Plural Stators Or Movable Elements Patents (Class 310/12.15)
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Patent number: 11387728Abstract: A linear motor is provided. The linear motor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise: a primary member including a plurality of armature modules, each armature module including a magnet core including two or more protruding portions and a coil; and a secondary member including at least one magnet module. The primary member may be fixed and a movable member composed of the secondary member moves by generated thrust. And, along the moving direction, a first interval between first armature modules disposed in a first section may be different from a second interval between second armature modules disposed in a second section after the first section.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: KOVERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Houng Joong Kim
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Patent number: 11303175Abstract: An electromagnetic motor is described, the electromagnetic motor comprising: a magnet assembly configured to generate a two-dimensional alternating magnetic field having a pitch Pm1 in a first direction and a pitch Pm2 in a second direction; a coil assembly configured to co-operate with the magnet assembly to generate a first force in the first direction and a second force in the second direction, wherein the coil assembly comprises a first coil set comprising a plurality of first coils for generating the first force and a second coil set comprising a plurality of second coils for generating the second force, wherein a ratio R1 of a coil pitch Pc1 in the first coil set in the first direction over Pm1 is different from a ratio R2 of a coil pitch Pc2 in the second coil set in the second direction over Pm2.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Maarten Hartger Kimman, Dave Braaksma, Peter Michel Silvester Maria Heijmans, Christiaan Alexander Hoogendam
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Patent number: 11012019Abstract: An electric linear motor, an elevator and a method for controlling rotation of a mover with respect to a stator beam are presented. The electric linear motor includes a number of stator beams, wherein at least one of them includes stators extending in a longitudinal direction of the beam. The motor also includes a number of movers, wherein at least one them includes armatures, wherein each armature is adapted for establishing an electromagnetic coupling with a corresponding stator for moving the mover. The motor also includes an air gap regulator for regulating movement of the mover with respect to the stator beam, wherein the air gap regulator includes guide element(s) arranged for limiting the rotation of the mover with respect to the stator beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventors: Jussi Lähteenmäki, Tuukka Korhonen, Tero Purosto, Tero Hakala
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Patent number: 10947066Abstract: A conveying system includes a plurality of carriers and circuitry. The plurality of carriers has a power source generating thrust in accordance with supply of power and moves along a conveying path. The circuitry is configured to execute detection of a collision between the carriers based on an increase in the thrust in the carriers.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Minoru Koga, Hiromitsu Akae, Yuki Honda, Mina Orii, Go Yamaguchi, Sohei Oga, Hidenori Hara
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Patent number: 10845219Abstract: A linear encoder has a stationary part and a moving part, and measures and encodes a relative displacement between the stationary part and the moving part along a linear extent of displacement. The encoder comprises multiple machine sensible elements arranged on one of the parts in a predetermined, pattern; and multiple evenly placed sensors arranged along the other part along the entire linear extent, thereby to measure and encode the displacement. The encoder may be an absolute encoder and may be based on magnetic or optical or any other kind of sensing.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Servosense (SMC) Ltd.Inventors: Markus Erlich, Yves Villaret
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Patent number: 10454345Abstract: A linear motor device comprising: a path member including a magnet extending in a movement direction; and a moving body including a coil that is movably mounted on the path member; the linear motor device generates thrust in the movement direction between the magnet and the coil by current being passed through the coil; the moving body further includes a magnetic shielding target object, and a magnetic shielding member formed from strongly magnetic material that shields the magnetic shielding target. The magnetic shielding member includes a parallel shielding plate provided parallel to the movement direction between the magnetic shielding target object and the magnet, and a perpendicular shielding plate provided extending away from the magnet in a direction perpendicular to the movement direction at at least one of a front edge and a rear edge of the parallel shielding plate in the movement direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Nagata, Takashi Kido, Yoshihiro Shirakawa, Masaki Kurono
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Patent number: 10355574Abstract: This disclosure discloses a linear motor including a stator, a mover, and a plurality of teeth. The stator includes a stator curved part having an arc shape in a longitudinal direction. The mover is arranged facing the stator and is moved in the longitudinal direction of the stator. The plurality of teeth are arranged in parallel along the longitudinal direction so that a pitch of the teeth at an outer-peripheral side is larger than the pitch of the teeth at an inner-peripheral side on the stator curved part.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventors: Shogo Makino, Toru Shikayama, Masanobu Kakihara, Masayuki Hirayama, Haruki Yahara
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Patent number: 10158279Abstract: An armature includes: an integrated core with multiple split cores coupled to each other; a coupling member for coupling the multiple split cores; a coil attached to the integrated core; a block attachment part provide to a machine attachment side of the integrated core; a protection sheet having ability to be impregnated with resin and covering a surface of the integrated core and a surface of the block attachment part; a block attached to the block attachment part and having a machine attachment surface arranged at the block attachment side of the integrated core; and a resin layer covering the protection sheet covering the integrated core. The machine attachment surface of the block is exposed from the resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Suguru Takamizawa
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Patent number: 10135324Abstract: An armature for linear motor having excellent precision in attachment to a machine and capable of reducing the likelihood of trouble in a resin layer, entry of a foreign material, and the like is provided. An armature comprises: a block attachment part provided to a machine attachment side of a core; a protection sheet having ability to be impregnated with resin and covering a surface of the core and a surface of the block attachment part; a block attached to the block attachment part and having a machine attachment surface arranged at the block attachment side of the core; and a resin layer covering the protection sheet covering the core. The machine attachment surface of the block is exposed from the resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Suguru Takamizawa
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Patent number: 10107276Abstract: A linear compressor includes a cylinder defining a compression space for a refrigerant, a piston reciprocated in an axis direction within the cylinder, and a linear motor providing power to the piston. The linear motor includes an inner stator disposed outside the cylinder, the inner stator including a center core and a side core disposed on at least one side of the center core, an outer stator disposed to be spaced outward from the inner stator in a radius direction, a permanent magnet movably disposed in an air gap defined between the inner stator and the outer stator, and a deformation prevention device for preventing the inner stator from being deformed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sangsub Jeong, Jongkoo Lee, Jehoon Kim, Ochang Gwon
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Patent number: 9973065Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil module for a stator for a tubular linear motor includes placing a plurality of bobbins and spacers on a winding mandrel and winding the plurality of bobbins with a single length of wire to form a set of coils. Three sets of such coils are interleaved on an encapsulation mandrel. A plurality of metal comb shaped elements, each including a longitudinal spine and a plurality of teeth are distributed about the circumference of the three interleaved sets of coils to form a coil module. The coil module and the mandrel are surrounded with an encapsulation mold. An encapsulating material is introduced into the encapsulation mold. The encapsulated coil module is removed from the encapsulating mold and the encapsulation mandrel after setting of the encapsulating material.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: ZiLift Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Alan Charles McAleese, Richard Edward Clark, Sarah Duggan, Michael Hautop Nielsen
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Patent number: 9871434Abstract: A moving body includes a first position detector configured to detect a position of the moving body by detecting poles of magnets and a second position detector disposed in a different position from a position of the first position detector in a moving direction of the moving body, and configured to detect the position of the moving body. A controller of the moving body determines the position of the moving body on a basis of a position detected by the second position detector when the first position detector is located in an irregular section in which the poles of the magnets are not disposed regularly.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.Inventors: Yasutake Yamada, Yoshiyuki Azuma
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Patent number: 9853530Abstract: A linear motor unit includes at least one first linear motor in which an armature is disposed spaced from a shaft guide supporting section which is provided at a distal end of a frame, and a shaft guide is disposed on a proximal side of the shaft guide supporting section; and at least one second linear motor in which an armature is disposed in contact with the proximal side the shaft guide supporting section which is provided at the distal end of the frame, and the shaft guide is disposed on the distal side of the shaft guide supporting section, wherein the first linear motors and the second linear motors are alternatively arranged in a width direction of the frame with the respective shaft guides of the linear motors aligned with each other, the shaft guide is rotated by a rotary motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuqi Tang, Kazuhito Yamaura
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Patent number: 9621097Abstract: A linear conveyor includes: a linear motor stator which includes a plurality of electromagnets and in which each predetermined section can be individually controlled for conduction; a plurality of conveyance carriages each of which includes a linear motor mover; a linear scale which includes scale members secured to each of the conveyance carriages, and detectors disposed along a conveyance path; a plurality of motor controllers which individually controls conduction of electromagnets for each section based on the results of detecting the scale members by the detectors; and a data storage unit which stores position correction data for each conveyance carriage, determined based on the movement error of each conveyance carriage measured in advance using a common measurement jig. Each motor controller controls conduction of the electromagnets using the position correction data stored in the data storage.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsuyuki Takagi
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Patent number: 9157412Abstract: The invention relates to a stator frame (12) for a submerged linear generator. According to the invention the stator frame (12) includes a cylindrical tube of metal with mounting means (13, 14, 15, 16) for mounting stator packages to the inside wall of the tube. The stator frame (12) also is the external circumferential wall of the linear generator. The invention also relates to the use of such a stator frame (12) and to a method for manufacturing a linear generator with such a stator frame (12).Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Seabased ABInventors: Mats Leijon, Erik Doré, Fredrik Axelsson, Rafael Waters
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Patent number: 9112395Abstract: Various electric motor systems are provided to minimize irradiation of harmful (or first) electromagnetic waves. More particularly, an electric motor system is provided with one or more counter units which minimize irradiation of such harmful (or first) waves by suppressing such waves to (or toward) their sources and/or by emitting counter (or second) electromagnetic waves capable of canceling a desired portion of the harmful (or first) waves. Such counter units may then be incorporated into various locations for opposing magnetic poles of basic rotor units and/or basic stator units of the system. Various methods are also provided to minimize irradiation of such harmful (or first) waves by suppressing the harmful (or first) waves toward their sources and/or by canceling such harmful (or first) waves with the counter (or second) waves.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Inventor: Youngtack Shim
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Patent number: 9024488Abstract: A drive section for a substrate transport arm including a frame, at least one stator mounted within the frame, the stator including a first motor section and at least one stator bearing section and a coaxial spindle magnetically supported substantially without contact by the at least one stator bearing section, where each drive shaft of the coaxial spindle includes a rotor, the rotor including a second motor section and at least one rotor bearing section configured to interface with the at least one stator bearing section, wherein the first motor section is configured to interface with the second motor section to effect rotation of the spindle about a predetermined axis and the at least one stator bearing section is configured to effect at least leveling of a substrate transport arm end effector connected to the coaxial spindle through an interaction with the at least one rotor bearing section.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.Inventors: Ulysses Gilchrist, Martin Hosek, Jairo Terra Moura, Jay Krishnasamy, Christopher Hofmeister
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Patent number: 9000626Abstract: A thrust generation mechanism includes magnetic pole teeth which are arranged so as to sandwich and hold permanent magnets disposed on movers, cores which serially connect the magnetic pole teeth which sandwich and hold the magnets, armature winding wires which are collectively wound around the cores, and the movers having the magnets arranged such that the different magnetic poles thereof alternately face the front side and the rear side. The magnetic pole teeth which are arranged so as to sandwich and hold the permanent magnets and the armature iron cores which have cores serially connecting the magnetic pole teeth which hold the magnets are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the movers, and armature iron cores have a common winding wire.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji
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Publication number: 20150076929Abstract: The present document discloses motors and motor components that are constructed on a planar substrate. In some implementations, the planar substrate is made from rigid or semi-rigid sheet material, such as a printed circuit board (“PCB”). One or more coils are formed using spiral-shaped conductive traces that overlay the front and/or back surfaces of the substrate. In one implementation, a plurality of alternating right-hand and left-hand spiral-shaped conductive traces are separated by insulating layers, and connected with conductive vias to form inductive coils. Alternative coil-configurations include single-drive counter-wound coils and coils having a central ferrous or magnetic core.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: RESONANT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robin Elenga, Brian Pepin, Dan Knodle
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Patent number: 8947640Abstract: A positioning device for positioning an object within a lithographic apparatus, including a support structure for supporting the object, at least two short-stroke units, each connected to the support structure, and a long-stroke unit. In the arrangement, each of the short-stroke units includes a short-stroke actuator system configured to provide independently at least one actuation force between the short-stroke unit and the long-stroke unit, and the long-stroke unit includes a long-stroke actuator system configured to provide at least one actuation force between the long-stroke unit and a reference structure of the lithographic apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Raymond Wilhelmus Louis Lafarre, Henrikus Herman Marie Cox, Antonius Franciscus Johannes De Groot, Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus Vermeulen
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Publication number: 20140375146Abstract: A linear drive and its use for machining an optical workpiece are proposed, the linear drive having a linear movable rotor, a linearly movable compensating body and an electrical compensating drive for movement of the compensating body opposite to the rotor and the rotor extending into the compensating drive and/or a first bearing arrangement mounting the rotor in a torsionally stiff manner and a second bearing arrangement pivotally mounting the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Schneider GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gunter Schneider, Ulf Börner, Klaus Hofmann
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Publication number: 20140368062Abstract: Disclosed is a linear synchronous motor comprising an elongate stator extending in a longitudinal direction and having a plurality of coil windings, and a runner having a multiplicity of successive magnets disposed along the length thereof the longitudinal direction. The elongate stator has a plurality of elongate-stator segments arranged successively in the longitudinal direction, with each elongate-stator segment separated from the next successive elongate-stator segment by a gap. A total section length of one elongate-stator segment and an adjacent gap is a constant value over a plurality of successive elongate-stator segments, wherein a runner length measured in the longitudinal direction across all magnets successively disposed on the runner, is an integer multiple of the total section length.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Friedrich Loeser, Qinghua Zheng
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Patent number: 8884473Abstract: A mover configured such that a plate-like magnet magnetized in one longitudinal direction, a soft magnetic element, a plate-like magnet magnetized in the other longitudinal direction, and the soft magnetic element are alternately stacked in the order mentioned above continuously is passed through an armature having a configuration in which a first subunit having core portions extending from a yoke portion in a thickness direction of the mover and a second subunit having core portions extending from a yoke portion in a width direction of the mover are alternately disposed to thereby constitute a linear motor. Windings and are collectively wound around the core portions of the second subunit.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventor: Makoto Kawakami
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Patent number: 8878399Abstract: A multi-shaft linear motor formed by a plurality of single-shaft linear motors is disclosed. Each of the single-shaft linear motors is provided with a magnetic body and an armature. Each of the single-shaft linear motors includes a base plate. The base plate has a base surface defining the moving direction, wherein the stator is fixed onto the base surface along the moving direction, and the mover is attached onto the base surface in a movable manner reciprocating along the moving direction and in opposed relation to the stator. The single-shaft linear motors are stacked in a stacking direction perpendicular to the base surface in such a way that the single-shaft linear motors are individually detachable as a unit, the base plate thereof contains the stator and the mover.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Hanamura, Kiyotaka Sakai
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Publication number: 20140320058Abstract: A linear conveyor includes: a linear motor stator which includes a plurality of electromagnets and in which each predetermined section can be individually controlled for conduction; a plurality of conveyance carriages each of which includes a linear motor mover; a linear scale which includes scale members secured to each of the conveyance carriages, and detectors disposed along a conveyance path; a plurality of motor controllers which individually controls conduction of electromagnets for each section based on the results of detecting the scale members by the detectors; and a data storage unit which stores position correction data for each conveyance carriage, determined based on the movement error of each conveyance carriage measured in advance using a common measurement jig. Each motor controller controls conduction of the electromagnets using the position correction data stored in the data storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsuyuki Takagi
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Publication number: 20140265645Abstract: A linear controlled motion system comprises a track formed from one or more track sections and having at least one mover mounted to the track and effective for receiving articles at one location and transporting the articles to another location. The system includes at least one magnetic linear motion motor for providing a magnetic field effective for moving each mover in a controlled motion along the track and a magnetic flux bridge for reducing changes in the magnetic flux that reduces the efficiency or interferes with the operation of the controlled motion system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INCInventors: Keith G. Jacobs, Glen C. Wernersbach
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Patent number: 8794934Abstract: A linear compressor for producing a driving force by magnetic induction and naturally modulating a cooling capacity according to a load includes a fixed member provided with a compression space, a movable member which linearly reciprocates inside the fixed member to compress refrigerant, a plurality of springs installed to elastically support the movable member in a motion direction, a first stator through which a current flows, a conductor member magnetically induced by the first stator to make the movable member linearly reciprocate, and a control unit which controls supply of a current with respect to the first stator.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kye-Lyong Kang, Jong-Kwon Kim, Shin-Hyun Park, Hyun Kim, Hee-Dong Kang, Jeong-Uk Lee, Yang-Hoon Jung
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Publication number: 20140203668Abstract: In a linear motor, one of a field system and an armature is configured as a mover and the other is configured as a stator. The field system relatively moves with respect to the armature. The field system includes two yoke boards which are arranged facing each other, a yoke base to which one side ends of the two yoke boards are to be fixed, a plurality of permanent magnets respectively fixed to facing surfaces of the two yoke boards and arranged along a moving direction of the mover, and an elastic member configured to apply force the facing surfaces of the two yoke boards in directions that other side ends of the two yoke boards move away from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Keiji YANAGI, Tatsuhiko KOBA
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Patent number: 8786141Abstract: Magnetic linear actuator (MLA) and use. The MLA includes a driver portion with motor and rotating mount with a first magnet (M1) having poles aligned in a plane, and an actuator portion, having a frame with a second magnet (M2) proximate to a first end of the frame with a specified pole facing the frame's center, and a third magnet (M3) proximate to a second end of the frame with the specified pole facing the frame's center. The frame holds M2 and M3 collinear with M1, in the plane, and on opposite sides of the M1, and is constrained to move along an axis collinear with M1, M2, and M3. During operation, the motor rotates M1 through a first orientation where M1 attracts M2 and repels M3, then a second orientation where M1 repels M2 and attracts M3, in response to which the frame moves back and forth, e.g., reciprocates.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventor: David E. Wilson
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Patent number: 8766496Abstract: A linear electric motors including a housing, a first armature movable on a first essentially linear path with respect to the housing, and a second armature movable on a second essentially linear path with respect to the housing, wherein the first armature is mounted to the housing by a first mounting spring, wherein the first armature and the second armature are coupled to each other by a coupling spring, and wherein the second armature is mounted to the housing by a second mounting spring.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Frank Ziegler, Robert Schaefer, Uwe Schober, Thomas Meinke
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Publication number: 20140175910Abstract: A multi-shaft linear motor formed by a plurality of linear motors each provided with a magnetic body and an armature and adapted to produce a force causing the magnetic body and the armature to be relatively displaced along a given linear moving direction by interaction of magnetic fluxes generated between the magnetic body and the armature during an operation of supplying electric power to the armature. Each of the single-shaft linear motors includes a base plate. Base plate has a base surface defining the moving direction, wherein the stator is fixed onto the base surface along the moving direction, and the mover is attached onto the base surface in a movable manner reciprocating along the moving direction and in opposed relation to the stator. Single-shaft linear motors are stacked in a stacking direction perpendicular to the base surface such that the single-shaft linear motors are individually detachable as a unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki HANAMURA, Kiyotaka SAKAI
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Patent number: 8674561Abstract: A multi-head linear motor with cores according to an embodiment includes a permanent magnet field and an armature. The permanent magnet field includes P pieces of permanent magnets. The armature is arranged so as to face the permanent magnet field through a magnetic air gap and includes M pieces of armature coils. Any one of the armature and the permanent magnet field constitutes a mover, the other constitutes a stator, and the mover is arranged in plurality to be lined up over a single piece of the stator to individually drive the movers relative to the stator. Moreover, the movers each include a large thrust mover and a small thrust mover that have different relationships each determined with a magnetic pole number P of the permanent magnets and a number M of the armature coils relative to the stator.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventor: Toshiyuki Hoshi
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Patent number: 8664808Abstract: A linear motor coil assembly includes a base plate (1), a line of iron cores affixed longitudinally on the upper surface of the base plate, multiple coils respectively provided for the iron cores, and a first cooling tube being in contact with contacts the multiple coils and through which a first refrigerant passes. The lower surface of the base plate can be attached to a precision table of a machine tool or a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. A groove (8) that extends longitudinally in linear fashion is formed on the lower surface of the base plate. A second cooling tube (92, 94), through which a second refrigerant passes, provided within the groove is additionally provided in the linear motor coil assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Koshimoto, Satoru Tajima
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Publication number: 20140035393Abstract: Disclosed herein is a linear, curved or rotary electric machine. The electric machine includes first and second movers which are adjacent to each other and have a phase angle difference of 60° therebetween. The first mover includes phases U, V and W and the second mover includes phases /U, /V and /W. The electric machine of the present invention can reduce pulsations of thrust caused by end effect. In particular, in the case where the stator includes permanent magnets having the same poles and salient poles which alternate with the permanent magnets, the number of permanent magnets used can be reduced to half of that of a conventional linear electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Shi Uk CHUNG, Do Hyun KANG, Byung Chul WOO, Ji Won KIM, Ji Young LEE, Seung Ryul MOON
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Patent number: 8624446Abstract: Disclosed herein is a linear, curved or rotary electric machine. The electric machine includes first and second movers which are adjacent to each other and have a phase angle difference of 60° therebetween. The first mover includes phases U, V and W and the second mover includes phases /U, /V and /W. The electric machine of the present invention can reduce pulsations of thrust caused by end effect. In particular, in the case where the stator includes permanent magnets having the same poles and salient poles which alternate with the permanent magnets, the number of permanent magnets used can be reduced to half of that of a conventional linear electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Korea Electrotechnology Research InstituteInventors: Shi Uk Chung, Do Hyun Kang, Byung Chul Woo, Ji Won Kim, Ji Young Lee, Seung Ryul Moon
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Patent number: 8624445Abstract: This stage apparatus includes a movable table to hold a sample, a levitation unit to operate the movable table at least in a vertical direction, and a linear motor to operate the movable table in a first horizontal direction in a horizontal plane, including a linear motor movable element arranged inside the movable table and a linear motor stator arranged inside the movable table.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Youichi Motomura, Toshiyuki Kono, Yoshiaki Kubota
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Patent number: 8575792Abstract: A stage comprising a first translation platform having a first axis of motion, and a second translation platform having a second axis of motion, a first linear drive motor for driving the first translation platform in the first axis of motion, and a second linear drive motor for driving the second translation platform in the second axis of motion, wherein each linear drive motor further comprises a coil assembly enclosing a rod stator, and wherein the coil assembly is fixed and the rod stator is movable within the coil assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Thorlabs, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Brooker, Paulo Chaves, Keith Dhese, Robin Eddington
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Patent number: 8569916Abstract: A mover includes a permanent magnet array including permanent magnets magnetized in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to a motion direction of the mover such that magnetic poles having different polarities alternately appear on magnetic pole surfaces of the permanent magnets along the motion direction. A stator includes first and second magnetic pole portion assemblies disposed on both sides of the permanent magnet array in the perpendicular direction and each including magnetic pole portions facing the magnetic pole surfaces, and a single phase winding that excites the magnetic pole portions forming the first and second magnetic pole portion assemblies. The winding has a hollow structure formed by winding a winding conductor into a coil such that the magnetic pole portions included in the first magnetic pole portion assembly and the magnetic pole portions included in the second magnetic pole portion assembly are located in an internal space of the winding.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Sugita, Yasushi Misawa, Yuqi Tang
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Patent number: 8558486Abstract: A d.c. charged particle accelerator comprises accelerator electrodes separated by insulating spacers defining acceleration gaps between adjacent pairs of electrodes. Individually regulated gap voltages are applied across each adjacent pair of accelerator electrodes. In embodiments, the individually regulated gap voltages are generated by electrically isolated alternators mounted on a common rotor shaft driven by an electric motor. Alternating power outputs from the alternators provide inputs to individual regulated d.c. power supplies to generate the gap voltages. The power supplies are electrically isolated and have outputs connected in series across successive pairs of accelerator electrodes. The described embodiment enables an ion beam to be accelerated to high energies and high beam currents, with good accelerator stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: GTAT CorporationInventors: Theodore H. Smick, Geoffrey Ryding, William H. Park, Ronald Horner
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Patent number: 8536742Abstract: A stator core unit of a linear synchronous motor is divided into a plurality of divided cores. The divided cores each include a pair of connected portions. The pairs of connected portions are disposed along a first direct drive shaft and a second direct drive shaft to form a pair of connected portion arrays. A yoke is constituted from a pair of yoke elements which are formed of a magnetic conductive material and magnetically connect the connected portions of the pair of connected portion arrays. A first array of permanent magnets and a second array of permanent magnets are disposed to be shifted from each other by an electrical angle of 180°. A first array of windings and a second array of windings are excited with the first and second arrays of windings being shifted by an electrical angle of 180°.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yuqi Tang, Satoshi Sugita
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Patent number: 8502421Abstract: The moving magnet type linear motor according to the present invention comprises a stator comprising a plurality of coils arranged in a single direction and having a both ends support structure supporting both ends of the stator in a direction perpendicular to said single direction, a pair of movers comprising a plurality of permanent magnets arranged opposing the sides of the stator respectively and capable of relative movement in said single direction with respect to each other, and guidance mechanisms guiding both the movers independently and movably in said single direction, and one of the movers is connected to a load.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignees: Sabanci University, Fujitec Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sandor Markon, Ender Kazan, Ahmet Onat
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Patent number: 8487484Abstract: A magnetic drive apparatus includes first and second magnet carriers carrying first and second permanent magnet arrangements. An intermediate magnet carrier disposed between the first and second magnet carriers carries a third permanent magnet arrangement. The magnet carriers are arranged for rotation relative to each other such that the magnet arrangements produce magnetic interactions that result in power stroke forces causing the magnet carriers to undergo relative reciprocation in first and second stroke directions during power zone portions of the relative rotation. The magnetic interactions impart substantially no power stroke forces during dead zone portions of the relative rotation. The dead zones include magnet carrier relative rotation positions wherein opposing magnetic poles are mutually coaxially aligned but produce a substantially equal balance of push and pull magnetic forces.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Torque Multipliers, LLCInventors: Harold L. Miller, Jr., Andrew E. Colson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20130142364Abstract: A linear interleaved magnetic motor in which the B-field flows between a plurality of motor cell elements, creating a long, serpentine gap. The motor is used with at least one flex circuit as a drive coil. The motor can be used as a drive motor for a loudspeaker transducer. Multiple loudspeaker transducers can be connected together to make a loudspeaker frame or system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Thomas Paul Heed
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Patent number: 8456059Abstract: An electric generator includes an electric-power generating mechanism of an electrostatic induction type or an electromagnetic induction type, a first rectification portion, an electricity accumulation portion, an outer positive electrode, and an outer negative electrode. The electric-power generation mechanism has a first electrode and a second electrode, and the first rectification portion has input terminals electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode respectively, and has an output portion including positive and negative terminals. The electricity accumulation portion has an inner positive electrode electrically connected to the positive terminal, and an inner negative electrode electrically connected to the negative terminal. The outer positive electrode is electrically connected to the inner positive electrode, and the outer negative electrode is electrically connected to the inner negative electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Masaharu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8427015Abstract: A multihead-type coreless linear motor includes a permanent field magnet having P permanent magnets that are arranged such that different magnetic poles appear alternately, and an armature having M armature coils that are closely wounded and connected in three phases. One of the armature and the permanent field magnet is configured as a moving part and the other is configured as a stator. A plurality of moving parts are arranged on the same stator and are driven separately. In this multihead-type coreless linear motor, the plurality of moving parts includes a large-thrust moving part and a small-thrust moving part that are different in relationship with the stator, the relationship being determined by the number of magnetic poles P of the permanent magnets and the number of armature coils M.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventor: Toshiyuki Hoshi
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Publication number: 20130093265Abstract: An electric motor including: a first and second linear actuator, each linear actuator including a first and second coil respectively, a rotational shaft, a cam assembly mounted on the rotational shaft for translating linear movement of the two linear actuators to rotational movement of the rotational shaft, a controller programmed to generate during operation a first and second drive signal for first coil and second coil respectively, wherein the first drive signal causes the first linear actuator to generate a first torque on the rotational shaft that varies periodically over a complete rotation of the shaft and the second drive signal causes the second linear actuator to generate a second torque on the rotational shaft that varies periodically over a complete rotation of the shaft, and wherein the sum of the first and second torques produces a total torque that is substantially constant throughout the complete rotation of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: Nucleus Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Ian W. HUNTER, Serge LAFONTAINE, Timothy A. FOFONOFF
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Publication number: 20130093264Abstract: The present invention provides a linear motor where a load onto a supporting mechanism and the ripple of force are lessened and the ripple can be adjusted. As a leakage flux between the magnetic poles can be reduced by being configured by plural magnetic poles arranged with a magnet arranged on a mover held between them, a core that continuously connects the magnetic poles that holds the magnet of the mover between them, windings are integrally wound onto the plural magnetic poles and the mover formed by a row of magnets the magnetic poles of which are alternately arranged or a row of magnets the polarity of which is alternately arranged and magnetic materials, by arranging the plural magnetic poles arranged with the magnet held between and the plural magnetic poles provided with the core that continuously connects the magnetic poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: HITACHI LTDInventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Kohji Maki
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Publication number: 20130076159Abstract: The present invention relates to a doubly salient permanent magnet electric machine that has a winding structure in which series-connected windings are included in the phase windings of a mover, and that has a stator implemented as an iron core having a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of stator salient poles neighboring the permanent magnets, thus reducing the number of permanent magnets by half. An electric machine is configured such that a mover moves while facing a stator and includes an N (a number of power phases) multiple number of teeth and phase windings wound around the teeth, and one or more pairs of phase windings of the mover mutually having a phase difference of 180° are connected in series, and the stator includes permanent magnets in depressions between individual stator salient poles of an iron core in which the stator salient poles are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Shi Uk Chung, Yeon Ho Jeong, Byung Chul Woo, Ji Young Lee
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Patent number: 8400044Abstract: An electromotive machine (200, 900) comprises a rotor (230; 800; 920) and a stator (210, 220; 500; 600; 700; 910, 920). The stator (210, 220; 500; 600; 700; 910, 920) comprises a first group of primary windings (260a, 240b, 240d; 520; 640a, 640b, 650a, 650b, 660a, 660b; 930a, 930b, 933a, 933b, 937a, 937b), which are concentrated windings, arranged on a first side of the rotor (230; 800; 920) and a second group of primary windings (240a, 250a, 240c; 530; 740a, 740b, 750a, 750b, 760a, 760b; 941a, 941b, 943a, 943b, 947a, 947b) that are concentrated windings arranged on a second, opposite, side of the rotor (230; 800; 920). The primary windings of each group comprise a plurality of coils that, in use, are supplied with current and produce a magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Force Engineering LimitedInventor: John Frederick Eastham
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Patent number: 8384251Abstract: A linear and curvilinear motor system includes: linear and curvilinear guiding devices movably guiding and respectively supporting right and left of a slider, each having a guide rail configured by linear tracks and a circular arc track and slider blocks; a motor unit having a stator with a stator linear section and a stator circular arc section and a mover with a linear section and provided for the slider and away from the stator with a gap interposed therebetween; and an encoder head and a hole sensor detecting positions of the linear tracks and the circular arc track. When a magnetic pole pitch of the linear section of the stator is a distance ?m and a magnetic pole pitch of the circular arc section of the stator is an angle ?m, a radius r of the circular arc track at the position detection point is defined as r=?m/?m.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha DenkiInventors: Toru Shikayama, Mikio Oshima, Kenichi Sadakane, Shogo Makino