Different Pole Width Patents (Class 310/156.44)
  • Patent number: 9209657
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventors: Jussi Huppunen, Asmo Tenhunen
  • Patent number: 8829752
    Abstract: A synchronous permanent magnet machine includes a permanent magnet arrangement for producing a magnetic field having a flux density distribution that is approximately sinusoidal. The permanent magnet arrangement includes a permanent magnet pole with both low and high energy-product magnets. The permanent magnet pole includes a low energy-product magnet and a high energy-product magnet which have different directions of magnetization, or a disposition of low/high energy-product magnets within the permanent magnet pole is asymmetric with respect to the central region of the permanent magnet pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jin-tao Chen, Zi-Qiang Zhu
  • Patent number: 8810102
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine, in particular to a generator for supplying the electrical system of a motor vehicle, comprising a laminated rotor (20) with an energiser winding (29), which provides the energisation for the machine preferably in conjunction with permanent magnets (24, 25) arranged on the rotor periphery. According to the invention, the rotor laminate bundle (21) is made up of at least two part bundles (21a, b) in the axial direction with grooves (40) running into each other and with poles offset relative to each other (32 to 38). A machine with reduced detent torque is thus obtained with grooves (40) aligned parallel to the axis, in which the energiser windings (29) can be placed with a high filling factor and without production difficulties and without the risk of damaging the winding insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Kurt Reutlinger
  • Patent number: 8704472
    Abstract: An AC electric motor includes an annular A-phase winding WA wound in the circumferential direction of a stator, a stator pole group SPGA configured to generate magnetic flux ?A to interlink with the A-phase winding WA, an annular B-phase winding WB wound in the circumferential direction, and a stator pole group SPGB configured to generate magnetic flux ?B to interlink with the B-phase winding WB. The motor additionally includes a third stator pole group SPGC, N and S magnetic poles of the rotor, and X magnetic poles, which serve as third rotor poles, showing magnetic characteristics between the N and S magnetic poles of the rotor. DC currents are supplied to the A-phase and B-phase windings WA and WB to generate rotational torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Nashiki
  • Patent number: 8698368
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventors: Jussi Huppunen, Asmo Tenhunen
  • Patent number: 8421292
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes: a rotor and a stator; and a plurality of permanent magnets placed on either the rotor or the stator. Each permanent magnet is an R—Fe—B based rare-earth sintered magnet including a light rare-earth element RL (at least one of Nd and Pr) as a major rare-earth element R, and partially includes a high coercivity portion in which a heavy rare-earth element RH (at least one element selected from the group consisting of Dy, Ho and Tb) is diffused in a relatively higher concentration than in the other portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Natsumeda, Yoshinori Takayama, Motoharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8242653
    Abstract: A rotor surface has magnetic salient poles and island-shaped magnetic poles alternately in circumferential direction, and the island-shaped magnetic pole is constituted so that a magnetic flux coming from an external source does not flow through. A magnetic excitation part magnetizes the island-shaped magnetic poles and the magnetic salient poles collectively in the same direction, and then control a flux amount flowing through an armature. The armature has armature coils that face the magnetic salient pole and the island-shaped magnetic pole simultaneously so that driving torque fluctuation or power generation voltage waveform distortion is controlled. The magnetic excitation part changes magnetization state of a field magnet irreversibly, or changes an excitation current to an excitation coil to control a flux flowing through the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kura Laboratory Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Ichiyama
  • Patent number: 8227951
    Abstract: In a three-phase permanent-magnet synchronous machine, a pole gap and a skew of permanent magnets on the rotor are designed such that oscillating torques which are caused by the fifth and seventh harmonics of the stator field and of the rotor field are mutually reduced. In particular, the skew can be chosen as a function of the pole gap, such that the majority of the respective oscillating torques is neutralized. This results in minimal torque ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Udo Grossmann, Rolf Vollmer, Michael Zastrow
  • Patent number: 8179009
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor hub and a plurality of permanent magnet segments affixed around a perimeter of the rotor hub. A first plurality of the permanent magnet segments have a substantially uniform arcuate span and are formed of a single unitary piece of material. A multi-piece permanent magnet segment includes at least two pieces, each having a smaller arcuate span than the first plurality of segments. The magnetization direction vector of one piece different than the magnetization direction vector of at least one other piece in each multi-piece segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Direct Drive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel M. Saban
  • Patent number: 8067870
    Abstract: The motor of the invention is an outer rotor type motor, and a rotor includes a cylindrical rotor frame that is opened at one end thereof in an axial direction, and a hollow cylindrical magnet attached to an inner periphery of the rotor frame. The magnet has a joining portion joined to an inside cylindrical portion of the rotor frame, and a protruding portion that further protrudes in the axial direction from one end, the outer diameter of the protruding portion is larger than the inner diameter of the rotor frame, and the joining portion is directly brought into close contact with a portion ranging from the one end to at least a portion of the inside cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Kobayashi, Yasuo Yonei, Tooru Nakamaru, Norihito Yasuda, Hiroki Asai, Hiroyuki Asai, Kouji Wada
