Embedded In A Core Patents (Class 310/156.53)
  • Patent number: 8502430
    Abstract: A rotor comprises a rotor core, a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor core, a plurality of salient poles and a plurality of auxiliary magnets each of which is disposed between the magnetic pole and the salient pole is provided. Each magnet pole has a field magnet pole that serves as a first magnetic pole, wherein the field magnet is a main magnet. Each salient pole is integrally formed with the rotor core between the two adjacent magnetic poles. Each salient pole serves as a second magnetic pole. The pole of the second magnetic pole is opposite from that of the first magnetic pole. The auxiliary magnet generates magnetic flux in a circumferential direction of the rotor core so that the magnetic pole and an opposing pole of the auxiliary magnet have the same polarity and the salient pole and another opposing pole of the auxiliary magnet have the same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Shigemasa Kato
  • Patent number: 8497613
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a permanent magnet includes the steps of a) producing a permanent magnet (1), b) fracturing the permanent magnet (1) to obtain two or more separate pieces (13), and c) restoring the permanent magnet (1) by fitting the fracture surfaces of adjacent separate pieces (13) together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Nakamura, Shigeto Takeuchi, Keiu Kanada, Masafumi Suzuki, Tomonari Kogure
  • Publication number: 20130183175
    Abstract: A driving device includes a rotor unit including a rotation shaft, a fluid supplying portion, and a motor rotor, a housing that rotatably supports the rotation shaft, a stator case accommodating a motor stator and a motor rotor. The motor rotor includes a consequent pole rotor including a motor rotor core and a plurality of the magnets arranged along a circumferential direction of the motor rotor core. The magnets form a plurality of magnetic pole portions that serve as primary magnetic poles. The motor rotor core includes portions located between adjacent ones of the magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction. The portions form magnetic-pole-forming portions that serve as secondary magnetic poles. The motor unit includes a magnetization inhibiting portion formed to inhibit magnetization of the fluid supplying portion. The support portion of the housing comprises a nonmagnetic metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: ASMO CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130181567
    Abstract: Laminated rotor (21) assemblies for rotating electric machines such as hybrid synchronous motors (HSM) of vehicle drives, the rotor plates (26) of which have one or several recesses (29) as a flux barrier or magnet pocket, which comprise radially innermost and outermost edge sections as rounded transition regions from and to edge sections lying therebetween. Each of the rounded transition regions may be shaped at least approximately respectively according to a part of a curve (35) of second order. Between adjacent recesses (29), a respective oblique cross-piece (52) is provided, the center line (54) of which lies obliquely to the pole axis (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: BRUSA ELEKTRONIK AG
    Inventors: Andreas Holzner, Verena Mathoy, Anna Mathoy, Eva Mathoy
  • Patent number: 8487495
    Abstract: A rotor includes a hub, a rotor core, holes and permanent magnets. Salient poles are each formed between neighboring openings on a circumference of the rotor core and, when viewed from a front along a line of axis of the rotor, a recessed portion that is formed by causing one portion of an inner circumferential surface of the rotor core to bulge radially outward of another portion is provided in a region enclosed by a first virtual line connecting a center of the hub and a circumferential middle position on the circumference of a magnetic pole of the rotor core having permanent magnets provided therein and a second virtual line connecting the center of the hub and a circumferential middle position on the circumference of the salient pole adjacent to the magnetic pole at a leading side in a rotational direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daijiro Takizawa
  • Patent number: 8487494
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet machine is provided with a rotor that includes a plurality of slots and at least one barrier defined by the plurality of slots. A plurality of first and second magnets are disposed within the barrier. The rotor is configured such that at least one of the first magnets is located at a different radial distance from the center of the rotor relative to at least one of the second magnets. The rotor may be configured to produce an averaging effect similar to that achieved through traditional skewing of rotor magnets. The rotor includes a plurality of poles defined by respective pole axes in the rotor and may be configured to reflect radial asymmetry between poles (pole-to-pole) and/or radial asymmetry within a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sinisa Jurkovic, Khwaja M. Rahman, Xinyu Zhou, Xu Han, Qiang Niu
  • Publication number: 20130169101
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine is provided that includes a magnet and a non-magnetic region located adjacent the magnet. The non-magnetic region has an intrusion extending into the non-magnetic region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Danotek Motion Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fang Deng, Ghanshyam Shrestha
  • Publication number: 20130162091
