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1.

POWER DENSE MOTOR WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY

      
Application Number 18961139
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-26
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

An electric machine has a housing which has an interior space and an interior wall extending about the interior space, and a stator assembly disposed within the interior space and attached to the interior wall. The electric machine includes a rotor within the interior space and located radially inward from the stator. The rotor and stator define a gap there between and cooperate to produce flux. The rotor comprises a hollow cylindrical member having an interior region, an interior wall extending about the interior region and an exterior surface. The rotor includes magnets attached to the exterior surface and a rotor shaft support structure disposed within the interior region of the hollow cylindrical member and attached to the interior wall of the hollow cylindrical member. A rotor shaft is attached to the rotor shaft support structure. The electric machine further comprises bearings to locate and support the rotor shaft relative to the housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 3/30 - Windings characterised by the insulating material
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges

2.

DIRECT-DRIVE SYSTEM FOR COOLING SYSTEM FANS, EXHAUST BLOWERS AND PUMPS

      
Application Number 18740748
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-06-12
First Publication Date 2024-10-10
Owner Prime Datum Developtment Co., LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George M.

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC system, blowers and centrifugal blowers, mechanical towers or chiller systems. In one embodiment, the load bearing direct-drive system comprises a load bearing torque multiplier device having an output rotatable shaft connected to a fan, and a load bearing motor comprising a rotatable shaft that drives the load bearing torque multiplier device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • F04D 25/02 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 25/08 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/58 - CoolingHeatingDiminishing heat transfer

3.

Line replaceable unit (LRU) sensor systems for motors and other machines

      
Application Number 18663062
Grant Number 12266982
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-05-14
First Publication Date 2024-09-12
Grant Date 2025-04-01
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

A motor has a housing which comprises a cavity and a socket accessible from outside the housing. The socket has an interior surface. The motor includes a LRU sensor system which comprises an LRU sensor having electrical conductors and internal sensor wiring that is electrically connected to the electrical conductors and electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket, wherein when the LRU sensor is positioned in the socket, the electrical conductors on the LRU sensor contact the electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/20 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection for measuring, monitoring, testing, protecting or switching
  • H01R 39/08 - Slip-rings
  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes

4.

COOLING TOWER HAVING THERMALLY MANAGED MOTOR

      
Application Number 17862157
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-07-11
First Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a cooling tower comprising a cooling tower structure comprising fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor comprises a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid. A fluid distribution system distributes the cooled fluid in the basin. The fluid distribution system comprises a pumping device to pump cooled fluid from the basin, fluid piping to receive the pumped cooled fluid and fluid spray devices fluidly connected to the fluid piping for spraying fluid on the casing of the motor so as to transfer heat of the casing to the fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers

5.

SHAFT DRIVEN DEVICES WITH FEEDBACK

      
Application Number 17891000
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-08-18
First Publication Date 2023-02-23
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT CO., LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George M.

Abstract

A direct drive batch mixing system including a vessel having an interior region for receiving a batch, a direct drive electric motor attached to at least one rigid point, a multi-axis load cell located between the motor and the rigid point to provide signals representing forces and moments in multiple axes, and an impeller located within the interior region of the vessel and engaged with the motor such that the motor rotates the impeller. Forces and loads on the impeller are directly supported by the motor and measured by the multi-axis load cell. In some embodiments, a programmable controller generates control signals that control the motor's speed (RPM), torque and direction of rotation, and receives feedback signals for adjusting the motor's speed and/or torque and/or direction of rotation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01F 35/212 - Measuring of the driving system data, e.g. torque, speed or power data
  • B01F 35/214 - Measuring characterised by the means for measuring
  • B01F 35/22 - Control or regulation
  • B01F 35/222 - Control or regulation of the operation of the driving system, e.g. torque, speed or power of motorsControl or regulation of the position of mixing devices or elements
  • B01F 35/32 - Driving arrangements

6.