  • Patent number: 8035266
    Abstract: An axial gap motor includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein: the rotor includes a plurality of main permanent magnet parts and a plurality of auxiliary permanent magnet parts, the auxiliary permanent magnet parts being disposed near an end portion of each of the main permanent magnet parts and a magnetizing direction of each of the auxiliary permanent magnet parts corresponding to a direction perpendicular to the direction of the rotational axis; each of the stators includes a plurality of teeth arranged in a circumferential direction and protruding toward the rotor along the rotational axis, and a circumferential distance between a circumferential direction first end and a circumferential direction second end of each of the auxiliary permanent magnet parts on a surface opposite the stator is larger than a slot width of a slot defined between the teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Atarashi, Shoei Abe, Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7923879
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor and a plurality of permanent magnets located inside a rotor core. One or more of the permanent magnets having relatively smaller coercive forces have a first magnetic characteristic that when a magnetizing magnetic field is caused to act on the permanent magnets, a magnetic susceptibility is substantially at 0 until reaching an inflection point during magnetization, and when exceeding the inflection point, the magnetic susceptibility enters a loop approximating to the hysteresis loop in a first quadrant, and a second magnetic characteristic that when a demagnetizing magnetic field is caused to act on the permanent magnets, a magnetic susceptibility is substantially at 0 until reaching the inflection point during demagnetization, and when exceeding the inflection point, the magnetic susceptibility enters a loop approximating to the hysteresis loop in a second quadrant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Isamu Nitta
  • Publication number: 20100019603
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor hub and a plurality of permanent magnet segments affixed around a perimeter of the rotor hub. A first plurality of the permanent magnet segments have a substantially uniform arcuate span and are formed of a single unitary piece of material. A multi-piece permanent magnet segment includes at least two pieces, each having a smaller arcuate span than the first plurality of segments. The magnetization direction vector of one piece different than the magnetization direction vector of at least one other piece in each multi-piece segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Daniel M. Saban
  • Patent number: 7564157
    Abstract: A rotating A.C. synchronous interior permanent magnet machine with concentrated windings is constructed such that each pole on the secondary-side (rotor) is provided with at least one interior axial slot (1), with dimensions h1 (6), h2 (7) and d (9), with h1 (6) being the radial material thickness of the secondary side between the air-gap surface of a slot (1) and the secondary side air-gap surface, h2 (7) being the radial thickness of the secondary side between the inner surface of the secondary side and the inner side surface of the at least one slot and d (9) being the thickness of the secondary side, whereby the ratio (formula I) lies in the range 0.05-0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Rexroth Indramat GmbH
    Inventor: Ingolf Groening
  • Publication number: 20090115361
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor including a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets located inside the rotor core and establishing a plurality of magnetic poles. In the permanent magnet motor, the permanent magnets include a plurality of types of permanent magnets having different coercive forces. The types of permanent magnets are disposed so that each one type constitutes one magnetic pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Isamu Nitta
  • Publication number: 20080296989
    Abstract: The depth from the open end of a rotor slot closest to a magnetic pole of a rotary core to a slot bottom or the bottom of a subslot provided as a coolant ventilation path on a rotor slot bottom is made less than the depth of slots at and after a second slot counted from the magnetic pole side in the direction of internal circumference, and when a shortest distance between the bottoms of the rotor slots opposed to each other through a magnetic pole or a shortest distance between the bottoms of the subslots is assumed to be a magnetic pole width of the slots, a magnetic pole width Wp1 of a slot closest to the magnetic pole side is set to 85% or more of a magnetic pole width Wp2 of a second slot counted from the magnetic pole side in the direction of internal circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi FUJITA, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Masanori Arata, Takashi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20080265705
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a configuration of the permanent magnets used for rotors in a rotating electronic device and the method of utilizing the same, thereby improving the efficiency, performance and output thereof. It also intends to provide a rotating electronic device that can be miniaturized. To achieve the above objectives, permanent magnets are arranged radially and circularly on a rotor to control the magnetic flux generated by permanent magnets arranged radially on the rotor to be approximately twice as much as the primary magnetic flux generated by permanent magnets arranged circularly thereon. On the rotating surface of the rotor, a secondary magnetic flux is provided and a shape and width of the grooves are modified such that the magnetic flux distribution resulting from the overall interaction of each magnetic flux generated in each magnetic pole on the rotor appears substantially as a sine wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventor: Yukio Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7385329
    Abstract: In electric machines, core losses limit, at high fundamental frequency, the permissible full-load power. The aim of the invention is to develop a design which enables a high power density at high magnetic reversal frequencies and which is easy to produce. To this end, the primary part comprises coils which, for the majority of their length, run in the direction of movement and which are surrounded in this area on three sides by soft magnetic material. In the direction of movement, at least two coils are arranged one behind the other. Coils of different phase are arranged perpendicular to the direction of movement inside different running tracks. In the secondary part, at least two oppositely magnetized hard magnets with three collector segments, which are flatly adjacent in a manner that is perpendicular to the direction of movement, form magnet poles having a high flux concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hill
  • Patent number: 7095149
    Abstract: A magnetization pattern of a rotor magnet for a stepping motor includes a plurality of magnetization portions, which is provided on the rotor magnet in a rotation direction of the rotor magnet. The magnetization portions have different magnetic poles which are alternately arranged. Some magnetization portions of the magnetization portions have respectively magnetization widths A. Said some magnetization portions are opposed each other with a rotary axis or the rotor magnet as a center among said some magnetization portions. The other magnetization portions of the magnetization portions have respectively uniform widths B. Each of the magnetization widths A is greater than that of the uniform widths B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Hiruma, Takanori Sakamoto, Shigeyuki Shimomura
  • Patent number: 6933818
    Abstract: A torque motor may include a rotor having at least two magnets disposed thereon, and a stator having a core and at least one coil. The magnets are arranged and constructed so that the outer surfaces thereof alternately have a N pole and a S pole. The magnets cover the rotor over an angle of less than 360 degrees. The core has a first and second magnetic pole elements. The magnetic pole elements are arranged and constructed such that an angle defined between a first straight line passing through a center of the first magnetic element and a center of rotation of the rotor and a second straight line passing through a center of the second magnetic element and the center of rotation of the rotor is less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Susumu Kaneshige
  • Patent number: 6867524
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor to reduce torque ripple includes a rotor having at least three segments. Each of the three segments is formed sequentially adjacent and aligned along an axis of the rotor. Each segment has at least one pair of permanent magnets disposed at a substantially equal interval in a peripheral direction of the rotor. First and second segments are skewed relative to each other by a first angular displacement, and the first and third segments are skewed relative to each other by a second angular displacement. The first and second angular displacements are selected to cause a net sum of torque ripple produced by each of the segments to be substantially equal to zero during an operation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Feng Liang
  • Patent number: 6858960
    Abstract: The present invention minimizes variations in torque due to cogging in a permanent magnet brushless electric motor and, among other things, specifies a topology of a rotor and a stator in relation to one another. According to one embodiment, a permanent magnetic motor includes a housing surrounding a stator that in turn surrounds a rotor rotatably mounted to the housing. The stator has a stator cross section including a plurality of uniformly distributed and spaced apart stator poles separated by slots. The stator poles extend radially inward from the inner surface and terminate at an end defined by an inner pole face. Each end is separated from an adjacent end by a distance defined as a stator slot width W. The rotor cross section includes a plurality of spaced apart permanent magnets carried by the shaft and angularly and uniformly distributed about the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Dana Corporation
    Inventor: Jerzy Muszynski
  • Patent number: 6717324
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a magnet motor, and having being provided the driven power of the electromagnet motor for electric vehicles, wherein, it has provided with a wireless coil whole rotator, which the upper part has been constructed with an equal angle, a power perpetual magnet is provided. At least one set of a magnet pole coil is formed into an electromagnet pole module and a circuit control unit. Using the perpetual magnet and the less electricity consumption of an electric magnet pole generates the repelling torque, accomplishing the object of the turning rotator to generate power. Either it is coupled with a simple or a complex structure; it can apply to be the driven motor of a bicycle, a motorcycle and a car. Moreover, it can greatly reduce the consumption of the vehicle battery electricity, and make it to be an environmental protection and practical vehicle means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Ming Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 6628031
    Abstract: An electric synchronous machine with improved torque characteristic has a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator includes a winding, preferably a three-phase AC winding, with an average coil width &tgr;sp. The rotor is provided with permanent magnets and has a pole pair number of 2p with a pole pitch width &tgr;p, wherein the pitch ratio &tgr;sp/&tgr;p is ≧2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer