Slot Liners Patents (Class 310/215)
  • Publication number: 20100187938
    Abstract: An armature for a rotating electrical machine, the armature includes a cylindrical core having a plurality of longitudinally extending slots that are dispersedly arranged in a circumferential direction; and coils wound around the slots, wherein each of the slots is formed such that an inner circumferential opening thereof that is open radially inwardly is smaller in a circumferential width than a slot interior positioned on a radially outer side of the inner circumferential opening, and linear conductors forming the coils are each formed to be larger in the circumferential width than the inner circumferential opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Kiyotaka Koga, Shinichi Otake, Keiichi Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20100181863
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic motor in which a stator core is thinned to obtain an increased diameter of a rotor is to produce a high power output, and a stator can be positioned with high accuracy at the time when a coil is wound on the stator. The outside peripheral surface of a yoke part 31 is substantially the same as the outside peripheral surface of a flange 42 of an insulator 4, and in a part of the flange 42, a cut-away part 43 is provided to expose a part of the end face of a stator core 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori Murakami, Pairoj Patisonticharoen, Chanaporn Thanathitipong, Wijittra Jabtanom
  • Patent number: 7743483
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator in a rotating electric machine. In this method, each slot has a slot peripheral wall and a slot opening, covered with an insulation coating made of an electrical insulation material. The slot peripheral wall SW has a slot bottom wall, a pair of slot side walls opposing to each other and continuing to end portions of the slot bottom wall. The insulation coating is formed continuously from the slot bottom wall to the pair of slot side walls, and a pair of holding grooves opposing to each other is formed in the insulation coating at the vicinity of the slot opening. The groove walls of the pair of the holding grooves are formed in the insulation coating, and an electrical insulation member to close the slot opening is inserted in the pair of holding grooves and held between the pair of holding grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20100148623
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) includes a pump and an electric motor operationally connected to the pump, the electric motor includes a rotor; a stator having a plurality of stator slots; a plurality of magnet wires positioned in each stator slot; and a member positioned within the stator slot, the member maintaining the magnet wires substantially parallel to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joseph Liu
  • Publication number: 20100141079
    Abstract: An electric motor comprising a stator and a rotor, the stator comprising: a stator core having a yoke and a plurality of teeth extending inwardly from the yoke, a slot being formed between adjacent teeth; windings wound around the teeth; and a dielectric slot liner disposed between the stator core and the windings in each slot for insulating the stator core from the windings. Each slot liner comprises a body conforming the stator core in the slot and two ends each with a lip structure protruding relative to the body in a radial direction of the stator to increase the creepage distance between the winding and a distal end of a corresponding tooth of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Jun Jie CHU, Hui Fang Yu
  • Publication number: 20100133947
    Abstract: An electric motor core member includes a body having an inner diametric portion including an inner arcuate surface and an outer diametric portion including an outer arcuate surface. The electric motor core member further includes a plurality of wall members provided on the main body. Each of the plurality of wall members projects outwardly from the outer arcuate surface and is arranged in a spaced relationship to define a plurality of conductor isolation channels. Each of the plurality of conductor isolation channels is adapted to receive one of a plurality of conductors with the plurality of wall members providing electrical isolation between adjacent ones of the plurality of conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Brad Chamberlin, Steven C. Burton, Sean Stanley
  • Publication number: 20100109470
    Abstract: A stator segment for a segmented stator of an electric machine includes insulative material configured for overlapping with insulative material of an adjacent stator segment to provide continuous insulation along a joint between the adjacent stator segments. Additionally, or alternatively, the stator segment can include one or more alignment tabs configured to engage a surface of an adjacent stator segment to inhibit relative axial movement between adjacent stator segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: David M. Lyle
  • Publication number: 20100104455
