With An Adhesive Patents (Class 310/156.21)
  • Patent number: 8772993
    Abstract: An electric motor (20) has a stator (30) and a rotor (26). The latter is equipped with a cup-like rotor part (56) and with a ring magnet (60) adhesively bonded therein, which magnet has an outer circumference (61) on which are provided elevations (84) and depressions (86) that extend at least partly in the longitudinal direction of the ring magnet (60). The outer circumference (61) of the ring magnet (60), that faces toward the cup-like rotor part (56) after assembly, is formed with at least one opening or channel (68; 69, 88), extending in a circumferential direction, that is connected to at least a plurality of the flat depressions (86). Positive mechanical engagement between adhesive and ring magnet enhances durability, and discourages any tendency toward relative rotation between the magnet (60) and the cup-like rotor part (56).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: EBM-Papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strohm, Tobias Maier, Volker Hildebrand, Juergen Pfaff, Arno Karwath
  • Publication number: 20140184007
    Abstract: A rotor that includes a rotor core assembly secured to a shaft. The rotor core assembly includes a magnet and an end cap secured to an end of the magnet. Each of the magnet and the end cap has a bore into which the shaft extends. The end cap forms an interference fit with the shaft. The magnet forms a clearance fit with the shaft and an adhesive is located in the clearance between the magnet and the shaft. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the rotor. The method includes inserting the shaft into the bore of the end cap. An adhesive is then introduced into the bore of the magnet and the shaft is inserted into the bore of the magnet so as to cause adhesive to be drawn into the clearance defined between the magnet and the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: David IONS, David Michael JONES
  • Publication number: 20140167532
    Abstract: A rotor of a motor capable of improving durability of the motor by increasing a bonding force between a ring magnet and a resin. The rotor includes a ring magnet having an insertion hole passing through the center thereof, a shaft inserted into the insertion hole, and a resin that is disposed between the insertion hole and the shaft and fixes the ring magnet and the shaft. The resin extends to upper and lower surfaces of the ring magnet so as to cover at least parts of the upper and lower surfaces of the ring magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Young Il PARK, Dong Ju SHIN
  • Patent number: 8702898
    Abstract: A method for connecting a first joining partner to a second joining partner. After provision of the first joining partner and the second joining partner, a lacquer layer is applied to the first joining partner. Then the first joining partner and the second joining partner are saturated together with an impregnating resin. The lacquer layer is produced from a lacquer composition based on an epoxy resin mixture, a curing accelerator, a silane-based, epoxy-functional bonding agent, and a solvent. The epoxy resin mixture has 10 wt.-% to 94 wt.-% of at least one solid epoxy resin with a maximum epoxy count of 2 Eq/kg, 1 wt.-% to 50 wt.-% of at least one solid, multifunctional epoxy resin with an epoxy count >4 Eq/kg, and 5 wt.-% to 40 wt.-% of a phenol and/or kresol novolak with a melting point >30° C. After impregnation, the viscosity of the impregnating resin is reduced such that the first joining partner and the second joining partner are connected to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Vacuumschmeize GmgH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lothar Zapf
  • Publication number: 20140077652
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor for a rotating electrical machine which is capable of minimizing increases in eddy current losses via a magnet, while making insulating film processing of the surface of the magnet unnecessary. The rotor for the rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole extending inside; a magnet inserted in the magnet insertion hole; and an insulating filler which is filled between the inner wall of the magnet insertion hole and the magnet so as to secure the magnet. The magnet is secured by the filler in such a manner that the surface of the magnet inside the magnet insertion hole is in an inclined position with respect to the extending direction of the inner wall of the magnet insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitada Yamagishi, Yuta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140077651
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor arrangement includes a rotor and a plurality of nonmagnetic, axially extending profiled tubes defining a closed channel and affixed circumferentially along the outer rim of the rotor. A plurality of permanent magnet pole pieces are arranged in the channels. A single pole piece is arranged in each channel. The cross-sectional profile of the pole piece does not correspond to the cross-sectional profile of the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Publication number: 20140070654
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a permanent magnet electric machine includes a plurality of rotor laminations joined to form a rotor body. Each of the plurality of rotor laminations includes a plurality of slots. One or more permanent magnets are mounted within respective ones of the plurality of slots. Each of the one or more permanent magnets includes a thermal enhancement bonding coating. A method of forming a rotor assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Colin Hamer, Koon Hoong Wan
  • Publication number: 20140042857
    Abstract: A rotor of a permanently excited synchronous machine includes a shaft capable of rotating about an axis and a laminated core having an axial layering arrangement defined by planes which are aligned perpendicular to the axis. The laminated core has at least two layers of different geometry. A first layer has a plate with a closed outer contour at least at an outer periphery, and a second layer has plural plate segments. The first and second layers of the laminated core are arranged in an axial direction to form axial pockets in interspaces between the plate segments of the second layer and recesses formed radially within the outer contour of the first layer for receiving permanent magnets. An adhesive is provided in radial gaps formed at least in axial sections of the second layer between adjacent plate segments and the permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20140042856
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type motor of high quality is achieved which is capable of lowering the manufacturing irregularity of the rotor. Provided is a method for manufacturing a permanent magnet type motor in which a permanent magnet is incorporated into a rotor cores stack, the method including a process of forming the rotor core stack, by combining a plurality of core sheets having a magnet insertion hole with a core sheet not having the magnet insertion hole, and disposing the core sheet not having the magnet insertion hole in one end of a stacking direction; a process of injecting a low-viscosity adhesive into the magnet insertion hole in which one end is blocked by the core sheets; and a process of bonding and fixing the permanent magnet by inserting the permanent magnet into the magnet insertion hole into which the low-viscosity adhesive is injected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Manabu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 8648511
    Abstract: A magnetic component part for a rotor assembly of an electromechanical transducer is provided. The magnetic component part includes a base element having a first side and an opposing second side, a permanent magnet, attached to the base element at the first side, and a mounting structure fixed to the base element at the second side and adapted to be mechanically connected to a support structure of the rotor assembly. The permanent magnet is located in an offset position with respect to a central axis of the mounting structure, which central axis extends from the mounting structure through the second side to the first side. A rotor assembly, an electromechanical transducer and a wind turbine, which are all equipped with at least four magnetic component parts are also provided as well as a method for manufacturing a rotor assembly including at least four magnetic component parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Soeren Gundtoft
  • Patent number: 8629595
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor arrangement is provided. The arrangement includes a rotor, a plurality of nonmagnetic profiled tubes defining a closed channel and affixed circumferentially along the outer rim of the rotor, and a plurality of permanent magnet pole pieces arranged in the channels. In a preferred embodiment, the tubes are monolithic and one pole piece is arranged in every channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Publication number: 20140009017
    Abstract: A motor is disclosed, the motor including a housing, a stator mounted on the housing, and including a stator core having a plurality of teeth, an insulator and a coil, a rotor core rotatatively disposed at a center of the stator and centrally having a space unit, and a magnet module mounted on a surface of the rotor core, wherein the magnet module includes a plurality of magnets each having a predetermined size, and a guide plate having an embossed unit accommodated by the plurality of magnets and attached to an inner surface of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventor: Jinho KIM
  • Publication number: 20130328433
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bonded-magnet rotor according to the invention includes forming step and arranging step. The forming step is by forming a bonded-magnet formed body. The arranging step includes: integrating an inside-diameter holding jig, a rotor core, and a rotor-core presser jig; arranging the bonded-magnet formed bodies on the outside periphery of the inside-diameter holding jig; and arranging an outside-diameter-holding magnet-pressure-welding jig to support outside peripheral faces of the bonded-magnet formed bodies. The method further includes steps of: deforming the bonded-magnet formed bodies to fit with the outside peripheral dimension of the rotor core by pressing and transferring the bonded-magnet formed bodies to the rotor core with a forming jig; mutually joining end portions of adjacent ones of the bonded-magnet formed bodies; and integrating the bonded-magnet formed bodies with the rotor core by compressing the bonded-magnet formed bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Asai
  • Patent number: 8569920
    Abstract: In a small electric motor having a stator and a rotor which includes a solid-cylindrical permanent magnet and at least one shaft element mounted on a face of the permanent magnet and bonded thereto by adhesive, the shaft element has at least one recess on its face facing the permanent magnet. The adhesive is introduced into the recess and contacting the face of the permanent magnet in the area of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Maxon Motor AG
    Inventors: David Ramon, Hugo Fritschy, Jens Oliver Schulze, Hans-Georg Jansing, Raniero Pittini, Minh Hieu Lam, Alexis Boletis
  • Publication number: 20130241338
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation and attached to the shaft by an adhesive bond, and a flux conducting device provided for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets. The flux conducting device has a plurality of soft-magnetic flux conducting elements. Each flux conducting element is placed between two of the permanent magnets and adhesively bonded thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20130241324
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets which are arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation. At least one of the permanent magnets is attached to the shaft by a material joint or formfit. A flux conducting device for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets has a plurality of separate soft-magnetic flux conducting elements, with each flux conducting element being mounted between two of the permanent magnets and fixed thereto so as to be indirectly held in place on the shaft. At least one of the flux conducting elements has at least one contact area sized to cover an outer edge of one of the permanent magnets in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20130229083
    Abstract: An improved structure for brushless motors comprises a stationary part and a rotary or movable part mounted relative to the stationary part. The rotary part includes a frame and a plurality of magnets disposed, one after another, along one surface of the frame and attached to the surface of the frame adjacent to the stationary part, wherein each of the magnets has a curved surface so as to define a series of gaps between the curved surfaces of the magnets and the surface of the frame of the rotary or movable part. With the present invention, the airgap between the stationary part and rotary or movable part would be more uniform, and the motor can be manufactured more easily. Also, when running the motor, cogging or no-current torque can be reduced or eliminated, so that the motor can be operated more smoothly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventor: HSIU-MEI CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130200740
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor. A rotor for an electric motor has a main rotor body which includes radial support surfaces. In addition, the rotor has permanent magnet bodies which are arranged radially externally on the radial support surfaces. Associated with each permanent magnet body is a sheet metal holder which at least partially covers the respective permanent magnet body on the side thereof remote from the support surface and which is designed and arranged such that it secures this permanent magnet body in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventor: Lothar Schröder
  • Patent number: 8482177
    Abstract: Disclosed is a torque rotor and method for manufacturing the torque rotor having an effect of preventing inflow of plastic between a yoke and a magnet during a conventional plastic injection molding process for forming an assembling structure after assembling between the yoke and the magnet, thereby preventing degradation of a roundness of the magnet or damage of the magnet due to the difference in the temperature expansion coefficients, and preventing idle rotation of the yoke and the magnet relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventor: Chae-soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8450897
    Abstract: A rotor for motor may include a rotation shaft, a permanent magnet structured in a tube-like shape and fixed to an outer peripheral side of the rotation shaft, and a sleeve which is structured in a tube-like shape, disposed between an outer peripheral face of the rotation shaft and an inner peripheral face of the permanent magnet, and press-fitted and fixed to the outer peripheral face of the rotation shaft. The sleeve is retreated from an end part of the permanent magnet on one side in an axial direction to the other side in the axial direction so that a first ring-shaped recessed part is formed between the rotation shaft and the permanent magnet and the rotation shaft and the permanent magnet are fixed to each other with a first adhesive in the first ring-shaped recessed part. The rotor may be applied to a motor, preferably to a stepping motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Sankyo Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekazu Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20130099617
    Abstract: An electric machine having a rotor with an axially extending magnet slot. A magnetic material is mounted in a magnet holder to form a magnet holder assembly which is installed in the magnet slot of the rotor. In some embodiments, the magnet holder assembly substantially fills the entire slot volume. In other embodiments, the magnet holder assembly defines a greater thickness of dielectric material between the magnetic material and the major side of the slot nearest the stator than between the magnetic material and the opposite side of the slot. In still other embodiments, a plurality of axially abutting magnet holder assemblies are installed in the magnet slot. In yet other embodiments, the magnet holder comprises two materials with different durometer values wherein one of the materials is resiliently, compressibly engaged with the slot to secure the magnet holder assembly therein. A method of manufacture is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventor: Bradley D. Chamberlin
  • Publication number: 20130002079
    Abstract: There is provided a motor including: a sleeve supporting a shaft; a hub operating together with the shaft and including a magnet; a base coupled to the sleeve and including a core having a coil wound therearound, the coil generating rotational driving force; and a magnetic flux increase space part formed to be enclosed between the magnet and the hub in order to increase magnetic flux density between the magnet and the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Jin Park, Ta Kyoung Lee
  • Publication number: 20120326549
    Abstract: A method of fixing a permanent magnet in a rotor of a driving motor, e.g., for a vehicle, includes inserting the permanent magnet into a core of the rotor and fixing the permanent magnet by supplying resin to the permanent magnet, wherein a coefficient of thermal expansion of the resin is substantially equal to that of the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jaewon Ha, Jaeyoung Kie, Jungwoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20120313474
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a rotor core arranged on the outer circumferential side of a rotor shaft; and a plurality of magnetic poles fixed to the rotor core and circumferentially arranged on the rotor core, the rotor including a non-magnetic ring attached by insertion to the outer circumference of the plurality of the magnetic poles and having a substantially polygonal shape in outer circumferential shape. The non-magnetic ring is configured such that the inner circumferential length L of the non-magnetic ring before assembly with respect to the length of an envelope L0 of tangent lines each between the outer circumferential surface of the magnetic pole and the outer circumferential surface of the adjacent magnetic pole is set to L?L0. An object is to obtain the rotor of the rotary electric machine capable of achieving reduction in size and cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamura, Kazuhisa Takashima, Hidechika Fujii, Masayuki Miyaoka, Satoru Akutsu
  • Patent number: 8324778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permanent magnet rotor, which has a rotor shaft, a rotor stack fixed on the rotor shaft, accommodating pockets provided in the rotor stack and permanent magnets positioned in the accommodating pockets. The accommodating pockets are sealed by means of an adhesive film, as a result of which the permanent magnets are fixed in the accommodating pockets and at the same time the ingress of particles into the accommodating pockets and the discharge of particles out of the accommodating pockets is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Marcus Podack
  • Patent number: 8310122
    Abstract: A rotating machine has a stator and a permanent magnet rotor that is more easily made, lower cost, and lighter by virtue of a plurality of permanent magnet assemblies mounted on a rotor body. Each magnet assembly includes two facing core plate stacks supporting a permanent magnet between them. Each core plate stack is made from a plurality of core plates of substantially identical size and shape and with on or more holes in substantially the same location to form respective bores in the stack. A tie rod is formed in each bore and retains the plates in a stack via bevels in the holes of the end plates. Preferably, the tie rods also apply compressive force as a result of placing the stacked plates in an injection mold, injecting plastic into the mold to fill each bore with plastic, and allowing the plastic to cure. As the plastic cures, it shrinks so that the tie rods pull the end plates together. To enhance the pressure, the stacked plates can be compressed before and during the injection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Wilic S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Otto Pabst, Franco Gadrino
  • Publication number: 20120223607
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core and permanent magnets each of which is received in a corresponding slot of the rotor core with its magnetization direction being oblique to a radial direction of the rotor core. Each of the permanent magnets has a first corner portion positioned radially outermost and a second corner portion positioned radially innermost. For each of the permanent magnets, there are formed first and second gaps respectively between the first corner portion and the inner surface of the corresponding slot and between the second corner portion and the inner surface of the corresponding slot in a reference direction of the permanent magnet. The rotor core also has, for each of the permanent magnets, supporting portions each of which abuts and thereby supports, in the reference direction, a predetermined portion of the permanent magnet which is positioned away from both the first and second corner portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori UCHIYAMA, Naoki HAKAMADA, Masahiro SEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8258664
    Abstract: A hybrid motor for powering a compressor of a chiller system includes a first rotor portion and a first stator portion configured as a permanent magnet motor and a second rotor portion and a second stator portion configured as a reluctance motor. The second rotor portion includes a reluctance-type rotor, and the second stator portion includes electromagnetic windings capable of inducing a rotary magnetic field. The first rotor portion and the second rotor portion are attached to a common drive shaft. The reluctance motor is arranged to generate start-up torque and initiate rotation of the drive shaft until the drive shaft achieves a predetermined rotational speed. The permanent magnet motor is arranged to power the drive shaft between the predetermined rotational speed and a maximum rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Justin D. Warner, Ivan Jadric, Michael S. Todd, Zhiqiao Wu, Shreesha Adiga Manoor, Konstantin Borisov, Scott Victor Slothower, Kanishk Dubey, John C. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20120161565
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adhesively bonding a magnet onto the surface or into a slot of a rotor or stator of an electric motor or a generator, wherein i) the surface or surfaces to be glued of the magnet, rotor or stator are pre-coated with an adhesive that is not liquid at 22° C. and that does not cure without an activation step, iii) the magnet is brought into contact with the rotor or stator at the adhesive location, and iv) the adhesive is activated by heating or by high-energy radiation so that it cures, characterized in that the adhesive comprises a) at least one reactive epoxide prepolymer, b) at least one latent hardener for epoxies, and c) one or more elastomers. The adhesive preferably comprises a blowing agent. The invention further relates to a corresponding pre-coated magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaa
    Inventors: Eugen Bilcai, Emilie Barriau, Stefan Haslberger
  • Patent number: 8203245
    Abstract: A motor rotor has: a rotor yoke; a plurality of magnet fixing sections formed on the lateral surface of the rotor yoke; segment magnets respectively fixed to the magnet fixing sections and extending in the axial direction of the rotor yoke; and a plurality of projections which are provided, on the rotor yoke, at each boundary section located between each of the adjacent magnet mounting sections, and which protrude outward from the rotor yoke; and a pair of end claws are formed by bifurcating the end of each projection into two prongs, and each of the end claws is locked to the outer surface of each of the segment magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Ishikawa, Jiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20120139377
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor in provided which is made up of a permanent magnet, and a rotor core of which an insertion aperture for the permanent magnet to be inserted thereinto is formed in the rotor core. Additionally, the interior permanent magnet motor includes a first end plate which is connected to the rotor core and of which a first seating portion for the permanent magnet is disposed thereto is formed in the first seating portion and a second end plate which is connected to the rotor core and of which a second seating portion for the permanent magnet is disposed thereto is formed in the second end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Myunggyu Kim
  • Publication number: 20120139378
    Abstract: A rotor that can reduce the used amount of resin for securing a permanent magnet is provided. The rotor includes a rotor core provided fixedly to a rotation shaft and having a magnet insertion hole extending in an axial direction formed therein, a permanent magnet embedded in the magnet insertion hole and extending in the axial direction and extending in a direction inclined relative to a radial direction of the rotor core, and a resin layer that secures the permanent magnet to the rotor core. The resin layer covers a surface of the permanent magnet and is in contact with an inner surface of the magnet insertion hole. A hollow space extending in the axial direction is left in the magnet insertion hole at an inner side in the radial direction relative to the permanent magnet. Part of the inner surface of the magnet insertion hole is exposed to the hollow space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Endo
  • Publication number: 20120098271
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for manufacturing a rotor (14) for an electric machine (13), having the following method steps: a) manufacturing a magnetic element (8) by bonding permanent magnets (1, 1?, 1?, 1??) by means of a first adhesive, each permanent magnet (1, 1?, 1?, 1??) having a side with a magnetic North pole (N) and a side with a magnetic South pole (S), the permanent magnets (1, 1?, 1?, 1??) being arranged during bonding such that the sides of the magnetic North poles (N) or the sides of the magnetic South poles (S) form a common underside (3, 3?, 3?, 3??) of the magnetic elements (8), the first adhesive having a hard consistency in the cured state; and b) bonding the underside of the magnetic element (8) to a yoke (12) by means of a second adhesive, the second adhesive being soft and elastic in the cured state. Furthermore, the invention relates to an associated rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Heiner Bayer, Ludwig Erd, Ulrich Hartmann, Torsten Metzner, Axel Möhle
  • Publication number: 20120049662
    Abstract: A rotor that includes a rotor core assembly secured to a shaft. The rotor core assembly includes a magnet and an end cap secured to an end of the magnet. Each of the magnet and the end cap has a bore into which the shaft extends. The end cap forms an interference fit with the shaft. The magnet forms a clearance fit with the shaft and an adhesive is located in the clearance between the magnet and the shaft. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the rotor. The method includes inserting the shaft into the bore of the end cap. An adhesive is then introduced into the bore of the magnet and the shaft is inserted into the bore of the magnet so as to cause adhesive to be drawn into the clearance defined between the magnet and the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: David IONS
  • Publication number: 20120049661
    Abstract: A rotor core assembly that includes a magnet, a first end cap located at an end of the magnet, a second end cap located at an opposite end of the magnet, and a sleeve that surrounds the magnet and the end caps. The sleeve forms an interference fit with each of the end caps, and an adhesive is located between the magnet and the sleeve. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the rotor core assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: David IONS, Paul Theo HEYTING, Matthew John CHILDE, David Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 8087156
    Abstract: In spindle motors journaled on fluid-dynamic-pressure bearings, especially in such spindle motors employed in recording-disk drives in implementations that subject the drives to vibration and shock, sealing performance of a capillary seal formed between motor rotor-side and stator-side bearing surfaces, cohesiveness of oil-repellant on rotor-side/stator-side dry-area surfaces adjoining the capillary seal section, and motor inter-component adhesive strength are improved. The capillary-seal-constituting rotor-side/stator-side surface(s) are exposed to a plasma or to ultraviolet rays under predetermined conditions to improve the wettability of the surface(s) for the bearing fluid. The dry-area surface(s) are similarly irradiated so as to improve their wettability for the oil-repellant. Adhesively bonded component surfaces are likewise irradiated so as to improve their wettability for the adhesive, enhancing adhesive strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Gomyo, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20110304234
    Abstract: In a small electric motor having a stator and a rotor which includes a solid-cylindrical permanent magnet and at least one shaft element mounted on a face of the permanent magnet and bonded thereto by adhesive, the shaft element has at least one recess on its face facing the permanent magnet. The adhesive is introduced into the recess and contacting the face of the permanent magnet in the area of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Maxon Motor AG
    Inventors: David Ramon, Hugo Fritschy, Jens Oliver Schulze, Hans-Georg Jansing, Raniero Pittini, Minh Hieu Lam, Alexis Boletis
  • Patent number: 8040015
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive is introduced into the gap for fastening the ring member to the rotor core stack. Molded articles that are used as spacers are admixed to the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 8040006
    Abstract: A motor rotor has a rotor yoke having a polygonal column structure, a plurality of magnet fixing sections formed on the lateral surface of the rotor yoke, segment magnets respectively fixed to the magnet fixing sections and extending in the axial direction of the rotor yoke, and projections provided on the rotor yoke and protruding outward from the rotor yoke, the projections being provided at each boundary section located between each of the adjacent magnet fixing sections and being provided in pairs in the axial direction of the rotor yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiaki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20110210635
    Abstract: A magnet rotor assembly comprises a magnet sleeve held on a rotor shaft by a rigid adhesive layer that includes at least one axial wedge shape corresponding to an axial irregularity on at least one of the surfaces bonded by the adhesive layer. Improved crush strength in the magnet sleeve and in other bonded metal parts, both initially and after exposure to high temperatures is accomplished by impregnating the parts with a curable resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Stanley Byron Musselman, Edward E. Welker, Mitchell L. Spencer, Viswanathan Panchanathan
  • Publication number: 20110204739
    Abstract: An assembly for mounting magnets on a steel sheet rotor pack, the assembly including a plurality of baseplates made of a magnetic material and fixed to the rotor pack, and a plurality of magnets being in turn fitted to each baseplate. In one embodiment, the baseplates are fixed to the rotor pack by means of inner locking bars housed in axial ducts provided inside said rotor pack. The baseplates are fitted to the inner locking bars by fixing means passing through longitudinal channels connecting the axial ducts and the outer surface of the rotor pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Adolfo Rebollo Gomez, Xabier Calvo Madariaga, Jose Antonio Estibariz Aristi, Gaizka Diaz Barrenetxea, Jon Vaquerizo Ayastuy, Nestor Churruca Gabilondo, Javier Sanchez Castaño, Marta Avis Plata, Julen Legorburu Aramburu
  • Publication number: 20110198959
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet (IPM) machine having a rotor and a stator is provided. The rotor includes a radially inner barrier devoid of magnets, and a radially outer barrier having at least one permanent magnet, each barrier having two pockets with one pocket disposed at an angle relative to the other. At least one of the pockets of the inner barrier has a shape of an irregular quadrilateral. At least one of the pockets of the outer barrier has a substantially trapezoidal shape with a first side generally parallel to a second side, wherein the first side has a portion slanted relative to the third side. In such an IPM machine, demagnetization of the outer barrier magnet is limited when operating temperatures and electrical current exceed operating conditions prescribed by design specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Rajeev Vyas
  • Patent number: 7973442
    Abstract: A production method for a rotor for a permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine, includes the step (S01, S02) of forming a magnet piece that has a plurality of groove portions that are provided on at least one of end surfaces of the magnet piece in a predetermined direction, the step (S03) of stacking a plurality of formed magnet pieces so that adjacent magnet pieces contact each other and the plurality of groove portions of one of the adjacent magnet pieces cross with the plurality of groove portions of another one of the adjacent magnet pieces, and the step (S04) of inserting and disposing the plurality of stacked magnet pieces into a hole formed in a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7965009
    Abstract: A motor rotor has a resin-impregnated thread layer formed by winding a thread of a reinforced fiber material around a permanent magnet layer with a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the thread layer and an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical body, and impregnating the thread layer with a curable resin. A subsequent thread layer is formed by leading a continuous thread into an annular passage through thread passing recesses, winding the continuous thread around a bottom portion of the passage, and impregnating the subsequent thread layer with a curable resin. A curable resin is injected into the gap between the outer peripheral surfaces of the thread layer and the subsequent thread layer and the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body through resin injection passages and/or the thread passing recesses before heating and curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Takashi Matsushita, Norihito Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20110122529
    Abstract: A hub includes first and second side surfaces respectively opposed to inner and outer circumferential surfaces of an upper portion of a magnetic member, and a ceiling surface arranged to interconnect an upper ends of the first and second side surfaces. The adhesive agent is interposed between the inner circumferential surface of the upper portion of the magnetic member and the first side surface of the hub and between the upper surface of the magnetic member and the ceiling surface of the hub. Radial distance between the inner circumferential surface of the upper portion of the magnetic member and the first side surface of the hub and axial distance between the upper surface of the magnetic member and the ceiling surface of the hub are smaller than radial distance between the outer circumferential surface of the upper portion of the magnetic member and the second side surface of the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Hamakawa, Daisuke Adachi, Takuro Jimbu, Takayuki Iwase
  • Patent number: 7948136
    Abstract: To reduce the cogging torque of servomotors, electric power steering motors, and others, there is provided a permanent magnet motor comprising: a rotor 10 comprising a rotor yoke 11 and a plurality of permanent magnets (M1-M10); and a stator 20 comprising a stator yoke 22, salient magnetic poles 21, and armature windings 23, wherein at least one of the permanent magnets is disposed in an adjustment position that is displaced from a corresponding reference position in at least one of the circumferential, radial, and axial directions of the rotor yoke, and the plurality of permanent magnets excluding the permanent magnet disposed in the adjustment position is disposed in the reference positions, and wherein the adjustment position is set so that the permanent magnet motor in which at least one of the plurality of permanent magnets is disposed in the adjustment position has a smaller cogging torque than a permanent magnet motor in which all of the plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in the reference posi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Miyata
  • Patent number: 7948138
    Abstract: A rotor is provided with a rotor core, a magnet inserted into the rotor core and a filling portion arranged in a space between the rotor core and the magnet. The space between the rotor core and a radially outer side surface of the magnet has a uniform width in a central portion (portion (A)) with respect to a width direction (of arrow (DR4)) of the magnet. A width of the space in an end portion (portion (B)) with respect to the width direction (of arrow (DR4)) of the magnet is larger than that of the space in the portion (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hattori, Akihide Takehara
  • Publication number: 20100295401
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator which includes: a stator core having an annular stator yoke, a plurality of outer teeth projecting outward from the stator yoke, and a plurality of inner teeth having the same number of teeth as the outer teeth and projecting inward from the stator yoke; and a plurality of windings wound on the stator core, and the motor includes an outer rotor confronting the outer teeth via an air gap and an inner rotor confronting the inner teeth via an air gap. The outer rotor and the inner rotor have holes for accommodating permanent magnets respectively. The permanent magnets having a rectangular shape in sectional views thereof are accommodated in the holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinori Nakagawa, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hu Li, Masahiko Morisaki, Hiroshi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20100264758
    Abstract: An electric motor (20) has a stator (30) and a rotor (26). The latter is equipped with a cup-like rotor part (56) and with a ring magnet (60) adhesively bonded therein, which magnet has an outer circumference (61) on which are provided elevations (84) and depressions (86) that extend at least partly in the longitudinal direction of the ring magnet (60). The outer circumference (61) of the ring magnet (60), that faces toward the cup-like rotor part (56) after assembly, is formed with at least one opening or channel (68; 69, 88), extending in a circumferential direction, that is connected to at least a plurality of the flat depressions (86). Positive mechanical engagement between adhesive and ring magnet enhances durability, and discourages any tendency toward relative rotation between the magnet (60) and the cup-like rotor part (56).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Rainer Strohm, Tobias Maier, Volker Hildebrand, Juergen Pfaff, Arno Karwath
  • Patent number: RE43055
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type generator includes a rotor having 4n (n is a positive integer) permanent magnet poles disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor to have circumferential gap between adjoining poles and a stator that has 3n teeth and coils wound around the teeth. The stator core includes a pair of core end plates and a laminate core disposed between the core end plates. Each core end plate has a circumferential width that relates to the gap distance at portions opposite the permanent magnet poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Denso Trim Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norikazu Takeuchi