Pole Shoes/pole Pieces Patents (Class 310/156.48)
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Patent number: 12034338Abstract: The invention pertains primarily to a rotary electric machine, in particular for a motor vehicle, including: —a stator comprising a body provided with teeth delimiting slots and a winding that is housed in the slots of the stator body; —a rotor (12) comprising a body (21) and poles (22) that are formed by permanent magnets (23), characterized in that —two successive polar angles, each corresponding to a circumferential extent of a pole (22), or —two successive dual polar angles (A0-A4), each corresponding to a circumferential extent of two adjacent poles (22), —exhibit an angular difference in relation to one another that is dependent on an angular offset parameter (6) related to a stator pitch.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Radu Fratila, Adham Kaloun
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Patent number: 10637310Abstract: A synchronous reluctance type rotary electric machine of an embodiment has a rotor core. The rotor core includes a plurality of poles, multi-layered hollow parts having a convex shape toward a side radially inward formed for each pole in cross section, and a bridge formed between each of the hollow parts and an outer circumferential surface thereof. When a boundary between two adjacent poles is a pole boundary, a groove is formed on at least one of both sides sandwiching the pole boundary at positions other than on the pole boundary on the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Masaaki Matsumoto, Takashi Araki, Yuji Yamamoto, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Makoto Matsushita, Toshio Hasebe
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Patent number: 10547222Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Kenichi Nakayama, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10056792Abstract: An interior permanent magnet electric machine is described, and includes a stator including a plurality of electrical windings and a rotor disposed in a cylindrically-shaped void formed within the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of steel laminations assembled onto a shaft, wherein the shaft defines a longitudinal axis. Each of the steel laminations includes a plurality of poles and each of the poles includes a plurality of slots disposed near an outer periphery. The slots of the steel laminations are longitudinally aligned. A plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a first subset of the slots, and plurality of packets assembled from anisotropic material are disposed in a second subset of the slots.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Constantin C. Stancu, Peter J. Savagian, Nitinkumar R. Patel, Robert T. Dawsey
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Patent number: 10008916Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing electromagnetic drag in an electric machine may include a laminated stator having wire slots disposed around the inner periphery spaced into sectors separated by a pole iron support structure. The slots contain induction windings. A series of wound lateral pole irons may be arranged around the inner periphery of the stator, the first ends of which extend into the slots in the sectors. A support structure supports the lateral pole irons by forming a circular opening concentric with the inner periphery of the stator, A rotor may be inserted into the circular opening of the lateral pole iron support structure and supported at the stator lateral pole iron ends by a support means. A plurality of rotor inserts may contain free-wheeling permanent magnet inserts spaced along an outer periphery of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Redemptive Technologies LtdInventor: Robert Ray Holcomb
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Patent number: 10003226Abstract: A motor includes a cylindrical stator having a hollow, and a rotor rotatably arranged inside the stator. The rotor includes a cylindrical rotor body, a permanent magnet group provided to the rotor body to generate a magnetic field, and a flux barrier group to interrupt magnetic flux. The rotor body, the permanent magnet group and the flux barrier group are asymmetrically formed with respect to a center of poles of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Il Kim, Seong Taek Lim
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Patent number: 9912204Abstract: In conventional rotors having a shape in which permanent magnets are skewed, a configuration in which, for example, the thicknesses of both ends of each magnet are increased is used in order to make the rotors symmetric between the forward and reverse directions, thereby causing excessive increase in the thicknesses. In a rotor 2 in which permanent magnets form magnet poles and the permanent magnets are skewed with respect to the axial direction, the thickness of each permanent magnet is increased at a portion that is most likely to be demagnetized, that is, a positive side portion F in a rotor part 2A skewed in the positive direction and a negative side portion F in a rotor part 2B skewed in the negative direction, whereby a demagnetization resistance strengthened portion is formed.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Eigo Totoki, Toshinori Tanaka, Tomoya Tachibana