    Abstract: A cooling fan includes a fan housing, a stator mounted in the fan housing and a rotor rotatablely supported by the stator. The stator includes a stator core, an insulating frame attached to the stator core and stator coils wound on the insulating frame and around the stator core. The insulating frame electrically insulates the stator coils from the stator core. The stator core includes a main body and a plurality of claws. Every two neighboring claws define a receiving room therein. The insulating frame includes a bottom portion located at a bottom of the stator core and a plurality of flanges extending upwardly from the bottom portion into the receiving rooms of the stator core, respectively. A height of the flanges is no less than that of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KUAN-TENG TSAI, JR-SHIUN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20100096945
    Abstract: An insulator for a motor includes an annular section, a plurality of tooth sections and a plurality of connecting sections. The tooth sections extend radially inward of an inner circumferential surface of the annular section and are circumferentially arranged about the annular section. The connecting sections connect an inner circumferential surface of an annular section to ends of the tooth sections. Each connecting section includes a circumferential planar portion extending circumferentially from the end of a corresponding one of the tooth sections, and a radial planar portion extending radially from the end of the corresponding one of the tooth sections. Preferably, a stator includes a pair of the insulators, a motor includes the stator, and a compressor includes the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsukamoto, Yasukazu Nabetani
  • Patent number: 7694409
    Abstract: A method of insulating a coil of an electrical machine includes applying an insulating varnish to a coil of conductive wire. The varnish includes (i) a resin; (ii) a first catalyst having a first activation temperature, the first catalyst being active at room temperature; and (iii) a second catalyst with a second activation temperature substantially higher than the first activation temperature. The varnish is allowed to partially cure at room temperature. The coil is mounted to a yoke to form a rotor of the electrical machine. The rotor is operated so as to heat the coil and activate the second catalyst to complete curing of the varnish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rihong Mo, Shuo Chen
  • Patent number: 7696663
    Abstract: A rotor (2) for a forced-air-cooled electric motor, in particular a universal motor, especially for use with electrical power tools, has a laminated armature (6) incorporating longitudinal slots (8) and with wire windings of a coil (10) protruding from the longitudinal slots (8) on the front face where the windings form coil connecting heads (20, 22). Some or all of the longitudinal slots (8) in the laminated armature (6) contain a rod (28) aligned in the longitudinal direction and protruding axially from one or both front faces (24, 26) of the laminated armature (6), whereby the protruding rod ends thus surround the coil connecting heads (20, 22) on the respective front face to protect the coil connecting heads from abrasive wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Metabowerke GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schmohl, Norbert Falter, Dietrich Holzwarth
  • Patent number: 7687964
    Abstract: An electric motor has a field assembly, such as a stator, for a dynamoelectric machine has field coils that are wound to a net shape. Lead wires are brought out from the ends of each field coil. The field coils are insulated with insulating sleeves or insulating slot liners. The field coils are assembled with stator core pieces, such as pole pieces and return path pieces, into the stator. The stator core pieces are formed prior to being assembled with the field coils. In an aspect of the invention, the pole pieces and return path pieces are separately formed and then assembled together with the field coils, which have also been separately formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Earl M. Ortt, Michael J. Agnes, Michael A. Zemlock, Robert G. Kusmierski, David J. Smith
  • Patent number: 7685697
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power tool includes forming an armature by placing an electrically insulative sleeve on an armature shaft, securing a lamination stack having slots therein on the armature shaft with the insulative sleeve disposed therebetween, securing a commutator on one end of the armature shaft with the insulative sleeve disposed therebetween, winding magnet wires in the slots in the lamination stack and securing ends of the magnet wires to the commutator, and molding thermally conductive plastic to at least partially encase the magnet wires in plastic. The armature is then disposed in a stator to form an electric motor and the electric motor is disposed in a power tool. In an aspect, electrically insulative plastic is molded in the slots of the lamination stack to form slot liners and around the ends of the lamination stack to form end spiders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Joshua F. West, Richard T. Walter
  • Patent number: 7687966
    Abstract: A stator assembly detachably mounted with a fan housing. The stator assembly includes a stator including one or more first mounting feet and one or more second mounting feet disposed apart from each other. Additionally, the stator assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having one or more first openings and a fan housing having a base member fixed to a bearing liner. The base member includes one or more second openings disposed about the bearing liner. The stator is coupled to the PCB into a stator-PCB assembly with each of the one or more first mounting feet being locked with one of the one or more first openings. The stator-PCB assembly is center-aligned with respect to the bearing liner and coupled to the fan housing with each of the one or more second mounting feet locked with one of the one or more second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiko Takahashi, Jonn Herzberger
