Rotor Patents (Class 29/598)
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Patent number: 9246364Abstract: In one embodiment, a permanent magnet rotor is provided. The permanent magnet rotor includes at least one permanent magnet and a substantially cylindrical rotor core including an outer edge and an inner edge defining a central opening. The rotor core includes a radius R, at least one pole, and at least one radial aperture extending radially though the rotor core from the outer edge to a predetermined depth less than the radius. The at least one radial aperture is configured to receive the at least one permanent magnet. The rotor further includes at least one protrusion extending into the at least one radial aperture, the at least one protrusion positioned substantially along a bottom of the at least one radial aperture and configured to facilitate retention of the at least one permanent magnet within the at least one radial aperture.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Subhash Marutirao Brahmavar, Lester Benjamin Manz, Ludovic Andre Chretien, Changiz Rashidzadeh, Dan Mircea Ionel
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Patent number: 9219389Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotatable, approximately cylindrical rotor. The rotor includes a shaft, rotor cores, radial permanent magnets, and side plates. The shaft includes projected and depressed engagement portions. The rotor cores are separated from each other on a magnetic pole basis. The rotor cores constitute circumferentially arranged pole shoes. The radial permanent magnets are each on a circumferential side of a pole shoe among the pole shoes. Each of the radial permanent magnets is engaged with an engagement portion among the engagement portions of the shaft. The side plates are on axial ends of the rotor. The side plates support the rotor cores and the permanent magnets in a radial direction of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventor: Tuyoshi Nonaka
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Patent number: 9184637Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a rotor core arranged on the outer circumferential side of a rotor shaft; and a plurality of magnetic poles fixed to the rotor core and circumferentially arranged on the rotor core, the rotor including a non-magnetic ring attached by insertion to the outer circumference of the plurality of the magnetic poles and having a substantially polygonal shape in outer circumferential shape. The non-magnetic ring is configured such that the inner circumferential length L of the non-magnetic ring before assembly with respect to the length of an envelope L0 of tangent lines each between the outer circumferential surface of the magnetic pole and the outer circumferential surface of the adjacent magnetic pole is set to L?L0. An object is to obtain the rotor of the rotary electric machine capable of achieving reduction in size and cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihiro Yamamura, Kazuhisa Takashima, Hidechika Fujii, Masayuki Miyaoka, Satoru Akutsu
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Patent number: 9164007Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic flux collector for a torque detection device. The collector includes two coaxial magnetic cylinder heads (6, 7), having respectively interlocked teeth (17, 28), overmolded by means of a plastic material. The two cylinder heads (6, 7) have, at the periphery thereof, notches (18, 19, 23) provided such as to engage with matching grooves (32, 33) which comprise a cylindrical cavity (31) of a mold (30) for overmolding the cylinder heads with the plastic material. The two cylinder heads (6, 7) are therefore positioned in a very accurate manner relative to one another, before injecting the overmolding plastic material. The invention can be used for the production of torque sensors used in the power-steering systems of automobiles.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: JTEKT EUROPEInventors: Elsa Coscoy, Laurent Rey
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Patent number: 9130437Abstract: A manufacturing method for permeable bandages and magnetic cores for rotors of electrical machines is proposed. The proposed method relies on winding with insulated metal preferably permeable wire or ribbon with high pretension and maintaining pretension in the wire or ribbon during manufacturing steps. The proposed method could be especially useful for high-speed electrical machines.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Inventor: Sergey Pulnikov
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Patent number: 9088189Abstract: An electrical machine permanent magnet rotor (and associated method of making) includes a plurality of disc-shaped laminations arranged in a stacked configuration. Each of the laminations has a plurality of magnetic material slots circumferentially spaced around a peripheral portion thereof. A first set of the slots on each lamination has a material bridge between a radial end of the slot and an outer circumferential edge of the lamination. A second set of the slots on each lamination have a radial end that extends to the outer circumferential edge of the lamination and is void of the material bridge.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eric S. Buskirk, Blake Weldon Wilson, Curtis Hebert