Sealed, self-cooling-motor with conductive heat transfer thermal management capability

      
Application Number 17703326
Grant Number 12166404
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-03-24
First Publication Date 2022-07-07
Grant Date 2024-12-10
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

An electric machine has a housing which has an interior space and an interior wall extending about the interior space, and a stator assembly disposed within the interior space and attached to the interior wall. The electric machine includes a rotor within the interior space and located radially inward from the stator. The rotor and stator define a gap there between and cooperate to produce flux. The rotor comprises a hollow cylindrical member having an interior region, an interior wall extending about the interior region and an exterior surface. The rotor includes magnets attached to the exterior surface and a rotor shaft support structure disposed within the interior region of the hollow cylindrical member and attached to the interior wall of the hollow cylindrical member. A rotor shaft is attached to the rotor shaft support structure. The electric machine further comprises bearings to locate and support the rotor shaft relative to the housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 1/00 - Details of the magnetic circuit
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 3/30 - Windings characterised by the insulating material
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 9/04 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers

7.

Cooling Schemes And Methods For Cooling Tower Motors

      
Application Number 17225011
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-04-07
First Publication Date 2021-07-22
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention provides techniques, schemes configurations and methods for removing or reducing heat in motors. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a cooling tower comprising a cooling tower structure and a motor supported by the cooling tower structure. The motor comprises a motor casing and a rotatable shaft. The cooling tower further comprises a cooling tower fan that comprises a fan hub, a plurality of fan blades attached to the rotatable shaft and a supplemental fan attached to the fan hub such that the supplemental fan is between the fan hub and the motor. Rotation of the cooling tower fan causes rotation of the supplemental fan which increases airflow around the casing of the motor so as to facilitate cooling of the motor. Other embodiments of configurations, schemes, method and techniques for thermally managing motors are described herein in detail.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers

8.

Direct-drive system for cooling system fans, exhaust blowers and pumps

      
Application Number 17175199
Grant Number 11454465
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-02-12
First Publication Date 2021-06-03
Grant Date 2022-09-27
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT CO., LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George M.

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC system, blowers and centrifugal blowers, mechanical towers or chiller systems. In one embodiment, the load bearing direct-drive system comprises a load bearing torque multiplier device having an output rotatable shaft connected to a fan, and a load bearing motor comprising a rotatable shaft that drives the load bearing torque multiplier device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • F04D 25/02 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means
  • F04D 25/08 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/58 - CoolingHeatingDiminishing heat transfer

9.

Line replaceable unit (LRU) sensor systems for motors and other machines

      
Application Number 17067661
Grant Number 11990798
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-10-10
First Publication Date 2021-01-28
Grant Date 2024-05-21
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

A motor has a housing which comprises a cavity and a socket accessible from outside the housing. The socket has an interior surface. The motor includes a LRU sensor system which comprises an LRU sensor having electrical conductors and internal sensor wiring that is electrically connected to the electrical conductors and electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket, wherein when the LRU sensor is positioned in the socket, the electrical conductors on the LRU sensor contact the electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/20 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection for measuring, monitoring, testing, protecting or switching
  • H01R 39/08 - Slip-rings
  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes

10.

Load Bearing Direct Drive Fan System With Variable Process Control

      
Application Number 16888681
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-05-30
First Publication Date 2020-10-08
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George
  • Costello, Joseph

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system for driving a fan in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger, HVAC system, hybrid cooling tower, mechanical tower or chiller system. The present invention includes a variable process control system that is based on the integration of key features and characteristics such as tower thermal performance, fan speed and airflow, motor torque, fan pitch, fan speed, fan aerodynamic properties, and pump flow. The variable process control system processes feedback signals from multiple locations in order to control a high torque, low variable speed, load bearing motor to drive the fan.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/051 - Axial thrust balancing
  • F04D 19/00 - Axial-flow pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/00 - Details, component parts, or accessories
  • F04D 29/059 - Roller bearings
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • F28B 9/00 - Auxiliary systems, arrangements, or devices

11.

