Permanent Magnet Rotor Patents (Class 310/156.01)
  • Patent number: 10461589
    Abstract: A magnetic-plate laminated body includes: a laminated part made up of a plurality of laminated soft magnetic ribbons; first and second metal plates that sandwich the laminated part from upper and lower surfaces in a lamination direction of the laminated part; and a fastening mechanism that penetrates the first and second metal plates and the laminated part and fastening the laminated part by the first and second metal plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: TOHOKU MAGNET INSTITUTE CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Makino, Nobuyuki Nishiyama, Yukio Nishikawa, Tohru Kojima, Takeshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10439459
    Abstract: A rotor core of a rotor includes: a plurality of protrusions formed on at least a step-skew boundary side; and a tubular non-magnetic ring mounted on outer peripheries of a plurality of permanent magnets so as to cover the boundary. The non-magnetic ring includes a plurality of inner diameter bulging portions. Each of the permanent magnets and each of the protrusions are brought into abutment against the corresponding inner diameter bulging portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoaki Udo, Satoru Akutsu, Shusuke Hori, Takanori Ichikawa, Yuji Takizawa
  • Patent number: 10432070
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a stator having an armature core having slots formed between magnetic pole teeth, and a plurality of coils each of which is wound so as to straddle a plurality of the magnetic pole teeth; and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets disposed at certain intervals on an outer peripheral surface of the magnetic yoke, and the coils include an armature coil for driving the rotating electric machine and a non-armature coil for magnetizing or demagnetizing the permanent magnets of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Hironori Tsuiki, Akira Hashimoto, Takashi Umeda
  • Patent number: 10367399
    Abstract: The described apparatus and method enable alteration of motor properties during operation of a motor. For example, the rotor of the motor may be adjustable, during motor operation, between a first diameter and a larger, second diameter. When the diameter of the rotor increases, the distance between the electromagnetic coils of the stator and the magnets of the rotor increases, thereby reducing the back-electromotor force (back-EMF) of the motor. When the back-EMF of the motor decreases, the torque of the motor decreases but the maximum revolutions per minute (RPM) increases. When the diameter of the rotor decreases, the distance between the electromagnetic coils of the stator and the magnets of the rotor decreases, thereby increasing the back-EMF of the motor. When the back-EMF of the motor increases, the torque of the motor increases but the maximum RPM decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, Austin Brown
  • Patent number: 10305338
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine has interference and lightening holes. The rotor includes a shaft and a rotor iron core. The shaft is press fitted in the rotor iron core. The rotor iron core includes a shaft hole, an outer area, an inner area in which the shaft is press fitted, a plurality of ribs connecting the outer area and the inner area. Each of the ribs includes a plurality of outer rib joints adjacent to the outer area, a plurality of outer rib portions adjacent to the outer area, a plurality of inner rib joints adjacent to the inner area, and a plurality of inner rib portions adjacent to the inner area. The outer rib portions are connected to the inner rib portions and the total number of the inner rib joints is larger than that of the outer rib joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Oshida, Satoshi Yamamura, Ryoji Kobayashi, Yuichiro Baba, Yuji Saito
  • Patent number: 10211689
    Abstract: An electric machine rotor includes a lamination configured to rotate about a central axis and a plurality of pairs of permanent magnets. Each pair of permanent magnets is arranged in a V-shaped pattern and affixed within the lamination to create a magnetic field for rotation of the lamination. The lamination also includes an outer periphery spanning circumferentially outside of the permanent magnets, wherein a mass-reduction cutout extends through the lamination nested within in a V-shape defined by the permanent magnets adjacent to an outer surface of the rotor. The lamination further includes a stress-reduction slot that extends through the outer periphery of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Benedikt Groschup, Franco Leonardi
  • Patent number: 10141803
    Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include a rotor having an axis of rotation and a magnet; a stator coaxial with the rotor, the stator can have a printed circuit board (PCB) having a plurality of PCB layers that are spaced apart in an axial direction, each PCB layer can include a coil having only two terminals for electrical connections, each coil is continuous and uninterrupted between its only two terminals, each coil consists of a single electrical phase, and one of the two terminals of each coil is electrically coupled to another coil with a via to define a coil pair; and each coil pair is electrically coupled to another coil pair with another via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Bernhard L. Schuler, Rich Lee, Jorgen Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10128726
