Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet motor, including a rotor body having a cylindrical surface having a circumference. A plurality of magnets are disposed on the cylindrical surface at spaced intervals at the circumference, each of the magnets having a base disposed on the cylindrical surface and a top oriented radially away from the base, a sloping front side and a sloping rear side defining with the base and top an isosceles trapezoid shape in a cross sectional plane normal to an axis of rotation of the rotor, the isosceles trapezoid shape being broader at the base. A plurality of magnet retainers, each magnet retainer disposed between a neighboring pair of the plurality of magnets, include angled faces that engage respective front and rear sides of adjacent pairs of the plurality of magnets.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a hinged stator core.

Abstract: Magnetic cores and method and fixtures for forming the same are disclosed. The magnetic core may comprise a magnetic body including magnetic grains and a magnetic flux path, the magnetic grains aligned in a plurality of distinct directional alignments to conform to the magnetic flux path. The grain orientation of the cores may be provided by fixtures including electrical circuits and/or permanent magnets. The fixtures may be configured to produce magnetic fields that approximate, mimic, or correspond to a magnetic flux path in the magnetic core, once it is consolidated and in use. The magnetic fields may orient the grains of the magnetic core when they are in an unconsolidated state, such that the grains are aligned in a plurality of directional alignments that approximate, mimic, or correspond to a magnetic flux path in the magnetic core.

Abstract: A rotor segment of a rotor of a rotating electrical machine includes at least one stack of segment laminations. The stack is configured as a cylinder having a basal surface in perpendicular relationship to a rotor axis of the rotor and a lateral surface in perpendicular relationship to the basal surface. The segment laminations are identical in shape and stacked in a direction that is parallel to the rotor axis. The basal surface has a basal surface contour which includes a first contour section on a side of the rotor axis, a second contour section opposite to the first contour section, and two third contour sections. Each third contour section connects an end of the first contour section to an end of the second contour section, with the first contour section having at least one essentially dome-shaped support section.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for inspecting a laminated iron core in which a plurality of iron core pieces are laminated. The apparatus includes an insertion jig being movable in a lamination direction of the laminated iron core along an inspection side surface of the laminated iron core while having a gap between the insertion jig and the inspection side surface of the laminated iron core, and a detecting sensor provided on the insertion jig and detecting a contact of the moving insertion jig with a projection which occurs on the inspection side surface of the laminated iron core.

Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core and permanent magnets. The rotor core includes annular bodies that are stacked in a stacking direction and each formed of core segments arranged along a circumferential direction. The number of the core segments in each of the annular bodies is set based on k, where k is the number of magnetic poles formed by the permanent magnets. The rotor core has n through-holes, where n?k. The rotor further includes n fixing members each of which extends in the stacking direction through one corresponding through-hole of the rotor core. Between each circumferentially adjacent pair of the core segments, there is formed a gap that is greater than a clearance provided between the through-holes of the rotor core and the fixing members. At least one of the annular bodies is circumferentially offset from another annular body by an integer multiple of one magnetic pole.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are related generally to electromagnetic machines and, more particularly, to a suspension system and related methods for the attachment of the stator core of an electromagnetic machine to a surrounding frame or enclosure. In one embodiment, the invention provides a system for supporting a stator core of an electromagnetic machine, the system comprising: a rigid frame structure including: an upper portion; and a lower portion beneath the upper portion; a first plurality of wire rope members, each having a first end and a second end; and a first plurality of attachment devices for affixing at least one of the first end or the second end of each of the first plurality of wire rope members to the upper portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated core for electromagnetic applications with at least two segments (2), of which at least one on a side-edge (11), comprises an engagement groove (12) and the other at an opposite side-edge (9) comprises a corresponding engagement projection (10), via which the two segments (2) are connected to one another into a component, wherein the engagement groove (12) comprises an undercut in the form of a widened section (26) distanced to the groove opening, and the engagement projection (10) and the engagement groove (12) are dimensionally matched to one another in a manner such that the engagement projection (10) and/or engagement groove (12) are plastically deformed by way of inserting the engagement projection (10) into the engagement groove (12), so that the engagement projection (10) engages into the widened section (26) of the engagement groove (12), as well as to a method for the manufacture of such a laminated core.

Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes a yoke and a star disposed in the yoke. The star is configured to receive a rotor therein and has at least one wire coiled thereat. The yoke and the star are configured such that the star is axially insertable into the yoke with reduced interference and reduced insertion force. The star is axially inserted into the yoke in an unlocked position. When the star is inserted into the yoke, the star is rotatable to a locked position, whereby the star is retained at the yoke via an interference fit.

Abstract: Disclosed are a single rotor-type axial gap motor with low magnetic loss and high output, and a pump device using the axial gap motor. A first contact surface (231) is provided on the lateral surface in one circumferential direction of a yoke strip (23), and a second contact surface (232) is provided on the lateral surface in the other circumferential direction of the yoke strip (23), wherein the first contact surface (231) and the second contact surface (232) are aligned with each other. Defining As1 and As2 as the surface areas (As) of the first and second contact surfaces (231, 232), and Ap1 and Ap2 as the projected surface areas (Ap) of the lateral surfaces of the aforementioned yoke strip seen from the circumferential direction, it holds that As>Ap.

Abstract: A segment core forms an annular-shaped stator core of a rotary electric machine. The stator core is formed into an annular shape by circumferentially connecting a plurality of segment cores, each segment core having a L shape and includes a yoke portion that forms the outer periphery of the stator core, a tooth portion that extends from the yoke portion to the rotary axis in a radial direction of the stator core, and a steel plate where the yoke portion and the tooth portion are formed wherein one edge of the segment core linearly extends along the yoke portion and the tooth portion in the radial direction of the stator core, the other edge forms a projection in the yoke portion jutting out from the tooth portion in the circumferential direction whereby a segment core is formed into a shape of an L.

Abstract: A motor core component (10) comprising a plurality of poles (12) and an annular or ring-shaped yoke (16). The yoke (16) is manufacturing by bending or folding a belt component (26) comprising a plurality of yoke portions (14), allowing for greater material utilization during production. At least a portion of the poles (20) are a separate component from the yoke portions (14), such that field coils may be wound around the pole bodies (18) prior to assembling the poles (12) and yoke (16) together, thereby allowing for more convenient winding and a higher slot fill ratio.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis. The rotor includes a rotor laminate stack having layered laminations pressed in an axial direction to form a composite, the rotor laminate stack being radially divided into an inner mechanical region and an outer electrical region. A rotor winding is disposed in the electrical region of the rotor laminate stack. A stator concentrically surrounds the rotor. A press plate is configured to press the layered laminations in the axial direction, the press plate being radially divided into a separate inner press plate and a separate outer press plate so as to correspond to the radial division of the rotor laminate stack.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator iron-core on which a winding is wound, a rotor having a rotary body holding a permanent magnet opposed to the stator along a circumferential direction and a shaft joined to the rotary body such that it extends through the rotary body at the center, bearings supporting the shaft, two conductive brackets for fixing the bearings, and a printed circuit board on which a drive circuit for driving the winding is mounted. A dielectric layer is provided between an outer wall of the rotary body and the shaft, the two brackets are electrically connected together, and a capacitor is connected between the stator iron-core and the brackets for adjusting impedance.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a rotor assembly for a motor in which separation type rotor cores having the other polarity are disposed between core members of integral type rotor cores having one polarity and the separation type rotor cores and the integral type rotor cores are fixed to each other using wedges or injection molding materials that are formed of a non-magnetic material, such that movement of magnetic fluxes between the integral type rotor cores and the separation type rotor core may be minimized, and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: A stator back-iron or rotor back-iron of an electric motor, for receiving coil windings comprises a support (2) with a plurality of teeth (3) radially distributed about the support. The teeth are arranged to receive wire windings and are integrally formed with the support. The teeth and support are formed of laminations. The support further comprises a plurality of engagement means (5) formed between the teeth arranged to receive additional teeth (6) having wire windings mounted thereon. Preferably the engagement means are provided between adjacent teeth. The support and integral teeth provide a rigid structure while the spacing provided by using additional teeth makes it easier to wind coils.

Abstract: A stator assembly includes a segmented stator having stator portions. Each stator portion includes a support structure and dovetails, each coupled to the support structure by adjustable elements. The stator portion also includes stator laminations, where each of the laminations has openings to engage with the dovetails. Connectors are provided to connect the stator portions of the segmented stator together.

