Windings And Core Structure Patents (Class 310/179)
  • Patent number: 7868495
    Abstract: An electric motor core member includes a body having an inner diametric portion including an inner arcuate surface and an outer diametric portion including an outer arcuate surface. The electric motor core member further includes a plurality of wall members provided on the main body. Each of the plurality of wall members projects outwardly from the outer arcuate surface and is arranged in a spaced relationship to define a plurality of conductor isolation channels. Each of the plurality of conductor isolation channels is adapted to receive one of a plurality of conductors with the plurality of wall members providing electrical isolation between adjacent ones of the plurality of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Brad Chamberlin, Steven C. Burton, Sean Stanley
  • Patent number: 7868496
    Abstract: A plurality of winding parts are wound around teeth of an iron core with insulators disposed therebetween, and a printed wiring board is electrically connected to the winding part with a plurality of terminal pins. Each terminal pin is extends along an axial direction of the iron core and is attached to one of the insulators. An end portion of each winding part is wound around one of the terminal pins, and the terminal pin is soldered to the printed wiring board together with the end portion of the winding part. The terminal pins extend through hole portions of the printed wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Fujii, Hiroki Fujita, Kouji Inoue, Mikio Itou
  • Patent number: 7863764
    Abstract: A torque converter-mounted generator is provided that, along with power electronics, offers at least two types of electrical power output and may be attached to a transmission without impacting the axial length of a powertrain in comparison to a powertrain with an identical transmission and a torque converter not having a generator mounted thereto. Different torque-converter mounted generators and power electronics configurations providing different combinations of electrical power voltages may be offered for use with a given transmission type, thus allowing flexibility in meeting customer needs without unduly impacting assembly of the powertrains. A method of assembling transmissions is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Franklin Combs, David J. Sagers, Leroy K. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7856702
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an armature including securing a core to the shaft having a plurality of slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof, forming a coil composed of a plurality of coil portions by simultaneously winding wires a plurality of turns around a pair of slots separated by a predetermined number of slots and offsetting each of the coil portions one slot at a time in the circumferential direction of the core, securing a commutator to the shaft having a plurality of segments, adjacent coil portions having a slot along one side thereof, wherein a number of vacant slots between adjacent ones of the coil portions within each of simultaneously-wound coil portion groups is nonuniform, and electronically connecting segments which should have the same electric potential by means of equalizing connectors so that each of pairs of the coil portions that should have the same electric potential has a substantially equal electric potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanaka, Kyouhei Yamamoto, Akihiro Daikoku, Akihiko Imagi, Yoshio Yoshikuwa, Mitsuyuki Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20100320879
    Abstract: A power-generating wheel hub includes a hub shaft including a mounting section, and a bobbin including a tubular body sleeved around the mounting section, two flange plates connected respectively to two opposite ends of the tubular body, and a coil wound around the tubular body. Two magnetic yoke disks are sleeved on the mounting section adjacent respectively to outer faces of the flange plates, and each includes a plurality of angularly spaced-apart radial protrusions, and a plurality of indentations each formed between two adjacent ones of the radial protrusions. The indentations in the two magnetic yoke disks are staggered axially with respect to each other. Magnetic yoke claws respectively include radial arms inserted respectively into the indentations in the magnetic yoke disks and abutting against the outer faces of the flange plates, and axial arms extending axially from the respective radial arms and arranged annularly around the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Kuei-Tang Liao, Hubert Chen
  • Patent number: 7843175
    Abstract: Excitation control circuitry for a synchronous generator is disclosed. The synchronous generator is of a type comprising a main machine (2) and an exciter (6) for exciting the main machine. The excitation control circuitry comprises an automatic voltage regulator (10) for controlling power flow from the main machine to the exciter, and an excitation boost system (14) for selectively supplying power from a second source of electrical power (12) to the exciter (6). This can allow additional excitation to be provided, for example, when the generator is in overload. This arrangement can allow a synchronous generator to be upgraded by adding the excitation boost system to provide enhanced overload performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Nigel Jakeman, Michael John Wright, Denis Hadley Dalby, Neil Brown
  • Patent number: 7843102
