Via Tip Slot Patents (Class 310/216.094)
  • Patent number: 11881746
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a rotor and a motor having the rotor. By providing a plurality of flux barrier groups and slot groups at intervals in a circumferential direction of the rotor iron core, it is possible to flexibly arrange the numbers of the flux barrier groups and the slot groups so as to meet the requirements for the number of poles of different products. In addition, by flexibly adjusting the quantity ratio between the flux barrier groups and the slot groups and/or the quantity relationship between the flux barriers in the flux barrier group and the slots in the slot group, it is possible to meet the requirements for motor efficiency and starting capacity of different products. Further, since the processing jig of the rotor only requires processing of the structures of the flux barriers and the slots, the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsin-Nan Lin, Sheng-Chan Yen, Ta-Yin Luo, Guo-Jhih Yan, Yu-Wei Hsu, Cheng-Tsung Liu
  • Patent number: 11264849
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotor (3) for an electric machine (1). The rotor (3) includes a plurality of magnet poles (5a-f; 5a-h) each comprising one or more permanent magnets (6-n). The magnet poles (5a-f; 5a-h) are angularly separated from each other and an inter-pole region (7a-f; 7a-h) is formed between adjacent magnet poles (5a-f; 5a-h). At least one external flux barrier (12-1, 12-2) is disposed in each said inter-pole region (7a-f; 7a-h), the at least one external flux barrier (12-1, 12-2) comprising an external aperture. The present disclosure also relates to an electric machine (1) including a rotor (3); and to a vehicle (2) including an electric machine (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Tiago Cesa, Alexandros Michaelides
  • Patent number: 10833546
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet motor may include a stator of a annular shape, and a rotor coaxially disposed inside the stator by positioned between a gap between the rotor and the stator and having a plurality of permanent magnets embedded therein and spaced from each other in a circumferential direction along a circumference of the rotor, wherein the stator has a plurality of first notches formed on an internal circumferential surface facing the rotor in a height direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction thereof, and the rotor has a plurality of second notches formed on an external circumferential surface facing the stator in a height direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hwa Do, Kyoung Bum Kim, Yeon Ho Kim, Jae Bum Park, Hee Ra Lee
  • Patent number: 9509198
    Abstract: An electrical machine comprising: at least one stator, at least one module, the at least one module comprising at least one electromagnetic coil and at least one switch, the at least one module being attached to the at least one stator; at least one rotor with a plurality of magnets attached to the at least one rotor, an integrated electrical differential coupled to at least one of the rotors, the at least one integrated electrical differential permitting the at least one rotor to output at least two rotational outputs to corresponding shafts, wherein the at least two rotational outputs are able to move the shafts at different rotational velocities to one another. The electrical machine is configured to fit into a housing, and that can be retrofitted into a conventional vehicle by replacing the mechanical differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Axiflux Holdings Pty Ltd
    Inventor: David Elias Jahshan
  • Patent number: 9172278
    Abstract: Not less than two regions different in magnetic circuit design are provided in a rotational axis direction of the rotor (30), the regions being different by changing a cross-sectional shape in the rotational axis direction in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotational shaft (10) of the rotor (30) having the permanent magnets (1) and the rotor core (2); the supplemental grooves (5) are provided in axial partial regions of each of the teeth (7) of the stator core (3); and the region in which the supplemental groove (5) is provided is each partial region for each region facing a region same in magnetic circuit design of the rotor (30). This enables to reduce cogging torque generated by variations on the rotor side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Yusuke Morita, Misa Nakayama, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu
  • Patent number: 9041269
    Abstract: There is provided a motor including a rotor and a stator arranged outside the rotor in the radial direction. The rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the rotor core and functioning as one magnetic pole, and salient poles integrated with the rotor core, each arranged between adjacent magnets and at a distance from the magnets. The salient poles function as the other magnetic pole. A stator has a stator core having a plurality of teeth extending in the radial direction of the stator and arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and multi-phase coils attached to the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemasa Kato, Seiya Yokoyama, Yoji Yamada, Keisuke Koide, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shinji Santo
  • Patent number: 9006941
    Abstract: A permanent magnet-type stepping motor broadly includes: a movable member (e.g., a rotor) having a number of magnetic poles on a surface thereof, with adjacent poles being of opposite polarity, the number of poles being a function of a constant, the number of phases and a desired step interval; and a stationary member (e.g., a stator) having a number of equally-spaced teeth arranged to face toward said movable member surface, each of said teeth having a plurality of fingers arranged to face toward said movable member surface, the number of said teeth being a whole integer that is a function of a constant, the number of said poles, the number of said fingers on each stator tooth, and the number of phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Zong-Ping Zhao
