phase winding while the first phase winding's back electromotive force (emf) is positive; (2) applying negative seco... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120049771 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE In the case the gearshift position is the parking position at the state that the master battery is connected via the master side step-up circuit to the motor side and either of the two slave batteries is connected via the slave side step-up circuit to the motor side, th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049770 | DEVICE FOR CHARGING ACCUMULATOR MEANS The present invention relates to an electrical device for charging accumulator means (5), said electrical device comprising:
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| 20120043917 | Battery Connection System A method of operating an electric vehicle including the steps of: (1) providing the electric vehicle (2) providing an electric load device on the electric vehicle (3) providing a first battery on the electric vehicle with a first state of charge (4) providing a second b... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038210 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC FLOATING STORAGE AND OFFLOADING An Electric Floating Storage and Offloading system comprises a floating vessel that may be moored at a location convenient for connection to the power grid and which supports an array of grid-scale batteries or other energy storage devices and has means for delivering s... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120025744 | BATTERY PACK AND ELETRICAL TRANSFER APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME A battery pack includes: a first battery cell group including at least one high capacity battery cell; and a second battery cell group including at least one high output battery cell and being coupled in parallel to the first battery cell group, wherein the high output ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019173 | METHOD AND ELECTRIC COMBINED DEVICE FOR POWERING AND CHARGING WITH COMPENSATION MEANS The invention relates to a combined device and method for powering and charging, that comprises an AC motor (6), a converter (2), storage means (5), and switching means (4) either for enabling the powering of the motor (6) or for enabl... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019174 | Drive System, Method for Operating a Drive System, and Use A drive system and method for operating a drive system, including an electromotor, inverter, energy store, the electromotor being able to be supplied from the inverter, which is supplyable from the energy store, 01/26/2012 | |
| 20120019175 | SEALED BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND VEHICLE AND DEVICE HAVING THE SAME MOUNTED THEREON The sealed battery has a battery container (4, 5) and a power generating element sealed inside the battery container. The battery container is provided with a fill opening (12), an annular ridge (16), which extends around the entire circumference of... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022734 | HYBRID ELECTRIC WORKING VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF The present disclosure relates to a hybrid working vehicle which determines the change of load by using a displacement of a flyweight or flyball in a governor, and controls a motor-generator according to the change of load, and a control method thereof. The hybrid worki... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013276 | ELECTROMAGNETIC MOTOR An electromagnetic motor having a frame, and at least one disc rotatably mounted to the frame. At least one permanent magnet is mounted on the disc, and at least one electromagnet is mounted to the frame in magnetic proximity to the at least one permanent magnet. A batt... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120001521 | IN-WHEEL MOTOR AND ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN VEHICLE The in-wheel motor of the present invention includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a magnet fixed on an inner circumf... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316454 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT ELECTRIC MOTOR OF A COMBINED ELECTRIC DEVICE FOR POWERING AND CHARGING The present invention relates to an alternating-current electric motor of a combined electric device for powering and charging, the said electric motor being formed by a stator connected to an electricity network of which the number of phases is lower than the number of... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110309776 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DEVICE INCLUDING SWITCHING ELEMENT A semiconductor circuit device includes a semiconductor circuit including a switching element, a temperature monitoring unit, and a control unit. The temperature monitoring unit detects or estimates a temperature of a component connected to an inside or an outside of th... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304287 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING A POWER TOOL The present application discloses a control circuit for a power tool and a method for manipulating the power tool. The control circuit has a detection circuit for battery packs, a calculating control circuit, a battery capacity indicating circuit for indicating the calc... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110285331 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH FREQUENCY SWEEP FUNCTION With an oscillator circuit with a frequency sweep function, a first counter counts a reference clock for a number of counts that corresponds to a digital first setting signal, and generates a first count completion signal which is asserted on completion of the count. A ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110273117 | Reciprocating Electric Tool The invention provides a reciprocating electric tool (1) having a brushless motor (3), a plunger (52), and control means (6). The plunger (52) is driven by the brushless motor and reciprocating between two dead centers. A end bit (7... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110260659 | CONTROL APPARATUS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE A control apparatus of an electric vehicle, which is operable to be driven by supplying electric power from a battery to an electric motor to drive the electric motor and operable to perform regeneration charge, includes: a request torque calculating unit calculating a ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110254474 | Rotating Electric Machine and Electric Vehicle A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided be... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110248653 | CONTROLLED POWER FADE FOR BATTERY POWERED DEVICES A method is provided for operating a power tool having a motor powered by a battery. The method includes: delivering power from the battery to the motor in accordance with an operator input; detecting a condition of the power tool indicating a shutdown of the power is i... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110221363 | COMBINED ELECTRIC DEVICE FOR POWERING AND CHARGING The invention relates to a combined method and device for powering and charging, wherein said device comprises an AC motor (6), a converter (2), storage means (5), and switching means (4) either for enabling the powering of the motor (6 | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110215743 | BATTERY CHARGING CIRCUIT AND CHARGING METHOD A charging circuit is provided that charges a battery for supplying power to a motor drive system that includes a three-phase motor and a three-phase inverter for controlling the three-phase motor. The three-phase inverter includes first to third sets of switching eleme... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110203181 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWER-ASSISTED DOOR A control system for a power assisted door, the electronic door control system includes an intelligent control, a plurality of sensor inputs operatively connected to the intelligent control, the plurality of sensor inputs associated with state of a plurality of mechanic... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110203754 | Method for Operating a Motorized Roller Shade The present invention advantageously provides methods for manually and/or remotely controlling a motorized roller shade that includes a shade attached to a shade tube, a DC gear motor disposed within the shade tube and a microcontroller. One method includes detecting a ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199028 | Moving Object, Wireless Power Feeding System, and Wireless Power Feeding Method An object is to provide a moving object structure capable of reducing power loss caused when power is supplied from a power feeding device to a moving object by wireless communication. Another object is to provide a moving object structure capable of reducing the intens... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193504 | POWER CONVERTER CONTROL APPARATUS Generation voltage control or generation torque control is performed as suitable control based on an external command or a load of a generator motor, to thereby prevent a rapid change of a generation torque or excessive power generation. A power converter control appara... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187298 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND MOTOR DRIVING METHOD A motor can be driven while reducing the power loss of the entire system where a plurality of devices that causes power losses exists. The system is provided with an inverter connected to a motor, a first converter that is connected between a fuel cell and the inverter ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110163710 | VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM A vehicle may include an electric machine, a traction battery, and a solar panel array. The vehicle may further include circuitry electrically connected with the battery and array. The circuitry may include at least one switch configured to close when activated by a cal... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110163700 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO DESULFATION OF A BATTERY Desulfation of a battery. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods of inducing ringing across terminals of a battery to reduce and/or reverse the build up sulfate crystals on the battery plates.... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110163699 | Battery And Ultracapacitor Device And Method of Use A battery and ultracapacitor device for use in a vehicle includes a positive electrode, a first negative electrode, a second negative electrode, a first separator disposed between the positive electrode and the first and second negative electrodes, and a controller comm... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110163701 | Battery Pack for Cordless Power Tools A battery pack which includes a battery pack electronic control circuit adapted to control an attached power tool and/or an attached charger. The battery pack includes additional protection circuits, methodologies and devices to protect against fault conditions within t... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110166736 | PROPULSION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE A propulsion control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes an inverter that converts a direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage, a power storage element, and a DCDC converter connected to the power storage element. The control apparatus further in... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110156620 | BATTERY PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF A battery protection method is provided for preventing a main battery set from being damaged by a current from a load, and for lengthening the lifespan of the main battery set. The method includes the steps of: providing an auxiliary battery set; determining whether to ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110140642 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE Based on rotation information of a synchronous machine detected by a rotation information detector, a controller causes a converter to boost a charge voltage of a capacitor so as to be higher than an induced voltage generated by the synchronous machine at a time of shif... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110127933 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE A control device that controls an electric motor drive device is configured with a current control portion that determines a voltage command value, a voltage control portion that generates a switching control signal, and a current control period determining portion. The... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110115416 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING MOTOR OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE An apparatus for driving a motor of an electric vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a capacitor supplied with power by a battery; an inverter configured to include a plurality of switching elements, convert direct current (DC) power stored in the capacitor into ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110115417 | PM MOTOR DRIVE POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS The present invention provides a PM motor drive power supply apparatus which drives a three-phase permanent-magnet synchronous motor by utilizing a direct-current power source 1, wherein control means 7 controls to simultaneously perform ON/OFF operation o... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110113591 | CLEANING IMPLEMENT HAVING AUDIBLE CONSUMER SIGNAL A battery-powered cleaning implement for cleaning a target surface by using at least one of a motor-driven beater bar or motor-driven vacuum fan. The cleaning implement has a cutoff voltage below which the beater bar and/or said fan is/are no longer operable to clean. T... | 05/19/2011 |
