Embedded In A Core Patents (Class 310/156.53)
  • Publication number: 20110291515
    Abstract: A brushless motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator core with a plurality of inwardly extending salient poles and windings wound about the salient poles. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed onto the shaft, and magnets inserted in the rotor core for forming magnetic poles of the rotor. Each of the salient poles has a pole shoe with a pole face that extends along a circumferential direction confronting the rotor core and being spaced from the rotor core by an air gap. In a radial cross section of the motor, each of the magnetic poles of the rotor has an effective dimension (W) which is about 0.85 times to 1.2 times of the chord length (L) of each pole face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Yue LI, Jian ZHAO, Yong WANG, Ya Ming ZHANG, Yan Hong XUE, Mao Xiong JIANG
  • Patent number: 8067871
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Masashi Kitamura, Noriaki Hino, Takashi Kobayashi, Shigeru Kakugawa, Takashi Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 8067872
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permanent magnet rotor for an electric motor, in which the permanent magnets inside the rotor extend parallel to the rotation axis of the rotor, and in the area of the radially outer longitudinal edges of the permanent magnets, grooves that are open to the outside are formed on the outer periphery of the rotor. These groves are each, in a peripheral direction, slanted or curved with regard to the longitudinal edge of the adjacent permanent magnets. The center line of each groove intersects the longitudinal edge of the adjacent permanent magnet at least once. The grooves on the outside of the rotor have, in the peripheral direction, a smaller width than in an area of the groove situated radially further inside, and the cross-sectional shape of the groove is constant over the length of the rotor. The invention also relates to a method for producing a rotor of the aforementioned type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Grundfos a/s
    Inventors: Henrik Ørskov Pedersen, Keld Folsach Rasmussen, Kjeld Hellegaard
  • Publication number: 20110285239
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet machine has multiple rotor sections, each section having multiple rotor laminations. Permanent magnets are placed asymmetrically in lamination openings to attenuate oscillations in torque caused by harmonic components of magnetic flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Feng Liang
  • Publication number: 20110285216
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Panu Kurronen
  • Publication number: 20110278977
    Abstract: A rotor includes a hollow cylindrical rotor core and permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core to form a plurality of magnetic poles on the radially outer periphery of the rotor core. The rotor core has a plurality of openings each of which extends in the axial direction of the rotor core so as to penetrate it. When viewed along the axial direction, each of the openings is symmetrically positioned with respect to the centerline of a corresponding one of the magnetic poles. For each of the openings, there are provided n reinforcing portions, where n is an integer not less than 2. The n reinforcing portions extend to connect a pair of radially-inner and radially-outer peripheral portions of the rotor core, thereby partitioning the opening into (n+1) parts. The n reinforcing portions are symmetrically arranged with respect to the centerline of the corresponding magnetic pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke UTAKA
  • Publication number: 20110273049
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator, and a rotor lamination assembly configured and disposed to rotate relative to the stator. The rotor lamination assembly includes at least one lamination member including a body member having an outer diametric edge, and at least one magnet receiving member. The at least one magnet receiving member includes a first end that extends to a second end. The second end establishes an interruption zone in the outer diametric edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Balazs Palfai, Bradley D. Chamberlin, David A. Fulton, Rui Guan
  • Publication number: 20110266910
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, a first pole partition line, and a second pole partition line. The first and second magnets are provided inside the rotor core and between the first and second pole partition line. The first magnet is closer to the first pole partition line than to the second pole partition line, and the second magnet is closer to the second pole partition line than to the first pole partition line. A distance between the first and second magnets at a position is wider as the position is closer to a circumference portion of the rotor core. The first magnet and the first pole partition line have a first minimum distance therebetween, the second magnet and the second pole partition line have a second minimum distance therebetween, and the first minimum distance is smaller than the second minimum distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takeo SUZUKI, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8044548
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine capable of realizing a variable-speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability. The permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes a stator provided with a coil and a rotor in which there are arranged a low-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is of such a level that a magnetic field created by a current of the stator coil may irreversibly change the flux density of the magnet and a high-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is equal to or larger than twice that of the low-coercive-force permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Publication number: 20110254474