  • Publication number: 20100052461
    Abstract: An insulator is provided between a stator core and a conductive wire provided on the stator core. The insulator includes a wound portion, around which the conductive wire is wounded, having a substantially rectangular shape; and a flange, formed in the axial end of the wound portion in the stator tooth tip side, for pressing the conductive wire in the axial direction (radial direction relative to the rotation axis of a rotor in a configuration of a rotating electrical machine). The flange includes four corner portions at its four corners, and intermediate portions formed between the four corner portions to have a width (B2) narrower than the width (B1) of the four corner portions. In addition, the flange has a tip with a curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Kei Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100052462
    Abstract: Winding guide portions of an insulator are received in slots, respectively, of a core. Each of windings is electrically insulated from the core by a winding guide wall of a corresponding one of the winding guide portions in each of corresponding two of slots of the core. The winding guide wall of at least one of the winding guide portions is configured differently from the winding guide wall of each of the rest of the winding guide portions and includes a radial bottom wall section, which is radially outwardly spaced from a radial bottom wall section of a corresponding one of the slots by a predetermined distance and contacts a corresponding one of the windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Sugishima, Akihiko Seki, Yoshihiro Mashima
  • Publication number: 20100019611
    Abstract: Apparatus including a monolithic, motor/generator phase insulation article having a manufactured state and a ready-to-use state. The insulation article has longitudinally-spaced-apart first and second tabs and flexible, transversely-spaced-apart first and second legs each having a first end monolithically joined to the first tab and a second end monolithically joined to the second tab. The first and second tabs are disposed longitudinally closer together in the manufactured state than in the ready-to-use state. In the manufactured state the first and second legs each have a more serpentine shape, and in the ready-to-use state the first and second legs each have a less serpentine shape. A method for manufacturing the insulation article is also described which cuts a monolithic, substantially-rectangular sheet of motor/generator phase insulation to create the insulation article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: DAYTON-PHOENIX GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Zahora, Ralph M. Gutman, Bryan E. Ladd
  • Publication number: 20100013344
    Abstract: A coil bobbin has a body part, a first outer flange part provided at one end of the body part and a second outer flange part provided at the other end of the body part. The first outer flange part has a widthwise dimension larger than that of the second outer flange part. The first outer flange part has leg portions at both ends in the widthwise direction at the lower end. The second outer flange part has a leg portion at the lower end. The coil bobbin is preferably supported by the leg portions of the first outer flange part and the leg portion of the second outer flange part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Fujii
  • Patent number: 7649295
    Abstract: An insulation structure of rotary electrical machinery which electrically insulates teeth of a stator from a winding wound on the teeth includes: an insulator made from hard insulation material, disposed on both axial ends of the teeth, and having a side wall disposed along a side surface of the teeth crossing to a circumferential direction thereof, and a high-heat-conductive electrical-insulation resin sheet disposed along the side surface of the teeth and insulating the teeth from the winding, wherein an axial end portion of the high-heat-conductive electrical-insulation resin sheet is disposed between the side wall of the insulator and the side surface of the teeth and is stacked on the side wall in a prescribed axial extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukui, Akira Kabasawa
  • Patent number: 7649296
    Abstract: A stator includes a first through a third windings, and a first and a second interphase insulators. The first interphase insulator has a first pair of strip-shaped insulating sheets and a first connecting portion. End portions of the insulating sheets are connected to the respective opposite end portions to form joints. The first connecting portion connects the insulating sheets so that the joints are shifted so as to be disposed in a region avoiding an interference with the first winding on both of a lead-extending side and the opposite side. In the second interphase insulator similarly constructed, a second connecting portion connects a second pair of the strip-shaped insulating sheets so that joints are shifted so as to be disposed in a region avoiding an interference with the third winding on both of the lead-extending side and the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Minoru Mera, Kiyoshi Uetsuji
  • Publication number: 20100007226
