Specific Dimensions Patents (Class 310/156.45)
  • Patent number: 11670989
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11626783
    Abstract: An electric power generator comprises a rotor and a plurality of stators arranged coaxially and concentrically about a central axis. There is an inner stator provided radially inwardly of the rotor separated by an inner airgap and an outer stator provided radially outwardly of the rotor separated by an outer airgap. The rotor includes a plurality of magnetic pole structures configured to provide or generate a magnetic field having plurality of magnetic poles. The rotor is not of uniform cross-sectional thickness, wherein: an inner surface of the rotor bulges inwardly at the pole structures, the inner airgap being non-uniform as it is radially shorter at the pole structures and longer in between the pole structures; and an outer surface of the rotor bulges outwardly at the pole structures, the outer airgap being non-uniform as it is radially shorter at the pole structures and longer in between the pole structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Kabu Walter Makgeru
  • Patent number: 11581765
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet electric motor forms a buried angle of a left permanent magnet of a slot part of a rotor differently from a buried angle of a right permanent magnet of the slot part of the rotor, so as to reduce torque ripple while sufficiently maintaining motor efficiency as compared to an I-type rotor to effectively improve noise, vibration, and harshness performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hwa Do, Kyoung Bum Kim, Yeon Ho Kim, Jae Bum Park, Nyeon Han Hong, Hee Ra Lee
  • Patent number: 11323004
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a non-rotating member, a stator fixed to the non-rotating member, a field coil fixed to the non-rotating member, disposed on an inner diameter side of the stator, and having an iron core and a winding wound around the iron core, and a rotor rotatably disposed between the stator and the iron core. A flow path through which a heat exchange medium is supplied and discharged is formed in the iron core along an axial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Katsura, Taichi Kitamura, Kenji Kitada
  • Patent number: 11018616
    Abstract: In the present electric driving apparatus, coils that constitute a first armature winding and coils that constitute a second armature winding are arranged so as to alternate in a circumferential direction, and a control portion is configured so as to perform single-system driving when one of a first system and a second system fails, the single-system driving stopping driving of an inverter of the system that has failed, and controlling driving of the inverter of the system that has not failed to supply inverter phase currents to an armature winding of the system that has not failed such that the inverter phase currents are set to a second upper limit value that is greater than a first upper limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Hirotani, Kazumasa Ito, Yusuke Morita, Yuji Takizawa, Satoru Akutsu, Masafumi Okazaki
  • Patent number: 10998782
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a rotor core and permanent magnets along an outer periphery of the rotor core, and a stator including windings. Each of the permanent magnets includes a first face in contact with the outer periphery of the rotor core and a second face located outside the first face in a radial direction of the rotor and which faces the stator. In a plan view when the rotor is viewed from a direction parallel to the rotation axis direction of the rotor, the first face includes a linear portion, the second face includes a linear portion parallel to the linear portion of the first face, and a length of the linear portion of the second face is 20% or more and less than 85% of a length of the linear portion of the first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10958120
    Abstract: A permanent magnet machine is provided. The permanent magnet machine may include a plurality of laminations stacked to form a rotor. Each of the laminations may define a d-axis, and first and second, recessed notches on an outer circumference. The first and second recessed notches may be disposed at ±180/N electrical degrees with respect to the d-axis. N may be a multiple of 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chun Tang, Feng Liang, Wei Wu, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 10910895
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of poles, each of which is defined by a pair of magnets positioned relative to each other in a V-shaped arrangement having a vertex positioned radially inward. Each of the poles includes a mechanical pole angle defined by the pair of magnets. The mechanical pole angle is about one-half of three hundred and sixty divided by the number of the poles of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Keith I. Hoemann, Lunjie Lu, Michael W. Major
  • Patent number: 10897165
    Abstract: An 8-pole 9-slot permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a stator core including an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth. Each of the plurality of teeth has a winding portion around which a coil is wound. The plurality of teeth include three teeth groups. Each of the three teeth groups includes a first tooth, a second tooth, and a third tooth of the teeth group sequentially arranged in a rotational direction of a rotor and around which coils of one phase are wound. The first tooth, second tooth, and third tooth of each of the three teeth groups are sequentially arranged in the rotational direction of the rotor. A width of the winding portion of the first tooth is narrower than a width of the winding portion of each of the second tooth and the third tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 10886810
