Shaped To Vary Air Patents (Class 310/156.46)
  • Patent number: 12160138
    Abstract: The present inventions include a rotating electromagnetic machine such as a motor or generator wherein changes of flux direction adjacent the air gap are avoided. The disclosed improvements apply to permanent magnet alternators, induction motors and generators, doubly fed induction generators, and the like. Adaptation of coils to and fixation within the required slot geometries are disclosed. Excitation systems co-located within the primary rotor core and primary stator core are also disclosed. The use of rubber vulcanized to the rotor in conjunction with a stainless steel rotor sleeve is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BHE TURBOMACHINERY, LLC
    Inventors: Henry K. Obermeyer, Tanner Grider
  • Patent number: 11539253
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a rotary shaft member; a rotor including an annular rotor core having magnet housing holes; a stator including an annular stator core and a stator coil; a field yoke; and a field coil provided in the field yoke. Further, a bridge portion is provided between two magnet housing holes, an end surface in an axial direction at one end in a radial direction of the field yoke and an end surface in the axial direction of the bridge portion face each other in the axial direction, and an end surface in the axial direction at another end in the radial direction of the field yoke, and an end surface in the axial direction of the rotor core or an end surface in the axial direction of the stator core face each other in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 11496015
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator has windings and teeth extending radially from a stator core. Each tooth is separated from an adjacent tooth by a stator slot that opens to a radial stator-rotor airgap via a slot opening. The windings are positioned within each slot. Each stator tooth has a tooth tip with a surface profile configured to guide rotor flux away from areas of the windings proximate the respective slot opening. The tip surface profile may be a concave region, e.g., a dent/chamfer, and/or a convex region, e.g., a bump/bulge, and is formed in a distal end surface of the tip proximate the opening. The stator-rotor airgap is smaller at the convex region and larger at the concave region than elsewhere along the distal end surface. An electrical system includes the machine, a battery, and a power inverter module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad F. Momen, Khwaja M. Rahman
  • Patent number: 10868451
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine comprising a rotor (10) and a stator (20). The rotor (10) has magnet pockets for receiving permanent magnets (55, 56, 85, 86), and the magnet pockets comprise at least one first pair of magnet pockets (50, 51) and a second pair of magnet pockets (80, 11). The second pair (80, 81) is arranged further inwards than the first pair (50, 51) when viewed in a radial direction with respect to a rotational axis, and the magnet pockets of each pair of magnet pockets (50, 51, 80, 81) are arranged symmetrically to one another with respect to an axis of symmetry (45), wherein the axis of symmetry (45) runs in the radial direction and through the center of the rotor (10). The magnet pockets of each pair of magnet pockets (50, 51, 80, 81) are arranged such that the distance of each magnet pocket to the axis of symmetry (45) increases as the distance to the circumferential edge (110) of the rotor (10) decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Murat Kol, Patrick Heuser
  • Patent number: 10547256
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes a motor and a control circuit that controls driving of the motor. The motor includes a rotor having a cylindrical magnet having an outer peripheral surface circumferentially divided and alternately multi-polar magnetized to different poles, a first and second yokes having first and second magnetic pole portions arranged opposed to the outer peripheral surface, a first and second coils energized to excite the first and second magnetic pole portions, respectively. Directions of energizing the first and second coils are switched based on outputs from magnetic sensors that detect a rotational position of the rotor to change excited poles of the first and second magnetic pole portions. The rotor is started from a stopped state, after performing direct current energization to move the rotor to a position dependent on the direct current energization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Akada
  • Patent number: 10530208
    Abstract: The invention describes an electrical machine comprising a stator and a rotor which is separated from the stator by an air gap and has a plurality of shell-like magnet segments which are fastened to a magnetic return path element. In this case, the magnet segments are arranged opposite one another in pairs in each case and each have a plurality of magnetically differently polarized sections in the circumferential direction, said sections each forming a magnetic pole of the rotor. In this case, recesses which each serve as outer detached pole portions are provided on that side which faces the stator in the edge zones of the magnet segments which are arranged in the circumferential direction. Furthermore, further recesses are provided on that side which faces the stator in the transition zones between the magnetically differently polarized sections of the magnet segments, said recesses serving as inner detached pole portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Buehler, Milorad Risticevic, Steven Andrew Evans