    Abstract: A conductor bar for a stator of a generator includes a plurality of internal conductor elements; an insulation wound around the plurality of internal conductor elements so as to externally enclose the plurality of internal conductor elements, the insulation including impregnated glass/mica bands; and at least one interlayer disposed between the insulation and the plurality of internal conductor elements so as to improve a mechanical connection between the plurality of internal conductor elements and the insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Thomas Baumann
  • Publication number: 20090322180
    Abstract: A rotary electric motor includes a cylindrical rotor having an outer peripheral side, a stator provided to surround the outer peripheral side of the rotor with a gap between the stator and the rotor, and a load side bracket having a recess and provided on a load side of the stator. The stator includes stator coils and a stator core having teeth portions around which the stator coils are wound. A load side coil end of each of the stator coils protrudes from a load side end face of the stator core. At least two of an inner peripheral surface, an outer peripheral surface, and an end face of the load side coil end contact an inner surface of the recess via an insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Tuyoshi Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20090324435
    Abstract: An insulator for a stator assembly includes at least a first insulator adapted to be mounted to the stator core and structured to insulate the stator core from the coils. The at least one insulator includes structure to perform at least one additional function. For example, the structure may include a support member to support and/or locate the PCBA on the stator core, a wire guide to guide cross-over wires that form a connection between coils, and/or positioning structure to precisely position the PCBA with respect to the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: David B. Sears, Michael Bruce Moir, Peter Jeffrey Thomas
  • Publication number: 20090322179
    Abstract: The invention describes a stator for an electrical machine, in particular a universal motor, comprising a stator core (20) with a stator yoke (22) and at least two pole shoes (21), which are arranged radially on the stator yoke (22), and a stator winding (30) with at least two coil windings (31), wherein each pole shoe (21) accommodates at least one coil winding (31), characterized in that the coil windings (31) are connected cohesively to the stator core (20) by means of an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Werner Rieker, Michael Rader
  • Patent number: 7638916
    Abstract: A secondary part of an electric machine has a toothed profile, with at least one tooth being unlaminated. The at least one tooth is made of at least two materials, wherein the at least one tooth forms a cavity which is filled with an iron-containing material representing one of the two materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Hoppe, Zeljko Jajtic, Gerhard Matscheko, Christian Volmert
  • Publication number: 20090289520
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine with wedge members insertable into slots without being bent or folded is provided. A coupling portion is integrally formed at a non-inserted end portion, which is not inserted into a slot, of a wedge member, the coupling portion extending across an end of a partition wall portion and an end of a block portion. The wedge member and the coupling portion are formed of a synthetic resin material. Two or more coupling portions of two or more adjacently disposed wedge members are integrally formed as a continuous coupling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikuo Takeshita, Shigenori Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20090284088
    Abstract: A stator assembly detachably mounted with a fan housing. The stator assembly includes a stator including one or more first mounting feet and one or more second mounting feet disposed apart from each other. Additionally, the stator assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having one or more first openings and a fan housing having a base member fixed to a bearing liner. The base member includes one or more second openings disposed about the bearing liner. The stator is coupled to the PCB into a stator-PCB assembly with each of the one or more first mounting feet being locked with one of the one or more first openings. The stator-PCB assembly is center-aligned with respect to the bearing liner and coupled to the fan housing with each of the one or more second mounting feet locked with one of the one or more second openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiko Takahashi, John Herzberger
  • Publication number: 20090267441
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator including at least two element coils of the same phase each having a plurality of turns and connected to each other through a coil-to-coil connection wire, the element coils being arranged in adjacent slots, respectively; and a rotor rotatably provided to the stator through a gap. The element coils of the same phase are fitted in the adjacent slots so that wound around portions of the element coils partially overlap each other. The coil-to-coil connection wire connects at a coil end portion conductor wires extending from linear conductor wire portions of innermost wires of the element coils contained in the slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi HIRAMATSU, Takashi Ishigami, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuichiro Tanaka, Kenichi Nakayama, Yutaka Matsunobu, Noriaki Hino
  • Publication number: 20090267442
    Abstract: A stator assembly is provided and includes a laminated core and a one-part insulator having cover walls for covering edges of the laminated core, wherein first projections and a second projection both having a height smaller than the difference between the height of the cover walls and the thickness of the laminated core are formed on one side surface of the insulator in such a manner as to make contact with a part of one axial end side surface of the laminated core, whereby a gap which corresponds to the projection distance of the first and second projections and which serves as a clearance space for chips scraped by the edges of the laminated core from the surfaces of the cover walls is provided between the insulator and the laminated core, resulting in ensuring that the insulator is snap-fitted on the laminated core in good shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yamawaki, Yuzuru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090243421
    Abstract: An electric motor stator according to the present invention includes two resin insulation components, each resin insulation component including a long side portion, facing a side face of the teeth section, and two short side portions, extending from respective ends of the long side portion and facing respective end faces of the laminated core in a lamination direction. The laminated core is clamped by the two resin insulation components from a direction along surfaces of the electromagnetic steel plates, and fitting portions of the two short side portions of each of the two resin insulation components are used to fit the two resin insulation components to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Kenji MATSUURA, Makoto Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7591063
    Abstract: A method of making an armature includes placing a commutator and a lamination stack on an armature stack. Coil windings wound in slots in the lamination stack, the commutator and armature shaft are at least partially encapsulated in a first plastic. The commutator has a commutator ring divided into a plurality of segments with slots between the segments that are filled with a second plastic when the commutator is made by molding a core of the second plastic in the commutator ring before the commutator ring is mounted on the armature shaft. The mold used to mold the first plastic includes projections that extend between the tangs of the commutator and against notches at axial ends of the slots of the commutator. The notches filled with the second plastic and the projections of the mold prevent plastic flash from getting into the slots of the commutator ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua F. West
  • Publication number: 20090230810
    Abstract: A cassette coil comprising an insulator bobbin including a core tube around which a wire coated with an insulating film is wound, forming a coil, and a pair of plate-shaped flanges provided at both ends of the core tube, the flange including a cutout portion opening in a side, wherein the cassette coil includes an insulation wall between a winding start part which is one end of the coil of the wire and an outermost wire part located on the outermost side of the coil of the wire and close to the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroharu Sugiura, Norihiko Akao
  • Publication number: 20090224626
    Abstract: An electric machine having a rotor and a stator that encloses the rotor. The stator is closed at its end faces by flanges. A slot insulation is applied in an axial direction to the stator and has means of centering the rotor and/or the flanges with respect to the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Willi Eppler, Ullrich Kreiensen, Jurgen Schill
  • Publication number: 20090224617
    Abstract: An electric machine having a rotor and a stator that encloses the rotor, and having a first flange arrangement on at least one end face of the stator, wherein the first flange arrangement has a first flange component that has a connecting surface which adjoins the first end face of the stator and whose geometry is adapted to the geometry of the end face of the stator so that a stator winding, which is wound onto the stator and the adjoining connecting surface, connects the stator and the first flange component to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Axel BOTTGER, Ullrich Kreiensen
  • Patent number: 7576467
    Abstract: An extension part of an insulator covering a part of a coupling portion of a laminated core of an armature is inclined to the inside in the radial direction along the coupling part. A inclined face which is extended inward in the radial direction is formed in the cylindrical part of the armature. By forming the armature in an annular shape, a gap which is almost parallel or narrowed to the inside in the radial direction is formed between neighboring inclined faces. The gap is formed to be smaller than the diameter of a conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Yamamoto, Yoichi Mori, Hitoshi Urakami
  • Publication number: 20090200891