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminate used for manufacturing a rotor is provided. The method includes: (a) stamping out a plurality of workpieces from a metal sheet wherein each of the workpieces has a temporarily-interlocking portion; and (b) obtaining a laminate including the workpieces integrated together by the temporarily-interlocking portion, wherein each of the workpieces further has a shaft hole, a magnet insertion hole, and a weight-reducing hole formed between the shaft hole and the magnet insertion hole, and the temporarily-interlocking portion is provided to the weight-reducing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Yukio Matsunaga, Hisatomo Ishimatsu, Yusuke Hasuo, Masahiro Izumi, Manabu Yazaki
  • Patent number: 10103596
    Abstract: According to some aspects of the present disclosure, example stator assemblies for three phase dynamoelectric machines and related winding methods are disclosed. An example stator assembly generally includes a non-segmented stator core including a stator yoke and a plurality of teeth. The stator assembly also includes a plurality of coil portions electrically coupled in a delta winding pattern, and including a first coil portion extending around a first one of the plurality of teeth and a second coil portion extending around a second one of the plurality of teeth. The stator assembly further includes a plurality of connection portions including a first connection portion extending between the first coil portion and the second coil portion and electrically coupling the first coil portion and the second coil portion. The first coil portion, the second coil portion and the first connection portion are defined by a continuous length of winding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventors: Weirong Wang, Yongyue Yin
  • Patent number: 10069365
    Abstract: A three-phase electromagnetic motor includes: a stator that is formed by winding a winding around a magnetic pole formed between slots of a stator core; and a rotor that is disposed inside the stator and has a permanent magnet. The three-phase electromagnetic motor is formed of 8n poles and 6n slots (n is a natural number). 3n windings are wound around every other magnetic pole among a plurality of magnetic poles of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Manabu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 9985486
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for a magnet type rotating electrical machine includes the steps of: cutting and laminating pieces of the core of the rotor, to thereby form a core (3); mounting the core (3) on a rotating jig (10); forming a magnet piece (2p) into a predetermined shape by sintering; mounting a predetermined number of the magnet pieces (2p) on a regulating jig (20); pressing the magnet pieces (2p) by the regulating jig (20) while rotating the core (3) by the rotating jig (10), to thereby mount the magnet pieces (2p) on the core (3); and adjusting an axial position of the magnet piece (2p) so that an axial end surface of the core (3) and an axial end surface of the magnet piece (2p) are aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Masayuki Miyaoka, Ryusuke Katayama, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 9954423
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor according to the present invention includes: a process of stacking a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates on a jig 30 to fix the electromagnetic steel plates to the jig 30, and a process of inserting magnets 21 into a plurality of respective openings 11 included in a rotor core 10 in which the plurality of electromagnetic steel plates are stacked on one another. The magnets 21 are inserted into the respective openings 11 while a structure 80 including the rotor core 10 and the jig 30 is vibrated at a resonance frequency of the structure 80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Yoshida, Hirotaka Kawaura
  • Patent number: 9825495
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine including a rotator including a small-angle rotator portion and a large-angle rotator portion respectively having different inter-magnet end angles, each being a plane angle formed between a line connecting one outermost peripheral-side end of a permanent magnet and an axial center of the rotator and a line connecting an outermost peripheral-side end of another permanent magnet and the axial center of the rotator. The rotator includes three layers of the small-angle rotator portion, the large-angle rotator portion, and the small-angle rotator portion, which are laminated in the stated order along an axial line of the rotator. Therefore, demagnetization due to a temperature rise of the permanent magnets is suppressed. In addition, a temperature distribution in the permanent magnets in the axial direction of the rotator is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Akihiro Daikoku
  • Patent number: 9762096
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes: a rotor; a stator; and a plurality of permanent magnets respectively inserted into a plurality of magnet insertion holes formed in a rotor core, the rotor core being formed by laminating a plurality of magnetic steel sheets, the magnetic steel sheets including first magnetic steel sheets each not having a magnet stopper in the magnet insertion hole, and second magnetic steel sheets each having magnet stoppers at both end portions of the magnet insertion hole, the rotor core including a laminate of the magnetic steel sheets in a lamination mode in which, when Hn represents a distance between an upper end surface of the second magnetic steel sheet and an upper end surface of the n-th second magnetic steel sheet, a progression of differences of Hn is a geometric progression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Oketani, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe
  • Patent number: 9694845
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a motor, a control device, and a motor drive circuit. The motor includes a motor rotor, a motor stator, and a plurality of coil groups divided into a first coil group and a second coil group of at least two systems for each of three phases, and configured to excite a stator core by three-phase alternating currents. In the motor drive circuit, a first motor drive circuit supplies a three-phase AC first motor drive current to the first coil group based on a command value, and a second motor drive circuit supplies a three-phase AC second motor drive current having a phase difference from a phase of the first motor drive current, to the second coil group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kikuchi, Gen Kimura, Zhipeng Tu
  • Patent number: 9692284
    Abstract: An electric motor apparatus comprises a rotor and a stator formed of at least two stator components, each of the at least two stator components having a substantially hollow cylindrical form. The rotor is mounted within the at least two stator components on a rotational mounting such that the rotor can rotate about a longitudinal central axis with respect to the stator. Each of the at least two stator components has at least two protrusions arranged at different circumferential points on an inner surface of the at least two stator components. Each protrusion has a winding mounted thereon. Control circuitry generates control signals to control power supplied to the windings on each stator component such that power can be controlled to each stator component independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: David Pietromonaco
  • Patent number: 9650120
    Abstract: An electric drive shaft is disclosed including at least one speed-variable generator for generating a voltage with a variable amplitude and a variable frequency, and at least one speed-variable drive motor supplied with the voltage. The drive shaft enables repercussions on the voltage during sudden load changes, and therefore the complexity of the regulation for stabilizing the voltage, to be reduced due to the generator including a supraconductor winding, especially a high-temperature supraconductor winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rainer Hartig
  • Patent number: 9653975
    Abstract: A rotor having permanent magnets 10 includes: a laminated core body 13 having a shaft hole 12 in the center thereof and magnet insertion holes 15 around the shaft hole 12; permanent magnets 16 disposed in the respective magnet insertion holes 15; and first and second end face plates 18, 19 disposed on one axial end and the other axial end of the laminated core body 13, respectively, the first and second end face plates 18, 19 including first and second through holes 32, 33, respectively. The first and second through holes 32, 33 each overlap a contour of a magnet insertion hole 15 on a radially inner side or a radially outer side in a plan view, and have first and second tapered portions 34, 35 gradually expanding the diameter toward the magnet insertion hole 15, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisatomo Ishimatsu, Manabu Yazaki, Koichi Ono
  • Patent number: 9627934
    Abstract: A commutated DC motor (10) includes a stator (12) and a rotor (14) mounted in the stator (12). The stator (12) has 2P magnetic poles, wherein P is an integer greater than 1. The rotor (14) includes a rotor shaft (81) with a rotor core (85), and a commutator (83) fixed thereto. The rotor core (85) has multiple teeth defining m×P slots therebetween, wherein m is an odd integer greater than 1. The commutator (83) has k×m×P segments, wherein k is 1 or 2. A rotor winding (87) formed by winding a single continuous wire is received in the slots of the rotor core (85) and connected to the segments of the commutator (83), and has k×m winding units. Each winding unit includes P coils in series connection and is directly connected to only two segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Fei Liu, Ji Yu Liang, Shu Hai Yuan, Xin Hui Guan
  • Patent number: 9431934
    Abstract: An embodiment of a motor controller includes a motor driver and a signal conditioner. The motor driver is operable to generate a motor-coil drive signal having a first component at a first frequency, and the signal conditioner is coupled to the motor driver and is operable to alter the first component. For example, if the first component of the motor-coil drive signal causes the motor to audibly vibrate (e.g., “whine”), then the signal conditioner may alter the amplitude or phase of the first component to reduce the vibration noise to below a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC., STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Frederic Bonvin, Ezio Galbiati
  • Patent number: 9385566
    Abstract: A rotor of the present invention comprises a cylindrically shaped rotor core, and a plurality of magnets arranged at predetermined intervals at an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core. The outer circumferential surface of the rotor core is formed with a plurality of projections for positioning the plurality of magnets in the circumferential direction, and each of the projections extends over only part of outer circumferential surface of the rotor core in the height direction. The rotor core includes a projection-equipped cylindrical part which has an outer circumferential surface over which the plurality of projections extend, and a projection-less cylindrical part which has an outer circumferential surface over which the plurality of projections do not extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Shimamori
  • Publication number: 20150145365
    Abstract: A rotor core formed with a shaft hole at the center thereof is provided. A cylindrical member fitted into the shaft hole of the rotor core along an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member is provided. A drive shaft inserted into a hollowed part of the cylindrical member (collar) is provided. The collar is made of the material having a lower Young's modulus than those of the rotor core and the drive shaft, and is formed such that an inner peripheral surface of the collar is a tapered surface. The drive shaft has, at an outer periphery thereof, a tapered surface such that the tapered surface is in surface contact with the tapered surface of the collar in fitting of the drive shaft into the collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Fujii, Kiyotaka Nishijima, Masaki Hirano
  • Publication number: 20150137645
    Abstract: A spindle motor may include: a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft; a rotor coupled to the shaft and rotating together therewith; and a base member fixedly coupled to the sleeve, wherein the base member includes a plurality of penetration holes formed therein so as to penetrate therethrough, and a magnetic material is inserted into at least one of the plurality of penetration holes, and non-magnetic materials are inserted into the remaining penetration holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nam Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20150115757
    Abstract: A system and method for heating ferrite permanent magnets in an electrical machine is disclosed. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly, with a plurality of ferrite permanent magnets disposed within the stator assembly or the rotor assembly to generate a magnetic field that interacts with a stator magnetic field to produce a torque. A controller of the electrical machine is programmed to cause a primary field current to be applied to the stator windings to generate the stator magnetic field, so as to cause the rotor assembly to rotate relative to the stator assembly. The controller is further programmed to cause a secondary current to be applied to the stator windings to selectively generate a secondary magnetic field, the secondary magnetic field inducing eddy currents in at least one of the stator assembly and the rotor assembly to heat the ferrite permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, Kum-Kang Huh
  • Patent number: 9017419
    Abstract: Linear actuators that allow for improved self-locking properties without sacrificing axial response are provided. A linear actuator can have two screws extending from opposite ends of the actuator. The screws are joined by and threadably coupled to an elongate rotating nut. An elongate magnet is disposed around and coupled to the nut, and a stator including coils surrounds the magnet and nut. The magnet and nut are not axially fixed with respect to the stator. Rotation of the nut causes axial displacement of both screws, causing the screws to move closer together or farther apart. A pitch of the screw threads can be selected to enhance self-locking properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Össur hf
    Inventors: David Landry, Bjarni Andresson
  • Patent number: 9018808
    Abstract: A rotor assembly including a rotating shaft, a rotor core, a permanent magnet, a magnetic ring support, and a magnetic ring. The permanent magnet is mounted on the outer side surface of the rotor core. The magnetic ring is nested on the magnetic ring support, and the magnetic ring support and the rotor core are made as a whole by injection molding. The rotor assembly is relatively simple to produce, low in cost, and features improved efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonggang Liu, Chongsheng Zeng
  • Publication number: 20150097458
    Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet electric machine includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnet bundles located at the rotor core. Each permanent magnet bundle includes a first magnet of a first magnetic material and a second magnet of a second magnetic material located radially outboard of the first magnet. The second magnet has an increased resistance to demagnetization relative to the first magnet. A permanent magnet electric machine includes a stator and a rotor magnetically interactive with the stator. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnet bundles located at the rotor core. Each permanent magnet bundle includes a first magnet of a first magnetic material and a second magnet of a second magnetic material located radially outboard of the first magnet. The second magnet has an increased resistance to de-magnetization relative to the first magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: JimPo Wang, Zbigniew Piech
  • Publication number: 20150084461
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft supported by upper and lower bearings and rotatable about an axis; a rotor magnet fixed to the shaft; a stator arranged radially outside and opposite to the rotor magnet with a gap therebetween; an upper bracket holding the upper bearing; and a lower bracket holding the lower bearing. The upper bracket includes an upper cylindrical cover press fitted to a stator core from above, an upper bearing holding portion, and a top plate portion arranged to join the upper cylindrical cover and the upper bearing holding portion. The lower bracket includes a lower cylindrical cover press fitted to the stator core from below, a lower bearing holding portion, and a bottom plate portion arranged to join the lower cylindrical cover and the lower bearing holding portion. Each of the upper and lower brackets is fixed to the stator core through press fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keizo FURUKAWA, Kazuya KITAJI
  • Publication number: 20150084465
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotary electric machine includes a rotor that is rotatable at a predetermined position and includes a plurality of first magnetic members arranged along an outer circumferential surface, the first magnetic members each including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole. The rotary electric machine includes a first supporting member that surrounds a periphery of the rotor. The rotary electric machine includes a plurality of second supporting members that are fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the first supporting member. The rotary electric machine includes a plurality of second magnetic members that are fixed on side surfaces of the second supporting members and that have a third magnetic pole facing the first magnetic pole with an air gap and a fourth magnetic pole facing the second magnetic pole with an air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Yasuhito Ueda
  • Patent number: 8981609
    Abstract: Disclosed is a generator for a wind energy installation having a rotor which has permanent magnets and is directly connected for drive purposes to a blade rotor of the wind energy installation, and having a stator which has an iron core composed of laminates. The generator is formed without the rotor or the stator on the external circumference as a completely surrounding housing, and the laminates of the stator are connected to one another by adhesive bonding and/or welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Wind-Direct GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Joeckel
  • Patent number: 8975797
    Abstract: A disk-rotating motor includes a rotor section including a rotor magnet attached to a rotor frame and a shaft fixed to a center of the rotor frame, and a stator section including a shaft-bearing which bears the shaft, wherein the stator section includes the shaft-bearing, a shaft-bearing housing which holds the shaft-bearing, a thrust plate which bears the shaft in an axis direction, a stator core which is arranged to face the rotor magnet and provided with wire-winding, a core holder which holds the stator core, and a bracket which holds the shaft-bearing housing. The bracket has a projecting part which fixes the shaft-bearing at a central part thereof, an inner diameter part of the shaft-bearing is press-fitted to be tightened to the projecting part, and an outer diameter part of the shaft-bearing housing is adhered to be tightened to an inner diameter part of the core holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nishikata, Kumio Masuda
  • Publication number: 20150061441
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a machine housing and a stator disposed at least partially within the housing. The electric machine also includes a radially embedded permanent magnet rotor disposed at least partially within the housing and an endcap. The rotor has at least one radially embedded permanent magnet that is configured to provide increased flux to reduce motor efficiency loss. The endcap is operably connected to a distal portion of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel Shawn Figgins, Harold Clifton Kingrey, Michael Allen Marks, Jeffrey Alan Hall, Subhash Marutirao Brahmavar, Alan Jacob Manz, David Allen Clendenen, Rafal Pawel Rohoza
  • Publication number: 20150061440
    Abstract: Halbach Array electric motor with substantially contiguous electromagnetic cores, comprised of a plurality of electromagnets arranged in Halbach Array sequence, whose horizontal cores are equipped with fork-like prongs to provide substantial contiguity with vertical cores, assembled to serve as a circular or linear stator, rotor or both, and a plurality of permanent magnets likewise arranged in a Halbach Array sequence, assembled to serve as a circular or linear stator or rotor where required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Roberto Sanchez Catalan
  • Publication number: 20150048704
    Abstract: A double stator permanent magnet machine includes an inner stator having a back iron and a set of inner stator poles connected to the back iron, a rotor having a shaft and a set of segments, each segment having a permanent magnet, adjacent the inner stator and rotatively coupled to the inner stator, an outer stator having a set outer stator poles, adjacent the rotor and rotatively coupled to the rotor, a set of inner windings disposed between each of the inner stator poles, and a set of outer windings disposed between each of the outer stator poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Babak Fahimi, Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20150042194
    Abstract: A single-phase brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a number of permanent magnetic poles. The stator includes a stator core and a winding wound on the stator core. The stator core includes an outer annular portion, an inner annular portion, and connecting portions connecting the inner and outer annular portions. The winding is wound around the connecting portions. The rotor is received in the inner annular portion. The inner annular portion and the rotor form a substantially uniform air gap. A recess is formed in an inner surface of a part of the inner annular portion between each pair of adjacent connecting portions. A center of each recess deviates from a center line of symmetry of the corresponding pair of connecting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Yue LI, Bao Ting LIU, Chui You ZHOU, Yong WANG, Ming CHEN, Xiao Ning ZHU
  • Publication number: 20150035402
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet machine includes a rotor assembly having a shaft comprising a plurality of protrusions extending radially outward from a main shaft body and being formed circumferentially about the main shaft body and along an axial length of the main shaft body. A plurality of stacks of laminations are arranged circumferentially about the shaft to receive the plurality of protrusions therein, with each stack of laminations including a plurality of lamination groups arranged axially along a length of the shaft and with permanent magnets being disposed between the stacks of laminations. Each of the laminations includes a shaft protrusion cut formed therein to receive a respective shaft protrusion and, for each of the stacks of laminations, the shaft protrusion cuts formed in the laminations of a respective lamination group are angularly offset from the shaft protrusion cuts formed in the laminations in an adjacent lamination group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, Kum-Kang Huh, James Pellegrino Alexander
  • Publication number: 20150028707
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes a stator having teeth on which a coil is wound, a rotor rotatably provided inside the stator, the rotor including a plurality of rotor sectors, and at least two permanent magnet recesses formed between the rotor sectors. Ferrite permanent magnets are embedded in predetermined ones of the permanent magnet recesses that are formed in an inner portion of the rotor. Rare-earth permanent magnets are embedded in the other ones of the permanent magnet recesses that are formed in an outer portion of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Komotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deok Geun Kim, Han Sam Cho, Kyu Yun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20150022041
    Abstract: A shaft assembly includes a shaft with magnets surrounding the shaft, and thermal conducting disks coupled to the shaft, and coupled to two ends of the magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Steven Robert Eccles, Carol A. Oximberg, Stephen L. White, David G. Elpern, Wayne Schindler
  • Patent number: 8922087
    Abstract: An electrically driven motor, an electrical generator, a rotating electrical machine and method of operating, that includes a rotating rotor having an even number of alternating polarity permanent magnet poles and a stator with an odd number of evenly spaced alternating magnetic polarity electromagnetic poles divided into an odd number of equal stator phase groups with a magnetically unbalanced orphan, pole from each stator phase group removed without re-spacing the remaining stator poles to produce a gap between stator phase groups that is greater than the spacing between adjacent poles in each stator phase group. The rotor can be a rotating external rotor or a stationary internal rotor and the stator can be a stationary interior stator or a rotating exterior stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Norman P Rittenhouse
  • Publication number: 20140375161
    Abstract: A stator unit including a coil in which a distance between an m?1-th turn and an m-th turn is wider than each distance in a first turn to the m?1-th turn. The m+1-th turn is disposed between the m?1-th turn and the m-th turn. Further, in a cross-section perpendicular to a central axis and passing a tooth, an angle between a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m?1-th turn and a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m-th turn is about 120° or more. With this structure, bulging in a circumferential direction of the coil adjacent to an inner peripheral portion of the tooth can be suppressed and a clearance can be secured between adjacent coils such that the number of turns of the coil can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Hidehiro HAGA, Kuniaki ADACHI, Kensuke SHOJI, Takashi HATTORI, Takao ATARASHI, Masato AONO
  • Publication number: 20140368074
    Abstract: A motor having a compact and lightweight design may include a stator provided by a flexible printed circuit (flex circuit). The flex circuit may include a plurality of etched windings that provide coils for a plurality of motor phases. A printed circuit board of the motor may provide various device functions such as electrical commutation. The motor may be used in various applications such as a cooling fan for device electronics and gyroscopic applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Jagadeesh Tangudi
  • Publication number: 20140354103
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator including stator cores and coils wound on the stator cores, a rotor disposed at the inside of the stator and rotated by electromagnetic interaction with the stator, and a motor shaft combined with the rotor so as to be rotated together with the rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores arranged to be separated from each other in the circumferential direction of the rotor, a plurality of rotor slots formed between the plurality of rotor cores, a plurality of permanent magnets inserted into the plurality of rotor slots, and a plurality of cover members connecting neighboring rotor cores to close one opened side of each of the plurality of rotor slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Woo KANG, Young Kwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20140354100
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet may include a formed body having magnetic powder containing rare earth metal, the formed body being magnetized, a coating film which is formed on an outer face of the formed body, and a rust preventive treatment layer which is formed on a surface of the magnetic powder in a pore of the formed body. In a manufacturing method for a rare earth magnet, a forming step is performed in which a formed body having magnetic powder containing rare earth metal is formed, after that, a coating film forming step is performed in which a coating film is formed on an outer face of the formed body and, after that, a rust prevention processing step is performed in which rust preventive liquid is impregnated into the formed body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi FURUTA, Yasushi MIZUSAKI, Katsuyoshi FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20140346910
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet type concentrated winding motor, the number of magnetic poles is M, a stator Sr has an N number of teeth T around which coils are concentratedly wound and which are circumferentially arranged at equal intervals, M is equal to (18±4)n and N is equal to 18n, an armature winding AW has an m number of parallel circuits, and a 1-phase circuit of the parallel circuits is configured to have a 6n/m number of coils connected in series with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao, Yuji Takizawa, Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140340011
    Abstract: The present invention is a high efficiency permanent magnet machine capable of maintaining high power density. The machine is operable over a wide range of power output. The improved efficiency is due in part to copper wires with a current density lower than traditional designs and larger permanent magnets coupled with a large air gap. In a certain embodiment wide stator teeth are used to provide additional improved efficiency through significantly reducing magnetic saturation resulting in lower current. The machine also has a much smaller torque angle than that in traditional design at rated load and thus has a higher overload handling capability and improved efficiency. In addition, when the machine is used as a motor, an adaptive phase lag compensation scheme helps the sensorless field oriented control (FOC) scheme to perform more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Xinzhang Wu, Hanzhou Liu, Yang Hu, Louis Chow, Jon Harms, Martin Epstein, Wei Wu
  • Publication number: 20140334034
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotating portion and a stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a shaft component which includes an inner shaft portion and an outer shaft portion, an upper plate portion, and a lower plate portion. The upper plate portion is disposed in one side of the shaft component and extends radially outward from the one side of the shaft component. The lower plate portion is disposed on the other side of the shaft component and extends radially outward from the other side of the shaft component. The rotating portion includes a sleeve portion. The inner shaft portion and the outer shaft portion are fixed by an adhesive. An adhesive retaining portion is provided between an outer peripheral portion of the inner shaft portion and an inner peripheral portion of the outer shaft portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Shuji IWASAKI, Yoichi SEKII, Takehito TAMAOKA, Hideki NISHIMURA, Kazuto MIYAJIMA, Takuro IGUCHI, Kazuhiro SATO, Takeyuki SHUTO
  • Publication number: 20140319935
    Abstract: A mover and stator assembly of an electric machine includes at least one stator and at least one rotor. Each stator includes multiple magnetic components each including a first surface and a salient portion protruding from the first surface. The rotor includes multiple second magnetic components each including a second surface and a groove located on the second surface. The first surfaces face the second surfaces, and the width of each salient portion is less than that of each groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsuan Lin, Han-Ping Yang, Wen-Yang Peng, Chau-Shin Jang
  • Publication number: 20140319951
    Abstract: A slotless amorphous ferroalloy electric machine with radial magnetic circuit and a manufacturing method. The invention includes a stator iron core (21), a cylinder formed by winding an amorphous ferroalloy strip, a stator winding (22) is integrally in the shape of a cylinder and fixed on the internal cylindrical surface of the stator iron core (21), connecting with a metal reinforcing sleeve (25). A radial air gap (5) is arranged between the internal cylindrical surface of the metal reinforcing sleeve (25) and the external surface of a rotor (3). A rotor iron core (31) having a hollow amorphous ferroalloy cylindrical structure and the inner bore wall of the rotor iron core (31) is provided with keyway (312) used for connecting with a electric machine shaft (6) that the radial external surface of the rotor iron core (31) matches with permanent magnets (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Wei Xie, Lei Shi
  • Publication number: 20140300232
    Abstract: A rotary actuator having a tandem rotor, a first magnetic element, a second magnetic element and a tandem stator is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Gerald K. Langreck
  • Publication number: 20140292130
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anomalous electric machinery including an armature component and a magnetic pole component which perform a relative movement around a common axis. The armature component and the magnetic pole component constitute a magneto-electricity system unit which can form an axisymmetric anomalous curved shape around the common axis. The axisymmetric anomalous curved shape of the magneto-electricity system unit is not a plane that is perpendicular to the common axis or appears to be approximately perpendicular to the common axis. The present invention innovates in the structure and the structure and shape of the magneto-electricity system unit to adapt to the requirements of special application space and to raise space utilization rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: He Chen