Abstract: A washing machine including a rotary drum that is rotatable, and into which laundry is loadable; a motor configured to rotate the rotary drum; and a controller configured to perform startup control to initiate rotation of the rotary drum, the startup control including a first process for controlling the motor so that torque for rotating the rotary drum in a first rotation direction is applied to the rotary drum; and a second process for controlling the motor so that, after the first process is initiated, and when a rotational acceleration of the rotary drum is less than or equal to a first predefined threshold before a rotation velocity of the rotary drum reaches a first rotation velocity, torque for rotating the rotary drum in reverse is applied to the rotary drum.

Abstract: A washing machine including a fixed tank; a rotary drum accommodated in the fixed tank and into which laundry is loadable; a drain configured to discharge water collected in the fixed tank; a ball balancer installed in the rotary drum; a controller; and a driver configured to rotate the rotary drum, the driver including a shaft fixed to the rotary drum, and configured to be rotatable to rotate the rotary drum, a motor including a stator and a rotor, a reducer, and a clutch configured to be switched between a first mode in which rotation of the rotor is transmitted to the shaft through the reducer, and a second mode in which the rotation of the rotor is transmitted to the shaft without passing through the reducer.

Abstract: Provided is a washing machine including a motor configured to suppress an increase in a harmonic component of cogging torque even when a magnetization imbalance occurs. The motor of the washing machine may include a rotor configured to rotate about a rotation axis, and a stator facing the rotor with an air gap therebetween, wherein the rotor includes an annular magnetic pole body in which a plurality of magnets having an arc-shaped cross-section are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and the annular magnetic pole body includes two or more types of magnets having different numbers of magnetic poles.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a controller for controlling a series of washing processes. In a first process, the controller sets a clutch to a first mode in which a rotation of a motor is transferred to a rotating tub via a reducer, and controls the motor to allow the rotation tube to rotate with a first rotation speed which is greater than or equal to a certain rotation speed set to generate a centrifugal force to make laundry stuck to an internal wall of the rotating tub. In a second process after the first process, the controller sets the clutch to a second mode in which the rotation of the motor is transferred to the rotating tub without being through the reducer, and controls the motor to allow the rotating tub to rotate with a second rotation speed which is greater than the first rotation speed.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a controller. The controller perform switching processing, by moving a moving part in an axial direction so that the moving part is switched from a start state in which one of a rotor-side fixing part and a stator-side fixing part engages with the moving part to an end state in which a remaining one of the rotor-side fixing part and the stator-side fixing part engages with the moving part. The controller is further configured to perform an adjustment operation before the end state of the switching processing starts. In the adjustment operation, the controller is further configured to adjust an engagement position by changing a rotation phase of rotor so as to allow an engagement position of the moving part with respect to the remaining one of the rotor-side fixing part and the stator-side fixing part to become a target engagement position.

Abstract: A stator and a motor include a plurality of split cores disposed in an annular shape and a connector configured to connect the plurality of split cores to allow a circumferential spacing distance between the split cores to be changed, wherein a diameter of the stator is changed by changing the spacing distance between the split cores in a state in which the plurality of split cores disposed in an annular shape by the connector.

Abstract: A compressor includes: a motor that includes a rotor including opposed magnets; a compression unit that compresses a refrigerant; and a crankshaft that is connected to the motor and the compression unit and is configured to transmit rotational driving of the motor to the compression unit, wherein the magnets are arranged such that the difference in magnetic force between the opposed magnets eliminates a force that deflects the crankshaft when the motor is rotationally driven.

Abstract: A stator and a motor include a plurality of split cores disposed in an annular shape and a connector configured to connect the plurality of split cores to allow a circumferential spacing distance between the split cores to be changed, wherein a diameter of the stator is changed by changing the spacing distance between the split cores in a state in which the plurality of split cores disposed in an annular shape by the connector.

Abstract: A rotor has at its two axis end portions an upper large-diameter inner circumferential portion and a lower large-diameter inner circumferential portion that have inner diameters larger than the inner diameter of the axially middle portion of the rotor and are offset in the radial direction. A crankshaft has a passageway, which is formed in the crankshaft and allows refrigerant to flow therethrough, and a gas venting hole, which provides communication between the passageway and at least one discharge opening formed in the outer circumferential surface of the crankshaft. The at least one discharge opening is formed at a position facing the inner circumferential surface of the lower large-diameter inner circumferential portion 5b on the compression unit side.

Abstract: A compressor includes: a motor that includes a rotor including opposed magnets; a compression unit that compresses a refrigerant; and a crankshaft that is connected to the motor and the compression unit and is configured to transmit rotational driving of the motor to the compression unit, wherein the magnets are arranged such that the difference in magnetic force between the opposed magnets eliminates a force that deflects the crankshaft when the motor is rotationally driven.

Abstract: A rotor has at its two axis end portions an upper large-diameter inner circumferential portion and a lower large-diameter inner circumferential portion that have inner diameters larger than the inner diameter of the axially middle portion of the rotor and are offset in the radial direction. A crankshaft has a passageway, which is formed in the crankshaft and allows refrigerant to flow therethrough, and a gas venting hole, which provides communication between the passageway and at least one discharge opening formed in the outer circumferential surface of the crankshaft. The at least one discharge opening is formed at a position facing the inner circumferential surface of the lower large-diameter inner circumferential portion 5b on the compression unit side.

Abstract: It is an object to obtain a highly efficient and low-cost single-phase motor and a hermetic compressor employing the motor by producing the motor in a form that allows a proper material layout, with securing a magnetic path of a coreback of a stator iron core. According to the present invention, in a single-phase motor having a stator including a stator iron core formed by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets and provided with a slot and single-phase two-pole distributed windings composed of a main winding and an auxiliary winding contained in the slot, and a rotor placed through a gap on an inner circumference of the stator, at least five notches each having a roughly straight lined shape are provided on an outer circumference of the stator iron core, so that a quadrangle is formed by straight lines including four notches out of the at least five notches.

Abstract: It is an object to obtain a highly efficient and low-cost single-phase motor and a hermetic compressor employing the motor by producing the motor in a form that allows a proper material layout, with securing a magnetic path of a coreback of a stator iron core. According to the present invention, in a single-phase motor having a stator including a stator iron core formed by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets and provided with a slot and single-phase two-pole distributed windings composed of a main winding and an auxiliary winding contained in the slot, and a rotor placed through a gap on an inner circumference of the stator, at least five notches each having a roughly straight lined shape are provided on an outer circumference of the stator iron core, so that a quadrangle is formed by straight lines including four notches out of the at least five notches.

Abstract: In a coaxial cable, a first insulating sheath covers an outer periphery of a first conductive wire. The first insulating sheath includes at least three insulating layers. A plurality of second conductive wires are spirally side-wound on an outer periphery of the first insulating sheath. The coaxial cable is wound around a core forming a closed magnetic path. Both ends of the first conductive wire serve as one of input terminals and output terminals of the transmission transformer, and both ends of the second conductive wires serve as the other one of the input terminals and the output terminals.

Abstract: A stator iron core of an electric motor including plural magnetic pole segments. Each of the pole segments include a back yoke portion, a teeth portion projected from the back yoke portion, a connection portion provided to the back yoke portion for connecting adjacent magnetic pole segments, and a stepped-shaped notch on an outer circumference of the back yoke portion. Further, the stator iron core is circularly formed by bending the connection portions of the plural magnetic pole segments.

Abstract: A stator iron core of an electric motor including plural magnetic pole segments connected and confronted by plural confronting surfaces. Further, two of the confronting surfaces respectively include a V-shaped projection and a V-shaped recess.

Abstract: In a coaxial cable, a first insulating sheath covers an outer periphery of a first conductive wire. The first insulting sheath includes at least three insulating layers. A plurality of second conductive wires are spirally side-wound on an outer periphery of the first insulating sheath. The coaxial cable is wound around a core forming a dosed magnetic path. Both ends of the first conductive wire serve as one of input terminals and output terminals of the transmission transformer, and both ends of the second conductive wires serve as the other one of the input terminals and the output terminals.

Abstract: To provide a permanent-magnet motor having a permanent magnet which can reduce the vibration and the noise without lowering the efficiency of the motor, the permanent-magnet motor according to, the present invention has a stator 1 having stator winding of plural phases, a rotor 10 having a stator core 12 facing to inside of the stator across a gap part and a permanent magnet 14 provided to the rotor core. In the permanent-magnet motor, the permanent magnet 14 is made to have both a convex part to the inner diameter side and a convex part to the outer diameter side in the cross section taken vertically to the rotation axis, and a focus of magnetic orientation of each magnetic pole of the permanent magnet is located outside of the rotor 10.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a stator iron core of an electric motor which can eliminate the reduction of efficiency, vibration or noise of the electric motor by decreasing stress generated at a bottom portion of a slot on manufacturing or integrating the electric motor. Plural magnetic pole segments, each having a back yoke portion and a teeth portion projected from the back yoke portion, are connected so as to be bendable via a connection portion provided to the back yoke portion. After winding the coil wire, a stator iron core of the electric motor is circularly formed by bending the connection portion of the plural magnetic pole segments. In the stator iron core, the bottom portion of the slot constituted by the back yoke portion and the teeth portion is made to have a curved line after the stator iron core is circularly formed.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a stator iron core of an electric motor which can eliminate the reduction of efficiency, vibration or noise of the electric motor by decreasing stress generated at a bottom portion of a slot on manufacturing or integrating the electric motor. Plural magnetic pole segments, each having a back yoke portion and a teeth portion projected from the back yoke portion, are connected so as to be bendable via a connection portion provided to the back yoke portion. After winding the coil wire, a stator iron core of the electric motor is circularly formed by bending the connection portion of the plural magnetic pole segments. In the stator iron core, the bottom portion of the slot constituted by the back yoke portion and the teeth portion is made to have a curved line after the stator iron core is circularly formed.