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Patent number: 9083221Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor assembly includes placing a generally cylindrical rotor core in a die. The rotor core has axial grooves spaced about a perimeter of the rotor core. The grooves may be formed by stacked laminated disks. Material is cast around the annular rotor core in the die such that the cast material forms conductor bars that fill the grooves and first end ring portions at opposing ends of the rotor core connected with the conductor bars. Each of the first end ring portions has substantially a first axial width. The rotor core with cast conductor bars and cast first end ring portions is then removed from the die. A respective second end ring portion is welded to each of the cast first end ring portions to form end ring assemblies. Each second end ring portion has a second axial width greater than the first axial width.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Richard M. Kleber, John S. Agapiou
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Patent number: 9080386Abstract: A wellbore rotating instrument system includes a source of rotational energy for transmission thereof to within a wellbore. At least one magnetic gear assembly is coupled at its input to an output of the source. A rotating load is coupled at its input to a rotational output of the magnetic gear assembly. The at least one magnetic gear assembly comprises a housing, a stator disposed in the housing proximate an inner wall thereof, a second shaft rotatably supported on bearings disposed at longitudinally spaced apart locations inside the housing and a first shaft rotatably supported inside the output shaft. The stator comprises a plurality of magnets disposed in generally circular laminations. The second shaft comprises a non-magnetic, electrically non-conductive body and a plurality of pole pieces disposed circumferentially therearound. The first shaft comprises magnets disposed around its exterior circumference and shaped to fit rotatably within the second shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Magnomatics, LimitedInventors: Richard McCann, Kenneth Smith, Jeff Birchall, Jamie Cochran, Michael J Rushby
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Patent number: 9045943Abstract: A component for a downhole tool includes a rotor and a hardfacing precursor. The hardfacing precursor includes a polymeric material, hard particles, and a metal. A hydraulic drilling motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a sintered hardfacing material on an outer surface of the rotor or an inner surface of the stator. Methods of applying hardfacing to surfaces include forming a paste of hard particles, metal matrix particles, a polymeric material, and a solvent. The solvent is removed from the paste to form a sheet, which is applied to a surface and heated. A component for a downhole tool includes a first hardfacing material, a second hardfacing material over the first hardfacing material and defining a plurality of pores, and a metal disposed within at least some of the pores. The metal has a melting point lower than a melting point of the second hardfacing material.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Travis E. Puzz, James L. Overstreet, Jimmy W. Eason
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Patent number: 9048715Abstract: The rotor of the present invention is capable of improving magnetic characteristics, general versatility and ease of assembly. The rotor comprises: a rotor shaft; a ring-shaped rotor magnet being disposed coaxially with the rotor shaft; and a non-magnetic cover covering an outer circumference of the rotor magnet. The rotor magnet and the cover are integral-molded with molding resin in a state where an outer circumference of the cover is exposed and both end parts and an inner circumference of the rotor magnet are covered with the molding resin.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignees: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Kodani, Keisuke Wakabayashi, Nobuyuki Kabasawa, Yasuaki Motegi
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Publication number: 20150145366Abstract: A rotor which can raise the axial direction strength near the end edges outside of the rotor core in the radial direction. The rotor comprises a shaft, a rotor core which has a plurality of magnetic steel sheets and is fastened to the shaft, and a plurality of magnets which are arranged inside of the rotor core. The rotor core has a center hole which holds the shaft, a plurality of magnet holes which are arranged at the outside of the center hole in the radial direction and hold magnets, resin holes which are arranged at the outsides of the magnet holes in the radial direction and which run through the rotor core in the axial direction, and rotor core fastening members which include first resin parts which are filled inside the resin holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Koudai Akashi, Hidetoshi Uematsu, Makoto Funakubo
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Publication number: 20150137634Abstract: A stator is configured so as to have an annular shape by linking core blocks that are each produced by laminating electromagnetic steel sheets and that each have a yoke portion and a tooth portion by bendable first linking portion, concentrated winding coils are each produced by winding a conductor wire around the tooth portion for a number of turns so as to pass through concave spaces that are formed by the trunk portions and first and second guiding portions of first and second insulating bobbins, and current-carrying member holding portions that hold first current-carrying members that configure the concentrated winding coils into alternating-current connections are constituted by holding grooves that are each formed so as to open radially outward and so as to pass through the first guiding portions circumferentially, and that are arranged in three layers in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa KURITA, Chiaki SUGANO, Naruhiko KAWASAKI
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STATOR OF MOTOR HAVING BUS-BAR WIRING STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF WIRING COIL IN PARALLEL USING THE SAME
Publication number: 20150137637Abstract: A stator of a motor having a bus-bar wiring structure according to the present invention includes: a stator core configured of a core base in which a plurality of teeth is formed; an upper insulator coupled to a top of the stator core to insulate the teeth; a lower insulator coupled to a bottom of the stator core; a coil wound around the teeth when the upper insulator and the lower insulator are coupled; and a lower bus-bar housing coupled to a top of the upper insulator and having a plurality of bus-bar insertion units formed to insert a plurality of bus-bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Jeong Cheol JANG, Je Hyung Seo, Woon Pil Jung, Seung Jae Lee -
Publication number: 20150137649Abstract: A method produces a rotor which can rotate about a rotation axis, in particular for an electrical machine of a motor vehicle. At least two rotor body elements are each provided with a number of receiving pockets which are made in an axial direction. Magnet bodies are in each case pressed into the receiving pockets in the rotor body elements with an axial press-in direction. The rotor body elements are joined to one another in such a way that the press-in directions of the magnet bodies point away from one another. Additionally, an electrical machine has a rotor which is produced in this manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: JASMIN KURBEGOVIC-ZRNIC, CHRISTIAN SCHUMPA
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Publication number: 20150135519Abstract: A motor includes a driving shaft, a rotor attached to the driving shaft, and a stator having a substantially cylindrical stator core provided around the rotor, and a plurality of coils wound around the stator core in a distributed winding manner. The stator core includes three separated stator core parts aligned along a peripheral direction, and each of the coils is disposed so as not to lie astride any two of the three separated stator core parts. At least one coil end of the plurality of the coils is disposed to pass through an inner side relative to an inner peripheral surface of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshinari KONDOU, Yoshiki YASUDA, Akio YAMAGIWA
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Patent number: 9032618Abstract: A method for insulating (5) a conductive bar (1) includes wrapping an insulating tape (2) around the conductive bar (1), enclosing it in a flexible container (4), applying a vacuum, impregnating the insulating tape (2) with an impregnating resin, curing the impregnating resin, and removing the conductive bar (1) with the insulation (5) around it from the flexible container (4). In addition, together with the insulating tape (2), an impregnating tape (3) made of the impregnating resin is wrapped around the conductive bar (1). In order to impregnate, the impregnating tape (3) is melted.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: ALSTOM RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Thomas Baumann, Massimiliano Vezzoli, Thomas Hillmer, Thomas Widmer, Dieter Stoll, Clemens Dransfeld
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Publication number: 20150123517Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator core; a rotor that includes a laminated core, core holders, and cooling fans; a frame that includes a tubular unit that encloses the stator core and the rotor, and a first bracket and a second bracket that extend in a direction of a rotor shaft and supports the rotor shaft; and cartridges that are detachably attached to the first bracket and the second bracket and rotatably support the rotor shaft, wherein groove-like holding portions, which hold end portions of bearing attaching and detaching jigs inserted through the first bracket and the second bracket, are provided in the cooling fans.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Kenta Kaneko
