Windings And Core Structure Patents (Class 310/179)
  • Patent number: 10693339
    Abstract: A coil support (28) is configured to include a coil support body part (281) that is made of resin and that has abutment surfaces (281c, 281d) to be in respective direct abutments with radial inner surfaces of adjoining field windings (24) and an insertion hole (281a) that is formed along a radial direction of a rotary shaft (21), a bolt (282) with a hexagonal hole that has a base end part fixed to a rotor yoke (22) and a tip end part projecting outward in a radial direction and that is inserted into the insertion hole (281a) of the coil support body part (281), and a disc spring (283) that is interposed between the rotor yoke (22) and the coil support body part (281) and that presses the coil support body part (281) toward the field windings (24), and to have a spot-faced part (281b) that is formed on a radial outside of the insertion hole (281a) to have a larger diameter than the insertion hole (281a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10658898
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a neutral ring includes connecting a cut-off neutral ring to an arc-shaped connection element. The method also includes filling an insulator between the cut-off neutral ring and a connection element. The neutral ring shunts the rotor coil in three phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Hayasaka, Masanori Matsumoto, Yasunori Otsuki, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Yoshihiro Yasui, Motonobu Iizuka, Masaaki Endou, Atsushi Fukunaga, Takeshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10637306
    Abstract: A stator for a simultaneous concentrated winding motor includes a core having 3×m teeth, and 3×m windings. The windings include at least a U1 winding and a U2 winding that belong to a U phase, a V1 winding and a V2 winding that belong to a V phase, and a W1 winding and a W2 winding that belong to a W phase. First lead wires of the U1 winding, the V1 winding, and the W1 winding extend, respectively, from the teeth on which the U1 winding, the V1 winding, and the W1 winding are arranged. First lead wires of the U2 winding, the V2 winding, and the W2 winding extend, respectively, from the teeth on which the U1 winding, the V1 winding, and the W1 winding are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisato Sumitomo, Kazuo Ida, Akinobu Ishizaki, Hidemi Tanji, Akio Mutou
  • Patent number: 10634517
    Abstract: A resolver stator includes a stator core including a ring-shaped stator core main body, and a number of tooth parts protruding radially inward from the stator core main body, an insulator disposed radially inward with respect to the stator core main body, a number of coils wound around the plurality of tooth parts respectively, and a connecting wire configured to electrically connect the coils to one another. The insulator includes an insulator main body having an insulator main body inner surface facing radially inward, and a protruding part protruding radially inward beyond the insulator main body inner surface. The connecting wire is opposed to the protruding part in an axial direction and also opposed to the insulator main body inner surface in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10594187
    Abstract: An epicyclic geartrain comprises a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears, and a ring gear. The plurality of planet gears is supported by a planet torque ring. The planet gears meshingly surround the sun gear, and the ring gear meshingly surrounds the planet gears. At least one of the sun gear, the plurality of planet gears, and the ring gear, is provided with a plurality of permanent magnet portions. Each of the plurality of magnet portions is arranged as a circumferential array. The planet torque ring is provided with at least one stator coil array, with the or each stator coil array being positioned in axial alignment with the or each corresponding plurality of permanent magnet portions as an axial flux electric motor generator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Chloe J Palmer
  • Patent number: 10566868
    Abstract: A rotor (2), especially for an electrical rotating machine, for example for an alternator, comprising an electric winding (100) formed by at least one electric wire (101), the wire comprising: at least one first portion (104) wound as at least one turn of the winding; a transverse section with at least one flat (115) along the first portion; at least one second portion (105) allowing the connection of the winding to an electric circuit; and an essentially circular transverse section along the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: David Margueritte, Henri Delianne, Pierre-Yves Bilteryst
  • Patent number: 10554085
    Abstract: Provided are: a rotating-electrical-machine stator in which the height of coil ends of a stator coil is suppressed, while interference between adjacent conductors at the coil ends is avoided; and a rotating electrical machine provided with same. The rotating-electrical-machine stator is provided with: a stator core provided with a plurality of slots; and a stator coil inserted into the slots. The rotating-electrical-machine stator is characterized in that: the stator coil is provided with at least two conductors which are disposed in the same layer as a first conductor, and which are inserted into the slots adjacent to the first conductor; and the shapes of coil protrusions protruding radially outwards are configured so as to form arcs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Fukuda, Hisaya Shimizu, Shinji Yamazaki, Kenichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10547227
