Plural Rotary Elements Patents (Class 310/114)
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Publication number: 20080284267Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventor: Stephen H. Purvines
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Patent number: 7453180Abstract: A system for generating an electrical current in a circuit includes a rotor, a stator and a motor for rotating the rotor about a rotation axis. A plurality of permanent magnets are mounted on the rotor and radially distanced from the rotation axis. With this structure, the permanent magnets rotate with the rotor to establish a time-varying magnetic field. A winding is attached to the stator, connected to the circuit and immersed in the time-varying magnetic field generated by the permanent magnets. In one implementation, a switch is provided to reconfigure the circuit between a first, open-circuit configuration in which little or no current flows through the circuit, and a second closed-circuit configuration in which a current is generated at the winding for flow through the circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: General AtomicsInventors: Hugo H. van den Bergh, Robert Kratz
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Publication number: 20080278014Abstract: An electrical generator includes a rotary disk that is made of plastic injection molding in which a plurality of coils each having an exposed contact is embedded. Two stationary disks are arranged on opposite sides of the rotary disk and each has an inside surface that opposes the rotary disk and carries two semi-circular magnets. The rotary disk is fixed to a shaft having opposite ends fit into bearings that are received in central bores defined in the stationary disks. The coils are each formed by winding a wire in at least one turn in the form of a circle or an ellipse, the turns being coincident with each other or partially offset with respect to each other. Or alternatively, the coils are formed concentric with respect to each other and the rotary disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventor: CHUAN-SHENG CHEN
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Patent number: 7446447Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7439644Abstract: A hybrid induction motor comprises a stator fixedly installed in a casing, an induction rotor rotatably inserted into a center of the stator and having a shaft at a center thereof, a first synchronous rotor installed between the stator and the induction rotor in a circumferential direction of the shaft so as to be freely rotatable, and a second synchronous rotor facing the first synchronous rotor in a longitudinal direction of the shaft and installed between the stator and the induction rotor so as to be freely rotatable.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jeong-Chul Kim, Dong-Il Lee, Seung-Do Han, Hyoun-Jeong Shin, Jae-Hong Ahn, Seung-Suk Oh
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Publication number: 20080252164Abstract: Shift gears of a variable speed motor is no longer needed for a set of gears, but multiple layers disks with magnets fit over an axle rotated by a multiple layers annular opening of a housing, where winding coils wound along inside each annulus seperately. When electrifying each winding coils on each annulus, each corresponding disk can rotate the axle at a fixed ratio to output an extreme high speed or a high torque at low or moderate speed. Such disks and annuli are arranged according to their decrement diameters from the opening to a top of the housing; thereby, each disk is corresponding to each annulus with winding coils in one-to-one relationship. However, magnets disposed to a perimeter of each disk, which is made from magnetic insulation material, such as aluminum alloys, to avoid from interference among each disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Shi-Bing Huang, Xiang-Yi Huang
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Publication number: 20080246359Abstract: Disclosed are a motor and a drum washing machine having the same. The motor includes external stators and internal stators, which are respectively disposed in a ring shape and are separated from each other in a radial direction, and rotors, which are disposed in a ring shape and are rotatably installed between the external stators and the internal stators such that the rotors are rotated due to interaction with the external stators and the internal stators, thus being capable of generating a high rotary force while maintaining a uniform length in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jang Jun Lee, Chan Bae Park
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Publication number: 20080238236Abstract: A switched reluctance machine is provided. The switched reluctance machine has a rotor including a rotor core, where the rotor core includes multiple laminated sheets, each of the laminated sheets including multiple ferromagnetic regions and multiple non-ferromagnetic regions formed of a single material. The ferromagnetic and the non-ferromagnetic regions are alternately arranged such that the ferromagnetic regions form multiple rotor teeth and the non-ferromagnetic regions define multiple non-ferromagnetic gaps between the rotor teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie
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Patent number: 7429802Abstract: The vehicle-use generator includes a first rotor core having a first field coil wound therearound, a second rotor core having a second field coil wound therearound, a rotating shaft belt-driven by a vehicle engine, the first and second rotor cores being mounted in tandem on the rotating shaft, a stator core having a stator coil wound therearound, and disposed radially outwardly of the first and second rotor cores so as to form a circumferential gap with the first and second rotor cores. The first and second field coils are connected substantially in parallel to each other when viewed from an external field current supply source supplying field currents to the first and second field coils.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2006Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takuzou Mukai, Shin Kusase
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Publication number: 20080231132Abstract: A permanent magnet generator is provided that is not bulky and does not impede wind capture by a wind turbine. The permanent magnet generator includes a generator shaft; at least three rotors secured with the generator shaft, each rotor including a plate-shaped structure having a permanent magnet attached thereto, each plate-shaped structure being disposed in the longitudinal direction of the generator shaft; and a stator, including a plate-shaped structure with a stator coil of a wound copper wire disposed in at least two gaps formed by the rotors and evenly-spaced apart from the generator shaft. The rotors and stators are disposed alternately in the longitudinal direction of the generator shaft, with a total of not less than five stages. Furthermore, a wind power generator obtained by installing a propeller on the shaft of this permanent magnet generator is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehisa Minowa, Hideki Kobayashi, Koji Miyata
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Publication number: 20080231131Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2005Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Christopher W. Gabrys, Timothy S. Rodgers
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Publication number: 20080231124Abstract: An electro-magnetic circular engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. The electro-magnetic circular engine comprises a hub assembly, first and second electro-magnetic wheels, electro-magnetic means, and electrical means. The electro-magnetic circular engine includes the rotation of the hub assembly in a predetermined direction continuously after the initial activation of the hub assembly by assembly of applying a short period of the external force, such as from a starter. At least three alternators are connected to the rotating shaft and work at a minimum of 35 amps to over 600 amps each and recharge batteries.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2006Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventor: Shimon Elmaleh
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Patent number: 7427845Abstract: The present invention relates to a unipolar current electrical machine operable as a switched reluctance motor, comprising a motor structure and a control unit. The motor structure comprises a plurality of disk-shaped annular stator elements stacked and spaced equidistantly from each other and mounted on a frame; a plurality of disk-shaped rotor elements mounted on a rotational axis and spaced equidistantly from each other such that successive rotor elements are positioned between successive stator elements; a plurality of electrical windings on each of the stator elements, which when energized with a current flow, produce a magnetic field in a direction substantially parallel to the axis; and a return path for completing a magnetic flux path in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on successive stator elements and through the rotor elements for generating a rotational force in the rotor elements; and a rotor position sensor. A rotor position sensor provides a signal to the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Ronald Odell Burse
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Publication number: 20080224473Abstract: An electric motor for an automobile is herein introduced as a power source which does not require gas or any other fuel of any kind; nor does it require solar power, batteries, nor fuel cells for its operation. The vehicle will be powered by the dynamics of the physical dynamics of the electromagnetic forces of momentum. This novel idea drastically alters the perception of the automobile with its internal combustion engine, need for a radiator, muffler, anti-freeze, etc. In fact, this vehicle does not have what is usually thought of as an “engine.” It operates under the dynamics of physical laws of electromagnetic force for mechanical propulsion and strength of torque for horsepower. Otherwise, it operates in the same conventional manner as does the typical passenger automobile. Moreover, this novel idea addresses the adverse effects of air pollution upon human health, environmental ecology, global oil depletion, and protracted monetary expense.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Chester White
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Publication number: 20080211335Abstract: [Object] To provide an accessory drive system which is capable of achieving downsizing of the system, reduction of manufacturing costs thereof, and enhancement of its marketability. [Solution] An accessory drive system 1 is comprised of a stator 6, a first rotor 5, and a second rotor 7, which respectively include armatures 6a, permanent magnets 5a, and first and second cores 7a and 7b, all of which are arranged in a circumferential direction. One of the first and second rotors 5 and 7 is connected to an accessory 22, and the other thereof to an internal combustion engine 21. Further, when the polarity of a first armature magnetic pole of each armature 6a is different from the polarity of a first magnetic pole of an opposed one of the permanent magnets 5a, the polarity of a second armature magnetic pole of the armature 6a becomes the same as the polarity of a second magnetic pole of the opposed one of the permanent magnets 5a.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Shigemitsu Akutsu
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Patent number: 7420313Abstract: A tandem type rotary generator has a rotary shaft, and two power generating sections disposed adjacent to each other along an axial direction. Each power generating section has a Lundell type rotor core fixed to the rotary shaft, a field coil wound on the rotor core, a stator core disposed on an outside of the rotor core opposite to the rotary shaft in a radial direction, and a stator coil wound on the stator core. A center of the field coil of each power generating section is positioned away from a center of the stator core of the power generating section in the axial direction toward the other power generating section. Two cooling fans cooling the power generating sections are disposed on both sides of the pair of rotor cores in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kazushige Okumoto, Shin Kusase
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Patent number: 7417355Abstract: A vehicular tandem type rotary electric machine is disclosed having first and second stator cores 23, 33 having first and second circumferentially spaced slots to accommodate therein first and second stator coils 24, 34, respectively, and first and second Lundell type rotor cores 21, 31 supported on a common rotary shaft 4 in an axially adjacent relationship to be rotatable within the first and second stator cores, respectively, on which first and second field coils 22, 32 are wounded, respectively. Both of the first and second stator coils 24, 34 comprise segments-sequentially-joined stator coils, respectively, each of which includes segment conductors.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Akiya Shichijo, Shin Kusase
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Publication number: 20080197738Abstract: An electrical drive comprising stationary outer and inner stators; a rotatably mounted rotor with at least one pot-shaped element having a cylindrical wall and a base wall, wherein the cylindrical wall is thin-walled and made of magnetic material, wherein the base wall extends perpendicular and a cylindrical coaxial to a rotor shaft axis and the base wall is connected to the rotor shaft for transfer of torque; at least one electrical excitation coil; and a plurality of permanent magnet elements secured to the rotor for producing an excitation flux, wherein the magnet elements rest only against a radially inner side of the cylindrical wall and in the circumferential direction are disposed next to one another, wherein the magnet elements, together with the stators, form magnetic circuits that pass radially entirely through the cylindrical wall, and wherein the radial thickness of the magnet elements is greater than the thickness of the cylindrical wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2005Publication date: August 21, 2008Inventors: Heinz Leiber, Thomas Leiber
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Publication number: 20080191562Abstract: An axial air gap type electric motor realizes a torque up without an increase of the size of the electric motor. In the axial air gap type electric motor including a stator and two rotors each of which is molded almost with a discoid shape and which are arranged as facing one another on a common rotation axle with a fixed gap therebetween, the stator has a stator core including 3n (n indicates an integer of 2 or higher) pole members, and the pole members with three-phase configuration are connected in parallel. The rotors are formed with multiple magnets molded like a ring at an equal interval at positions facing the annular stator core when facing the stator, and the ratio of the number of the pole members and the number of the magnets becomes 3n:4n (wherein n indicates an integer of 2 or higher).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Tomonori Kojima, Toshiaki Tanno, Ken Maeyama, Hirokazu Matsuzaki, Yoichi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20080185927Abstract: A polyphasic multi-coil generator includes a drive shaft, at least first and second rotors rigidly mounted on the drive shaft so as to simultaneously synchronously rotate with rotation of the drive shaft, and at least one stator sandwiched between the first and second rotors. The stator has an aperture through which the drive shaft is rotatably journalled. A stator array on the stator has an equally radially spaced-apart array of electrically conductive coils mounted to the stator in a first angular orientation about the drive shaft. The stator array is radially spaced apart about the drive shaft. The rotors and the stator lie in substantially parallel planes. The first and second rotors have, respectively, first and second rotor arrays. The first rotor array has a first equally radially spaced apart array of magnets radially spaced around the drive shaft at a first angular orientation relative to the drive shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2006Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventor: Jonathan Gale Ritchey
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Publication number: 20080174194Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ronghai Qu, Wei Wu, John M. Kern, Juan De Bedout, Manoj Shah, Ayman El-Refaie
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Publication number: 20080169717Abstract: A motor includes: a stator (12) having coils; a rotor (11), which is disposed inside the stator and has a plurality of magnets; and a magnetic path switching part (18), which is provided in the rotor (11) and switches a magnetic path of the rotor (11) to select intense field control as a forward salient-pole structure or weak field control as an inverse salient-pole structure. The magnetic path switching part (18) is formed by use of a member having magnetic anisotropy, which is arranged on a magnetic path connecting magnets (13) of the same pole and a magnetic path connecting magnets (13) of different poles in the rotor (11). By changing the magnetic anisotropy of the member, the forward salient-pole structure and the inverse salient-pole structure are switched therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2006Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Hiroshi Takashima, Yuki Nakajima
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Patent number: 7400077Abstract: An electric motor that includes a housing, a rotatable axle, a first field armature, which is disposed substantially around the axle and secured to the axle, and which includes a plurality of first field magnets spaced around the first field armature, a second field armature, which is disposed substantially around the first field armature and secured to the axle, and which includes a plurality of second field magnets spaced around the second field armature, an electromagnetic member, which is disposed between the first field armature and secured to the housing. The electromagnetic member includes a plurality of electromagnets spaced around the electromagnetic member, wherein each electromagnet includes a winding that is electrically coupled to an appropriate current source, wherein each winding is capable of being sequentially electrically coupled to a current source, such that an appropriate current may be sequentially provided to each winding.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Electric Motor Development, Inc.Inventor: Robert S. Caroon
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Publication number: 20080164772Abstract: Using this invention, no input fuel is required to sustain operation of electric generators and other machines and devices. This is done using a magnetic motor that has parallel and perpendicular, rotatable shafts and gears to which those generators and other machines are connected along with equally spaced, perpendicular extensions having permanent magnets attached to those extensions and arranged so as to allow repelling magnetic interaction; and where the shafts also have ways of maintaining required spacing and rotational timing to allow the magnets to interact in precise and extremely close proximity a number of times per rotation causing perpetual movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventor: Cleve Lawrence Molette
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Patent number: 7397156Abstract: A tandem rotary electric machine for vehicles is equipped with a primary rotary electric machine and a secondary rotary electric machine arranged in tandem mechanism, namely, of a dual stator-rotor pair mechanism. In the tandem rotary electric machine, a connection lead wire connects a stator coil wound on a stator core of the primary stator-rotor pair to a rectifier device through one of accommodation parts formed in slots of the stator core of the secondary stator-rotor pair. This structure reduces the entire size or volume of the tandem rotary electric machine and increases the mechanical safety against the impact or force from outside.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takuzou Mukai, Shin Kusase
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Patent number: 7397157Abstract: A tandem rotary electric machine, to be applicable to various types of mobile bodies such as vehicles, is equipped with a primary rotary electric machine and a secondary rotary electric machine arranged in tandem mechanism. In the tandem rotary electric machine, heat energy generated by positive diodes and negative diodes forming one or more rectifier devices is dissipated to a stator core of the secondary rotary electric machine. The stator core of the secondary rotary electric machine acts as a heat sink through the housing. The stator core of the secondary rotary electric machine has a less frequency use, and a large size and a large weight than those of the primary rotary electric machine of high frequent and normal is used as a heat sink in order to prevent the temperature rise of the positive diode and the negative diode of the rectifier devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takeo Maekawa, Shin Kusase
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Publication number: 20080161189Abstract: A superconducting electrical machine has rotor and stator assemblies. A first rotor assembly is located to rotate within a stator assembly and is spaced from the stator assembly by an air gap. A second rotor assembly is located to rotate outside the stator assembly and is also spaced from the stator assembly by an air gap. The first and second rotor assemblies have at least one superconducting field winding. The superconducting field windings are formed from a High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) material such as BSCCO-2223 or YBCO, for example. The double rotor assembly configuration provides a new technical effect over conventional rotating superconducting machines having a single rotor assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2005Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Clive Lewis, Graham LeFlem
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Publication number: 20080150294Abstract: Today modern large commercial wind turbines enable large quantities of electrical power diverted from the wind. The short comings are that they need a pitch control mechanism to turn the turbine blades to capture to wind at different angles on the surface area of the blades. This is feature is mostly due to the inadequacies of the conventional generator technology. The Centrifugally Active Variable Flux Generator features moveable permanent magnets that enable variable magnetic flux control that can automatically control the amount of magnetic flux to the stators by the annular velocity of the rotors, therefore control the amount of output electrical power in different wind speeds without the need for a pitch control system on the blades. Modern wind turbines have pitch control system needed to keep the wind turbine operating in the proper rotor speed for efficiency. The present invention enables a wind turbine to be fitted with a fixed turbine blade without the need of a pitch control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventor: Steven Mark Jones
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Publication number: 20080150384Abstract: A three-phase line synchronous generator with an exciter and generator stage. The exciter stage includes an exciter stator having n poles and an exciter rotor having n poles and disposed for rotation within the exciter stator, and the generator stage includes a generator stator having n poles and a generator rotor having n poles. The generator rotor being mechanically coupled to the exciter rotor and disposed for rotation within the generator stator, wherein the poles of the stators, or the poles of the rotors, are angularly displace by one pole pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Leo G. Nickoladze, Hildegard K. Marks
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Publication number: 20080143206Abstract: An electric motor that includes a first rotor, a second rotor, a first permanent magnet, a second permanent magnet, a stator, an electromagnet, a shaft, a shaft rotation position sensor and an electric switch, the first rotor being mounted on the shaft, the second rotor being mounted on the shaft and separated from the first rotor by the stator, the first permanent magnet being located in the first rotor, the second permanent magnet being located in the second rotor, the north south orientation of the first permanent magnet being the same as the north south orientation of the second permanent magnet, the north south axis of the first and second permanent magnets each being spaced radially from the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the north south axis of the first and second permanent magnets each being about parallel with the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the north south axis of the first permanent magnet being spaced rotationally from the north south axis of the second permanent magnet, the electromagnet beType: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Kenny L. Wheeler, Timothy P. Wheeler, Brett D. Mattison, James G. Thorp
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Publication number: 20080142284Abstract: A double-sided dual-shaft electrical machine includes a stator disposed between the inner rotor and the outer rotor. The stator includes a plurality of inner stator coils disposed adjacent to the inner rotor for driving the inner rotor. A plurality of outer stator coils disposed adjacent to the outer rotor for driving the outer rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Ronghai Qu, Timothy Gerard Richter, Henry Todd Young
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Publication number: 20080136294Abstract: A self-regulating permanent magnet device has a first rotor segment and second rotor segment, each supporting a set of permanent magnets, wherein the position of the second rotor segment relative to the first rotor segment is modified based on the speed of the self-regulating permanent magnet device. By modifying the position of the second rotor segment relative to the first rotor segment, the alignment between their respective sets of permanent magnets, and therefore, the electromotive force (emf) generated in the stator coils is regulated. The position of the second rotor segment is defined by the connection of a torsion spring between the first rotor segment and second rotor segment and a reactionary torque device connected to the second rotor segment. The torsion spring creates a spring force that acts to maintain the alignment between the first rotor segment and the second rotor segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Theodore Clifton Powers, Michael Raymond Hernden, Mahesh J. Shah
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Publication number: 20080136280Abstract: A motor mechanism of DC inverter-fed compressor is disclosed, wherein a motor rotor includes a first rotor layer, a second rotor layer and a third rotor layer, made up respectively of a plurality of rotor units stacked together. The rotor units have a shaft hole in the middle and have at least one magnet slot that install a permanent magnet at every quarter surface area of the rotor units. The rotor units of the first rotor layer have a plurality of first holes at one of the quarter areas thereon, and the rotor units of the third rotor layer have a plurality of third holes, which are set up at an area opposing the first holes. The present invention can reduce the height of the compressor, the costs of parts and assembly, and increase the total efficiency of the motor and the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Tse-Liang Hsiao, Pei-Yu Yu
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Publication number: 20080127757Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device (9) comprising a housing (10), a drive shaft (14) which is mounted in the housing (10) and which comprises a shaft axis (15) and a first and a second electric drive (12,13). The drive shaft (14) can be rotated about the shaft axis (15) by means of a drive (12,13) and can be displaced in an axial manner along the shaft axis (15). The drives (12, 13) are aligned on the shaft axis (15) and comprise, respectively, a stator (16,19) and a rotor (17,20). The stators (16,19) are secured to the housing (10). The rotors (17,20) are embodied as hollow shafts and are mounted on the housing (10). The rotor (20) of the second drive (13) is rotationally secured to the drive shaft (14) by means of a linear bearing device (28), and in a manner which enables it to be axially displaced. The rotor (17) of the first drive (12) is rotationally secured to a threaded spindle (27) and is connected in such a manner that it cannot be axially displaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Suemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Werner Eberlein, Klaus Recker
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Publication number: 20080100168Abstract: The invention relates to an electric synchronous machine. There is a need for a dual rotor electric synchronous machine which has a mechanism for adjusting the rotor relative angular displacement while the machine is running in order to reduce back emf. There is a need for such an adjusting mechanism which can carry high torque loads. an electric synchronous machine is provided with a housing, first and second shafts rotatably supported in the housing, each with a corresponding rotor fixed thereon, both having permanent magnet field poles. Each rotor is surrounded by a corresponding annular stator, and stator coils are wound through both stators. A planetary transmission is coupled between the first and second shafts and operable during rotation of the first and second shafts to adjust an angular orientation of the second shaft with respect to the first shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventor: Ronald Dean Bremner
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Patent number: 7358699Abstract: The invention is intended to obtain a rotating electric machine with a built-in control device in which the control device is kept from receiving heat from a main body of the rotating electric machine and the control device can be cooled in a desirable fashion. A heat sink (13) on which switching devices (12) of a control device (400) are mounted is attached to a rear bracket (6) by means of conductive studs (300) with a particular spacing provided in a left-to-right direction of FIG. 2. The heat sink (13) is cooled by a flow of cooling air induced by an unillustrated fan. Since the control device (400) is attached to the rear bracket (6) of which temperature increases with the spacing provided therefrom, it is possible to suppress heat transfer from the rear bracket (6) and effectively cool the control device (400) through the heat sink (13).Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Kikuchi, Isao Sonoda
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Patent number: 7342337Abstract: A power generating system includes a torque converter system receiving a rotational motion having a first torque from a source and producing a rotational output having a second torque different from the first torque, a transfer system having a first portion coupled to the rotational output of the torque converter system and a second portion magnetically coupled to the first portion, and a generator system coupled to the transfer system to produce and electrical output.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Magnetic Torque International, Ltd.Inventor: Richard J. Wise
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Patent number: 7339300Abstract: An electromechanical transmission includes a motor/generator having a stator and a rotor and including a structural support member that supports the stator in fixed relation thereto and the rotor in rotational relation thereto. By supporting both the stator and the rotor, the structural support member substantially controls a spatial relationship (i.e., the gap in which a magnetic field is created) between the stator and rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2005Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc., Daimler AG, Chrysler LLC, Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Boris I. Burgman, Richard A. Pashnik, John A. Diemer
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Patent number: 7336010Abstract: A power generating system includes a torque converter system receiving a rotational motion having a first torque from a source and producing a rotational output having a second torque different from the first torque, a transfer system having a first portion coupled to the rotational output of the torque converter system and a second portion magnetically coupled to the first portion, and a generator system coupled to the transfer system to produce and electrical output.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Magnetic Torque International, Ltd.Inventor: Richard J. Wise
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Patent number: 7336011Abstract: A power generating system includes a torque converter system receiving a rotational motion having a first torque from a source and producing a rotational output having a second torque different from the first torque, a transfer system having a first portion coupled to the rotational output of the torque converter system and a second portion magnetically coupled to the first portion, and a generator system coupled to the transfer system to produce and electrical output.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Magnetic Torque International Ltd.Inventor: Richard J. Wise
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Patent number: 7336012Abstract: An apparatus that reduces vibration generation and magnetic leakage, wherein the apparatus is a motor, an articulated serial robot that has a motor built in, a substrate loader that includes the articulated robot, and a related exposure apparatus equipped with the substrate loader. The motor includes a drive shaft to drive the motor; a rotor attached with the shaft; and a stator that opposes the rotor and causes an electromagnetic force to act between the rotor and the stator to drive the drive shaft; an RC stator, for reaction force cancellation attached with the stator; an RC rotor for reaction force cancellation, opposing the RC stator; and a counterweight sleeve attached with the RC rotor, wherein the reaction force, which is applied to the stator via the drive shaft when the counterweight sleeve rotates in a direction opposite that of the drive shaft, is cancelled.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2005Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Keiichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 7329974Abstract: A power generating system includes a torque converter system receiving a rotational motion having a first torque from a source and producing a rotational output having a second torque different from the first torque, a transfer system having a first portion coupled to the rotational output of the torque converter system and a second portion magnetically coupled to the first portion, and a generator system coupled to the transfer system to produce and electrical output.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Magnetic Torque International, Ltd.Inventor: Richard J. Wise
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Publication number: 20080024035Abstract: A power system includes an axial-flux motor/generator. The axial-flux motor/generator may include a housing, a first rotor supported at least partially from the housing, and a second rotor supported at least partially from the housing. The second rotor may be mechanically decoupled from the first rotor. The power system may also include a mechanical power source drivingly connected to the first rotor. Additionally, the power system may include power-system controls. The power-system controls may be operable to selectively cause the mechanical power source to drive the first rotor while the axial-flux motor/generator generates electricity with mechanical power the first rotor receives from the mechanical power source. The power-system controls may also be operable to selectively cause the axial-flux motor/generator to operate as an electric motor to rotate the second rotor. Additionally, the power-system controls may be operable to control torque on the first rotor and torque on the second rotor independently.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Metin Aydin, Mustafa K. Guven
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Publication number: 20080024034Abstract: A coreless and brushless direct-current motor includes an armature coil wound without core and formed in the shape of a saddle; an outside rotor magnet formed by a permanent magnet, the outside rotor magnet being provided at an outside of the armature coil in the shape of a cylinder so as to face the armature coil, the outside rotor magnet being rotated by the magnetic field; an inside rotor magnet formed by a permanent magnet, the inside rotor magnet being provided in the shape of a cylinder at an inside of the armature coil so that the inside rotor magnet has a pole opposite to the outside rotor magnet and a rotational shaft is independently provided; an output shaft connected to the inside rotor magnet; and a sealing part of a barrier structure which sealing part partitions the armature coil and the outside rotor magnet to an outside of the inside rotor magnet and seals the armature coil and the outside rotor magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Koizumi, Tomohiro Koyama, Teruo Takahashi, Makoto Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20080012441Abstract: A common construction to accommodate two rotation parts each from a revolving electromechanical unit arranged in parallel and both rotation parts indicate coaxial output by means of a transmission disposed on each side of the common construction and the construction to accommodate both electromechanical units in parallel is innovatively arranged at where between two wheels to mitigate the impacts when wheels on either side are subject to force.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2006Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
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Publication number: 20080012447Abstract: A dynamo electric machine for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes a housing supporting a stator of the dynamo electric machine, a rotor assembly rotatably mounted in the housing and including an elongate hollow rotor shaft, a main shaft for connection at one end to the associated gas turbine engine assembly, said main shaft extending coaxially within said hollow rotor shaft, and a sleeve-like member of electrically insulating material between said rotor shaft and said main shaft, said sleeve-like member providing an electrically insulating driving connection between said main shaft and said rotor shaft whereby said main shaft and said rotor shaft rotate together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: John Gregory Snelick, Thomas Edward Morgan, Adam Brian Brugmann
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Patent number: 7312550Abstract: In one aspect, an alternator is described which includes a current control apparatus including a stator winding and a control winding, wherein current control in the control winding regulates the stator winding. In another aspect, a gas turbine engine includes a multiple-channel alternator for redundantly driving accessory systems. In another aspect, an alternator cooling scheme is provided, which alternator includes means for reducing stray inductance of stator winding end turns.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Patent number: 7312548Abstract: A torque converter device comprises a flywheel rotatable about a first axis, the flywheel including a first body portion having a first radius from a circumferential surface and a first radius of curvature, a first plurality of magnets mounted in the first body portion, each having first ends disposed from the circumferential surface of the first body portion, and each of the first ends of first plurality of magnets having a second radius of curvature similar to the first radius of curvature of the first body portion, a second plurality of magnets mounted in the first body portion, each of the second plurality of magnets being disposed from the circumferential surface of the first body portion, and a generator disk rotatable about a second axis angularly offset with respect to the first axis, the generator disk including a second body portion, and a third plurality of magnets within the second body portion for magnetically coupling to the first and second pluralities of magnets.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Magnetic Torque International, Ltd.Inventor: Richard J. Wise
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Publication number: 20070290563Abstract: It is a type of brushless motor with double rotors which is composed of one inside motor with radial-vertical permanent magnetic circuit and one outside motor with magnetic excitation circuit. The inside motor is made up of the input shaft, the inner rotor core, the permanent magnetic steel of the inner rotor, the external rotor core and the inner winding of the external rotor. The outside motor is made up of the stator winding, the stator core, the external rotor core and the external winding of the external rotor. From the inside toward outside, the specific structural arrangement is as follows: the input shaft, the inner rotor, the inner rotor core, the permanent magnetic steel of inner rotor core, the external rotor core, the inner winding of external core, the external winding of external rotor, the stator core, the stator winding and the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2006Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH CENTERInventors: Hang ZHAO, Guangkui Shi, Wei Li, Renjun Wan, Qi Feng
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Patent number: 7309938Abstract: A rotary power converter apparatus for coupling power between a prime driver and plural generators. The apparatus includes a frame having a first and second bearing aligned along an axis of rotation and a rotor assembly supported thereby. The rotor assembly includes a shaft fabricated from a light weight material that is rotatably supported along the axis of rotation by the first and second bearings. There is a prime-driver rotor assembly, that has a magnetic structure supported by a light weight non-magnetic alloy hub that is fixed to rotate with the shaft. There are also plural generator rotor assemblies, each having a permanent magnet structure supported by a light weight non magnetic alloy hub also fixed to rotate with the shaft. A prime driver stator assembly is fixedly supported by the frame and aligned concentric with the prime driver rotor assembly to enable magnetic coupling of power therewith.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Inventor: Kelly S. Smith