  • Patent number: 10451072
    Abstract: In a pump, a resin magnet included in a rotor portion has a plurality of groove portions in an outer peripheral portion thereof, the groove portions extending in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Kazunori Sakanobe, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe
  • Patent number: 10374471
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet machine is described. The machine includes a rotor rotatable about a central machine axis. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnet openings and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed therein. The permanent magnet openings are separated by rotor webs configured to facilitate reducing leakage flux through the rotor webs. The machine also includes a stator disposed coaxially with the rotor and separated from the rotor by a circumferential air gap. The stator includes a plurality of stator teeth that define a plurality of stator slots therebetween. The stator teeth include a stator tooth tip configured to facilitate reducing cogging torque and torque ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry B Shelton, Subhash Marutirao Brahmavar, Marshall Miers, Ludovic Andre Chretien
  • Patent number: 10361599
    Abstract: A three-phase rotating electrical machine includes a stator including a stator core provided with a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots, and winding, the three-phase rotating electrical machine including a rotor including a rotor core and a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole, the three-phase rotating electrical machine including a fractional slot configuration, the rotor core including a north magnetic pole acting portion, a south magnetic pole acting portion, a magnetic pole boundary dividing the north magnetic pole acting portion and the south magnetic pole acting portion in the circumferential direction, and a magnetic resistance portion, the magnetic resistance portion restricting the magnetic flux from passing through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teppei Tsuda, Masafumi Sakuma
  • Patent number: 10312842
    Abstract: An actuator assembly includes an electric motor including a rotor assembly and a stator assembly configured to be actuated to cause the rotor assembly to rotate based on an amount of magnetic flux in the rotor assembly is disclosed. The assembly also includes a controllable magnetic device coupled to the rotor assembly, an actuator coupled to the rotor assembly; and a controller configured to apply electric current to the controllable magnetic device to adjust an amount of torque provided by the electric motor by adjusting the magnetic flux in the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard A. Poisson, Naison E. Mastrocola
  • Patent number: 10243439
    Abstract: A single-phase outer-rotor motor and a stator thereof are provided. The stator includes a stator core having a yoke and a number of teeth. Each tooth includes a tooth body and a tooth tip. A winding slot is formed between each two adjacent tooth bodies. A slot opening is formed between each two adjacent tooth tips. The tooth tip protrudes beyond the tooth body. Inner surfaces of at least part of the tooth tips facing the stator are formed with cutting grooves such that a portion of the tooth tip outside the cutting groove is capable of being tilted outwardly to enlarge the slot opening and deformed inwardly to narrow the slot opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Chui You Zhou, Yong Wang, Gang Li, Yong Li, Wei Zhang, Jie Chai
  • Patent number: 10132320
    Abstract: A resin magnet, a magnetic pole position detection resin magnet, and a sleeve bearing, which is disposed inside the resin magnet, are integrally molded together with a thermoplastic resin in a rotor portion. At the same time, an impeller attachment portion is formed by the thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Kazunori Sakanobe, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe
  • Patent number: 9997969
    Abstract: An embedded magnet motor includes a stator core, a plurality of permanent magnets each having a rectangular cross section, and a rotor core. The stator core and the rotor core define a first air gap being positioned at an intermediate portion of the rotor core, a second air gap being positioned at a first portion corresponding to a first axis of the rotor core, and a third air gap being positioned at a second portion corresponding to a second axis of the rotor core. Because a diameter of the intermediate portion being positioned between the first portion and the second portion of the rotor core is set smaller than a diameter of the first portion and than a diameter of the second portion, the first air gap is set greater than the second air gap and than the third air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SIEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takanori Tsuzuki, Daisuke Miyata
  • Patent number: 9903372
    Abstract: A pump is provided that includes a molded stator having a substrate on which is mounted a magnetic-pole position detection element and that also includes a rotor having a rotor unit with one end thereof in an axial direction being opposed to the magnetic-pole position detection element and the other end thereof in the axial direction being provided with an impeller attachment unit. The rotor unit includes a magnet, a sleeve bearing, and a resin portion formed from a thermoplastic resin that is used for integrally molding the magnet and the sleeve bearing and that constitutes the impeller attachment unit. The magnet includes a plurality of through holes that each extend in the axial direction; and each of the through holes is embedded in the thermoplastic resin that constitutes a part of the resin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuto Urabe, Hiroki Aso, Mamoru Kawakubo, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya
  • Patent number: 9893579
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor having a rotor core and permanent magnets, and a stator having teeth. The permanent magnets are arranged in magnet sets. Each magnet set includes one or more of the permanent magnets. The rotor core has a cylindrical periphery and slits. Each of the slits is positioned radially between one of the magnet sets and the cylindrical periphery. Each tooth includes a tooth surface facing the cylindrical periphery. The tooth surface includes an inner portion extending substantially parallel to the cylindrical periphery of the rotor core, and beveled portions positioned on opposing sides of the inner portion of the tooth surface. An air gap between each beveled portion of the tooth surface and the cylindrical periphery of the rotor core is greater than an air gap between the inner portion of the tooth surface and the cylindrical periphery of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventors: Pingshan Cao, Xin Li, Xin Li, Zedong Zhang, Vincent Fargo
  • Patent number: 9627933
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator comprising a stator core with teeth protruding inwardly and windings wound on the teeth, and a rotor comprising a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and a ring magnet fixed to the circumferential outer surface of the rotor core. The ring magnet includes a plurality of magnetic poles radially magnetized so that north poles and south poles are arranged alternately in the circumferential direction, boundary lines between adjacent magnetic poles being skewed by an angle ? relative to an axis of the shaft. A plurality of grooves are formed in a circumferential outer surface of the rotor core. Each groove extends from one axial end to the other axial end of the rotor core, has a circumferential width smaller than each of the magnetic poles, and is covered by the ring magnet with a void formed between the groove and the ring magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Mao Xiong Jiang, Yue Li, Tao Zhang, San Yuan Xiao, Lik Hon Chan
  • Patent number: 8860274
    Abstract: In a double-stator motor has a rotary shaft, an annular rotor is coupled with a rotary shaft. First and second three-phase stators are arranged inside and outside to the rotor in the radial direction and formed to generate first and second rotating magnetic fields in response to three-phase currents, respectively. The rotor has an even number of segment poles made of soft magnetic material and arranged mutually separately at positions of the rotor. The positions are equally distanced apart from the rotary shaft in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction. Each of the first and second three-phase stators has magnetic poles which are the same in the number of poles as the segment poles and the magnetic poles are positioned such that magnetomotive forces from the magnetic poles are faced to each other between the magnetic poles of the first and second three-phase stators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Kusase, Yousuke Kaname, Naoto Sakurai
  • 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: 8680731
    Abstract: A permanent-magnetic type rotary electric machine includes a stator having teeth that are arranged in the peripheral direction thereof and around which armature windings of plural phases are wound, and a rotor having plural permanent magnets arranged so that the poles of the permanent magnets are alternately different in the peripheral direction thereof, higher harmonic waves being contained in a no-load induced voltage waveform. A (6p?1)-th higher harmonic wave and a (6p?1)-th higher harmonic wave (p represents a positive integer) when an electrical angle of 360° is set as a fundamental wave in the no-load induced voltage waveform are made substantially coincident with each other in amplitude and phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Hideya Nishikawa, Yoshihito Asao, Masatsugu Nakano
  • Patent number: 8664826
    Abstract: An electric motor (1) has a stator (2) and a radially symmetric, permanent magnet excited rotor (4) coaxial with the stator (2). The rotor (4) rotates relative to the stator (2) about a common motor axis (X). The stator (2) has a radially symmetric iron core (6) with a defined number (N) of stator teeth (10) which are each adjacent to one another via stator slots (8) and slot openings (8a) in the circumferential direction. The rotor (4) has pole magnets (14) adjacent to one another. A circumferential gap (18) is formed radially between the pole magnets (14) and the stator teeth (10). Each stator tooth (10) has on its surface (20) facing the gap (18) and adjacent to the slot openings (8a) on both sides in the circumferential direction a relief-like topographic region (22) radially enlarging the gap (18) with least one concave recess (24) and a smooth profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: EBM-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jens Krotsch
  • Patent number: 8659199
    Abstract: A stator and a rotor are oppositely arranged having a gap between the stator and the rotor in a direction parallel to a rotary shaft. The rotor has permanent magnets forming field magnetic poles and soft magnetic material segments to cover at least stator-facing surfaces of the respective permanent magnets. Each of the soft magnetic materials forms a composite part together with the permanent magnet. The rotor further has a disc-shaped nonmagnetic molded frame molded so as to cover the periphery of the composite part including the permanent magnet and the soft magnetic material segment while leaving a stator-facing surface of the soft magnetic material segment as an exposed surface. The composite part (including the permanent magnet and the soft magnetic material) and the nonmagnetic molded frame are integrated by molding of the molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 8659200
    Abstract: The permanent magnet embedded rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a plurality of flat permanent magnets. The rotor has on an outer periphery thereof a plurality of pairs of concave portions and a plurality of convex portions. Each of the convex portions is located between the pair of concave portions. The concave portions are formed at radially outward of respective adjacent magnetic pole ends of the permanent magnet. A bridge is provided in the rotor at an angular position about an axis of the rotor between opposed magnetic pole ends of two adjacent permanent magnets. Each concave portion at radially outward of the magnetic pole end of the permanent magnet is located close to the center of the same permanent magnet in relation to the bridge next to the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Taku Adaniya, Minoru Mera, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Publication number: 20140042855
    Abstract: Permanent-magnet (PM) rotors, rotor components, and machines using PM rotors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Xueqing Feng, Lijun Liu
  • Patent number: 8598762
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electric machine includes: a stator including: a stator core having teeth, and an armature winding wound around each of the teeth to configure the multiple phases; and a rotor including a rotor core, and permanent magnets provided in order around the rotor core. The rotor is arranged to be spaced apart from the stator with an air gap therebetween. Each of the permanent magnets has a curved surface opposed to the stator and is configured to satisfy the following relationship: 0.65 ? Rm × h ? ? 1 W ? ( h ? ? 1 + g ) ? 1.37 where Rm denotes a radius of curvature of the curved surface, h1 denotes a thickness of a central portion of the permanent magnet in the peripheral direction, W denotes a width of the permanent magnet in the peripheral direction, and g denotes an air gap length of the air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20130307365
    Abstract: An automotive embedded permanent magnet rotary electric machine can suppress increases in torque ripples and cogging torque, reduce core loss near a stator, and increase magnetic torque and reluctance torque. In the automotive embedded permanent magnet rotary electric machine, a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet that constitute a magnetic pole are embedded so as to line up in a main direction of rotation of magnetic poles of a rotor core and are embedded so as to be radially outwardly convex in a region that extends from a leading end portion to a trailing end portion in the main direction of rotation of the magnetic poles, and the first permanent magnet is formed into an integrated body that extends from the leading end portion in the main direction of rotation of the magnetic poles beyond a pole center toward a trailing side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Sekiya, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Takeshi Mori, Hideaki Arita, Haruyuki Kometani, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 8541919
    Abstract: A rotor structure for an interior permanent magnet (IPM) electromotive machine is provided. The rotor structure may include at least one rotor lamination, which in turn may include at least one slot arranged to receive at least one permanent magnet. The slot divides the rotor lamination into a pole region and a yoke region. At least one bridge is arranged to connect the pole region to the yoke region at an outer edge of the lamination. The outer edge of the lamination is profiled along a segment of the bridge to define a concave curved profile for the bridge. The concave curved profile for the bridge allows to selectively size a thickness of the bridge to affect at least some electromagnetic and/or mechanical characteristic of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Rammohan Rao Kalluri, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
  • 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: 8405270
    Abstract: Supposing a straight line joining rotation center O of a rotor and a magnetic pole middle, that is, a middle of permanent magnets (25) to be a d-axis, and a straight line joining rotation center O and an intermediate point of mutually adjacent permanent magnets (25) to be a q-axis, mutually adjacent arcs A1 and A2 are composed such that radius R1 of arc A1 at the d-axis side is larger than radius R2 of arc A2 at the q-axis side, and that, at intersection point ? of mutual arcs A1 and A2, angle ? of tangent u of arc A2 at the q-axis side with respect to tangent t of arc A1 at the d-axis side is set by ?3 degrees???2 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroki Sato
  • Patent number: 8405271