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Patent number: 9893580Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes a plurality of magnetic poles in a rotor core, a side barrier as a magnetic air gap, an air gap section as a magnetic air gap. Each of the plurality of magnetic poles includes a magnet insertion hole, a permanent magnet. The side barrier is provided at a portion adjacent to a circumferential end face of the permanent magnet and includes a projection barrier portion projecting radially outwardly from an extension line extending from an outer peripheral surface of the permanent magnet. The air gap section is provided at an area which is spaced apart from the projection barrier portion and the magnet insertion hole and faces a peripheral edge of a circumferentially central side of the magnetic pole with respect to the projection barrier portion and a circumferential end of the outer peripheral surface of the permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Soma, Eiji Shirado, Tomotaka Iki, Yasunori Date
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Patent number: 9871420Abstract: A rotor (1) comprising a plurality of alternating magnetic poles formed by permanent magnets (3) distributed regularly between a circumferential portion (5) and a central portion (6) of the magnetic body (2) of the rotor and defining circumferential pole sections (7). The pole sections have a pre-determined pole pitch (Thetarho) and comprise a lobe-forming radial section (8). The lobe-forming radial section partially covers the magnets, such as to maximize a useful magnetic flux (PhiU) flowing radially through each of the pole sections and to minimize a leakage magnetic flux flowing through the circumferential portion. The pole sections can have a pre-determined pole overlap angle (Thetar) such as to maximize the useful magnetic flux (PhiU) and to minimize the leakage magnetic flux (PhiL), said overlap angle (Thetar) being a viewing angle of the lobe (8) from a point on the axis of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Lilya Bouarroudj, Jean-Claude Matt, Jean-Claude Labrosse
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Patent number: 9793769Abstract: Provided is an interior permanent magnet motor, including: a plurality of permanent magnets respectively inserted into a plurality of magnet accommodating holes formed in a rotator core of a rotator. In the magnet accommodating hole, a pair of minute projecting portions, a pair of large projecting portions, and a pair of demagnetizing field recesses are formed. The permanent magnet is sandwiched by a corresponding pair of minute projecting portions. The minute projecting portion is protruded radially inward to be in surface-contact with a corresponding end surface of the permanent magnet. The large projecting portion is formed on an outer side of the minute projecting portion, and is extended to an inner defining line side of the magnet accommodating hole. A height dimension (Ta) of the large projecting portion is larger than a height dimension (Tb) of the minute projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe, Tomoaki Oikawa
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Patent number: 9641031Abstract: A rotor (1) comprising a plurality of alternating magnetic poles formed by permanent magnets (3) distributed regularly between a circumferential portion (5) and a central portion (6) of the magnetic body (2) of the rotor and defining circumferential pole sections (7). The circumferential portion comprises axial grooves (15) which are arranged between the pole sections facing the magnets and which form openings in recesses (4) containing the magnets. The openings have a pre-determined first width (a) such as to minimize a leakage magnetic flux (PhiL) flowing through the circumferential portion (5) and to maximize a useful magnetic flux (PhiU) flowing radially through each of the pole sections (7).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Lilya Bouarroudj, Jean-Claude Matt, Jean-Claude Labrosse
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Patent number: 9214838Abstract: A brushless motor capable of high speed rotation by field weakening operation is designed to reduce torque ripple at a maximum load point with current phase advance so that the torque ripple at the maximum load point is 1 to 1.5 times the torque ripple at a low speed load point.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Yuichiro Tashiro, Hideaki Matsuo
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Patent number: 9106118Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core having an outer circumferential surface provided with projections extending in a direction of a rotational axis and projecting outwardly in a radial direction, and a plurality of permanent magnets arranged between the projections. The projections extend at an angle with respect to the direction of a rotational axis. The permanent magnets have inclined sides on both side faces, which incline with respect to the direction of a rotational axis. Side faces of the projections and the inclined side of the permanent magnets which face each other incline so as to define the same angle with respect to the direction of a rotational axis. An electric motor including such a rotor is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yasunori Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9077224Abstract: A rotor core according to an embodiment has a plurality of magnet openings and cavity portions. The magnet openings are in juxtaposition with each other in a circumferential direction. Permanent magnets are inserted in the magnet openings. The cavity portions are each formed relative to an area sandwiched between two magnet openings, out of the magnet openings, in which the permanent magnets that are mutually adjacent and that have magnetic pole directions relative to a radial direction opposite to each other are inserted.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Daisuke Morishita, Yuki Ochiai