    Abstract: To provide a brushless motor in which a coil winding can be wound uniformly even when there is a difference in the distance between tooth tips of a plurality of pole teeth disposed in the circumferential direction of an annular part of a stator core so as to project in the radial direction. A guide core in which the distance between adjacent tooth tips of pole teeth is uniform and the tooth tips are symmetric with respect to the shaft lines in the radial direction is laminated integrally with a stator core in which a plurality of pole teeth is disposed in the circumferential direction of an annular part so as to project in the radial direction, and the distance in the circumferential direction between adjacent tooth tips is not uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10886802
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine comprises a rotor core that defines a rotor slot having a central portion and an end portion. The end portion has a maximum width that is greater than a maximum width of the central portion immediately adjacent the end portion. A perimeter of the rotor slot at the end portion includes a plurality of segments extending between a first extremity at the maximum width of the end portion and a second extremity at the maximum width of the end portion. The plurality of segments include segments with different radii that decrease in magnitude from the center axis to the first extremity, and from the center axis to the second extremity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jihyun Kim, Michael C. Muir, Yew Sum Leong
  • Patent number: 10840755
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Kenichi Nakayama, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10790713
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electrical machine that has superior rotor strength and can be manufactured at low cost, wherein torque generated by a rotor can be increased. Two holes are formed in a circumferential direction in each pole in a rotor. The two holes communicate with an outer periphery of the rotor, and an outer peripheral edge portion on an outer side in a radial direction of the rotor of the two holes is connected via a center bridge between the two holes to a core portion on an inner side in the radial direction of the rotor in each pole. The center bridge is demagnetized, or the permeability thereof is reduced. Consequently, leakage flux passing through the center bridge can be reduced, even when the width of the center bridge is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Mochida, Satoshi Imamori
  • Patent number: 10786831
    Abstract: A vibrator assembly includes a housing defining a longitudinal central axis and a rotor in the housing and spaced apart from the central axis. The rotor defines a longitudinal rotational axis that is parallel to the central axis. The rotor is configured to rotate about the rotational axis and, in response, to rotate about the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Magnus Steijner, Stjepan Begic, Olof Simonsson, Martin Nystrom
  • Patent number: 10784733
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a yoke having an annular shape about an axis line, and a first tooth and a second tooth extending from the yoke toward an inner or outer peripheral side, and a rotor rotatable about the axis line. The rotor has a permanent magnet on a surface facing the stator. Each of the first tooth and the second tooth includes an end portion facing the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet has a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole adjacent in a circumferential direction about the axis line, and a groove formed in an inter-pole portion between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole. An interval L1 in the circumferential direction between the end portion of the first tooth and the end portion of the second tooth, and a width L2 of the groove satisfy 1.00<L2/L1?3.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Koji Yabe
  • Patent number: 10720805
    Abstract: An embedded permanent magnet type motor, which has one pole configured of two permanent magnets and has a plurality of poles of permanent magnets embedded in a rotor, includes a rotor whose magnet embedding holes communicate with a rotor outer periphery. The rotor has between adjacent poles a q-axis projection projecting in a direction away from a rotor rotation center. The magnet embedding holes are disposed so as to form an inverted V shape. An outer peripheral edge portion on the outer side of the permanent magnets has a curvature radius smaller than the distance from a rotation center axis to a rotor outermost peripheral portion. The outer peripheral edge portion is provided with permanent magnet positioning projections which restrain a movement of the permanent magnets toward between adjacent poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Mochida, Akio Toba, Hideki Ohguchi, Hiroshi Shimada, Takeyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10530207
    Abstract: An object is to provide a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing degradation of strength in high-speed rotation and reducing a torque ripple. A rotor of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a rotor core provided with a magnet insertion hole that forms a space into which a permanent magnet is inserted and a non-magnetic portion facing the space to form a part of the magnet insertion hole, wherein the non-magnetic portion is provided asymmetrically with respect to a d-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Yutaka Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 10505416
    Abstract: A rotor assembly has a rotor including a plurality of laminations each defining a plurality of poles arranged such that values of a pair of angles corresponding to each of the poles and defined between a magnetic axis of the pole and respective interpolar axes adjacent thereto are different. The values of the pairs define a repeating sequence around the lamination. The angles opposite an axis of rotation of the rotor are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Feng Liang, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 10411535