Cooling tower having thermally managed motor

      
Application Number 16785627
Grant Number 11418090
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-09
First Publication Date 2020-06-04
Grant Date 2022-08-16
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT CO., LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a cooling tower that has a cooling tower structure having fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor has a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid. A fluid distribution system distributes the cooled fluid in the basin. The fluid distribution system has a pumping device to pump cooled fluid from the basin, fluid piping to receive the pumped cooled fluid and fluid spray devices fluidly connected to the fluid piping for spraying fluid on the casing of the motor so as to transfer heat of the casing to the fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers

12.

Cooling schemes and methods for cooling tower motors

      
Application Number 16532611
Grant Number 10998795
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-08-06
First Publication Date 2019-11-28
Grant Date 2021-05-04
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention provides techniques, schemes configurations and methods for removing or reducing heat in motors. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a cooling tower having a cooling tower structure and a motor supported by the cooling tower structure. The motor has a motor casing and a rotatable shaft. The cooling tower further has a cooling tower fan that has a fan hub, a plurality of fan blades attached to the rotatable shaft and a supplemental fan attached to the fan hub such that the supplemental fan is between the fan hub and the motor. Rotation of the cooling tower fan causes rotation of the supplemental fan which increases airflow around the casing of the motor so as to facilitate cooling of the motor. Other embodiments of configurations, schemes, method and techniques for thermally managing motors are described herein in detail.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers

13.

Direct-drive system for cooling system fans, exhaust blowers and pumps

      
Application Number 16439040
Grant Number 10928144
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-06-12
First Publication Date 2019-09-26
Grant Date 2021-02-23
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George M.

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC system, blowers and centrifugal blowers, mechanical towers or chiller systems. In one embodiment, the load bearing direct-drive system comprises a load bearing torque multiplier device having an output rotatable shaft connected to a fan, and a load bearing motor comprising a rotatable shaft that drives the load bearing torque multiplier device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • F04D 25/02 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means
  • F04D 25/08 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/58 - CoolingHeatingDiminishing heat transfer

14.

Cooling tower having thermally managed motor

      
Application Number 16418896
Grant Number 10560001
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-05-21
First Publication Date 2019-09-05
Grant Date 2020-02-11
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a cooling tower that has a cooling tower structure having fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor has a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid. A fluid distribution system distributes the cooled fluid in the basin. The fluid distribution system has a pumping device to pump cooled fluid from the basin, fluid piping to receive the pumped cooled fluid and fluid spray devices fluidly connected to the fluid piping for spraying fluid on the casing of the motor so as to transfer heat of the casing to the fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers

15.

Line replaceable unit (LRU) sensor systems for motors and other machines

      
Application Number 15577743
Grant Number 10804770
Status In Force
Filing Date 2016-06-01
First Publication Date 2018-05-10
Grant Date 2020-10-13
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

A motor has a housing which comprises a cavity and a socket accessible from outside the housing. The socket has an interior surface. The motor includes a LRU sensor system which comprises an LRU sensor having electrical conductors and internal sensor wiring that is electrically connected to the electrical conductors and electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket, wherein when the LRU sensor is positioned in the socket, the electrical conductors on the LRU sensor contact the electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/20 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection for measuring, monitoring, testing, protecting or switching
  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H01R 39/08 - Slip-rings

16.

Load bearing direct drive fan system with variable process control

      
Application Number 15548545
Grant Number 10670028
Status In Force
Filing Date 2012-10-21
First Publication Date 2018-03-01
Grant Date 2020-06-02
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George
  • Costello, Joseph

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system for driving a fan in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger, HVAC system, hybrid cooling tower, mechanical tower or chiller system. The present invention includes a variable process control system that is based on the integration of key features and characteristics such as tower thermal performance, fan speed and airflow, motor torque, fan pitch, fan speed, fan aerodynamic properties, and pump flow. The variable process control system processes feedback signals from multiple locations in order to control a high torque, low variable speed, load bearing motor to drive the fan.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/051 - Axial thrust balancing
  • F04D 19/00 - Axial-flow pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • F04D 29/059 - Roller bearings
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • F04D 29/00 - Details, component parts, or accessories
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F28B 9/00 - Auxiliary systems, arrangements, or devices
  • F28B 1/06 - Condensers in which the steam or vapour is separated from the cooling medium by walls, e.g. surface condenser using air or other gas as the cooling medium

17.