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Publication number: 20150108868Abstract: An electric machine, such as an Internal Permanent magnet or Synchronous Reluctance machine, having X phases, that includes a stator assembly, having M slots, with a stator core and stator teeth, that is further configured with stator windings to generate a stator magnetic field when excited with alternating currents and extends along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface that defines a cavity; and a rotor assembly, having N poles, disposed within the cavity which is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis, wherein the rotor assembly includes a shaft, a rotor core located circumferentially around the shaft. The machine is configured such that a value k=M/(X*N) wherein k is a non-integer greater than about 1.3. The electric machine may alternatively, or additionally, include a non-uniformed gap between the exterior surface of the rotor spokes and the interior stator surface of the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: GENERAL ELECTGRIC COMPANYInventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Kum-Kang Huh, Ayman Moamed Fawzi El-Refaie, Steven Joseph Galioto
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Publication number: 20150048697Abstract: A reluctance rotor of a dynamoelectric rotary machine has an even number of poles constructed of a material having structural magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic anisotropy of the material is characterized by a first magnetic resistance, a magnetic permeability of ?r>20 and a saturation polarization of >1T in a first spatial direction, and by a second magnetic resistance which is greater than the first magnetic resistance with a magnetic permeability of ?r<1.6 in spatial directions perpendicular to the first spatial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20150028710Abstract: Provided is a rotor for a rotating electric machine which includes: an N pole integrally-stacked core in which a plurality of stacked tooth portions that contact with N pole side portions of adjacent ones of first permanent magnets are integrated with each other; and an S pole integrally-stacked core in which a plurality of stacked tooth portions that contact with S pole side portions of adjacent ones of the first permanent magnets are integrated with each other, and in which the N pole integrally-stacked core and the S pole integrally-stacked core are disposed around a rotation shaft having a non-magnetic outer circumferential surface so as to dispose the first permanent magnets and a gap therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita
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Publication number: 20140368075Abstract: An electrical machine has a permanent magnet component and a winding armature. The permanent magnet component is spaced apart for the winding armature. The winding armature includes a field excitation winding operative connected to the permanent magnet component. The field excitation winding is configured to selectively intensify and de-intensify the magnetic field of the permanent magnet for control of magnetic flux in the electrical machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Jacek F. Gieras, Gregory I. Rozman
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Patent number: 8860274Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shin Kusase, Yousuke Kaname, Naoto Sakurai
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Publication number: 20140300234Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine, the rotor including first and second pole pieces each having a respective magnetic hub arranged for rotation about an axis along which they are spaced. Pluralities of magnetic first and second pole fingers are spaced from each other and extend between the hubs. Each pole finger has a proximal end connected to its respective hub, and an axially opposite distal end. The first and second pole fingers circumferentially alternate about the axis, and each pole finger has a respective radially inner surface defining a cavity that extends axially from the distal end to a cavity terminus. Relative to each pole finger, at a respective axial position between the distal end and the cavity terminus the radial distance between the axis and the radially inner surface is substantially greater inside of the cavity than outside of the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Remy Technologies, LLCInventor: Michael D. Bradfield
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Publication number: 20140300235Abstract: A rotor of a motor comprises a plurality of magnetic-pole sections including: a plurality of slots which are formed inside of a rotor core; and permanent magnets, at least one of which is inserted into each of the plurality of slots; wherein each of the magnetic-pole sections is formed to correspond to the at least one permanent magnet; and wherein the rotor core includes hollow portions formed by cutting portions of the rotor core which portions are between the magnetic-pole sections which are adjacent in the circumferential direction of the rotor core and are different in polarity such that portions of circumferential end portions of the permanent magnet are exposed, and extending portions each of which is formed in a position corresponding to the hollow portions and extends radially outward from a center portion of the rotor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Yuichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Ogawa
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Patent number: 8829753Abstract: A motor includes: a rotor comprising: a rotary shaft; a magnetic body rotatable together with the rotary shaft; and first and second permanent magnets fixed on an outer circumference or an inner circumference of the magnetic body, and a stator comprising: an iron core arranged around the rotor; and a coil for exciting the iron core.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuchika Maruyama
