Patents by Inventor Jacques A. Saint-Michel

Jacques A. Saint-Michel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240146127
    Abstract: A rotor (30) for a rotary electric machine, comprising a rotor mass (33) comprising laminations stacked one on top of the other, the rotor mass (33) comprising a plurality of housings (10), at least some of the housings, or even all of the housings, receiving one or more permanent magnets (1) defining poles of the rotor, the housings of a pole being arranged in at least a first row (11) and a second row (12) of housings which are not parallel to one another, the first row (11) of housings comprising at least three housings arranged in a U shape, with at least one central housing and two lateral housings, the central housing of the first row being able to do without a permanent magnet, the second row (12) of housings comprising housings arranged in a V shape, in particular two housings arranged in a V shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Alejandro FERNANDEZ, Moustafa AL EIT, Jacques SAINT-MICHEL, Samuel KOECHLIN
  • Patent number: 11962187
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine, having a stator mass that has slots in which electrical conductors introduced axially into the slots are housed, each of the slots having a continuously closed contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-Somer
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Publication number: 20240030757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coil intended to be inserted in into a first and a second slot of a stator, the coil being wound in a plurality of successive turns, each turn comprising:—a first half-turn comprising a first slot portion configured to be inserted in into the first slot of the stator,—a second half-turn comprising a second slot portion configured to be inserted in into the second slot of the stator, the second half-turns each being connected to the first half-turn of the same turn and to the first half-turn of the next turn by junction portions on each side of the first and second slot portions, the junction portions of the coil stacking along at least two juxtaposed heads extending in mutually parallel junction planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Olivier GAS, Jacques SAINT MICHEL, Xavier JANNOT, Nicolas LANGLARD, Sebastien DESURMONT
  • Publication number: 20230268782
    Abstract: A stator (2) for a rotary electric machine (1), comprising:—a radially interior ring (25) comprising teeth (23) and slots (21) opening radially towards the outside and extending between the teeth, bridges of material (27) connecting two adjacent teeth to their base and defining the bottoms of the slots between these teeth,—coils (22) arranged in the slots, having electrical conductors arranged in an ordered fashion in the slots (21), and—a radially outer yoke (29) attached in contact with the ring, the yoke being formed of assembled sectors (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Olivier GAS, Xavier JANNOT, Jacques SAINT MICHEL, Francois TURCAT, Nicolas LANGLARD, Sébastien DESURMONT
  • Publication number: 20220149677
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine comprises a stator mass comprising teeth and notches between the teeth, each of the notches being, on the air gap side, completely closed, electrical conductors being housed in the notches, the electrical conductors forming a fractional winding, for which the ratio q defined by q=Ne/(2 pm) is written as an irreducible fraction z/n, z and n being two non-zero integers, n being different from 1, wherein Ne is the number of stator notches, m the number of winding phases and p the number of pairs of stator poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Fatma ABID, Moustafa AL EIT, Sara BAZHAR, Lamya BELHAJ, Xavier JANNOT, Jacques SAINT-MICHEL
  • Patent number: 11081944
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wound rotor or stator having more than four poles, preferably a rotor, the rotor or stator having teeth provided with pole shoes. The method includes the following steps, for each pole: (a) producing a partial winding by winding at least one conductor over the portion of the tooth of this pole extending axially along this pole between the pole shoes of this pole and a plane (Pmin) at right angles to the axis of the pole and tangential to a pole shoe of an adjacent pole, (b) pushing back the duly produced partial winding towards the base of the tooth, and freeing said portion of the tooth having been used for the winding, and (c) repeating step (a) to produce another partial winding on the duly released portion of tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Publication number: 20210234417
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine, rotating about an axis of rotation, the rotor including: salient poles forming slots between them, the salient poles each being of an overall shape that is asymmetrical with respect to a radial midplane containing the axis of rotation of the machine, coils, each coil being placed on a corresponding salient pole, in the slots adjacent to this salient pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL
  • Publication number: 20210218294
    Abstract: A stator including a ring having teeth with slots there between, and bridges of material each connecting two adjacent teeth at their base on the side of the air gap and defining the bottom of the slot between these teeth. The bridges of material each having at least one region of reduced magnetic permeability that is in the form of at least one localized narrowing formed by a groove or a localized crushing of the material, and/or at least one opening with the width l of the bridge of material, and/or at least one localized treatment in the with l of the bridge of material, which locally reduces the magnetic permeability of the bridge of material, and windings placed in the slots of the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Jacques Saint-Michel, Francois Turcat, Cedric Plasse, Olivier Gas
  • Publication number: 20210203214
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator of an electrical machine. The method including: a toothed ring having teeth joined together by bridges of material and defining between them slots open radially toward the outside, windings produced outside of the slots, and a yoke configured to be attached to the toothed ring. The method also including attaching at least one piece of sheet-form insulation to at least a portion of each of the windings, inserting said winding portions with the insulation into the slots via a radial movement directed toward the inside of the slots, and assembling the yoke onto the radially exterior surface of the ring to close the slots radially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Jacques Saint-Michel, Xavier Jannot, Olivier Gas, Nicolas Langlard, Sebastien Desurmont
  • Publication number: 20210203197
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electrical machine including a radially interior ring having teeth and slots which are open radially toward the outside, extending between the teeth, bridges of material connecting two adjacent teeth at their base, and defining the bottom of the slot between these teeth, and a radially exterior yoke, attached in contact with the ring, the ring and the yoke respectively exhibiting first and second reliefs collaborating with one another and/or with one or more inserts, and windings placed in a distributed fashion in the slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Jacques Saint-Michel, Xavier Jannot, Francois Turcat, Cedric Plasse, Olivier Gas
  • Publication number: 20210126496
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine, having a stator mass that has slots in which electrical conductors introduced axially into the slots are housed, each of the slots having a continuously closed contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Patent number: 10432049
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes a magnetic rotor body and at least two permanent magnets defining a pole of the rotor, the two permanent magnets being arranged on either side of a radial axis of the pole in a common recess which is provided in the magnetic rotor body and through which the radial axis of the pole passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Publication number: 20190273423
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wound rotor or stator having more than four poles, preferably a rotor, the rotor or stator having teeth provided with pole shoes. The method includes the following steps, for each pole: (a) producing a partial winding by winding at least one conductor over the portion of the tooth of this pole extending axially along this pole between the pole shoes of this pole and a plane (Pmin) at right angles to the axis of the pole and tangential to a pole shoe of an adjacent pole, (b) pushing back the duly produced partial winding towards the base of the tooth, and freeing said portion of the tooth having been used for the winding, and (c) repeating step (a) to produce another partial winding on the duly released portion of tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Publication number: 20180358849
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary electrical machine (I) comprising a stator, said stator comprising a bundle (10) of magnetic sheets (20) made up of at least one first sub-bundle (50) and at least one second sub-bundle (60) adjacent to the first, the sheets of the first and second sub-bundles each comprising at least one fin (100) formed at the periphery of the corresponding sheet, the fins (100) of two consecutive sub-bundles being angularly offset relative to one another, in such a way as to create a disruption of the flow of a cooling fluid between the fins at the transition between the first and second sub-bundles, the machine also comprising a housing (5) at least partially covering the bundle of sheets (10), in particular a sheet-metal housing, the housing including a metal sheet wound around the bundle (10) of magnetic sheets of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL, Alexis DUTAU, Michael MCCLELLAND
  • Patent number: 9997982
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating electrical machine including at least one stator and at least two rotors, which are arranged on either side of the stator along an axis of rotation of the machine, said at least one stator including teeth and windings arranged on the teeth, and each of said at least two rotors including two mutually coaxial rotor armatures, each bearing claw-poles arranged to interact magnetically with the teeth of the stator, the claw-poles of an armature being arranged circumferentially in alternation with the claw-poles of the other armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Publication number: 20170040855
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine has permanent magnets defining magnetic poles of the rotor, i.e. a first pole and a second pole adjacent to the first pole, the first and second poles having different polarities; permanent magnets assigned to the first pole contribute only to the polarity of the first pole, and at least one shared permanent magnet contributes in part to the polarity of the first pole and in part to the polarity of the second pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL
  • Publication number: 20170040854
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes a magnetic rotor body and at least two permanent magnets defining a pole of the rotor, the two permanent magnets being arranged on either side of a radial axis of the pole in a common recess which is provided in the magnetic rotor body and through which the radial axis of the pole passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL
  • Publication number: 20170033620
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine has: a toothed ring with teeth defining notches therebetween, the notches being open radially toward the outside, windings, which are arranged in a distributed manner in the notches, electrical conductors being arranged in an aligned manner in the notches, and a yoke mounted onto the toothed ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventor: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL
  • Publication number: 20160329845
    Abstract: A method for determining the polarity of a pole of a rotor of an electrical rotating machine, having an estimated position in relation to a stator, said method including the following steps: a) applying an excitation voltage to the stator such as to generate two different magnetic fluxes successively inside a saturable magnetic zone of the pole, one flux in conjunction with and the other in opposition to the magnetic flux of the magnets, such as to saturate the saturable magnetic zone for at least one of the magnetic fluxes; and b) determining the polarity of the pole according to the differences in the temporal evolution of the current generated in the stator by the two fluxes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Xavier JANNOT, Jacques SAINT-MICHEL, Mathias TIENTCHEU-YAMDEU
  • Publication number: 20160087514
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating electrical machine including at least one stator and at least two rotors, which are arranged on either side of the stator along an axis of rotation of the machine, said at least one stator including teeth and windings arranged on the teeth, and each of said at least two rotors including two mutually coaxial rotor armatures, each bearing claw-poles arranged to interact magnetically with the teeth of the stator, the claw-poles of an armature being arranged circumferentially in alternation with the claw-poles of the other armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Jacques SAINT-MICHEL