    Abstract: An electromagnetic structure of an electric machine, in particular an adjustment drive of a motor vehicle, has a plurality of coils which are arranged to form a circular structure. Each of the coils has a coil winding and a connection. The coils are respectively electrically connected in pairs by way of a conductor bridge which is in contact with the respective connections. Each conductor bridge is arranged at an axial distance from the associated coils, each conductor bridge being arranged at least partially in a receiving element of a guiding plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Peter Hauck, Oliver Haupt, Maximilian Knopf, Stefan Portner
  • Patent number: 10541579
    Abstract: A wind power generator and stator iron core thereof, and stator iron core module; the iron core module (4) has an overall dimension consistent with a principle of the number of slots per pole per phase q=1; the iron core module (4) is provided with two three-phase winding units therein, an electrical angle formed by the two three-phase winding units is 30 degrees. The method of arranging winding in the stator iron core module (4) is changed to effectively reduce fifth and seventh winding harmonic magnetomotive forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yazhou Gao, Jing Xia, Xiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10532912
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes an annular winding, a stator core, and a rotor core. At least one of the stator core and the rotor core includes a first member and a second member. The first member and the second member are formed in annular shape. The first member and the second member overlap each other in an axial direction of the shaft. The first member includes a slit-shaped first insulation section. The first insulation section extends in the axial direction. The second member includes a slit-shaped second insulation section. The second insulation section extends in the axial direction. The first member and the second member are integrally connected. The first insulation section and the second insulation section are disposed at different positions in the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahashi, Yasuhito Ueda, Takahiro Kokubo
  • Patent number: 10523095
    Abstract: The invention essentially relates to a method for the production of a winding of a stator (15) comprising a body equipped with slots (28), comprising: a supply step consisting in supplying a winding unit with a bundle of conductors (37); and a pre-forming step consisting in moving the winding unit in relation to the bundle of conductors (37), such as to obtain a bundle of conductors (37) having, for each phase winding (E1-E6), at least two loop structures (39) and at least three segment structures (38), two of the segment structures (38) being positioned such that they can be disposed in the same slot (28) of the stator (15) and the two loop structures (39) connecting said two segment structures (38) stacked on the third segment structure (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Ludovic Darras, Vincent Ramet, Jean Duquesne, Denis Even, Larry Sapotille
  • Patent number: 10498211
    Abstract: A winding type permanent magnet coupling transmission device includes a permanent magnet rotor and a winding rotor that is coaxial with the permanent magnet rotor and capable of rotating relative to the permanent magnet rotor. An air gap exists between the permanent magnet rotor and the winding rotor. The winding rotor is connected to a control structure capable of regulating the current/voltage of the winding rotor. The control structure is capable of controlling the current or voltage of the winding rotor, so as to regulate the output torque of the transmission device, with no need to configure any corresponding mechanical execution mechanism. Therefore, the transmission device has a simple structure and small energy loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGSU MAGNET VALLEY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junfeng Xu, Fuxing Qi
  • Patent number: 10483819
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stator assembly for a motor. The stator assembly comprises a stator core having a plurality of teeth around each of which a stator coil is wound, a first insulator coupled to one side of the stator core to provide insulation between one tooth and an adjacent tooth, a second insulator coupled to the other side of the stator core to provide insulation between one tooth and an adjacent tooth, and a three-phase terminal inserted between the stator core and the second insulator and protruded partially to the outside of the second insulator to be electrically connected to an inverter. According to the present invention, there are advantageous effects that since the three-phase terminal is assembled between insulators, breakaway and breakage of the three-phase terminal can be prevented and that insulation effect and assembly capability thereof are enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Ho Bin Im, Eun Seok Kang, Sang Hun Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Hee Kwon Park, Seong Kook Cho, Kyung Hun Jung
  • Patent number: 10476332
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electrodynamic machine includes a lamination section with rotor laminations formed to define annular arrays of axial vents and rotor slots, with rotor conductor bars being disposed in the rotor slots, an end connector supported by the rotor conductor bars, wherein an axial space is formed between the end connector and the lamination section, and an annular guiding element arranged in the axial space between the end connector and the lamination section for guiding a cooling fluid flow in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas G. Lang
  • Patent number: 10476356
    Abstract: Provided is an auxiliary wye ring configured for supplemental attachment to a deployed generator. The generator includes a rotor and windings extending circumferentially around the rotor. The auxiliary wye ring includes connection points for coupling to an original wye ring attached to the deployed generator prior to deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Thiago Arouca Toledo, Robert Duarte Barbosa, Waldemar Joaquim Pereira