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Patent number: 8829758Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine, including: a stator; and a rotor provided on the stator so as to be rotatable about a rotation shaft, in which the rotor includes, at an outer circumference thereof, magnetic poles arranged so as to have different polarities alternately, the magnetic poles being formed of a rotor core in which electromagnetic steel plates are stacked, the magnetic poles being excited by permanent magnets which are housed in gaps disposed at an outer circumferential part of the rotor core, and in which the rotor core includes, at an inner circumferential part thereof, in the same stack plane: a short circuit magnetic path connecting magnetic pole pieces which form the magnetic poles; and a protruding portion held in contact with the permanent magnets, which is positioned between magnetic pole pieces which are not connected to the short circuit magnetic path.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji Takizawa, Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi, Hiroko Ueyama, Satoru Akutsu, Masatsugu Nakano, Tetsuya Iwata
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Patent number: 8800131Abstract: A method of constructing a linear drive motor assembly is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a support plate and a platen with a plurality of teeth are provided. A honeycomb core comprising a commercially available, off-the-shelf honeycomb material is provided. The honeycomb core has a plurality of cells arranged in a planar array where the plurality of cells is defined by walls extending in planes substantially perpendicular to the planar array. The support plate is directly secured to one side of the planar array. The platen is secured directly to the other side of the planar array. A forcer having a motor stack is magnetically coupleable to the platen to form a linear drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Baldor Electric CompanyInventor: Glenn Sterling Trammell
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Publication number: 20140217944Abstract: A system includes a permanent magnet motor having a rotor and a stator. The rotor and the stator have a configuration that causes the motor to generate a back-electromagnetic force (EMF) waveform that is substantially sinusoidal. The system also includes a motor controller having a sliding-mode observer configured to identify the back-EMF waveform and a position observer configured to estimate at least one characteristic of the motor using the identified back-EMF waveform. The stator may include multiple teeth projecting towards the rotor and multiple conductive windings, where each conductive winding is wound around a single tooth. The rotor may include multiple magnetic poles, where each magnetic pole has a span of about 60° or less. The sliding-mode observer may be configured to receive current measurements associated with three-phase signals and voltage commands generated by the motor controller. The position observer may include a proportional-integral (PI) regulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Shih-Chin Yang
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Patent number: 8754559Abstract: A rotor and a rotary electric machine containing the rotor are provided. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core coaxially connected to the shaft, a first axial magnetic steel and a second axial magnetic steel disposed at an end surface of the rotor core, a rotor bushing, and a first magnetic isolation groove. The first axial magnetic steel has a first magnetic pole facing the rotor core. The second axial magnetic steel has a second magnetic pole facing the rotor core. The rotor bushing is disposed at a side of the first and second axial magnetic steels opposite to the rotor core. The first magnetic isolation groove is formed in the rotor core along a radius direction of the rotor core. The first magnetic isolation groove is disposed between the first axial magnetic steel and the second axial magnetic steel to isolate the first pole and the second pole.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hong-Liu Zhu, Jian-Ping Ying, Shi-Xiang Zhang
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Publication number: 20140159531Abstract: A drive motor that is used as a power source of an eco-friendly vehicle and a rotor structure of the drive motor, wherein the drive motor includes a rotor that has a rotation axis and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded within a rotor core. Each of the permanent magnets are divided into an even number of divided magnets. In addition, the drive motor includes a stator that has a plurality of cores in which teeth for winding coils are formed and a plurality of slots that are interposed among the plurality of cores. An electric steel sheet is filled between the divided magnets of each of the permanent magnets of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Hyoungjun Cho, Sanghoon Moon, Kyoungbum Kim, Jung Shik Kim
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Publication number: 20140117804Abstract: A synchronous motor includes a stator with a stator winding, and a rotor on which magnetic poles made of permanent-magnetic material are formed, each pole having a cambered outer contour, especially an outer contour cambered radially outwards, in particular, 2×p individual poles being salient in the circumferential direction, p being the number of pole pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Helmut Nestler
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Publication number: 20140103773Abstract: An electrical rotor and stator structure includes at least one stator, at least one rotor and multiple outward pillar structures. The at least one stator includes multiple first magnetic members. Each first magnetic member has a first surface. The at least one rotor is able to be rotated pivotally relative to the at least one stator. The at least one rotor includes multiple second magnetic members. Each second magnetic member has a second surface facing and opposite to the first surface. The multiple outward pillar structures are installed on the second surfaces and the first surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Han-Ping Yang, Cheng-Hsuan Lin, Chau-Shin Jang, Wen-Yang Peng
