Open Windings Patents (Class 310/202)
  • Patent number: 11855498
    Abstract: An electric motor comprises: a rotor having poles equaling a first number; and a stator having slots equaling a second number, the stator having stator windings formed by conductors wound in a wave pattern around the stator, wherein a third number of the conductors are located in each of the slots, wherein the conductors form three balanced parallel paths through the slots, each of the conductors in the three balanced parallel paths undergoing a same number of pitch turns, each of the pitch turns being either a standard pitch turn or a nonstandard pitch turn, the standard pitch turn involving wrapping around slots equaling the second number divided by the first number, the nonstandard pitch turn involving wrapping around more or fewer slots than the standard pitch turn, wherein each of the three balanced parallel paths forms a repeating pattern throughout the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Atieva, Inc.
    Inventors: Yateendra Deshpande, Vivek Meenakshi Sundaram, Emad Dlala
  • Patent number: 11418070
    Abstract: Phase coils include a first phase coil and a second phase coil, the phase coils are configured by connecting together end portions of the coil terminals of the first phase coil and the second phase coil that extend outward from identical radial positions in the slots axially outside the stator core so as to be radially outside a coil end group, and the coil terminals of the first phase coils of the phase coils of three phases include joint coil portions that extend outward from the slots within a pitch of one magnetic pole, are then bent so as to extend in an identical circumferential direction, and are placed in close proximity to the end portions of the coil terminals of the second phase coils that are intended for connection therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aida, Saki Shimada, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu
  • Patent number: 11323013
    Abstract: An electric work machine includes a brushless motor including a stator including a stator core, an electrical insulator located on the stator core, and at least one coil wound around the stator core with the electrical insulator in between, and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator, and an output unit drivable by the brushless motor. The stator core has a through-hole and/or a recess to lock rotation of the stator with a screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Kouda, Akira Naito, Hideki Abe
  • Patent number: 11323009
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine unit includes a rotating electric machine, a high heat generation circuit and a low heat generation circuit both of which are electrically connected with the rotating electric machine, a first cooler, a first-coolant supplier, a second cooler and a second-coolant supplier. The first cooler is configured to cool both the high heat generation circuit and the low heat generation circuit with a first coolant. The first-coolant supplier is configured to supply the first coolant to the first cooler. The second cooler is configured to cool the rotating electric machine with a second coolant. The second-coolant supplier is configured to supply the second coolant to the second cooler. The second-coolant supplier is formed integrally with a low heat generation circuit-cooling part of the first cooler. The second-coolant supplier includes a heat exchanger via which heat is exchanged between the first coolant and the second coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Okamoto, Hirofumi Kinjo, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11035214
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a power supply semi-trailer for electric drive fracturing equipment, including a combination of a gas turbine engine, a generator and a rectifying unit, the generator outputs a winding configuration and a voltage required for the rectifying units directly to obviate conventional rectifier transformer equipment. The rectifying unit is connected to the inversion unit through a common DC bus, so that the common DC bus can separately drive multiple inversion units, thus decreasing the wirings of power supply lines. A high voltage inversion unit is disposed on a gooseneck of the electric drive semi-trailer to optimize the spatial arrangement of equipment. The entire power supply equipment has a compact structure, occupies a small area, and is simple in wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuzhen Cui, Rikui Zhang, Dong Liu
  • Patent number: 11025106
    Abstract: A conducting wire includes an incoming portion, coil portions, an outgoing portion leading out of an armature, and circumferentially extending portions. The circumferentially extending portions include an alternately arranged portion extending alternately on first and second axial sides of circumferentially adjacent ones of teeth, and a passage line portion extending on a same axial side of circumferentially adjacent ones of the teeth. One to two rounds of the circumferentially extending portions extend along a core back. The passage line portion extends on a same axial side over two of the teeth which have at least one of the incoming portion and the outgoing portion located circumferentially therebetween, and is radially outside of at least one of the incoming portion and the outgoing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Sekii
  • Patent number: 10749396
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a three-phase even-numbered-pole two-layered armature winding housed in forty five slots per pole provided in a laminated iron core. Coil pieces corresponding to first and second parallel circuits are arranged in the first phase belt, coil pieces corresponding to fourth and fifth parallel circuits are arranged in the second phase belt, coil pieces corresponding to the third parallel circuit are arranged in the first and second phase belts, and the upper coil pieces and the lower coil pieces of each parallel circuit are placed in same-numbered positions from a pole center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi Ueda, Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Masashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9722467
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided armature windings of a rotating electrical machine, in which a 3-phase winding of two layers including upper and lower layers is constituted of phase belts having an electrical phase difference of 60° in between, pairs of upper coil pieces and lower coil pieces are contained in slots, the number of slots per pole per phase includes a fractional number, and a denominator thereof is an integral number greater than or equal to 4, wherein coil arrangement is carried out such that at least one coil piece in either of the upper or lower coil pieces included in two layers of upper and lower layers in one phase belt is replaced with a coil piece of an adjacent different phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kadek Fendy Sutrisna, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Masashi Okubo, Toshiyuki Aso, Takashi Ueda, Kazuma Tsujikawa, Hideyuki Hachiya, Daisuke Hiramatsu, Toru Otaka
  • Patent number: 9343938
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 9236775
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator and a rotor located in a rotatable manner relative to the stator via a gap. The stator includes a multi-phase stator winding that is held in a plurality of slots formed in the stator. The rotor includes at least one magnet section embedded therein so as to face the slots. The magnet section includes a plurality of axially laminated magnets with a skew angle which is an angle of a positional difference between the magnets. This skew angle ?s is set so as to satisfy ?s=k?/2 where ? is a slot pitch which is an angle between the slots, and k is a coefficient set based on: an arc ratio ?a being an angle covering an area in which magnetic flux radially flows from the magnetic section; and a slot factor S being a ratio of the slots relative to the magnet section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Masahiro Seguchi
  • Patent number: 9130428
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 9035525
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 8803397
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Publication number: 20140125187
    Abstract: In a stator having a stator core and phase windings, slots are formed in the stator core and each slot accommodates conductors in a layer structure from one end to the other end of the slot in a radial direction of the stator core. The phase windings in one phase have conductors accommodated in a first slot and a second slot which are adjacently formed in the stator core. An electrical connection between the conductors in a n-th layer and the conductors in a (n+1)-th layer includes that the conductors accommodated in the first slot are electrically connected together, the conductors accommodated in the second slot are electrically connected together, and the conductors accommodated in the first slot are electrically connected with the conductors accommodated in the second slot. This connection eliminates a phase difference in the first slot and the second slot in a distributed winding structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki SUZUKI, Masahiro SEGUCHI, Yuki TAKAHASHI, Shinsuke SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20140125186
    Abstract: In a stator having a stator core and three phase windings, slots are formed in the stator core. The phase winding are accommodated in layers, from one side to the other side in the corresponding slot along a radial direction of the stator core. The phase windings are arranged in a star-delta composite connection structure. The phase winding in each phase is comprised of conductors accommodated in a first slot and a second slot adjacently arranged in the stator core so that the conductor in the n-th layer is electrically connected to the conductor in the (n+1)-th layer, ascending order, per slot. Because each winding has the same length and no difference in electric potential occurs between the star connection and the delta connection, this structure suppress generation of operation noise and a circulating current through the stator core and prevents loss due to the circulating current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SEGUCHI, Hideaki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8536755
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 8531076
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes first and second rows of conductors arranged concentrically around an axis inside a steel core. Each conductor includes a linking end. The stator also includes a first dielectric shim ring arranged between the two rows of conductors. Each conductor of the first row is bent in either a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction relative to the axis and each conductor of the second row is bent in the opposite direction. The linking end of each conductor of the first row is attached to the linking end of an adjacent conductor of the second row after the conductors are bent. The first shim ring separates the first and second rows of conductors when the conductors are being bent, and is also at least partially disposed between the first and second rows of conductors when the linking ends are being attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sara A. Stabenow, Stephen R. Smith, Edward Panozzo, David F. Titmuss
  • Patent number: 8269387
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes an annular stator including a coil formed by winding a part of a coil wire around a stator core, and the coil wire includes the coil wound around stator teeth, a terminal portion drawn out from one end portion of the coil over a yoke portion, and a wiring drawn out from the other end portion of the coil over the yoke portion and connected to a terminal portion of another coil wire including another coil provided at a distance from the coil in a circumferential direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Eiji Yamada
  • Patent number: 8154166
    Abstract: A dual-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Patent number: 8069555
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a three-phase, four pole motor is provided utilizing a dual-layer winding insertion technique. The first and second winding layers are each comprised of the coil groups for six individual poles, two per phase. Within each layer, the two poles per phase are members of a pole pair. In one configuration, each winding layer is comprised of six concentric coil groups in which there is no coil overlap; alternately, each coil group may be comprised of five coils with either the first or second or both outermost coils of each group being double-turn coils; alternately, each coil group may be comprised of five coils with no coil doubling, although there are overlapping coils from different coil groups; alternately, each coil group may be comprised of five coils with no coil doubling and no overlap between different coil groups, although the coils within each coil group are completely lap wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Patent number: 8035263
    Abstract: An electric motor has a rotor (52) rotatable around a rotation axis (56) and has a stator (60) arranged around said rotor (52), which stator is equipped with poles (11? to 16?). Each pole has an individual winding (11 to 16), and the latter together form a winding arrangement (30) that serves to generate a rotating field. Arranged approximately concentrically with the rotation axis (56) is an arrangement having electrical connection elements (U, V, W, U?, V?, W?). The latter are equipped with mounting elements (34, V1, W1, U?1, V?1, 32, 36) to each of which an associated end of an individual winding is mechanically and electrically connected. A connection arrangement (40) has a plurality of conductors (42, 44, 46) each of which is connected, by means of a welded connection (155), to the connection elements of the stator in order to electrically interconnect them in a predetermined fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Kienzler, Ismail Altindis, Reimund Weisser, Jürgen Maier
  • Patent number: 8018113
    Abstract: A motor winding arrangement that is capable of delivering relatively flat torque over a wide range of speeds, thus achieving increasing power throughout its operating range, is provided. In a multi-phase, e.g., three-phase, motor utilizing the winding arrangement of the invention, each winding layer corresponds to one phase of the motor and occupies every slot of the stator. The poles for each winding layer consist of concentric and non-overlapping coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventor: Yifan Tang
  • Patent number: 8008829
    Abstract: In an armature, the upper and lower coil pieces in one half of the parallel circuits are located at the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 12th and 14th positions, and the upper and lower coil pieces in remaining half of the parallel circuits are located at the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 13th positions, when relative positions of the upper and lower coil pieces in each phase belt are indicated by positions counted in a direction separating away from a pole center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 7928625
    Abstract: Dynamoelectric device and stator bar therefor, where the stator bar includes a linear portion for positioning in a slot of a stator core, the slot extending in a radial direction relative to an axis of the stator, and an end arm portion having an involute-on-cone bend relative to the linear portion and an elongated cross-section that is substantially aligned with the radial direction of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: James Oldham Lambert
  • Patent number: 7834508
    Abstract: In an armature, the upper and lower coil pieces in the first and third parallel circuits are located at the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 10th and 12th positions, and the upper and lower coil pieces in the second and fourth parallel circuits are located at the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 9th and 11th positions, when relative positions of the upper and lower coil pieces in one of the first and second phase belts are indicated by positions counted in a direction separating away from a center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 7812497
    Abstract: A total number of windings in an armature is an even number. The windings are divided into a first winding group and a second winding group. The windings of the first winding group are arranged one after another at generally equal angular intervals without overlapping with each other. The windings of the second winding group are arranged one after another at generally equal angular intervals without overlapping with each other and are wound separately from the windings of the first winding group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Sugishima, Toshiyuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 7759835
    Abstract: In a stator for an electric machine and a method for manufacturing a winding for the stator of such an electric machine L-shaped wire segments having a rectangular cross-section are inserted into slots arranged around the stator The long leg of the L-shaped wire segment is then inserted, into or through, a respective slot and the wire segment is then bent into an S-shape resulting in a second short leg while reducing a length of the long leg. The first short leg of each one of a majority of the wire segments is then electrically connected to the first short leg of another one of the wire segments and the second short leg of each one of a majority of the wire segments is electrically connected to the second short leg of yet another one of the wire segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Robert Inderka, Franz Nietfeld, Jingchuan Li
  • Publication number: 20100127591
    Abstract: A stator for a multi-phase electric motor comprises a plurality of teeth for each phase. The windings on two teeth from one phase are formed from a single length of conductor. The windings on a first one of the teeth being formed at least in part from two sections of the conductor spaced apart along the length of the conductor, and the windings on a second one of the teeth being formed from an intermediate section of the conductor between the spaced apart sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Andrew Lee Court, Jeffrey Ronald Coles
  • Publication number: 20100001609
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact, high-power rotating electric machine by downsizing coil ends on a distributed-wound stator using rectangular wires in comparison with the conventional one or by enhancing coil heat radiation from the coil ends or slot insertion portions. A stator (110) comprises a stator core (112), and stator coils (114) inserted into stator slots (112S) formed between a plurality of stator teeth (112T) formed on the stator core, and wound around the stator teeth in the form of distributed winding. Each stator coil (114) includes a plurality of rectangular wires having insulating coating, and the plurality of rectangular wires are inserted into the one stator slot. The direction of arrangement of the plurality of rectangular wires in the stator slot is different from that of the plurality of rectangular wires at both coil ends outside the stator slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ishigami, Satoshi Kikuchi, Takashi Naganawa, Takashi Yasuhara, Yutaka Matsunobu
  • Publication number: 20090302792
    Abstract: In an AC rotating machine, a stator is provided with N-phase stator windings and located relative to the rotor. The N is an integer equal to or greater than 3, and the N-phase stator windings are arranged to be electrically isolated from each other. An inverter circuit is provided with first to N-th full-bridge inverters. Each of the first to N-th full-bridge inverters includes a first pair of series-connected switching elements and a second pair of series-connected switching elements. The first pair of series-connected switching elements and the second pair of series-connected switching elements are connected in parallel to each other. Each of the first to N-th full-bridge inverters is configured to individually apply a single-phase AC voltage to a corresponding one of the N-phase stator windings to thereby create a torque that rotates the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Osada, Shigeyuki Morimoto
  • Patent number: 7476997
    Abstract: A travelling field machine with a stator and a rotor which are separated by an air gap and each of which comprises at least one stator coil or one rotor coil, with the stator or the rotor, respectively, comprising a soft magnetic iron body with a stator or rotor back, in which spaced grooves are formed, generating teeth, and in each of the grooves several conductor bars of the stator coil or the rotor coil, respectively, are arranged in series comprising end connectors arranged at the faces of the stator or the rotor, respectively, which connect the conductor bars extending across at least one groove, with the conductor bars comprising conductor portions of different length projecting beyond the faces of the stator or rotor, respectively, and the end connectors being arranged in a stacked fashion in the axial direction at the faces of the stator or the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Compact Dynamics GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Gründl, Bernhard Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20080309173
    Abstract: In a motor, an insulator covering an armature core has a lid covering an end surface of the armature core. The lid has an inner ring disposed radially inside slots of the armature core and an outer ring disposed radially outside the slots. Each of a plurality of slot insulators inserted into the slots has a blocking portion at a position in the inner ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke MAKINO
  • Patent number: 7309939
    Abstract: The invention provides means of limiting maximum current conducted through windings of an electric machine having a rotor and a stator. By encouraging an appropriate leakage flux around a winding, a leak impedance can be achieved which may be used, according to the invention, to limit the maximum current in the winding as a matter of machine design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
  • Patent number: 6879077
    Abstract: A motor has a stator core having a plurality of salient poles and stator coils wound on the salient poles, respectively, each of the stator coils having a common side coil end part and a coil winding part. The common side coil end part of each of the stator coils extends radially outward from corresponding one of the coil winding parts into a region radially outside of the corresponding coil winding part of the corresponding stator coil. Then, the common side coil end part is bent to extend in the circumferential direction towards adjacent one of the salient poles in the circumferential direction, and connects electrically to a common side coil end part of adjacent one of the stator coils, wherein the common side coil end parts are joined to surround in a circular ring-shaped manner an entire outer circumference of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Otsuki, Masashi Takahashi, Takashi Ikegami
  • Patent number: 6515394
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coil assembly comprising at least two end coil pieces having a U-shaped end and an open end, the open end comprising a first end and a second end, the second end having a terminal length greater than the first end, and at least one middle coil piece is provided stacked between the end coil pieces having a U-shaped end and an open end, the open end comprising third ends having a terminal length equal to the first end, and at least two intermediate coil pieces each being separately stacked between the end coil piece and the intermediate coil piece having a U-shaped end and an open end, the open end comprising fourth ends having a terminal length shorter than the first and third ends with the first and third ends being connected to an adjacent fourth end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Ueda, Takashi Yasuhara, Yoshimi Mori, Yasuhiko Kimura, Yoshikazu Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 6369482
    Abstract: A generator armature bar support system includes in a temporary assembly state, an elongated armature bar having a bottom surface, a top surface and a pair of side walls. A spacer is then temporarily located on the top surface of the armature bar; and an elastomer stretched and wound about the armature bar and spacer along substantially the length of the armature bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Frederick John Rink, Jr., Robert John Nygard
  • Patent number: 6229241
    Abstract: A motor having a lap winding structure and a manufacturing method therefor, wherein inserts of two different coils are installed side by side in one slot of a stator in a circumferential direction of the stator. All the coils are inserted in slots in succession. Further, a stator having semi-closed type slots formed by protuberances oriented in different directions, is used to control a reduction in the magnetic flux at the inlet of a slot and also to prevent coils from coming off. In a motor having coils of a plurality of phases for generating a rotating magnetic field at a stator, the contact portion of the coil of the desired phase among the coils of the plurality of phases and a portion rising from a slot toward the axis of a core are aligned and disposed to have a shape which prevents them from interferring with end portions of the coils of other phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ishigami, Yukinori Taneda, Toshihiko Sakai, Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yuji Enomoto, Motoya Ito, Fumio Tajima, Suetaro Shibukawa, Masaharu Senoh, Osamu Koizumi
  • Patent number: 6011338
    Abstract: An electromechanical machine includes a stator fixed with respect to a housing structure and a rotor fixed with respect to a driven shaft. The stator includes a magnetically permeable core having a plurality of parallel winding slots containing driven windings. Coilheads are located at opposite axial ends of the magnetically permeable core where the windings turn to extend down a parallel winding slot. The motor is also equipped with an auxiliary winding arrangement to reduce capacitive coupling between the stator and rotor during operation. The auxiliary winding arrangement comprises grounded auxiliary windings located in the winding slots and the inside surface of the coilheads to interpose the driven windings and the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Industrial Company
    Inventors: Sidney Bell, David M. Byrd
  • Patent number: 5929549
    Abstract: An electric machine, such as a motor or a generator, comprises a stator having a plurality of stator poles defining a plurality of slots, a rotor positioned within the stator, and at least a two sets of stator windings wound on the stator poles and occupying said stator slots such that the boundary windings of each set of stator windings occupies a common slot. These boundary windings of each set of stator windings are non-overlapping and include insulation positioned between them. The sets of stator windings are wound on the stator poles in a single pitch winding configuration significantly reducing the number of wire crossings resulting. In particular, the endturns defined by the individual phase coils are non-intersecting. Such a machine provides continued operation under various fault conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Pacific Scientific Company
    Inventors: Bradley A. Trago, Robert E. Lordo
  • Patent number: 5723930
    Abstract: A winding method to accomplish a stator coil of a motor by use of the blank slot technique. The number of stator slot of the motor is not an integer multiple of the number of poles, thus the number of stator slots, to which each individual pole corresponds, is a fraction. Either to install stator coils in stator slots such that the winding locations are the same as those of using fraction slot winding method, but in this case, some of the stator slots filled with long pole-pitch coils to perform double-layer winding will be left empty and will not be embedded with in the stator coil, or let the two neighboring sides slots of the stator, which requires to stride over a ling pole-pitch to perform double-layer winding, leave half of the slot empty an embed only half of the slot with stator coil, therefore it ends up with a simple winding mode and attains the object of eliminating cogging phenomena of a motor. Both of these winding can result in phase balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shih-Chiang Ho, Ming-Chung Chang
  • Patent number: 4107587
    Abstract: A coreless three-phase DC motor comprising a coil type armature formed with insulated windings. The armature is of a disc- or cylindrical-shape and is set rotatably against a field magnet provided with 2n magnetic poles N and S magnetized in equal angular widths. On the surface of the armature there are 3n/2 three-phase armature coils, wherein the angular width of each of the coils is equal to the width of the field magnet pole, the coils of each phase are shifted by 180.degree. of electrical angle from each other, and all the armature coils are arranged at equal angular intervals and not superimposedly with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Inventors: Itsuki Ban, Manabu Shiraki
  • Patent number: 4013909
    Abstract: A pole-amplitude modulation type, speed-changing, 3-phase alternating current electric motor or generator having a composite stator winding comprising two 3-phase winding components. The 3-phase winding components are in themselves pole-amplitude modulation pole-changing, 3-phase windings, but may possess unsuitable electrical characteristics for practical use. The two components are combined the first component being wound on the first half of the stator and the second component being wound on the second half of the stator whereby the composite stator winding is given acceptable electrical characteristics, particularly in respect of harmonic content, or sub-harmonic content, of MMF waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1977
    Assignee: National Research Development Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Richard William Broadway, William Fong, Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe
  • Patent number: 3953753
    Abstract: A three-phase alternator, particularly suited for automotive use, having three stator winding sections each including a given number of coils, with each coil encompassing two stator poles and separated from the next coil in the section by an unwound pole. The rotor poles are of tapered construction, each having an effective width of two stator poles. In a preferred "brushless" construction, a D.C. excitation coil encompasses a tubular center leg of a stationary magnetic core of E-shaped cross-sectional configuration, with flux of one polarity going to the rotor partly through a shaft journalled in the center leg of the core and through a radial air gap of substantial surface area, and flux of the opposite polarity going to the rotor through a large-area radial air gap adjacent the outer flange of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Inventor: Edward L. Barrett
  • Patent number: RE30761
    Abstract: A coreless three-phase DC motor comprising a coil type armature formed with insulated windings. The armature is of a disc- or cylindrical-shape and is set rotatably against a field magnet provided with 2n magnetic poles N and S magnetized in equal angular widths. On the surface of the armature there are 3n/2 three-phase armature coils, wherein the angular width of each of the coils is equal to the width of the field magnet pole, the coils of each phase are shifted by 180.degree. of electrical angle from each other, and all the armature coils are arranged at equal angular intervals and not superimposedly with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Inventors: Itsuki Ban, Manabu Shiraki