Patents Examined by Steve Stephan
  • Patent number: 5821652
    Abstract: Damaging shaft voltages in an induction motor are prevented by an electrostatic shield between the stator winding structure and the rotor structure. The electrostatic shield is held at the same potential as the grounded motor frame. The shield includes an aluminum strip in each winding slot, with one strip in firm engagement with the stator core. The strips are flat strips and extend beyond both ends of the slot to the outer end turns of the stator winding. This places that one strip at the ground reference potential of the motor frame. All strips are connected to the one grounded strip by an end ring. All others are insulated from the core. The strips are connected at only one end to avoid a squirrel cage winding affect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Marathon Electric Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: David B. Hyypio
  • Patent number: 5744886
    Abstract: A capstan motor assembly and an assembling method thereof are provided. In the capstan motor assembly, a stator coil is mounted directly on a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate, on which a capstan motor shaft and a rotor are assembled. Accordingly, separate assembly of the capstan motor is not required, to thereby enhance productivity. Also, after assembling a body of the capstan motor, the position of the magnetic resistance device is accurately controlled, to thereby produce a capstan motor assembly of good quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung-jin An
  • Patent number: RE37027
    Abstract: A rotary electric motor has a stator core (1) with salient poles (4, 3), some of them ferromagnetic and some of them permanent-magnetic, which are spaced-apart and which are all simultaneously magnetizable by means of a magnetizing winding (5A, 5B). The rotor core has either reluctance poles (7) with intervening pole gaps and constant pole pitch, or permanent-magnetic poles (10) with constant pole pitch and without intervening pole gaps, alternating poles being of opposite polarities. Each reluctance pole (7) or permanent-magnetic pole (10) has a width which over a portion of the pole corresponds to respectively one-half of or the full pole pitch and is smaller over the remaining portion so that each pole (7 or 10) has a part (7B or 10A) which projects in a direction common to all poles. The ferromagnetic and permanent-magnetic poles (3, 4) of the stator (1) have a width corresponding to the width of the narrower portion of the poles (7 or 10) of the rotor (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Inventor: Vilmos Török