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Publication number: 20150121686Abstract: A laminated iron core manufacturing method in a blanking die apparatus having multiple machining stations is provided. The method includes feeding a belt-shaped workpiece progressively in a longitudinal direction in the blanking die apparatus, operating cutting tools provided in the respective machining stations simultaneously to perform predetermined blanking operations on the progressively fed workpiece and finally perform a contour blanking operation on the workpiece so as to form core pieces, and laminating the core pieces within or outside the blanking die apparatus to thereby manufacture a laminated iron core. An auxiliary cutting tool is operated to form a disposal hole by partly blanking a scrap forming area of the workpiece simultaneously with the operations of the cutting tools of the multiple machining stations, to thereby secure a load balance of the blanking die apparatus in the feeding direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: MITSUI HIGH-TEC , INC.Inventors: Takahiro SHIMIZU, Hironosuke TANIISHI
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Patent number: 9021684Abstract: A process of fabricating a slip ring component, a slip ring component, and a slip ring assembly are disclosed. The process includes forming a first shot, forming a second shot, and immersion bathing the first shot and the second shot. The immersion bathing applies an electrically conductive plating to exposed surfaces of the second shot.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: William Gary Lenker, Gregory Gordon Griffith, Edward John Howard
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Patent number: 9015925Abstract: An armature assembly apparatus for assembling an armature of an electrical machine is provided. The armature assembly apparatus has an armature holding apparatus to hold a partially assembled armature such that a rotation axis of the armature is horizontal. The armature assembly apparatus has a rotating device for rotating the partially assembled armature about a rotation axis. The armature assembly apparatus also has a ring segment conveyance for conveying an armature ring segment to a mounting position relative to a free ring segment portion of the partially assembled armature.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Kenneth Damgaard Hoell, Jakob Mikkelsen, John Krath Pedersen, Martin Bach Soerensen
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Patent number: 9016345Abstract: A rotary lamination apparatus has a die assembly rotatable about an axis and a mounting table received in an axial hole extending through the die assembly. Through rotation of the die assembly, punched core pieces are mounted on the mounting table while being rotatively offset. A drive mechanism is employed to rotate the mounting table integrally with the die assembly about the axis of the die assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuyuki Hirata, Shirou Fujimura, Hajime Banno
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Publication number: 20150102694Abstract: A rotor for preventing breakaway includes a shaft, a rotor core configured to be coupled to the shaft, and multiple permanent magnets configured to be inserted into the rotor core, wherein a cylindrical metallic ring is inserted and fixed on an outer surface of the rotor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventor: Jaehong Song
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Publication number: 20150101182Abstract: The method for removing a bar or coil from a slot of an electric machine includes weakening the bonding between the slot and the bar or coil, and then removing the bar or coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Massimiliano VISINTIN, Janusz Bialik, Luigi Cattaneo
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Publication number: 20150101181Abstract: A motor rotor and a method for manufacturing a motor rotor, enabling crimping of the resolver rotor at low cost with less influence on the detection accuracy. A motor rotor includes a resolver rotor and a rotor shaft to which the resolver rotor is affixed by crimping. The rotor shaft includes a first stepped section with which a crimping punch makes contact to deform the first stepped section, a second stepped section with which an end surface of the resolver rotor makes contact, and a cutout groove formed in a surface which is located near the first stepped section and with which an inner peripheral hole section of the resolver rotor makes contact. In the crimping operation, the first stepped section of the rotor shaft is bent within the cutout groove to form a crimping protrusion which presses the end surface of the resolver rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideaki YASUDA, Yasuyuki SATAKE
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Patent number: 9003639Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core fixedly attached to a rotational shaft and having a plurality of hole portions arranged in the circumferential direction, a magnet inserted into a plurality of hole portions each, and a filling portion injected into the hole portion. The filling portion is injected into the hole portion from a gate facing a central part in the width direction of the magnet in the opening of the hole portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Taketo Takeuchi, Atsushi Watanabe, Kenichiro Fukumaru, Katsumi Amano, Kazutoshi Ueda, Takashi Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20150097459Abstract: A motor-generator utilizes a multi-part rotor encircling a stator, the rotor including a plurality of rotor segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: ROTONIX HONG KONG LIMITEDInventors: Claude Michael Kalev, Heath F. Hofmann
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Publication number: 20150097460Abstract: Described herein is a ball joints universal rotary motor, a manufacturing method and a working mechanism thereof. The ball joints universal rotary motor comprises a housing, a spherical-cap shaped stator body, and a rotor body configured to be secured within the stator body. The stator body is made from a permanent magnet. The rotor body comprises multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers. The multiple layers of armatures are symmetrically distributed along the axis of the rotor body. A spacer layer is provided between two adjacent layers of armatures. The multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers are securely connected by a bolt. The bolt and the rotor body are axially connected. The rotor body is of a spherical shape. Each layer of the armatures is wound with two layers of coils: a first layer and a second layer. The motor as provided is configured to realize movement in multiple directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventor: Kuokwa Ho
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Patent number: 9000628Abstract: Described herein is a ball joints universal rotary motor, a manufacturing method and a working mechanism thereof. The ball joints universal rotary motor comprises a housing, a spherical-cap shaped stator body, and a rotor body configured to be secured within the stator body. The stator body is made from a permanent magnet. The rotor body comprises multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers. The multiple layers of armatures are symmetrically distributed along the axis of the rotor body. A spacer layer is provided between two adjacent layers of armatures. The multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers are securely connected by a bolt. The bolt and the rotor body are axially connected. The rotor body is of a spherical shape. Each layer of the armatures is wound with two layers of coils: a first layer and a second layer. The motor as provided is configured to realize movement in multiple directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Inventor: Kuokwa Ho
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Patent number: 8997332Abstract: A method for forming an armature for an electric motor includes: securing a lamination stack having slots therein on an armature shaft, securing a commutator on one end of the armature shaft, winding magnet wires in the slots in the lamination stack and securing ends of the magnet wires to the commutator, the magnet wires having armature lead wires that extend from the slots to the commutator; and molding plastic over the magnet wires to encase at least the armature lead wires in plastic. Alternatively and/or additionally, plastic is molded over the magnet wires to retain them in the slots and to support the armature lead wires and prevent them from vibrating when the armature rotates during operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Hung T. Du, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Joshua F. West, Michael R. Sell, Richard T. Walter, David J. Smith, Earl M. Ortt, John C. Stone, Howard T. White
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Publication number: 20150089794Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor of an electric motor is disclosed. The method includes securing a plurality of permanent magnets to a sheet to form a magnet chain, bending the sheet to engage an inner surface of each permanent magnet with a curved outer surface of an insert mold, wrapping a metallic strip around an outer surface of the sheet to form a yoke of the rotor, and molding a polymeric material over the magnet chain and the yoke to form a cylindrical shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: LUIZ V. DOKONAL, EVANDRO J. MEURER, ORLANDO STARKE
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Patent number: 8991035Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated core includes: preheating a rotor core body; attaching a cull plate onto a surface of the body removed from a preheating device; placing the body in a resin-sealing mold; heating and liquefying resin in resin reservoir pots by the mold; extruding the liquefied resin into plural magnet insertion holes and curing the resin; and ejecting a laminated rotor core from the mold and detaching the plate, wherein attaching the plate and detaching the plate are performed at a same station, and the plate detached is used as the plate at the attaching of the cull plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.Inventors: Hidemi Sasaki, Masayuki Okabe
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Publication number: 20150084464Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor shaft assembly for a high speed electrical machine provides a permanent magnet cylindrical core having a longitudinal axis, the cylindrical core being axially compressed by first and second end shafts and being radially compressed by a sleeve made of a non-magnetic high strength metal. At least one of the first and second end shafts includes, facing the cylindrical core, a central shoulder head that cooperates with a mating central recess made in a central portion of a front face of the cylindrical core. An easy concentric alignment of the first and second end shafts with the permanent magnet cylindrical core is allowed while inserting the sleeve and the stiffness of the assembled set is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: SKF MAGNETIC MECHATRONICSInventors: Lateb Ramdane, Joaquim Da Silva
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Publication number: 20150084473Abstract: An induction motor includes multiple conductor bars buried and disposed in a rotor core in a circumferential direction, and end rings joined with the multiple conductor bars so as to cause respective both ends thereof to be electrically conducted. Each conductor bar includes a first bar-shape metal portion, and two second metal portions joined with both ends thereof. The second metal portion is formed in a solid block shape. The first and second metal portions are joined with each other by friction stir welding or friction welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Taizo TOMIOKA
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Patent number: 8987964Abstract: A BLDC electric motor assembly (24) includes a rotor (42) having a plurality of magnet segments (50) securely retained thereabout by an annular ring (68) which is shrunk in situ in an electromagnetic forming operation. The magnet segments (50) are formed with tongues (62, 64) on their upper and lower ends (56, 58). One tongue (64) seats in a retaining pocket (48) molded on the rotor shaft (40), whereas the other tongue (62) provides a ledge into which the ring (68) seats. After the magnet forming operation, wherein the ring (68) is shrunk, the outer surface of the ring (68) is flush with the outer surfaces (54) of the magnet segments (50).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Carter Fuel Systems, LLCInventor: Kyle Dean Achor
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Publication number: 20150076941Abstract: An electric machine includes a motor having a motor chassis having a first and second end, a stator assembly, and a rotor assembly. The electric machine includes a motor control assembly having a circuit board. The motor control assembly is attached to the stator assembly of the motor. A first end shield is attached to the first end of the motor chassis. The first end shield includes a first opening that is configured to enable a cooling air stream to pass therethrough to cool the motor and the motor control assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Wei Song, David M. Pierre, Kamron Wright, Paul Nathanael Selking, Donn Edward Steffen
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Publication number: 20150076955Abstract: A stator formed of a dual-out stator lamination is disclosed. The stator comprises a generally annular core including a plurality of arcuately spaced apart teeth. Each of the teeth includes a generally radially extending leg and a head extending generally arcuately relative to the leg to present opposite head ends spaced from the leg. The head presents a tooth head height measured in at least a substantially radial direction. Each adjacent pair of said heads is spaced apart by a generally arcuate slot opening distance defined between the adjacent ends of the pair of heads. The ratio of each tooth head height to each adjacent slot opening distance is at least about twenty-eight hundredths (0.28).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: Nidec Motor CorporationInventor: Keith I. Hoemann
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Publication number: 20150076959Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a rotor (10) of an electric machine, the rotor (10) comprising a rotor body (14) adapted to be rotated about a rotor axis (A) as well as at least one rotor component (16) to be mounted to the rotor body (14), said method comprising the steps of: arranging the rotor component (16) on the rotor body (14) and winding a wire-like structure (20) around an outer circumference (12) of the rotor body having the rotor component (16) arranged thereon so as to form a bandage (18), with the wire-like structure (20) during winding thereof being held under an adjustable bias.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: L-3 Communications Magnet-Motor GmbHInventors: Peter Ehrhart, Jens Steffen, Anton Mueller
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Patent number: 8978239Abstract: A method for preparing a field coil winding assembly including cleaning a plurality of copper coils followed by developing, after the cleaning, a copper oxide layer on each of the copper coils by oxidizing each of the copper coils in a solution. After the developing, each of the copper coils is rinsed followed by drying. After the drying, a turn insulation system is applied to each of the copper coils. The turn insulation system includes a turn insulation and an adhesive. The turn insulation includes at least one of a glass fiber re-enforced polyamideimide, a glass fiber re-enforced polyester, or a glass fiber re-enforced high temperature novolac epoxy. After the applying, each of the copper coils with the turn insulation system is cured. The plurality of copper coils with the turn insulation system are stacked in each of a plurality of rotor slots in a rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James Jun Xu, Stephen Frank Francese, Alan Michael Iversen, Leonard Paul Squillacioti
