Rotor Passage Patents (Class 310/61)
  • Patent number: 11990797
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electrical machine (1) comprising a housing (10) including two bearings (52, 53), a rotor shaft (5) mounted to rotate freely in the housing via the bearings, a rotor (6) clamped to the rotor shaft so as to rotate the rotor shaft and comprising first (62) and second (63) axial end faces, and a cooling circuit comprising a coolant supply duct (51) arranged coaxially in the rotor shaft, and a radially oriented feed duct (54) arranged in the rotor shaft and in fluid communication with the supply duct and the rotor, characterized in that the cooling circuit further comprises a cooling chamber (61) in fluid communication with the feed duct, extending axially between the rotor and the rotor shaft, opening onto the first and second axial end faces and delimited radially by an angular portion of an external surface (55) of the rotor shaft and an angular portion (65) of an internal surface of the rotor, the two portions extending opposite and at a distance from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC PSA EMOTORS
    Inventors: Ioan Deac, Juan Wang, Hussain Nouri, Guillaume Tardy
  • Patent number: 11646614
    Abstract: In a rotor of a rotating electric machine, a slot includes a winding insertion portion and a widened portion. A width dimension of the widened portion is larger than a width dimension of the winding insertion portion. A pair of step portions are formed on both sides of an end portion of the winding insertion portion on the widened portion side. A wedge member is spaced from and opposed to the pair of step portions. An insulation includes: an insulation main body arranged between a rotor winding and a damper bar; and an extended portion, which is arranged in at least a part of a space between the wedge member and the pair of step portions, and is configured to suppress movement of the damper bar in a circumferential direction of a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiko Hana, Masao Akiyoshi, Yosuke Uchida
  • Patent number: 11606005
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a stator having end turn windings, a rotatable central shaft, a rotor mounted onto the central shaft, and a rotor end ring mounted onto the central shaft adjacent the rotor, the rotor end ring including an annular disk shaped body having a circumferential outer diameter and a circumferential inner diameter and being formed from a thermally conductive material, a recess formed within a face of the body, an oil jacket formed within a back side of the body, the oil jacket comprising an annular channel having a circumferential outer wall and a circumferential inner wall, two inlets, each inlet extending radially between the inner diameter of the body and the inner wall of the oil jacket, a plurality of outlets, each outlet comprising a circumferential slot, the plurality of outlets equidistantly spaced around the face adjacent the circumferential inner wall of the oil jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Yang, Wei Zeng, Lei Hao
  • Patent number: 11529708
    Abstract: A fan-equipped motor includes: a motor for rotating a spindle, the motor including a hollow-shaped motor shaft in which a through hole is formed; and a fan for cooling the motor, the fan including a hollow-shaped rotary shaft in which a through hole is formed, and a plurality of blades attached to the rotary shaft, the fan being disposed on the side of the motor that is opposite to the spindle. The motor shaft and the rotary shaft are disposed so that cooling air produced by the fan flows in a different passage and in a different direction from a gas supplied into the through hole of the rotary shaft and flowing in the through hole of the motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11509194
    Abstract: A motor comprises a rotor including: a rotor core to rotate on a rotary shaft; a permanent magnet inserted in a magnet insertion hole formed in the rotor core; first and second end plates provided on both end faces of the rotor core respectively in a direction of the rotary shaft; and a blade part provided on a surface of the first end plate to surround the rotary shaft. The rotor includes a cooling hole having an opening between the blade part of the first end plate and the rotary shaft and passing through the rotor core and the second end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 11451102
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine including a rotor including a rotor core; permanent magnets to be embedded in the rotor core; and a one end-side end plate configured to support one end side of the rotor core. The rotor core has rotor refrigerant passages through which refrigerant for cooling the permanent magnets flows in an axial direction of the shaft. The one end-side end plate has an end plate refrigerant passage communicating with the rotor refrigerant passages. The end plate refrigerant passage has refrigerant reservoirs, each projecting to an outer side in a radial direction of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Kimoto, Junji Kitao, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama, Junichi Nakazono
  • Patent number: 11381137
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator assembly, a rotor provided inside the stator assembly, and a heat sink to radiate heat from the stator assembly. The heat sink includes a base portion, and a heat radiating portion formed integrally with the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryogo Takahashi, Hiroki Aso, Takanori Watanabe, Takaya Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 11381135