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet type brushless direct current (BLDC) motor includes a stator having a plurality of slots and a stator coil wound on the slots. The interior permanent magnet type brushless direct current (BLDC) motor also includes a rotor that rotates with respect to the stator and that has a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets positioned in the rotor core. The rotor has a notch that is cut off between adjacent permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hoon Lee, Jun-Ho Ahn
  • Patent number: 8330317
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for conical magnets for rotors in electrodynamic machines, methods to design the same, and rotor-stator structures for electrodynamic machines. In various embodiments, a rotor-stator structure for electrodynamic machine can include field pole members and conical magnets. According to at least some embodiments, one or more of the conical magnets can include a magnetic region configured to confront one or more air gaps. The magnetic region can be substantially coextensive with one or more acute angles to the axis of rotation. The magnetic region can also include a surface positioned at multiple radial distances from the axis of rotation in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: NovaTorque, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Burch, John Patrick Petro, Jeremy Franz Mayer
  • Patent number: 8299736
    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: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Miyata
  • Patent number: 8217546
    Abstract: An electrical machine including a permanent magnet and a coil is provided. The coil is arranged to interact with the permanent magnet via an air gap, which located between the two. Electrical power is generated in the coil when the permanent magnet or the coil is moved in their relative position to each other. The permanent magnet includes a surface, which is aligned to the coil and to the air gap so that that magnetic forces of the permanent magnet interact via the surface and the air gap with the coil by a magnetic flux density distribution. The permanent magnet also includes a base plane and a transition area. A first side of the surface is connected with the adjacent base plane via the transition area. The cross-section of the transition between the surface and the adjacent base plane is determined by a Bezier function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Arwyn Thomas
  • Patent number: 8179010
    Abstract: A rotor is provided. The rotor includes a rotor iron core including slots formed around an outer circumferential portion thereof; magnet pieces which are inserted into the slots, respectively, such that a magnetic orientation of the magnet pieces are inverted every predetermined number of the slots; and two end plates, one end plate disposed on each end side in an axial direction of the rotor iron core, the two end plates covering the slots in the axial direction. The rotor iron core also includes cutout portions, which are located at an interval between adjacent ones of the slots, each of the cutout portions extending in the axial direction of the rotor iron core. One of the two end plates includes injection openings, each of which corresponds to a respective one of the slots, and communicating grooves each of which is formed so as to communicate with one of the cutout portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ogami, Hiroyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110248594
    Abstract: An electrical machine including a permanent magnet and a coil is provided. The coil is arranged to interact with the permanent magnet via an air gap, which located between the two. The permanent magnet includes a surface, which is aligned to the coil and to the air gap so that that magnetic forces of the permanent magnet interact via the surface and the air gap with the coil by a magnetic flux density distribution. The surface has a cross-section having a shape that approximates at least partly to a sinusoidal function, causing the magnetic flux distribution in the air gap to be substantially sinusoidal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventor: Arwyn Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110248508
    Abstract: An electrical machine including a permanent magnet and a coil is provided. The coil is arranged to interact with the permanent magnet via an air gap, which located between the two. Electrical power is generated in the coil when the permanent magnet or the coil is moved in their relative position to each other. The permanent magnet includes a surface, which is aligned to the coil and to the air gap so that that magnetic forces of the permanent magnet interact via the surface and the air gap with the coil by a magnetic flux density distribution. The permanent magnet also includes a base plane and a transition area. A first side of the surface is connected with the adjacent base plane via the transition area. The cross-section of the transition between the surface and the adjacent base plane is determined by a Bezier function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventor: Arwyn Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110248595
    Abstract: An electric motor (1) has a stator (2) and a radially symmetric, permanent magnet excited rotor (4) coaxial with the stator (2). The rotor (4) rotates relative to the stator (2) about a common motor axis (X). The stator (2) has a radially symmetric iron core (6) with a defined number (N) of stator teeth (10) which are each adjacent to one another via stator slots (8) and slot openings (8a) in the circumferential direction. The rotor (4) has pole magnets (14) adjacent to one another. A circumferential gap (18) is formed radially between the pole magnets (14) and the stator teeth (10). Each stator tooth (10) has on its surface (20) facing the gap (18) and adjacent to the slot openings (8a) on both sides in the circumferential direction a relief-like topographic region (22) radially enlarging the gap (18) with least one concave recess (24) and a smooth profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventor: Jens Krotsch
  • Patent number: 7982350
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for conical magnets for rotors in electrodynamic machines, methods to design the same, and rotor-stator structures for electrodynamic machines. In various embodiments, a rotor-stator structure for electrodynamic machine can include field pole members and conical magnets. According to at least some embodiments, one or more of the conical magnets can include a magnetic region configured to confront one or more air gaps. The magnetic region can be substantially coextensive with one or more acute angles to the axis of rotation. The magnetic region can also include a surface positioned at multiple radial distances from the axis of rotation in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: NovaTorque, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Burch, John Patrick Petro, Jeremy Franz Mayer
  • 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: 7939982
    Abstract: A motor having a rotor including first outer surface segments providing uniform air gaps and second outer surface segments providing non-uniform air gaps. The rotor has an outer surface contour comprising a number of first outer surface segments defined by arcs having a first radius centered on a central longitudinal axis and a number of second outer surface segments defined by lines other than arcs having a first radius centered on a central longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Horst
  • Publication number: 20110089782
    Abstract: A rotor for an electromotor using permanent magnets is provided. The rotor may include one or more C-type permanent magnets, a core, and a rotor shaft. Each of the one or more C-type permanent magnets may have a C shape and provide magnetic force. The core may be of a cylindrical shape and have the one or more C-type permanent magnets coupled thereto with different magnetic poles. An aperture 11 may be formed at each of the boundaries of the C-type permanent magnets having the different magnetic poles. The rotor shaft may be formed at the center of the core. Cogging torque can be reduced because a magnetic field of the C-type permanent magnets coupled through the outside core forms a normal sine wave form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Young-Chun JEUNG
  • Publication number: 20110050022
    Abstract: Supposing a straight line joining rotation center O of a rotor and a magnetic pole middle, that is, a middle of permanent magnets (25) to be a d-axis, and a straight line joining rotation center O and an intermediate point of mutually adjacent permanent magnets (25) to be a q-axis, mutually adjacent arcs A1 and A2 are composed such that radius R1 of arc A1 at the d-axis side is larger than radius R2 of arc A2 at the q-axis side, and that, at intersection point ? of mutual arcs A1 and A2, angle ? of tangent u of arc A2 at the q-axis side with respect to tangent t of arc A1 at the d-axis side is set by ?3 degrees???2 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroki Sato
  • Patent number: 7898137
    Abstract: A permanent magnet has a D-shaped cross section including an arcuate top surface (22), a flat bottom surface (24), and side surfaces (26, 28). Provided that a plurality of permanent magnets are circumferentially arranged so that a great circle (S) circumscribes the apexes (P) on the arcuate top surfaces (22), the top surface (22) includes a central region which delineates an arc of a small circle (T) off-centered from the great circle, and end regions (22a, 22b) which are positioned outside the small circle (T) and inside the great circle (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Miyata
  • Patent number: 7876012
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine comprising a stator having a plurality of slots and teeth, armature windings wound around the teeth, and a rotor disposed inside the stator, wherein an alloy member is disposed in the inner periphery of the stator and the magnetic compensator has its surface or inside thereof a high resistance layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Noriaki Hino
  • Patent number: 7843101
    Abstract: A rotary shaft 60 having an outside diameter larger than the bore diameter of a rotary shaft insert hole 59 of a rotor 50 is inserted into the rotary shaft insert hole 59. A magnet insert hole 51a1 is provided in a main magnetic pole [a] of the rotor 50. Permanent magnets 52a1 to 52a3 are inserted into the magnet insert hole 51a1 such that a gap is formed between the permanent magnets 52a1 to 52a3 and the magnet insert hole 51a1. A semi-tubular rivet insert hole 55a and interlocks 57a1, 57a2 elongated in the radial direction of the rotor are disposed radially outward of the magnet insert hole 51a in the rotor. A semi-tubular rivet 56a is inserted into the semi-tubular rivet insert hole 55a such that a gap is formed between the semi-tubular rivet 56a and the semi-tubular rivet insert hole 55a. Passage holes 58ab, 58da are provided in the auxiliary magnetic poles [ab], [da].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Aichi Elec Co.
    Inventors: Isao Ito, Masashi Kuroko, Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Shoji Mano
  • Patent number: 7839043
    Abstract: A rotary structure of a permanent magnet electric machine including a stator and a rotor is provided. The stator has K salient teeth peripherally spaced with equal intervals for forming K winding slots, wherein K is a natural number greater than 1. The rotor has an annular inner surface and has P pairs of permanent magnets peripherally spaced with equal intervals along the inner surface for rotating around the stator, wherein P is a natural number. Each permanent magnet having two sides along a peripheral direction of the rotor includes a pair of inclined surfaces on the two sides, the pair of inclined surfaces is symmetric with respect to a radial plane of the each permanent magnet, and an inclined angle ? between the inclined surface and the radial plane is selected from a range of 90(1?1/(4P))<?<90(1+1/(4P)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Ming Huang, Wen-Shi Huang, Li-Jian Wu, Wan-Bing Jin, Jian-Ping Ying
  • Publication number: 20100213885
    Abstract: In a magnet-exciting rotating electric machine system, a rotor surface has magnetic salient poles and island-shaped magnetic poles alternately in circumferential direction, and the island-shaped magnetic poles are constituted so that 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 crossing the armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Kura Laboratory Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu ICHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100133940
    Abstract: A three-phase dynamoelectrical permanently excited synchronous machine includes a stator with teeth which point to a rotor, wherein twelve slots are formed between the teeth. The slots have coil sides of coils of a winding system in such a manner that two coil sides of different coils are situated in each slot. The rotor has a cylindrical support structure which is provided with permanent magnets defined by an inner radius which corresponds to a radius of the support structure, and by an outer radius which is smaller than their inner radius. The permanent magnets are formed with ten magnet poles when viewed in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: UDO GROSSMANN, Holger Schunk, Rolf Vollmer, Michael Zastrow
  • Publication number: 20100026126
    Abstract: An outer rotor-type fan motor and a method for magnetizing a magnet applied thereto. The outer rotor-type fan motor comprises a rotation shaft; a stator disposed outside the rotation shaft; a fan having a hub and blades formed on the hub, the hub covering the stator with a predetermined gap; and a magnet disposed on an inner surface of the hub and spaced from the stator with a predetermined gap, wherein the magnet is an isotropic magnet magnetized to have a pole anisotropy. Accordingly, a cogging torque and noise are reduced without reducing a back-electromotive force, thereby obtaining a high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Seung-Do Han, Dong-Il Lee, Hyoun-Jeong Shin
  • Patent number: 7474027
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor 1 includes a rotor in which permanent magnets 31 are fixed. In the rotor 20, the outer peripheral shape of rotor magnetic-pole portions 24 is formed so that, in the circumferentially central portion, the distance from the center of the rotor iron core 21 is longest, and, at the inter-polar space, the distance from the center of the rotor iron core is shortest, and so that the outermost surface of the rotor magnetic-pole portions 24 forms an arc, and given that sheath thickness tc formed by the outer-side surface of each permanent magnet 31 and the outermost surface of each rotor magnetic-pole portion 24 is practically constant, and letting the thickness of the permanent magnets be the magnet thickness tm, then the relation tc/tm?0.25 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kikuchi, Takashi Miyazaki, Haruyuki Kometani, Shinichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080284269
    Abstract: A magnetic gap is provided between a permanent magnet of a rotor and an auxiliary magnet pole portion which is arranged adjacent to the permanent magnet in a peripheral direction. A gradual change in a magnetic flux density distribution of a surface of the rotor is obtained and a cogging torque and a torque pulsation are restrained. By obtaining a reluctance torque according to the auxiliary magnetic pole, a permanent magnet electric rotating machine in which the cogging torque and the torque pulsation are restrained can be obtained and further an electromotive vehicle having the permanent magnet electric rotating machine can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Shouichi Kawamata, Suetaro Shibukawa, Osamu Koizumi, Keiji Oda