Permanent Magnet Rotor Patents (Class 310/156.01)
  • Publication number: 20130140932
    Abstract: A rotor core is provided for an electric machine. The rotor core includes a body extending a length along, and being configured to rotate about, a central longitudinal axis. The body includes spokes arranged radially about the central longitudinal axis and conductor openings arranged radially about the central longitudinal axis. The radial arrangement of the spokes and conductor openings about the central longitudinal axis includes an alternating pattern of spokes and conductor openings. The spokes include slots extending therethrough along the central longitudinal axis. The slots are positioned radially about the central longitudinal axis between adjacent conductor openings. The rotor core also includes conductors extending within the conductor openings of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Manoj Shah
  • Publication number: 20130140926
    Abstract: A mounting cap is provided for use with an insulated stator of an outer rotor motor. The mounting cap is configured to support the stator and is fixed to the stator to prevent relative rotation therebetween. The mounting cap includes mounting structure configured to fix the mounting cap to the machine, such that the stator is fixed to and supported on the machine by the mounting cap. Furthermore, the mounting cap is configured to facilitate routing of wiring associated with the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bailey, L. Ranney Dohogne, Daniel E. Hilton, Philip S. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20130134918
    Abstract: An electrical controller for electric motors is provided. A control system for an electric motor comprises a supply for supplying excitation current to different windings of the motor at any given time. Furthermore, the amplitude of the excitation current is independently variable of the timing and duration of the application of the excitation current to the windings. This allows increased control of the motor and facilitates the operation of the motor at high mechanical and/or electrical speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: AERISTECH CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Bryn Geoffrey Roddick Richards, Wenshan Hu
  • Publication number: 20130127280
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine that can improve efficiency in the high-speed operation state thereof and improve the efficiency of an electric vehicle in the high-speed operation state thereof by the use of the electric rotating machine. An electric rotating machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator core with slots and stator windings. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of first permanent magnets and of second permanent magnets. The rotor core is provided with laminated electromagnetic steel sheets and formed with a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction. The plurality of first and second permanent magnets form the plurality of corresponding magnetic poles. The first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet for forming each of the magnetic poles of the rotor are different from each other in recoil permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Shinji Sugimoto, Akiyoshi Komura, Shigeru Kakugawa, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8446121
    Abstract: An actuator motor described herein has fast dynamic response capability, high torque density, high efficiency, and improved thermal and mechanical stability at high speed while minimizing weight. According to one aspect of the disclosure provided herein, an actuator motor has a rotor shaft with an array of permanent magnets attached according to a Halbach array configuration. A stator includes windings that induce a torque on the rotor shaft when rotating magnetic fields interact with the optimized magnetic flux distributions of the magnets of the Halbach array. According to various embodiments, the rotor shaft is hollow, reducing weight and rotational inertia, while improving ambient cooling characteristics of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Leila Parsa, Jeffery M. Roach, Kamiar J. Karimi, Shengyi Liu, Suman Dwari
  • Publication number: 20130119806
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator that has a stator winding wound on a stator iron core; a rotor having a rotating body with a rotating shaft in the center; a bearing for journaling the rotating shaft; and two conductive brackets for fixing the bearing. The rotating body holds a magnet such that the magnet faces the stator, and is fastened to the rotating shaft penetrating through the center of the rotating body. In the rotating body, a dielectric layer is formed between the rotating shaft and the outer circumference of the rotating body. The dielectric layer has a polygonal shape with the rotating shaft in the center. An electric device includes the thus configured electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Watanabe, Yoshinori Isomura, Tatsuo Maetani, Hiroki Sato
  • Publication number: 20130119805
    Abstract: A motor having improved heat resistance is provided. The motor includes a rotor comprising a rotor core, two or more slots arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor in the rotor core, two magnets in a plate shape having a thickness in a radial direction of the rotor, and divided and arranged in the circumferential direction in each of the two or more slots, and a spacer for dividing the two magnets; and a stator disposed outside of the rotor in the radial direction with a clearance from the rotor and comprising a stator core having two or more slots wound with one or more winding wires; and the two magnets are separated from each other by the spacer, by a distance which is 10% to 50% of a circumferential length of the slot having the two magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130118213
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a driving motor having a stator, an outer rotor connected to the inner shaft and rotatable outside the stator, and an inner rotor connected to the outer shaft and rotatable inside the stator. Stator slots, which are fixedly-installed as a coil are wound on stator teeth. The outer rotor and the inner rotor include rotor teeth, a permanent magnet and a bushing, spaced from an inner circumference of the stator and rotates centering around a rotor shaft by magnetic force. The rotor teeth includes a teeth extension portion extending from a side end of an outer circumference of the rotor teeth in a circumferential direction, a cut recess cut in a concaved manner from the outer circumference of the rotor teeth toward the center of the rotor shaft, and an insertion recess cut in a concaved manner in a radial direction from an inner circumference of the rotor teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
  • Publication number: 20130106223
    Abstract: A method of activating an electric machine having a stator, and a rotor which rotates about an axis with respect to the stator; the stator having a plurality of stator segments arranged about the axis; the rotor having modules made of magnetizable material and arranged about the axis; and the method including the steps of connecting the rotor to the stator by means of a bearing; and magnetizing the modules of magnetizable material when the rotor is connected to the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: WILIC S.AR.L.