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotational electric motor including a core formed from laminated magnetic steel sheets, and a plurality of magnet arrays extending in a laminating direction of the core is provided. Magnets forming each of the plurality of magnet arrays are selected from first magnets and second magnets. A ratio of the length of the first magnet to that of the second magnet is one to two. The magnet arrays are arranged such that they include at least two of the second magnets and boundary planes between the magnets are offset relative to each other so as not to coincide with each other in a direction perpendicular to the laminating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: FANUC CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130154425
    Abstract: A rotor core is provided in which a plurality of poles each composed of a pair of first permanent magnets arranged in a V-shape open toward an outer peripheral side and a second permanent magnet arranged in parallel to a circumferential direction in an open part of the V-shape are arranged in the circumferential direction while alternately changing the polarities thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventor: Tohru Nakada
  • Publication number: 20130147304
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor including a stator having coils and a rotor rotated with respect to the stator, wherein the rotor is provided with a plurality of flux barriers arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction to restrain detouring of magnetic flux in the rotor, a permanent magnet is fitted in each of the flux barriers, and variable magnetic resistance members, magnetic resistance of which increases with increasing temperature, are provided at areas of the rotor closer to the stator than the flux barriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8461737
    Abstract: Line-start permanent-magnet (LSPM) rotors, rotor components, and machines using LSPM rotors, where the PM rotors have PM bulks in W-like shapes, vent openings between PM bulks, and/or air gaps at ends of PM bulks in the W-like shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company
    Inventors: Xueqing Feng, Lijun Liu
  • Publication number: 20130119811
    Abstract: Provided are a rotor adapted for a permanent magnetic rotating machine, the machine includes a rotor and a stator comprising a stator core having two or more slots, and winding wires wound through the stator core. The rotor includes a rotor core having two or more insertion holes formed in the rotor core; and two or more permanent magnets in the two or more insertion holes; and each of the permanent magnets is in form of rectangle with two opposite sides substantially parallel to a radial direction of the rotor on a surface vertical to a rotation axis of the rotor, and is in form of rectangular parallelepiped with four longitudinal edges parallel to the rotation axis, and the permanent magnet has at least one angular portion of four angular portions containing the four longitudinal edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130119810
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electric rotating machine capable of providing a high quality and efficient machine operation with reduced oscillation and noise by lowering torque ripple. The electric rotating machine includes a stator having a plurality of teeth facing a rotor, and a plurality of slots providing spaces for winding coils around the teeth. The rotor has a pair of permanent magnets embedded therein and located in a “V” shape configuration. Six slots of each set of the plurality of slots face one magnetic pole formed by the permanent magnets of each pair and the adjacent flux barriers. The plurality of teeth includes long teeth and short teeth. The distance xL between each of the long teeth and the rotor and the distance xS between each of the short teeth and the rotor meet the condition 0.1?(xS?xL)/xL?0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130119812
    Abstract: A rotor according to an aspect of the present invention includes columnar rotor core; and permanent magnets arranged side by side along predetermined polar pitch angle in circumferential direction of rotor core when viewed from sight line including axial center of rotor core. The rotor core is formed with openings formed in outer peripheral surface of rotor core and having permanent magnets inserted thereinto; interpole-forming-grooves formed by pair of first and second grooves that each extend in direction of axial center on both circumferential sides of openings, and formed in the same number as the number of magnetic poles; interpole formed between first groove and second groove adjacent to first groove; and rib formed between opening and interpole-forming-groove, in yoke-portion of rotor core. The rib is formed with stress-absorbing-portion made from thin-walled-portion with smallest thickness in yoke-portion in cross-sectional view of cross-section including axial center of rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Daijiro Takizawa, Akinobu Iwai
  • Patent number: 8441223
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a torque control method for a high-speed Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM), which controls a torque in the high-speed operation of a 2-phase SRM. In the torque control method for a high-speed SRM, a positive torque (T*mA) of an active phase (A phase) of the two phases of the SRM is compensated for based on a negative torque attributable to an inactive phase (B phase) of two phases during a compensation control enable interval (ENA) ranging from a time point at which the active phase (A phase) is turned on to a time point at which tail current of the inactive phase (B phase) remains. Accordingly, the present invention can remarkably reduce a torque ripple occurring in high-speed operation mode in consideration of the influence of a negative torque attributable to tail current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Kyungsung University Office of Industry-Academy Cooperation
