Synchronous Type (e.g., Variable Reluctance) Patents (Class 310/12.18)
  • Patent number: 11817747
    Abstract: A three-dimensional magnet structure (6) made up of a plurality of individual magnets (4), the magnet structure (6) having a thickness that forms its smallest dimension, the magnet structure (6) incorporating at least one mesh (5a) exhibiting mesh cells each one delimiting a housing (5) for a respective individual magnet (4), each housing (5) having internal dimensions just large enough to allow an individual magnet (4) to be inserted into it, the mesh cells being made from a fibre-reinforced insulating material, characterized in that a space is left between the housing (5) and the individual magnet (4), which space is filled with a fibre-reinforced resin, the magnet structure (6) comprising a non-conducting composite layer coating the individual magnets (4) and the mesh structure (5a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: WHYLOT SAS
    Inventors: Vasile Mihaila, Loic Mayeur, Huguette Tiegna, Romain Ravaud
  • Patent number: 11476746
    Abstract: A dual-conductor based electromechanical energy conversion system. The system includes an external force device, a moving object connecting frame, a moving object, a dual-conductor assembly and a platform connecting frame. The external force device is connected with the moving object through the moving object connecting frame. The dual-conductor assembly is arranged under the moving object in parallel. The dual-conductor assembly is connected with an external platform through the platform connecting frame. The moving object generates a relative motion with the dual-conductor assembly according to an external force. The dual-conductor assembly generates an alternating current according to an alternating magnetic field generated by the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai University
    Inventors: Guoqing Xu, Hua'nan Ge, Xiaoyu Xu
  • Patent number: 11456654
    Abstract: To achieve the foregoing object, a tubular linear motor of the present invention includes a core that has a tubular yoke and a plurality of teeth which are annular and provided at intervals in an axial direction on an outer periphery of the yoke; a winding mounted in a slot between the teeth; and a field magnet that is tubular, into which the core is movably inserted in the axial direction, and having N poles and S poles alternately arranged in the axial direction. An axial width Wi of a yoke-side inner peripheral edge of the teeth is larger than an axial width of an outer peripheral edge of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KYB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kano, Kousuke Satou, Shinichirou Hakamada, Daichi Shibahara
  • Patent number: 11393706
    Abstract: Described herein is a magnetically levitated linear transportation stage which utilizes a permanent magnet bias flux to generate a passive magnetic/suspension force/torque in a first set of directions orthogonal to a direction of transportation stage travel, a motor flux which forms a traveling wave along a direction of transportation stage travel and a suspension control force orthogonal to the direction of transportation stage travel. Such a magnetically levitated linear transportation stage is suitable for use in in-vacuum transportation tasks such as in conjunction with photo lithography systems (e.g. extreme ultra violet (EUV) machines).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lei Zhou, David L. Trumper
  • Patent number: 10873225
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes: a rotor core which includes a magnet insertion hole; and a permanent magnet housed in the magnet insertion hole. The permanent magnet has an arc shape which is convex toward an axial line. The rotor core includes: an outer-circumference core part; an inner-circumference core part; and connection ribs which connect the outer-circumference core part and the inner-circumference core part. The permanent magnet is supported in the rotor core in such a manner that circumferential ends abut on an inner surface of the magnet insertion hole. A circumferential center portion of the permanent magnet is separated from an outer-circumference-side inner surface of the magnet insertion hole. In the circumferential center portion of the permanent magnet, a gap is provided between an outer-circumference-side outer surface of the permanent magnet and the outer-circumference-side inner surface of the magnet insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukui, Masashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 10778077
    Abstract: A synchronous linear motor, including: a stator including projecting poles including magnetic bodies; and a movable element arranged opposed to the projecting poles through a space. The movable element includes a core with a magnetic body, coils, and permanent magnets arrayed along a moving direction. The core includes core backs and teeth projecting from the core backs toward the projecting poles. The coils are at least wound around the teeth on both end sides in the moving direction. The permanent magnets are arranged at center portions of the teeth along a projecting direction of the teeth. A polarity of a magnetic pole of the permanent magnet is the same as a polarity of an opposed magnetic pole in an adjacent permanent magnet. The number of different shapes of the permanent magnets or the number of different magnetic characteristics of the permanent magnets is two or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Motoyoshi, Ariff Zaini, Kazumasa Ito, Toshinori Tanaka, Shinichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10727728
