Rotor Patents (Class 29/598)
  • Patent number: 10454335
    Abstract: A motor housing for an electric motor has a generally cylindrical housing shell (10), which, at one end (26), accommodates a first bearing and a housing cover module (12) such that the housing cover module (12) closes an opposing, open end of the housing shell (10), and serves as a second bearing. The cover module (12) is preferably of metal material and is integrally formed with a plurality of projecting tab and/or arm portions (14, 16, 18). Around the housing shell (10), several recesses or slots (20) are formed, flanked by deformable elements (30,32). By axially applying a tool (60), the deformable elements are deformed to secure the tabs (14, 16, 18) within the slots (20) and to thereby connect the shell (10) and the cover module (12) axially together. The resulting structure is highly resistant to vibrational decoupling, and can readily be obtained by high-speed automated production steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ismail Altindis, Dieter Mueller, Bernhard Trier
  • Patent number: 10435150
    Abstract: A pneumatic actuated trim tab system adapted to be mounted on a rotor blade to pneumatically alter aerodynamic properties of the rotor blade. The system includes an inflatable diaphragm adapted to be mounted on one or each side of the rotor blade; a deformable plate attached to each of the inflatable diaphragm, such that inflation and deflation of the inflatable diaphragm causes movement of each of the plates; a valving system connected to each inflatable diaphragm to allow input of a fluid into each inflatable diaphragm and allow release of a fluid out of each inflatable diaphragm; and a controller for controlling fluid pressure into and out of each inflatable diaphragm using the valving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventor: Joseph Szefi
  • Patent number: 10424996
    Abstract: Provided is a motor rotor which, without changing an integral fastening structure relying on swage pins, increases resistance to the excessive excitation force of the motor rotor and which can easily prevent decreases in fastening strength; a motor that uses the motor rotor, and an electric compressor are also provided. This motor rotor is provided with a cylindrical rotor core comprising multiple laminated magnetic steel sheets, end plates and balance weights laminated on both ends of the rotor core, and multiple headed swage pins which are inserted from one side and which integrally fasten the rotor core, the end plates and the balance weights. The material of the balance weight arranged to the head of the swage pin is harder than that of the swage pin, and the material of the balance weight arranged to the swage part of the swage pin is softer than that of the swage pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishikawa, Goshi Iketaka, Yuki Ichise, Akinori Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10411534
    Abstract: The rotor includes: a rotor core having a plurality of insertion holes penetrating in an axial direction at intervals in a circumferential direction; and magnets respectively provided in the insertion holes. A space is formed between a hole inner side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and a magnet inner side peripheral surface of each magnet. An adhesion layer portion is formed between a hole outer side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and a magnet outer side peripheral surface of each magnet, and the hole outer side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and the magnet outer side peripheral surface of each magnet with which the adhesion layer portion contacts are formed in a flat-surface shape. A width in a radial direction of the space is longer than a width in the radial direction of the adhesion layer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aiko Nakano, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 10391539
    Abstract: A blanking die apparatus includes multiple machining stations having respective cutting tools operated simultaneously to perform predetermined blanking operations on a belt-shaped workpiece fed progressively in a longitudinal direction and finally to perform a contour blanking operation on the workpiece, thereby forming core pieces used for manufacturing a laminated iron core, and an auxiliary cutting tool that forms a disposal hole by partly blanking a scrap forming area of the workpiece simultaneously with the operations of the cutting tools of the machining stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Shimizu, Hironosuke Taniishi
  • Patent number: 10381906
    Abstract: A short-circuit ring for a rotor of an electrical asynchronous machine is circular and has along its circumference a multiplicity of recesses extending in the axial direction, into which rods of a rotor cage of the asynchronous machine can be placed. The short-circuit ring is assembled from a plurality of partial ring segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Berger, Arndt Kelleter, Harald Laue
  • Patent number: 10367384
    Abstract: A rotor for a small electric motor (e.g., electric engine). The rotor having a rotor axis, multiple permanent magnets that are arranged in a spoke-shaped way as well as several inference cores. Each of the permanent magnets has two axial ends, two longitudinal sides, a radial outer side as well as a radial inner side. The inference cores protrude radially over the permanent magnets in relation to the rotor axis. The rotor is enclosed at least partially by a casting mold having multiple struts that extend in an axial direction and that overlap radially with the permanent magnets. The inference cores do not overlap with the permanent magnets on their radial outer sides, wherein both the permanent magnets as well as the inference cores are held together primarily directly by the casting mold in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: LAKEVIEW INNOVATION LTD.
    Inventors: Stefan Imfeld, Heinz Wagner
  • Patent number: 10326341
    Abstract: In a method for producing a rotor of an asynchronous electric machine, a carrier shaft is produced with shaft slots and a squirrel cage rotor is applied to the carrier shaft. The carrier shaft and an electrically conductive bulk material of nickeled copper is placed into a container so that the bulk material fills up the shaft slots. The bulk material is compacted in the container by hot isostatic pressing and thereby bonded to the carrier shaft such that nickel as diffusion material causes permanently bonding of copper to the carrier shaft. The container is then detached from the carrier shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Bethge, Kai-Uwe Volker
  • Patent number: 10312763
    Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core having an annular portion and a plurality of teeth that is radially protruded outward from an outer periphery of the annular portion; a molded coil that has an air-core portion into which the teeth of the stator core are inserted and that is stored in a slot formed between the teeth of the stator core; and a yoke that covers a circumference of the molded coil stored in the slot of the stator core. The molded coil has an arc-shaped cross-section, and the molded coil includes a resin-molded portion and an exposed portion exposed at the molded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Masashi Suzuki, Manabu Horiuchi, Masaki Musha
  • Patent number: 10312758
    Abstract: To provide a holding member, a rotor including the holding member, and a rotating electrical machine including the rotor, in which there is no risk of the holding member grinding against the stator, while maintaining a sufficient tensile force of the holding member for the magnet in the rotor of the rotating electrical machine. The length of the main section in the axial direction is longer than the length of the stator core in the axial direction; and the terminally processed section is arranged so as to be located outside of the end of the stator core in the axial direction; the terminally processed section is the start point and the end point of winding the fiber bundle composing the holding member, and is located outside of the stator core; and the terminally processed section is relatively thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei Arimatsu, Shinobu Takano
  • Patent number: 10305340
    Abstract: An armature for a permanent magnet brushed motor includes a shaft, a number of silicon steel laminations circumferentially around the shaft, a commutator adjacent to an end of the shaft, and an enameled wire winding wound around the silicon steel laminations and the commutator. A plastic sleeve capable of withstanding high temperature is disposed between the commutator and the silicon steel laminations and adjacent to the commutator. A plastic member wraps around where the enameled wire winding winds the commutator, and fixedly attaching to the plastic sleeve. As such, the plastic member establishes a first point of attachment at where the enameled wire winding winds the commutator and a second point of attachment to the plastic sleeve. The problem of the enameled wire winding being loosed or broken due to the armature's high-speed rotation is prevented, thereby enhancing the motor's robustness and operational life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventor: Chi-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 10284060
    Abstract: A stator assembly method and stator assembly apparatus in which coils that have slot housed portions and coil ends formed from a conductor are mounted to an annular stator core that includes slots formed between adjacent teeth that extend from a back yoke toward an inner side in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Shingo Sato, Shigeru Maeda, Masumi Tomura
  • Patent number: 10284032
    Abstract: A rotor for a reluctance motor includes a laminate stack having layers. Each layer has a plurality of flux-conducting sections formed in each case by a magnetically conductive rotor lamination and extending transversely to a corresponding q axis. The flux-conducting sections are separated from one another by nonmagnetic flux barrier regions. An electrically conductive and non-ferromagnetic filler material is arranged in a plurality or all of the flux barrier regions of the layers to electrically connect the flux barrier regions of adjacent layers to one another so that cage bars of a rotor cage of the rotor which extend axially parallel or skewed with respect to the axis of rotation are formed by the filler material in the flux barrier regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Marco Cerny, Ralf Fischer, Matthias Warmuth
  • Patent number: 10284061
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor (1) of a permanent magnet-type electric rotary machine, the rotor being able to restrain a decrease of a magnetic characteristic. A pair of endplates (6a, 6b) placed at both axial ends of a rotor core (3) are each provided with a pressing portion (10, 10) configured to abut with an outer peripheral side of an end of the rotor core (3) to apply a pressing force toward the other end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Mae, Toshiharu Mochida, Masao Shuto, Hirofumi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10270314
    Abstract: An electric vehicle comprises a driving motor which generates heat during an operation of the driving motor; a driving power transmission mechanism which transmits driving power of the driving motor to a rear wheel (drive wheel); an oil pan (first reservoir section) which is placed below the driving motor and reserves oil (coolant) therein; an oil reservoir (second reservoir section) which is placed above the driving motor and reserves the oil (coolant) therein; a fluid passage which causes the oil pan and the oil reservoir to be in communication with each other; and a pump which supplies the oil (coolant) from the oil pan to the oil reservoir through the fluid passage, and the oil reservoir includes a first drop hole through which the oil (coolant) is dropped toward the driving motor by a gravitational force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10263501
    Abstract: A vibration generator including a coil, a plunger including a first shaft and a second shaft, and a frame. The first shaft is received in the coil such as to be movable in a first direction. The second shaft extends in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, is disposed on the other side in the first direction relative to the coil with a gap therebetween. The first and second shafts are partly made of a magnetic material so as to be magnetically attractable to the coil and thereby movable to one side in the first direction. The frame is fixed to the first and second shafts at positions on the one and other sides, respectively, in the first direction relative to the coil, and elastically deformable at least partly as a result of movement of the first and second shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yushi Yano, Hideyuki Kataoka, Masayuki Ikehara
  • Patent number: 10250088
    Abstract: The pole wheel according to the invention is intended for the rotor of a Lundell rotating electric machine. The pole wheel is obtained entirely by forging and comprises a central core provided with a central bore in a central axis of the pole wheel intended to receive a shaft of the rotor, a plurality of pole teeth (10g, 11g) distributed in a regular manner at the circumference of the pole wheel and extending substantially parallel to the central axis of the pole wheel, and an annular part forming a plate and extending between the central core and parts forming bases of the pole teeth. According to the invention, the pole wheel comprises a plurality of reservoirs (105) provided in the parts forming bases of the pole teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Michel Bocquel, Henri Delianne, Pierre-Yves Bilteryst, Herve Ribot
  • Patent number: 10193424
    Abstract: A process and a system for welding rotor coils are presented. A plurality of rotor coils are arranged on a table of a machine. A welding tool welds the rotor coils on one end using a Friction Stir Welding process. Transition pieces are each arranged between the rotor coils to create a continuous welding path. A run-off tab is placed at an end of the welding path. The welding tool is changed to a milling tool after completion of the welding. The milling tool traces back along the welding path to separate the rotor coils. The milling tool may be changed to the welding tool to repeat the process for another end of the rotor coils. The process is completely automatic and controlled by a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Margarita Estrada, Randall S. Garrett, Ethan Miller
  • Patent number: 10181775
    Abstract: A rotor of an asynchronous machine with a cage rotor includes a laminated core formed from a plurality of partial laminated cores. The laminated core has substantially axially extending conductors arranged in slots in the laminated core. The conductors include at least two materials of different electrical conductivities, such that a material with a higher electrical conductivity surrounds a material with a lower electrical conductivity by at least 65% in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Scherer, Josef Niedermeyer, Uwe Scharf
  • Patent number: 10164508
    Abstract: A lamination pack for a motor and method of forming the lamination pack is provided. The method includes inserting a plurality of conductor bars into a plurality of rotor slots defined by a lamination stack such that opposing bar ends of the conductor bars extend from opposing end faces of the lamination stack, skewing the lamination stack and the conductor bars to a skew angle relative to a rotation axis of the lamination stack, and subsequently bending the bar ends of the conductor bars in opposing radial directions to a locking angle greater than the skew angle, to lock each of the conductor bars in its respective rotor slot. The bent bar ends exert a compressive axial locking force on the lamination stack to prevent axial and radial movement of the laminations in the lamination stack and to prevent axial movement of the conductor bars relative to the lamination stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: John S. Agapiou, Michael D. Hanna
  • Patent number: 10145450
    Abstract: Electric motors are disclosed. The motors are preferably for use in an automated vehicle, although any one or more of a variety of motor uses are suitable. The motors include lift, turntable, and locomotion motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: William D. Moore, Philip S. Johnson, Joshua M. Biro, Paul G. Michaels, Payman Rassoolkhani
  • Patent number: 10141801
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing dynamoelectric machines includes producing a first plurality and a second plurality of stator and rotor laminations using a die press, forming a first rotor from the first plurality of rotor laminations, and forming a second rotor from the second plurality of rotor laminations. The first plurality and the second plurality of stator laminations have the same inner and outer diameters. The first plurality and the second plurality of rotor laminations have the same inner and outer diameters. The first plurality of rotor laminations have a first magnet slot configuration and the second plurality of rotor laminations have a second magnet slot configuration different than the first magnet slot configuration. The first rotor and the second rotor may have the same or different stack heights. Preferably, a ratio of each stator lamination's inner diameter to outer diameter is at least 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Pingshan Cao, Xin Li, Xin Li, Yan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 10141802
    Abstract: At least three axis direction through-holes arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction are provided in a rotor laminated steel plate and a rotor end plate. The rotor laminated steel plate and the rotor end plate are fixed with three rivets for passing through the axis direction through-holes. A balance weight formed of one laminated metal plate is fixed to the one rotor end plate with two rivets of the three rivets. A balance weight formed of the other laminated metal plate is integrated by caulking and has a projection formed thereon and fixed to the other rotor end plate with the remaining single rivet. The projection is engaged with a recess or a through-hole provided in the other rotor end plate so that the balance weight is positioned to the other rotor end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Izumi, Taku Morishita
  • Patent number: 10135318
    Abstract: An exercise apparatus for generating electrical power is disclosed comprising a rotor comprising a flywheel comprising a plurality of alternatingly poled magnets arranged radially towards a circumference of the wheel in a circumferential, circular or arc-like configuration and a stator comprising a disc or annulus comprising one or more radially arranged coil units arranged to have a circumferential, circular or arc-like configuration, wherein the stator comprises a printed coil laminate comprising a sheet of insulator material and a printed conductor comprising conductive ink printed upon the sheet of insulator material, wherein the printed conductor is arranged to form a coil unit. The flywheel rotates, in use, relative to the disc to cause the magnets to move relative to the coil unit(s) and generate electrical power in the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventors: Charley Bickers, Richard Hobbs, Martin Prescott
  • Patent number: 10110099
    Abstract: In a rotor of the present invention, an interference is set to have a relationship so that an inner diameter of a press-fit projecting portion before press-fitting is smaller than a diameter of a shaft, and in the inner wall surface, a non-projecting portion is formed without projecting portions on a portion in which a weld line is generated by the molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Imazawa, Shinichiro Minami, Hitoshi Shibagaki, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10084363
    Abstract: A stator assembly method in which coils that have slot housed portions and coil ends formed from a conductive wire are mounted to an annular stator core that has a plurality of teeth that extend from a back yoke toward an inner side in a radial direction and slots formed between two of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Shigeru Maeda, Masumi Tomura, Shingo Sato
  • Patent number: 10077781
    Abstract: A metal pump housing includes a shaft support hole for supporting a middle part of a rotary shaft. The rotary shaft includes a first end on which a pump operating portion is provided and a second end on which a motor rotor is provided. A metal motor case is fixed to a part of the pump housing that is at a side of the second end. The motor case accommodates a motor section including a motor stator and a motor rotor. A plastic circuit case member is fixed to a part of the motor case that is opposite to the part to which the pump housing is fixed. A circuit substrate for controlling the motor section is fixed to the circuit case member and is separate from the motor case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Irie, Toshihiro Matsuura, Hiroki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10049813
    Abstract: A method of roll-forming with gap fillers for a solenoid used for a transmission includes the steps of providing a can of a solenoid, the can having a discontinuous surface with a gap, providing additional material in the gap, and roll-forming the additional material in the gap simultaneously with roll-forming the can to maintain a smooth path for rollers during roll-forming for the solenoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventor: Philip A. Ruehl
  • Patent number: 10040111
