Embedded Patents (Class 310/156.56)
  • Publication number: 20130099618
    Abstract: A double-stator motor of an example embodiment includes: an annular rotor connected to a rotary shaft and integrally rotates with the rotary shaft, an inner stator arranged radially inward of the rotor, and an outer stator arranged radially outward of the rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of segments annularly arranged in the circumferential direction, spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, and a plurality of permanent magnets each interposed between circumferentially adjacent segments, the permanent magnets being alternately magnetized in the circumferentially opposite direction. The rotor, the inner stator and the outer stator have the same number of poles. The inner and outer stator windings of the inner and outer stators, respectively, are connected so that their phases are reversed to each other. Thus, the magnetic fields generated by the magnetomotive forces of the inner and outer stators are applied to specific segments in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: DENSO CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8415849
    Abstract: An injection apparatus includes a gate for injecting a filler to a gap between an inner wall of a slot and a permanent magnet. A plurality of gates are provided for one slot. An IPM rotor with improved NV characteristics, and method and apparatus for manufacturing such an IPM rotor can be provided by such a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yota Mizuno, Hiroshi Hata
  • Publication number: 20130020898
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor core of a motor, the rotor core, the rotor core including: a thin disk-shaped rotor core member; a shaft hole penetratively formed in a center of the rotor core member; a shaft press-fitted into the shaft hole; a plurality of magnet insertion holes penetratively formed at a position near to a periphery of the rotor core member for inserted coupling by a magnet; a plurality of teeth protrusively formed at an inner circumferential surface of the shaft hole, and a skived portion protrusively formed at a position corresponding to the plurality of teeth of the shaft, wherein the rotor core members are stacked each at a predetermined height, and the shaft is press-fitted into the shaft hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woongseon Ryu, Hyunseop Kim
  • Patent number: 8354766
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor and a stator, a plurality of permanent magnets forming a plurality of magnetic poles in a core of the rotor and magnetic pole teeth located so as to correspond to phase windings of the stator. The permanent magnets include a plurality of types of permanent magnets having different coercive forces and arranged substantially into an annular shape so that one type of the permanent magnet constitutes each magnetic pole. The permanent magnets each having a relatively smaller coercive force are arranged at a first interval in the rotor, and the magnetic pole teeth corresponding to the same phase windings are arranged at a second interval differing from the first interval in the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Sari Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8350434
    Abstract: For providing a permanent magnet type rotary electric machine that can reduce magnetic fluxes concentrated to one side in rotating direction on a magnetic pole circumferential face that causes torque ripple as well as ensure the mechanical strength, in the present invention, an outer circumference of respective magnetic poles is formed in a circular arc having a same curvature as well as the magnetic pole center axes of the respective magnetic poles are displaced with respect to the rotation center of a rotor so that an air gap between a stator and the respective magnetic pole outer circumferences at one side in the rotating direction is widened in comparison with the air gap at the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hori, Daisuke Kori, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 8350435
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet machine has non-contiguous, non-magnetic radial slots between the magnets and the cylindrical periphery and the magnets have non-magnetic radial end slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Keith I. Hoemann, Todd A. Walls
  • Patent number: 8334667
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine capable of conducting a variable speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability in a wide operating range. Two kinds of permanent magnets having different shapes or different magnetic characteristics are embedded in a rotor core, to form a magnetic pole. The permanent magnets arranged at the magnetic pole include a permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along a magnetizing direction is small and a permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along the magnetizing direction is large. A magnetic field created by passing a current to an armature coil for a short time is used to irreversibly magnetize the permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along magnetizing direction is small, thereby changing a total linkage flux amount, and a positive d-axis current is passed when torque is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Kazuaki Yuuki
  • Patent number: 8324778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permanent magnet rotor, which has a rotor shaft, a rotor stack fixed on the rotor shaft, accommodating pockets provided in the rotor stack and permanent magnets positioned in the accommodating pockets. The accommodating pockets are sealed by means of an adhesive film, as a result of which the permanent magnets are fixed in the accommodating pockets and at the same time the ingress of particles into the accommodating pockets and the discharge of particles out of the accommodating pockets is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Marcus Podack