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a stator and a mover. The stator has a plurality of salient poles. The mover includes a plurality of first teeth; a plurality of coils respectively mounted on the periphery of the plurality of first teeth; a plurality of first magnets respectively buried within the first teeth; a second tooth provided outside the plurality of first teeth; and a second magnet buried within the second tooth. The second tooth includes a first portion on the opposite side of the first teeth with respect to the second magnet; and a second portion close to the first teeth with respect to the second magnet. In a protruding direction of the second tooth, an edge of the first portion is farther from the stator than an edge of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventors: Masanobu Kakihara, Shogo Makino
  • Patent number: 10541595
    Abstract: Disclosed is a double-stator linear vernier permanent magnet (DS-LVPM) motor and method to increase the magnetic field modulation effect. The motor contains a primary, and first and second secondaries on both sides of the primary, spaced by an air gap. The motor secondary includes modulation teeth. The primary is bilaterally symmetrical, and permanent magnets (PM) are embedded in the yoke of the primary core elements. The design solves the inherent problem of flux leakage at the end of PMs for conventional VPM motors, so as to improve utilization of PMs, thereby increasing thrust density of the motors. Additionally, the motor secondaries are laminated by silicon steel sheet, which saves PM material and significantly reduces cost for linear long stroke applications. By adjusting PM structure parameters, the design can use finite element method (FEM) to calculate repeatedly to get PM structure parameters corresponding to maximum electromotive force (EMF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenxiang Zhao, Jian Zhu, Jinghua Ji, Guohai Liu, Zhengmeng Liu, Qian Chen, Jinwei Chen
  • Patent number: 10483835
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a magnet plate on which magnets of different polarity are alternately arranged along a drive direction, and an armature having a core serving as a main body and a coil attached to the core. The magnet plate and the armature are made to relatively move along an arrangement direction of the magnets, by way of thrust produced between the magnet plate and the armature. The magnet plate has a non-thrust region that extends along an arrangement direction of the magnets, and does not contribute to the thrust. The core of the armature at least includes a plurality of main teeth to which the coil is attached. The main teeth are not provided in a region opposing the non-thrust region of the magnet plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Nishifukumoto
  • Patent number: 10298108
    Abstract: A linear motor (15) comprising a stator (16) having an opening (18), a mover (19) disposed in the opening and configured and arranged to reciprocate linearly in an axial direction (x-x) relative to the stator, the stator comprising a first pole section (21) and a second pole section (22) stacked in the axial direction and forming a recess (26) between them for receiving annular windings, the first pole section comprising a first laminate (17a) having a first cross-sectional geometry (29) and a second laminate (17b) having a second cross-sectional geometry (30) different from the first cross-sectional geometry, and the first laminate and the second laminate stacked in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: David P. Cardamone, Carl R. Deirmengian, Brian J. Williams
  • Patent number: 10144507
    Abstract: A fault tolerant, optically or electrically managed, EMP resilient electromagnetic distributed direct drive powertrain applied to provide lift and/or propulsion and/or attitude control to an aircraft. The electromagnetic distributed direct drive being network based, capable of autonomous operations and decisions such as pilot input interpreting mode, load distribution, fault management, self-healing operations, electrical and mechanical health monitoring, as well as electrical and mechanical fault prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventor: Pascal Chretien
  • Patent number: 10090725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow cup winding capable of reducing distribution coefficient, comprising N phases of windings, where each phase of the windings consists of k (360/k/N)° coil units and the k coil units constitute of backing coil assemblies and forward coil assemblies. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages of improving motor performance and of being highly universal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SHANGHAI MOONS' ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wanbing Jin, Binsong Tang, Xin He, Huifan Nie