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Kenichi Nakayama, Noriaki Hino, Shinji Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8040010
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a stator, and a rotor which is disposed oppositely to the stator with a gap interposed. The stator comprises a stator core, and a distributed stator winding mounted to the stator core. The stator core comprises a ring-like yoke core, and a plurality of teeth cores which protrude from the yoke core in the radial direction. The rotor comprises a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core. A pair of non-magnetic portions is created inside the rotor core and on both sides of the circumferential width of a permanent magnet for one magnetic pole. In the rotor core located on the stator side of the pair of non-magnetic portions, a pair of magnetic paths is created as the result of the creation of the pair of non-magnetic portions. Furthermore, a groove or hole is created on the outer circumferential portion of the rotor core and between the adjacent magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Kamiya, Noriaki Hino, Fumio Tajima, Tsutomu Miyoshi, Hideki Nihei
  • Patent number: 8030817
    Abstract: A rotor of a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention has a plurality of magnetic poles in point symmetry with respect to a rotation center of a rotor core 2. For each of the magnetic poles, there are arranged a permanent magnet 3 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is small and a permanent magnet 4 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is large. The permanent magnet 3 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is small is irreversibly magnetized by a magnetic field created by a current of an armature coil 21, to change a total linkage flux amount. This realizes a wide-range variable-speed operation of high output, to provide the rotating electrical machine with a wide operating range and high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Patent number: 8026648
    Abstract: An electric machine, especially a brushless DC motor. Said electric machine comprises a rotor and a stator which is provided with current-carrying coils. Said rotor, in the circumferential direction, is provided with a plurality of permanent magnets that are embedded in respective magnet retainers between the peripheral surface and the shaft of the rotor in such a manner that the permanent magnets, in the radial direction, are completely encircled by the peripheral surface of the rotor. In the area of the magnet retainer, recesses extend laterally in the circumferential direction of the rotor and axially within the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Falko Abel, Michal Kalavsky, Pietro de Filippis
  • Patent number: 8018109
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet machine has multiple rotor sections, each section having multiple rotor laminations. Permanent magnets are placed asymmetrically in lamination openings to attenuate oscillations in torque caused by harmonic components of magnetic flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Feng Liang
  • Patent number: 8008825
    Abstract: An electromagnetic steel plate forming member provides the two magnet holes for inserting therein the two permanent magnets per pole along the V-shape, which are provided in the region of the radial pole pitch lines OP provided in the rotor core at the predetermined pole pitch angle ?, one magnet hole is displaced in a direction apart from the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP, and the other magnet hole is displaced in a direction approaching to the center line OC of the pole pitch lines OP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Takeo Suzuki, Akihiko Maemura, Yosuke Kawazoe, Yuto Fukuma, Takeshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110204741
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided having a cylindrical stator and a rotor that is spaced from a stator to define an annular primary air gap air gap that receives AC flux from the stator. The rotor has a plurality of longitudinal pole portions disposed parallel to the axis of rotation and alternating in polarity around a circumference of the rotor. each longitudinal pole portion includes portions of permanent magnet (PM) material and at least one of the longitudinal pole portions has a first end and an opposing second end and a side magnet is disposed adjacent the first end and a side pole is disposed adjacent the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventor: John S. Hsu
  • Patent number: 8004139
    Abstract: A compressor motor includes a rotor and a stator disposed radially outside of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, and a plurality of magnets circumferentially arranged on the rotor core at center angles of equal intervals. The rotor core has an axial length L and a radial length D. Each of the magnets has a thickness t. L/D <0.7, and t>(1×K×N)/(L1.5×D×P), where P is the number of poles, K is 100000, and N is a factor that depends on a compressor output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kataoka, Keiji Aota, Shin Nakamasu
  • Publication number: 20110198959
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet (IPM) machine having a rotor and a stator is provided. The rotor includes a radially inner barrier devoid of magnets, and a radially outer barrier having at least one permanent magnet, each barrier having two pockets with one pocket disposed at an angle relative to the other. At least one of the pockets of the inner barrier has a shape of an irregular quadrilateral. At least one of the pockets of the outer barrier has a substantially trapezoidal shape with a first side generally parallel to a second side, wherein the first side has a portion slanted relative to the third side. In such an IPM machine, demagnetization of the outer barrier magnet is limited when operating temperatures and electrical current exceed operating conditions prescribed by design specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Rajeev Vyas