    Inventor: WILIC S.AR.L.
  • Patent number: 8427023
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first and second permanent magnets arranged in the core such that each of the first magnets corresponds to one of the second magnets and, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to a rotation axis thereof, a first line passing through the first magnet and a second line passing through the second magnet meet at a point pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets are arranged such that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the point is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, and a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first line being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Akihiko Maemura, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130093368
    Abstract: Generally described, the present disclosure is directed to examples of electric devices that include first and second stator assemblies located within a rotor assembly. The configuration of the electric device, including the configuration of the first and second stator assemblies, results in the electric device generating a stronger magnetic field and therefore outputting a higher torque when current is provided to the second stator assembly and generating a weaker magnetic field and therefore outputting a higher rotational speed when current is provided to the first stator assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: GOGORO, INC.
    Inventor: Gogoro, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8421291
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric machine with a permanent magnet rotor, where permanent magnets have been fitted on an outer surface of a cylindrical rotor, and relates to a permanent magnet. The permanent magnets forming the electric machine's rotor pole are shaped so that the electric machine's air gap is substantially constant in a middle of the pole, and the air gap increases in an essentially straightforward manner when moving towards the edge of the pole. The permanent magnet is of an even thickness in the middle, and becomes thinner towards the edges. This can result in a decrease in the torque ripple and cogging torque of an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Juhani Mantere, Tommi Ryyppö, Aron Szucs
  • Patent number: 8413315
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electrical machine is provided in which neither deterioration nor fluctuation in the cogging torque is caused and that causes neither physical enlargement nor cost increase. The rotor of a rotating electrical machine, provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3 that are fixed on a rotor iron core 2 and arranged spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the rotor iron core 2, is characterized by including a tube-shaped non-magnetic ring 4 mounted on the outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles 3, and characterized in that the non-magnetic ring has a plurality of inner-diameter bulging portions 41 that abut on the corresponding outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamura, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu, Kazuhisa Takashima
  • Publication number: 20130082560
    Abstract: A coreless electromechanical device includes permanent magnets provided in a first member, M (M is an integer number equal to or more than two) phases of ?-wound air core electromagnetic coils provided in a second member, and a coil back yoke provided in the second member, wherein the electromagnetic coil has two effective coil regions that generate force for relative rotational transfer of the first member with respect to the second member and two coil end regions, and the coil end regions of at least the (M-1) phases of electromagnetic coils of the M phases of electromagnetic coils are bent toward an inner circumference side or an outer circumference side of a cylindrical surface containing the cylindrical region so as not to interfere with the coil end regions of the other phases of electromagnetic coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Seiko Epson Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130083426
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft portion, an upper plate cylindrical portion, a lower plate cylindrical portion, and a sleeve portion disposed between an upper plate portion and a lower plate portion. The sleeve portion includes an inner sleeve cylindrical portion and an outer sleeve cylindrical portion. An upper seal portion is arranged between the outer circumferential surface of the upper plate cylindrical portion and the inner circumferential surface of the outer sleeve cylindrical portion. A lower seal portion is arranged between the outer circumferential surface of the outer sleeve cylindrical portion and the inner circumferential surface of the lower plate cylindrical portion. At least a portion of the upper seal portion and at least a portion of the lower seal portion radially overlap with a radial gap between the outer circumferential surface of the shaft portion and the inner circumferential surface of the inner sleeve cylindrical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehito TAMAOKA, Shuji IWASAKI, Yoichi SEKII, Hideki NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8410652
    Abstract: The rotor assembly contains a number of polar anisotropic ring magnets sequentially stacked, a number of supporting rings within the stacked ring magnets, and an axle threading through the supporting rings. The ring magnets are of a same diameter and length. Each supporting ring contains three co-centric rings: an inner steel ring, a middle rubber ring, and an outer steel ring. The supporting rings are positioned with substantially equal spacing and with a gap away from each aperture of the stacked ring magnets, so that additional weight elements could be positioned and adhered within the gap. The periodic positioning of a number of supporting rings could significantly reduce the weight of the motor assembly with much improved steadiness. Additionally, the middle rubber rings of the supporting rings provide a buffer mechanism for absorbing vibration and noise reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Headline Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Yung Li, Kuo-Shu Hsu
  • Publication number: 20130076185
    Abstract: An electromechanical limited rotation rotary actuator comprises a stator having an aperture extending axially therein and at least two teeth having arcuate end portions forming an aperture. A rotor includes a diametral magnetized magnet bidirectionally operable with the stator and extending into the aperture. A non-uniform gap is formed between the magnet and the end portions of the teeth, and wherein the shape of the gap provides a restoration torque resulting in a spring-like return-to-center action of the rotor. An electrical coil extends around at least a portion of one tooth and is excitable for magnetizing the tooth and providing bidirectional torque to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: William R. Benner, JR.
  • Publication number: 20130069496
    Abstract: A composite permanent magnet synchronous machine includes a permanent magnet synchronous machine module having a rotor unit and a stator unit; a bottom base having an accommodation space; a top cover having a front surface; and a shaft penetrating through the front surface. The rotor unit has P rotor magnets and the stator unit has S slots, wherein a tooth part is defined between every two adjacent slots, and a coil is wound on the tooth part, where P is 38N, S is 36N, and N is a positive integer; or P is 34M, S is 36M, and M is a positive integer. The machine is suitable for wind power generators or any other machine structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Jonq-Chin Hwang, Chun-Yu Hsiao, Sheng-Nian Yeh
  • Publication number: 20130062884
    Abstract: A generator for a wind turbine is provided. The generator includes a housing with a multi-piece stator arrangement mounted to the housing, the stator arrangement surrounding radially inward and radially outwardly directed faces of a rotor assembly, also surrounded by the housing. The rotor assembly is configured for direct attachment to a wind turbine main shaft so that rotation of the main shaft results in like rotation of the rotor assembly. The housing is mechanically coupled to the rotor by anti-friction elements such that the rotor is free to rotate about its central axis relative to the housing, and such that radial displacement of the rotor due to main shaft deflections results in a like radial displacement of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: D-CUBE WIND TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Giovanni Bonomi, Lodovico Oldani, Marco Venturini, Davide Tenti
  • Publication number: 20130050871
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a stationary portion, and a rotating portion supported rotatably with respect to the stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a base portion, a ring-shaped core back, a plurality of teeth, and a coil. The rotating portion includes a magnet radially opposite to a radially inner end surface of the teeth and a hub arranged to hold the magnet. The teeth include an outer core portion arranged radially outward from an outer circumference of the hub, and an inner core portion arranged radially inward from the outer core portion. The inner core portion includes a positioning portion which is positioned radially outward from the outer circumference of the hub, and arranged radially inward from the coil, and the width of the positioning portion in a circumferential direction is larger than the width of the outer core portion in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20130050870
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a stationary portion defined by a base portion, a stator core arranged on the side of an upper surface of the base portion, and a coil attached to the stator core. A rotating portion includes a magnet arranged on a radially inner side of the stator core, a first supporting surface which is in contact with a lower surface of a disk, and a disk supporting portion arranged on a radially outer side than the magnet. The stator core includes a ring-shaped core back, and a plurality of teeth. The disk supporting portion is positioned radially outward from a radially inner end portion of the teeth and radially inward from the coil. The radially inner end portion of the teeth, the disk supporting portion, and the coil overlap in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki ISONO
  • Publication number: 20130049551
    Abstract: A rotary unit of a motor includes a tubular hub portion. A bearing mechanism of the motor includes a bearing portion positioned radially inward of the hub portion. A stationary unit of the motor includes a stator fixing portion positioned inward of the hub portion and higher than a lower end of the hub portion. A cylinder gap is defined between the hub portion and an upper section of the bearing portion. A first communication gap is defined between a lower section of the hub portion and an upper section of the stator fixing portion. A second communication gap is defined between the lower end of the hub portion and a radial inner section of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehito TAMAOKA, Kazuhiro SATO, Kazuhiko FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 8384262
    Abstract: A motor rotor includes an annular body and a plurality of magnetic bodies installed on an inner lateral surface of the annular body in an irregular manner, to prevent a rotating motor from generating a cogging effect, disperse the frequency of the cogging torque, and reduce the amplitude. Accordingly, noises generated while the motor is operating are reduced, the periodicity of a cogging torque is changed, and cogging torque is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Jen Yang, Hung-Sen Tu, Chen-Chia Yang
  • Publication number: 20130043753
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor core of a motor, the rotor core, the rotor core including a thin disk-shaped rotor core member, a shaft hole penetratively formed at a center of the rotor core member, a shaft press-fitted into the shaft hole, a plurality of magnet insertion holes penetratively formed at a position near to a periphery of the rotor core member for inserted coupling by a magnet, and a magnet fixing unit formed by stacking the rotor core members each at a predetermined height, and press-fitting the shaft into the shaft hole, wherein the rotor core members are stacked at a predetermined height, and the shaft is inserted into the shaft hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongchul Kim
  • Publication number: 20130038161
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor for a motor, the permanent magnet rotor including an iron core and a permanent magnet. The iron core includes an annular ring having a central axial bore and a plurality of magnetic induction blocks protruding outwards from an outer side of the annular ring. Between two adjacent magnetic induction blocks form a radial recess for mounting the permanent magnets. The magnetic induction blocks at both sides of an opening of the radial recess protrude with a hook block. The section of an outer side surface of the magnetic induction blocks is a circular-arc line and the outer side surface employs a point with a distance deviating from the center of the central axial bore as a center of circle. The permanent magnet rotor has a simple structure, low magnetic leakage and torque ripple, big counter-electromotive force constant, and smooth waveform of counter-electromotive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingpan PAN
  • Publication number: 20130038160
    Abstract: Laminated, mechanically strong, rare earth, permanent magnets with dielectric layers having increased electrical resistivity and improved mechanical strength suitable for use in high performance, rotating machines comprising sequential laminates of permanent magnet layers and transition and/or diffusion reaction layers; wherein the transition and/or diffusion reaction layers surround sulfide-based dielectric layers, thereby avoiding direct contact between the dielectric layers with permanent magnet layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Jinfang Liu, Chins Chinnasamy, Joshua L. Bender, Melania Marinescu
  • Patent number: 8362863
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed towards magnetization of permanent magnets using superconducting magnetizers. For example, in one embodiment, a superconducting magnetizer assembly is provided. The assembly includes a coil pack having an inner coil including a first superconducting magnet material, the coil being configured to generate a first magnetic field in response to an electric current supplied to the coil, and an outer coil including a second superconducting magnet material, the outer coil being disposed about the inner coil and being configured to generate a second magnetic field in response to an electric current supplied to the outer coil. The coil pack also includes a container configured to house the inner and the outer coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Humphrie Rochford, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran, Ernst Wolfgang Stautner
  • Publication number: 20130022481
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic rotor (1) for a rotary pump (2), wherein the rotor (1) can be driven and levitated in a magnetically contactless manner in a pump housing (4) within a stator (5) of the rotary pump (2) for conveying a fluid (3) and the rotor (1) is encapsulated by means of an outer encapsulation (6) including a fluorinated hydrocarbon. In accordance with the invention, the rotor (1) includes a permanent magnet (8) sheathed by a metal jacket (7) within the encapsulation (6), with the metal jacket (7) including at least one metal from the group of elements composed of tantalum, niobium, zirconium, titanium, hafnium, gold, platinum, palladium, osmium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium. The invention further relates to plant components, in particular to a rotary pump (2) having a magnetic rotor (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Levitronix GmbH
    Inventors: Reto Schöb, Thomas Eberle, Natale Barletta
  • Publication number: 20130020897
    Abstract: An electromagnetic steel sheet formed body to be used in a rotor core in which a forward rotational direction and a reverse rotational direction are assigned to a clockwise direction along a circumferential direction around an axial center when viewed from a visual line including the axial center, wherein a first hollow portion, a second hollow portion, and a rib partitioning the first hollow portion and the second hollow portion is formed at the electromagnetic steel sheet formed body such that permanent magnets constituting a plurality of poles are arranged substantially at regular intervals at predetermined pole pitch angles along the circumferential direction, and that the permanent magnet disposed at one pole is arranged in a segmented manner as the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet, when viewed from the visual line, and wherein the first hollow portion when viewed from the visual line is located closer to a side of the forward rotational direction than a centerline passing through a
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daijiro Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20130020896
    Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet electric machine includes an axis of rotation, an outer surface, and a cross-section orthogonal to the axis of rotation with a non-circular contour of the outer surface defined by a plurality of radii angularly distributed around the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xinyu Zhou, Sinisa Jurkovic, Qiang Niu, Khwaja M. Rahman, Xu Han, John C. Morgante
  • Publication number: 20130015020
    Abstract: An electric motor, a hoisting machine and also an elevator system are disclosed. The electric motor includes a stator, which stator includes slots, into which slots a concentrated winding is fitted. The electric motor also includes a rotating rotor, which rotor includes permanent magnets placed consecutively in a ring in the direction of the rotational movement. The ratio (LM/LP) of the width of a permanent Lp magnet at the point (LM) of the center line of the magnet and the width (LP)? of a magnetic pole of the rotor is at least ? and at most ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi HUPPUNEN, Asmo TENHUNEN
  • Publication number: 20130009584
    Abstract: A permanent magnet generator comprises a stator core, a plurality of windings situated on the stator core, and a plurality of stress elements. The stress elements apply or relieve mechanical stress in response to control signals from a generator controller, thereby increasing or reducing voltage across the stator windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Katsumata, Jacek F. Gieras
  • Patent number: 8350433
    Abstract: It comprises stator including stator core having yoke and a plurality of teeth protruded from yoke, which is formed with slots between adjacent teeth, and rotor having rotor core and permanent magnet formed with a plurality of magnetic poles, which confronts tip ends of teeth via gaps, wherein rotor core is formed by rotor core materials circumferentially equally divided into the predetermined number of divisions, and the least common multiple being N for the number of slots and the number of magnetic poles and the least common multiple being M for the number of slots and the number of divisions, then N is equal to M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 8350430
    Abstract: An R—Fe—B sintered magnet has a structure including main phase crystal grains and a grain boundary area surrounding the crystal grains. The sintered magnet includes fluorine and a specified metal element selected from elements belonging to Group 2 through Group 16 of periodic table excepting the rare earth element, carbon and boron. The fluorine has a higher concentration in a region closer to a magnet surface than in the center. The specified element also has a higher concentration in the region closer to the surface. The sintered magnet includes oxyfluoride containing carbon, Dy and the metal element in a grain boundary area region at a distance of 1 ?m or greater from the magnet surface, and the carbon has a higher concentration than the concentration of the metal element in a region at a distance of 1 ?m to 500 ?m from the magnet surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Yoshii Morishita, Shigeaki Funyu, Mitsuo Katayose
  • Patent number: 8347884
    Abstract: A brushless fan motor includes a case, a tubular part disposed in the case and fixed at a bottom of the case, at least a bearing disposed in the tubular part, a toric coil surrounding the tubular part, and a rotating assembly. The rotating assembly includes a turntable, a rotating shaft, a loading ring, a permeability metal element and a toric radial magnet. The turntable has a top surface and fan blades disposed on the top surface. The rotating shaft is disposed through the bearing and connected to the turntable. The loading ring connected to the turntable surrounds the toric coil. The permeability metal element includes an annular part fixed at an inner wall of the loading ring. The toric radial magnet is fixed at an inner wall of the annular part. A positive airway pressure breathing apparatus using the brushless fan motor is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Lead Data Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Kun Cheng, Chih-Yang Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20130002066
    Abstract: A lightweight and efficient electrical machine element including a method of manufacture providing a stator winding for an electric machine which has a large portion of its volume containing electrically conductive strands and a small portion of its volume containing of an encapsulant material. The stator winding includes winding of a first phase (90) by shaping a portion of a bundle of conductive strands into an overlapping, multi-layer arrangement. Winding of successive phases (91, 92) occurs with further bundles of conductor strands around the preceding phases constructed into similar overlapping, multi-layer arrangements. The multiple p (90, 91, 92) are impregnated with the encapsulant material using dies (60, 80) to press the bundles into a desired form while expelling excess encapsulant prior to the curing of the encapsulant material. The encapsulated winding is removed from the dies after the encapsulant has cured. The encapsulant coating on the strands may be activated using either heat or solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Geoffrey A. Long
  • Publication number: 20120326546
    Abstract: The invention provides electrical actuators with reducer of Eddy current losses (Eddy current reducer) that improves the performance of actuator. In the electrical actuators, it greatly reduces the Eddy current losses in moving conductive part from stationary permanent magnets (or in stationary conductive part from moving magnets).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Alexei Stadnik
  • Publication number: 20120313458
    Abstract: The invention provides ironless electrical machines with reducer of Eddy current losses (Eddy current reducer) that improves the performance of machine. In the electromechanical systems with ironless electrical machines, it greatly reduces the Eddy current losses in moving conductive part from stationary permanent magnets (or in stationary conductive part from moving magnets).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventor: Alexei Stadnik
  • Publication number: 20120306307
    Abstract: There is provided a motor including: a stationary member including a core having a coil wound therearound and generating rotation force; and a rotating member including a magnet facing the coil so as to be rotatable with respect to the stationary member, wherein the rotating member rotates while descending by thrust dynamic pressure directed downwardly in an axial direction and generated in the rotating member when power is applied to the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS
    Inventor: Young Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20120306308
    Abstract: An R—Fe—B based porous magnet according to the present invention has an aggregate structure of Nd2Fe14B type crystalline phases with an average grain size of 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m. At least a portion of the magnet is porous and has micropores with a major axis of 1 ?m to 20 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi NISHIUCHI, Noriyuki NOZAWA, Satoshi HIROSAWA, Tomohito MAKI, Katsunori BEKKI
  • Publication number: 20120308416
    Abstract: A cooling fan includes a fan housing, a stator and a rotor received in the fan housing. The rotor includes a shaft, a hub engaged with the shaft, a plurality of rotary blades extending outwardly from the hub, a connecting member and a magnet mounted in the connecting member. The hub includes a plurality of hooks. The connecting member has a flange clasping the hooks of the hub to mount the magnet in the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicants: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HONG-TAO WU, YONG-KANG ZHANG, YUNG-PING LIN
  • Patent number: 8319387
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first permanent magnets and second permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core so that, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to the rotation axis thereof, the first and second magnets corresponding to each other define the letter V having an apex pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets corresponding to each other are arranged so that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the apex of the letter V is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first side of the letter V being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second side of the letter V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Akihiko Maemura, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120293033
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core with a circumferential surface facing a stator and permanent magnets each received in a corresponding slot of the rotor core. Each of the permanent magnets has a first corner portion positioned closest to the circumferential surface of the rotor core and a first side surface that intersects an imaginary line, faces toward the stator side and makes up part of the first corner portion. The imaginary line extends in the magnetization direction of the permanent magnet through the center of the permanent magnet. Between the first side surface of the permanent magnet and the inner surface of the corresponding slot, there are formed a first gap, a second gap and an abutment area from the first corner portion side in this order. The first gap has a smaller width than the second gap in a direction perpendicular to the first side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu HISADA
  • Patent number: 8314577
    Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kesatoshi Takeuchi, Kazuyoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120286612
    Abstract: In an electric motor, each tooth of the stator has a radially extending pillar portion and the number of teeth per magnetic pole is k. When the number k is odd and a center line passing each pole agrees with a center of a circumferential width of one tooth, the pole has first and second corners which are the closest to the stator and positioned before and after the center line in a rotational direction, respectively, and the teeth includes teeth which are the closest to the first and second corners and defined as first and second teeth, respectively. The first and second corners are located according to positional relationships of the first and second teeth and edges of the pillar portions of the first and second teeth in the rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Kousuke Hanada
  • Publication number: 20120286520
    Abstract: A magnet assembly includes a base element and a magnet attached to a first surface of the base element. A second surface of the base element opposite to the first surface of the base element includes a contour, which is adapted to engage with a complementary contour of a support structure of a rotor arrangement. In an example embodiment, the contour and/or the complementary contour is funned in a dove tail manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventor: James Kenneth Booth
  • Patent number: 8303837
    Abstract: A rotating machine comprising a sintered ferrite magnet having an M-type ferrite structure, comprising Ca, an R element that is at least one of rare earth elements and indispensably includes La, Ba, Fe and Co as indispensable elements, and having a composition represented by the formula: Ca1-x-yRxBayFe2n-zCoz, wherein (1?x?y), x, y, z and n represent the contents of Ca, the R element, Ba and Co, and a molar ratio, meeting 0.3?1?x?y?0.65, 0.2?x?0.65, 0.001?y?0.2, 0.03?z?0.65, 4?n?7, and 1?x?y>y; a bonded magnet comprising ferrite powder having the above composition and a binder, and a magnet roll, at least one magnetic pole portion of which is made of the above bonded magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Takami, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Naoki Mochi, Ryuji Gotoh
  • Patent number: 8304952
    Abstract: An electromagnetic motor system with no counter/back electromotive force due to the ability of the system to change from one magnetic state to another magnetic state in a defined sequence. In the first state a kinetic energy component is added to the system's rotor where two permanent magnetic materials, which are affixed to the rotor, are allowed to come into an angular range such that they act in a symmetrical manner on a fixed soft ferromagnetic material. This fixed soft ferromagnetic material also acts as the core of an electromagnetic coil and when the rotor's permanent magnets are at the closest proximity to the soft ferromagnetic core a voltage is applied across the coil, resulting in the soft ferromagnetic coil being saturated in a horizontal manner where previously it was polarized in a vertical manner while under the influence of the rotor's two permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventors: Sean McCarthy, Seamus Flanagan, Alan Simpson, Maxime Sorin
  • Publication number: 20120274165
    Abstract: A purpose is to provide a rotor manufacturing method including a magnet assembly formed of divided permanent magnet pieces to enhance insulation and advance cost reduction. The rotor manufacturing method includes forming permanent magnet pieces by dividing a permanent magnet, arranging and resin-molding the permanent magnet pieces to form a magnet assembly, and placing the magnet assembly in a rotor. The method includes placing the permanent magnet pieces all together in a molding die for use in resin-molding, and moving the permanent magnet pieces by a moving device provided in the molding die to move the permanent magnet pieces within the molding die, thereby forming the magnet assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuyoshi Fukaya, Yasushi Nishikuma
  • Publication number: 20120274185
    Abstract: A motor with rotation detector includes a rotary shaft, a core part placed around the shaft and provided with axially extending through holes, permanent magnets individually mounted in the through holes, a pair of end plates provided at both ends of the core part to close openings of the through holes, and a motor stator including a coil. The end plates are made of a non-magnetic substance. One of the end plates is provided, on its outer surface in an axial direction, with recesses and protrusions for angle detection alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. A sensor stator with an excitation coil to which a high frequency signal is inputted is located to face the recesses and protrusions of the outer surface of the end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryojiro KANEMITSU, Takehide NAKAMURA