  • Patent number: 10476337
    Abstract: A stator that includes an annular stator core having a plurality of slots and a plurality of coils attached to the stator core, the plurality of coils each including a main body that is inserted in the plurality of slots and includes two slot housed portions and coil end portions including oblique portions extending obliquely with respect to the axial direction, a radially first side end portion formed from one of the slot housed portions, and a radially second side end portion formed from the other one of the slot housed portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Shingo Hashimoto, Shingo Sato
  • Patent number: 10476338
    Abstract: A stator for an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core which has plural slots; and segmented coils of a plurality of phases, wherein: the stator core is provided with a base plate at least one side thereof in an axial direction; the segmented coils of the plurality of phases include plural slot coils which are individually disposed in the plural slots of the stator core and which extend substantially linearly, and plural connection coils which are individually disposed in the base plate and which make up bridge portions by connecting the slot coils of a same phase together; the connection coil is accommodated in a connection coil accommodating groove formed on a front surface of the base plate; and the base plate is provided with a communication portion on an outer circumferential surface thereof for communicating with the connection coil accommodating groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10468955
    Abstract: An axial flux brushless permanent magnet electrical machine having a stator and at least one rotor. The rotor includes a Halbach array of magnets with at least four magnets per magnetic cycle. The rotor magnets are contained within pockets in the rotor. The pockets are formed with magnet pocket walls being radial walls, active surface walls, and/or inactive surface walls where the walls retain the magnets within the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Richard Ricci, Jonathan Gordon Sugar, Bradley Evan Paden, David Brian Paden
  • Patent number: 10468918
    Abstract: A receiving antenna of a wireless power receiving device wirelessly charging electric power according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate, a soft magnetic layer stacked on the substrate, and a receiving coil configured to receive electromagnetic energy emitted from a wireless power transmission device, wound in parallel with a plane of the soft magnetic layer, and formed inside of the soft magnetic layer, and an insulating layer is formed between the soft magnetic layer and the receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Bae, Donchul Choi, Soon Young Hyun
  • Patent number: 10462575
    Abstract: A voice coil wire, a voice coil wound by the voice coil wire, and a loudspeaker provided with the voice coil, which relate to the technical field of electro acoustic products. The voice coil wire comprises a conductor layer having an electric conduction effect and an insulation layer surrounding an outer side of the conductor layer. The cross-section of the voice coil wire is a hexagon, and the side lengths of the hexagon are equal. The voice coil wire, the voice coil wound by the voice coil wire, and the loudspeaker provided with the voice coil of the application can solve the technical problems in the prior art such as a low volume ratio of the voice coil and a complicated winding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: GoerTek Inc.
    Inventors: Zongjun Mu, Minghui Shao
  • Patent number: 10454322
    Abstract: The heat dissipation of a coil of a stator is enhanced. A stator of a dynamo-electric machine or a dynamo-electric machine according to the present invention includes: a stator core in which a plurality of slots arranged in the circumferential direction are formed; and a stator coil with an insulating film inserted in the slots in the stator core. The stator coil is composed of a first-layer segment to a fourth-layer segment each of which is formed by arranging a plurality of segment coils in the circumferential direction and which are arranged from the inner radius side to the outer radius side in the radial direction. The first-layer segment and the second-layer segment are displaced from each other by a first amount of displacement in the circumferential direction and connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10447184
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electrical machine in which torque ripple can be decreased at the time of one-side electrical current supply. A motor includes a stator coil constituted by concentrated windings arranged to teeth where an integer N?2. The stator coil includes first and second winding units and each of which is constituted by windings and which are independent from each other, the windings constituting the first winding unit are arranged in three teeth groups, each of which includes adjacent teeth and which are provided at 120-degree pitches in terms of mechanical angle, and the windings constituting the second winding unit are arranged in teeth which are the teeth not included in the three teeth groups. That is, the windings constituting the second winding unit are also arranged in three teeth groups, which are provided at 120-degree pitches in terms of mechanical angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanazawa, Kenji Nakayama, Hideyuki Hara
  • Patent number: 10411573
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous machine comprises a rotor and a stator for holding at least one first stator winding and a second stator winding which is electrically insulated from said first stator winding. The second stator winding has a smaller conductor cross section and a larger number of turns than the first stator winding, wherein a first operating voltage is provided for motor operation of the first stator winding and a second operating voltage is provided for motor operation of the second stator winding. The second operating voltage has a higher rated voltage than a rated voltage of the first operating voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Stauder, Mathias Hochheim, Timo Sauerwald
  • Patent number: 10401009
    Abstract: A method and system for a passive headset with dynamically controlled LEDs, where the method comprises, in a passive headset comprising speakers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and LED driver circuitry: receiving an electrical signal that includes an audio signal and an LED control signal, filtering out the LED control signal from the received electrical signal and communicating a resulting output audio signal to the speakers, filtering out the audio signal from the received electrical signal and communicating a resulting output LED control signal to the LED driver circuitry, generating a bias voltage for each of the one or more LEDs utilizing the LED driver circuitry and the output LED control signal, and configuring a light output of the LED utilizing the generated bias voltage. The amplifier may include a mixer that sums an audio signal with a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Kettering, Christopher Church
  • Patent number: 10404124
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator including: a stator core; and an armature winding that is mounted to the stator core. The armature winding includes by a plurality of identical-phase winding portions in which identical-phase coil portions among coil portions in which conducting wires are wound in concentration onto respective teeth are connected together into a series circuit by crossover wires, and that also have lead wires at two end portions. Each of the lead wires of each of the identical-phase winding portions is led out in a first axial direction of the rotor from coil portions that have identical phase, that are disposed to be adjacent in a circumferential direction of the stator core; and all of the crossover wires of each of the identical-phase winding portions are led out in a second axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Yu Hirotani, Masatsugu Nakano, Kazumasa Ito, Kodai Okazaki, Koji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10404123
    Abstract: A stator is applied in an electrical motor. The stator includes a hollow iron core and a plurality of coil windings. The hollow iron core has two opposite surfaces and a plurality of accommodating spaces communicated with the surfaces. The accommodating spaces are arranged in an annular pattern. Each of the coil windings includes a plurality of wires winded via the accommodating spaces. Portions of the wires of the coil windings located in the accommodating spaces are radially concentrically arranged to form a plurality of winding layers. In at least one of the accommodating spaces, a wire cross-sectional area of the wire of the innermost one of the winding layers is smaller than a wire cross-sectional area of the wire of the outermost one of the winding layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hong-Cheng Sheu, Hsing-Cheng Lin, Chia-Hsing Chien
  • Patent number: 10396639
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil of an electrical machine includes providing a laminated core having a first and a second slot, and inserting a first winding segment in the first slot to a first region having a first end portion and a second winding segment in the second slot to a second area having a second end portion. The method includes adhering the first end portion by inserting in a first recess a bending device and by positioning of a retaining element into a locking position in the first recess, and holding the second end portion by inserting in a second recess of the bender. The method includes bending the first and the second range in a bending direction to a first bending angle. The method also includes releasing the first end portion, and turning the second region in the bending direction to a second bending angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CPT Group GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Radtke, Mario Weseler, Tassilo Gellermann
  • Patent number: 10377498
    Abstract: An aircraft, an aircraft engine and a corresponding method provide for anti-icing based upon energy provided by a fan assembly of the aircraft engine, such as by rotation of a low pressure shaft of the fan assembly. The aircraft includes an aircraft body having wings and an aircraft engine carried by the aircraft body. The aircraft engine includes a core gas turbine engine and a fan assembly coupled to the core gas turbine engine. The fan assembly may include a fan, a low pressure turbine and a low pressure shaft connecting the fan and the low pressure turbine. The aircraft engine also includes an electric anti-icing system that has a variable frequency generator driven by the fan assembly, and one or more resistive heaters carried by the wings. The variable frequency generator is configured to provide electrical energy to the one or more resistive heaters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Steve G. Mackin
  • Patent number: 10381893
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a rotor; a stator that includes: an annular stator core that is disposed so as to surround the rotor; and a plurality of concentrated winding coils that are wound onto the stator core; a holder that includes an annular holder portion in which a groove is formed on one surface so as to extend circumferentially, the holder being disposed on a first axial end of the stator such that a second surface of the holder portion is oriented toward the stator; and a plurality of connecting terminals that are held by the holder, coil terminals of the plurality of concentrated winding coils each extending outward from the concentrated winding coils, being led around circumferentially through the groove, and being connected to connecting terminals that are subject to connection therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Saki, Yasuhiro Yokota