  • Patent number: 10081497
    Abstract: An electromagnet-operated conveying device includes a movable conveying element, at least one permanent magnet, and a cleaning device. The at least one permanent magnet is arranged on the conveying element for the onward movement of the conveying element. The cleaning device is configured to remove particles from a surface of the at least one permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Paweletz, Joachim Frangen, Heike Raatz
  • Patent number: 10050508
    Abstract: An armature has a plurality of armature cores arranged in a line in a first direction, coils wound on an area of the armature cores in a second direction, a carrier provided with a space in which to dispose the coils left in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction with respect to the armature cores, and at least one mounting member to fix the armature cores and the carrier. The armature cores are fixed to the mounting member by first bolts, and the carrier is fixed to the mounting member by second bolts. The at least one mounting member, the first bolts, and the second bolts are disposed in positions not overlapping the coils when viewed from the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Wakayama, Ryutaro Inagaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Kazumasa Ito, Kenta Motoyoshi
  • Patent number: 9787149
    Abstract: Halbach array electric motor with substantially contiguous electromagnetic cores, comprised of rotors and stators usually configured as permanent magnet and electromagnetic Halbach arrays respectively, wherein the enhanced magnetic forces of said Halbach arrays are focused between said rotors and stators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventor: Roberto Sanchez Catalan
  • Patent number: 9742258
    Abstract: A rotational-linear motion converter includes a cylindrical magnet rotor, a linear rail, a teeth row, and a magnet row. The magnet rotor includes a magnet row magnetized in a radial direction of the magnet rotor. The rail includes a plurality of projecting portions and recessed portions. The teeth row includes teeth and allows a magnetic flux flowing from the magnet row of the magnet rotor to pass between the magnet rotor and the rail. The magnet row includes magnets and is magnetized in an extending direction of the rail in order to align the magnetic flux flowing from the magnet row of the magnet rotor toward the projecting portions and the recessed portions of the rail. In the magnet row magnetized in the extending direction of the rail, the same polarity faces of adjacent magnets oppose each other in the extending direction of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugita, Yuqi Tang, Yasushi Misawa, Shigenori Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20150061416
    Abstract: A linear motor device includes a track member with multiple magnets with alternating N poles and S poles arranged along the moving direction, and a moving body with a configuration which includes an armature which is movably mounted on the track member; and the device generates a driving force in the moving direction between the magnetic flux created armature and the magnets of track member. The armature also includes a heat conduction member arranged in cooling passages formed in cores of the armature. By this, coils on the moving body side are cooled efficiently, and a large driving force can be achieved by passing a large current as well as maintaining a large space for winding the coils in order to increase the winding count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kainuma, Ryo Nagata, Masatoshi Fujita, Shuhei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150054357
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coreless linear motor and a method for manufacturing the same. The armature according to the invention comprises: an armature winding having at least one unit coil row which is formed by overlapping a plurality of coil rows; and a molded portion which surrounds the armature winding; wherein each coil row has a first coil portion and a second coil portion which have opposite winding directions; and wherein the plurality of coil rows which forms one unit coil row are overlapped such that the first coil portions are arranged in order and the second coil portions are arranged in order. Accordingly, the coil rows overlapped inside allow higher output with the same size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hoon Heo, Hong-Youn Kim
  • Patent number: 8963476
    Abstract: A separately excited synchronous machine (1b1k) with an excitation circuit on the side of the rotor includes an excitation winding (3) and a power supply for the excitation winding (3) as well as a switching element (8a, 8e) for connecting the power supply to the excitation winding (3). Further, the synchronous machine (1b1k) comprises a first stator-side primary winding (5a5f) and a first rotor-side secondary winding (6a6f). Moreover, the synchronous machine (1b1k) may comprise a) a tap of the first rotor-side secondary winding (6d) connected to a control element (9a, 9e) of the switching element (8a, 8e) or b) a second rotor-side secondary winding (14d), which is coupled to the first stator-side primary winding (5a5f) and connected to a control element (9a, 9e) of the switching element (8a, 8e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: BRUSA Elektronik AG
    Inventor: Enzo Illiano
  • Publication number: 20150048693
    Abstract: A stator device for a linear motor comprises an electrically energizable magnetic field generator for forming a magnetic field, and a first holding device for holding the magnetic field generator, wherein the magnetic field generator is fastened to the first holding device, wherein the first holding device is formed at least partially from an any of an electrically and magnetically non-conductive material, wherein the magnetic field generator comprises a coil and a stator tooth as a core around which the coil is wound, and wherein the first holding device is in the form of a printed circuit board for electrical contacting of the magnetic field generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Uwe PRÜSSMEIER
  • Publication number: 20150035388
    Abstract: An object is to provide a linear motor in which even when the moving range of a movable element is long, the quantity of magnets to be employed is not increased. A linear motor comprising; a movable element is in a plurality of magnets and armature cores linked alternately along a moving direction are arranged in the inside of a coil and then adjacent magnets with an armature core in between are magnetized in opposite directions; the stator includes two opposite plate-shaped parts elongated in the moving direction of the movable element and linked magnetically; in each of opposite faces of the two plate-shaped parts, tooth parts composed of magnetic material having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape similar to a bar shape are arranged at given intervals; and the movable element moves along an arrangement direction of the tooth parts between the two opposite plate-shaped parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Mita, Masahiro Masuzawa, Makoto Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20150028697
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a stator and an armature that faces the stator with a gap therebetween. The stator has an elongated shape extending so as to cross a direction in which the stator faces the armature, and includes a plurality of salient poles that are arranged along a longitudinal direction of the stator and protrude toward the armature. The armature includes an armature core including a tooth that protrudes toward the stator, an armature winding wound around the tooth, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on an end side of the tooth so as to be arranged along the longitudinal direction of the stator, and a magnetic-field sensor that detects a magnetic field which is generated by the plurality of permanent magnets and which passes through the plurality of salient poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Shogo MAKINO, Motomichi OHTO, Yuji ARINAGA
  • Patent number: 8922068
    Abstract: A primary for a linear drive motor has first and second stacks, each with inner and outer teeth and a bearing mount. A magnet is disposed between the first and second stacks, and a coil wrapped is between the first and second stacks. A bearing is operatively mounted to at least one of the bearing mounts of the first and second stacks. The outer teeth of the first and second stacks may have a projection comprising the bearing mount. The bearing mount may be embedded within the stacks. The stacks may be assembled in a housing and the housing may have a first bearing outboard of the first stack, a second bearing outboard of the second stack, and a third bearing in staggered relationship with the first and second bearings across the housing in an arrangement bilaterally symmetric about an axis transverse to the direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Baldor Electric Company
    Inventor: Glenn S. Trammell
  • Patent number: 8901785
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor including an iron core and a plurality of windings, and a stator including a plurality of permanent magnets forming a plurality of poles. The iron core has a plurality of primary teeth around each of which a winding is wound and a plurality of secondary teeth around each of which no winding is wound. The primary teeth and the secondary teeth are formed alternately with each other. The electric motor is configured such that a ratio between the number of poles formed by the permanent magnets of the stator and the number of phases formed by the windings of the rotor is 4m:3n (m and n are any natural numbers, excluding the case where m:n=2:3 is satisfied).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nishifukumoto, Takuya Maeda, Yoshifumi Shimura
  • Patent number: 8872466
    Abstract: A synchronous-machine starting device includes an electric power conversion unit for converting supplied electric power into AC power for supply to the armature of the synchronous machine, a rotor position detection unit for detecting a position of the rotor of the synchronous machine based on an AC voltage in the armature of the synchronous machine detected by an AC voltage detection unit, an electric power conversion control unit for controlling the electric power conversion unit based on the position of the rotor detected by the rotor position detection unit, and an abnormality detection unit detecting a rotation abnormality of the synchronous machine based on the AC voltage detected by the AC voltage detection unit after supply of the field current to the rotor of the synchronous machine is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinzo Tamai, Hisanori Taguchi, Akinobu Ando, Yasuhiko Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20140312716
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator including: a core comprising a material having a high magnetic permeability relative to air; an array of coils sequentially arranged on the core, each coil of the array of coils being wound around the longitudinal axis of the core; and a magnet assembly movably mounted along the array of coils, the magnet assembly having a coil side facing the array of coils and an opposite side facing away from the array of coils and including an array of permanent magnets sequentially arranged along the array of coils in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, wherein the magnetic moments of the plurality of magnets are selected and arranged to augment the magnetic field produced on the coil side of the magnet assembly and to reduce the magnetic field produced on the opposite side of the magnet assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Nucleus Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian W. Hunter, Timothy A. Fofonoff, George C. Whitfield
  • Publication number: 20140285034
    Abstract: An integrated electromagnetic energy conversions device is provided that includes a synchronous or brushless linear (SoBL) motor, and a transformer, where the transformer is integrated electromagnetically and topologically with the SoBL motor, where an electromagnetic field orientation of the transformer is perpendicular to an electromagnetic field orientation of the SoBL motor, where a magnetic-field decoupling between the SoBL motor and the transformer is provided and a position independent magnetic coupling of the transformer is provided, where the integrated SoBL motor and the transformer operate simultaneously in a motor and transformer mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: David Christian Johannes Krop, Jacob Willem Jansen, Elena Andreevna Lomonova
  • Publication number: 20140252888
    Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous planar motor with a structure of concentric winding comprises a primary structure, a secondary structure, and an air gap. Armature windings in the primary structure of the permanent magnet synchronous planar motor are fixed on an air gap side of the primary base plate in a shape of board, wherein the air gap side is defined as a side adjacent to the air gap. The armature winding of each phase comprises a plurality of concentric rectangular coils. The rectangular coils are connected in series in turn from inside to outside, and winding directions of the two adjacent rectangular coils are opposite. A distance Lc between center lines of two opposite sides of each of the rectangular coils and the polar distance ?m of the permanent magnet in the secondary structure have a relationship as follows. Lc=(2k+1)?m, wherein k is a natural number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Baoquan Kou, Dagang Xie, Lu Zhang, He Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140232209
    Abstract: An interior magnet linear induction motor includes an armature and a line of inductor teeth. The armature includes coils arranged between a plurality of teeth, and the line of inductor teeth is arranged so as to face the armature and includes a plurality of tooth portions arranged at a constant pitch in a linear stroke direction. An end portion of each of the plurality of teeth has a shape such that magnetoresistance of the tooth increases toward the root side. At least one permanent magnet is arranged at an end portion of each of the plurality of teeth and adjacent permanent magnets that are arranged at different teeth are magnetized such that opposite magnetic poles face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD,
    Inventors: Satoshi Sugita, Yuqi Tang, Yasushi Misawa, Shigenori Miyairi
  • Patent number: 8803371
    Abstract: A secondary for a motor, for instance a linear drive motor, has a sheet of highly magnetic permeable material with a plurality of slots extending through the sheet spaced along a length of the sheet. The slots define a plurality of teeth in the sheet and enable the sheet to be conformable to a mounting surface when forming the secondary of the motor. The top surface of the sheet has a plurality of pockets formed adjacent the plurality of slots. The pockets extend parallel to the width and are spaced along the length of the sheet. The pockets form a sensor operatively connected to a control of the motor. The sensor may be an encoder, and/or the sensor may be operatively connected to a control for controlling commutation of the motor, and/or setting positional limits and/or “home(s)” for the motor, providing absolute positional information and/or providing information about the sheet, for instance, the identity of one platen among many.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Baldor Electric Company
    Inventors: Glenn S. Trammell, Rui Qiao
  • Patent number: 8803376
    Abstract: An AC motor is provided. In the AC motor, there are M pieces (M is an integer of 3 or more) of stator pole groups SPG are arranged in a rotor axis direction, where each of the stator poles groups is composed of a plurality of stator poles which are for the same phase and arranged in a circumferential direction of the motor. Between the stator pole groups SPG, “M?1” pieces of annular windings WR are arranged which allow one-way current to flow therethrough. The windings WR are arranged such that the directions of current passing therethrough are reversed in turn in the rotor axis direction. The stator pole groups SPG are excited to generate magnetic fluxes ?G directed in a one way. The excited directions of the magnetic fluxes ?G are reversed in turn in the rotor axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Tomokazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8779635
    Abstract: A reticle positioning apparatus for actinic EUV reticle inspection including a sealed inspection chamber containing a reticle stage for holding a reticle. The reticle stage has a magnetically suspended upper stage with a long travel in a “y” direction and a magnetically suspended lower stage with a long travel in an “x” direction; and a cable stage chamber isolated from the inspection chamber by a cable chamber wall. The cable stage chamber has a cable stage movable in the “y” direction; and a tube connected at one end to the reticle stage and to the cable stage at the other end. The tube passes from the cable stage through the inspection chamber through a seal in the chamber wall and opening into the cable entry chamber for entry of cables and hoses within the cable stage chamber, which cables and hoses pass through the tube to the reticle stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Pradeep Subrahmanyan, Mark Williams, Samir Nayfeh
  • Publication number: 20140183981
    Abstract: A transverse flux induction motor (“TFIM”) is described in accordance with the present invention. The TFIM may be a linear induction motor or a rotary induction motor. The TFIM includes a primary motor element and secondary motor element. The primary motor element includes a plurality of coils and at least one magnetic element. The plurality of coils are arranged to generate a control flux along a first direction when power is applied to at least one coil of the plurality of coils and the at least one magnetic element is arranged to generate a bias flux in a second direction that is substantially transverse to the first direction. The secondary motor element is moveable in the first direction, relative to the primary motor element, in response to the control flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Atmur
  • Patent number: 8729745
    Abstract: A linear switched reluctance motor comprises a movable coil bracket including first and second coil assemblies. Each of the first and second coil assemblies further comprises a plurality of coils separately wound around a plurality of motor coil cores, each of the coils being configured to receive a sinusoidal current at a different phase from other coils comprised in the same coil assembly. Tooth members of a stator track are located adjacent to the motor coil cores such that a magnetic flux path is created which passes through the motor coil core, the stator track and an air gap between the motor coil core and the stator track. A multiple-phase motor driver electrically connected to the first and second coil assemblies generates symmetric multiple-phase sinusoidal currents for driving the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: ASM Assembly Automation Ltd
    Inventors: Wai Chuen Gan, Gary Peter Widdowson, Siu Yan Ho
  • Patent number: 8674563
    Abstract: A linear motor system is provided includes a coil assembly, a magnet assembly, and a bearing assembly disposed between the coil and magnet assemblies to allow movement of one or both of them. The bearing assembly includes a single bearing rail that can be mounted on either side of the magnet assembly. The rail has elongated recesses that receive bearing elements. A stage structure may be attached to the assembly, such at to the magnet assembly, to move a machine component along the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Lamouree, Fred Sommerhalter, Darius Bobelis
  • Patent number: 8624446
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a linear, curved or rotary electric machine. The electric machine includes first and second movers which are adjacent to each other and have a phase angle difference of 60° therebetween. The first mover includes phases U, V and W and the second mover includes phases /U, /V and /W. The electric machine of the present invention can reduce pulsations of thrust caused by end effect. In particular, in the case where the stator includes permanent magnets having the same poles and salient poles which alternate with the permanent magnets, the number of permanent magnets used can be reduced to half of that of a conventional linear electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shi Uk Chung, Do Hyun Kang, Byung Chul Woo, Ji Won Kim, Ji Young Lee, Seung Ryul Moon
  • Publication number: 20130334900
    Abstract: The invention provides slotless electrical machines with mixed ferromagnetic/non-ferromagnetic core (mixed core). The invented slotless electrical machines with mixed core have less attraction and cogging force than conventional electrical machines with ferromagnetic core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventor: Alexei Stadnik
  • Patent number: 8604647
    Abstract: A linear actuating device includes a track unit having an insulating sleeve made of non-metallic material and surrounding an axis, a plurality of coils mounted spacedly and sleevingly on the insulating sleeve along the axis, and a shell containing the insulating sleeve and the coils. The linear actuating device also includes a forcer unit having an elongate member extending through the insulating sleeve, having a segment configured for connecting to a vehicle shaft, and being movable along the axis relative to the insulating sleeve. The forcer unit also includes a plurality of magnets mounted spacedly relative to the axis and sleevingly on the elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsien Hu, Chih-Jung Yeh
  • Patent number: 8587163
    Abstract: Electric motors configured for deployment in a downhole well environment are provided. Downhole well pumping systems including an electric motor are also provided. In one example, an electric motor includes a series of at least three magnets, one of the inner and outer two magnets being movable. A supply of alternating current is configured to alternate the polarity of one of the inner and outer two magnets to thereby cause one of the inner and outer two magnets that is movable to reciprocate and provide linear output to drive an operable production device. In another example, two adjacent, stationary magnets and at least one movable magnet are adjacent to one another. A supply of alternating current is coupled to the magnets so as to alternate the polarity of one of the movable and stationary magnets and to thereby to cause reciprocating linear output to drive the operable production device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Alejandro Camacho
  • Patent number: 8564160
    Abstract: A linear actuator, in particular for adjusting the flaps in motor vehicle turbochargers. The linear actuator has an adjusting element that can be linearly displaced by an electric motor. The electric motor is a two-phase transverse flux machine. A rotor is arranged between two opposite single-phase stators, and the rotor is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a rotatable and linearly stationary rotational element that engages with the linearly movable adjusting element in order to cause a linear movement of the adjusting element when the rotational element is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hill
  • Publication number: 20130257180
    Abstract: The tubular linear motor includes an armature having a coil and a magnetic exciter having a permanent magnet provided to face the coil. The armature has a yoke that blocks a magnetic flux, teeth that partition a slot for storing the coil, and the coil that is arranged to extend over the teeth from an inner side of the slot toward the magnetic exciter while a mechanical gap is reserved between the magnetic exciter and the coil. The magnetic exciter has a plurality of permanent magnets by interposing a soft magnetic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YUQI TANG, Yasushi Misawa
  • Publication number: 20130249324
    Abstract: Advantageous motors, such as flux-switching linear synchronous motors (FSLSMs) are provided. In an FSLSM, all magnets can be magnetized in the same direction. In addition, an FSLSM can be yokeless and can have two stators displaced from one another by half a pole pitch. FSLSMs of the subject invention are cost-effective and provide high thrust, and can operate well even under fault conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Inventors: ARUN GANDHI, LEILA PARSA
  • Patent number: 8536742
    Abstract: A stator core unit of a linear synchronous motor is divided into a plurality of divided cores. The divided cores each include a pair of connected portions. The pairs of connected portions are disposed along a first direct drive shaft and a second direct drive shaft to form a pair of connected portion arrays. A yoke is constituted from a pair of yoke elements which are formed of a magnetic conductive material and magnetically connect the connected portions of the pair of connected portion arrays. A first array of permanent magnets and a second array of permanent magnets are disposed to be shifted from each other by an electrical angle of 180°. A first array of windings and a second array of windings are excited with the first and second arrays of windings being shifted by an electrical angle of 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuqi Tang, Satoshi Sugita
  • Publication number: 20130181547