    Inventors: Jin-Woo Ahn, Dong-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8441163
    Abstract: The present invention essentially relates to an electric machine (1.1) with homopolar double excitation, comprising a rotor particularly consisting of a central portion (51) made of a solid magnetic material and a laminated annular portion (53) located at the periphery of the solid portion. In addition, the rotor comprises permanent magnets (54), the magnetization thereof being radially oriented relative to the axis (33) of the rotor (31), and separated from one another such that the double excitation flow generated by the field coils (38, 39) can enter the rotor (31, 67) via the flanges (48, 49) of the rotor, and come back out via the spaces between the magnets (54), or vice-versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Peugeot Citroen Automobiles SA
    Inventors: Victor Moynot, Franck Chabot, Michel Lecrivain, Mohamed Gabsi, Sami Hlioui
  • Publication number: 20130113327
    Abstract: A rotor core according to an embodiment includes a pair of magnet openings disposed such that a space therebetween widens toward an outer peripheral side and in which a pair of permanent magnets having a magnetic pole direction relative to a radial direction identical to each other are inserted. The magnet openings each have a shape that connects together a first opening portion formed along the profile of the corresponding permanent magnet and a second opening portion that, when the permanent magnet is inserted in the first opening portion, covers, out of corner portions of the permanent magnet, a corner portion closest to the other permanent magnet with an air gap defined therebetween. The second opening portion forms a bridge portion between the second opening portion and the second opening portion of the other magnet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
  • Publication number: 20130113328
    Abstract: Disclosed are a rotor and an IPM motor capable of avoiding concentration of flux on a corner area of a magnet on the stator side, leading to reduction in demagnetizing field and accordingly reduction in a required coercive force, and reduction in the usage amount of dysprosium or the like and accordingly reduction in manufacturing cost. In a slot bored in a rotor core of a rotor making up a motor, at at least one of a slot face on a center side of the rotor core and a slot face facing this slot face is formed a protrusion or a concave groove, and the magnet to be inserted in the slot includes at least one of a concave groove and a protrusion to be engaged with the protrusion or the concave groove of the slot face at a position corresponding to the protrusion or the concave groove formed in the slot. Then, these concave groove and protrusion are engaged to form an engagement part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Tomonari Kogure, Hiroko Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20130113326
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
  • Publication number: 20130106228
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electric rotating machine capable of providing a high quality and efficient machine operation with reduced oscillation and noise by lowering torque ripple. The electric rotating machine includes a stator having a plurality of teeth facing a rotor, and a plurality of slots providing spaces for winding coils around the teeth. The rotor has a pair of permanent magnets embedded therein and located in a “V” shape configuration so as to let magnetic force act on the teeth such that the rotor within said stator is driven to revolve by reluctance torque and magnet torque. An outer diameter ratio ? of an outer diameter Dr of the rotor to an outer diameter Ds of the stator falls in a range from 0.61 to 0.645.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130106227
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine 10 includes a stator 11 having a plurality of teeth 15 facing a rotor 12, and a plurality of slots 18 providing spaces for winding coils around the teeth. The rotor has a pair of permanent magnets 16 embedded therein and located in a “V” shape configuration so as to let magnetic force act on the teeth such that the rotor within said stator is driven to revolve by reluctance torque and magnet torque. The permanent magnets are located in a way that when the pair of permanent magnets including a flux barrier in the rotor corresponding to six slots in the stator form a magnetic pole, an effective magnetic pole opening angle ?, having a vertex on the rotor axis, for the magnetic pole falls in an angular range 144°?? (in electric degrees)?154.3° effective for reducing harmonic of the specific order in superimposition on a magnetic flux waveform passing through one of the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Suzuki Motor Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130106226