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Publication number: 20140084734Abstract: The present invention, in a rotating electrical machine having a configuration in which a plurality of magnetic pole pieces is attached along outer perimeters of the rotating axis, provides a structure of rotating electrical machine with small cogging torque by providing a skew in magnetic pole pieces. The rotating electrical machine according to the present invention comprises a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed with a skew angle and a cylindrical attachment ring for attaching the magnetic pole pieces, wherein an engaging portion provided at outer perimeters of the attachment ring and an engaging portion included in the magnetic pole pieces are both extended along the rotating axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi ISHIGAMI, Hiroshi KANAZAWA, Hidefumi IWAKI
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Patent number: 8664821Abstract: An arrangement for attaching a permanent magnet to the rotor of an electrical machine and such a rotor are provided. The rotor is assembled of sheets and includes at least two magnetic poles and a magnetic core. Permanent magnets are installable on a surface of the magnetic core, and a pole piece assembled of sheets is installable on a side of the permanent magnet that faces an air gap. At least one channel passing through the pole piece is built in the pole piece and magnetic core. A tightening strip is installable in the channel. The tightening strip is attachable to the pole piece using locking parts, and an end of the tightening strip facing the magnetic core includes fixing parts for attaching the tightening strip to the magnetic core.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Ari Vartiainen, Petri Mäki-Ontto, Pekka Kanninen
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Publication number: 20140049131Abstract: An electrical machine has a stator-rotor configuration in which the rotor has at least two poles. The poles are configured to rotate in an angle and to electromagnetically interact with one or more teeth that is a part of a stator adjoined in a fixed position to the electrical machine. The configuration forms a gap in the lateral direction between the poles and the teeth. At least one of the poles is formed of a permanent magnet material and a magnetic flux intensifier is arranged relative to at least one of the poles and one of the teeth. The magnetic flux intensifier is configured to concentrate the magnetic field lines between a pole and the teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Envision Energy (Denmark) ApSInventor: Peter Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20140009025Abstract: A hybrid field electric motor includes a rotor with a rotor core rotating about an axial axis and having a rotor surface with at least one sloping edge face and a radial edge face. The stator includes a stator core and radial pole faces spaced by a gap from the radial edge face of the rotor for radially directing flux into the rotor core. The stator has sloping pole faces spaced from the sloping edge face of the rotor core for flux directed into the rotor core at an angle between radial and axial. The rotor core and/or stator core are made of a soft magnetic composite material for flux in inure than one plane in the core(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: PERSIMMON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Martin Hosek, Sripati Sah
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Patent number: 8598760Abstract: A permanent magnet module for a rotor of a permanent magnet electrical machine is presented. The permanent magnet module comprises: a stack of ferromagnetic steel sheets (104) having a groove in the direction perpendicular to the ferromagnetic steel sheets, and a permanent magnet (105) located in the groove and arranged to produce magnetic flux that penetrates a surface (106) of the stack of ferromagnetic steel sheets. The surface has a shape suitable for forming a desired magnetic flux density distribution into an air-gap of the permanent magnet electrical machine. The permanent magnet module further comprises a base-plate (102) made of solid ferromagnetic steel. The base plate is located at an opening (116) of the groove and constitutes together with the groove an aperture in which the permanent magnet is located.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Switch Drive Systems OyInventor: Panu Kurronen
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Patent number: 8564166Abstract: A motor structure including a stator assembly having a stator core and a winding and a rotor assembly embedded therein having a rotor core and a permanent magnet. The stator core includes a yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding inwards from the yoke. Two adjacent teeth form a wire embedding slot and the winding is placed inside the wire embedding slot and winds around the teeth. The rotor core includes an annular ring having a central axial pore and a plurality of magnetic induction blocks protruding outwards from an outer side of the annular ring. Two adjacent magnetic induction blocks form a radial recess for mounting the permanent magnet. The section of an outer side surface of the magnetic induction blocks is a circular-arc line. The outer side surface employs a point with a distance deviating from the center of the central axial pore as a center of circle.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mingpan Pan
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Publication number: 20130270950Abstract: A pole shoe arrangement for a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine having an air gap between the stator and the rotor is disclosed. The pole shoe arrangement has a pole shoe element having an inner end and an outer end opposing the inner end. The inner end lies opposite the air gap when the pole shoe element is in an assembled state. The pole shoe element has a receiving surface for receiving a permanent magnet between the inner end and the outer end. The pole shoe arrangement has a guiding facility to guide the permanent magnet in a radial direction from the outer end to the inner end and to limit a movement of the permanent magnet at right angles to the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Silvio Semmer, Xavier Tourde, Adriana Cristina Urda
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Publication number: 20130270951Abstract: A pole shoe element for an electrical machine is described. The electrical machine has a stator, a rotor and an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The pole shoe element contains a magnet receiving section which extends in a longitudinal direction of the pole shoe element, in which the pole shoe element in a peripheral direction of the rotor has a first width in a first radial inner position and in the peripheral direction has a second width in a second radial outer position. The second width is smaller than the first width.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Silvio Semmer, Xavier Tourde, Adriana Cristina Urda
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Publication number: 20130207501Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core in which first magnetic pole portions having permanent magnets and second magnetic pole portions having no permanent magnets are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. Each of the second magnetic pole portions has at least one notch provided near the permanent magnet adjacent thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventor: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
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Patent number: 8471424Abstract: Permanent-magnet (PM) rotors, rotor components, and machines using PM rotors.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Teco-Westinghouse Motor CompanyInventors: Xueqing Feng, Lijun Liu
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Patent number: 8390156Abstract: A rotor for a multipolar synchronous rotating machine includes a plurality of salient poles, each salient pole including a polar body and being surrounded by an induction coil including a plurality of layers of coiled wire; a plurality of spacers such that each spacer of the plurality of spacers creates a first spacing between two successive layers of coiled wire of the plurality of layers for the circulation of coolant between each layer of coiled wire of the plurality of layers, the rotor including a second spacing between the polar body and each layer of coiled wire of the plurality of layers for the circulation of the coolant between the induction coil and the polar body.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Jeumont ElectricInventors: Daniel Laloy, Guy Legoix, Alain Ducrot, Brahim Ammar
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Publication number: 20130038165Abstract: A motor structure including a stator assembly having a stator core and a winding and a rotor assembly embedded therein having a rotor core and a permanent magnet. The stator core includes a yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding inwards from the yoke. Two adjacent teeth form a wire embedding slot and the winding is placed inside the wire embedding slot and winds around the teeth. The rotor core includes an annular ring having a central axial pore and a plurality of magnetic induction blocks protruding outwards from an outer side of the annular ring. Two adjacent magnetic induction blocks form a radial recess for mounting the permanent magnet. The section of an outer side surface of the magnetic induction blocks is a circular-arc line. The outer side surface employs a point with a distance deviating from the center of the central axial pore as a center of circle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mingpan Pan
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Patent number: 8354767Abstract: A permanent magnet machine is provided comprising a stator and a rotor, the rotor being adapted to rotate relative to the stator, the rotor comprising a plurality of permanent magnets separated in the circumferential direction from each other by axially extending rotor pole pieces for concentrating the magnetic flux from the permanent magnets, the stator having a structure that defines axial limits of an air gap between the stator and the rotor for communicating magnetic flux between the stator and the rotor, wherein that at least some of the permanent magnets extend axially outside the axial limits of the air gap as defined by the stator structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Hoganas AB (Publ.)Inventors: Lars-Olov Pennander, Alan G. Jack, Glynn James Atkinson
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Patent number: 8350435Abstract: An interior permanent magnet machine has non-contiguous, non-magnetic radial slots between the magnets and the cylindrical periphery and the magnets have non-magnetic radial end slots.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Keith I. Hoemann, Todd A. Walls
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Patent number: 8304949Abstract: A magnet pole portion 31 is made up of an integral magnet 44 into which are integrated a main permanent magnet piece 41 which is magnetized in the direction of a rotational axis, a pair of auxiliary permanent magnet pieces 42, 42 which are disposed at circumferential sides on one side of the main permanent magnet piece 41 with respect to the direction of the rotational axis, which are each magnetized in the direction of the rotational axis and a direction which is at right angles to a radial direction and on which magnetic poles face each other which are the same as a magnetic pole on the one side of the main permanent magnet piece 41 with respect to the direction of the rotational axis, and a pair of auxiliary magnet pieces 43, 43 which are disposed at circumferential sides on the other side of the main permanent magnet piece 41 with respect to the direction of the rotational axis, which are each magnetized in the direction of the rotational axis and a direction which is at right angles to a radial directionType: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8288908Abstract: A reconfigurable electric motor includes a rotor containing rotatable permanent magnets or non-magnetically conducting shunting pieces. The magnets and/or shunting pieces have a first position producing a weak magnetic field for asynchronous induction motor operation at startup and a second position producing a strong magnetic field for efficient synchronous operation. The motor includes a squirrel cage for induction motor operation at startup with the permanent magnets and/or shunting pieces positioned to product the weak magnetic field to not interfere with the startup. When the motor approaches or reaches synchronous RPM, the permanent magnets and/or shunting pieces rotate to produce a strong magnetic field for high efficiency synchronous operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Inventors: Louis J. Finkle, Andrea Furia
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Publication number: 20120248918Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core comprised of steel sheets that are laminated in the axial direction of the rotor core and a rotating component configured to rotate together with the rotor core. Each of the steel sheets has a positioning portion for circumferentially positioning the steel sheet with respect to the rotating component and is formed of a rolled steel material. For each of the steel sheets, the direction of rolling of the steel sheet is circumferentially offset from both imaginary lines X and Y by predetermined angles. Each of the steel sheets is shaped so that the circumferential position of the positioning portion thereof remains unchanged when the steel sheet is front-back inverted about the imaginary line X. When viewed along the axial direction, at least one of the steel sheets is front-back inverted with respect to and thus forms a mirror image of the other steel sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuichirou Itou, Masahiro Seguchi, Yuki Takahashi, Hideaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 8278794Abstract: The rotor 11 of an axial gap type motor 10 is provided with a plurality of main magnets 41 respectively magnetized in an axial direction of a rotational axis and disposed at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction, a plurality of yokes 42 structured by a laminated member 71 produced by winding a tape-shaped electromagnetic steel plate 60 and respectively disposed on both sides of the main magnets 41 in the axial direction, and a rotor frame 30 made of a die-cast alloy and including a plurality of ribs 31 respectively interposed between the main magnets 41 adjoining each other in the peripheral direction and extending in the radial direction, and an inner cylindrical portion 32 and an outer cylindrical portion 33 respectively formed on the radially inner side of the ribs 31 and on the radially outer side of the ribs 31.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Ishikawa, Keiichi Yamamoto, Shoei Abe
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Publication number: 20120206008Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inner rotor for a rotary electric machine, the rotor comprising a plurality of pole pieces surrounding a shaft, each pole piece being made from a stack of metal sheets (3) made of magnetic material, the pole pieces delimiting recesses between them for permanent magnets. The method comprises, in succession the steps of cutting blanks (33) each grouping together n metal sheets (3), “n” being the number of poles of the rotor, the n metal sheets of a blank being held together by temporary bridges (35) straddling the recesses, at least two bridges each comprising an outer lug (36), stacking the blanks while keeping them aligned via the outer lugs, immobilizing the stack of blanks, and eliminating all the temporary bridges in order to free up the radial access to the recesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventors: Maeick Blanc, Bertrand Vedy
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Patent number: 8198775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Shouichi Kawamata, Suetaro Shibukawa, Osamu Koizumi, Keiji Oda
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Patent number: RE44037Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electric machine comprises a stator having stator windings wound round a stator iron core and a permanent magnet rotor having a plurality of inserted permanent magnets in which the polarity is alternately arranged in the peripheral direction in the rotor iron core. The rotor iron core of the permanent magnets is composed of magnetic pole pieces, auxiliary magnetic poles, and a stator yoke, and furthermore has concavities formed on the air gap face of the magnetic pole pieces of the rotor iron core of the permanent magnets, gently tilting from the central part of the magnetic poles to the end thereof. In a permanent magnet rotating electric machine, effects of iron loss are reduced, and an electric car using highly efficient permanent magnet rotating electric machine are realized.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Masashi Kitamura, Noriaki Hino, Takashi Kobayashi, Shigeru Kakugawa, Takashi Yasuhara