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine includes a hollow cylindrical rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core has a plurality of magnet-receiving holes arranged in a circumferential direction thereof. The permanent magnets are received respectively in the magnet-receiving holes of the rotor core to form a plurality of magnetic poles the polarities of which alternate between north and south in the circumferential direction of the rotor core. Moreover, the rotor core further has a plurality of q-axis core portions each of which is located between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the magnetic poles. For each of the q-axis core portions, a radially outer circumferential width center of the q-axis core portion is offset upstream in a direction of rotation of the rotor from a radially inner circumferential width center of the q-axis core portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10224797
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a field core, a stator that includes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on the field core, and an armature core that includes an armature winding wire, the armature core being disposed via a magnetic void with the permanent magnets. Assuming that a length of the armature core in a traveling direction of the linear motor is Lc, a pitch of the permanent magnets is ?p, and N is a natural number, the length Lc of the armature core is specified by (N×?p?0.2×?p)?Lc?(N×?p+0.2×?p).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Misawa, Hiroyuki Sato, Akihiko Takahashi, Satoshi Sugita
  • Patent number: 10097055
    Abstract: A permanently-excited dynamoelectric machine includes a stator and a rotor supported for rotation about an axis. The stator has a winding system, which is embedded in grooves of a material forming a magnetic return path and interacts electromagnetically with permanent magnets of the rotor via an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The permanent magnets are disposed on the rotor, with each individual permanent magnet, on a side facing towards the air gap, having a North and South pole. The rotor, viewed in the circumferential direction, has a pole coverage by the permanent magnets of 100%, i.e. that the permanent magnets viewed in the circumferential direction, are arranged substantially without gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reiner Seufert, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 10027193
    Abstract: Provided is an interior permanent magnet motor, including: a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets; and a stator. The rotor further includes a rotor core. The rotor core has a plurality of magnet insertion holes. A plurality of slits are formed in a region of the rotor core, which is located on a radially outer side of the magnet insertion holes. At least two of the slits are formed so that a core region sandwiched between the two slits has a portion increased toward the radially outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 9935509
    Abstract: A rotor core has a rotational axis. A permanent magnet has a polygonal shape viewed along the rotational axis. The rotor core includes a magnet insertion hole defined by an inner wall. The polygonal shape includes first to third sides. The magnet insertion hole includes: a first space provided between the first side and the inner wall; a second space provided between the second side and the inner wall; and an injection portion, a first communication portion, and a second communication portion provided between the third side and the inner wall; viewed along the rotational axis. The first communication portion and the second communication portion connect the injection portion to the first space and the second space, respectively. The first communication portion has a first length along the third side. The second communication portion has a second length along the third side which is equal to the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9793770
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core that has magnet-receiving holes in each of which is received a corresponding permanent magnet. The rotor core also has, for each of the magnet-receiving holes, first and second supporting portions. The first supporting portion supports a radially inner end portion of a first magnetic flux barrier-side face of the corresponding permanent magnet. The second supporting portion supports a radially outer end portion of a second magnetic flux barrier-side face of the corresponding permanent magnet. A second magnetic flux barrier-side end portion of a radially outer wall surface of the magnet-receiving hole is planar in shape and parallel to a radially outer side face of the corresponding permanent magnet. A second magnetic flux barrier-side end portion of a radially inner wall surface of the magnet-receiving hole is planar in shape and parallel to a radially inner side face of the corresponding permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9762109
    Abstract: A permanent magnet brushless motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a yoke and s teeth extending from the yoke, forming a stator core, where s is an integer greater than four. Coils of a stator winding are wound about the teeth. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and a permanent magnet mounted to the rotor core. The permanent magnet forms p magnetic poles, where p is an even number greater than 2 but less than s. Each section of the permanent magnet corresponding to a respective magnetic pole is divided into n equal parts by n?1 magnet grooves, where n is an integer greater than 1 and p*n is an integral multiple of s. The magnet grooves significantly increase the detent torque of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC S.A.