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine, in particular to a motor or a generator, comprising at least a stator (30a, 30b), a plurality of winding teeth (32a, b) arranged on the circumference of the at least one stator (30a, b) with windings and the winding teeth comprising clearances (34a, b) therebetween, wherein all windings of each stator are connected in series. The electrical machine further comprises a rotor (1) and a plurality of permanent magnets (5) and/or rotor windings arranged at the circumference of the rotor (1), wherein the poles of the permanent magnets and/or rotor winding directions are radially aligned and alternating. Preferably, two stators (30a, b) are provided, which have an angular offset (a) to each other. Further, a control circuit for an electrical machine comprising at least one phase winding is provided, the control circuit comprising four power switches per corresponding phase winding for the control of the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Wyremba
  • Publication number: 20100295397
    Abstract: An electromechanical machine capable of functioning as an electric motor or generator/alternator with a wound rotor fitted between wound coaxial stator elements that engage magnetically both the inner and outer circumference of the rotor. The rotor is excited via conduction thru the ball bearings via a commutation device that provides for simultaneous excitation of the stator elements and the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: William F. Dowis, Mark A. Marsing
  • Patent number: 7836580
    Abstract: A method for producing a winding, particularly for electrical transformer from a cylindrical tubular metal element of polygonal cross-section, includes steps of machining, in a first series of passes, a first series of cuts substantially parallel to one another through all of the sides of the tubular element with the exception of a last one of said sides, and machining, in a second series of passes, a second series of cuts in said last one of said sides in order to ensure that junctions of the first series of cuts open out in the sides adjacent to the second series of cuts, so that the first and second series of cuts are continuous with respect to one another and constitute a single groove of helicoidal shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Scherrer, Jean-Paul Scherrer, Jean-Claude Beisser
  • Patent number: 7834507
    Abstract: Rotational electric machine stator winding arrangement characterized, inter alia, by at least one coil of each parallel circuit being discontinuous with the other coils of the corresponding circuit, and by coils configured to accept phase voltage not being adjacent coils having a point at the lowest potential of a corresponding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Michael Degner
  • Patent number: 7834506
    Abstract: In a stator winding, series coils are connected in parallel. One series coil includes series-connected U phase coils that are wound oppositely in direction by turns in the order in which the coils are series-connected and that are arranged in the manner that one and the other coil sets of the U phase coils are separated in the circumferential direction of a stator core and are opposite to each other in the radial direction thereof. The other series coil includes series-connected U phase coils that are wound oppositely in direction by turns in the order in which the coils are series-connected and that are arranged in the manner that one and the other coil sets of the U phase coils are separated in the circumferential direction of the stator core and are opposite to each other in the radial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7830060
    Abstract: An electric motor comprising a rotor having plural magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a stator whose teeth are disposed opposite to the periphery of the rotor, with an air gap interposed between the rotor and the stator, wherein the coil conductors are wound on the stator so that two stator magnetic poles may be formed by two coil units of a phase wound around stator teeth within the range of 360 electrical degrees subtended by the magnetic poles of the rotor; each of the two coil units forming the stator magnetic poles spans an electrical angle less than 180 electrical degrees; the two coil turns forming the two stator magnetic poles are laid out so that they may not overlap each other; and the coil conductors are so wound that the adjacent stator magnetic poles exhibit opposite magnetic polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7825561
    Abstract: A brushless motor and a related control device are disclosed in a structure wherein a stator has U-phase, V-phase and W-phase stator poles, with two of the U-phase V-phase and W-phase stator poles carry thereon respective phase windings, in the absence of a selected phase winding related to a remaining one of the U-phase V-phase and W-phase stator poles. The respective phase windings have end portions connected together at a junction point. A three-phase alternating voltage is applied to the respective phase windings and the junction point to allow the stator to have an electromagnetic action thereby drivably rotating a rotor. The stator poles may be formed in trapezoid shapes to minimize interference between associated component parts for easy assembly in high productivity and efficiency with a reduction in torque ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Shinji Makita, Yoshinobu Kamada
  • Patent number: 7821164