Cooling schemes and methods for cooling tower motors

      
Application Number 15327728
Grant Number 10411561
Status In Force
Filing Date 2015-07-21
First Publication Date 2017-07-20
Grant Date 2019-09-10
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention provides techniques, schemes configurations and methods for removing or reducing heat in motors. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a cooling tower comprising a cooling tower structure and a motor supported by the cooling tower structure. The motor comprises a motor casing and a rotatable shaft. The cooling tower further comprises a cooling tower fan that comprises a fan hub, a plurality of fan blades attached to the rotatable shaft and a supplemental fan attached to the fan hub such that the supplemental fan is between the fan hub and the motor. Rotation of the cooling tower fan causes rotation of the supplemental fan which increases airflow around the casing of the motor so as to facilitate cooling of the motor. Other embodiments of configurations, schemes, method and techniques for thermally managing motors are described herein in detail.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers

18.

Cooling tower having thermally managed motor

      
Application Number 15327864
Grant Number 10320266
Status In Force
Filing Date 2015-07-21
First Publication Date 2017-07-20
Grant Date 2019-06-11
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a cooling tower that has a cooling tower structure having fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor has a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid. A fluid distribution system distributes the cooled fluid in the basin. The fluid distribution system has a pumping device to pump cooled fluid from the basin, fluid piping to receive the pumped cooled fluid and fluid spray devices fluidly connected to the fluid piping for spraying fluid on the casing of the motor so as to transfer heat of the casing to the fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft
  • H02K 1/32 - Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/02 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 25/10 - Component parts of trickle coolers for feeding gas or vapour
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes
  • H02K 5/10 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with arrangements for protection from ingress, e.g. of water or fingers
  • F28F 25/00 - Component parts of trickle coolers

19.

LINE REPLACEABLE UNIT (LRU) SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR MOTORS AND OTHER MACHINES

      
Application Number US2016035218
Publication Number 2016/196596
Status In Force
Filing Date 2016-06-01
Publication Date 2016-12-08
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick, M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

A motor has a housing which comprises a cavity and a socket accessible from outside the housing. The socket has an interior surface. The motor includes a LRU sensor system which comprises an LRU sensor having electrical conductors and internal sensor wiring that is electrically connected to the electrical conductors and electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket, wherein when the LRU sensor is positioned in the socket, the electrical conductors on the LRU sensor contact the electrical conductors on the interior surface of the socket.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H02K 11/00 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection
  • H01R 13/66 - Structural association with built-in electrical component

20.

LOAD BEARING DIRECT DRIVE FAN SYSTEM WITH VARIABLE PROCESS CONTROL

      
Application Number US2016016895
Publication Number 2016/127136
Status In Force
Filing Date 2016-02-05
Publication Date 2016-08-11
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick, M.
  • Lucas, George
  • Costello, Joseph

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system for driving a fan in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger, HVAC system, hybrid cooling tower, mechanical tower or chiller system. The present invention includes a variable process control system that is based on the integration of key features and characteristics such as tower thermal performance, fan speed and airflow, motor torque, fan pitch, fan speed, fan aerodynamic properties, and pump flow. The variable process control system processes feedback signals from multiple locations in order to control a high torque, low variable speed, load bearing motor to drive the fan.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus

21.

Direct-drive system for cooling system fans, exhaust blowers and pumps

      
Application Number 14766239
Grant Number 10345056
Status In Force
Filing Date 2014-02-03
First Publication Date 2016-03-10
Grant Date 2019-07-09
Owner Prime Datum Development Company, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick M.
  • Lucas, George M.

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC system, blowers and centrifugal blowers, mechanical towers or chiller systems. In one embodiment, the load bearing direct-drive system comprises a load bearing torque multiplier device having an output rotatable shaft connected to a fan, and a load bearing motor comprising a rotatable shaft that drives the load bearing torque multiplier device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28F 21/06 - Constructions of heat-exchange apparatus characterised by the selection of particular materials of plastics material
  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • F04D 25/02 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means
  • F04D 25/08 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/58 - CoolingHeatingDiminishing heat transfer

22.

