Patents Assigned to Moteurs Leroy-Somer
  • Patent number: 11962187
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine, having a stator mass that has slots in which electrical conductors introduced axially into the slots are housed, each of the slots having a continuously closed contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-Somer
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Patent number: 11949284
    Abstract: A stator including a ring having teeth and slots between said teeth that open radially outwards and material bridges, each linking two adjacent teeth to the respective base on the side of the air-gap, a yoke attached to the ring, and windings placed in the slots of the ring, at least some of the material bridges having at least on deformable zone that can be deformed during assembly of the yoke on the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Xavier Jannot, Francois Turcat, Cedric Plasse, Olivier Gas
  • Patent number: 11735967
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine having a stator, and a rotor having a shaft and permanent magnets on the surface of the shaft, the permanent magnets having a face of concave overall shape directed toward the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Dominique Jourdan
  • Patent number: 11569717
    Abstract: An axial flux rotary electric machine including at least one stator and at least one rotor that are arranged along an axis of rotation of the machine, the rotor including a rotor mass and housings created in the rotor mass, the housings defining magnetic poles of the rotor, each of the housings being able to contain or not contain at least one permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Dany Prieto, Paul Akiki, Xavier Jannot, Benjamin Daguse
  • Patent number: 11522399
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine, including: a stack of magnetic laminations each having openings, the superposition of these openings within the stack forming slots, at least some of the openings having, on at least part of their periphery, friction reliefs, electrically conducting bars made of a first material, received in at least part of the slots and coming to bear via at least one principal face against said reliefs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Sébastien Porcher, Thierry Visse, Mike McClelland, François Turcat
  • Patent number: 11489425
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor of a rotary electric machine, including a stack of magnetic laminations defining the slots in which bars made from a first electrically conducting material are received, in which method a second electrically conducting material, different from the first, is injected using an injection machine, from the front of the laminations stack, the bars being held at their rear end against the pressure associated with the injection by a positioning tool that passes through a cavity used for forming a short-circuiting ring at the rear of the laminations stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Sébastien Porcher, Thierry Visse, Stéphane Boulin, François Turcat
  • Patent number: 11316406
    Abstract: A rotor of an electrical rotating machine having poles formed from stacks of magnetic plates and electrical conductors wound around each pole. The rotor includes cooling fins extending in prolongation of the poles along the axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Vit Zahradsky, Matthieu Boirlaud
  • Patent number: 11245305
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine including a rotor having salient poles, each salient pole comprising a pole body surrounded by at least one coil, and at least one pair of wedges comprising a first wedge positioned against the coil of a first salient pole and a second wedge positioned against the coil of a second salient pole consecutive with the first. The first and second wedges are able to move in the inter-pole space with respect to one another along the longitudinal axis of the rotor, and each having at least one contact surface, the contact surface or surfaces of the first wedge being configured to come into contact with the contact surface or surfaces of the second wedge as one wedge is moved longitudinally with respect to the other in such a way that the movement of one wedge with respect to the other induces a pressing of these wedges against the coils so as to hold the coils of the first and second salient poles respectively against the pole bodies of the first and second salient poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Patrick Vohlgemuth
  • Patent number: 11233399
    Abstract: Method for regulating a bank of alternators comprising at least two alternators that deliver their output in parallel to a load (C), said alternators each being provided with a regulator (12, 13) that is configured to deliver an output signal representative of the reactive power level of the corresponding alternator divided by its nominal reactive power, and a control law allowing the reactive power level of the alternator to be modified depending on an input signal, method wherein a weighted signal employed as the input signal of these regulators is generated from the output signals representative of the reactive power level of each of the alternators, i.e. the signals delivered by the corresponding regulators, so as to make each of the alternators converge to a predefined reactive power level (Trp).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-Somer
    Inventors: Vincent Morisseau, Jérémy Fratani, Samuel Moser, Jean-François Paillou
  • Patent number: 11171590
    Abstract: An electronic device, in particular an alternator regulator, comprising a power stage to be connected to an inductive load, in particular to an alternator inductor, comprising at least one first pair of power transistors connected to a terminal of a DC bus, and a control circuit for said transistors, the transistors being disposed in parallel between said terminal of the DC bus and a first output to be connected to the load, at least one flyback diode connecting the opposite terminal of the DC bus to the first output, the control circuit being designed to generate a pulsed control signal for regulating the current in the load and for detecting a failure of one of the transistors, the control circuit being designed, during normal operation, to send the control signal to one of the transistors of the first pair, while maintaining the other transistor of said pair in an off-state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Samuel Moser, Jeremy Fratani, Vincent Morisseau, Jean-Francois Paillou
  • Patent number: 11081944
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wound rotor or stator having more than four poles, preferably a rotor, the rotor or stator having teeth provided with pole shoes. The method includes the following steps, for each pole: (a) producing a partial winding by winding at least one conductor over the portion of the tooth of this pole extending axially along this pole between the pole shoes of this pole and a plane (Pmin) at right angles to the axis of the pole and tangential to a pole shoe of an adjacent pole, (b) pushing back the duly produced partial winding towards the base of the tooth, and freeing said portion of the tooth having been used for the winding, and (c) repeating step (a) to produce another partial winding on the duly released portion of tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Publication number: 20210234417
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine, rotating about an axis of rotation, the rotor including: salient poles forming slots between them, the salient poles each being of an overall shape that is asymmetrical with respect to a radial midplane containing the axis of rotation of the machine, coils, each coil being placed on a corresponding salient pole, in the slots adjacent to this salient pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL
  • Patent number: 11050374
    Abstract: A method for customizing operation of an alternator regulator including at least one processor executing a program governing its operation. The regulator receives input signals and acts on output signals according to at least one control law. The control law is implemented in the regulator by a programming interface by inputting at least coordinates (x, f(x)) of at least two points of the law.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Jeremy Fratani, Vincent Morisseau, Jean-Francois Paillou
  • Patent number: 11011949
    Abstract: Rotor (1) for a rotary electric machine, comprising: a shaft (2); at least one annular shaped magnet (10) engaged on the shaft; at least one elastically deformable component (9) radially interposed between the shaft (2) and the magnet (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Jeremy Chamand, Gaetan Adrien
  • Publication number: 20210135524
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine, including: a stack of magnetic laminations each having openings, the superposition of these openings within the stack forming slots, at least some of the openings having, on at least part of their periphery, friction reliefs, electrically conducting bars made of a first material, received in at least part of the slots and coming to bear via at least one principal face against said reliefs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Sébastien PORCHER, Thierry VISSE, Mike MCCLELLAND, François TURCAT
  • Patent number: 10892666
    Abstract: Disclosed is a double-casing frame of an electric machine that is cooled by a fluid circulating in the fluid circulation space (26) inside the double casing, said double-casing frame comprising: an inner casing (22) on which an end flange (30) is mounted at the rear of the machine; and an outer casing (24) that fits over the inner casing (22) and can be separated from the inner casing (22) without removing the end flange (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Thierry Pera, Philippe Ciciliani, Yohan Kerever, Hamza Lofti
  • Publication number: 20200398669
    Abstract: An assembly, having a generator and electric motors, for a vehicle air-conditioning or cooling system, having: a compressor intended to be driven by a heat engine, a top-up electric motor for driving the compressor when the latter is not or cannot be driven by the heat engine, a generator with permanent magnets having a shaft which can be driven in rotation by the heat engine, the generator and the top-up electric motor being disposed on this shaft, one or more condenser and/or evaporator electric motors of a vehicle air-conditioning or cooling system, said electric motors being configured to be powered by a direct current, the generator powering the electric motor or motors through a converter configured to supply a direct current, notably a low-voltage controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY SOMER
    Inventors: Nicolas NAY, Sébastien CHARENTON, Stéphane DUFAU, Matthieu ROBIN
  • Patent number: 10779446
    Abstract: Device (1) for cooling at least one power electronics circuit (4), including: a liquid-cooled heatsink (2); and an interface plate (3) that is in thermal contact with the heatsink (2) and to which the one or more power electronics circuits (4) are attached, the interface plate (3), including at least one thermosiphon (6), being removably mounted on the heatsink (2) so as to be capable of being separated therefrom with the one or more electronic circuits (4) attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Ludovic Bourlier, Aurelien Courage, Thierry Crespo
  • Publication number: 20200244150
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor of a rotary electric machine, including a stack of magnetic laminations defining the slots in which bars made from a first electrically conducting material are received, in which method a second electrically conducting material, different from the first, is injected using an injection machine, from the front of the laminations stack, the bars being held at their rear end against the pressure associated with the injection by a positioning tool that passes through a cavity used for forming a short-circuiting ring at the rear of the laminations stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Sébastien PORCHER, Thierry VISSE, Stéphane BOULIN, François TURCAT
  • Patent number: 10651707
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine that includes a rotor and a stator and is cooled by a stream of air generated by at least one fan. The fan is driven by a main shaft of the machine or by its own drive system. The fan includes main blades (33) for generating a stream of cooling air and, upstream of said main blades, tins which at least partially cover coil heads of the stator in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Vit Zahradsky, Alexis Dutau