Plural Units, Structurally United Patents (Class 310/112)
  • Patent number: 7942247
    Abstract: In a vehicle disk brake, a motor housing houses in a housing recess a case into which an end of an output shaft liquid-tightly protrudes, and is mounted to a caliper body. A reduction mechanism having an output rotating member is sealed in the case while part of the output rotating member fluid-tightly protrudes from the case so as to be coaxially and operatively connected to a rear portion of the screw shaft. Grease is charged into the case. Thus, the case for housing the reduction mechanism is simply configured while preventing leakage of the grease charged into the case, and mounting of the case to the caliper body is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Adachi, Akihiko Koike
  • Patent number: 7944106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid transmission with two motor/generators, one being “on-axis” and sharing an axis of rotation with an input and output shaft of the transmission, and another being “off-axis” with a distinct axis of rotation from that of the first motor/generator. The transmission is adapted for cooling and lubricating the off-axis motor/generator, and includes a case at least partially defining a manifold. A transmission cover is mounted to the case such that the off-axis motor/generator is retained therebetween. The transmission cover at least partially defines an oil passage. The manifold is adapted to transfer oil onto a bearing device so that the bearing device is lubricated. Oil is also transferred through the oil passage and onto a torque transfer device such that the torque transfer device is lubricated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Kent A. Miller, Henryk Sowul
  • Patent number: 7944158
    Abstract: A field-oriented control method for an electric drive comprising a plurality of electric motors, for implementing a tension mechanism, especially for load cable and/or gearing means, using measurements of a polyphase motor actual current. The measured values are transformed into a direct current component and a quadrature current component, based upon a magnetic rotor field or flux angle, in a rotor flux-based d,q coordinate system. The quadrature and direct current components from the actual current are subjected to a comparison with predetermined quadrature and direct current components of a current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Baumuller Nurnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Jinsheng Jiang, Viktor Barinberg
  • Publication number: 20110109180
    Abstract: To provide a power plant which makes it possible to make the power plant more compact in size, reduce manufacturing costs thereof, and improve the degree of freedom in design. The power plant 1 comprises an engine 3, and first and second rotating machines 10 and 20, and drives front wheels 4 by motive power from these. The first rotating machine 10 includes first and second rotors 14 and 15, and a stator 16, and is configured such that a ratio between the number of armature magnetic poles generated in the stator 16, the number of magnetic poles of the first rotor 14, and the number of soft magnetic material cores 15a of the second rotor 15 becomes 1:m:(1+m)/2 (m?1.0).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Akutsu, Satoyoshi Oya, Kota Kasaoka, Noriyuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20110095635
    Abstract: A various motor assembly comprises at least one single motor allowing to enter a coding position at instant; a single-layer circular or cylindrical motor unit comprised of the at least one single motor; a multi-layer cylinder motor set piled from the single-layer circular or cylindrical motor unit, and including piled and horizontal cylinders, circular cylinders and conical cylinders, wherein the conical cylinders are numbered and located at aligned or unaligned positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Heung Yeung Li, Chun Man Li
  • Patent number: 7928621
    Abstract: A speed-variable single phase induction motor. By a plurality of stators disposed with an interval therebetween and a plurality of magnetic rotors corresponding to the respective stators, the motor implements a high efficiency and a speed-variable performance such as a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor with a low cost without using an expensive inverter driving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung-Do Han, Hyoun-Jeong Shin
  • Patent number: 7911090
    Abstract: A stator of an electrical machine has a cross section, a longitudinal extension, a jacket surface, a plurality of winding holders configured for receiving field windings, the winding holders being distributed inhomogenously around an inner circumference of the cross section, such that a density of the field windings in at least one first region formed around a stator circumference is smaller than in an adjacent second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Schoen, Florian Esenwein
  • Patent number: 7898134
    Abstract: A brushless disk DC motor that exhibits high power density and light weight and is capable of power regeneration and reverse operation employs a flat circular non-ferrous stator plate having a plurality of electromagnets mounted in a ring pattern on an inner face thereof. Permanent magnets are mounted in equal numbers in inner and outer ring patterns on the outer and inner cylindrical surfaces, respectively, of a pair of steel rotors of different diameter that rotate in concert. The stator plate and the pair of rotors are axially aligned such that the inner and outer rings of permanent magnets rotate adjacent to and inside and outside, respectively, the ring of electromagnets. The electromagnets utilize tape-wound amorphous metal cores to minimize eddy currents and resultant iron losses and to permit the use of heavier gauge copper windings to minimize resistive power losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Bill S. Shaw
    Inventor: Bill S. Shaw
  • Patent number: 7898120
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an actuator includes a plurality of stator windings adapted to produce a first stator magnetic field that translates along a stator axis, and to produce a second stator magnetic field that rotates around the stator axis. In addition, the actuator includes a rotor, coupled to a shaft, and positioned within a central stator channel. The rotor is adapted to produce a first rotor magnetic field that translates along a shaft axis and to produce a second rotor magnetic field that rotates around the shaft axis. An actuator system includes an actuator and an actuator controller unit, which is adapted to produce actuator inputs. An embodiment of a method for controlling the actuator includes providing actuator inputs to produce a translating magnetic field in the stator, a translating magnetic field in the rotor, a rotating magnetic field in the stator, and a rotating magnetic field in the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: James J. Sheahan, Jr., Charles E. Morris, Paul Kersens
  • Patent number: 7893581
    Abstract: First and second connection mechanisms electrically connect power cables extending in the same direction to first and second electric motor neighboring to each other in the extending direction of the power cables, respectively. The first connection mechanism of the first electric motor is arranged in a radially outer portion, and the second connection mechanism of the second electric motor is arranged in a space between the electric motors. Since both the connection mechanisms are located on the opposite sides of a joint surface between the first and second casings accommodating the first and second motors, respectively, the first and second connection mechanisms can be components on the first and second casing sides, respectively. This structure can prevent increase in size in a rotation axis direction, and can improve assembly workability for the motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miura, Hirotatsu Ihara, Takamasa Takeuchi, Masamitsu Senoo, Akihiro Tanaka, Takafumi Koshida, Tomoo Atarashi
  • Patent number: 7888839
    Abstract: A motor-generator includes a rotor that rotates about an axis of rotation, and a stator that is stationary and magnetically interacts with the rotor. The rotor is constructed of two spaced apart rotor portions having magnetic poles that drive magnetic flux across an armature airgap formed therebetween. An armature, located in the armature airgap, has a substantially nonmagnetic and low electrical conductivity form onto which wire windings are wound. The form has a free end that extends inside the rotor, and a support end that attaches to the stationary portion of the motor-generator. The form is constructed with a thin backing portion and thicker raised portions extending from the backing portion in the direction of the magnetic flux. The wire windings have multiple individually insulated conductor wire. The conductors of a single wire are electrically connected together in parallel and electrically insulated between each other along their length inside the armature airgap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Revolution Electric Motor Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Gabrys, Timothy S. Rodgers
  • Patent number: 7884517
    Abstract: A two-phase electric motor includes first and second coil groups and a magnet group. In the magnet group, N poles and S poles are disposed alternatively opposite the first and second coil groups. The first and second coil groups are disposed at positions that are out of phase with each other by an odd multiple of ?/2 in electrical angles. The coils of the first and second coil groups have substantially no magnetic material cores, and the electric motor has substantially no magnetic material yoke for forming a magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7876062
    Abstract: A first member has a magnet assembly that includes at least one permanent magnet pair, and a second member includes an electromagnetic coil. A control circuit controls the supply of power to the electromagnetic coil as well as regeneration of power from the electromagnetic coil. The permanent magnet pair generates its strongest magnetic field along a magnetic field direction on homopolar contact planes where first magnetic poles contact one another, outward from the center of the permanent magnet pair along the magnetic field direction. The electromagnetic coil is positioned such that current will flow in a direction intersecting the magnetic field direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20110006545
    Abstract: A wound field generator (102) and a method of producing the wound field generator (102) with a nested exciter stage (307) and main generator stage (305) are provided. The wound field generator (102) includes an exciter stage rotor (310) coupled to a rotor member (312) and a main stage rotor (304) coupled to the rotor member (312). The wound field generator (102) also includes a rotating rectifier assembly (306) coupled to the rotor member (312) and electrically coupled to the exciter stage rotor (310) and the main stage rotor (304). The wound field generator further (102) includes an exciter stage stator (308) to establish field communication with the exciter stage rotor (310), and a main stage stator (302) to establish field communication with the main stage rotor (304). The exciter stage stator (308) and the exciter stage rotor (310) are radially nested about a central axis (316) of the wound field generator (102) with respect to the main stage stator (302) and the main stage rotor (304).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Richard A. Himmelmann
  • Patent number: 7863764
    Abstract: A torque converter-mounted generator is provided that, along with power electronics, offers at least two types of electrical power output and may be attached to a transmission without impacting the axial length of a powertrain in comparison to a powertrain with an identical transmission and a torque converter not having a generator mounted thereto. Different torque-converter mounted generators and power electronics configurations providing different combinations of electrical power voltages may be offered for use with a given transmission type, thus allowing flexibility in meeting customer needs without unduly impacting assembly of the powertrains. A method of assembling transmissions is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Franklin Combs, David J. Sagers, Leroy K. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7851956
    Abstract: An electric motor (10) with a low number of revolutions comprises a rotor (17) powered by three-phase alternating voltage, a series of magnets (21, 22) and a coil forming a stator (24), in which the rotor (17) and the stator (24) have the same number of magnetic poles. The stator (24) is powered with direct voltage, and the frequency of the rotor voltage (17) is varied to obtain a predetermined number of rpm of the motor and to vary the acceleration and deceleration conditions of the motor. A thrust bearing opposes the effort of the falling brake disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventor: Giorgio Jezek
  • Patent number: 7843094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cylindrical rotating electric machines which comprise armature and field coils, with either the field coil or the dual armature being the rotating component. The dual armature is composed of two concentric cylindrical sets of coils with the field coil situated in the gap between the inner and outer armature sections. Relative rotational motion between the field and armature coils can be achieved by having either one be the rotor. By using two armature coil sections, one inside the field coil aperture and the other external to the field coil, the flux linkage between the armature and superconducting field coil can be approximately doubled. This is a more efficient use of the superconductor. The increased flux linkage in the invented technology produces a substantially higher power density than can be obtained with current conventional superconducting machine technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventors: Carl L. Goodzeit, Millicent J. Ball
  • Patent number: 7839034
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electricity generator for a lighting tower having a plurality of discharge lamps, each lamp being of power greater than 750 W, the generator being arranged to be driven by an engine, the generator being a multiphase generator having n phases, where n is an even integer, each phase being independent in a magnetic circuit that is common to all of the phases and being configured to power one lamp, the generator comprising a rotor with permanent magnets, having 3 n poles, and a stator concentric with the rotor and subjected to the radial magnetic flux from the magnets, the stator comprising a stack of laminations of silicon iron having a silicon content greater than 0.5% and of individual thickness greater than 0.35 mm, defining 4 n magnetic circuit teeth, with every other tooth carrying a winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-Somer
    Inventors: François Czajkowski, Jacques Saint-Michel, Philippe Manfe, Hédi Kharrat, Michel Renard, Luc Moreau
  • Patent number: 7834494
    Abstract: An electromechanical actuator (EMA) is provided. The EMA includes a threaded output ram connectable to a mechanical component and at least one motor module engageable with the output ram for controllably translating the output ram along a linear axis of the output ram. The actuator further includes a torque sensing adaptive control (TSAC) system for monitoring torque within the motor module. The TSAC generates a disengagement command signal when the TSAC system determines torque within the motor module is outside an allowable motor module torque range. The disengagement command signal initiates disengagement of the motor module from the output ram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David E Blanding, Jim Peck
  • Patent number: 7828685
    Abstract: A transmission having a plurality of tilting balls and opposing input and output discs provides an infinite number of speed combinations over its transmission ratio range. The transmission provides multiple powerpaths and can be combined with electrical components to provide motor/generator functionality, which reduces the overall size and complexity of the motor and transmission compared to when they are constructed separately. In one embodiment, rotatable components of a continuously variable transmission are coupled separately to an electrical rotor and to an electrical stator so that the rotor and stator rotate simultaneously in opposite directions relative to one another. In other embodiments, an electrical rotor is configured to transfer torque to or from a disc that is in contact with a plurality of speed adjusters, while an electrical stator is configured to transfer torque to a shaft that is operationally coupled to the speed adjusters via an idler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Fallbrook Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Donald C Miller
  • Patent number: 7830063
    Abstract: A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes include a double-sided generator or motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a double-sided rotor with an inner rotor side and an outer rotor side; and a stator with an inner stator core and an outer stator core, wherein the double-sided rotor is concentrically disposed between the inner stator core and the outer stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Jansen, James Michael Fogarty, Ralph James Carl, Jr., James Patrick Francis Lyons, Ronghai Qu
  • Publication number: 20100270419
    Abstract: A control system for a vehicle having plural control elements actuated at a single actuation point including a redundant electric actuator assembly including a control rod moveable linearly in two opposite directions mounting n electric motors, each motor having a controller and a feedback sensor for controlling linear movement of said rod, each motor contributing approximately 1/n of total control power required for adjusting one or more of said plural control elements, such that failure of any of said motors controllers or feedback sensors leaves sufficient predetermined minimum control power available for operating said control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventor: Raphael Yoeli
  • Patent number: 7821177
    Abstract: A laminated core includes a laminated body, clamping plates and holding members. The laminated body includes a plurality of amorphous alloy plates, which are stacked one after another in a stacking direction such that each adjacent two of the plurality of amorphous alloy plates directly contact with each other. The clamping plates contact opposed end surfaces, respectively, of the laminated body in the stacking direction. A thickness of each of the first and second clamping plates in the stacking direction is larger than that of each of the plurality of amorphous alloy plates. Each holding member contacts with the clamping plates and maintains a predetermined space between the clamping plates while the laminated body is clamped between the clamping plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadahisa Onimaru, Hirofumi Kinjou, Daisuke Miyata, Katsuhiko Oka
  • Patent number: 7821168
    Abstract: An axial gap electric dynamo machine has a horizontally disposed rotor disk that is stabilized at its periphery by a plurality of permanent magnets connected to a ferromagnetic bearing plate that provides an opposing or repulsive force against the rotor magnets. In some preferred embodiments, the bearing plate magnets are configured in a dual band to further enhance the magnetic field that supports the periphery of the spinning rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Empire Magnetics Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Halstead
  • Patent number: 7808142
    Abstract: A generator device for generating electrical energy includes a rotor having a first set of even-numbered of magnetic sources distributed along a first radius of the rotor, and a first pair of stators, each having a first set of odd-numbered coil members distributed along a first radius of the stator, the stators disposed adjacent to opposing side portions of the rotor, wherein each coil member includes a core portion having an amorphous structure. In addition, a generator device for generating electrical energy includes interchangeable rotor and stator pairs to provide variable voltage/current/frequency outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: E3 Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Richard J. Wise
  • Publication number: 20100244446
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly includes an electromagnetic machine for extracting power from the turbine engine. The electromagnetic machine includes an outer rotor and an inner rotor rotatably supported adjacent to a stator disposed between the inner and outer rotors. The stator has an inner set of windings disposed on an inner surface adjacent to the inner rotor, and an outer set of windings on an outer surface of the stator adjacent to the outer rotor. The inner stator windings form a set of multiple-phase windings, and the outer stator windings form a set of multiple-phase windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Ronghai Qu, Wei Wu, John M. Kern, Juan De Bedout, Manoj Shah, Ayman El-Refaie
  • Publication number: 20100237733
    Abstract: An electrical generation system utilizes a variable frequency generator operating in combination with a constant frequency generator. Also disclosed and claimed are an aircraft electrical architecture, and a gas turbine engine incorporating the above electrical generation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventor: Craig R. Legros
  • Patent number: 7800276
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for a rotor assembly and an electric motor. One embodiment for a rotor assembly includes a first rotor including a first interface surface and a second rotor including a second interface surface corresponding to the first interface surface. Also, the first rotor is positioned with the first interface surface in direct physical contact with the second interface surface of the second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Kurz-Kasch, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen H. Purvines
  • Publication number: 20100219706
    Abstract: A rotational difference is generated between a first and a second rotor and a third rotor, which causes an induced current to flow in a first rotor winding. This causes a torque to act between the first rotor and the third rotor. The rotary magnetic field generated by the induced current flowing through a second rotor winding interacts with a second stator, which in turn generates an induced electromotive force in a second stator winding. The induced electromotive force is applied via a phase adjustment circuit to a first stator winding, which generates a rotary magnetic field and causes a torque to act between the first stator and the third rotor. The rotary magnetic field generated by the second rotor winding and the induced current flowing in the second stator winding causes a torque to act between the second stator and the second rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Takao Watanabe, Eiji Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Takeshi Kitahata
  • Publication number: 20100219707
    Abstract: An electric motor, said electric motor comprising: a motor first section, said motor first section including a first section stator, said first section stator including a plurality of coils disposed in a substantially annular configuration therearound, and a first section rotor, said first section rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in a substantially annular configuration therearound, said first section rotor being rotatable with respect to said first section stator; a motor second section, said motor second section including a second section stator, said second section stator including a plurality of coils disposed in a substantially annular configuration therearound, and a second section rotor, said second section rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in a substantially annular configuration therearound, said second section rotor being rotatable with respect to said second section stator; said first and second section rotors being substantially coaxial and facing e
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventor: Eric Nadeau
  • Patent number: 7786640
    Abstract: A drive device includes an input shaft connected to an engine; a first rotating electrical machine and a second rotating electrical machine; a differential gear unit including a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element; and a control device. The first rotating electrical machine and the differential gear unit are positioned coaxially with the input shaft. The first rotating electrical machine and the second rotating electrical machine are positioned on different axes from each other so as to axially overlap each other. A first component of the control device is positioned lower than the first rotating electrical machine and positioned so that at least a part of the first component overlaps the first rotating electrical machine when viewed in a vertical top plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuki Sada, Masahiro Tanae, Manabu Miyazawa, Tomohiko Ito, Takafumi Koshida, Tatsuyuki Uechi, Tomoo Atarashi, Daisuke Iimura
  • Patent number: 7781931
    Abstract: A switched reluctance motor has a rotor and a stator. The stator has first and second stator magnetic pole groups sequentially placed in an axial direction of the rotor. First and second stator magnetic poles in each group are alternately arranged on a same circumference. The first stator magnetic poles are placed every electrical angle 2? and reversely magnetized to each other. The second stator magnetic poles are placed every electrical angle 2? and reversely magnetized to each other. The first magnetic pole is apart from the second magnetic pole by electrical angle ?. Each stator magnetic pole in the first stator magnetic pole group is apart from that in the second magnetic pole group by electrical angle ?/2 in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Masayuki Nashiki, Yuuichirou Itou
  • Patent number: 7781930
    Abstract: An accessory drive system includes a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor, which respectively include armatures, permanent magnets, and first and second cores. One of the first and second rotors is connected to an accessory, and the other to an internal combustion engine. When the polarity of a first armature magnetic pole is different from the polarity of a first magnetic pole of an opposed permanent magnet, the polarity of a second armature magnetic pole becomes the same as the polarity of a second magnetic pole of the opposed permanent magnet. When each first core is between the first magnetic pole and the first armature magnetic pole, each second core is between a pair of the second armature magnetic poles circumferentially adjacent to each other, and between a pair of the second magnetic poles circumferentially adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Shigemitsu Akutsu
  • Patent number: 7777381
    Abstract: Provided is a small motor superior in weight/torque balance. A phase stator 10 and B phase stator 12 are disposed to face each other. A rotor is interpositioned between these stators. Electromagnetic coils are provided to the stators evenly in the circumferential direction. A permanent magnet is provided to the rotor evenly in the circumferential direction. The exciting polarity of the electromagnetic coil is alternately opposite, and this is the same for the permanent magnet. A signal having a prescribed frequency is input to the A phase electromagnetic coil and B phase electromagnetic coil. The rotor rotates between the stators as a result thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7765683
    Abstract: A temporary interconnection element to be installed between the rotor and the stator of a bearingless electric machine, for example during its transport, storage or assembly is described herein. The interconnection element is so designed that the rotor may be secured to an external assembly, such as for example the shaft of an internal combustion engine, before the element is removed from its interconnection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: TM4 Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Blouin, Éric Latulipe
  • Publication number: 20100187929
    Abstract: A motor assembly with coaxial shafts is provided which can be produced at low costs and in which a plurality of motors can be disposed with their respective rotary shafts arranged coaxially to one another with high coupling and assembling accuracy in a simple structure. Each motor includes a housing member and ball bearings to rotatably support the rotary shaft and two adjacent motors are fixedly coupled together such that the respective housing members of the adjacent motors are fitted with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Hideo Hishida, Shinya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 7750521
    Abstract: An electromagnetic machine for extracting power from a turbine engine includes an outer rotor and an inner rotor rotatably supported adjacent to a stator. The stator is disposed between the inner and outer rotors. The stator has an inner set of windings disposed on an inner surface adjacent to the inner rotor, and an outer set of windings on an outer surface of the stator adjacent to the outer rotor. A plurality of permanent magnets are disposed on an inner surface of the outer rotor element and on an outer surface of the inner rotor element. Air gaps are defined between the outer surface of the stator and the outer permanent magnets, and between the inner surface of the stator portion and the inner permanent magnets. The inner stator windings form a set of multiple-phase windings, and the outer stator windings form a set of multiple-phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ronghai Qu, John M. Kern, Wei Wu, Juan M. De Bedout, Manoj R. Shah, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie
  • Patent number: 7737591
    Abstract: A coaxial twin variable field permanent magnetic dynamoelectric machine comprising first and second stators displaced from each other and first and second permanent magnet rotors. The rotors comprising hydraulic actuators mounted within the rotors for axially displacing the outer and inner surfaces of the first and second rotors, respectively, with the inner and outer surfaces of the first and second stators, respectively, in order to change magnetic flux interaction between the first stator and rotor and the second stator and rotor. Both stators have magnetic shields covering outer and inner surfaces of the first and second stators, respectively. The first axial hydraulic actuator displaces the first rotor outer surface within the second stator magnetic shield and the second axial hydraulic actuator displaces the second rotor inner surface over the first stator magnetic shield with reduced first rotor-second stator and second rotor-first stator magnetic flux interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Himmelmann, Mohammad Shahamat
  • Patent number: 7732958
    Abstract: A rotating shaft is required to have an overhang for the mounting of a generator for an AC-exciter, the shaft length being increased correspondingly. The overhang may become the cause of generating shaft vibrations. A turbogenerator has a rotor over which a field winding is disposed, a coupling co-cut from a rotor shaft, an AC exciter for supplying a DC current to the field winding through a rectifier, and a generator for the AC-exciter, the generator including a permanent magnet as a field generator and supplying a DC current to a field winding of the AC exciter through the rectifier. The AC exciter and the generator are disposed over the rotor shaft. The rotor is rotated through engagement between a turbine and the coupling. The generator for the AC-exciter is mounted in a position on the side nearer to the turbine than a stator of the turbogenerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100133835
    Abstract: The tandem electric machine arrangement comprises an outside rotor having two axially spaced-apart sets of circumferentially-disposed permanent magnets. It also comprises an inside stator having at least two electrically-independent windings, the at least two windings axially spaced apart from one another and disposed relative to the magnet sets to thereby be magnetically coupled to a respective one of the sets of permanent magnets during rotation of the rotor. One of the rotor and the stator is provided in two separate pieces, each piece supported from opposite axial sides of the electric machine relative to one another. The other of the rotor and the stator is supported from substantially centrally of the two pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: KEVIN ALLAN DOOLEY, JOSEPH BRAND
  • Patent number: 7728477
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor of a generator is used to excite a electromagnet stator to generate electric power for the generator and to control a disengagement mechanism whereby the generator can disengage from an accessory, such as a gear box drive shaft, when the generator is not working properly. The permanent magnet is affixed to an outer ball screw which normally rotates with an inner ball screw that is operatively engaged to the accessory. An increased load to the electromagnet stator slows or stops rotation of the permanent magnet rotor and outer ball screw, causing the inner ball screw to move axially from the outer ball screw and away from an accessory and toward a re-settable lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Balwinder S. Birdi, Michael W. Duddeck, William M. Scherzinger, Simon L. Waddell
  • Patent number: 7723885
    Abstract: A hybrid drive unit for installation between an internal combustion engine and a vehicle transmission in a motor vehicle. The hybrid drive unit has an electric machine operable, alternatively, as a motor and a generator and having at least one stator and one rotor, the rotor having bearings on a transmission side and on an internal combustion engine side. One set of bearings is provided on the transmission side and, on the internal combustion engine side, the hybrid drive unit is supported on the crankshaft bearings of the internal combustion engine. A non-rotary connection can be established, for example, by means of a flexplate or a torsional vibration damper, between the rotor of the electric machine and the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. Before the rotor is connected to the crankshaft, the rotor is supported on bearings on the transmission side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Maenner, Matthias Reisch
  • Patent number: 7723888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a synchronous electromechanical transformer that can be used as a multi-phase motor and generator, has a high specific torque, a small or negligible stop moment, a small moment irregularity, can be quietly operated, and has good heat permeability between the windings and the housing. It contains a rotor having uniformly distributed magnetic poles (4), and two stators (2) with concentrated windings (8) of at least two electrical phases. The individual stator contains the same number of similarly arranged electromagnetic poles (9) of each of at least two electrical phases arranged in related groups (7) of at least two electromagnetic poles of the same electric phase. The stator poles (9) can contain magnetically permeable polar cores and can be uniformly or non-uniformly distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Inventor: Marko Petek
  • Patent number: 7717683
    Abstract: An electrical power supply for powering electrical pump instrumentation and process control equipment associated with a pump having a rotating member. The power supply includes an electrical current generator driven by the rotating member of the pump, and a voltage regulator for regulating the output of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene P. Sabini, Jerome A. Lorenc, Oakley Henyan, Kenneth L. Hauenstein
  • Publication number: 20100117467
    Abstract: An exciter machine including an auxiliary exciter machine and a fan is provided. The fan is arranged on one side of the exciter machine and includes a mount ring on the external circumference on which permanent magnets are arranged in order to form an auxiliary rotor. The auxiliary rotor is moved within an auxiliary exciter stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Günther Hautke, Norman Kühn
  • Patent number: 7709986
    Abstract: The invention relates to a direct drive for a cylinder of a converting machine, in particular a printing press or coating machine that converts sheet-type printed materials. The aim of the invention is to develop a direct drive for a cylinder of the afore-mentioned type in such a way that the required lateral corrections are significantly reduced. To this end, the direct drive includes a rotor (14) that is detachably mounted on the end of the cylinder (6, 10) and a stator (15) that is concentric with the rotor and is detachably fixed to the side frame (13). A register motor (16), which is fixed to the frame, is coupled to gearing (17, 18) and this gearing (17, 18) is coupled to a helical gear or screw drive (19, 2, 21, 22), which is in turn coupled to the cylinder (6, 10) by means of an axial/rotative coupling (23, 24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: DITF Deutsche Institute fur Textil-und Faserforschung
    Inventors: Helmut Schild, Toni Ehrhard
  • Patent number: 7705501
    Abstract: A common construction is made up of two rotation parts each including a revolving electro-mechanical unit arranged in parallel and an output of both rotation parts being made coaxial by means of a transmission disposed on each side of the common construction, the construction being arranged between two wheels to mitigate the impacts when wheels on either side are subject to force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Publication number: 20100097027
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided that include or provide a first three-phase induction machine including stator windings, a second three-phase induction machine including stator windings, wherein the stator windings of the first machine are coupled in series with the stator windings of the second machine, and an inverter circuit that provides a three-phase output signal coupled to the stator windings of the first machine. Other aspects are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert D. Jackson
  • Patent number: 7696661
    Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention provides a stator for an electric motor. The apparatus includes a plurality of stator components assembled together to form a generally annular stator core. A wire is wrapped around at least a portion of the stator core to form a stator winding. A first generally annular end plate and a second generally annular end plate are mounted to axially opposite sides of the stator core such that the stator core is axially trapped and retained therebetween. A fastener applies a clamping load to the first and second end plates such that the stator core is compressed therebetween. The clamping load from the fastener is applied directly to the first and second end plates which distribute the clamping load to the stator core such that the plurality of components are held together without the fastener directly applying the clamping load to the stator core. A corresponding method for providing a stator is similarly provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan G. Holmes, Richard A. Ordo, Ahmed M. El-Antably
  • Publication number: 20100084935
    Abstract: A hybrid motor for powering a compressor of a chiller system includes a first rotor portion and a first stator portion configured as a permanent magnet motor and a second rotor portion and a second stator portion configured as a reluctance motor. The second rotor portion includes a reluctance-type rotor, and the second stator portion includes electromagnetic windings capable of inducing a rotary magnetic field. The first rotor portion and the second rotor portion are attached to a common drive shaft. The reluctance motor is arranged to generate start-up torque and initiate rotation of the drive shaft until the drive shaft achieves a predetermined rotational speed. The permanent magnet motor is arranged to power the drive shaft between the predetermined rotational speed and a maximum rotational speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Ivan JADRIC, Shreesha ADIGA-MANOOR, Kanishk DUBEY, Justin Drew WARNER, Michael S. TODD, Zhiqiao WU, Konstantin BORISOV, Scott V. SLOTHOWER, John C. HANSEN