Abstract: A stator core includes a first lamination and a second lamination. The first lamination is formed from a plurality of first segments and has a plurality of first mounting ears. The second lamination is formed from a plurality of second segments and has a plurality of second mounting ears. The first lamination and the second lamination are aligned with a common axis and are rotated about the common axis such that the first lamination is not aligned with the second lamination.

Abstract: A segmented magneto-conductive structure applied in rotating machines comprises a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor yoke component and a plurality of rotor teeth components. The rotor yoke component is made of non-oriented silicon steel. The rotor teeth components are made of grain-oriented silicon steel. The stator assembly includes a plurality of stator yoke components and a plurality of stator teeth components. The stator yoke components and the stator teeth components are made of grain-oriented silicon steel. Thereby, an operational efficiency of a motor applying the segmented magneto-conductive structure is enhanced.

Abstract: A broad-pole type square-wave three-phase brushless permanent magnet direct current motor and an assembling method thereof are disclosed. The number of magnetic poles on a rotor core is: 2P=4. The number of slots in a stator core is: Z=6. Six teeth on the stator are composed of three large teeth and three small teeth. The sum of mechanical angles of one large tooth and one small tooth is 120 degree. Electrical angles corresponding to the mechanical angles are: P*120=240°. Three-phase concentrated windings are wound on three large teeth separately, and only one winding is arranged at each phase. The advantages of the motor are low positioning torque, simple structure, effective production cost, convenient to wind the windings, and low copper loss, etc.

Abstract: A rotor assembly is assembled by providing an elongated rectangular strip of material having a first edge and a second edge defining a width, cutting the elongated rectangular strip to form a first patterned strip having a first side corresponding to the first edge, winding the first patterned strip portion around the perimeter of the rotor core such that the first edge is adjacent to the perimeter and the patterned strip portion forms a continuous laminated ring structure. Two laminated ring structures can be cut from a single strip, thereby reducing waste material and forming a strong structure.

Abstract: A generator core that increases the amount of power generated by a generator is provided. A plurality of magnetic steel sheets including non-divided magnetic steel sheets and divided magnetic steel sheets are stacked on each other to form a plurality of divided cores. The divided magnetic steel sheets are disposed to form a gap portion that crosses a magnetic path in one magnetic steel sheet. Each gap portion is positioned and shaped such that magnetic resistances of magnetic pole portions of the plurality of divided cores are not different from each other.

Abstract: A stator of an alternating current (AC) motor is disclosed. The stator includes a stator core having a divided structure including and an outer stator core fitted around the inner stator core while being connected to an inner circumference of the inner stator core. The inner stator core has a rotor insertion hole formed at the inner circumference of the inner stator core and a plurality of tooth members arranged in a circumferential direction at an outer circumference of the inner stator core. Since the coils are wound directly on the tooth members through intervals between the neighboring tooth members at the outer circumference of the inner stator core, manufacturing of the stator is facilitated. In addition, since insertion of the coils into the slots is not performed through gaps formed on an inner side of the inner stator core where the rotor insertion hole is formed, the gaps may be minimized. As a result, the performance of the AC motor is improved.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a stator mounting kit that includes multiple radial adjustment shims having different thicknesses from one another. The stator mounting kit also includes multiple stator alignment adapters having different circumferential alignments between a keybar mount and a spring bar mount. The stator mounting kit is configured to enable radial and circumferential alignment between each spring bar and respective keybar in a stator framework via selection of one of the stator alignment adapters and selection of one or more of the radial adjustment shims.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator coil including shaping a plurality of shaped bodies from electric conductor wires; combining the shaped bodies to form a combined body; and winding the combined body around a core member to form a wound body. The shaped body includes a plurality of parallel straight portions extending along a longitudinal direction of the combined body, and a plurality of turn portions connecting straight portions at ends of the straight portions in an alternating manner. Each of the shaped bodies includes a plurality of straight overlap sections. The wound body includes a plurality of straight laminated sections formed from the plurality of straight overlap sections laminated in a radial direction. Pre-orientation members are inserted respectively into consecutive clearances formed between adjacent straight overlap sections during the winding step, so overlap of the straight portions in the straight overlap section caught between said pre-orientation members is aligned.