    Abstract: A generator including: an annular armature connectable to rotate with blades of a wind turbine; an annular stationary field winding assembly coaxial with the armature and separated by a gap from an inside surface of the armature, wherein the field winding include superconducting coils, and support structure connectable to an upper region of a tower of the wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam
  • Patent number: 7821165
    Abstract: A motor includes: a rotor in which 10 poles are magnetized at regular intervals; a stator having 12 core pieces and facing the rotor, all core pieces having a concentrated winding wound in the same direction and being annularly arranged; and a wiring board for making 3-phase connection of the windings. A wire connection is made through the wiring board in such a manner that electric currents of adjacent same phase windings flow in opposite directions and of electric currents of adjacent different phase windings flow in same directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yamane, Manabu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7816832
    Abstract: The invention relates to a direct drive for large-scale drives, comprising a stator (1) which is configured, when seen from the peripheral direction, by a plurality of segments (3, 4, 5, 6), each having a self-contained winding arrangement, and a rotor which is configured from segments. The segments of the rotor are located on working elements that rotate with the rotor, and interact electromagnetically with a winding system of the stator (1). The inventive drive is especially suitable for ring motors and tube mill drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maria Bade, Axel Möhle
  • Patent number: 7812497
    Abstract: A total number of windings in an armature is an even number. The windings are divided into a first winding group and a second winding group. The windings of the first winding group are arranged one after another at generally equal angular intervals without overlapping with each other. The windings of the second winding group are arranged one after another at generally equal angular intervals without overlapping with each other and are wound separately from the windings of the first winding group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Sugishima, Toshiyuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 7812499
    Abstract: An armature winding of an electric rotating machine is provided, which includes at least one armature winding bar composed of a plurality of element wire conductors, wherein the armature winding bar includes an element wire conductor configured to have twisted transposing angles of 180 degrees at one border zone and a middle zone in a winding slot and a twisted transposing angle different from 180 degrees at the other border zone of the winding slot of the element wire conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Patent number: 7806225
    Abstract: A plurality of magnetic pole bodies, provided on a stator of a steering motor, are divided into two electrically independent groups. Each group includes i) six magnetic pole bodies that are arranged in succession and ii) a corresponding number of magnetic pole bodies arranged opposing those six magnetic pole bodies. The two groups vibrate only slightly when operating normally. However, if one of the groups fails, vibration of the stator from elastic deformation in an undulating manner in the circumferential direction will increase, thereby alerting the driver of an abnormality in the steering motor. This increases the likelihood of measures being taken promptly to fix the abnormality in the steering motor, thus improving fail-safe performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Itoh
  • Patent number: 7808145
    Abstract: An armature where at least one of a first winding wire and a second winding wire is wound around slots that are opposed to all magnetic poles serving as a same magnetic pole in a predetermined winding direction so as to correspond to a predetermined winding number as a total winding number between respective slots, so that the plurality of coils are formed, and a slot from which the first winding wire is led out and a slot into which the second winding wire is led are located circumferentially at both sides of commutator segments with which the first winding wire and the second winding wire are conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20100244611
    Abstract: A permanent-magnetic type rotary electric machine includes a stator having teeth that are arranged in the peripheral direction thereof and around which armature windings of plural phases are wound, and a rotor having plural permanent magnets arranged so that the poles of the permanent magnets are alternately different in the peripheral direction thereof, higher harmonic waves being contained in a no-load induced voltage waveform. A (6p?1)-th higher harmonic wave and a (6p?1)-th higher harmonic wave (p represents a positive integer) when an electrical angle of 360° is set as a fundamental wave in the no-load induced voltage waveform are made substantially coincident with each other in amplitude and phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Hideya Nishikawa, Yoshihito Asao, Masatsugu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20100244610