  • Patent number: 8957563
    Abstract: An electric machine is provided with a rotor configured to be rotatable within a stator. A first and second tooth are disposed circumferentially along an outer perimeter of the rotor and at least partially define a first slot. The first and the second tooth define a respective first and second outer edge extending between a respective tooth base and a respective tooth tip. An arc radius from the origin to the outer perimeter of the rotor varies along the first outer edge of the first tooth, thereby creating a first non-uniform gap between the rotor and the stator. The arc radius from the origin to the outer perimeter of the rotor varies along the second outer edge of the second tooth, thereby creating a second non-uniform gap between the rotor and the stator. The rotor geometry is configured to reduce torque ripple without skewing either the rotor or the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Constantin C. Stancu, Sinisa Jurkovic, Xinyu Zhou, Qiang Niu, Xu Han
  • Patent number: 8912703
    Abstract: There is provided a stator core formed by stacking a plurality of single core sheets, each including a coreback having a central hole formed therein, a plurality of tooth parts extended from the coreback in a radial direction, and extension parts extended from the plurality of respective tooth parts in a circumferential direction, wherein at least one of the plurality of single core sheets includes through-holes formed therein in order to reduce cogging torque, the through-holes being formed in the extension parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Song Bon Oh, Jong Ryeol Oh
  • Patent number: 8803395
    Abstract: A rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged annularly around an axis and a rotor core. The rotor core includes 2N (where N is a natural number) magnetic pole faces and a plurality of magnetic barriers. The 2N magnetic pole faces produce, due to the plurality of permanent magnets, magnetic poles in a radial direction in such a manner that different polarities can be alternately produced around the axis. The magnetic barriers are provided at a side close to the magnetic pole faces relative to the permanent magnets. At least one of the magnetic barriers is provided in each region obtained by equally dividing the rotor core into (2N+1), ((N+1)×2) or ((N?1)×2) angles around the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintarou Araki, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20140062254
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine is configured to include a stator that includes a stator core and a winding wound around a teeth portion of the stator core, a rotor rotatably arranged with respect to the stator with a gap, and in which a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets having different poles are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, and a groove provided in a surface of the rotor core, the surface facing the stator, in a manner symmetric about a center line of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Junnosuke NAKATSUGAWA, Hiroshi KANAZAWA, Hidefumi IWAKI
  • Patent number: 8664826
    Abstract: An electric motor (1) has a stator (2) and a radially symmetric, permanent magnet excited rotor (4) coaxial with the stator (2). The rotor (4) rotates relative to the stator (2) about a common motor axis (X). The stator (2) has a radially symmetric iron core (6) with a defined number (N) of stator teeth (10) which are each adjacent to one another via stator slots (8) and slot openings (8a) in the circumferential direction. The rotor (4) has pole magnets (14) adjacent to one another. A circumferential gap (18) is formed radially between the pole magnets (14) and the stator teeth (10). Each stator tooth (10) has on its surface (20) facing the gap (18) and adjacent to the slot openings (8a) on both sides in the circumferential direction a relief-like topographic region (22) radially enlarging the gap (18) with least one concave recess (24) and a smooth profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: EBM-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jens Krotsch
  • Patent number: 8643239
    Abstract: A motor including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, magnet pole portions, and core pole portions. First magnetic pole portions, which are the magnet pole portions or the core pole portions, each include a first and second opposing parts arranged in an axial direction. Each first opposing part includes an auxiliary groove, and each second opposing part does not include an auxiliary groove. Where M(°) represents an open angle of the first magnetic pole portion, G(°) represents an open angle of the void, and L represents the number of teeth, an angle D1 from a center line in the circumferential direction of the first magnetic pole portion to the side surface in the auxiliary groove that is closer to the center line in the circumferential direction satisfies D1=M/2+G?a×360(°)/L (where a is a natural number).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato, Seiya Yokoyama, Keisuke Koide
  • Patent number: 8610330
    Abstract: A rotor for a multipolar synchronous electric machine including a plurality of salient poles, each salient pole being surrounded by an induction coil; a ring integrating the plurality of salient poles; wherein each salient pole includes a polar body integral with the ring; two removable pole tips facing each other on either side of the polar body; front parts provided along the ends of the polar body, to radially maintain the induction coil in a transverse portion thereof; the polar body including two slots formed on either side of the polar body and having a shape adapted for receiving the pole tips; the front parts blocking the displacements of the pole tips in the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Jeumont Electric