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor for an asynchronous rotary electrical machine with non-through shaft that includes a cylindrical magnetic mass gripped between two mounting flanges of two half-shafts, a cooling means capable of cooling the rotor and conductive bars housed within the magnetic mass and distributed substantially uniformly over a diameter of the magnetic mass. The cooling means includes, for each conductive bar, at least one cooling channel, opening onto the conductive bar according to an axial direction and located within the magnetic mass and at least one through hole arranged within each conductive bar in such a way that the cooling channel communicates with at least one hole arranged on the outer periphery of the magnetic mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christophe Galmiche, Nicolas Velly, Mathieu Bittermann, Lionel Durantay
  • Patent number: 11374452
    Abstract: There is provided a winding system for use in an electrical, electronic or electromagnetic device or component including: one or more set of windings, each set of windings including an electrically-conductive element arranged in a winding pattern with multiple turns, at least one pair of adjacent turns of the multiple turns being spaced apart to provide at least one channel therebetween for coolant fluid to flow therethrough; and a housing for housing the set of windings, the housing including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet each in fluid communication with the at least one channel, the housing facilitating coolant fluid to flow from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, via the at least one channel in direct contact with exposed surfaces of the set of windings, the exposed surfaces at least partially defining the at least one channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNIX TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: David Bruce Trowbridge Sercombe, Stuart Johnstone, John Alan Kells
  • Patent number: 11355999
    Abstract: A method for cooling an electrical machine includes the following steps: guiding a coolant in an axial coolant supply line which is arranged in the rotor shaft, and conducting the coolant into an interior chamber of the electrical machine via a radial coolant supply line which is connected in a coolant-conducting manner to the axial coolant supply line. The electrical machine has an axial coolant supply line and at least one radial coolant supply line connected in a coolant-conducting manner to the axial coolant supply line, both of which are arranged in the rotor shaft. An interior chamber of the electrical machine is connected in a coolant-guiding manner to the radial coolant supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Huber, Thinh Nguyen-Xuan, Klaus Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11289959
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a rotor core including magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction, a cavity formed on an axis q and extending toward a central axis, and a flux barrier band formed in the magnetic pole between a pair of the cavities to cross an axis d and including a first bridge part facing one cavity, a second bridge part facing the other cavity, and a magnet embedding hole formed between the first and the second bridge parts, a first permanent magnet formed of a fixed magnetic force magnet and disposed in the magnet embedding hole to be adjacent to the first bridge part, and a second permanent magnet formed of a variable magnetic force magnet and disposed in the magnet embedding hole to be adjacent to the second bridge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kano, Hideki Hisada, Masakatsu Matsubara, Yusuke Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11289975
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid-cooled active part (1) for an electric machine (38), wherein the active part (1) is substantially cylindrical or hollow cylindrical, having axially extending grooves (2), at least one electrical conductor (3), which is arranged in the associated groove (2) at least in some sections and which is composed of a plurality of partial conductors (4), one or more main insulators (5), each arranged between the associated conductor (3) and the associated groove (2), and partial-conductor insulators (6), each surrounding the associated partial conductor (4). The invention further relates to an electric machine (38), having such a fluid-cooled active part (1) designed as a stator (39) and/or such a fluid-cooled active part (1) designed as a rotatably mounted rotor (40), wherein the electric machine (38) can be operated with a voltage in the range of at least a few kilovolts, preferably a few tens of kilovolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Bethge, Matthias Johannes Burghard, Matthias Centner, Marco Festa, Ilja Sabelfeld
  • Patent number: 11239733
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a reactor is provided. The reactor include: a coil including a wound flat wire, the flat wire being covered with an insulating film, and the coil having a flat surface; and a cooler facing the flat surface, in which the flat wire on an outer periphery side of the coil may be not covered with the insulating film at the flat surface, and the flat wire at the flat surface may include a plurality of wire segments lying in a pitch direction. The method may include pressing a rod against a short side of the plurality of wire segments to form at least one thickened portion in each of the plurality of wire segments, the thickened portion being a portion of the flat wire thickened in the pitch direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazumi Serizawa
  • Patent number: 11225978
    Abstract: A compressor according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes, a rotor driven by a shaft and configured to compress air. A motor is drives the shaft. First and second journal bearings facilitate rotation of the shaft. The first journal bearing is located upstream from the motor, and the second journal bearing is located downstream from the motor. A thrust bearing also facilitates rotation of the shaft. The thrust bearing is downstream from the second journal bearing. A tie rod connects the shaft to a motor rotor shaft adjacent the first journal bearing. The tie rod includes an opening which is configured to communicate cooling air from the motor to the rotor. A method for cooling a compressor is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Brent J. Merritt, Craig M. Beers, John M. Beck