Abstract: In a process of producing a stator forming part of a rotary motor arrangement, a multiplicity of laminations are joined together to produce a first stack of laminations defining teeth, slots between adjacent teeth, and a yoke section connecting the teeth together. Coil elements are then mounted on the teeth so that the coil elements are disposed in the slots between the adjacent teeth, and a second stack of laminations is fitted onto an inner diameter of the first stack of laminations and fixed in place to function as tooth tips. At least part of the second lamination stack is then bored out or otherwise removed to dispose of all but a thin layer of the second stack of laminations bridging adjacent teeth defined by the first stack of laminations. A rotary motor stator produced by such a process is also described.

Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotor core fixedly attached to a rotational shaft and having a magnet-inserted hole portion; a magnet inserted into the magnet-inserted hole portion; and a resin portion injected into the magnet-inserted hole portion. The rotor core is constructed by axially stacking a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets. The electromagnetic steel sheets include: an electromagnetic steel sheet having the magnet-inserted hole portion and a weight-reducing-purpose hole portion provided separately from the magnet-inserted hole portion; and an electromagnetic steel sheet located on at least one axial end of the rotor core and having a portion covering the hole portion formed in the electromagnetic steel sheet.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a stator core for an axial air-gap electronic motor, in which core sheets are laminatedly fixed while being shifted with predetermined intervals. The method includes a step in which first side surfaces in the circumferential direction (first slot surfaces 25) of the first to nth (n is a positive integer) core sheets are blanked out of a mother sheet 60 by moving first blanking punches 360 with predetermined intervals via a first control means 700; and a second blanking step in which second side surfaces in the circumferential direction (second slot surfaces 26) of the first to nth (n is a positive integer) core sheets are blanked in succession by moving a second blanking punch 460 with predetermined intervals via a second control means 700.

Abstract: A first laminated body includes first and second laminated groups including respective convex parts alternately disposed. A second laminated body includes third and fourth laminated groups including respective concave parts alternately disposed. The convex part of the first laminated group is shaped to not be inserted into the concave part of the third laminated group and to be inserted into the concave part of the fourth laminated group, from a lamination horizontal direction. The convex part of the second laminated group is shaped to be inserted into the concave part of the third laminated group and the concave part of the fourth laminated group, from the lamination horizontal direction. The convex part of the first laminated group is press-inserted in the concave part of the third laminated group, and the convex part of the second laminated group is inserted in the concave part of the fourth laminated group.

Abstract: An electric motor 1 comprises a rotator 20 rotating relative to a stator 10 and a plurality of teeth 11 winding an exciting coil 12 in the stator 10. The teeth 11 generate a magnetic field directed to the rotator 20 from tip faces 11a and comprise a radially extending part 11A extending in a radial direction of the rotator 20 and a coil winding part 11B formed to be bent from the radially extending part 11A.

Abstract: A stator of an electrical machine has a cross section, a longitudinal extension, a jacket surface, a plurality of winding holders configured for receiving field windings, the winding holders being distributed inhomogenously around an inner circumference of the cross section, such that a density of the field windings in at least one first region formed around a stator circumference is smaller than in an adjacent second region.

Abstract: The stator of an electric rotating machine includes a stator core constituted of a plurality of core pieces joined to one another in a ring, a plurality of phase windings wound around the stator core, the stator core and the phase windings constituting a core assembly body, and an outer casing into which the core assembly body is fitted. Gaps are provided between an outer periphery of the core assembly body and an inner periphery of the outer casing.

Abstract: The modular conical stator pole provides an improved conical stator assembly on electrical machines. The improved conical stator pole assembly comprises a plurality of stator poles, each pole comprising an assembly having a coil secured on a soft magnetic composites (SMC) stator pole tooth by inserting a winding support through the open core of the coil and attaching a back iron and a stator face to either end of the winding support. Each stator pole having a parallelogram shaped cross section for forming a conical shaped rotor space when the stator poles are assembled having the back irons bearing against each other to space the coils apart and form a conical shaped outside profile of the stator pole assembly. The conical stator having a small end and a big end. The tooth comprising a winding support integrally molded with either the back iron or the face.