  • Patent number: 7994666
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20110163624
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine, wherein the rotation direction of a rotor is a defined direction, a groove is provided in a rotor core on the radial outside with respect to permanent magnets, and the groove is provided in a position inclined from the centerline between the permanent magnets within a magnetic pole head and at the same time in a position excluding an end portion of a permanent magnet insertion hole on the radial outside, in order to enable a reduction in a no-load induced electromotive force and prevention of a decrease in output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Masahiro HORI, Daisuke Kori, Akiyoshi Komura, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Seikichi Masuda, Mamoru Kimura, Nobuhiko Obata
  • Patent number: 7973442
    Abstract: A production method for a rotor for a permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine, includes the step (S01, S02) of forming a magnet piece that has a plurality of groove portions that are provided on at least one of end surfaces of the magnet piece in a predetermined direction, the step (S03) of stacking a plurality of formed magnet pieces so that adjacent magnet pieces contact each other and the plurality of groove portions of one of the adjacent magnet pieces cross with the plurality of groove portions of another one of the adjacent magnet pieces, and the step (S04) of inserting and disposing the plurality of stacked magnet pieces into a hole formed in a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7969058
    Abstract: Permanent magnet motors with improved torque ripple and methods for designing the same have been provided. The permanent magnet motor can include a stator having a hollow core and defining a plurality of slots; a winding disposed in each of the slots; a rotor rotatably disposed inside the hollow core of the stator; and a plurality of permanent magnets supported by the rotor. Each of the slots has a slot opening, and at least one of the slot openings can be off-center with respect to the respective slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Peter J. Savagian, Matthew D. Laba
  • Patent number: 7960885
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotor core formed by stacking a first sheet member and a second sheet member and having a first magnet-inserted hole and a second magnet-inserted hole located radially outward relative to the first magnet-inserted hole; magnets inserted respectively into the first and second magnet-inserted holes; and a resin portion injected into the first and second magnet-inserted holes. The first sheet member has a first hole and a second hole constituting the first and second magnet-inserted holes respectively. The second sheet member is located at at least one axial end of the rotor core and has a portion covering a part of the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Taketo Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20110133590
    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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: MURTUZA LOKHANDWALLA, Rammohan Rao Kalluri, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran
  • Patent number: 7956505
    Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor includes lamination core formed by laminating a plurality of individual cores, and at least one pair of magnet members that generate rotating torque by electromagnetic interaction with a stator, are provided at the lamination core such that a magnetic sensor can sense magnetic flux, and have magnetic poles opposite to each other, such that a position of the rotor of the electric motor can be accurately detected and a process of manufacturing the electric motor can be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun-Hun Shin, Jun-Ho Ahn, Jae-Yoon Oh, Dal-Ho Cheong
  • Patent number: 7956506
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a stator having stator salient poles, three-phases windings would around said stator salient poles, a rotor rotatable held inside the said stator, and permanent magnets inserted into said rotor and positioned opposite to said stator salient poles. The three-phase windings are concentratively wound around each of the stator salient poles, with windings of each phase wound around at more than one stator salient pole. The windings of each phase have a phase difference of voltage between at least one of the windings and the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobe, Shouichi Kawamata, Suetaro Shibukawa, Osamu Koizumi, Keiji Oda
  • Publication number: 20110127859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permanent-magnetic rotor (2) for an electric motor, preferably for an internal rotor motor, that comprises a laminated core (3) consisting of several rotor sheets (4, 41, 5) that are stacked in the axial direction. Permanent magnets (8) are arranged in receiving pockets (7) formed by recesses (6) of the rotor sheets, the laminated core (3) being composed of at least two differently shaped types of rotor sheets (4, 4?, 5). Several rotor sheets (4, 41) of a first type of rotor sheet are provided as retaining sheets (4, 41) that respectively comprise a (central) yoke lamination section (13) that is connected or can be connected to the rotor shaft and respectively one or more (external) pole shoe sections (12) that are connected to the yoke lamination section (13) by one or more connecting bars (9, 9?, 10) or bar sections, and several rotor sheets (5) of a second type of rotor sheet are provided as intermediate sheets (5) without connecting bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Hanning Electro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Amrhein, Ralf de le Haye, Siegfried Silber