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Gang Liu, Tao Zhang, San Yuan Xiao, Wai Chiu Tang
  • Patent number: 9698636
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes: a rotor including a magnet; and a stator including at its center a space for placing the rotor. The rotor includes: a rotor core; and a plurality of magnets. The rotor core includes a plurality of magnet holders radially formed around a rotating shaft. The magnets are housed in the magnet holders such that the same magnetic poles of adjacent magnets face each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor core, and the stator includes a plurality of teeth formed toward the center to face the rotor. Given that a radius of curvature of an outer circumference of the rotor core is R, a width of an end of the teeth in a circumferential direction is W, and a maximum outer diameter of the rotor core is L, 0.9?R/W?4.2 and R<L/2 are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuichirou Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9647501
    Abstract: A rotor outer peripheral surface includes first arcs and second arcs. The first arc is positioned in a magnetic pole center portion. The second arc is positioned in an inter-pole portion. The first arc bulges toward a radially outer side to a higher degree than the second arc. An air gap is varied in a manner of being increased as approaching from each of the magnetic pole center portions to the adjacent inter-pole portions. A hole defining portion of a magnet insertion hole on the radially outer side has a curvature of a third arc, and a hole defining portion of the magnet insertion hole on a radially inner side has a curvature of a fourth arc. An opening angle of a tooth tip portion, an opening angle of the first arc, and an opening angle of the third arc coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nigo, Kazuhiko Baba, Kazuchika Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 9627935
    Abstract: A multi-gap rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core has inner and outer core parts respectively located radially inside and outside of the rotor and each having partially or fully closed slots. The stator coil is formed of electric conductor segments each having a first leg portion inserted in one of the slots of the inner core part, a second leg portion inserted in one of the slots of the outer core part, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second leg portions on one axial side of the rotor. The first and second leg portions respectively have radially inner and outer coil end parts formed on the opposite axial side to the connecting portion. Corresponding radially inner coil end parts are joined to each other, and corresponding radially outer coil end parts are joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Fukushima, Shin Kusase, Takeo Maekawa, Keiji Kondou
  • Patent number: 9577483
    Abstract: A rotor includes a plurality of magnets, and an annular rotor core having a plurality of magnet insertion holes formed in a circumferential direction, into which the magnets are respectively inserted, in which each of the magnet insertion holes is formed with a protruding portion A on an inner wall surface on an inner diameter side in a radial direction of the rotor, and each of the magnets is formed with a recessed portion that is fitted to the protruding portion A when the magnet is inserted into the magnet insertion holes. With this configuration, fixation of the magnets is facilitated, and generation of chipping and vibration noise due to a movement of the magnets at the time of activation or rotation can be suppressed, thereby enabling to provide the rotor having high quality and high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuchika Tsuchida, Masahiro Nigo
  • Patent number: 9509186
    Abstract: A reduced weight rotor design for use in an electric motor where the reduced weight rotor maintains its structural integrity. The reduced weight rotor includes a center hub, an outer ring having lobed portions extending inwardly towards the hub and located adjacent to each location of a magnetic pole pairing, and spokes connecting the hub to the outer ring where the spokes are arranged in a number of pairs equal to the total number of the magnetic pole pairings and wherein each spoke of a given pair does not cross each other spoke of the given pair but does cross a spoke of an adjacent pair thereby forming a one cross spoke pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Zero Motorcycles, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan John Biffard, Abraham Askenazi
  • Patent number: 9484776
    Abstract: A rotor of a motor includes a first rotor that includes a first rotor core and a plurality of first magnets that are coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the first rotor core, a second rotor that includes a second rotor core and a plurality of second magnets that are coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the second rotor core, and a third rotor that is stacked between the first rotor and the second rotor and includes a third rotor core and a plurality of third magnets that are coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the third rotor core, wherein magnetic fluxes of the plurality of third magnets are less than magnetic fluxes of the plurality of first magnets or second magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bong Bae Kong
  • Patent number: 9484790
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine includes a hollow cylindrical rotor core and a plurality of magnets. The rotor core has a plurality of magnet-receiving holes formed therein. Each of the magnet-receiving holes has a plurality of wall surfaces including a radially innermost wall surface which is positioned radially innermost among the plurality of wall surfaces. Each of the magnets is received in a corresponding one of the magnet-receiving holes of the rotor core. Further, each of the magnets is arranged in the corresponding magnet-receiving hole so that among the thermal resistances between the magnet and the plurality of wall surfaces of the corresponding magnet-receiving hole, the thermal resistance between the magnet and the radially innermost wall surface of the corresponding magnet-receiving hole is lowest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Masahiro Seguchi, Hideaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9425673
    Abstract: A non-load-end end frame is housed and held in a non-load-end end-frame-holding portion of a frame in an internally fitted state, and recessed grooves that have groove directions in an axial direction are recessed into an outer circumferential surface of the non-load-end end frame. A stator coil and alternating-current terminals of an inverter apparatus are connected using connecting conductors that are passed through the recessed grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Patent number: 9419506
    Abstract: A direct-current motor includes a yoke having six magnetic poles, an iron core having nine teeth, first and second coils wound about each tooth in directions different from each other, a commutator for being rotated integrally with the iron core and having eighteen commutator pieces, and three pairs of brushes. The brush having the positive pole electrically connected to the first coil is different from the brush having the positive pole electrically connected to the second coil, the brush having the negative pole electrically connected to the first coil is different from the brush having the negative pole electrically connected to the second coil, or the brush having the positive pole and the brush having the negative pole that are electrically connected to the first coil are respectively different from the brush having the positive pole and the brush having the negative pole that are electrically connected to the second coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kojima, Keita Kawai, Takayoshi Suzuki, Toshiaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 9143024
    Abstract: A double-stator motor of an example embodiment includes: an annular rotor connected to a rotary shaft and integrally rotates with the rotary shaft, an inner stator arranged radially inward of the rotor, and an outer stator arranged radially outward of the rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of segments annularly arranged in the circumferential direction, spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, and a plurality of permanent magnets each interposed between circumferentially adjacent segments, the permanent magnets being alternately magnetized in the circumferentially opposite direction. The rotor, the inner stator and the outer stator have the same number of poles. The inner and outer stator windings of the inner and outer stators, respectively, are connected so that their phases are reversed to each other. Thus, the magnetic fields generated by the magnetomotive forces of the inner and outer stators are applied to specific segments in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Kusase
  • Patent number: 9124157
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnet groups, and a plurality of grooves provided between adjacent slot groups. A circumferential rib is provided at a first position on an outer circumferential surface of each of the magnets. A radial direction rib is provided at a second position on a circumferential direction surface of each of the magnets. A curved rib connects the circumferential rib and the radial direction rib, and has an inner surface and an outer surface both being curved in an circular arc shape. The circumferential rib, the curved rib, and the radial direction rib are spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface, the outer circumferential corner, and the circumferential direction surface of each of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9024498
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core, a stator core, and at least one permanent magnet. The rotor core has an inner circumference portion and an outer circumference portion. The stator core is opposed to the outer circumference portion of the rotor core. The at least one permanent magnet radially extends inside the rotor core. The at least one permanent magnet has an incremental circumferential width in a direction from the inner circumference portion to the outer circumference portion of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Sohji Murakami, Haruki Yahara, Mitsunori Kamo, Motomichi Ohto
  • Patent number: 8994240
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine includes a rotor having a rotor core. Magnet holes circumferentially arranged at regular intervals in the rotor core include pairs of first magnet holes and pairs of second magnet holes. Each pair of first magnet holes are symmetric with respect to an imaginary line extending through a rotor core center. Each pair of second magnet holes are located on a radially inner side of the rotor core and are symmetric with respect to the imaginary line. Each pair of second magnet holes are located on an inner circumferential side of the paired first magnet holes with respect to a radial direction of the rotor core. A first magnet angle made by permanent magnets located in each pair of first magnet holes is larger than a second magnet angle made by permanent magnets located in each pair of second magnet holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsuoka, Masakatsu Matsubara, Wataru Ito
  • Patent number: 8916999
    Abstract: A motor includes a motor case, and a rotor and a stator, which are disposed in the case. The case has a tubular portion, a front cover mounted to an axial end of the portion, and a rear cover mounted to the other axial end of the portion. The rotor has a rotary shaft and the stator includes a plurality of teeth, which extend toward a central axis of the shaft and are circumferentially disposed at equal intervals. Between each circumferentially adjacent pair of the teeth, a slot extending toward the axis is formed. In each slot, a U-shaped segment is inserted in parallel with the axis. The distal ends of the segments projecting out from the slots are electrically interconnected, thereby forming an SC coil including the segments disposed circumferentially. The SC coil includes a receiving terminal, and the terminal includes leads extending in parallel to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Imai, Yusuke Tateishi, Keisuke Koide, Tatsunori Banba, Takumi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Fujii
  • Patent number: 8866359
    Abstract: A brushless motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator core with a plurality of inwardly extending salient poles and windings wound about the salient poles. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed onto the shaft, and magnets inserted in the rotor core for forming magnetic poles of the rotor. Each of the salient poles has a pole shoe with a pole face that extends along a circumferential direction confronting the rotor core and being spaced from the rotor core by an air gap. In a radial cross section of the motor, each of the magnetic poles of the rotor has an effective dimension (W) which is about 0.85 times to 1.2 times of the chord length (L) of each pole face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Jian Zhao, Yong Wang, Ya Ming Zhang, Yan Hong Xue, Mao Xiong Jiang
  • Patent number: 8860272
    Abstract: A synchronous generator is provided. The generator includes a rotor, which rotates around a machine axis and is concentrically surrounded by a stator with a stator winding. A plurality of permanent magnets and pole pieces are alternatingly arranged at the rim of the rotor with the permanent magnets being oriented in an essentially tangential direction. Torque and power characteristic of the generator are improved by alternating pole pieces and pairs of permanent magnets. The permanent magnets each have a rectangular cross section in the axial direction, the pole pieces each have a symmetric trapezoidal cross section in the axial direction with the symmetry plane of the trapezoid extending radially through the machine axis and the longer parallel side lying outside. The two permanent magnets of each pair of permanent magnets are separated from each other by an intermediate wedge, which corresponds with its cross section to the trapezoidal pole pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Hydro France
    Inventor: Charles Smadja
  • Patent number: 8841810
    Abstract: A rotor iron core is used, which is formed by laminating a base steel sheets with a magnetic flux density (B8000) of 1.65 T or more as measured at a magnetic field strength of 8000 A/m and a coercivity of 100 A/m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonaga Iwatsu, Yukio Katagiri, Susumu Fujiwara, Shigeru Morikawa
  • Patent number: 8816555
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Xinyu Zhou, Sinisa Jurkovic, Qiang Niu, Khwaja M. Rahman, Xu Han, John C. Morgante
  • Patent number: 8760026
    Abstract: A rotor includes first and second permanent magnets provided in each magnetic pole inside a rotor core. The rotor is configured such that when a first end of the first permanent magnet located on the outer circumferential side of the rotor core and the second permanent magnet side is located at a position that faces a first end in the circumferential direction of one of teeth of a stator, a second end of the first permanent magnet located on the axis of rotation side of the rotor core and the second permanent magnet side is located at a position that faces a second end in the circumferential direction of the tooth that faces the first end of the first permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Kenji Tomohara
  • Patent number: 8747583
    Abstract: This invention is a manufacturing device for a permanent magnet disposed in a rotating electrical machine, in which a plurality of magnet pieces, each formed by being fractured and split along a notch groove, are aligned and joined to each other with an adhesive interposed between fractured surfaces. First pressing means for aligning the plurality of fractured and split magnet pieces with the fractured surfaces opposed to each other in a width direction by pressing from the width direction of the permanent magnet and second pressing means for aligning the plurality of magnet pieces in a thickness direction by pressing from a thickness direction of the permanent magnet are provided. Moreover, third pressing means for joining the opposing fractured surfaces of the magnet piece with the interposed adhesive by pressing the plurality of magnet pieces from a longitudinal direction of the permanent magnet is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 8729762
    Abstract: To provide a permanent magnet synchronous machine capable of expanding a high-speed operation range without reducing torque, and a pressing machine or an extrusion machine using the permanent magnet synchronous machine. In order to achieve the object described above, the present invention provides a permanent magnet synchronous electric machine having at least one permanent magnet on a radial surface of a rotor core, the permanent magnet having a rotor constituting a field pole, wherein a plurality of slits constituted by nonmagnetic material is provided on a core part between adjacent permanent magnets with opposite magnetic polarities of the rotor. According to the present invention, expansion of a high-speed operation range can be achieved without reducing torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Shinichi Wakui
  • Patent number: 8714948
    Abstract: An object is to provide a permanent magnet motor that highly reduces torque fluctuation, thereby reducing noise and vibration. The permanent magnet motor may be formed as follows: a length D of a permanent magnet 8 in a longitudinal direction is the same as or longer than a width A between sides of the magnetic pole tooth 3 in the circumferential direction in an end portion of the magnetic pole tooth 3, and a distance C between tip portions of a pair of the first slits 13a and 13b within the same pole is smaller than the width A between the sides of the magnetic pole tooth 3 in the circumferential direction in the end portion of the magnetic pole tooth 3. The permanent magnet motor, thus formed, may be characterized in that cut surfaces 12 face the first slits 13a and 13b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Hayato Yoshino, Koji Yabe, Masahiro Nigo, Koji Masumoto, Tomoaki Oikawa, Yoshio Takita
  • Publication number: 20140117789
    Abstract: A rotor (10) of a motor includes a rotor core (11) and a plurality of magnets (14a, 14b) which are arranged at a circumferential surface of the rotor core or at the inside of the rotor core, the length of a magnet of the plurality of magnets in the axial direction of the rotor core determined in accordance with the residual magnetic flux density of the magnet. The axial direction length of the magnet is preferably determined by multiplying a reference axial direction length of the magnet with the residual magnetic flux density of the magnet and dividing this by a reference residual magnetic flux density of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Uematsu, Takeshi Tamaki
  • 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