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated iron core includes performing at least two kinds of selectively-actuated punching processes by actuating respective punching units to form a plurality of iron core pieces, each of the punching units being switchable between an active state or a non-active state, and caulking and laminating the plurality of iron core pieces to manufacture the laminated iron core. The selectively-actuated punching processes are performed in one operation by selectively actuating each of the punching units between the active state and the non-active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Souhachi Arima, Tomohiko Hayata
  • Patent number: 10033257
    Abstract: A linear vibrator includes a stator having a housing including a receiving space, a moveable unit received in the receiving space, a coil attached to one of the stator and the moveable unit, a magnet assembly attached to the other of the stator and the moveable unit, an elastic member having one end connecting to the moveable unit and another end connecting to the stator for suspending the moveable unit in the receiving space, the elastic member having an elastic gap, and a damping block at least partially received in the elastic gap and deformable by the elastic member during the vibration of the moveable unit within a predetermined vibration amplitude. A boost force is produced by the damping block for accelerating the moveable unit to return to balanced position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10027192
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes: a rotator; a stator; a permanent magnet inserted into a magnet accommodating hole; and a slit formed on a radially outer side of the magnet accommodating hole. A space portion is ensured between a radially outer surface of the permanent magnet and a rotator core in each region opposed to the slit. The permanent magnet is apart from the rotator core via the space portion in the each region opposed to the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe, Masahiro Nigo, Tomoaki Oikawa
  • Patent number: 10012263
    Abstract: Rotating machines and rotors therefor are disclosed. The bearings may be magnetic bearings configured to magnetically levitate the rotor. The rotors may include a hollow fiber-reinforced composite shaft and a magnetic bearing rotor core disposed on the shaft and configured for use with the magnetic bearing. In some examples, the rotating machines may be electrical machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Research, Ltd
    Inventors: Darren Dale Tremelling, Dezheng Wu, Steven Carl Englebretson, Simon E. Mushi, Se Young Yoon, Yujing Liu
  • Patent number: 9997981
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a driveshaft and a rotor which is mounted on the driveshaft. The driveshaft is supported on the housing by at least one rolling-contact bearing and in addition by an electrically-conductive slide bearing which also establishes an electric connection between the driveshaft and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: AUDI AG, KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventors: Josef Rusch, Bastian Heidler
  • Patent number: 9979244
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a rotating electrical machine, comprising: a magnetic mass (2), in particular a rotor, comprising first housings (3), a plurality of permanent magnets (11) inserted into the first housings (3), and shims (20), preferably deformable, inserted into the first housings (3) and/or into second housings (12) provided in the magnetic mass (2), the shims (20) being configured to wedge the magnets (11) in the first housings by plastic and/or elastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Michel Droit, Stéphane Dufau, Sébastien Porcher, Nicolas Gluard
  • Patent number: 9979264
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated rotor core comprises a first step of positioning and mounting a laminated core body 14 on a mounting table 17 of a carrying tray 16, a second step of positioning and arranging the laminated core body 14 mounted on a mounting table 17 on a lower die 28, the laminated core body 14 having permanent magnets 15 inserted into respective magnet insertion holes 11 and 12, and clamping the laminated core body 14 mounted on the mounting table 17 by an upper die 29 and a lower die 28, and a third step of pushing resin out of resin reservoir pots 42 provided in the lower die 28 and filling the respective corresponding magnet insertion holes 11 and 12 of the laminated core body 14 with the resin through resin passages 43 formed in the mounting table 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Hisatomo Ishimatsu, Hirotoshi Mabu, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Iwao Myojin
  • Patent number: 9973047
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electric machine, such as a dynamometer. The rotor of the machine comprises a circular row of resultant magnetic poles of which the polarity forms an alternation of opposed poles. The resultant poles each include a pair of permanent magnets in a “V”, each equipped with a north pole N, a south pole S, and opposed faces, where the magnet poles are located. In each resultant pole the magnets are disposed so as to have faces having identical polarities, which faces are oriented radially outwardly, facing towards one another, thus forming therebetween an angle ? between 90° and 110°, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency. The invention also relates to a turbomachine test stand equipped with a dynamometer enabling a recovery of electrical energy. The invention also relates to a hybrid motor vehicle propelled by the rotating electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters SA
    Inventors: Alain Lacroix, Quac Hung Tran, Benoit Meys
  • Patent number: 9941770
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump assembly has a motor that drives the pump. The motor has a stator having a bore, a shaft extending through the stator, and rotor sections mounted to the shaft, each of the rotor sections having first and second end rings. A non rotating bearing body has a periphery retained in non rotating engagement with the bore of the stator. The bearing body has a first end axially spaced from the first end ring, defining a first gap, and a second end axially spaced from the second rotor ring, defining a second gap. A first thrust washer is located in the first gap. Each thrust washer has a metal or carbide thrust surface for contact with the bearing body and an elastomeric thrust surface for contact with one of the end rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Rumbaugh, James Christopher Clingman
  • Patent number: 9917493
    Abstract: A molding apparatus and method for fixing permanent magnets in a rotor core during production of drive motors for environmental vehicles, in which the permanent magnets, which are inserted into magnet insertion apertures of the rotor core, are aligned at identical positions with respect to the axial direction of the rotor core, thus contributing to an improvement in the performance of the drive motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Young Kie, Kwang Kyeong Sung
  • Patent number: 9882458
    Abstract: Method for producing a stator winding (18) of an electric machine (10), in particular an AC generator, wherein the stator winding (18) has at least n phase windings (120, 121, 122, 123, 124), and one phase winding (120, 121, 122, 123, 124) has a plurality of directly successive wound coils (82) with coil sides (88) and coil side connectors (91), wherein the coils (82) are divided into first coils (82.1) and second coils (82.2), with a forming tool (100), in which slots (105, 106; 105?, 106?) are provided which are suitable for accommodating the coils (82), wherein a first coil (82.1) is arranged in a slot (105; 105?), and a second coil (82.2) is arranged in another slot (105; 105?), characterized in that n?1 slots (105, 106; 105?, 106?) are arranged between the first coil (82.1) and the second coil (82.2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEG Automotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Wolf, Klaus Herbold, Gerlinde Weber, Christoph Schwarzkopf, Eberhard Rau, Alexander Mueller, Helmut Kreuzer, Kurt Reutlinger
  • Patent number: 9847682
    Abstract: A rotor includes a hollow cylindrical rotor core that has a center hole, in which a rotating shaft is to be press-fitted, and a plurality of magnet-receiving holes in which a plurality of permanent magnets are respectively received. In a radially inner surface of the rotor core defining the center hole, there are formed a plurality of non-contacting recesses and a plurality of contacting protrusions alternately in the circumferential direction of the rotor core. Each of the non-contacting recesses is recessed radially outward so as not to be in contact with the rotating shaft. Each of the contacting protrusions protrudes radially inward so as to be in pressed contact with the rotating shaft. The rotor core further has a plurality of through-holes each of which penetrates the rotor core in the axial direction of the rotor core and is located radially outside a corresponding one of the contacting protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9837881
    Abstract: In a method for producing an individual-segment rotor for an electric machine, a shaft is arranged in a mold and a plurality of laminated core segments, which are at a distance from one another, are arranged on the circumference of the shaft in a distributed manner in the mold. The laminated core segments each have a fixing contour for a form closure for radially fixing the laminated core segment on the shaft. In addition, a permanent magnet is arranged between each pair of laminated core segments. An intermediate space between the shaft and each fixing contour of the laminated core segments is filled with a curable nonmagnetic material. The curable nonmagnetic material forms a form closure with respect to the radial direction with each fixing contour, and therefore each laminated core segment is retained on the shaft by the form closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Helmut Schneider, Armin Stäblein, Benjamin Volkmuth
  • Patent number: 9825505
    Abstract: In a rotor of a rotary electric machine including a pair of gutter-shaped concave portions which are formed along a side surface positioned at the outside of an axis of field-magnet core components so as to install and protect a pair of lead wires, balance-correction concave portions formed by a molding die are provided at shoulders of claw-shaped magnetic poles being nearest to the gutter-shaped concave portions in claw-shaped magnetic poles arranged at positions which are evenly separated at least in a circumferential direction with respect to the pair of gutter-shaped concave portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Ryuzo Morita
  • Patent number: 9819238