  • Patent number: 7952249
    Abstract: A rotor is deployed such that the rotor becomes coaxially rotatable with a stator. A shaft is fixed onto the axis of a rotor iron-core. 1-pole constituting magnet slots are deployed into V-character pattern along an outer circumference portion of the rotor iron-core. Permanent magnets are embedded into the magnet slots. For the 1 pole, the 2 pieces of same-polarity permanent magnets are embedded into the V-character pattern. The configuration of each embedded permanent magnet is designed as follows: From the thickness of the permanent-magnet edge portion on the inner-diameter side of the rotor iron-core, which becomes the center of the V-character pattern, the thickness of the permanent magnet gradually increases toward the outer-diameter side of the rotor iron-core, which become the right and left edge portions of the V-character pattern. Simultaneously, curved lines are provided on both edge portions of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Mamoru Kimura, Hiroyuki Mikami, Seikichi Masuda, Masayasu Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20110121677
    Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet electric motor includes a rotor core having a generally cylindrical shape with an outer circumferential surface and a rotational axis and a plurality of magnet insertion hole arrangements formed in the rotor core and arranged circumferentially at a preset angular interval about the rotational axis. Each hole arrangement has a radially inward side, a radially outward side, and two ends that are respectively spaced apart from the circumferential surface by respective bridge regions formed by the rotor core. The material of the bridge regions is metallurgically transformed by having its grain structure changed, e.g., by heating the material to at least its Curie temperature, whereby the material possesses greater magnetic reluctance than the material of adjacent portions of the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Josh LEY, Stanley Allan Betzold, Victor Chieduko
  • Patent number: 7948138
    Abstract: A rotor is provided with a rotor core, a magnet inserted into the rotor core and a filling portion arranged in a space between the rotor core and the magnet. The space between the rotor core and a radially outer side surface of the magnet has a uniform width in a central portion (portion (A)) with respect to a width direction (of arrow (DR4)) of the magnet. A width of the space in an end portion (portion (B)) with respect to the width direction (of arrow (DR4)) of the magnet is larger than that of the space in the portion (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hattori, Akihide Takehara
  • Patent number: 7948137
    Abstract: A rotor includes a core extending in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of magnets. The core has parts formed by magnetic materials and extending in the predetermined direction. The parts are arranged in a loop around the part, and face the part through gaps. The magnets are buried in the gaps in the form of a loop in the core. The magnets have pole faces extending in the predetermined direction. In each of the magnets, at least one of ends of the magnet protrudes forward in parallel to the predetermined direction with respect to an end of the part that is on the same side with the at least one of the ends of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Ohyama, Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano, Toshinari Kondo, Keiji Aota
  • Publication number: 20110115328
    Abstract: In an embedded magnet motor, radial magnets and first inclined magnets form north poles. The radial magnets and second inclined magnets form south poles. Core sheets each include preformed radial accommodating slots the number of which is expressed by P/2. Some of the preformed radial accommodating slots are short slots and the rest are long slots. The short slots are located at some parts of each radial accommodating slot along the axial direction. Radially inner ends of the short slots restrict the radial magnets from moving radially inward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAYAMA, Hirotaka ITOH, Yoshiyuki TAKABE
  • Patent number: 7939985
    Abstract: In a rotor unit of a motor, field magnets are inserted into respective magnet holding holes of a rotor core. End plates are arranged on the upper and lower end surfaces of the rotor core to cover the magnets holding holes. Each of the end plates preferably has three bent portions extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the radial direction, the three bent portions being arranged circumferentially. The bent portions are preferably formed through press working such that they are protruded toward the rotor core. The rotor core includes end plate fixing holes. End plates are preferably fixed to the rotor core by press-fitting the bent portions into the respective end plate fixing holes while allowing side surfaces of the bent portions to make contact with inner surfaces of the end plate fixing holes. Accordingly, the end plates can easily be fixed to the rotor core without increasing the axial size of the rotor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Yamada
  • Patent number: 7932658
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator, and a rotor positioned adjacent the stator and configured to rotate with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of laminations having an outside diameter and stacked in a stackwise direction. Each lamination includes a plurality of non-linear slots positioned inward of the outside diameter. Each non-linear slot includes an inner portion spaced a first distance from the outside diameter and two end portions disposed a second distance from the outside diameter. The second distance is smaller than the first distance. The rotor also includes a plurality of permanent magnets. Each magnet is disposed in one of the non-linear slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: A.O. Smith Corporation
    Inventor: Dan M. Ionel
  • Patent number: 7923881
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor core positioned adjacent the stator and rotatable about a longitudinal axis. The rotor core includes a plurality of bar apertures, a plurality of elongated flux barriers separate from the bar apertures and positioned radially inward of the bar apertures, and a plurality of magnet slots separate from the bar slots and positioned radially inward of a portion of the bar apertures. The electric machine also includes a plurality of magnets, each positioned in one of the magnet slots. A plurality of conductive bars are each positioned in one of the bar apertures and includes a first end and a second end. A first end ring is coupled to the first end of each of the bars and a second end ring is coupled to the second end of each of the bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: A.O. Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Dan M. Ionel, Stephen J. Dellinger, Alan E. Lesak, Jeremiah Mattingly
  • Patent number: 7919897
    Abstract: An axial gap type motor 10 includes: a rotor 11 having a rotor core 13, the rotor core 13 including: multiple main magnet pieces 41 respectively magnetized in a direction of the rotation axis O of the rotor, and multiple main magnet piece storing hole portions 15 respectively for holding associated main magnet pieces; and a pair of stators 12 to be mounted onto the rotor 11, wherein the rotor core 13 is structured by winding a tape-shaped magnetic plate 14, and includes a first winding layer and a second winding layer; and in portions of the first and second winding layers that are situated in the same phase from the center of rotation of the rotor core 13, the first winding layer includes an outside magnetic flux short preventive portions 62, and the second winding layer includes an outside connecting portions 61.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Tajima, Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7915776
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type electric rotary machine includes a stator including a stator core having teeth and slots, and a rotor provided with permanent magnets as magnet poles in a rotor core. A pole core portion which between each of the permanent magnets and an outer surface of the rotor core is provided with a plurality of pole slits. A region of the pole core portion is defined by concave portions provided on q-axes to be interpolars on both sides of the pole core portion, and thereby configured that a gap between the outer surface on the q-axis of the rotor core and an inner surface of the stator core is larger than a gap between the outer surface on the d-axis of the pole core portion and the inner surface of the stator, so that magnetic fluxes from the permanent magnet pass through the pole core portion concentrately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Takahata, Satoshi Kikuchi, Shinichi Wakui, Keiji Noma, Masaharu Senoo
  • Publication number: 20110068652
    Abstract: A traction motor for an electric vehicle, comprises a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor comprises a rotor core and magnets fixed to the rotor core. The rotor core has 2P rotor poles formed by the magnets, P being an integer greater than one. The stator comprises a stator core having S teeth and field windings wound on the teeth, S being equal to 3·m·P where m is the number of phases. Field windings of each phase comprises P winding units. Each the winding unit comprises a first coil and a second coil connected in series. The first coils have a larger coil pitch and a greater number of turns compared to the second coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Rui Feng QIN, Chang Jin Zhou, Ling Yang
  • Publication number: 20110062814
    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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Taku ADANIYA, Minoru MERA, Hiroshi FUKASAKU
  • Publication number: 20110062815
    Abstract: A field element core has a perimeter exposed around a rotation axis and a plurality of field magnet insertion holes circularly disposed around the rotation axis P. A radius between the perimeter and the rotation axis P decreases in a monotonically non-increasing manner from a pole center toward an interpole and then increases in a monotonically non-decreasing manner in a region between the pole center and the interpole in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshihito Sanga, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 7906882
    Abstract: Permanent magnets 52a1, 52a2 are inserted into magnet insert holes 51a1, 51a4 formed in a main magnetic pole 50A of a rotor 50. An outer circumferential surface of the rotor includes a first outer circumferential surface portion 50a which intersects with a d-axis and second outer circumferential surface portions 50da, 50ab which intersect with a q-axis. A radius R2 of curvature of the second outer circumferential surface portions 50da, 50ab is larger than a radius of curvature of the first outer circumferential surface portions 50a. Recesses 50a1, 50a2 are formed in the second outer circumferential surface portions 50da, 50ab and in a position to face end walls 51a2, 51a5 of the magnet insert holes 51a1, 51a4 which are adjacent to the outer circumferential surface of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Aichi Elec Co.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okuma, Shinji Doki, Mutsuo Tomita, Mitsuhiko Sato, Seiichi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7902711