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine 10 includes a stator 11 having a plurality of teeth 15 facing a rotor 12, and a plurality of slots 18 providing spaces for winding coils around the teeth. The rotor has a pair of permanent magnets 16 embedded therein and located in a “V” shape configuration so as to let magnetic force act on the teeth such that the rotor within said stator is driven to revolve by reluctance torque and magnet torque. The permanent magnets are located in a way that when the pair of permanent magnets including a flux barrier in the rotor corresponding to six slots in the stator form a magnetic pole, an opening angle ratio ?, i.e., the proportion of a magnet opening angle ?3 with respect to a rotor axis to an effective magnetic pole opening angle ?1 falls in a range 0.762???0816 effective for minimizing torque ripple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8427023
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first and second permanent magnets arranged in the core such that each of the first magnets corresponds to one of the second magnets and, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to a rotation axis thereof, a first line passing through the first magnet and a second line passing through the second magnet meet at a point pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets are arranged such that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the point is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, and a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first line being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Akihiko Maemura, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130093279
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor of a rotary electric machine comprising: a shaft which is a rotary shaft; a laminated core which has a permanent magnet embedded therein and is press-fitted to the shaft; a first member which is a magnetic member and is press-fitted to the shaft so as to hold an end portion of the laminated core; a second member which is a nonmagnetic member and is provided between the end portion of the laminated core and the first member so as to hold an end portion, with respect to the axial direction of the shaft, of the permanent magnet; and at least one of a first gap between the first member and the second member, and a second gap between the laminated core and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirohisa YOKOTA, Shinsuke KAYANO, Yoshiaki KITTA
  • Patent number: 8421294
    Abstract: A rotor includes permanent magnets arranged such that magnetic poles of N poles and S poles are arranged alternately in a rotation circumferential direction. The permanent magnets form a plurality of rows in a rotation axis direction. The rotor includes a change section in which arrangements of the magnetic poles change with respect to the rotation axis direction due to the permanent magnets being arranged such that arrangements of the magnetic poles change, in the rotation circumferential direction, between the permanent magnets in the plurality of rows. A stator includes tooth sections opposed to the rotor to surround the rotor, and auxiliary slots each of which is selectively formed at one portion of a front end portion of each tooth section in the rotation axis direction such that substantially a center of the auxiliary slot in the rotation axis direction is opposed to the change section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamaguchi, Hisashi Otsuka, Haruyuki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8415849
    Abstract: An injection apparatus includes a gate for injecting a filler to a gap between an inner wall of a slot and a permanent magnet. A plurality of gates are provided for one slot. An IPM rotor with improved NV characteristics, and method and apparatus for manufacturing such an IPM rotor can be provided by such a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yota Mizuno, Hiroshi Hata
  • Patent number: 8405271
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet type brushless direct current (BLDC) motor includes a stator having a plurality of slots and a stator coil wound on the slots. The interior permanent magnet type brushless direct current (BLDC) motor also includes a rotor that rotates with respect to the stator and that has a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets positioned in the rotor core. The rotor has a notch that is cut off between adjacent permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hoon Lee, Jun-Ho Ahn
  • Patent number: 8405269
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electric motor with permanent magnets (10) has a principal axis (D), comprises a laminated core (2) delimited by a first and a second end wall (4, 5) and by a lateral surface (6) and has a hole (7) for coupling to a motor shaft (8) and a plurality of longitudinal slots (9) for housing the magnets (10); the rotor also comprises positioning devices (20) for stabilizing the magnets (10) in the slots (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Spal Automotive S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alessandro Spaggiari
  • Patent number: 8405270
    Abstract: Supposing a straight line joining rotation center O of a rotor and a magnetic pole middle, that is, a middle of permanent magnets (25) to be a d-axis, and a straight line joining rotation center O and an intermediate point of mutually adjacent permanent magnets (25) to be a q-axis, mutually adjacent arcs A1 and A2 are composed such that radius R1 of arc A1 at the d-axis side is larger than radius R2 of arc A2 at the q-axis side, and that, at intersection point ? of mutual arcs A1 and A2, angle ? of tangent u of arc A2 at the q-axis side with respect to tangent t of arc A1 at the d-axis side is set by ?3 degrees???2 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroki Sato
  • Publication number: 20130069470
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet machine is provided with a rotor that includes a plurality of slots and at least one barrier defined by the plurality of slots. A plurality of first and second magnets are disposed within the barrier. The rotor is configured such that at least one of the first magnets is located at a different radial distance from the center of the rotor relative to at least one of the second magnets. The rotor may be configured to produce an averaging effect similar to that achieved through traditional skewing of rotor magnets. The rotor includes a plurality of poles defined by respective pole axes in the rotor and may be configured to reflect radial asymmetry between poles (pole-to-pole) and/or radial asymmetry within a pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sinisa Jurkovic, Khwaja M. Rahman, Xinyu Zhou, Xu Han, Qiang Niu
  • Patent number: 8400040
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotary electric machine has a rotor having a rotor core and permanent magnets buried into the rotor core by being incorporated into respective permanent magnet slots. The permanent magnet slot per one pole is divided at least into four slots along an outer circumferential direction in the rotor core, and in respective rest core-portions between adjacent divided permanent magnet slots in the rotor core, a width of a first rest core-portion at the middle of each pole and a width of a second rest core-portion between adjacent poles of different polarities are formed larger than that of the others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Hiroyuki Mikami, Seikichi Masuda, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20130057104
    Abstract: A rotatable assembly that includes a plurality of permanent magnets and a rotor core is described. The rotor core includes a first end, a second end, and at least one inner wall that defines a permanent magnet opening configured to receive at least one permanent magnet of the plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core further includes at least one bridge positioned between permanent magnet openings, wherein at least a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet of the plurality of permanent magnets generates a first rotor pole of a plurality of rotor poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Steven Stretz, William Stadler, Alan W. Yeadon, Mark Bartz
  • Publication number: 20130057105
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an interior permanent magnet motor is described herein. The method includes providing a plurality of permanent magnets and fabricating a ferromagnetic rotor core configured to accept the permanent magnets therein such that the ferromagnetic material utilized to retain the permanent magnets within the rotor core operates to concentrate and steer the flux from one or more of the permanent magnets to a stator tooth. The method also includes positioning the rotor core with the permanent magnets therein with respect to a wound, open slot stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Dean James Patterson, Steven Stretz, William Stadler, Alan W. Yeadon
  • Patent number: 8390163
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine includes a stator, a rotor inserted in a bore of the stator such that an air gap is formed between the stator and the rotor, and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in a peripheral portion of the rotor core of the rotor in a circumferential arrangement. Slits are formed in portions of the rotor core each extending between the adjacent magnetic poles. Compressive stress is induced in portions of the rotor core each extending between the slit and the permanent magnet when stress is induced in the portion of the stator core extending between the slit and the permanent magnet by centrifugal force produced when the rotor rotates and acting on the permanent magnet and a pole piece covering the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Tsuyoshi Goto, Noriaki Hino, Katsuhiro Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20130043757
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core. The rotor core is formed by laminating steel plates each including pairs of magnet insertion holes and pairs of cutouts. Each pair of magnet insertion holes includes two magnet insertion holes that are arranged in a V-shape, the wide end of which is relatively closer to the outer edge with a support portion located in between. Each pair of cutouts is formed at q-axis ends of the corresponding magnet insertion holes, and includes two cutouts connected to the outer edge of the rotor core. In a state where the permanent magnets are inserted in the magnet insertion holes, a gap is formed at a d-axis end of each magnet insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masanao Kagami, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Ryo Umeyama, Satoru Mitsuda, Noriyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8373324
    Abstract: A field element core includes field magnet through holes and coupling part. The field magnet through holes are circularly disposed in a peripheral direction around a predetermined direction and are adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction to form a set. The field magnet through holes forming the same pair both extend along a given direction that is defined for each pair, when viewed from the predetermined direction. The coupling part 11 is provided between the field magnet through holes forming the same set and has ends as lateral surfaces, respectively. The entire lateral surfaces of the coupling part are curved to form a concave shape. Specifically, viewed from the predetermined direction, only at a given position between both ends of the lateral surface, a tangent of the lateral surface extends along an extending direction of the coupling part. The same holds true for the lateral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Nishijima