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor including an iron core and a plurality of windings, and a stator including a plurality of permanent magnets forming a plurality of poles. The iron core has a plurality of primary teeth around each of which a winding is wound and a plurality of secondary teeth around each of which no winding is wound. The primary teeth and the secondary teeth are formed alternately with each other. The electric motor is configured such that a ratio between the number of poles formed by the permanent magnets of the stator and the number of phases formed by the windings of the rotor is 4m:3n (m and n are any natural numbers, excluding the case where m:n=2:3 is satisfied).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fanuc Corporation
  • Patent number: 8487485
    Abstract: A linear synchronous motor is provided, of which a core unit may readily be manufactured. Accordingly, the manufacturing cost of the linear synchronous motor may be reduced, and the weight of the linear synchronous motor may be lightened. The linear synchronous motor includes a frame member that is formed of a magnetic conductive material and surrounds the periphery of a core unit centering on a shaft. The frame member functions as a yoke that magnetically connects a plurality of magnetic pole portions. The frame member is constituted from a first divided frame member and a second divided frame member fixed to the core unit with screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuqi Tang, Satoshi Sugita
  • Publication number: 20130175886
    Abstract: A linear actuator for generating a thrust force for relatively displacing an outer tube and an inner tube in an axial direction includes a rod standing in an axial center part of the inner tube, a plurality of permanent magnets held side by side in an axial direction by the rod, a plurality of coils facing the permanent magnets, and a holder that is fixed to the outer tube and holds the plurality of coils. The holder includes a tubular coil holding portion that is provided in an annular space formed between the rod and the inner tube and holds the coils. A clearance is formed between the outer periphery of the coil holding portion and the inner periphery of the inner tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kakiuchi, Kousuke Satou
  • Publication number: 20130154397
    Abstract: A high efficiency magnetic core electrical machine includes magnet and coil assemblies that may be axially stacked to form modules. The magnet sub-assemblies include magnet locators on which multiple permanent magnets are arranged, and the coil sub-assembly includes a pair of bobbin holders supporting multiple bobbins and magnetic cores that extend through the bobbins and through openings in the bobbin holders to form magnetic poles that face the permanent magnets. The permanent magnets and magnetic poles may be arranged in various zero-cogging configurations, including one in which the permanent magnets on opposite sides of the coil assembly are skewed relative to each other to cause cogging force cancellation. In addition, a power matching circuit may be used to optimize the output power of the electrical machine to rotor speed when the electrical machine is used as a generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventor: John T. SULLIVAN
  • Publication number: 20130127264
    Abstract: A combination drive for rotary and lifting movements includes a rotary motor and a linear motor as well as an output shaft which is caused to rotate by the rotary motor and caused to move linearly by the linear motor. The output shaft includes an output end. The rotary motor is arranged closer to the output end of the output shaft than the linear motor. The output shaft can be designed shorter as a result. Further measures for increasing the dynamics are mass reductions on the rotor of the linear motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael FICK, Armin STÄBLEIN, Rolf VOLLMER
  • Publication number: 20130127267
    Abstract: A cylindrical linear motor includes a cylindrical rotor, and a cylindrical stator arranged in coaxial relationship to the rotor. The stator has a plurality of annular coils which are arranged in coaxial relationship, and a ferromagnetic stator core which includes a plurality of individual laminations which are aligned radially or arranged in a star shape. This reduces a field displacement caused by eddy currents, as a result of which ultimately a time delay in the force buildup is also reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Fick, Armin Stäblein, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20130127265
    Abstract: Cogging forces of a cylindrical linear motor are reduced with a linear motor having a rotor with eight poles and a stator with 36 toroidal coils (optionally multiples of eighteen toroidal coils) inserted into slots (N1 to N36) (or a multiple of 36 slots). The toroidal coils extend in the circumferential direction of the stator, are of equal size, and are arranged axially one behind the other. All the terminals of the toroidal coils are located in an axially extending connector channel. The two terminals of each coil are connected according to a specific connection scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Fick, Armin Stäblein, Rolf Vollmer