Abstract: A wedge for securing windings in a slot in the rotor poles of a rotor core of an electrical machine includes an elongate wedge body extending in an axial direction along a longitudinal axis. The wedge body includes layers perpendicular to the axial direction. The layers vary in electrical conductivity from layer to layer to inhibit eddy currents within the wedge body.

Abstract: A method for generating electrical power may include the steps of rotating a rotor of a generator at a speed in excess of about 12,000 revolutions per minute (rpm) to about 25,000 rpm and producing power with the generator at a rate in excess of about 800 kilowatts (kW). The generator has a power/weight ratio no smaller than about 3 kW/lbs. A rotor is cooled with cooling oil internally circulated through the rotor of the generator so that contact of cooling oil with external surfaces of the rotor may be precluded. The stator is also cooled with oil that is prevented from contacting the external surfaces of the rotor. Pressurized airflow may be produced in a gap between the rotor and a stator of the generator to preclude entry of cooling oil into the gap.

Abstract: A product comprising a stator core having a stator base portion and a plurality of stator teeth extending from the stator base portion in a radially inward direction from the stator base portion, wherein adjacent stator teeth define, at least in part, a stator slot therebetween, and a stator slot closer having a portion for closing an associated stator slot.

Abstract: The present invention provides a housing including a teeth support part formed to protrude from the inner bottom surface thereof so as to come into contact with the end surfaces of stator teeth and support the same, and thus provides an advantageous effect of preventing the generation of cogging torque, which can occur because of the non-uniform assembly of a stator.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a laminate stack having a plurality of slots open towards an air gap between the stator and a rotor of the electric machine. A winding includes coils which have turns that pass through the slots of the laminate stack. The turns of the coils are electrically insulated the within the slots from each other and from the laminate stack by a ceramic material.

Abstract: A stator includes blocks formed by integrating laminated steel plates by crimping. The stator is formed by overlaying a plurality of the blocks in an axial direction of the stator, and is formed such that in a plane that a pair of the blocks face each other, at least one crimping position of one of the blocks and a crimping position of the other of the blocks do not overlap with each other, when the stator is viewed from the axial direction.

Abstract: An electrical machine includes a first active part and a second active part. Both the first active part and the second active part have a plurality of laminated sub-cores, with each laminated sub-core having a plurality of individual laminations. Each lamination is defined by an axial width. The laminated sub-cores are mutually spaced in an axial direction such that a respective radial cooling slot is formed between two adjacent laminated sub-cores. The radial cooling slots in the first active part are offset in the axial direction in relation to one another in comparison to the radial cooling slots in the second active part, and the sum of the axial widths of all individual laminations in the first active part corresponds to the sum of the axial widths of all individual laminations in the second active part.

Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of winding sections circumferentially disposed at an equal interval; a spacer inserted into a space between the winding sections; and a resin section filling the space into which the spacer is inserted.

Abstract: A system and method for providing power to independent movers traveling along a track in a motion control system without requiring a fixed connection between the mover and a power source external to the mover. In one embodiment, a sliding transformer transfers power between the track and each mover. In another embodiment, an optical transmitter transfers power between the track and an optical receiver mounted on each mover. In yet another embodiment, a generator includes a drive wheel engaging the track as each mover travels along the track. A power converter on the mover receives the power generated on and/or transmitted to the mover to control an actuator or a sensor mounted on the mover or to activate drive coils mounted on the mover to interact with magnets mounted along the track and, thereby, control motion of each mover.

Abstract: A rotor assembly includes: coil turns each of which has a plurality of conductors stacked in a multilayer structure and includes a linear part interposed between teeth of a rotor body and formed in a longitudinal direction with ducts through which cooling fluid moves, and a curved part extending from the linear part and disposed in an arc shape on an outer circumferential surface of a spindle; and a turn insulator interposed between the conductors, and insulating the conductors from each other. The curved part may include a wave-shaped cooling path, which is formed in a longitudinal direction in a planar surface thereof, communicates with the ducts, and guides the cooling fluid to the ducts. Furthermore, through holes each of which is shorter than the duct are formed in the turn insulator at a position corresponding to the duct.

Abstract: An insulator for insulating a coil that is wound around a tooth of a stator core from the stator core includes: an axial wall that opposes an axial end surface of the tooth in a state of being assembled to the tooth; and a circumferential wall that is integrally provided with the axial wall and opposes a circumferential-side surface of the tooth. The circumferential wall that is located between the tooth and the coil is constructed of an insulating sheet that is thinner than the axial wall and has foamability.

Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes a stator core including a stack of a plurality of steel sheets 36; a stator coil wound around teeth of the stator core; and a plurality of insulators interposed between the stator core and the stator coil. Each of the insulators has at least one engagement tab projecting toward a side surface of a tooth. Each of the steel sheets 36 has a plurality of tooth portions 40 that form the teeth when the steel sheets 36 are stacked. Each of some of the plurality of tooth portions 40 has a notch 42 formed on a side surface of the tooth portion 40, the notches 42 forming an engagement recess in which the engagement tab is hooked when the steel sheets 36 are stacked. The stator core is formed by rotating and stacking the plurality of steel sheets 36.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic inspection probe assembly comprising a water wedge and a flexible probe array assembly having a flexible acoustic module. The wedge is machined to match a test surface to be inspected and is configured to shape the acoustic module so that the active surface of the acoustic module is parallel to the test surface. Different wedges may be machined to match different test surfaces, but the same flexible probe array assembly may be used for all such surfaces.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine includes: assembling an insulator and a stator coil to a tooth; and after assembling, pouring a liquid adhesive into an opening of the insulator from an outer side of the stator coil so as to fix the stator coil to a stator core.

Abstract: A rotor assembly (40) for an electric machine including a core (42) having at least one post (44) about which a winding may be wound, and a cap (52) coupled to the post (44) and having a portion overlying a winding (46), wherein the cap (52) comprises a plurality of laminations and the core (42) does not comprise a plurality of laminations.

Abstract: A stator connected to a power supply includes a plurality of wound segment assemblies, each wound segment assembly comprising a segmented corepack stack with a phase winding wound around said segmented corepack stack and a power printed circuit board assembly comprising a printed circuit board (PCB). The stator also includes phase wires connected to said phase winding, said phase wires being connected to said PCB and said PCB being connected to said power supply.

Abstract: A tooth groove is provided at a border portion between a tooth body portion and a protrusion. The angle between a tooth body portion lateral face which is a lateral face in the circumferential direction of the tooth body portion and a tooth body portion stop portion which is a face, of the tooth groove, continued from the tooth body portion lateral face is the right angle or an acute angle. The protrusion is rotated toward the outer side in the circumferential direction, to bring a protrusion stop portion into close contact with the tooth body portion stop portion, the protrusion stop portion being an outer-circumferential-side lateral face of the protrusion, thereby forming a shoe in a tooth.

Abstract: A stator includes an annular stator core, a stator winding, and an insulating sheet member. In the stator core, slots are circumferentially arrayed. The stator winding includes conductor segments having oblique portions formed by open end portions being circumferentially twisted. The open end portions are inserted into the slots from one of two axial-direction sides and extend towards another one. The insulating sheet member is interposed between an inner wall surface of the slot and the conductor segment. The insulating sheet member is rolled into a cylindrical shape along the inner wall surface of the slot, and includes an overlapping portion and a slack portion. In the overlapping portion, two circumferential-direction end portions overlap each other. The overlapping portion is disposed on one of two radial-direction sides of each of the slots. The slack portion is disposed on another one of two radial-direction sides of each of the slots.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rotor and/or a stator of a dynamoelectric rotary machine by means of the following steps: —producing pre-formed coils from an integral electrically conductive material or pre-insulated or coated electrically conductive wires, —fixing spacers to the pre-formed coil at predefinable intervals, —inserting the pre-formed coil, which is provided with spacers, into slots in a laminated core of a stator or rotor, —making contact with the individual pre-formed coils to form groups of coils and forming a winding system of a rotor and/or stator in accordance with a predefined circuit plan, —insulating the pre-formed coils or the winding system in the slots by complete encapsulation, in particular by complete vacuum encapsulation.

Abstract: An armature provided with: plural core configuration members that configure an armature core and are segmented from each other on progression along the circumferential direction of the armature core; plural insulators that each include plural insulating portions mounted to the core configuration members and a coupling portion that couples the plural insulating portions together; plural windings that respectively include plural winding portions, wound on the core configuration members with the insulating portions interposed between the winding portions and the core configuration members, and a crossing wire that connects the plural winding portions together; a fitting portion that couples together adjacent core configuration members out of the plural core configuration members; and an exposing portion that is formed to the plural insulators and exposes the fitting portion when viewed along the axial direction of the armature core.

Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes: a rotor; a stator inside which the rotor is rotatably disposed and including a plurality of teeth protruding toward the rotor; a plurality of insulating films disposed in respective slots formed between the plurality of teeth to insulate a coil wound around the plurality of teeth from the respective teeth; and insulating members covering upper and lower portions of the stator, respectively, wherein the plurality of insulating films are fixed by the plurality of teeth and the insulating members.

Abstract: A stator capable of preventing the displacement of insulators and securely positioning the insulators at given positions. A stator includes a stator core formed with slots; a coil wound around the stator core, the coil comprising a coil side and a coil end, the coil end arranged outside the slot; and insulators provided in the slots. Each insulator includes a coil side-insulation part arranged between wall surfaces of a slot and a first coil side and electrically insulating the wall surfaces from the first coil side; and a coil end-insulation part formed in one piece with the coil side-insulation part and arranged outside the first slot. The coil end-insulation part is arranged between a first coil end and a second coil end and electrically insulates the first coil end from the second coil end.

Abstract: A method and a device for protecting an electric motor in a pod unit for propulsion of marine vessels against shaft bending shocks when the blades of the pod propeller hit ice blocks or other hard objects, said motor having a drive shaft, a rotor and a stator, said shocks tending to momentarily bend the drive shaft (3) to such an extent that the rotor (41) will come into contact with the stator. The rotor is prevented from coming in detrimental contact with the stator by providing at least two members, which together form a radial plain bearing having mating arcuate bearing surfaces, which during normal operation of the motor are spaced from one another by a gap and come in contact with one another only at extreme loads with short durations.

Abstract: A slot-closing device for closing a slot in a stator or a rotor of an electric machine includes a closure element for closing the slot. A closure element for closing the slot contains a ferromagnetic material, and has a predetermined bending section along a longitudinal extension direction of the closure element, such that two leg portions disposed at an obtuse angle of less than 180° to one another are connected by the bending section. An adhesive layer designed to harden when heated is disposed on edges of the two leg portions.

Abstract: A blower includes a housing, and an impeller and a motor received in the housing. The motor drives the impeller to rotate. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and windings wound around the stator core. The stator core includes a yoke and teeth extending from the yoke. A distal end of each of the teeth forms a tooth tip, with a slot opening formed between each two adjacent tooth tips. The rotor includes a permanent magnet forming a plurality of magnetic poles. The stator and the rotor define an air gap therebetween. A circumferential width of the slot opening is equal to or less than two times of a radial width of the air gap.

Abstract: A slot-closing device for closing a slot in a stator or a rotor of an electric machine includes a closure element which contains a ferromagnetic material. An adhesive layer disposed on the closure element is designed to expand and harden when heated. The adhesive layer contains a thermally activatable blowing agent configured as an expansion element which contains a closed cavity filled with gas. The cavity is partially enclosed by a thermoplastic resin in the expansion element.

Abstract: In the rotary electric machine, bus-bar lead terminals of bus bars, which are held by a connection component, are formed in such a way that the bus-bar lead terminals are protruded from the bus bars to an axis direction of a stator, and a plurality of bus-bar storage grooves are formed by using a plurality of partitions which are concentrically arranged in a diameter direction of the stator via gaps, and in the plurality of partitions, lengths, in the axis direction, of the most outer circumference partition, which is positioned at the most outer circumference side in the diameter direction, and the most inner circumference partition, which is positioned at the most inner circumference side in the diameter direction, are longer than lengths, in the axis direction, of a plurality of middle partitions, which are positioned between the most outer circumference partition and the most inner circumference partition.

Abstract: A coil support structure including a coil spacer, a yoke spacer, and a support formed between the coil spacer and the yoke spacer. And the support has laterally protruding parts.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a three phase motor in which a structure for preventing an electrical short circuit is applied includes a stator including a base portion having a hollow formed therein and a plurality of winding portions extending from the base portion toward the hollow and formed apart a predetermined distance from each other; a rotor having a plurality of magnets inserted therein and disposed in the hollow apart from ends of the winding portions; and an insulation sheet disposed between the winding portions abutting each other to prevent an electrical short circuit among the coils wound around the winding portions abutting each other.

Abstract: An armature for a rotating electric machine is provided. The armature includes a wedge that prevents separation of coils by supporting the coils disposed at left and right sides in a slot while closing an opening in the slot in which the coils are wound is provided. The wedge includes a body portion that is inserted into the slot, and has a “V” shape. Both ends of the body portion are coupled to latch grooves adjacent to a core, and separation prevention portions form bent regions at both ends of the body portion and are integrally connected to the body portion. The separation prevention portions are arranged adjacent to each other in the slot, and support the body portion.

Abstract: An electric tool includes a brushless motor having a plurality of phases, the brushless motor. The brushless motor includes a plurality of stator coils connected in parallel with each of the plurality of phases, and a plurality of crossover wires, each of the crossover wires being configured to electrically connect the plurality of stator coils for each of the plurality of phases to each other. The plurality of crossover wires for the plurality of phases are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A motor stator device with simple coil-winding structure is disclosed. The motor stator device includes an insulating base comprising an outer ring base, an inner ring base and a connection base, the outer ring base and the inner ring base alternatively forming outer ring openings, inner ring openings, outer ring sinks and inner ring pillars, the connection base being provided to be wound with a metal coil; a plurality of stator segments being positioned on the insulating base; and a plurality of segment connectors being positioned on the outer ring sinks between the insulating base and the stator segments and having a base part and an extension part opposite to the base part, the extension part being integrally extended from the base part and toward the motor rotor to get close to the inner ring pillar next to the motor rotor, so as to decrease the cogging torque.

Abstract: A stator for a motor of a compressor includes a stator core, insulator, coil, slot insulator, and inter-coil insulator. The stator core has a plurality of tooth portions arrayed circumferentially. The insulator is fitted to axial end faces of the stator core. The coil is wound on the tooth portions. The slot insulator is placed within slot portions that are spaces between circumferentially neighboring ones of the tooth portions, and which are interposed between the stator core and the coil. The inter-coil insulator is placed between circumferentially mutually neighboring windings of the coil. The inter-coil insulator is sheet shaped and folded over a width equal to double a sheet thickness at a folding-bottom portion extending along an axial direction. The folding-bottom portion is positioned on a distal end side of the tooth portions. Movement of the folding-bottom portion in a radial direction toward the rotor is restricted.

Abstract: A new rotor for a rotating electric machine assuring outstanding durability and reliability against vibration and facilitating equalization of resistances among a plurality of rotor coils, while allowing the leading ends of a plurality of lead wires to be disposed so as to congregate in one area, is provided. A plurality of stator coils 102 wound at a cylindrical stator core 101 each include leader portions led out from one of two ends of a slot along the axial direction and extending astride a plurality of slots. Lead wires 300 each formed at one end of a stator coil 102 are disposed so that their leading ends, oriented in the same direction, congregate in a single area. In a leader portion where a lead wire 300 is located, a turnback portion 400, made to turn back with an angle equal to or greater than 90° from an inclining wire portion 113, which is led out with an inclination along a predetermined direction from the slot, is formed.

Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a rotor magnet, an armature, an upper bracket, a lower bracket, and a fixing member. An insulator includes magnetic pole tooth insulating portions, each of which covers a separate one of magnetic pole teeth, and a core back insulating portion configured to cover at least portions of upper and lower end surfaces of a core back. A stator core includes a fixing member arranging portion. The core back insulating portion includes a core back insulating projecting portion configured to project in an axial direction away from a surface covering the core back, and including a radially inner surface located radially inward of a radially inner end of the fixing member arranging portion. The core back insulating projecting portion includes a cut portion at a position radially opposed to the fixing member.

Abstract: Provided is an armature for a rotating electrical machine, which is capable of improving heat dissipation performance of an edgewise coil to enhance efficiency of the rotating electrical machine. The armature for a rotating electrical machine includes: a core including a yoke section and a tooth section that protrudes from the yoke section; an edgewise coil to be inserted onto the tooth section through intermediation of an insulating member, the edgewise coil being formed by winding a rectangular wire having a rectangular conductor cross-section through edgewise bending; and a heat transfer member filled into a gap between the tooth section and the edgewise coil. The armature has different gaps formed at two regions between the tooth section and a long side of the edgewise coil.

Abstract: A winding insulation structure of a stator of an electromagnetic motor is provided, in which windings are wound inside slots of a stator iron core of the electromagnetic motor formed of a stator and a rotor with an insulation member therebetween, and in which an insulation sheet insertion portion for inserting an insulation sheet is formed between the stator iron core and the insulation member on a slot opening portion side of the stator iron core.

Abstract: An insertion groove is disposed on a tubular portion overlapping portion that is overlapped with an inner circumferential surface of a tubular portion of the stator core. Inter-coil insulating bodies that are disposed between a plurality of stator coils include a groove inserted portion. The groove inserted portion includes: a first inserted portion that can be inserted inside the insertion groove when the insulating film is in a bent and folded state; and a second inserted portion that is contiguous to the first inserted portion, a shape of a visible outline of a cross section of the second inserted portion being different than that of the first inserted portion. The second inserted portion generates a stronger elastic force of recovery than the first inserted portion when the groove inserted portion is inserted into the insertion groove.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stator of an EPS motor, the stator including a stator core including a plurality of teeth protrusively formed toward a center of an inner circumferential surface, a plurality of coils wound on the teeth at a predetermined counts, an insulator coupled to an upper surface and a bottom surface of the stator core to insulate the coil from the stator core, and an insulation tube situated nearest to a coil wound on an adjacent stator core and inserted into a coil wound on an outmost side of the teeth.

Abstract: A core for an electrical machine includes a core body, a winding, and a heat sink. The core body defines circumferentially offset winding slots. The winding is seated within the winding slots and has an endturn proximate the end of the core body. The heat sink is embedded in the winding endturn.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine includes a plurality of pole teeth supporting an excitation winding, grooves respectively formed between the pole teeth, and wedges provided in the grooves, each wedge having a concave shape with a bulge oriented towards the inside of the rotor.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine may include a number of pole teeth which carry a field winding, slots formed between the pole teeth, slot wedges provided in the slots, and separators arranged in the slots, the separators extending, starting from the slot wedges, between the windings in a direction toward a slot base.

Abstract: A wedge for use in a generator rotor includes a wedge body extending for an axial length and having a generally triangular cross-section, a first side of the wedge body extending for the axial length of the wedge body, a second side of the wedge body extending for the axial length of the wedge body and having a generally flat surface, a third side of the wedge body extending for the axial length of the wedge body and having a generally flat surface, a first arm extending circumferentially away from the wedge body at an interface between the first side and the second side and extending axially along the wedge body, and a second arm extending circumferentially away from the wedge body at an interface between the first side and the third side and extending axially along the wedge body.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine includes a rotor sheet stack arranged on a rotor shaft, and at least one metallic functional component made of a material comprising iron and also chromium in a proportion of at least 18% and at most 19% by weight and optionally nickel in a proportion of at least 12% and not more than 13% by weight.

Abstract: A radial magnetic bearing for magnetic bearing of a rotor has a stator which includes a magnetically conductive stator element, arranged circulating around a rotor. The stator element has recesses running in the axial direction of the stator element in which electrical lines from coils are arranged, wherein magnetic fields can be generated by the coils which hold the rotor suspended in an air gap arranged between the rotor and stator. A softer progression of the components of magnetic flow density in the radial direction is achieved by design measures on the transitions from one magnetic pole to the next magnetic pole, which results in a reduction of the eddy currents induced in the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine stator includes an electric power distributing apparatus that includes: respective phase busbars that are electrically connected to respective phase coils; a resin holder that is disposed so as to surround the respective phase busbars, and that includes a partitioning wall portion that insulates between adjacent busbars, the resin holder including an opening portion that opens outward in an axial direction of the stator core; and a resin cover that covers the opening portion. A rib that is bent radially is formed on a radially outer edge portion of the opening portion of the resin holder.

Abstract: A stator for use in an electric motor is disclosed. The stator comprises an annular core, a plurality of wedges, and a plurality of wedge-retaining structures. The core includes a plurality of arcuately spaced apart teeth. Each of the teeth includes a generally radial leg and a head projecting from the leg to present a pair of arcuately spaced apart head ends. A slot opening is defined between the opposed head ends of each adjacent pair of teeth. Each of the wedges is received within a corresponding slot opening. Each wedge-retaining structure is at least in part fixed relative to the core and cooperates with a respective one of the wedges to compressibly retain the respective wedge between the head ends.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an armature of a rotating electric machine. The armature of the rotating electric machine includes a wedge that is configured to close an opening of a slot around which coils are wound and support the coils disposed to a left side and a right side of the slot to prevent the coils from seceding from a core. The wedge includes a main plate that has a substantially V-shaped section. In addition, a support plate of the wedge is coupled with the main plate within the main plate and is configured to support the main plate in directions in which the main plate spreads to maintain a shape of the main plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a rotary electric machine, extending along a longitudinal axis and including: an assembly of electrical sheets forming projecting poles, two projecting poles defining an interpolar region therebetween; and at least two internal cooling channels formed in the assembly of electrical sheets in at least one interpolar region.

Abstract: In an expansion sheet for a rotary electric machine that has a thermal expansion property and is to be arranged between a core and a coil conductor in a slot in the rotary electric machine, in which the coil conductor is housed in the slot formed in the core, the expansion sheet has a first surface and a second surface and includes: a first surface-side portion; and a second surface-side portion that is closer to the second surface than the first surface-side portion. An amount of volume increase, caused by heating, of the first surface-side portion is higher than an amount of volume increase, caused by the heating, of the second surface-side portion.