Abstract: An electrical motor with integral silencer is provided having a motor housing defining an inlet aperture at one end and an expansion chamber at the other end. The expansion chamber has a reduced cross-sectional area at the entrance and exit of the expansion chamber compared to the cross-sectional area of the chamber. The exit of the expansion chamber provides an outlet aperture in the housing. A stator is situated in the housing and a rotor is rotatably mounted within the stator. A fan is secured to the rotor and rotates therewith for pulling air in the outlet aperture through the stator and exhausting the air through the expansion chamber to the housing exterior. The expansion chamber provides an impedance mismatch for the acoustic energy generated by the fan preventing a portion of the acoustic energy from exiting the expansion chamber.

Abstract: There is provided an alternating current generator comprising: a rotatably supported field rotor having a pair of opposed rotor pole cores, each being provided with P/2 claw poles wherein P is an even number, and a field winding wound on the rotor pole cores; an armature core located around the outer periphery of the field rotor and having axially extending 3nP slots wherein n is an integer more than one; n independent sets of three-phase windings, each being wound on the armature core by being inserted in the slots so that the n sets of three-phase windings are shifted from each other by electrical angle of .pi./(3n) radians; and three-phase rectifiers connected with the n sets of three-phase windings to rectify output voltages generated by the three-phase windings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor (10) for an electric motor, in particular for a multi-phase or single-phase electric motor, comprising a permanent-magnetic ceramic rotor cylinder (1) made of an imperforate solid material and provided with moulded-on plastic elements (5) on at least the cylinder end faces (3), which elements carry axially projecting shaft portions (6) for rotatably journalling the rotor (10), the cylinder end faces (3) being formed with recesses and the moulded-on plastic elements (5) engaging in the recesses (4).

Abstract: A rotor for a generator includes a core made of a plurality of magnetic plates laminated with each other, a magnet received in a holding portion of the core, and a synthetic resin mold molded on the core in the circular disc shape. A pawl is rotationally supported on the resin mold by means of a support shaft, and a stopper is formed on the support shaft or the resin mold. The stopper allows the pawl to engage the resin mold but prevents the pawl from disengaging from the resin mold. In case a conical opening is formed, a tapered punch may be pushed into a central opening of the core, so that a conical opening and thickened portion are formed on the core. The core can be directly connected to a crank shaft.

Abstract: Four embodiments of a reluctance type rotational speed sensor are disclosed. In the first embodiment, an annular magnet circumscribes a sensing coil having a unitary rotor nested within it, and is disposed between two elements which comprise the stator. In a second embodiment, a magnet is disposed between two halves which comprise a rotor, the entire assembly nesting within a sensing coil and being disposed between the two stator elements. In the third embodiment, the rotor carries multiple magnets in an axially opposed position with respect to teeth formed on the stator. The magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit increases and decreases as the rotor magnets alternate between aligned and non-aligned positions enabling measurement of angular speed in accordance with the increase and decrease of magnetic flux. Any of the first three embodiments may be used, with minor modifications, in environments where a rotating shaft turns within a stationary bore, or where a rotting bore turns about a stationary shaft.

Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle motor comprises a rotation shaft rotatably supported by a casing assembly, a rotor fixed to the rotation shaft, a stator disposed around the rotor and fixed to the casing assembly, a coil wound around the stator, an oil pump motor disposed at a lower portion of the casing assembly, an oil passage faced to the coil and formed in an upper portion of the casing assembly, a cooling fin formed on a side wall of the casing assembly, a separator plate being in contact with the cooling fin, an oil passage cover combined with the separator plate to form an oil passage therebetween, and a cooling fin formed on the oil passage cover.

Abstract: A blower for cooling an internal combustion engine of a power vehicle comprises an electric drive motor having a housing with slots for ventilation, and a series resistance provided on an outer side of the housing at a distance from the latter and covering the slots, the series resistance being connectable with and disconnectable from a working current circuit of the drive motor.

Abstract: A bushing for mounting an overload protector within an opening in a motor shell comprises segments adapted to be coaxially positioned around a portion of the overload protector. Mating features formed on the segments and protector restrict movement of the protector relative to the segments. Grooves formed on the segments secure the segments within the opening and restrict movement of the bushing and protector assembly relative to the structure. The bushing preferably comprises a pair of generally symmetrical segments connected together by an integrally formed hinge. The one-piece bushing is molded from a thermoplastic material, such as nylon. In one embodiment, the features which restrict axial movements of the overload protector relative to the segments are mating threads formed on a portion of the internal surfaces of the segments, and on opposing portions of the external surface of the protector.

Abstract: The powered hand tool for machining includes an enclosed drive motor having a rotor shaft and is provided with at least one interior air duct through which drawn-in cooling air passes to cool the drive motor. To prevent the drive motor from being clogged or damaged by magnetizable dust, which is produced from the machining process among other things, a permanent magnet is nonrotatably attached to the rotor shaft and also located in the air duct or ducts. The invention also resides in an air-cooled drive motor having a cooling-air flow with a permanent magnet located in the vicinity of the cooling-air flow and fixed nonrotatably to the motor shaft.

Abstract: A brushless electrical power generating system (10) in accordance with the invention includes a main generator (16) having a rotor (30) on which is wound a field winding (32) and a stator (112) on which is wound a winding (36) for producing an alternating current electrical output having at least one phase; an exciter (14) having a rotor (24) mounted coaxial to the rotor of the main generator and a stator (110) on which is wound a stator winding (18) and an electrical field shield (40) disposed between the stators of the exciter and the main generator for shielding the winding of the stator of the main generator from an electric field produced by the winding of the stator of the exciter whereby capacitive coupling of any electrical noise present within the current flowing in the stator winding of the exciter to the alternating current electrical power output is reduced.

Abstract: The motor is for driving viscous loads, e.g. a fan, and comprises a stator (10), a permanent magnet rotor (11), a single phase unipolar winding (13) on the stator, and a permanent magnet (29) fixed relative to the stator with its poles angularly spaced with respect to the axis of the motor. The magnet (29) is positioned so that the magnetic coupling between the magnet (29) and the permanent magnet rotor will create stable rest positions for the rotor only where the winding (13) will be energized and will develop torque when power to the motor is switched on. A Hall integrated circuit (16) is provided to detect the position of the rotor relative to the stator and to alternately energize and not energize the winding (13).

Abstract: In a fractional horsepower PMDC motor a varistor comprises an annular ring of varistor material having a heat sink bonded to one face. The heat sink includes a plurality of fan blades and is attached to a commutator of the motor. The heat sink increases the thermal capacity of the varistor to resist overheating under stall conditions and improves heat dissipation when the motor is running.

Abstract: A vehicle's AC generator is provided with a rotor magnetic pole core assembly fixedly mounted on a rotary shaft and excited through an exciting coil, stator-coil-mounted stator cores surrounding the magnetic pole core assembly, first and second brackets supporting the stator cores and rotatably supporting the rotary shaft through bearings, a pair of fans provided on both ends of the rotor magnetic pole core assembly, to allow cooling air to flow in the space defined by the first and second brackets, a rectifier, and a voltage regulator. In addition, a cooling solution circulating structure, made of a material high in thermal conductivity, is provided on the side of one of the first and second brackets. The cooling solution circulating structure, which has an upper frame and a lower frame, has a flow path inside to which a cooling solution is supplied from outside.

Abstract: A saturable reactor diode snubber assembly is provided for use witha brushless excitation system. The diode snubber provided includes a thin film member composed of a saturable magnetic material. The magnetic material is saturated for a large percentage of the current cycle of each pase of the ac exciter. When the current approaches zero and the diode approaches reverse recovery, the magnetic film member of the present invention comes out of saturation and turns linear increasing overall exciter inductance and decreasing current fall rate, thereby reducing reverse recovery peak current and diode stored energy. This in turn reduces the effects of voltage spikes normally experienced during diode reverse recovery. The magnetic material is used at a predetermined thickness such that a desired result is obtainable. One embodiment of the invention involves placing the magnetic material on the side of the armature slot wedge adjacent to the top coil.

Abstract: A non-brush D.C. motor with a new improved stator comprises a stator abse whose two side discs have notches and feet so that the polar plates can engage with. By expanding the thinner lips of metal cylinder, the upper and lower polar plates can be fixed firmly with stator base. The central shaft post of housing base can pass through the inner perimeter of metal cylinder.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine has a housing, a terminal board and a stationary assembly including a winding with a set of leads. The terminal board has a pair of opposite faces with a peripheral portion therebetween and a set of separate recesses in the peripheral portion. The recesses define with the housing a set of separate passages for receiving at least the winding leads.

Abstract: A disc drive includes a stationary frame and vertical spindle shaft, and a hub rotatable relative to the spindle shaft and supporting one or more magnetic discs. A motor for rotating the hub includes an annular stator integrally secured to the spindle shaft, and a rotor assembly integral with the hub. The rotor assembly includes an annular magnet and an annular back iron, with the magnet being spaced apart from the stator to define an air gap. The magnet includes four longitudinally disposed arcuate poles of equal size, separated from one another by flux gaps. Each of the poles has a medial region and first and second end regions on opposite sides of the medial region. The medial region is selectively magnetized to a level less than the level to which the end regions are magnetized, creating a flux gap and torque profile for the magnet particularly effective in reducing torque ripple.

Abstract: A novel DC rotary electric machine of permanent magnet field type is disclosed, in which a plurality of permanent field magnets having an auxiliary pole of magnetic material are arranged alternately with a plurality of field magnets including only a magnetic material along the peripheral direction. The field magnets with the auxiliary poles are arranged adjacently with the field magnets of magnetic material with through bolts extending therebetween.

Abstract: In a stator core for a rotating electromagnetic machine, which core has two axial ends and at least one end shield at one axial end of the core, the end shield being composed of a plurality of thin plates at least one of which is a vent plate, and a vent structure supported by the vent plate, extending axially between the vent plate and an adjacent thin plate and presenting a plurality of radial flow passages for ventilating air, the vent structure is composed of: at least two elongate positioning members extending tranversely to the radial direction of the stator core, secured to the vent plate and having an axial dimension which is smaller than the axial distance between the vent plate and the adjacent thin plate; and a plurality of vent fingers extending generally in the radial direction of the core and held in position at least partially by the positioning members, each vent finger having an axial dimension equal to the axial distance between the vent plate and the adjacent thin plate and a cross section

Abstract: A stator lamination allows the construction of a d.c. motor having minimum cogging torque and maximum horsepower. Each stator lamination comprises a ring of ferromagnetic material having a number of (e.g., eight) inwardly-extending integral teeth. Each tooth has a radially-inwardmost surface with side end terminations, the side end terminations of adjacent teeth being spaced from each other to define a first set of slots. A V-shaped radially-outwardly extending slot is formed in each of the radially-inwardmost surfaces between the side end terminations, to define a second set of slots (if eight teeth are provided, a total of sixteen slots are provided). The teeth have thin stems which may be wrapped with a large amount of copper wire material. The laminations are disposed in a concentric stack with each lamination skewed with respect to an adjacent lamination.