  • Patent number: 8294317
    Abstract: A unidirectionally-energized brushless DC motor includes a disk attached to a frame, a plurality of plate-like permanent magnets disposed on the disk at equal intervals around the disk, magnetic cores fixed to the frame according to the plurality of permanent magnets, windings each of which is wound around the magnetic core and to which DC power is supplied, a predetermined number of magnetic cores fixed to the frame, and windings each of which is wound around the magnetic core and connected to a power consumption device. The permanent magnets are located such that an angle formed by a straight line passing through the center of the disk and the center of the permanent magnet and a normal line in the center of a magnetic pole plane of the permanent magnet ranges from 0° to 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kamida, Yasuhiro Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8294320
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet (IPM) machine having a rotor and a stator is provided. The rotor includes a radially inner barrier devoid of magnets, and a radially outer barrier having at least one permanent magnet, each barrier having two pockets with one pocket disposed at an angle relative to the other. At least one of the pockets of the inner barrier has a shape of an irregular quadrilateral. At least one of the pockets of the outer barrier has a substantially trapezoidal shape with a first side generally parallel to a second side, wherein the first side has a portion slanted relative to the third side. In such an IPM machine, demagnetization of the outer barrier magnet is limited when operating temperatures and electrical current exceed operating conditions prescribed by design specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Rajeev Vyas
  • Patent number: 8294321
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided having a cylindrical stator and a rotor that is spaced from a stator to define an annular primary air gap that receives AC flux from the stator. The rotor has a plurality of longitudinal pole portions disposed parallel to the axis of rotation and alternating in polarity around a circumference of the rotor. Each longitudinal pole portion includes portions of permanent magnet (PM) material and at least one of the longitudinal pole portions has a first end and an opposing second end and a side magnet is disposed adjacent the first end and a side pole is disposed adjacent the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventor: John S. Hsu
  • Publication number: 20120248782
    Abstract: The vertical windmill turbine generator is a combination of three distinct previously defined inventions by the same inventor and one new invention. It is designed to take advantage of the increased, wind speed caused by the up welling or downward sliding of winds found at walls, fences, or roofs and similar obstructions. This windmill generator has infinitely adjustable vanes, which allow the windmill to govern its speed or respond easily to very low-speed winds. The design also allows inertia to more readily be taken advantage of. With the included flying-magnet-dynamo, as the generator, the static inertia of the windmill generator is greatly minimized. The electrical output is gathered with low ESR capacitors, then regulated by a switching regulator. Vibration and speed censors detect over-speed and agitated wind situations, allowing the device to protect itself by closing some or all vanes instantly. The rotating components communicate with stationery components by radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Wayne Douglas Pickette, Anna Victor Epelbaurn-Pickette, William Gomez
  • Patent number: 8269390
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine capable of realizing variable-speed operation in a wide range from low speed to high speed at high output and improving, in a wide operating range, efficiency, reliability, and productivity. The rotating electrical machine includes a first permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and magnetizing direction thickness is small and a second permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and magnetizing direction thickness is large, to form a magnetic pole. The product of coercive force and magnetizing direction thickness of the first permanent magnet is equal to or larger than the product of magnetic field strength and magnetizing direction thickness of the second permanent magnet at a no-load operating point. At the magnetic pole, a magnetic field created by a current of an armature coil magnetizes the first permanent magnet, irreversibly changing a flux amount of the first permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Kazuaki Yuuki
  • Patent number: 8269392
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotary machine comprises a rotor comprising a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnet segments embedded in the rotor core and a stator having a plurality of coils and disposed to define a gap with the rotor, or a permanent magnet rotary machine comprises a rotor comprising a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnet segments mounted on the surface of the rotor core and a stator having a plurality of coils and disposed to define a gap with the rotor. In the rotor, each permanent magnet segment is an assembly of divided permanent magnet pieces, the coercive force near the surface of the magnet piece is higher than that in the interior of the magnet piece, and the assembly allows for electrical conduction between the magnet pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuhito Doi, Takehisa Minowa, Hajime Nakamura, Koichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 8242653
    Abstract: A rotor surface has magnetic salient poles and island-shaped magnetic poles alternately in circumferential direction, and the island-shaped magnetic pole is constituted so that a magnetic flux coming from an external source does not flow through. A magnetic excitation part magnetizes the island-shaped magnetic poles and the magnetic salient poles collectively in the same direction, and then control a flux amount flowing through an armature. The armature has armature coils that face the magnetic salient pole and the island-shaped magnetic pole simultaneously so that driving torque fluctuation or power generation voltage waveform distortion is controlled. The magnetic excitation part changes magnetization state of a field magnet irreversibly, or changes an excitation current to an excitation coil to control a flux flowing through the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kura Laboratory Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Ichiyama
  • Patent number: 8232703
    Abstract: In an embedded magnet motor, radial magnets and first inclined magnets form north poles. The radial magnets and second inclined magnets form south poles. Core sheets each include preformed radial accommodating slots the number of which is expressed by P/2. Some of the preformed radial accommodating slots are short slots and the rest are long slots. The short slots are located at some parts of each radial accommodating slot along the axial direction. Radially inner ends of the short slots restrict the radial magnets from moving radially inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Hirotaka Itoh, Yoshiyuki Takabe
  • Patent number: 8227953
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, a first pole partition line, and a second pole partition line. The first and second magnets are provided inside the rotor core and between the first and second pole partition line. The first magnet is closer to the first pole partition line than to the second pole partition line, and the second magnet is closer to the second pole partition line than to the first pole partition line. A distance between the first and second magnets at a position is wider as the position is closer to a circumference portion of the rotor core. The first magnet and the first pole partition line have a first minimum distance therebetween, the second magnet and the second pole partition line have a second minimum distance therebetween, and the first minimum distance is smaller than the second minimum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8222787
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet electric machine is disclosed. The interior permanent magnet electric machine comprises a rotor comprising a plurality of radially placed magnets each having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein each magnet comprises a plurality of magnetic segments and at least one magnetic segment towards the distal end comprises a high resistivity magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Patel Bhageerath Reddy
  • Patent number: 8217547
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a path length between a rotor and an inter-hetero-phase tooth where a magnetic flux from a magnetic pole proceeds from the rotor and starts to enter the inter-hetero-phase tooth is longer than a path length between the rotor and an inter-V-phase tooth where the magnetic flux proceeds from the rotor and starts to enter the inter-V-phase tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Munehiro Kamiya, Shigenori Yoneda, Hiroshi Kaneiwa, Hiroyuki Ikuta, Yasuhide Yagyu, Tomofumi Morishita
  • Patent number: 8217545
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary machine includes a rotary shaft, a rotor core fixed to a circumferential surface of the rotary shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged on a circumferential surface of the rotor core at specific intervals along a circumferential direction thereof, conducting circuits arranged to surround the permanent magnets, and magnetic material pieces arranged on outer surfaces of the individual permanent magnets. Each of the conducting circuits includes a pair of first conductor sections arranged between magnetic poles formed by the adjacent permanent magnets and a pair of second conductor sections electrically connecting the first conductor sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Akita, Masatsugu Nakano, Yusuke Morita
  • Patent number: 8207645
    Abstract: In a magnet-exciting rotating electric machine system, a rotor surface has magnetic salient poles and island-shaped magnetic poles alternately in circumferential direction, and the island-shaped magnetic poles are constituted so that magnetic flux coming from an external source does not flow through. A magnetic excitation part magnetizes the island-shaped magnetic poles and the magnetic salient poles collectively in the same direction, and then control a flux amount flowing through an armature. The armature has armature coils that face the magnetic salient pole and the island-shaped magnetic pole simultaneously so that driving torque fluctuation or power generation voltage waveform distortion is controlled. The magnetic excitation part changes magnetization state of a field magnet irreversibly, or changes an excitation current to an excitation coil to control a flux crossing the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Kura Laboratory Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Ichiyama
  • Patent number: 8198776
    Abstract: A current-energized synchronous motor (1) suitable in particular for vehicle drives. It includes a stator (2) and a rotor (3) carrying the energizer winding (7). The rotor (3) has at least two rotor poles (4) with one energizer winding (7) each. The rotor includes at least one selective magnetic flux barrier, in particular in the form of a radial slot (8) along the main axis (4A) of the rotor pole (4). This flux barrier is provided in each rotor pole (4) for increasing the reluctance moment of the current-energized synchronous motor (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: BRUSA Elektronik AG
    Inventors: Arno Mathoy, Verena Mathoy, legal representative, Anna Mathoy, legal representative, Eva Mathoy, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20120119604
    Abstract: In an embedded magnet motor, radial magnets and first inclined magnets form north poles. The radial magnets and second inclined magnets form south poles. Core sheets each include preformed radial accommodating slots the number of which is expressed by P/2. Some of the preformed radial accommodating slots are short slots and the rest are long slots. The short slots are located at some parts of each radial accommodating slot along the axial direction. Radially inner ends of the short slots restrict the radial magnets from moving radially inward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Hirotaka ITOH, Yoshiyuki TAKABE
  • Patent number: 8174158
    Abstract: In general, the various embodiments are directed to a permanent magnet machine (“PM machine”), and more specifically an internal permanent magnet machine (“IPM machine”) that includes rotor magnets configured asymmetrically with respect to the rotor periphery, thereby producing an averaging effect similar to that achieved through traditional skewing of the rotor magnets. In alternate embodiments, the span, placement and/or shape of the magnets may vary from one pole to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Edward L. Kaiser, Peter J. Savagian
  • Patent number: 8148937
    Abstract: When a rectangular wave voltage control mode is selected, a control apparatus estimates the output torque of an alternating-current motor based on the outputs of a current sensor and a rotation angle sensor, and executes torque feedback control by adjusting the phase of rectangular wave voltage based on the difference between the torque estimated value and a torque command value. The control apparatus executes a switching interruption that outputs a control command to a switching element of an inverter every 60 degrees of electrical angle, and executes an angle interruption that samples the phase currents of the alternating-current motor based on the output of the current sensor and converts those phase currents into a d-axis current and a q-axis current every predetermined electrical angle that is set beforehand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Itoh, Keiichi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8138650
    Abstract: A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine formed by stacking a plurality of blanks blanked from a steel sheet, the blank having a yoke, a magnetic pole portion confronting the yoke, and a magnet insertion hole positioned between the yoke and the magnetic pole portion, the magnetic pole portion having a projection projecting circumferentially at two circumferential sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: Toshiba Ha Products Co., Ltd., Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation, Mitsui High-Tec Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shiga, Noboru Shibata
  • Patent number: 8106557
    Abstract: It is an objective to provide a permanent magnet synchronous motor that is highly efficient with low vibration and low noise. A stator 30 includes a stator core 1 that includes magnetic pole teeth 2 each formed between adjacent slots 3, and stator windings 4 that are provided in the slots 3 of the stator core 1. A rotor 40 includes a rotor core 5, a plurality of magnet retaining holes 8, permanent magnets 7 inserted in the magnet retaining holes 8, and a plurality of slits 6 in the rotor core 5 on an outer circumferential side of the magnet retaining holes 8. Among the slits 6, slits 6 in a vicinity of a magnetic pole center of the rotor core 5 are oriented in a direction where a magnetic flux generated by a permanent magnet 7 converges outside the rotor core 5, whereas slits 6 in a vicinity of a pole border portion of the rotor core 5 are oriented in another direction that is different from the direction of the plurality of slits 6 in the vicinity of the magnetic pole center of the rotor core 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Yoshino, Yoshio Takita, Koji Yabe, Takashi Ishigaki, Koji Masumoto
  • Patent number: 8087154
    Abstract: A motor includes a core having a plurality of laminations, which are stacked together and an end-plate provided at an end surface of the core and supporting the core, wherein the end-plate is formed by pressing a hollow material in one direction thereof in order to plastically deform the hollow material in a plate-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
  • Patent number: 8080915
    Abstract: In an embedded magnet motor, radial magnets and first inclined magnets form north poles. The radial magnets and second inclined magnets form south poles. Core sheets each include preformed radial accommodating slots the number of which is expressed by P/2. Some of the preformed radial accommodating slots are short slots and the rest are long slots. The short slots are located at some parts of each radial accommodating slot along the axial direction. Radially inner ends of the short slots restrict the radial magnets from moving radially inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Hirotaka Itoh, Yoshiyuki Takabe
  • Patent number: 8049388
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a rotor for an electrical machine excited by permanent magnets, said rotor comprising a substantially cylindrical magnetic body of the rotor fitted onto the shaft of the electrical machine and a set of permanent magnets used to create a first and a second pole alternately in the circumferential direction, excited in opposite directions. The permanent magnets are fitted into openings arranged within the rotor. The rotor comprises a body part with several segments extending to the outer circumference in the circumferential direction and an outward tapered section remaining between the segments in the radial direction of the rotor. Permanent-magnet pieces are arranged between each section and segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: ABB OY
    Inventor: Jere Kolehmainen
  • Patent number: 8044548
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine capable of realizing a variable-speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability. The permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes a stator provided with a coil and a rotor in which there are arranged a low-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is of such a level that a magnetic field created by a current of the stator coil may irreversibly change the flux density of the magnet and a high-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is equal to or larger than twice that of the low-coercive-force permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Patent number: 8026648
    Abstract: An electric machine, especially a brushless DC motor. Said electric machine comprises a rotor and a stator which is provided with current-carrying coils. Said rotor, in the circumferential direction, is provided with a plurality of permanent magnets that are embedded in respective magnet retainers between the peripheral surface and the shaft of the rotor in such a manner that the permanent magnets, in the radial direction, are completely encircled by the peripheral surface of the rotor. In the area of the magnet retainer, recesses extend laterally in the circumferential direction of the rotor and axially within the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Falko Abel, Michal Kalavsky, Pietro de Filippis
  • Patent number: 8018110
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet (IPM) machine is provided. The IPM machine includes a stator assembly and a stator core. The stator core also includes multiple stator teeth. The stator assembly is further configured with stator windings to generate a magnetic field when excited with alternating currents and extends along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface defining a cavity. The IPM machine also includes a rotor assembly and a rotor core. The rotor core is disposed inside the cavity and configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly further includes a shaft. The shaft further includes multiple protrusions alternately arranged relative to multiple bottom structures provided on the shaft. The rotor assembly also includes multiple stacks of laminations disposed on the protrusions and dovetailed circumferentially around the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Jeremy Daniel VanDam
  • Patent number: 8008825
    Abstract: An electromagnetic steel plate forming member provides the two magnet holes for inserting therein the two permanent magnets per pole along the V-shape, which are provided in the region of the radial pole pitch lines OP provided in the rotor core at the predetermined pole pitch angle ?, one magnet hole is displaced in a direction apart from the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP, and the other magnet hole is displaced in a direction approaching to the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8004140
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet (IPM) machine is provided. The IPM machine includes a stator assembly and a stator core. The stator core also includes multiple stator teeth. The stator assembly is further configured with stator windings to generate a stator magnetic field when excited with alternating currents and extends along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface defining a cavity. The IPM machine also includes a rotor assembly and a rotor core. The rotor core is disposed inside the cavity and configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly further includes a shaft. The shaft further includes multiple protrusions alternately arranged relative to multiple bottom structures provided on the shaft. The rotor assembly also includes multiple stacks of laminations disposed on the protrusions and dovetailed circumferentially around the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Pellegrino Alexander, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Jeremy Daniel VanDam
  • Patent number: 7982350
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for conical magnets for rotors in electrodynamic machines, methods to design the same, and rotor-stator structures for electrodynamic machines. In various embodiments, a rotor-stator structure for electrodynamic machine can include field pole members and conical magnets. According to at least some embodiments, one or more of the conical magnets can include a magnetic region configured to confront one or more air gaps. The magnetic region can be substantially coextensive with one or more acute angles to the axis of rotation. The magnetic region can also include a surface positioned at multiple radial distances from the axis of rotation in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: NovaTorque, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Burch, John Patrick Petro, Jeremy Franz Mayer
  • Patent number: 7956506
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a stator having stator salient poles, three-phases windings would around said stator salient poles, a rotor rotatable held inside the said stator, and permanent magnets inserted into said rotor and positioned opposite to said stator salient poles. The three-phase windings are concentratively wound around each of the stator salient poles, with windings of each phase wound around at more than one stator salient pole. The windings of each phase have a phase difference of voltage between at least one of the windings and the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobe, Shouichi Kawamata, Suetaro Shibukawa, Osamu Koizumi, Keiji Oda
  • Patent number: 7948138
    Abstract: A rotor is provided with a rotor core, a magnet inserted into the rotor core and a filling portion arranged in a space between the rotor core and the magnet. The space between the rotor core and a radially outer side surface of the magnet has a uniform width in a central portion (portion (A)) with respect to a width direction (of arrow (DR4)) of the magnet. A width of the space in an end portion (portion (B)) with respect to the width direction (of arrow (DR4)) of the magnet is larger than that of the space in the portion (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hattori, Akihide Takehara
  • Patent number: 7948137
    Abstract: A rotor includes a core extending in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of magnets. The core has parts formed by magnetic materials and extending in the predetermined direction. The parts are arranged in a loop around the part, and face the part through gaps. The magnets are buried in the gaps in the form of a loop in the core. The magnets have pole faces extending in the predetermined direction. In each of the magnets, at least one of ends of the magnet protrudes forward in parallel to the predetermined direction with respect to an end of the part that is on the same side with the at least one of the ends of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Ohyama, Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano, Toshinari Kondo, Keiji Aota
  • Patent number: 7939982
    Abstract: A motor having a rotor including first outer surface segments providing uniform air gaps and second outer surface segments providing non-uniform air gaps. The rotor has an outer surface contour comprising a number of first outer surface segments defined by arcs having a first radius centered on a central longitudinal axis and a number of second outer surface segments defined by lines other than arcs having a first radius centered on a central longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Horst
  • Patent number: 7923881
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor core positioned adjacent the stator and rotatable about a longitudinal axis. The rotor core includes a plurality of bar apertures, a plurality of elongated flux barriers separate from the bar apertures and positioned radially inward of the bar apertures, and a plurality of magnet slots separate from the bar slots and positioned radially inward of a portion of the bar apertures. The electric machine also includes a plurality of magnets, each positioned in one of the magnet slots. A plurality of conductive bars are each positioned in one of the bar apertures and includes a first end and a second end. A first end ring is coupled to the first end of each of the bars and a second end ring is coupled to the second end of each of the bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: A.O. Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Dan M. Ionel, Stephen J. Dellinger, Alan E. Lesak, Jeremiah Mattingly
  • Patent number: 7919897
    Abstract: An axial gap type motor 10 includes: a rotor 11 having a rotor core 13, the rotor core 13 including: multiple main magnet pieces 41 respectively magnetized in a direction of the rotation axis O of the rotor, and multiple main magnet piece storing hole portions 15 respectively for holding associated main magnet pieces; and a pair of stators 12 to be mounted onto the rotor 11, wherein the rotor core 13 is structured by winding a tape-shaped magnetic plate 14, and includes a first winding layer and a second winding layer; and in portions of the first and second winding layers that are situated in the same phase from the center of rotation of the rotor core 13, the first winding layer includes an outside magnetic flux short preventive portions 62, and the second winding layer includes an outside connecting portions 61.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Tajima, Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7915776
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type electric rotary machine includes a stator including a stator core having teeth and slots, and a rotor provided with permanent magnets as magnet poles in a rotor core. A pole core portion which between each of the permanent magnets and an outer surface of the rotor core is provided with a plurality of pole slits. A region of the pole core portion is defined by concave portions provided on q-axes to be interpolars on both sides of the pole core portion, and thereby configured that a gap between the outer surface on the q-axis of the rotor core and an inner surface of the stator core is larger than a gap between the outer surface on the d-axis of the pole core portion and the inner surface of the stator, so that magnetic fluxes from the permanent magnet pass through the pole core portion concentrately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Takahata, Satoshi Kikuchi, Shinichi Wakui, Keiji Noma, Masaharu Senoo
  • Patent number: 7906882
    Abstract: Permanent magnets 52a1, 52a2 are inserted into magnet insert holes 51a1, 51a4 formed in a main magnetic pole 50A of a rotor 50. An outer circumferential surface of the rotor includes a first outer circumferential surface portion 50a which intersects with a d-axis and second outer circumferential surface portions 50da, 50ab which intersect with a q-axis. A radius R2 of curvature of the second outer circumferential surface portions 50da, 50ab is larger than a radius of curvature of the first outer circumferential surface portions 50a. Recesses 50a1, 50a2 are formed in the second outer circumferential surface portions 50da, 50ab and in a position to face end walls 51a2, 51a5 of the magnet insert holes 51a1, 51a4 which are adjacent to the outer circumferential surface of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Aichi Elec Co.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okuma, Shinji Doki, Mutsuo Tomita, Mitsuhiko Sato, Seiichi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7902712
    Abstract: A magnetic member with an annular outer periphery and an inner periphery includes first portions and second portions alternately disposed in its circumferential direction. The first portions and second portions are magnetically separated in the circumferential direction by gaps, which block magnetic fluxes from flowing in the circumferential direction between the first portion and second portion. The first portions respectively have holes extending almost in the circumferential direction. The gaps are provided at both ends of the holes in the circumferential direction between the outer periphery and inner periphery. An interior permanent magnet type rotor can be structured by inserting field magnets into the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 7902711
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet machine (“IPM machine”) of the type used, for example, with traction motors and hybrid electric vehicles, includes a rotor having a plurality of equal-sized (e.g., rectilinear) segmented ferrite magnets arranged in one or more layers. The magnets are inserted within rotor slots that are larger than the magnets themselves, such that one or more air gaps are formed adjacent to the magnets in each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Rolf Blissenbach, Khiet Le, Dang Dinh Dang, Jonathan Bird
  • Patent number: 7902710
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor having at least one pole pair, the at least one pole pair including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole having opposite polarities. The first magnetic pole may include a first inner radial permanent-magnet layer and a first outer radial permanent-magnet layer. The second magnetic pole may include a second inner radial permanent-magnet layer and a second outer radial permanent-magnet layer. An outer end of the first inner radial permanent-magnet layer and an outer end of the second inner radial permanent-magnet layer may be separated by an angle of between about 27 and about 55 electrical degrees. The electric machine may also include a stator having a stator core with an odd number of stator slots per pole pair of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., University of Wisconsin
    Inventors: Seok-Hee Han, Mustafa Kamil Guven, Thomas Merlin Jahns
  • Patent number: 7880357
    Abstract: A sintered magnet and a rotating machine equipped therewith are disclosed, which include: crystal grains of a ferromagnetic material consisting mainly of iron, and a fluoride compound or an oxyfluoride compound, containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal element, an alkaline earth metal element, and a rare earth element, the fluoride compound or the oxyfluoride compound being formed inside some of the crystal grains or in a part of a grain boundary part. The oxyfluoride compound or the fluoride compound contains carbon, and a grain boundary width of the ferromagnetic material is smaller than a grain boundary width of the ferromagnetic material in which the fluoride compound or the oxyfluoride compound is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takao Imagawa, Yuichi Satsu, Matahiro Komuro, Takashi Yasuhara, Yutaka Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 7880358
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electric machine has a stator provided with a plurality of windings, and a rotor in which magnets are disposed in slots formed in a rotor core along an outer circumference thereof. The rotor core is fixed on a rotary shaft rotating inside the stator, and one magnetic pole is constituted by each group of three or more of the magnets. A total angle occupied by the group of magnets constituting one magnetic pole is in the range of 150 to 165 degrees in terms of an electrical angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Satoshi Kikuchi, Fumio Jyoraku, Hideyuki Harada
  • Patent number: RE44037
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electric machine comprises a stator having stator windings wound round a stator iron core and a permanent magnet rotor having a plurality of inserted permanent magnets in which the polarity is alternately arranged in the peripheral direction in the rotor iron core. The rotor iron core of the permanent magnets is composed of magnetic pole pieces, auxiliary magnetic poles, and a stator yoke, and furthermore has concavities formed on the air gap face of the magnetic pole pieces of the rotor iron core of the permanent magnets, gently tilting from the central part of the magnetic poles to the end thereof. In a permanent magnet rotating electric machine, effects of iron loss are reduced, and an electric car using highly efficient permanent magnet rotating electric machine are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Masashi Kitamura, Noriaki Hino, Takashi Kobayashi, Shigeru Kakugawa, Takashi Yasuhara