  • Patent number: 11205931
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a rotor for an electric machine comprising: a laminated rotor core; a filler body comprising an aluminum die-cast alloy cast onto the laminated rotor core; a first shaft journal having an air inlet opening; a second shaft journal having an air outlet opening; and a ventilation unit. The filler body connects the laminated rotor core rotationally conjointly to the shaft journals. The laminated rotor core includes a central axial bore partially filled by the filler body forming an axial cooling channel for cooling air within the central axial bore. The shaft journals drive the ventilation unit. Rotation of the ventilation unit draws an air stream in via the air inlet opening, conveys said air stream through the axial cooling channel, and discharges said air stream via the air outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Isao Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11177709
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine, including a rotor core and a shaft, is connected to the rotor core for conjoint rotation, wherein a cooling channel arrangement is formed within the rotor assembly and includes a cooling channel, which extends within the shaft. The rotor assembly further includes a separation element which has a separation portion extending in the circumferential direction at an inner radius of the shaft, wherein the separation portion separates an interior of the shaft into a first shaft portion, in which the cooling channel extends, and into a second shaft portion, wherein the separation element includes a sealing device, which seals off the shaft portions with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Krais, Philipp Söntgerath, Sebastian Waider
  • Patent number: 11114924
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a squirrel-cage rotor for an asynchronous machine comprising: a first shaft journal; a second shaft journal; a laminated rotor core; and a filler body cast onto the laminated rotor core connecting the filler body and the laminated rotor core in a rotationally fixed manner. The filler body is connected to the shaft journals in a rotationally fixed manner and a torque applied to the shaft journals is transmitted to the laminated rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, Isao Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11088581
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric motor, including: a rotor carrier hub; a rotor radially disposed about the rotor carrier hub; and an annular end ring. The rotor carrier hub includes: an axis of rotation; an annular outer surface facing in a first axial direction parallel to the axis of rotation; a circumferentially disposed outer surface; a curved indentation in the annular outer surface; and a protrusion extending beyond the circumferentially disposed outer surface in a radially outward direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation and radially aligned with the curved indentation such that a line, in the radially outward direction, passes through the curved indentation and the protrusion. The end ring is in contact with the circumferentially disposed outer surface of the rotor carrier hub and the protrusion. The protrusion blocks displacement of the rotor in the first axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ayyalraju Satyaseelan, Derek Deacon
  • Patent number: 11041498
    Abstract: A fan motor apparatus is provided, which includes a blade; a rotary shaft; a hub; a rotor integrally molded with the blade, the rotor being fixed to the rotary shaft; and a protection cover including: a lid portion covering a top surface of the rotor; and an intake port configured to take air into the lid portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Okuda, Haruhisa Maruyama, Yoshihisa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11043867
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical generator including a stator having a stator body extending axially between a first axial end and a second axial end, the stator body including a plurality of slots, the plurality of slots being circumferentially distributed around a longitudinal axis of the stator body. The stator includes a plurality of windings housed in the plurality of slots and a plurality of end-windings, each end winding having a curved shape and connecting the windings in two slots of the plurality of slots. The electrical generator further includes at least one air guide inside and/or outside the plurality of end-windings cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Peter Hessellund Soerensen
  • Patent number: 11007862
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor rotatable about a center axis; and a rotor carrier including an outer circumferential surface having a varying diameter defined by radially inner surface sections and radially outer surface sections. The radially outer surface sections are bonded to an inner circumferential surface of the rotor by an adhesive. A hybrid module configured for arrangement in the torque path upstream from a transmission and downstream from an internal combustion engine includes the electric motor and a torque converter including a front cover. The rotor carrier is fixed to the front cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Justin Persinger
  • Patent number: 10910918
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, and a stator radially outside of the rotor. The rotor includes a shaft extending along the motor axis, a rotor core surrounding the shaft from radially outside, a plate-shaped end plate at an axial end portion of the rotor core, and a cover portion at the axial end portion of the rotor core with the end plate intervening between the cover portion and the rotor core. The end plate includes a plate through hole extending in an axial direction, a first recessed portion extending radially inward from the plate through hole, and a second recessed portion extending radially outward from the plate through hole. The first recessed portion opens radially inward in the end plate. The first recessed portion includes an axially-facing opening covered with the rotor core. The second recessed portion includes an axially-facing opening including a covered portion covered with the cover portion, and an open portion not covered with the cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nakamatsu, Yuki Ishikawa, Takayuki Migita
  • Patent number: 10862360
    Abstract: A rotor segment of an electric machine may include a rotor shaft and a laminated core, which is arranged on the rotor shaft in such a way that a gap dimensioned sufficiently large in the radial direction for the passage of a cooling medium is produced between an outer surface of a hollow cylinder shell and an inner surface of the laminated core. The rotor segment may further include two pressure elements that are held on the rotor shaft in a stationary manner such that the pressure elements axially clamp the laminated core. Further, at least one of the pressure elements is designed as a holding segment allowing cooling medium to pass through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Daniel Paul, Jürgen Meusel
  • Patent number: 10840759
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a rotor including a rotor shaft and a rotor main body provided to the rotor shaft. A baffle plate, which is fixed at a plurality of positions to an end portion of the rotor main body in the axial direction, and is configured to define an airflow passage for cooling gas. Further, the baffle plate is segmented into a plurality of baffle segments which are arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor. The baffle segments each include an overlapping portion which overlaps an adjacent baffle segment in an axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Samata, Takeshi Nakamura, Ryutaro Kawaguchi, Norihiko Hana, Nobuaki Muroki
  • Patent number: 10819196
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric generator, comprising a rotor element, conductive rotor windings and a plurality of rotor slot wedges. The rotor element comprises rotor teeth and rotor slots. At least a first rotor slot wedge is in a first rotor slot and has a shape that encompasses a rectangular prismatic shape and first and second protrusions. At least a first edge on an end surface of at least a first rotor slot wedge has a degree of smoothness as specified herein, and/or is radiused (as defined herein). Also, methods of refurbishing an electric generator, comprising radiusing at least a portion of at least one edge of a wedge. Also, removing a wedge from rotor element, radiusing at least one edge of the wedge, and inserting the wedge into a rotor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: AGT SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Bresney, Lawrence Jordan, Vincent Rigosu, Jr., Charles Marino
  • Patent number: 10819171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a busbar comprising terminals, a body connected to the terminals and includes a plurality of blades, wherein the body includes an inner body, an outer body, and connecting parts, the outer body is disposed outside the inner body, the connecting parts are arranged in a periphery of the inner body at regular intervals and connect the inner body to the outer body, the terminals are disposed in the inner body so that connection ends of the terminals are disposed between the adjacent connecting parts, the plurality of blades protrude from an upper surface of the outer body and are arranged in a circumferential direction with respect to a center of the busbar, the outer body includes a cooling hole formed to pass through from a lower surface thereof to the upper surface, and the cooling hole is disposed between adjacent blades, thereby providing an advantageous effect of reducing the number of parts to be manufactured such that manufacturing costs and manufacturing processes can be re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10790725
    Abstract: An assembled hollow rotor shaft for a rotor, which rotates about a longitudinal axis, of an electric machine, may include a cylinder jacket that surrounds a shaft cavity, and end flanges disposed on both sides on the cylinder jacket. A shaft journal is disposed on each of the end flanges. An inlet is provided in the shaft journal of one of the end flanges via which a cooling medium can be conducted into the shaft cavity and onto an inner surface of the cylinder jacket. A cooling-medium distribution element within the shaft cavity may be formed symmetrically perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, may receive the cooling medium, which enters via the inlet, via a receiving region, may guide the cooling medium via a removal region in a direction of the inner surface of the cylinder jacket, and may discharge the cooling medium onto the inner surface via a discharging region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Daniel Paul, Christian Kötschau, Sebastian Wappler
  • Patent number: 10784735
    Abstract: A rotor and a generator including the same are capable of reducing a pressure loss of a cooling fluid, of increasing a flow rate of a cooling fluid flowing to a rotor coil, and of having improved cooling performance. The rotor includes a rotor shaft; a rotor coil wound around the rotor shaft; a rotor coil protection ring surrounding the rotor coil at one end of the rotor shaft and being spaced apart from the rotor shaft to form a clearance space between the rotor coil protection ring and the rotor shaft; and a fan coupled to the rotor shaft opposite the rotor coil, interposing the rotor coil protection ring, to blow a cooling fluid toward the rotor coil, at least part of the blown cooling fluid flowing to the rotor coil being guided through the clearance space by surfaces of the rotor coil protection ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung Ha Kim, Kye Ha Hwang
  • Patent number: 10770935
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a shaft provided with a flange which projects outward in a radial direction from an outer peripheral surface of the shaft; and a rotor core formed by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets, the rotor core being fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft such that an axial-direction end surface of the rotor core is in contact with the flange. An annular recessed portion is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft at a portion adjacent to a surface of the flange on a side of the rotor core, and two or more of the electromagnetic steel sheets positioned above the annular recessed portion and other electromagnetic steel sheets are joined to each other so as to form an integral body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiko Miyamoto, Meiou Gi
  • Patent number: 10707727
    Abstract: A stator sleeve for use in an integrated drive generator has a body extending between a first end and a second end and has a generally cylindrical inner peripheral surface. An outer peripheral surface has a plurality of circumferentially extending ribs define intermediate oil cooling channels. An integrated drive generator and a method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Derek R. Hochstetler, Ted A. Martin, Duane C. Johnson, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10666114
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a bearing mechanism rotatably supporting the shaft, a cylindrical rotor main body fixed to the shaft, a rotor fan fixed to the shaft, an armature, and a housing. The bearing mechanism includes a first bearing above the rotor fan in the housing and facing the rotor fan in an up and down direction. The housing includes a first opening, a second opening, and a bearing holding portion. A cylindrical wind tunnel portion is outward of the rotor fan in a radial direction. An inner surface of the wind tunnel portion and the rotor fan face each other in the radial direction. An upper end portion of the inner surface of the wind tunnel portion and an outer surface of the bearing holding portion face each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Makino, Satoshi Kajikawa
  • Patent number: 10655532
    Abstract: A charging device for an internal combustion engine with rotor cooling has a shaft, a compressor wheel mounted on the shaft, a stator housing and a stator. The stator is arranged in the stator housing. The charging device additionally has a rotor arranged rotatably fixed on the shaft The rotor is surrounded by the stator. A first fan device is arranged for common rotation with the shaft in order to generate a circulating air flow in the stator housing for cooling the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Jacob, Volkmar Gauckler
  • Patent number: 10658895
    Abstract: Coolant flow channels include a main flow channel that is spaced apart from a magnet accommodating aperture on an inner circumferential side, and that passes axially through a rotor core; a magnet cooling flow channel that is formed on an inner circumferential side of a permanent magnet, an inner circumferential surface of the permanent magnet being a portion of the magnet cooling flow channel; and a relay flow channel that passes axially through the rotor core in a state in which the main flow channel and the magnet cooling flow channel are linked, a first end plate opens a first axial end of the main flow channel, and closes a first axial end of the magnet cooling flow channel and the relay flow channel, and a second end plate opens second axial ends of the main flow channel, the magnet cooling flow channel, and the relay flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Higashino, Yoshiaki Kitta
  • Patent number: 10637329
    Abstract: A hybrid motor assembly, including: an axis of rotation; a torque converter; an electric motor including a stator and a rotor; and a rotor carrier. The torque converter includes: a cover arranged to receive torque; an impeller non-rotatably connected to the cover; and a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller. The rotor carrier is connected to the rotor and includes a cooling chamber. The cooling chamber is bounded at least in part by the rotor, is sealed from the stator, and is arranged to receive cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gregory Heeke
  • Patent number: 10634155
    Abstract: A pump drive unit for conveying a process fluid includes a housing which surrounds a pump having an impeller, a drive for the pump, a shaft for driving the impeller which connects the drive to the pump, and a restrictor extending around the shaft and arranged between the impeller and the drive. The housing has a pump inlet and outlet for the process fluid, with an inlet for introduction of a barrier fluid into the drive and an outlet for draining the barrier fluid from the housing. A plurality of storage chambers for the barrier fluid are disposed at the shaft in the region between the restrictor and the drive. The storage chambers are arranged behind one another with respect to the axial direction, with a respective two adjacent storage chambers being in flow communication with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SULZER MANAGEMENT AG
    Inventor: Paul Meuter
  • Patent number: 10608491
    Abstract: Coolant flow channels include a main flow channel that is spaced apart from a magnet accommodating aperture on an inner circumferential side, and that passes axially through a rotor core; a magnet cooling flow channel that is formed on an inner circumferential side of a permanent magnet, an inner circumferential surface of the permanent magnet being a portion of the magnet cooling flow channel; and a relay flow channel that passes axially through the rotor core in a state in which the main flow channel and the magnet cooling flow channel are linked, a first end plate opens a first axial end of the main flow channel, and closes a first axial end of the magnet cooling flow channel and the relay flow channel, and a second end plate opens second axial ends of the main flow channel, the magnet cooling flow channel, and the relay flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Higashino, Yoshiaki Kitta
  • Patent number: 10502222
    Abstract: A number of variations may include a product comprising: a turbomachinery device comprising: an electric motor surrounding a portion of a shaft constructed and arranged to selectively drive the shaft in rotation about a rotational axis, wherein the electric motor further comprises a stator comprising a lamination stack; a housing surrounding the electric motor, wherein the housing includes a plurality of channels constructed and arranged to lubricate a first bearing; and wherein the lamination stack includes at least one retention component wherein the retention component is constructed and arranged to locking the stator in an axial direction while locking rotation of the stator about the rotational axis and wherein the retention component further comprises at least one conduit constructed and arranged to pass fluid through the electric motor to a second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventors: Brock S. Fraser, Allen D. Stoner, II
  • Patent number: 10494758
    Abstract: Dryer appliances, including methods of operation, are provided herein. The dryer appliance may include a cabinet, a drum, a ventilation assembly, an air handler, and a controller. The drum may be rotatably mounted within the cabinet. The drum may define a drying chamber. A ventilation assembly may be attached to the drying chamber. The ventilation assembly may include a conduit defining an exhaust passage in fluid communication with the drying chamber. The conduit may extend from an inlet at the drying chamber to an outlet defined through the cabinet. The air handler may be attached to the conduit in fluid communication with the drying chamber to draw air through the exhaust passage. The controller may be in operable communication with the air handler and the drum, and may be configured to initiate a dry cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Ionelia Silvia Prajescu
  • Patent number: 10396628
    Abstract: A drive device that includes a cylindrical rotor core of a rotary electric machine, a rotor shaft that supports the rotor core from a radially inner side, and a power transfer shaft coupled such that the power transfer shaft rotates together with the rotor shaft, wherein: the rotor shaft is formed in a tubular shape that has an outer peripheral surface that contacts an inner peripheral surface of the rotor core; and the power transfer shaft is disposed radially inward of the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meio Gi, Katsutoshi Shimizu, Yasunori Oguri, Kenji Sasaki, Katsunori Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10355566
    Abstract: A production line (100,200,300,400) for manufacturing wound core components (10,10?) of a dynamo electric machine, comprising a central processing zone (101) provided with at least a winder (104,104?) for winding coils (15) to produce wound core components, a downstream processing zone (111) for finishing the wound core components. The production line further comprises a first load and unload device (105) for transferring the core components to be wound to at least a winder (104,104?) from a waiting position (103a), or from an upstream transport carrier (108a), located at a first position (G), for transferring core components to be wound from an upstream processing zone (201). The first load and unload device (105) transferring wound core components from the at least a winder (104,104?) to a downstream transport carrier (108b), located at a second position (A), for transferring wound core components to the downstream processing zone (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ATOP S.p.A.
    Inventor: Marco Santandrea
  • Patent number: 10326335
    Abstract: The present application provides a radial counter flow jet gas cooling system for a rotor of a dynamoelectric machine. The radial counter flow jet gas cooling system may include a centering pin, a number of axial inlet ducts, a number of radial outlet ducts in communication with the axial inlet ducts, an axial subslot positioned about the axial inlet ducts, and a radial counter flow duct in communication with the axial subslot and extending along the centering pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Moonjanattu Mathew Binu, Satish Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 10284033
    Abstract: A rotor for a reluctance machine is provided. The rotor includes a soft magnetic element which is cylindrical in shape. The soft magnetic element has recesses forming flux barriers. At least part of the recesses are filled with an electrically conducting and magnetically non-conducting filler material such that a starting cage is formed in a peripheral region of the rotor. The ratio of the surface of the filled region of the flux barriers to the surface of the region of the unfilled flux barriers is at least 0.2 for at least one rotor cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: KSB Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boris Janjic, Jochen Schaab
  • Patent number: 10227985
    Abstract: A motor-driven centrifugal pump for circulating a coolant in a primary circuit of a nuclear reactor comprises a sealed motor unit, a hydraulic part and a shaft which is immersed in the coolant, turned by the sealed motor unit and pumping the coolant by means of an impeller of the hydraulic part secured to the shaft; the motor unit comprising a dry stator and an immersed rotor mounted securely on the shaft. The motor-driven pump also comprises an immersed flywheel mounted securely on the shaft between the rotor of the motor unit and the impeller of the hydraulic part, allowing a minimum slowing-down time after the electrical power supply is cut; the flywheel comprising a vaned wheel generating a circulation of the coolant to cool the motor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: CLYDE UNION S.A.S.