    Abstract: An electric motor has a field assembly, such as a stator, for a dynamoelectric machine has field coils that are wound to a net shape. Lead wires are brought out from the ends of each field coil. The field coils are insulated with insulating sleeves or insulating slot liners. The field coils are assembled with stator core pieces, such as pole pieces and return path pieces, into the stator. The stator core pieces are formed prior to being assembled with the field coils. In an aspect of the invention, the pole pieces and return path pieces are separately formed and then assembled together with the field coils, which have also been separately formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Earl M. Ortt, Michael J. Agnes, Michael A. Zemlock, Robert G. Kusmierski, David J. Smith
  • Publication number: 20090195108
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine, comprising compacted and bonded windings and a ferromagnetic core including an active element and a cooling element. The compacted and bonded windings are inserted in slots between teeth in the active element, and the cooling element mates with the active element at the tips of the teeth to close the slots over the windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventor: Wally E. Rippel
  • Publication number: 20090189474
    Abstract: Presented is a winding arrangement for an electric machine that includes a laminated core that includes a yoke that includes a plurality of teeth each having flanks that form first wedge surfaces and a winding support area that has a trapezoidal cross-section. The arrangement further includes a coil winding, and a winding body configured to arrange the coil winding on one of the plurality of teeth. The coil winding has an inner area arranged opposite the first wedge surfaces and represents second wedge surfaces. The arrangement further includes a stop means disposed on the winding body and/or one of the plurality of teeth. The stop means is configured to limit movement of the winding body in a direction toward the yoke. The arrangement further includes a centering means configured to center the winding body on one of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Marcus van Heyden, Alexander Gehring, Ralf Ronnebeck, Florian Leberfinger, Frank Kewes
  • Publication number: 20090189476
    Abstract: An interphase insulating member allowing reduction in size of a rotating electric machine is provide. The interphase insulating member includes a flat portion interposed between and insulating neighboring two phases of coil ends, and a three-dimensional portion protruding from the flat portion and guiding the coil. On a surface of the flat portion, epoxy resin layer is provided as a reinforcing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NITTO SHINKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Takizawa, Masakazu Katoh, Jun Fujiki, Akihiro Oohashi, Masanori Imai, Yoshiki Takahashi, Yasuo Kashiwagi, Yoshihide Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20090184601
    Abstract: The invention concerns a polyphase stator (5) for a with rotating electrical machine claw-pole rotor comprising five or seven phases (132), a stator body having internally a plurality of notches delimited by teeth, each phase including at least one winding, each winding including coils with multiple turns, each coil enclosing a single tooth (61). The invention also concerns an alternator or an alternator starter comprising such a stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Dubus, Arnaud De Vries, Denis Even, Jean-Claude Mipo
  • Publication number: 20090184600
    Abstract: A conductor bar for a rotating electrical machine has an inner conductor with an essentially rectangular cross section sheathed in a straight section of the conductor bar by mica tape insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Baumann
  • Publication number: 20090179506
    Abstract: An encapsulated stator assembly comprising a stator core of laminated electromagnetic steel sheets and containing wire wound coils; an insulator covering the stator core positioned between the stator core and the wire wound coils; wherein an encapsulating polymer composition substantially encapsulates the stator core and the wire wound coils and the insulator and an adhesive component is interfaced between the stator core and the encapsulating polymer composition and wherein the encapsulating polymer composition comprises a thermally conductive polymer composition having a thermal conductivity of at least about 0.6 W/mK. A method for making the encapsulated stator assembly is also part of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Yuji Saga, Masahiro Matsuzaki, Yoko Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20090146513
    Abstract: The invention relates to a design for and a method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine stator assembly. There is a need for improved cooling in rotary electric machines, such as motors and generators. A stator assembly is provided for a rotary electric machine having a rotor which rotates within a stator which is enclosed within a cooling jacket. The stator has a plurality of grooves separated by a plurality of stator teeth. A stator coil is wrapped around each corresponding tooth. The stator assembly also includes a plurality of heat conducting plates which conduct heat from a coil to the stator. In one embodiment, adjacent pairs of coils are separated by one of a plurality of radially and axially extending slots, and the plates are received within the slots. In another embodiment, the plates are positioned between the stator coil and each side of the corresponding tooth around which the coil is wrapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Ronald Dean Bremner
  • Publication number: 20090127969