COOLING TOWER HAVING THERMALLY MANAGED MOTOR

      
Application Number US2015041312
Publication Number 2016/014517
Status In Force
Filing Date 2015-07-21
Publication Date 2016-01-28
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMAPNY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick, M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a cooling tower comprising a cooling tower structure comprising fill material supported by the cooling tower structure and configured to receive heated process fluid and a motor mounted to the cooling tower structure. The motor comprises a casing and a rotatable shaft and is sealed to prevent fluids, moisture, foreign particles and contaminants from entering the casing. A fan is connected to the rotatable shaft of the motor. Rotation of the rotatable shaft rotates the fan thereby inducing an upward moving mass flow of cool air through the fill material. A basin is attached to the cooling tower structure for collecting cooled fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F25B 19/04 - Machines, plants or systems, using evaporation of a refrigerant but without recovery of the vapour using fluid jet, e.g. of steam using liquid jet, e.g. of water

23.

POWER DENSE MOTOR WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY

      
Application Number US2015041241
Publication Number 2016/014461
Status In Force
Filing Date 2015-07-21
Publication Date 2016-01-28
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rollins, Patrick, M.
  • Lucas, George

Abstract

An electric machine has a housing which has an interior space and an interior wall extending about the interior space, and a stator assembly disposed within the interior space and attached to the interior wall. The electric machine includes a rotor within the interior space and located radially inward from the stator. The rotor and stator define a gap there between and cooperate to produce flux. The rotor comprises a hollow cylindrical member having an interior region, an interior wall extending about the interior region and an exterior surface. The rotor includes magnets attached to the exterior surface and a rotor shaft support structure disposed within the interior region of the hollow cylindrical member and attached to the interior wall of the hollow cylindrical member. A rotor shaft is attached to the rotor shaft support structure. The electric machine further comprises bearings to locate and support the rotor shaft relative to the housing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/00 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating
  • H02K 9/04 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium
  • H02K 9/06 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by ambient air flowing through the machine having means for generating a flow of cooling medium with fans or impellers driven by the machine shaft

24.

COOLING SCHEMES AND METHODS FOR COOLING TOWER MOTORS

      
Application Number US2015041422
Publication Number 2016/014600
Status In Force
Filing Date 2015-07-21
Publication Date 2016-01-28
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Lucas, George
  • Rollins, Patrick, M.

Abstract

The present invention provides techniques, schemes configurations and methods for removing or reducing heat in motors. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a cooling tower comprising a cooling tower structure and a motor supported by the cooling tower structure. The motor comprises a motor casing and a rotatable shaft. The cooling tower further comprises a cooling tower fan that comprises a fan hub, a plurality of fan blades attached to the rotatable shaft and a supplemental fan attached to the fan hub such that the supplemental fan is between the fan hub and the motor. Rotation of the cooling tower fan causes rotation of the supplemental fan which increases airflow around the casing of the motor so as to facilitate cooling of the motor. Other embodiments of configurations, schemes, method and techniques for thermally managing motors are described herein in detail.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers

25.

DIRECT-DRIVE SYSTEM FOR COOLING SYSTEM FANS

      
Application Number US2014014408
Publication Number 2014/123804
Status In Force
Filing Date 2014-02-03
Publication Date 2014-08-14
Owner PRIME DATUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC (USA)
Inventor Lucas, George, M.

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a load bearing direct-drive system and a variable process control system for efficiently managing the operation of fans in a cooling system such as a wet-cooling tower, air-cooled heat exchanger (ACHE), HVAC system, blowers and centrifugal blowers, mechanical towers or chiller systems. In one embodiment, the load bearing direct-drive system comprises a load bearing torque multiplier device having an output rotatable shaft connected to a fan, and a load bearing motor comprising a rotatable shaft that drives the load bearing torque multiplier device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28C 1/00 - Direct-contact trickle coolers, e.g. cooling towers
  • F28F 27/00 - Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus
  • H02P 27/04 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of supply voltage using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage