Patents Assigned to Moteurs Leroy-Somer
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Patent number: 8274185Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor for a rotary electric machine, the rotor extending along a longitudinal axis and comprising: at least two poles defining between them an inter-pole space; and windings of electrical conductors wound around the poles, said windings including straight portions extending along the longitudinal axis of the rotor; at least one pole of the rotor, and in particular each pole of the rotor, including a spacer placed along at least a fraction of the straight portion between at least two conductor groups of the windings so as to form at least one cooling channel between the two conductor groups, enabling a cooling fluid to flow longitudinally and/or transversely within the windings, the spacer including at least one spacer element presenting a cross-section that is hollow, defining the cooling channel at least in part.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Alexis Dutau
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Publication number: 20120153754Abstract: A motor having a shaft bearing a rotor, a pulley driven by the shaft, at least one caliper brake acting on a wall turning with the pulley, and at least one axial brake.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Benoit Vincent, Pascal Beynaud
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Publication number: 20120133229Abstract: A rotor (100) having a first plurality of laminates (110), comprising a first plurality of protrusions (120) located at a periphery of each of the first plurality of laminates, and a second plurality of laminates (1101), arranged differently from the first plurality of laminates (110) around a shaft hole (132), comprising a second plurality of protrusions (120?) located at a periphery of each of the second plurality of laminates, wherein the first plurality of protrusions are asymmetric and/or angularly offset from the second plurality of protrusions, and wherein the second plurality of protrusions are asymmetric and/or angularly offset from the first plurality of protrusions. The rotor further having a plurality of magnets (115), each inserted between the first plurality of protrusions and/or the second plurality of protrusions, wherein reactive forces operate to hold the plurality of magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicants: MOTEURS LEROY SOMER, CONTROL TECHNIQUES DYNAMICS LIMITEDInventors: Sujitha Jayasoma, Gaëtan Adrien, Gunaratnam Sooriyakumar, Jean-Marc Brun
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Publication number: 20110316468Abstract: A rotating electrical machine to be connected to a polyphase power grid, having: a polyphase synchronous motor including a rotor with permanent magnets and a polyphase asynchronous motor axially coupled together, and a switching system arranged so as to electrically connect the asynchronous motor to the grid during the machine starting phase in order to bring the synchronous motor to a speed that enables the motor to operate while connected directly to the grid, and to electrically connect the synchronous motor to the grid during a subsequent phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Ali Makki, Eric Coupart
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Patent number: 8049348Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device (1) for an electricity generator set, the generator set comprising: an engine fitted with at least one actuator (2) for controlling fuel admission; an alternator driven by the engine; and a speed regulator (4) for the engine and controlling the actuator(s); the control device being arranged to detect a variation in the load on the alternator as a function of at least one voltage thereof and to control the actuator(s) in such a manner as to compensate for the load variation thus detected; the control device delivering a control signal that acts directly on the actuator(s) taking the place of or being superposed on an output signal of the speed regulator when a variation in load is detected; or the control device delivering a control signal that acts on the actuator(s) via at least a portion of the speed regulator by taking the place of a speed regulator signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Francois Czajkowski
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Publication number: 20110175468Abstract: An electric rotating machine including a rotor rotating relative to a stator, the rotor rotating a first fan placed at a first end of the stator, and a second fan placed at a second end of the stator opposite to the first end, the first and second fans being configured to generate an air flow from the first fan to the second fan through the rotor and the stator, the first fan comprising an external ring connecting the radial ends of blades together.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventor: Alexis Dutau
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Publication number: 20110121668Abstract: A rotor for rotating an electric machine having permanent magnets and flux concentration, including a shaft extending along the rotational axis of the rotor, a rotor body placed on the shaft, the rotor body having a central opening for the mounting thereof on the shaft; radially oriented recesses wherein the permanent magnets are placed; and in at least one angular space separating two consecutive recesses, at least one cavity leading neither to the central opening nor to the two consecutive recesses, the cavity or cavities located in the space occupying an angular area around the rotational axis of the rotor greater than or equal to half of the angular area of the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Dominique Condamin, Michel Labonne, Patrick Camus, Stephane Dufau
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Patent number: 7911103Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary electrical machine comprising: at least one stator; and at least one rotor; the rotor having an axis of rotation and co-operating with the stator to define at least one airgap, the rotor comprising permanent magnets and pole pieces between the magnets; at least one pole piece being associated with one or more permanent magnets to concentrate the magnetic flux from said magnet(s); and said magnet(s) defining at least three different directions of magnetization, the resultant flux in the pole piece towards the stator being non-coplanar with at least two of the directions of magnetization.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
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Publication number: 20110037330Abstract: The present invention relates to an open rotary electric machine having a rotor mounted to rotate relative to at least one stator and co-operating with the stator to define at least one airgap, the rotor being suitable for rotating at least one fan having at least two channels, said fan including a first channel generating a first cooling air stream passing through the stator, and a second channel generating a second cooling air stream passing through the rotor, the fan including a solid web separating the first and second air streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventor: Alexis Dutau
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Patent number: 7880418Abstract: The following invention is an electromechanical system (1) that is to be connected to an electricity supply (7), comprising: an electric machine (2) that can operate as an independent generator with a rotating shaft, and a switching system (9) allowing i) in the first configuration, the electric machine to operate as a motor in the case where the connected device (4) is normally driven or as a generator in the case where the coupled device is normally driving, and ii) in the second configuration, the electric machine to operate as an independent generator, the electrical energy generated by the electric machine (2; 22) being dissipated in the machine and in a dissipative load (13).Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Christian Petit
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Publication number: 20110001372Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor for a rotary electric machine, the rotor extending along a longitudinal axis and comprising: at least two poles defining between them an inter-pole space; and windings of electrical conductors wound around the poles, said windings including straight portions extending along the longitudinal axis of the rotor; at least one pole of the rotor, and in particular each pole of the rotor, including a spacer placed along at least a fraction of the straight portion between at least two conductor groups of the windings so as to form at least one cooling channel between the two conductor groups, enabling a cooling fluid to flow longitudinally and/or transversely within the windings, the spacer including at least one spacer element presenting a cross-section that is hollow, defining the cooling channel at least in part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventor: Alexis Dutau
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Patent number: 7839034Abstract: The present invention provides an electricity generator for a lighting tower having a plurality of discharge lamps, each lamp being of power greater than 750 W, the generator being arranged to be driven by an engine, the generator being a multiphase generator having n phases, where n is an even integer, each phase being independent in a magnetic circuit that is common to all of the phases and being configured to power one lamp, the generator comprising a rotor with permanent magnets, having 3 n poles, and a stator concentric with the rotor and subjected to the radial magnetic flux from the magnets, the stator comprising a stack of laminations of silicon iron having a silicon content greater than 0.5% and of individual thickness greater than 0.35 mm, defining 4 n magnetic circuit teeth, with every other tooth carrying a winding.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventors: François Czajkowski, Jacques Saint-Michel, Philippe Manfe, Hédi Kharrat, Michel Renard, Luc Moreau
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Publication number: 20100207465Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine, the stator including a jacket and a stack of stator laminations placed inside the jacket, subassemblies of laminations of the stack having extensions with flow channels for passing a cooling fluid therethrough, the subassemblies being disposed in such a manner that fluid flowing along the stack is subjected to a succession of passes within the channels and of passes through wide zones extending between the channels, the stack laminations being arranged in such a manner that for at least one extension, and better for the majority, or even all of the extensions of a subassembly, the flow section made available to the flow of cooling fluid within the extension is greater than the flow section defined by the space extending radially between the extensions and the jacket.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Alexis Dutau, Jacques Saint-Michel
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Publication number: 20100200338Abstract: A motor provided with a secondary driving system including: a casing; a dented wheel permanently rotating during the normal operation of the motor together with the rotor inside the casing; an endless screw that can be brought into a clutch engagement position in which the screw meshes with the dented wheel and in which the rotation of the screw drives the dented wheel in a non-reversible manner and that can be removed from said position in order to allow the normal operation of the motor; a driving member for manually rotating the endless screw, the driving member rotating about the same rotation axis as the endless screw and rotating the latter by direct engagementType: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMERInventors: Christophe Laliche, Serge Deltreil, Francisco Jimenez
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Patent number: 7737647Abstract: The invention concerns a reversible current rectifier, for connection to part of a polyphase network and to a continuous bus comprising a plurality of rectifier cells each rectifier cell including a rectifying device and a on-way electronic switch connected in anti-parallel with the rectifier device, the rectifying devices of different cells being arranged so as to form one rectifier. Each rectifier cell comprises means for controlling the electronic switch of the cell arranged to control the latter in closure after detecting a conduction of the rectifying device of the cell so as to enable current to be returned to the network. The control means are arranged to receive a signal external to the cell, for controlling the opening of the electronic switch, derived from another rectifier cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2005Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventors: Jean-Marie Andrejak, Christian Andrieux, Mathias Tientcheu-Yamdeu, Alexandre Lagarde
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Patent number: 7692354Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary electric machine comprising: a concentrated winding stator having teeth and coils placed on the teeth, the teeth having end faces that are convex towards the rotor; and a rotor comprising an armature defining a cylindrical surface and permanent magnets, the permanent magnets having inside faces that are cylinder portions matching the shape of the cylindrical surface of the armature, and outside faces that are plane and that face towards the stator.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventors: Atef Abou-Akar, Eric Coupart
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Publication number: 20090153105Abstract: The present invention relates to an alternator comprising: an alternator stator (2) comprising a main secondary winding (7) delivering an output voltage; at least one auxiliary winding (3); and an exciter field winding (5) powered by the auxiliary winding(s); a regulator (20) for regulating the output voltage of the alternator; and an alternator rotor (8) comprising an exciter secondary winding (6); a rotary field winding (4) powered by the exciter secondary winding (6); and a control circuit (10) for controlling the power supply to the rotary field winding (4) and configured to maintain the amplitude of the output voltage from the alternator at a predetermined level by controlling the power supply to the rotary field winding (4) in response to a control signal coming from the voltage regulator (20), the auxiliary winding(s) (3) generating a voltage because they are exposed to a varying magnetic field generated by the rotary field winding (4) in rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Francois Czajkowski
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Publication number: 20090134845Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device (1) for an electricity generator set, the generator set comprising: an engine fitted with at least one actuator (2) for controlling fuel admission; an alternator driven by the engine; and a speed regulator (4) for the engine and controlling the actuator(s); the control device being arranged to detect a variation in the load on the alternator as a function of at least one voltage thereof and to control the actuator(s) in such a manner as to compensate for the load variation thus detected; the control device delivering a control signal that acts directly on the actuator(s) taking the place of or being superposed on an output signal of the speed regulator when a variation in load is detected; or the control device delivering a control signal that acts on the actuator(s) via at least a portion of the speed regulator by taking the place of a speed regulator signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Francois Czajkowski
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Patent number: 7538462Abstract: An electrical machine may include a rotor, a stator, and at least one electromagnetic brake including at least one brake disk. The rotor may include a monolithic shaft, which may include: at least one pulley-forming portion including at least one annular groove for driving at least one cable, and at least one splined portion in which the at least one brake disk is engaged. An outside diameter of the pulley-forming portion may be at least three times an outside diameter of the splined portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventor: Eric Coupart
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Patent number: 7506726Abstract: A safety device for an elevator includes a cabin, a counterweight, a cabin drive motor with a rotor, and at least one power-failure electromechanical brake. The safety device has a control device arranged to receive at least one information allowing emergency power to be applied to the brake in order to release the rotor, and allow the cabin blocked between two floors to move under the effect of unbalance between the weight of the cabin and the weight of the counterweight; to receive information enabling the speed of the cabin to be known; and to manage power supplied to the brake in such a manner as to enable the cabin to move to an evacuation floor while preventing the speed of the cabin from exceeding a predefined limit. The information that enables the speed of the cabin to be known is provided by at least one electrical magnitude from the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-SomerInventors: Jean-Marie Andrejak, Arnaud Reoblin