    Abstract: An insulating bobbin for disposition between a stator core and a stator winding of a stator of a rotating machine, the stator winding being wound around the stator core by way of the insulating bobbin, the insulating bobbin comprising a coil end section at which an end portion of the stator winding is disposed, a slot side section forming a slot for winding thereon the stator winding, and a corner section having a curved surface and connecting between the coil end portion and the slot side portion, the corner section having a first radius of curvature at a side closer to the coil end section and a second radius of curvature at a side closer to the slot side section, the second radius of curvature being larger than the first radius of curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Takenari OKUYAMA, Tatsuya Imai, Kunitomo Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 7528520
    Abstract: An electric motor has a field assembly, such as a stator, for a dynamoelectric machine has field coils that are wound to a net shape. Lead wires are brought out from the ends of each field coil. The field coils are insulated with insulating sleeves or insulating slot liners. The field coils are assembled with stator core pieces, such as pole pieces and return path pieces, into the stator. The stator core pieces are formed prior to being assembled with the field coils. In an aspect of the invention, the pole pieces and return path pieces are separately formed and then assembled together with the field coils, which have also been separately formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Earl M. Ortt, Michael J. Agnes, Michael A. Zemlok, Robert G. Kusmierski, David J. Smith
  • Publication number: 20090108696
    Abstract: An interphase insulating sheet of a rotating electric machine is disclosed. The interphase insulating sheet includes a first insulating portion arranged between first coil ends of two different phases, a second insulating portion arranged between second coil ends of two different phases, and bridge pieces inserted in slots. The first insulating portion includes a first coupling aid. The second insulating portion includes a second coupling aid. The first coupling aid and the second coupling aid each includes an outer surface facing radially outward of the stator core and an inner surface facing radially inward of the stator core. The first end portion of the bridge piece is located on the outer surface of the first coupling aid, and the second end portion of the bridge piece is located on the inner surface of the second coupling aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya HORIBA, Hiroshi FUKASAKU
  • Publication number: 20090102310
    Abstract: A stator of a motor is provided with a stator core having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of windings wound around teeth of the stator core. The stator also has an insulator that is provided with a plurality of lead-out guide portions that enable lead-out wires of the windings to be drawn out from the tooth winding portions in a state of being close to the tooth winding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuichiro Amano
  • Publication number: 20090102311
    Abstract: In an insulator to be inserted into each slot to be attached to adjacent teeth formed at a rotor or a stator of an electric rotating machine, the insulator is composed of insulator segments that are made divisible in a longitudinal direction parallel to a rotational axis of the rotor at a position corresponding to 2 slots and are made divisible in a lateral direction perpendicular to the rotational axis of the rotor, the insulator segments have surfaces to be coupled to each other of a same shape in the lateral direction, and the insulator segments have a creepage distance that is made longer than a distance in the lateral direction, thereby enabling to elongate the creepage distance and to improve work efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kotani, Kazuhiro Togawa, Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Publication number: 20090102312
    Abstract: An insulator allowing a coil to be wound with large tension exerted and a rotating electric machine having the insulator are provided. An insulator (140) can be attached to stator teeth (110) such that the insulator has a coil wound thereon, and the insulator (140) includes a first member implemented as a framework (940) forming a framework of the insulator (140) and a second member implemented as a sheath (950) providing an external surface of the insulator (140) and providing insulation, and the framework (940) is larger in stiffness than the sheath (950).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tsukashima
  • Publication number: 20090091206
    Abstract: The invention concerns a winding head isolation element (1) with a body (2, 3) having a first longitudinal side (5), a second longitudinal side (6), a first transversal side (7) and a second transversal side (8), and a tongue portion (9) projecting from the first longitudinal side (5), the body (2, 3) and the tongue portion (9) being made of a flat material. It is endeavored to keep the efforts and costs for the mounting of the isolation element on a winding head small. For this purpose, the body (2, 3) is deformable around an axis (4) extending transversely to the tongue portion (9) and has at least one opening (21, 22) extending transversely to the tongue portion (9), said tongue portion (9) being adapted for insertion through the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Danfoss Compressors GmbH
    Inventor: Iwer Nissen