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Patent number: 8978238Abstract: A method and apparatus for terminating stator windings. The apparatus includes stator winding termination disks having “U” shaped winding mouths for each group of stator winding ends. After winding the stator, the stator winding termination disks are laid over the termination end of the stator, the unterminated stator windings for one phase of the stator are placed into the “U” shaped winding mouths, the “U” shaped winding mouths are crimped over the unterminated stator windings, and pressure and heat are applied to melt insulation on the unterminated stator winding ends and form an electrical connection between the stator winding termination disks and stator windings for each phase of the stator and for common.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Inventor: Louis J. Finkle
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Publication number: 20150069867Abstract: The method for rewinding and electric machine includes removing the original stator bars from the slots, removing the original supports from the slots, and providing new supports into the slots, wherein the new supports defining cooling channels that extend over at least a portion of the slot, providing new stator bars into the slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Denis Thiot, Paul Lapotre
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Publication number: 20150069863Abstract: A motor rotor assembly that includes multiple motor rotor sections and a rotor bar that extends through the motor rotor sections, such that the rotor bar and the motor rotor sections are configured such that the rotor sections are step-skewed, or continuously skewed, from each other. The assembly may be used in an IPM or Synchronous Reluctance motor; and, the motor rotor sections may be of solid core or laminations. Various assembly components, IPM and Synchronous Reluctance motors, and methods of construction/assembly are also disclosed. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Francesco Papini, Alexander Felix Fiseni, Mohamed Osama
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Publication number: 20150068810Abstract: A separation catch mechanism disposed above a power section of a motor prevents full separation of lower components of the motor from upper components and an attached drillstring. An extension of the mechanism has a first end coupled to the rotor and has a second end disposed in a housing member beyond a seat. An expandable shoulder, such as a washer, disposed on the second end of the extension can be expanded thereon to engage the seat should housing components separate from one another on the motor. To expand the washer after being inserted during assembly past the seat, the second end of the extension has a tapered head on which the washer is disposed. The outside diameter of the washer is expanded on the tapered head by tightening a nut against the washer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: WEATHERFORD/LAMB, INC.Inventor: Gregory Richard Altimas
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Publication number: 20150069879Abstract: A component that includes a longitudinal axle, having a multiple keybars that extend outward from a surface of the axle, such that each of the keybars are disposed axially along and circumferentially around the axle. Also the axis of the keybars is parallel to the axle, such that a profile of all midpoints of the keybars is helicoidal around the axle, also the helicoidal profile is such that they make up one or more helicoidal paths. The profile may be herringbone skewed. The component may be part of a rotor assembly that is part of an electric machine such as an interior permanent magnet (IPM) or Synchronous Reluctance motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Francesco Papini, Alexander Felix Fiseni, Mohamed Osama, Manoj Ramprasad Shah
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Publication number: 20150061445Abstract: A rotor having permanent magnets 10 includes: a laminated core body 13 having a shaft hole 12 in the center thereof and magnet insertion holes 15 around the shaft hole 12; permanent magnets 16 disposed in the respective magnet insertion holes 15; and first and second end face plates 18, 19 disposed on one axial end and the other axial end of the laminated core body 13, respectively, the first and second end face plates 18, 19 including first and second through holes 32, 33, respectively. The first and second through holes 32, 33 each overlap a contour of a magnet insertion hole 15 on a radially inner side or a radially outer side in a plan view, and have first and second tapered portions 34, 35 gradually expanding the diameter toward the magnet insertion hole 15, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicants: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisatomo Ishimatsu, Manabu Yazaki, Koichi Ono