    Inventors: Daniel Laloy, Guy Legoix, Brahlm Ammar
  • Patent number: 8536749
    Abstract: A motor having a rotor and a stator is disclosed. The rotor is a consequent-pole rotor having a rotor core, a plurality of magnets, and a plurality of salient poles. The stator includes a stator core and multiphase coils. Each coil is wound about the teeth by distributed winding, in such a manner as to wind two or more consecutive teeth in single winding. The opening degree each of salient pole opposed to the distal ends of the teeth is set greater than or equal to twice the opening angle of the distal end of each tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Koide, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shinji Santo
  • Patent number: 8519593
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor provided with nine slots and eight poles includes a stator including a stator core having pole teeth on the outer circumference thereof and a coil wound around each pole tooth; a rotor disposed at an outside position of the outer circumference of the stator via a gap and having a multiply magnetized permanent magnet with plural magnetic poles; a pole tooth surface formed at a portion of the pole tooth and facing an inner circumference of the rotor; a recessed portion formed on the pole tooth surface; and a slot formed between the adjacent pole teeth and extending a first angular range around a rotational center of the rotor; in which the recessed portion extends in a second angular range around the rotational center of the rotor, the second angular range is 1.2 to 3.0 times the first angular range, the recessed portion has a radial depth which is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Yuuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130154436
    Abstract: Not less than two regions different in magnetic circuit design are provided in a rotational axis direction of the rotor (30), the regions being different by changing a cross-sectional shape in the rotational axis direction in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotational shaft (10) of the rotor (30) having the permanent magnets (1) and the rotor core (2); the supplemental grooves (5) are provided in axial partial regions of each of the teeth (7) of the stator core (3); and the region in which the supplemental groove (5) is provided is each partial region for each region facing a region same in magnetic circuit design of the rotor (30). This enables to reduce cogging torque generated by variations on the rotor side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Yusuke Morita, Misa Nakayama, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20130113333
    Abstract: In a multi-gap type electric rotating machine, side cores include an outside-side core connected to one end side of an outside core, and an inside-side core connected to one end side of an inside core. The outside-side core includes an outer-side rotor-opposite portion which projects from the inner periphery end of the outside core and is opposite to an end face at the outer periphery side of a rotor. The inside-side core includes an inner-side rotor-opposite portion which projects from the outer periphery end of the inside core and is opposite to an end face at the inner periphery side of the rotor. The outside-side core and the inside-side core are arranged so as to be opposed to each other in the radial direction thereof with a gap being interposed between the inner periphery end of the outer-side rotor-opposite portion and the outer periphery end of the inner-side rotor-opposite portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: DENSO CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130093284
    Abstract: The waveform of a magnetomotive force generated by a rotor is comprised of a plurality of sections that respectively correspond to a plurality of magnetic poles of the rotor. When viewed along the axial direction of a rotor core, each of the sections of the waveform includes two oblique lines and a connection line. Each of the oblique lines extends from a 0 reference line, which is defined by an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, obliquely with respect to a radial direction of the rotor core. The connection line connects the two oblique lines in the circumferential direction of the rotor core. Moreover, representing the circumferential width of the connection line by 2?·Duty, the circumferential width of the oblique lines by 2?·Slope, the radial height of the oblique lines by B, the order of a harmonic component of the magnetomotive force by n, and the amplitude of the nth harmonic component by Amp1, then the following relationship is satisfied: Slope=k/n (here, k is an arbitrary natural number).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Utaka
  • Patent number: 8350437
    Abstract: A motor is provided that includes magnetic poles, an armature core, armature coils, a commutator, and power supply brushes. The armature core includes teeth arranged in the circumferential direction to extend in a radial pattern. The armature coils include inner layer coils and outer layer coils. Each of the inner layer coils is wound around radially proximal end portions of two circumferentially adjacent teeth or a radially proximal end portion of one of the teeth. The inner layer coils are arranged in the circumferential direction without overlapping each other in the radial direction. Each of the outer layer coils is wound around radially distal end portions of two circumferentially adjacent teeth by distributed winding. The outer layer coils are arranged radially outward of the inner layer coils and are arranged in the circumferential direction without overlapping each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Doushita, Keita Kawai, Kazumitsu Moriya, Toshio Yamamoto, Masaya Horikawa, Masaaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8344576
    Abstract: A rotor for use in an electrical motor which includes an anti-expansion ring centrally mounted on the rotor to restrict the extent rotor elements mounted on a rotatable shaft may expand outward due to centrifugal forces generated when the motor is operated. Such motors are suited for use in high rotational speed environments such as electrically controlled turbochargers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: EcoMotors International
    Inventors: Will Robert Hippen, Franz Laimboeck, Peter Hofbauer
  • Patent number: 8334632
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator-core having slots and teeth, and a back-yoke having convex and concave portions. The convex portions are partially inserted into the slots, and the concave portions receive the teeth. The teeth include tip portions whose circumferential widths become larger along a radial direction from the inside to the outside of the stator. The back-yoke includes convex portions whose circumferential widths become larger along the radial direction from the outside to the inside of the stator. The tip portions and the convex portions have substantially the same shape. The length of a joint portion between the tip portion and the convex portion, the circumferential width of the tooth corresponding to a tip surface of the convex portion, the width of a root portion of the tooth, and the circumferential width of the convex portion corresponding to a bottom face of the concave portion are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Kondou, Makoto Taniguchi, Takeo Maekawa, Akira Fukushima, Akito Akimoto, Shin Kusase, Yuya Mizuma
  • Patent number: 8217601
    Abstract: A robust method for detecting a relative position of a feedback device, such as an encoder or resolver, coupled to a shaft, such as a motor shaft, is provided. To detect the relative position, electrical commands are issued in an open loop mode to spin the motor shaft an amount greater than the apparent rotational angle between two consecutive markers of the position feedback device, such that the net mechanical rotation is equal to or greater than the total rotational angle between two consecutive markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventor: Yun-Chich “Jack” Lin
  • Publication number: 20120133239
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnet embedded rotor includes a rotor iron core and a permanent magnet. The rotor iron core is formed of a magnet into a cylindrical shape and provided with holes. The rotor iron core includes a nonmagnetic portion, salient poles, a notch groove, a bridge, and a first protrusion. The nonmagnetic portion prevents magnetic-flux short circuiting. The salient poles are located on the outer circumferential side of the holes. The notch groove is located between an adjacent pair of the salient poles. The bridge is located between the notch groove and the nonmagnetic portion. The first protrusion protrudes outward from the center of the notch groove. The permanent magnet is embedded in each hole. The radius of each salient pole gradually decreases from the center toward the notch groove. The radius of the first protrusion is equal to that of the center of the salient pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TAEMA, Masaki YAMADA, Takeaki ASHIMORI, Tomooki HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20120112593
    Abstract: A rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged annularly around an axis and a rotor core. The rotor core includes 2N (where N is a natural number) magnetic pole faces and a plurality of magnetic barriers. The 2N magnetic pole faces produce, due to the plurality of permanent magnets, magnetic poles in a radial direction in such a manner that different polarities can be alternately produced around the axis. The magnetic barriers are provided at a side close to the magnetic pole faces relative to the permanent magnets. At least one of the magnetic barriers is provided in each region obtained by equally dividing the rotor core into (2N+1), ((N+1)×2) or ((N?1)×2) angles around the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintarou Araki, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20120025665
    Abstract: A single-phase brushless motor, includes: a rotor including plural magnetic poles; a stator disposed facing the rotor via a gap and including the same number of salient poles as that of the magnetic poles; a driving coil wound around the plural salient poles; a salient pole surface having a bevel-shape and provided on each salient pole, the salient pole surface facing the rotor a groove provided at a position between a center and an end in a circumferential direction of each salient pole surface; in which a wave shape of each surface magnetic flux of the plural magnetic poles has a distribution of the surface magnetic flux density composed of sloping portions disposed at both sides of the wave shape and a plane portion disposed between the sloping portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki TAKAHASHI, Yuzuru SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20110254402
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor provided with nine slots and eight poles includes a stator including a stator core having pole teeth on the outer circumference thereof and a coil wound around each pole tooth; a rotor disposed at an outside position of the outer circumference of the stator via a gap and having a multiply magnetized permanent magnet with plural magnetic poles; a pole tooth surface formed at a portion of the pole tooth and facing an inner circumference of the rotor; a recessed portion formed on the pole tooth surface; and a slot formed between the adjacent pole teeth and extending a first angular range around a rotational center of the rotor; in which the recessed portion extends in a second angular range around the rotational center of the rotor, the second angular range is 1.2 to 3.0 times the first angular range, the recessed portion has a radial depth which is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Yuuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7990015
    Abstract: Attachments are removably coupled to the magnetic core of a rotating electric machine, the magnetic core being shaped to include a plurality of coil-receiving slots that are separated by radial teeth. Each attachment is constructed as a unitary member and includes a base and a stem, the stem being dimensioned for fitted insertion within a recess formed in the distal end of a corresponding tooth. The base includes a convex bottom wall, a flattened top wall and a pair of non-planar sidewalls. The stem is integrally formed on the top wall of the base and includes a front end, a rear end, a flattened top wall and a pair of opposing sidewalls. A longitudinal groove is formed into each of the pair of opposing sidewalls of the stem. An outwardly protruding shoulder designed for engagement by a retention plate is formed into the front and rear ends of the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Peter P. Mongeau, Mark S. Piercey, William R. Wink
  • Patent number: 7969058
    Abstract: Permanent magnet motors with improved torque ripple and methods for designing the same have been provided. The permanent magnet motor can include a stator having a hollow core and defining a plurality of slots; a winding disposed in each of the slots; a rotor rotatably disposed inside the hollow core of the stator; and a plurality of permanent magnets supported by the rotor. Each of the slots has a slot opening, and at least one of the slot openings can be off-center with respect to the respective slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Peter J. Savagian, Matthew D. Laba
  • Patent number: 7960886
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of winding phases formed by distributed winding, a rotor having a plurality of magnetic poles and an outer circumference facing the stator, a first groove formed in the outer circumference of the rotor, a second groove formed in a position opposite to reference magnetic poles closest to the first groove, of the magnetic poles, with respect to the first groove, and a protrusion positioned between the first groove and the second groove and defined by the first and second grooves, and a ratio of a width half the width of the protrusion in a circumferential direction of the rotor to a width of the first groove and the second groove in the circumferential direction of the rotor is not smaller than 0.37 and not greater than 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miura, Yoshiyuki Hisamatsu
  • Patent number: 7764001
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine that is formed of a distribution winding motor with two slots per each pole and each phase, a stator core includes an air gap of a constant width dg1 between the leading end of a same-phase-intermediate tooth and the outer circumferential face of a rotor core, and an air gap of a width not uniform in the circumferential direction between the leading end of a different-phase-intermediate tooth and the outer circumferential face of the rotor core, with a width dg2 (>dg1) as the largest value. A magnetic circuit having a magnetic resistance higher than that of the same-phase-intermediate tooth is formed at the different-phase-intermediate tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Publication number: 20100181864
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of winding phases formed by distributed winding, a rotor having a plurality of magnetic poles and an outer circumference facing the stator, a first groove formed in the outer circumference of the rotor, a second groove formed in a position opposite to reference magnetic poles closest to the first groove, of the magnetic poles, with respect to the first groove, and a protrusion positioned between the first groove and the second groove and defined by the first and second grooves, and a ratio of a width half the width of the protrusion in a circumferential direction of the rotor to a width of the first groove and the second groove in the circumferential direction of the rotor is not smaller than 0.37 and not greater than 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miura, Yoshiyuki Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20100156226
    Abstract: A brush type motor including a stator having at least one magnet with an inner circumferential surface is provided. The inner circumferential surface is defined by a first radius orthogonally extending from a first axially extending centerline. The motor has an armature disposed within an interior region of the stator having teeth. Each tooth has an arcuate surface defined by a second radius orthogonally extending from a second axially extending centerline. At least one tooth is radially closer to the inner circumferential surface than the teeth adjacent to the at least one tooth. Each tooth further includes at least one dummy notch extending into the tooth. The first axially extending centerline is in a first position different than a second position of the second axially extending centerline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad S. Islam, Matthew W. Mielke, Christian Ross
  • Patent number: 7667363
    Abstract: Outer circumference of a rotor is alternately provided with a plurality of circumferential portions and a plurality of convex portions. Straight lines each connecting a rotational axis to one of circumferential centers of circumferential portions are referred to as radial lines. Straight lines each bisecting one of convex portions are referred to as bisectors. A plurality of magnetic flux blocking regions are located on a rotor. One of the magnetic flux blocking region is located in a range between the radial line and the bisector adjacent to and preceding the radial line in the rotation direction. Therefore, a permanent magnet embedment rotating electric machine is capable of preventing decreases in torque and suppressing torque ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Taku Adaniya, Tatsuya Horiba, Taizo Hirano, Kensuke Ikai, Minoru Mera