  • Patent number: 8368273
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator having stator windings; and a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator, said rotor having a rotor core provided with a plurality of magnets and a plurality of magnetic auxiliary salient poles formed between poles of the magnets. In this rotary electric machine: a magnetic air gap is provided in an axial direction of the rotor in a position shifted in a circumferential direction from a q axis passing through a center of the magnetic auxiliary salient pole within the magnetic auxiliary salient pole; and an amount of shifting the magnetic air gap from the q axis in the circumferential direction differs according to a position of the magnetic air gap in the axial direction so as to cancel torque pulsation in energization caused due to the magnetic air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Hino, Yutaka Matsunobu, Shinji Sugimoto, Akinori Kamiya
  • Patent number: 8362668
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine suppresses demagnetization of permanent magnets without deteriorating motor characteristics, is low-cost, and is highly reliable. The rotor has a plurality of rotor cores that are stacked together, a plurality of permanent magnets axially divided by the rotor cores and circumferentially arranged on each of the rotor cores, to circumferentially form magnetic irregularities, and a rotor blank made of nonmagnetic material arranged between those of the rotor cores that are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Mikio Takabatake, Masanori Arata, Kazuto Sakai, Yutaka Hashiba, Wataru Ito, Tadashi Tokumasu, Masakatsu Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8350434
    Abstract: For providing a permanent magnet type rotary electric machine that can reduce magnetic fluxes concentrated to one side in rotating direction on a magnetic pole circumferential face that causes torque ripple as well as ensure the mechanical strength, in the present invention, an outer circumference of respective magnetic poles is formed in a circular arc having a same curvature as well as the magnetic pole center axes of the respective magnetic poles are displaced with respect to the rotation center of a rotor so that an air gap between a stator and the respective magnetic pole outer circumferences at one side in the rotating direction is widened in comparison with the air gap at the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hori, Daisuke Kori, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 8350430
    Abstract: An R—Fe—B sintered magnet has a structure including main phase crystal grains and a grain boundary area surrounding the crystal grains. The sintered magnet includes fluorine and a specified metal element selected from elements belonging to Group 2 through Group 16 of periodic table excepting the rare earth element, carbon and boron. The fluorine has a higher concentration in a region closer to a magnet surface than in the center. The specified element also has a higher concentration in the region closer to the surface. The sintered magnet includes oxyfluoride containing carbon, Dy and the metal element in a grain boundary area region at a distance of 1 ?m or greater from the magnet surface, and the carbon has a higher concentration than the concentration of the metal element in a region at a distance of 1 ?m to 500 ?m from the magnet surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Yoshii Morishita, Shigeaki Funyu, Mitsuo Katayose
  • Patent number: 8350435
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Keith I. Hoemann, Todd A. Walls
  • Publication number: 20130002082
    Abstract: A rotor has a rotor core arranged to radially face a stator. The rotor core has an accommodation hole extending axially from an axial end face of the rotor core. A magnet is received in the accommodation hole. A recess, which is dented in a direction separating from the magnet, is formed in an end surface of the accommodation hole. The recess has an opening facing the magnet. A pair of open distal portions are arranged at opposite sides of the opening and pressed against the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro UTSUMI, Yoshinobu NAGAO, Hiroshi KATOU
  • Publication number: 20130002081
    Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet brushless motor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and magnets embedded in the rotor core. The rotor core defines a plurality of spaced first slots arranged in a circumferential direction thereof, and a plurality of spaced second slots, each second slot being located between two adjacent first slots and each first slot being located between two adjacent second slots. First permanent magnets are received in the first slots and second permanent magnets are received in the second slots. Each second magnet is located between two adjacent first magnets and each first magnet is located between two adjacent second magnets in the circumferential direction, and the first magnets are magnetized in radial directions of the rotor core and the second magnets are magnetized in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Yong ZHANG, Joseph Youqing Xiang, Hua Yong Wang, Yue Li
  • Patent number: 8344570
    Abstract: A rotor (21) is an interior permanent magnet rotor formed of a rotor core (24) in which a plurality of permanent magnets (25) are embedded at predetermined intervals. First protruding portions (26) and second protruding portions (27) are formed on an outer peripheral face of the rotor, the first protruding portions (26) each opposing the vicinity of a central portion of each of the permanent magnets and having a substantially arc-shaped cross section protruding outward and the second protruding portions (27) each opposing the vicinity of an end portion of each of the permanent magnets and protruding outward. One first protruding portion and two second protruding portions correspond to one permanent magnet. The formation of the first and second protruding portions as described above on the outer peripheral face of the rotor makes it possible to sufficiently reduce the torque ripple and the noise caused by the distortion of air-gap magnetic flux distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyomi Kawamura, Takashi Ogawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Yasuyuki Yokouchi
  • Patent number: 8339010
    Abstract: An electric motor (10) is constructed with an inner circumference side rotor (11) and an outer circumference side rotor (12) which are coaxially arranged; and planetary gear mechanism which rotates at least one of the inner circumference side rotor (11) and the outer circumference side rotor (12) around an rotary shaft O. Long sides of substantially plate-like inner circumference side permanent magnets (11a) of the inner circumference side rotor (11) and those of substantially plate-like outer circumference side permanent magnets (12a) of the outer circumference side rotor (12) are arranged so as to face each other by the rotation of at least one of the inner circumference side rotor (11) and the outer circumference side rotor (12) in a cross section perpendicular to the rotary shaft O with the planetary gear mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hirofumi Atarashi, Shoei Abe, Tamotsu Kawamura, Hiromitsu Sato
  • Patent number: 8334667
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine capable of conducting a variable speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability in a wide operating range. Two kinds of permanent magnets having different shapes or different magnetic characteristics are embedded in a rotor core, to form a magnetic pole. The permanent magnets arranged at the magnetic pole include a permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along a magnetizing direction is small and a permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along the magnetizing direction is large. A magnetic field created by passing a current to an armature coil for a short time is used to irreversibly magnetize the permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along magnetizing direction is small, thereby changing a total linkage flux amount, and a positive d-axis current is passed when torque is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Kazuaki Yuuki
  • Patent number: 8324778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a permanent magnet rotor, which has a rotor shaft, a rotor stack fixed on the rotor shaft, accommodating pockets provided in the rotor stack and permanent magnets positioned in the accommodating pockets. The accommodating pockets are sealed by means of an adhesive film, as a result of which the permanent magnets are fixed in the accommodating pockets and at the same time the ingress of particles into the accommodating pockets and the discharge of particles out of the accommodating pockets is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Marcus Podack
  • Patent number: 8319387
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core; and first permanent magnets and second permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core so that, on a cross-sectional plane of the rotor core perpendicular to the rotation axis thereof, the first and second magnets corresponding to each other define the letter V having an apex pointing toward the rotation axis. The first and second magnets corresponding to each other are arranged so that a straight line interconnecting the rotation axis and the apex of the letter V is interposed therebetween, an angle of the first magnet relative to the straight line being smaller than that of the second magnet relative to the straight line, a width of the first magnet in the direction parallel to the first side of the letter V being smaller than that of the second magnet in the direction parallel to the second side of the letter V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Akihiko Maemura, Kenji Tomohara, Takeo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120274169
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. Each of magnetic poles of the rotor includes a magnet insertion hole, a permanent magnet that is inserted in the magnet insertion hole, and a nonmagnetic portion formed between the permanent magnet and an auxiliary salient pole. A portion of the rotor core located toward the stator relative to the nonmagnetic portion function as a bridge portion connecting a magnetic pole peace with the auxiliary salient pole. A side of the nonmagnetic portion located toward the stator includes a first side at the bridge portion, extending along a virtual circular arc passing through the permanent magnet insertion hole closest to the stator, and a side of the nonmagnetic portion located toward the auxiliary salient pole includes a second side extending away from the stator, with the first side and the second side connected through a curved line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Noriaki Hino, Tomoaki Kaimori, Shiniji Sugimoto
  • Patent number: RE44037
    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: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Yutaka Matsunobu, Masashi Kitamura, Noriaki Hino, Takashi Kobayashi, Shigeru Kakugawa, Takashi Yasuhara