    Inventors: Stéphane Mauvais, Bruno Soudy, Cécile Bras, Sylvain Stihle, Olivier Caregnato
  • Patent number: 10205366
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electric compressor. The electric compressor includes an inverter cover which is mounted to an outer surface of a compressor housing in which compression of refrigerant is implemented, and a printed circuit board which is disposed inside the inverter cover and mounted with a plurality of heat generating elements that come into surface contact with one surface of the compressor housing and perform heat transfer with low-temperature refrigerant supplied into the compressor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Il Young Park, Chan Ho Baek, Young Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 10199893
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine, which is supported by a rotating shaft, includes a rotor core, and a permanent magnet embedded in the rotor core. At least one in-core cooling medium passage that leads a cooling medium supplied from an in-shaft cooling medium passage formed inside the rotating shaft to an outer peripheral end of the rotor core, and discharges the supplied cooling medium into a gap between the rotor core and a stator, is formed in the rotor core. The at least one in-core cooling medium passage includes a center cooling medium passage, a pair of inner peripheral side cooling medium passages, and an outer peripheral side cooling medium passage that is communicated with the gap. A radially outside end portion of the center cooling medium passage has a slope that extends toward a radially outer side closer to a center in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshinori Okochi
  • Patent number: 10128701
    Abstract: An electric motor cooling system is provided utilizing axial cooling channels that are integral to the stator teeth, thus allowing direct contact between the circulating coolant and the lamination stack and providing an efficient means of removing motor assembly heat. Additionally, as the coolant flows out of the cooling channels it impinges on the end windings, thereby providing a secondary means of cooling the motor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ATIEVA, INC.
    Inventors: Emad Dlala, Richard J. Biskup, David Moseley, Aberto Bassanese, Balaji Maniam, Jeremy Mayer
  • Patent number: 10128704
    Abstract: A rotor core includes at least one core refrigerant passage configured to release a refrigerant to a gap between the rotor core and a stator. The core refrigerant passage includes: a central refrigerant passage provided radially inside a permanent magnet so as to extend in an axial direction, the central refrigerant passage being opened on axial end surfaces of the rotor core; an inner refrigerant passage communicating the shaft refrigerant passage with the central refrigerant passage; an outer refrigerant passage communicating the central refrigerant passage with the gap; and dams provided on both axial-end sides of the central refrigerant passage relative to the outer refrigerant passage so as to project toward a radially inner side from a radially outer side in the central refrigerant passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshinori Okochi
  • Patent number: 10084355
    Abstract: An electrical machine is disclosed comprising a stator cavity. The stator cavity is axially divided by a distribution plate into a winding chamber containing stator windings of the electrical machine and a handling chamber. The handling chamber has one of a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and the winding chamber has the other of the fluid inlet and fluid outlet. In use fluid is passed from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the handling chamber, the winding chamber and an array of fluid passages in the distribution plate providing fluid communication between the handling chamber and winding chamber. The array of fluid passages comprises passages of at least two different cross-sectional areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Geraint W Jewell, Ellis F H Chong, Maurice Shortte
  • Patent number: 10081518
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed an elevator machine comprising: a stator assembly, and a plurality of support plates coupled to the stator assembly, wherein a respective at least one of the support plates is coupled on each end of the stator assembly and configured to enable the stator assembly to expand radially and axially in a substantially uniform manner over a range of temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: James L. Hubbard, Zlatko Strbuncelj
  • Patent number: 10003236
    Abstract: A rotor for an outer rotor-type motor is provided. The rotor includes a metallic coupler and a polymeric frame molded over at least part of the metallic coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bailey, Daniel E. Hilton, Philip S. Johnson, Gregory M. Levine