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet machine (“IPM machine”) of the type used, for example, with traction motors and hybrid electric vehicles, includes a rotor having a plurality of equal-sized (e.g., rectilinear) segmented ferrite magnets arranged in one or more layers. The magnets are inserted within rotor slots that are larger than the magnets themselves, such that one or more air gaps are formed adjacent to the magnets in each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Rolf Blissenbach, Khiet Le, Dang Dinh Dang, Jonathan Bird
  • Patent number: 7902712
    Abstract: A magnetic member with an annular outer periphery and an inner periphery includes first portions and second portions alternately disposed in its circumferential direction. The first portions and second portions are magnetically separated in the circumferential direction by gaps, which block magnetic fluxes from flowing in the circumferential direction between the first portion and second portion. The first portions respectively have holes extending almost in the circumferential direction. The gaps are provided at both ends of the holes in the circumferential direction between the outer periphery and inner periphery. An interior permanent magnet type rotor can be structured by inserting field magnets into the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 7902710
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor having at least one pole pair, the at least one pole pair including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole having opposite polarities. The first magnetic pole may include a first inner radial permanent-magnet layer and a first outer radial permanent-magnet layer. The second magnetic pole may include a second inner radial permanent-magnet layer and a second outer radial permanent-magnet layer. An outer end of the first inner radial permanent-magnet layer and an outer end of the second inner radial permanent-magnet layer may be separated by an angle of between about 27 and about 55 electrical degrees. The electric machine may also include a stator having a stator core with an odd number of stator slots per pole pair of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., University of Wisconsin
    Inventors: Seok-Hee Han, Mustafa Kamil Guven, Thomas Merlin Jahns
  • 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: 7893591
    Abstract: A stamping step of forming a plurality of band-shaped core sheets (11), (12) having arc-shaped segment core sheets (15), (15a), the adjacent segment core sheets (15), (15a) connected together by narrow-width connecting portions (16), (16a) provided therebetween, the segment core sheets (15), (15a) having a plurality of pole sections (13), (14), (13a), (14a) protruding radially outward; and an annular shape forming step of winding the plurality of band-shaped core sheets (11), (12) in a spiral form while bending the band-shaped core sheets (11), (12) at the connecting portions (16), (16a) and superimposing the pole sections (13), (14), (13a), (14a) vertically one on another, thereby laminating the band-shaped core sheets (11), (12); wherein in the stamping step, notches (23a), (23) to be positioned in correspondence with the connecting portions (16), (16a) bent in the annular shape forming step are formed at radially outward sides of joining portions (22a), (22), the joining portions joining the adjacent pole
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.
    Inventor: Iwao Myojin
  • Patent number: 7880358
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electric machine has a stator provided with a plurality of windings, and a rotor in which magnets are disposed in slots formed in a rotor core along an outer circumference thereof. The rotor core is fixed on a rotary shaft rotating inside the stator, and one magnetic pole is constituted by each group of three or more of the magnets. A total angle occupied by the group of magnets constituting one magnetic pole is in the range of 150 to 165 degrees in terms of an electrical angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Satoshi Kikuchi, Fumio Jyoraku, Hideyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 7880357
    Abstract: A sintered magnet and a rotating machine equipped therewith are disclosed, which include: crystal grains of a ferromagnetic material consisting mainly of iron, and a fluoride compound or an oxyfluoride compound, containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal element, an alkaline earth metal element, and a rare earth element, the fluoride compound or the oxyfluoride compound being formed inside some of the crystal grains or in a part of a grain boundary part. The oxyfluoride compound or the fluoride compound contains carbon, and a grain boundary width of the ferromagnetic material is smaller than a grain boundary width of the ferromagnetic material in which the fluoride compound or the oxyfluoride compound is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takao Imagawa, Yuichi Satsu, Matahiro Komuro, Takashi Yasuhara, Yutaka Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 7876014
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotor of a generator or motor having an auxiliary coil provided around a rotor body, thereby preventing the distortion of output voltage waveforms according to the variation of load, and thereby allowing the fine adjustment of the output voltages of the generator by the control of the current flowing to the auxiliary coil. The rotor of a generator or motor includes: a rotor body adapted to axially rotate together with a rotor shaft; at least one set of N-polar and S-polar permanent magnet groups arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor body at predetermined intervals; and a plurality of magnetic flux-increasing elements formed on the lines of magnetic force formed by the N-polar and S-polar permanent magnet groups around one side of the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sun Tech Generator Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sun-Hyu Lee