  • Patent number: 10355570
    Abstract: In the outer rotor-type axial gap brushless motor of the present invention, each of a plurality of coils provided to a stator is constituted by winding a band-shaped conductor member via an insulating member such that the width direction of the conductor member runs along the axial direction of the coil, and each coil has a through passage which penetrates in the axial direction of the coil and which is included between prescribed turns in a portion of the coil that corresponds to the outer side in the radial direction of the stator relative to a core portion of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Hiroaki Kawai, Koji Inoue, Takashi Hiekata, Kazuhide Sekiyama
  • Patent number: 10355539
    Abstract: A method for producing an annular active part of an electric machine, where the active part has ring segment-shaped sections with grooves for receiving electric conductors, an electric machine with the ring segment-shaped section, a mill with the electric machine, and a service method for such an electric machine or such a mill, and where the goal is to assembly the electric machine inexpensively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Hartmann, Horst Kuemmlee, Axel Moehle, Peter Petereit, Marian Rakowicz, Kurt Tischler
  • Patent number: 10340822
    Abstract: A motor control system includes an electric motor and inverter. The electric motor includes a stator, rotor, and winding structure. The stator includes an iron core with a plurality of slots formed therein along a radial direction of the stator. The winding structure has a plurality of hairpin wires with pins disposed in the slots. The winding structure is configured to provide a plurality of phase windings and each phase winding includes a plurality of motor windings. The inverter includes a switching controller configured to control the turning-on and turning-off of the motor windings of each phase winding of the winding structure. When the electric motor operates in a high-speed mode, the switching controller controls the turning-on and turning-off of the motor windings of each phase winding such that a number of the phase windings turned-on is ? less than a number of all the phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong-Cheng Sheu, Chien-Yu Lai, I-Wen Tsai
  • Patent number: 10328567
    Abstract: A power tool motor is provided including a stator assembly and a rotor assembly rotatably disposed within the stator assembly. The stator assembly includes: a generally-cylindrical lamination stack having a stator ring and stator teeth extending radially inwardly towards a center bore arranged to receive the rotor assembly therein; an end insulator disposed at an and of the lamination stack and having an outer ring and teeth portions extending radially inwardly from the outer ring towards a center of the end insulator; and stator windings wound around the stator teeth and the teeth portion of the end insulator. A generally cylindrical seal member is disposed to interface with an end of the stator, which includes a mating surface having indents configured to mate with ends of the stator windings or ends of the teeth portion of the end insulator to substantially seal respective gaps therebetween from entry of workpiece particulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Craig A. Oktavec, David J. Smith, Jarrett A. Dunston, Andrew M. Palich, Michael R. Marjomaa, Kevin L. Pulley
  • Patent number: 10323654
    Abstract: An electrically driven pump includes a first housing and a second housing, and the first housing and the second housing are fixed to form an impeller chamber for receiving an impeller. The second housing and a rear housing are fixed to form a first receiving chamber for receiving a motor assembly; and the motor assembly includes a stator and a rotor, the rotor is arranged in an inner cavity enclosed by the stator, and the rotor drives the impeller to rotate. An electronic control unit is cooperated with the motor assembly, and the electronic control unit controls the operation of the motor assembly. The electrically driven pump includes a cooling passage for accommodating a working medium, and the working medium in the cooling passage may exchange heat with the electronic control unit, thereby facilitating improving the service life of the electrically driven pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rongrong Zhang, Junfeng Bao, Chuliang Shi, Hongmin Song, Junchao Zhang, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10320273
    Abstract: A brush-commutated direct-current motor comprises a stator with a plurality of exciter poles, a rotor with a plurality of pole teeth, which is rotatable relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, grooves arranged between the pole teeth, and coil windings arranged on the pole teeth and a commutator which is arranged on the rotor and a plurality of lamellae to which the coil windings are connected. For manufacturing such direct-current motor the coil windings are arranged on the pole teeth in winding cycles, in each of which a coil winding is wound onto each pole tooth. It is provided that on each pole tooth a first coil winding wound around the pole tooth in a first winding direction and a second coil winding wound around the pole tooth in a second winding direction opposite to the first winding direction are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co, Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Akram Ben Helal, Walter Roeder, Norbert Heim, Johannes Bartoschek
  • Patent number: 10320246
    Abstract: A stator made from a ribbon of metal having multiple layers of slit metal, and motors made therefrom are described. A ribbon having multiple layers of metal is formed into a stator such as by flattening or pleating the ribbon to form each pole of a stator having a plurality of stator teeth, or poles. The stator formed from the metal ribbon may be configured into any suitable type of motor, such as an axial transverse flu motor. A magnetic flu return may also be made out of metal ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventor: David Calley
  • Patent number: 10284034
    Abstract: A U-phase winding includes four winding portions connected in series between a neutral point and a U-phase input end. A V-phase winding includes four winding portions connected in series between the neutral point and a V-phase input end. A W-phase winding includes four winding portions connected in series between the neutral point and a W-phase input end. These winding portions are arranged annularly around a predetermined location. Directions in which these winding portions are each wound from a first winding end to a second winding end are the same as viewed from the predetermined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Nakamasu, Hirokazu Fujii, Junichi Satou, Tatsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10284030
    Abstract: A permanent magnet embedded electric motor includes a stator core disposed inside the frame and having a back yoke and a plurality of magnetic pole teeth; a rotor disposed on an inner diameter side of the plurality of magnetic pole teeth; and compression sections in which compression stress higher than compression stress occurring in the back yoke due to pressing force generated between the frame and the back yoke occurs. A compression section group having a set of two or more compression sections and of the plurality of compression sections is disposed on an outer circumferential section of the stator core. A sum of the rotating direction widths of the plurality of compression sections constituting the compression section group is smaller than a radial direction thickness of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 10277085
    Abstract: A supercharging apparatus (20) for a combustion engine (21) having an electrically drivable compressor (1), which has a compressor housing (2) in which a compressor wheel (3) is arranged, which compressor wheel is fastened on one end (4) of a rotor shaft (5), and which has a compressor housing rear wall (6), which is arranged behind the compressor wheel (3) and closes the compressor housing (2); an electric motor (7); and a stator winding (12), which has a line (21) formed from a multiplicity of litz wires (22, 23, 24). The litz wires (22, 23, 24) of the line (21) have a first degree of twisting in an end winding region (25) of the stator winding (12) and have a second degree of twisting in a magnetically active section (I, II, III, IV). The first degree of twisting is higher than the second degree of twisting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Dietmar Metz
  • Patent number: 10277086
    Abstract: Rotor windings for a thermo pump-cooled generator have an internally formed cooling passage having a cooling inlet on a radial underside of the motor end winding portion and a cooling outlet on a radial upper side of the axial portion that is oriented within the generator air gap. The cooling passage in the rotor winding exhausts air from end winding portions that are circumscribed by a generator retaining ring into the generator air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Michael D. Garmon, Raul Ricardo Rico
  • Patent number: 10236754
    Abstract: Provided is a stator of a rotary electric machine in which a bonding portion of ends of coil segments is formed at a coil end of the stator without being inflated toward the opposite side to a stator core, and the coil end can be minimized in an axial direction. The stator of the rotary electric machine includes a stator core (10) having a plurality of slots and a coil segment (30) which is disposed in the stator core to form a stator winding (3). The ends of the coil segments are overlapped in the axial direction, and bonded through the bonding portion. The bonding portion is formed in a shape such that the bonding portion is melted and flows down from the end (6a) of the coil segment on the opposite side to the stator core toward the end (5a) of the coil segment on a side near the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Baba, Kenichi Nakayama, Manabu Oshida, Shin Onose
  • Patent number: 10177621
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kunihiro, Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Atsushi Fukunaga, Yasunori Otsuki, Masakatsu Sato, Masanori Matsumoto, Takeshi Nakayama, Masaaki Endo, Yoshihiro Yasui, Yasushi Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 10164491
    Abstract: Winding bodies are produced by repeatedly winding a ?-shaped coil pattern that is formed by inserting the conductor wire sequentially into a second slot, a first slot, a second slot, and a third slot, so as to alternate an axial direction of insertion into the first slot, the second slot, and the third slot, for two turns in a radial direction, and are configured such that a plurality of rectilinear portions that are respectively inserted into the first slot, the second slot, and the third slot are linked continuously by coil end portions, and a liquid coolant is supplied to a coil end that is constituted by the coil end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Horii, Atsushi Sakaue, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10153673
    Abstract: Bridge portions forming coil end portions, at both ends in an axial direction, of a stator of the rotating electrical machine according to the present invention are configured coaxially about an axis of the stator; at least one bridge portion of the bridge portions of each coil at both ends in the axial direction is located outward of an inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a gap is present between an end surface of a stator core in the axial direction and each bridge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto, Koji Kawamura, Sachiko Kawasaki, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 10141805
    Abstract: Designs and method of construction for planar stators useable inter alia for axial air-gap electric machines are provided. In some embodiments these designs make highly efficient use of the space occupied by the stator, substantially filling most of its volume with active conductors. Some embodiments comprise at least one flexible conductor member (e.g. a flat cable) periodically bent by about 180° to form both external and internal peripheries of a two-layer planar stator. In some embodiments disk-like or ring-like members are used to shape and/or to secure the flexible conductor. In some embodiments adhesive members and/or encapsulating and/or potting of conductive elements provide solidity and rigidity of the stator(s). In some embodiments a plurality of planar stators are interleaved with a plurality of planar rotors, producing an efficient system electrical motor and/or generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: ALBUS Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Alexander Sromin
  • Patent number: 10128724
    Abstract: An electromagnetic machine (100) has two first elements, each one having: at least one first electrically conductive track (101) in the form of a crenellated annular line able to form a first plurality of electromagnetic circuits (102) able to interact with at least one magnetic element of the electromagnetic machine; at least one second electrically conductive track (103) arranged in the form of a crenellated annular line able to form a second plurality of electromagnetic circuits (104) able to interact with at least one magnetic element of the electromagnetic machine, said second track (103) being formed along said corresponding first track (101) and such that the circuits (104) of the second plurality of electromagnetic circuits are each disposed between two successive circuits (102) of the first plurality of electromagnetic circuits. A second element provided with at least one magnetic element is disposed between the two first elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAVE INNOVATIONS
    Inventor: Bernard Perriere
  • Patent number: 10116179
    Abstract: In a three-phase AC motor, when 2P represents the number of poles of a rotor and N represents the number of slots for inserting windings of a stator therethrough, the division of N by P is not an integer. When X represents the quotient of the division of N by 2P, the stator includes a first annular winding portion made of one coil wound by wave winding at a slot pitch of X or X+1 through the slots, a second annular winding portion wound in the same slot pitch as the first annular winding portion in such a position as not to completely overlap the first annular winding portion, and a plurality of third winding portions each made of the winding wound around the two slots. The first and second annular winding portions and the plurality of third winding portions are connected in series on a phase-by-phase basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Ito
  • Patent number: 10110082
    Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided in the present disclosure. The permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor comprises a rotating shaft and a cylindrical magnet surrounding the rotating shaft, the stator comprises a base, a cylindrical core received in the base and surrounding the magnet and coil windings assembled with the core, the coil windings are symmetrical about the center axis of the core, the coil winding comprises a plurality of coils inserted into the core, each coil comprises a body part and extended parts respectively extended from two ends of the body part, a plurality of body parts are superposed and disposed in the core, a plurality of extended parts are respectively extended in the radial direction of the core and fixed on two end faces of the core, and the plurality of extended parts are partially superposed and distributed in a step shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: linZhen Li, ZhuMing Chu
  • Patent number: 10097058
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, an armature core includes a plurality of magnetic pole teeth and slots are formed between the magnetic pole teeth. An armature coil group includes a plurality of armature coils each including a pair of coil sides arranged in the slots, which are different from one another, and coil ends connecting the pair of coil sides. The armature coil group includes, as the armature coils, a plurality of base coils, of which one coil side is arranged in an upper opening of the slot and the other coil side is arranged in a lower opening of the slot, upper layer coils, of which both one coil side and the other coil side are arranged in an upper opening of the slot, and lower layer coils, of which both one coil side and the other coil side are arranged in the lower opening of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Umeda, Akira Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10075039
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a weld formed by welding end portions of a pair of electric conductors for forming a coil and a weld-insulating member that covers, at least, a surface of the weld. The weld has an uneven portion formed on at least part of the surface thereof. The uneven portion is constituted of a plurality of annular recesses and a plurality of annular protrusions. The annular recesses are formed alternately and continuously with the annular protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuo Ishizuka, Hiroshi Kaneiwa, Keiji Kondou, Hiromitsu Asai