    Abstract: A single stator electric machine includes a plurality of magnets for generating a first magnetic field. Each respective magnet represents a respective rotor pole. A magnet holder retains the plurality of magnets. A stator is disposed radially outward from the plurality of magnets for generating a second magnetic field. The stator includes a plurality of stator poles separated by slots with each of the stator poles having a concentrated winding with a respective number of turns formed around each respective stator pole. Each respective concentrated winding within the stator comprises non-overlapping phases which increase an active length of the windings of the stator and reduce an overhang of each respective winding with respect to each stator pole for improving torque efficiency. A number of rotor poles is at least eight and the number of rotor poles and a number of stator slots have a least common multiple of at least 36.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Lei Hao, Chandra S. Namuduri, Balarama V. Murty
  • Patent number: 7804217
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a field coil member includes a first edgewise coil composed of a plurality of coaxially layered convolutions. The coaxially layered convolutions are wound around the outer periphery of the first pole core. The field coil member includes a second edgewise coil composed of a plurality of coaxially layered convolutions. The coaxially layered convolutions are wound around the outer periphery of the second pole core. The field coil member includes a link portion connecting between the first edgewise coil and the second edgewise coil in series. One of the first and second edgewise coils has one coil end extending therefrom to cross over the link portion at a crossover portion thereof. The crossover portion between the one coil end and the link portion is arranged to be non-overlapped with the convolutions of the one of the first and second edgewise coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Youichi Hasegawa, Tomoya Imanishi
  • Patent number: 7795773
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electric actuator is provided comprising windings constructed from a conductive core of high magnetic permeability material surrounded by an electrical insulator. The conductive core simultaneously carries an electric current and a magnetic field, resulting in an actuator that can develop a high force or torque for its size compared to conventional electric actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Brian Wittig
  • Patent number: 7791241
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type three-phase ac generator includes a stator having 3n (n is an integer) teeth and a tree-phase armature winding and a rotor having 4n magnetic poles each of which has a permanent magnet. The three-phase winding includes 3n coils each of which is wound around one of the teeth and connected to form three phase windings, and each coil wound around a first tooth is connected to another coil wound around another tooth that is fourth from the one of the teeth so that vectors of voltage induced in the connected coils can direct in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Denso Trim Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norikazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7781933
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a winding arrangement of single star connection for a rotating electrical machine, capable of enhancing insulation performance in coils of the same phase. In such winding arrangement, a first coil U1 to a sixth coil U6 are formed respectively in coil arranging parts 1U to 6U. Next, a coil arranging part 7U is skipped and the seventh coil U7 is formed in a coil arranging part 8U. Then, a coil formed at the end of winding (eighth coil U8) is formed in the skipped coil arranging part 7U.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Koide, Yasuhiko Ishimaru, Hiroshi Hattori
  • Patent number: 7770286
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a winding assembly of a rotating electrical machine using a rotation block and a fixed block and a manufacturing apparatus used for the same. The rotation block includes a rotation surface rotatable around a rotation axis, and the fixed block includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other and a shaping surface. The shaping surface is formed between end parts of the first and the second surfaces, is made to have an almost semicircular shape with the rotation axis as the center, and extends along the rotation axis. Plural wire rods are simultaneously fed from the first surface of the fixed block to the rotation surface of the rotation block, and the wire rods positioned on the rotation surface are bent by rotation of the rotation block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Hirota, Norihiro Murata, Toshiaki Kashihara
  • Patent number: 7772734
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core and disk-shaped end plates provided to sandwich the rotor core in the direction of a rotation shaft. The end plates are each formed to have one end face relatively closer to the rotor core and larger in outer diameter with the center at the rotation shaft than the other end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Toshiya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 7764001