Abstract: A laminated core includes a laminated body, clamping plates and holding members. The laminated body includes a plurality of amorphous alloy plates, which are stacked one after another in a stacking direction such that each adjacent two of the plurality of amorphous alloy plates directly contact with each other. The clamping plates contact opposed end surfaces, respectively, of the laminated body in the stacking direction. A thickness of each of the first and second clamping plates in the stacking direction is larger than that of each of the plurality of amorphous alloy plates. Each holding member contacts with the clamping plates and maintains a predetermined space between the clamping plates while the laminated body is clamped between the clamping plates.

Abstract: A stator of an alternating current (AC) motor is disclosed. The stator includes a stator core having a divided structure including and an outer stator core fitted around the inner stator core while being connected to an inner circumference of the inner stator core. The inner stator core has a rotor insertion hole formed at the inner circumference of the inner stator core and a plurality of tooth members arranged in a circumferential direction at an outer circumference of the inner stator core. Since the coils are wound directly on the tooth members through intervals between the neighboring tooth members at the outer circumference of the inner stator core, manufacturing of the stator is facilitated. In addition, since insertion of the coils into the slots is not performed through gaps formed on an inner side of the inner stator core where the rotor insertion hole is formed, the gaps may be minimized. As a result, the performance of the AC motor is improved.

Abstract: An electric machine which has an arched stator and a cylindrical rotor fitted inside it and in which the flux flows in the radial direction between the stator and the rotor as in a permanent-magnet radial-flux synchronous electric machine, and in which the stator of the machine consists of stator segments (2), each of which has an independent stator core and winding, and the stator segments are arranged to be physically separate from each other so that the stator consists of stator segments arched according to the radius of the rotor and working electromagnetically independently like a linear machine, each stator segment having a stator core and a winding separate from the other stator segments, and that it comprises an overhead supporting frame structure separate from the stator cores and consisting of several longitudinal ribs (41) and parts (42) between them.

Abstract: A rotating electric motor includes a rotary shaft capable of rotation, a stator core formed in a cylindrical configuration, a rotor core fixed to the rotary shaft, a magnet set at the rotor core such that a pair of magnetic poles of different magnetism are aligned in the radial direction of the rotor core, a field yoke provided at the perimeter of the stator core, and a winding that can control the magnetic flux density across the rotor core and the stator core by forming a magnetic circuit across the field yoke and the rotor core.

Abstract: A core assembly is manufactured by punching core segments at a predetermined pitch in a short-side direction thereof with long sides aligned in a width direction of a rolled steel plate, the long sides of the core segments having lengths that are half a length of a long side of the core assembly; preparing four (two first and two second) laminated core sections by aligning punching directions of the core segments and laminating the core segments to a thickness that is half a laminated thickness of the core assembly; preparing two core subassemblies by inverting the second laminated core sections and laminating them onto the first laminated core sections such that the punching directions of the core segments are in opposite directions; and preparing the core assembly by arranging the two core subassemblies in a longitudinal direction and integrating them by joining.

Abstract: A synchronous reluctance machine is provided. The synchronous reluctance machine includes a stator having a stator core, the stator core including a number of fractional-slot concentrated windings wound around multiple stator teeth. The synchronous reluctance machine also includes a rotor having a rotor core and disposed with an air gap inside and concentric with the stator, wherein the rotor core includes a number of laminated sheets, wherein each of the laminated sheets is axially skewed with respect to neighboring ones of the laminated sheets, and wherein each of the laminated sheets includes multiple ferromagnetic regions and multiple non-ferromagnetic regions formed of a single material.

Abstract: Low speed permanent magnet brushless motors and generators are described that employ an internal or external rotor in a radial form with a high or variable rotor pole to stator pole ratio. The devices incorporate multiple stators joined with parallel connections, which provides high efficiency and variable torque. Methods of construction, materials and uses are presented.

Abstract: A stator assembly is provided for an electric motor having a longitudinal axis. The stator assembly includes at least one stator segment having a first end member having a stator tooth and at least one of a stator shoe and a back iron. A second end member is positioned with respect to the first end member and has a stator tooth and at least one of a stator shoe and a back iron. A winding generally circumscribes the stator tooth of the first end member and the stator tooth of the second end member. The first and second end members have a parting line generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the motor. A motor incorporating the stator assembly of the present invention is disclosed. Additionally, a method of forming the stator assembly of the present invention is described.