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Publication number: 20150061441Abstract: An electric machine includes a machine housing and a stator disposed at least partially within the housing. The electric machine also includes a radially embedded permanent magnet rotor disposed at least partially within the housing and an endcap. The rotor has at least one radially embedded permanent magnet that is configured to provide increased flux to reduce motor efficiency loss. The endcap is operably connected to a distal portion of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Daniel Shawn Figgins, Harold Clifton Kingrey, Michael Allen Marks, Jeffrey Alan Hall, Subhash Marutirao Brahmavar, Alan Jacob Manz, David Allen Clendenen, Rafal Pawel Rohoza
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Publication number: 20150061468Abstract: A method for fabricating a rotor for an electric motor is provided. The method includes the steps of fabricating a first set of rotor parts for use in a motor having a first frame size and fabricating a second set of rotor parts for use in a motor having a second frame size. The second frame size is substantially different from the first frame size. The method further includes the steps of fabricating a third set of rotor parts for use in the motor having the first frame size and for use in the motor having the second frame size, ascertaining the desired motor frame size, and selecting one of the first set of rotor parts and the second set of rotor parts in accordance with desired motor frame size. The method also includes the steps of selecting the third set of rotor parts and assembling a rotor with one of the first set of rotor parts and the second set of rotor parts and with the third set of rotor parts, such that a rotor for use with the desired motor frame size is substantially provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventor: Subhash Marutirao Brahmavar
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Patent number: 8966742Abstract: A method of producing a stator winding for a stator of an electrical machine includes positioning a phase winding segment of the stator winding in a same plane in a serpentine manner in a first direction (X) and in a shape of a wave in a second direction (Y) transverse to the first direction. The method includes bending regions (A, B, C) of the phase winding segment toward one another along a folding line to form a lap winding including positioning regions (C) parallel to each other connected by regions (B) where the regions (B) cross the at least one folding line (108). The phase winding is formed with a continuous wire.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gert Wolf, Thomas Berger
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Patent number: 8968501Abstract: A method for building a magnetic core including laminations bound into packs for an electrical machine comprises steps of: stacking a group of laminations one on top of the other to build the core; binding into a pack the group building the core by locking members that axially compress the group with a predetermined clamping force; pre-compressing, before clamping the pack by the locking members, the group by a pre-compression press that is independent and separate from the locking members; measuring an axial length of the group while the group is being compressed by the pre-compression press; initially forming the group with a normally lacking number of laminations to initially have the measured length that is lower than or substantially equal to a desired length; and adding, after having completed pre-compression, an additional number of laminations to the group determined according to a difference between the desired and measured lengths.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.Inventors: Franco Ciampolini, Vincenzo Giorgianni, Patrick Giuliani
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Publication number: 20150052934Abstract: A resin magnet, a magnetic pole position detection resin magnet, and a sleeve bearing, which is disposed inside the resin magnet, are integrally molded together with a thermoplastic resin in a rotor portion. At the same time, an impeller attachment portion is formed by the thermoplastic resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Aso, Kazunori Sakanobe, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe
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Publication number: 20150052935Abstract: In a rotor portion, a magnet formed in a cylindrical shape, a first magnet holder that holds an impeller-attachment-portion-side end portion of the magnet, a second magnet holder that holds a magnetic-pole-position-detection-element-side end portion of the magnet, a back yoke disposed inside the magnet, a sleeve bearing disposed inside the back yoke, and a position detection magnet that is provided on a surface of the second magnet holder at a side opposite to the side at which the magnet is attached and allows a magnetic flux of the position detection magnet to be detected by the magnetic-pole-position detection element are assembled integrally together with a thermoplastic resin, and the impeller attachment portion is formed of the thermoplastic resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Aso, Kazunori Sakanobe, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe