Abstract: The motor of the motor apparatus includes a rotor including a plurality of magnetic poles and a stator formed with tooth portions radially extending with a pitch equal to 5/6 times or 7/6 times a pole pitch of the rotor. Each tooth portion is formed with a brim portion circumferentially extending from both circumferential sides of the tooth portion. The phase ends of the stator winding are connected respectively to the AC ends. The DC power supply is connected between one of the DC ends and the neutral point of the stator winding. The control section controls the multi-phase inverter such that a multi-phase AC current containing a DC component flows through the stator winding. The circumferential width of the brim portion is smaller than or equal to 0.75 times a cross-sectional size of the electric wires constituting the stator winding.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ring gear fastening structure in which a ring gear is fastened to the flange of a differential case configuring a differential sub-assembly. The inner circumferential surface of the ring gear is press-fitted into the outer circumferential surface of the flange, and the ring gear is swaged by means of a swage part which is disposed on at least one end of the flange in the axial direction. The inner circumferential surface of the ring gear is formed with a circumferential groove which extends in the circumferential direction of said inner circumferential surface. The circumferential groove is disposed facing the outer circumferential surface of the flange.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator-core having slots and teeth, and a back-yoke having convex and concave portions. The convex portions are partially inserted into the slots, and the concave portions receive the teeth. The teeth include tip portions whose circumferential widths become larger along a radial direction from the inside to the outside of the stator. The back-yoke includes convex portions whose circumferential widths become larger along the radial direction from the outside to the inside of the stator. The tip portions and the convex portions have substantially the same shape. The length of a joint portion between the tip portion and the convex portion, the circumferential width of the tooth corresponding to a tip surface of the convex portion, the width of a root portion of the tooth, and the circumferential width of the convex portion corresponding to a bottom face of the concave portion are substantially the same.

Abstract: An annular caulking-fastened component to be fastened to a counterpart component by caulking includes a notch formed in an inner peripheral edge portion at one end side in a center axis direction, the notch being to be fixed to the counterpart component by caulking; and at least one of an inner-peripheral stepped portion formed between an inner peripheral surface and the inner peripheral edge portion and outward from the inner peripheral surface in a radial direction and an end-face stepped portion formed between an end face at one end side in the center axis direction and the inner peripheral edge portion and from the end face toward the other end side in the center axis direction.

Abstract: A control apparatus controlling rotary electric machine includes a conversion circuit converting a DC voltage into an AC voltage so as to rotate the rotary electric machine and a control unit. The conversion circuit includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch that connected to stator windings of the rotary electric machine. The control unit controls the conversion circuit such that both high-side/ low-side switches are controlled to be successively ON and OFF at every predetermined periods for converting the DC voltage into AC voltage. The control unit dynamically controls high-side and low-side neutral switches each connected to a neutral point of the stator windings so as to increase or decrease a voltage at the neutral point whereby current flowing through the rotary electric machine is adjusted. As a result, a torque of the rotary electric machine is optimized.

Abstract: In an electric motor, each tooth of the stator has a radially extending pillar portion and the number of teeth per magnetic pole is k. When the number k is odd and a center line passing each pole agrees with a center of a circumferential width of one tooth, the pole has first and second corners which are the closest to the stator and positioned before and after the center line in a rotational direction, respectively, and the teeth includes teeth which are the closest to the first and second corners and defined as first and second teeth, respectively. The first and second corners are located according to positional relationships of the first and second teeth and edges of the pillar portions of the first and second teeth in the rotation direction.

Abstract: According to input parameters, a controller carries out: generation of a voltage command value for each of d- and q-axes; conversion of the voltage command value for each of the d- and q-axes into a voltage command value for each of the multiphase windings; and control of a multiphase inverter based on the voltage command value for each of the multiphase windings. The controller adds, to the voltage command value for the q-axis, a first compensation voltage value for compensating torque ripples to thereby output a compensated voltage command value for the q-axis. The first compensation voltage value contains m-th harmonic components in the AC motor and varies depending on the rotational angle of the rotor, the m corresponding to the number of phase of the multiphase windings. The controller uses, as the voltage command value for the q-axis, the compensated voltage command value for the q-axis.

Abstract: In an electric rotating machine, a stator coil is comprised of first and second winding groups. The stator coil is wound around a stator core in a concentrated winding manner so that the phase difference in electrical angle between each corresponding pair of windings of the first and second winding groups is equal to ?/6. Further, the windings of the first and second winding groups are connected to form ?-Y connections. Consequently, the sixth harmonic components of the electromagnetic forces created by the windings of the first winding group can be offset by those of the electromagnetic forces created the windings of the second winding group. As a result, the total magnetic noise and torque ripple generated in the machine can be reduced. Moreover, the machine can be driven with only a single three-phase inverter to achieve the effects of reducing the total magnetic noise and torque ripple.

Abstract: In an electric rotating machine, a stator coil is comprised of first and second winding groups. The stator coil is wound around a stator core in a concentrated winding manner so that the phase difference in electrical angle between each corresponding pair of windings of the first and second winding groups is equal to ?/6. Further, the windings of the first and second winding groups are connected to form ?-Y connections. Consequently, the sixth harmonic components of the electromagnetic forces created by the windings of the first winding group can be offset by those of the electromagnetic forces created the windings of the second winding group. As a result, the total magnetic noise and torque ripple generated in the machine can be reduced. Moreover, the machine can be driven with only a single three-phase inverter to achieve the effects of reducing the total magnetic noise and torque ripple.

Abstract: An electric rotating machine is disclosed which includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and first and second three-phase stator coils. The stator core has a plurality of stator core teeth formed at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Each of the first and second three-phase stator coils is comprised of three phase windings. Each of the phase windings of the first and second three-phase stator coils is wound around each of a predetermined number of the stator core teeth by a predetermined number of turns. The rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles the polarities of which alternate between north and south in the circumferential direction of the stator core. Further, the first and second three-phase stator coils are offset in the circumferential direction of the stator core to have a phase difference of ?/6 therebetween.

Abstract: In a motor system, a motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes magnet poles and consequent poles. The stator includes a stator core and a stator coil that is comprised of first and second m-phase coils. The number of slots of the stator core provided per circumferentially-adjacent pair of the magnet and consequent poles is equal to 4 m. The phase windings of the first m-phase coil are alternately arranged with those of the second m-phase coil in a circumferential direction of the stator core. An inverter energizes the first and second m-phase coils to cause them to respectively create first and second spatial magnetic fluxes. Variation in a resultant spatial magnetic flux, which is the resultant of the first and second spatial magnetic fluxes, is less than variations in the first and second spatial magnetic fluxes in a circumferential direction of the rotor.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a multi-phase stator coil distributedly wound on the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth and a yoke having a plurality of grooves. Each of the teeth has a press-fit portion, which is press-fitted in a corresponding one of the grooves of the yoke, and a main body portion extending from the press-fit portion in a direction away from the corresponding groove. The press-fit portion has a pair of contact surfaces which are both in contact with a bottom surface of the corresponding groove and away from each other in a width direction of the tooth. Further, (a+b)?e/2, where a and b respectively represent widths of the contact surfaces of the press-fit portion, and e represents a width of the main body portion at a press-fit portion-side end of the main body portion.

Abstract: An electric rotating machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a plurality of magnetic shields. The stator includes a stator core and a stator coil wound on the stator core. The stator core has a plurality of stator teeth arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator core. The rotor includes a rotor core that has a plurality of magnetic salient poles formed therein. The magnetic salient poles face the stator teeth through an air gap formed therebetween. Each of the magnetic shields is provided, either on the forward side of a corresponding one of the stator teeth or on the backward side of a corresponding one of the magnetic salient poles with respect to the rotational direction of the rotor, to create a magnetic flux which suppresses generation of a negative electromagnetic force that hinders rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A stator core is comprised of first and second stator core pieces that are arranged to overlap each other in the axial direction of the stator core. The first stator core piece includes first protrusions, each of which is formed on one circumferential side of a corresponding tooth portion of the stator core, and first slot opening portions that open on the radially inner surface of the first stator core piece. The second stator core piece includes second protrusions, each of which is formed on the other circumferential side of a corresponding tooth portion, and second slot opening portions that open on the radially inner surface of the second stator core piece. For each slot of the stator core, a corresponding pair of the first and second slot opening portions which communicate with the slot are offset from each other in the circumferential direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a stator core that has an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, a plurality of connecting portions and a plurality of slots. The tooth portions are separately formed from and assembled to the yoke portion. Each of the tooth portions extends radially inward from a radially inner periphery of the yoke portion. The tooth portions are arranged in the circumferential direction of the yoke portion at predetermined intervals. Each of the connecting portions circumferentially extends to connect a corresponding circumferentially-adjacent pair of the tooth portions. Each of the slots is formed between a circumferentially-adjacent pair of the tooth portions. Moreover, each of the slots is partitioned by a corresponding one of the connecting portions into a radially-outer section and a radially-inner section.

Abstract: A differential device has a differential case that houses a gear group, and a ring gear that is disposed fitted to the differential case. The differential case and the ring gear are supported rotatably about a drive shaft. The ring gear is made up of a helical gear. The ring gear abuts the differential case in the axial direction of the drive shaft. The ring gear and the differential case are welded at an abutting portion of the ring gear and the differential case in the axial direction of the drive shaft.

Abstract: In a motor, an armature includes an annular yoke having an inner surface, and a plurality of teeth radially projecting individually from the inner surface of the annular yoke, and a rotor is rotatably provided inside the armature with a gap between the outer surface thereof and the inner surface of the armature. The armature and rotor is configured to have a first magnetic resistance facilitating reactive magnetic flux to flow through at least one tooth in a plurality of teeth to an adjacent tooth of the at least one tooth therein as compared with the reactive magnetic flux toward the rotor. The armature and rotor is configured to have a second magnetic resistance facilitating main magnetic flux based on the at least one pair of magnetic poles to flow toward a yoke of the armature as compared with the main magnetic flux toward at least one tooth close to the main magnetic flux.

Abstract: In a motor, an armature is provided to be opposite to a rotor member for generating a rotating magnetic field. In the armature, plural sets of teeth are arranged in a direction of rotation of the rotor member such that each set of teeth in the plural sets of teeth is within one electrical angular cycle of the rotating magnetic field. The one electrical angular cycle corresponds to one pole-pair pitch of the annular rotor member. A number of teeth in the plurality of teeth within the one pole-pair pitch is set to 2 k (k is a natural number), and a number of teeth facing each of the first magnetic poles in the plurality of teeth is set to be equal to or greater than the sum of k and 1.

Abstract: A turn part of a lead wire includes a projection part, a slope part and a second bent part. The projection part projects from a first slot to a direction parallel to an axial direction of the stator core. The slope part is diagonally extended at an angle of less than 90 degrees aiming to a Kth slot. The Kth slot is separated from the first slot at a specific interval via a first bent part that is bent in a circumferential direction from a tip of the projection part. The second bent part is connected with the slot accommodation part accommodated in the Kth slot, and is bent to the direction parallel to the axial direction of the stator core from a tip of the slope part.

Abstract: In a rotary electric system, a switch member includes at least one of a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is connected between a neutral point of multiphase stator windings and a high-side electrode of a direct current power source. The second switch is connected between the neutral point and a low-side electrode of the direct current power source. A controller works to turn the switch member off and on thereby switching control of the multiphase inverter between full-wave driving mode and half-wave driving mode. The full-wave driving mode allows the controller to drive all of the high-side and low-side switching elements per phase of the multiphase stator windings. The half-wave driving mode allows the controller to drive any one of the high-side switching element and the low-side switching element per phase of the multiphase stator windings.