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine that is formed of a distribution winding motor with two slots per each pole and each phase, a stator core includes an air gap of a constant width dg1 between the leading end of a same-phase-intermediate tooth and the outer circumferential face of a rotor core, and an air gap of a width not uniform in the circumferential direction between the leading end of a different-phase-intermediate tooth and the outer circumferential face of the rotor core, with a width dg2 (>dg1) as the largest value. A magnetic circuit having a magnetic resistance higher than that of the same-phase-intermediate tooth is formed at the different-phase-intermediate tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7755241
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine, in particular to a motor or a generator, comprising at least a stator (30a, 30b), a plurality of winding teeth (32a, b) arranged on the circumference of the at least one stator (30a, b) with windings and the winding teeth comprising clearances (34a, b) therebetween, wherein all windings of each stator are connected in series. The electrical machine further comprises a rotor (1) and a plurality of permanent magnets (5) and/or rotor windings arranged at the circumference of the rotor (1), wherein the poles of the permanent magnets and/or rotor winding directions are radially aligned and alternating. Preferably, two stators (30a, b) are provided, which have an angular offset (?) to each other. Further, a control circuit for an electrical machine comprising at least one phase winding is provided, the control circuit comprising four power switches per corresponding phase winding for the control of the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Wyremba
  • Patent number: 7750525
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine comprising a stator core having a plurality of slots that are equally spaced on the inner surface of the stator core in the peripheral direction, a rotor that rotates inside the stator core, and an armature winding that is applied to each of the slots, wherein the armature winding is made up with a plurality of serially-connected single-turn coils that are respectively applied to the slots and the serially-connected coils of respective phases are connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori, Masami Sukeda, Akihito Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20100156231
    Abstract: Provided is a slim type stator that is used to make a BLDC (Brushless Direct-Current) motor having a stator of a division core structure and a double rotor for use in a drum-washing machine, a slim type motor having the same, and a direct drive apparatus for use in the drum-washing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Hoon LEE, Nam Hun LEE, Kyu Hyuk JEONG
  • Patent number: 7739788
    Abstract: A base plate for magnetic disk drives is provided that includes a hooked protrusion integrated therein between adjacent spindle motor coils. The cross-over wires that span between adjacent coils are secured by the hooked protrusions, thereby optimizing coil height and reducing manufacturing steps. The hook-like protrusions of one embodiment of the present invention are preferably stamped into the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Vaclav Prochazka, Torin Meyers, Wendy Lorimer
  • Publication number: 20100141077
    Abstract: A generator with closed-magnetic-path coils includes a stator (8), a rotor (7), a casing (10) and a transmission shaft (6). A magnetic conductive bracket (9) and a coil winding (2) are fixed to the transmission shaft (6) to form the stator (8). One pole surface of a magnet (4) on the rotor (7) is corresponding to a profile surface of the coil winding (2). A prime mover drives the rotor (7) and the magnet (4) to rotate, and the magnet (4) cuts the coil winding (2) to induce a current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: GANG LIU, ZIYI LIU
  • Patent number: 7732968
    Abstract: A winding body for holding a winding of an electrical conductor to produce a coil for an electrical machine includes a winding area formed by a winding support and two sidepieces connected to the winding support. The sidepieces form the boundaries of the winding area and are connected to the winding support. Various measures are proposed for mounting a compact winding on the winding body, for arranging the winding body without play and in an operationally reliable manner on a tooth of an electrical machine, and for wiring several coils together in a space-saving manner by using the winding body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Manfred Zimmer, Ralf Rönnebeck, Alexander Gehring
  • Patent number: 7726005
    Abstract: The method of making an electromagnetically excitable core of an electrical machine with a multiphase winding (13) includes preparing a core (10) having a substantially parallelepiped shape, which is provided with a plurality of parallel grooves (N1 to N36; N1 to N48) in one side in a first step. In at least one subsequent step at least three phase windings (100, 200, 300) are laid in these grooves in such a manner that only one winding overhang is outside of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stroebel, Helmut Scheiffele
  • Publication number: 20100123363
    Abstract: A method of preventing galvanic corrosion in a pump motor for a dishwashing appliance is provided, wherein the dishwashing appliance includes a tub portion and a sump assembly disposed about a lower end of the tub portion for receiving a dishwashing fluid therein. Such a method comprises operably engaging a pump assembly in fluid communication with the sump assembly. The pump assembly has a pump motor with a non-submersed aluminum winding terminating in and secured to at least one non-aluminum metallic electrical connector about a non-submersed interface. A moisture-resistant coating material is applied about the non-submersed interface between the aluminum winding and the non-aluminum metallic electrical connector, so as to prevent moisture from encroaching into the interface and promoting galvanic corrosion between the dissimilar metals of the winding and the at least one electrical connector. An associated apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventors: Dennis A. Poyner, Jeffrey E. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20100109462
    Abstract: Disclosed are transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Certain exemplary stators for use in transverse and commutated flux machines may be configured with gaps therebetween, for example in order to counteract tolerance stackup. Other exemplary stators may be configured as partial stators having a limited number of magnets and/or flux concentrators thereon. Partial stators may facilitate ease of assembly and/or use with various rotors. Additionally, exemplary floating stators can allow a transverse and/or commutated flux machine to utilize an air gap independent of the diameter of a rotor. Via use of such exemplary stators, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: MOTOR EXCELLENCE LLC
    Inventors: David G. Calley, Thomas F. Janecek
  • Patent number: 7709990
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power-wrench comprising an electrical converter-fed motor having a permanent-magnetized rotor and a stator provided with winding, the motor winding (1) comprising at least two winding parts, which independently of each other are connected and disconnected by a switch-over device (4). According to the invention, a first winding part (2) may be arranged to control the magnetic field of the motor so that the motor, having the first winding part (2) connected, is adapted for the threading-down phase of the nut driving and operates with low torque and high number of revolutions adapted to said phase, as well as that a second winding part (3) may be arranged to control the magnetic field of the motor so that the motor, having the second winding part (3) connected, is adapted for the final-threading phase of the nut driving and operates with high torque and low number of revolutions adapted to said phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Tools AB
    Inventors: Peter Kjellqvist, Tobias Lindbäck
  • Patent number: 7709991
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a shaft that is rotatable about an axis and defines a first diameter normal to the axis. A first core portion defines a first aperture having a first aperture diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The first core portion is positioned adjacent the shaft to define a first space. A second core portion defines a second aperture having a second aperture diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The second core portion is positioned adjacent the shaft to define a second space. A damping member is positioned in the first space and the second space. The damping member at least partially interconnects the shaft, the first core portion, and the second core portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: A. O. Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Dan M. Ionel, Stephen J. Dellinger, Robert J. Heideman, Alan E. Lesak
  • Publication number: 20100102664
    Abstract: A method of joining the ends of wire windings for a motor stator or the like includes preparing a surface at each end (e.g., by removing any enamel coating), deforming the surfaces to produce knurls, striations, and the like, and then ultrasonically bonding the two surfaces to produce the bond between windings, thereby providing a joint with improved strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: CHIH-CHANG CHEN, MICHAEL J. BLAND, STEPHEN R. SMITH
  • Patent number: 7705506
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a first group of first and second sets of three-phase windings of a stator coil is disposed in part of substantially circumferentially spaced slots of a stator core, and a second group of third and fourth sets of three-phase windings of the stator coil is disposed in another part of the slots. The first to fourth sets include first to fourth three-phase windings, respectively. Output ends of the first to fourth three-phase windings and input ends of the second and fourth windings are disposed at one of opposing end surface sides of the stator core. The output ends of the first and second three-phase windings of the first and second sets included in the first group are separated from the output ends of the third and fourth three-phase windings of the third and fourth sets included in the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Koike, Shinichi Matsubara, Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100099319
    Abstract: A system for synthesizing nanostructures using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is provided. The system includes a housing, a porous substrate within the housing, and on a downstream surface of the substrate, a plurality of catalyst particles from which nanostructures can be synthesized upon interaction with a reaction gas moving through the porous substrate. Electrodes may be provided to generate an electric field to support the nanostructures during growth. A method for synthesizing extended length nanostructures is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: David Lashmore, Joseph J. Brown, Robert C. Dean, Peter L. Antoinette
  • Patent number: 7701101
    Abstract: The stator (24) of a permanent magnet axial flux alternator comprises two annular stator components which are each wound with a respective two phase winding arrangement (48). Each of the two phase winding arrangements (48) is wound so that there is no mutual inductance between the windings of each phase. Each phase of the two phase winding arrangements (48) wound on the two stator components has a high internal impedance and is for energising a respective high intensity lamp of a light tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Nazar Al-Khayat, Nigel Jakeman, Cleveland Mills
  • Patent number: 7701103
    Abstract: An electric motor (10) is an in-wheel motor. The motor (10) includes an outer rotor, (302), an inner rotor (301), a stator (200), and a shaft-shaped central portion (100). The outer rotor includes a magnet (305b) and is disposed closely to a load. The inner rotor includes a magnet (305a) and is disposed away from the load. The stator is disposed between the outer rotor and the inner rotor, and includes a stator coil. The shaft-shaped central portion extends completely through respective central portions of the outer rotor, the inner rotor and the stator. The shaft-shaped central portion defines a stationary structure. A power supply system (500) is provided using interiors of the stator (200) and the shaft shaped central portion (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 7701102
    Abstract: An electric motor stator has a stator core and a plurality of windings wound around teeth of the stator core. Each of the windings has two tooth winding portions with a crossover wire extending therebetween. Each of the windings starts from a neutral wire and winds around a first tooth to form a first tooth winding portion and then winds around an opposed tooth to form a second tooth winding portion with the crossover wire extending as a power wire. Thus, the second tooth winding portion is started from the power wire. A terminal end of the second tooth winding portion is drawn out and connected to the neutral wire. The stator core has an insulator having support portions for preventing the tooth winding portions from falling outwards. The power wire is held between the tooth winding portion and a slot bottom so as to be fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuichiro Amano
  • Patent number: 7696660
    Abstract: A leading end portion of a lead wire holder located in a direction opposite to a direction in which six lead wires extend is inserted toward concave surfaces through an insertion opening. After the leading end portion has entered toward the concave surfaces and gotten out therefrom, the leading end portion is situated between opposed surfaces of hooks and a holder receiving portion bottom surface. With this arrangement, a back surface of a rear end portion located opposite to the leading end portion of the lead wire holder comes into contact with end surface portions of partitioning wall portions. An end surface portion of the rear end portion faces projecting portions. Then, the six lead wires are partially received in six lead wire receiving portions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Koike, Ikuo Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20100084939
    Abstract: An electric motor apparatus providing increased output torque and allowing rotation in a predetermined direction includes a rotor 135 having a permanent magnet having two magnetic poles spaced from each other by approximately 180 degrees about a rotation axis, a stator having a substantially (T-shape (Y-shape) as a whole and having first, second and third magnetic pole portions 112, 114 and 116 disposed around the rotor and connecting portions 122, 124 and 126, which are narrow in their middle regions and each connects between an associated pair of adjacent magnetic pole portions, a first electromagnetic coil 140 inducing a magnetic circuit that passes through the first and second magnetic pole portions, and a second electromagnetic coil 142 inducing a magnetic circuit that passes through the second and third magnetic pole portions. The first and second electromagnetic coils are set parallel to and at opposite sides of the second magnetic pole portion 112.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroto Isoda, Yuji Akao, Yasuki Kuwabara, Masahiro Furuya, Masayuki Hada
  • Patent number: 7692351
    Abstract: A stator winding has series coils and the series coils are connected in parallel. One of the series coil includes series-connected U phase coils and the other series coil includes series-connected U phase coils. A part of a wire connecting U phase coils of that one series coil is wound around the same teeth as those around which one of the U phase coils of the other series coil is wound, so as to form a U phase coil. A part of a wire connecting U phase coils of the other series coil is wound around the same teeth as those around which one of the phase coils of that one series coil is wound, so as to form a U phase coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7687960
    Abstract: A modified armature winding for a stator of an electrical generator having a pigtail shape to promote cooling of the stator. At least one turn of the windings is extended outside the circumferential periphery of the stator, preferably forming a loop. An electrical short is created near the circumferential periphery of the stator between the winding segments to prevent current from flowing through the pigtail winding segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Hydrogen Engine Center
    Inventor: Ted Hollinger