    Abstract: Obtain a rotary electric machine by which a share of coil slots for a stator winding in slots, which are formed in a stator core, can be increased, and heat generation at a central portion of a stator can be decreased. The stator winding is composed of coil slots, which are inserted to the slots, and coil ends extended toward the outside in the axis direction of the stator core; and the coil conductors of the coil slots are configured in such a way that cross-sectional areas at central portions in the axis direction are wider cross-sectional areas at both end portions, and the cross-sectional areas of the coil conductors are reduced along the coil slots from the central portions to the both end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Ikura, Shinkichi Sawa, Tatsuro Hino, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 9819235
    Abstract: A rotor core has a regular decagon base portion in its cross section relative to a shaft center and ten convex portions each of which is located between each angle of the regular decagon base portion. Each convex portion has a first convex curve having a single curvature radius. Each permanent magnet is a curved plate and has a concave curve and a second convex curve. Each permanent magnet is provided so that the concave curve adheres on the first convex curve. When each permanent magnet moves in circumferential direction relative to the rotor core, the concave curve slides on the first convex curve of the rotor core. A position of the smallest gap clearance between the second convex curve and the stator does not change. A magnetic-flux-strength maximum position is not changed easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9806587
    Abstract: A system and method to reduce core loss in the stator of an electric motor by first preparing laminations of the stator and/or rotor in a water jetting operation, punching or stamping operation, laser cutting operation, or similar manufacturing operation, and then subjecting the laminations to a temperature treatment in a manner such that, upon assembly into a stator and/or rotor of an electric motor and operated within expected parameters, core loss is reduced. The system and method subjects the laminations to a cold bath preferably consisting of liquid nitrogen, after stamping but preferably prior to assembly, and then stacking the laminations together for assembly as a stator and/or rotor of an electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Inventor: Robert Ross
  • Patent number: 9793771
    Abstract: An electric motor rotor including a magnetic core, magnets fastened to the periphery of the magnetic core, and a wire wound with touching turns around the magnetic core and the magnets. The wire includes a metal core surrounded by an electrically insulating layer, itself covered by an outer sheath of thermo-adhesive material, the turns being fastened to one another by adhesion between mutually contacting portions of the outer sheath. A method of fabricating such a rotor. An electric motor including such a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventors: Bernard Rabret, Bruno Andre, Gaetan Princay, Jerome Piaton, Thierry Bessede
  • Patent number: 9787147
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes a stator having teeth on which a coil is wound, a rotor rotatably provided inside the stator, the rotor including a plurality of rotor sectors, and at least two permanent magnet recesses formed between the rotor sectors. Ferrite permanent magnets are embedded in predetermined ones of the permanent magnet recesses that are formed in an inner portion of the rotor. Rare-earth permanent magnets are embedded in the other ones of the permanent magnet recesses that are formed in an outer portion of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Komotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deok Geun Kim, Han Sam Cho, Kyu Yun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9735646
    Abstract: A motor rotor-blank assembly for a motor is provided. The rotor-blank assembly includes a rotor including a plurality of rotor anti-rotation features; and a blank having a hollow core and including a plurality of blank anti-rotation features corresponding to the rotor anti-rotation features, wherein the rotor anti-rotation features and the blank anti-rotation features work in conjunction to maintain the blank fixed within the rotor during rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Johnson, Robert A. Lipsett
  • Patent number: 9729020
    Abstract: An example stator assembly includes a stator for establishing a core side of a channel. A plurality of stator windings are secured relative to portions of the stator core. The plurality of stator windings establish a winding side of the channel. At least a portion of the channel is configured to communicate a cooling fluid from a first axial end of the stator core to an opposing axial end of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: RE46691
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor is provided with a housing, a rotating shaft supported within the housing, and magnetic coils arranged within the housing. A hydrostatic bearing is disposed on the rotating shaft, the hydrostatic bearing having a permanent magnet incorporated therewith that restricts movement of the rotating shaft in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NEW WAY MACHINE COMPONENTS, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew J. Devitt