Windings And Core Structure Patents (Class 310/179)
  • Patent number: 8875381
    Abstract: A coil strand is wound on an insulator to produce a divided core member, and then the divided core member is placed on a table. While the table rotates about its axis, ends of the coil strands are inserted into lead end holding grooves, which are defined in a surface of the insulator on an outer circumferential edge of a stator and which extend along a circumferential direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Uchiumi, Hiroki Tahira, Kohei Fujinoto, Yasuto Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8860277
    Abstract: A stator coil segment for an electro mechanical transducer, in particular a generator for generating electric energy from mechanical energy, includes a first coil which is arranged at a first radial position along a radial direction and adapted to be connected to an input terminal of a first power electronic device. The radial direction is perpendicular to a rotation axis of the electro mechanical transducer. Further, a second coil is arranged at a second radial position along the radial direction and adapted to be connected to an input terminal of a second power electronic device, wherein the second radial position is different from the first radial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Mohammad Kimiabeigi
  • Publication number: 20140300295
    Abstract: Modular motor apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed. Certain embodiments comprise a motor core and driver module a power supply module, and an external interface module. Families of these modules may utilize a standardized communication protocol to enhance flexibility, upgradeability, and serviceability in the configuration of the motor apparatus. Certain embodiments comprise a power sharing system in which a power supply module serves two or more motor core and driver modules. Certain embodiments comprise a motor performance configuration module including an integrated or remote user interface. The user interface is configured to allow a high reliability graphical performance configuration and scaling of motor performance without the use of a computer on the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Trane International Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ramsingh
  • Patent number: 8853910
    Abstract: A three-phase rotary electrical machine including a stator including a stator core including split cores, a rotor, a bobbin attached to each of the split cores, a winding being wound around each split core to which the bobbin is attached, and a bobbin unit including three of the bobbins which are arranged in a circumferential direction of a rotation axis as one unit, wherein the bobbin positioned at a center of the bobbin unit are formed in a bendable manner integrally with the bobbins positioned adjoining to the bobbin positioned at the center, the bobbin unit is sealed with the bobbin unit positioned adjoining thereto, and a cooling passage extending in the axial direction is provided at each clearance between the windings for three phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8847455
    Abstract: A plurality of salient poles projecting toward a stator are arranged on a rotor core along the circumferential direction while being spaced apart from each other, and rotor windings are wound around these salient poles. The rotor windings are short-circuited through diodes, respectively; and when currents rectified by the diodes flow through the rotor windings, the salient poles are magnetized to produce a magnet where the magnetic pole is fixed. The width ? of each salient pole in the circumferential direction is smaller than a width corresponding to an electric angle of 180° of the rotor, and the rotor windings are wound around each salient pole by short-pitch winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Hiramoto, Hideo Nakai, Eiji Yamada, Norimoto Minoshima, Masahiro Seguchi
  • Publication number: 20140285052
    Abstract: A coil includes: a coil main body in which one coil end in an axial direction is bent to an inner peripheral side of a stator core including a tooth having an protrusion preventing portion configured to prevent the coil from protruding to the inner peripheral side of the stator core; and a relief portion provided for a portion of the coil main body that is bent to the inner peripheral side of the stator core. The relief portion is configured to release the protrusion preventing portion of the tooth when the coil main body is inserted into a slot of the stator core in the axial direction from one coil end in the axial direction that is bent to the inner peripheral side of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Kenji TOMOHARA, Akihiko MAEMURA, Takeshi INOUE, Norimasa ADACHI, Junichi YASUKAWA
  • Patent number: 8836195
    Abstract: A motor is provided. When m is half of a number of slots of one phase and n is a divisor of m, the overall parallel winding of a total number of parallels p is equally divided n-fold into partial parallel windings Ni, having a number of parallels p/n, each partial parallel winding Ni comprises m sub-coils, the m sub-coils including n types of m/n sub-coils having a number of turns tj, at least one of the sub-coils differing in number of turns from the other sub-coils, and, for each pair of the slots in the stator, one sub-coil of each partial parallel winding Ni is wound around the pair of slots, and n sub-coils wound around the pair of the slots include every one of the n types of the sub-coils of the numbers of tj.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Yokochi
  • Patent number: 8829754
    Abstract: An alternator 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: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8829749
    Abstract: A method for making a rotary electric machine comprises the steps of: preparing a core (18) having a plurality of pole expansions and a plurality of windings (100, 200, 300) made of electrically conductive material on the pole expansions, where at least a part of the windings (100, 200, 300) is made from a conductor wire having a free end (14) that can be connected electrically to a mains power supply; stably coupling to each other at least two free ends (14) of different windings (100, 200, 300) so as to connect them to a single power supply terminal; twisting the coupled ends (14) together to form a single electrical termination (5, 6, 7) twisted along a principal line of extension of the electrical termination (5, 6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: SPAL Automotive S.r.l.
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 8823241
    Abstract: An axial rotary energy device including a segmented stator assembly having a plurality of segments arranged in an annular array. Each stator segment is constructed by stacking a plurality of PCB power conductor layers and a plurality of PCB series layers. Each layer having radial conductors extending from an inner via to an outer via. The vias electrically connect selected radial conductors of the series conductor layer and power conductor layer. Each power conductor layer includes a pair of positive and negative terminal vias for one phase of the electric current connected to selected outer vias. A daughter PCB layer electrically connects two adjacent segments together by having a first portion electrically connected to a negative terminal via located in one segment and a second portion electrically connected to a positive terminal via located in an adjacent segment together with a current conductor electrically connecting the two terminal vias together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Boulder Wind Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew B. Jore, James David Duford, Michael Kvam, Lincoln M. Jore, David Samsel, James D. Jore
  • Patent number: 8803376
    Abstract: An AC motor is provided. In the AC motor, there are M pieces (M is an integer of 3 or more) of stator pole groups SPG are arranged in a rotor axis direction, where each of the stator poles groups is composed of a plurality of stator poles which are for the same phase and arranged in a circumferential direction of the motor. Between the stator pole groups SPG, “M?1” pieces of annular windings WR are arranged which allow one-way current to flow therethrough. The windings WR are arranged such that the directions of current passing therethrough are reversed in turn in the rotor axis direction. The stator pole groups SPG are excited to generate magnetic fluxes ?G directed in a one way. The excited directions of the magnetic fluxes ?G are reversed in turn in the rotor axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Tomokazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8803384
    Abstract: A device includes a rotor and a stator with coils arranged to form a phase element. The phase element includes a first coil group including a first coil and a second coil and a second coil group including a third coil and a fourth coil, where the rotor is positioned between the first coil group and the second coil group. The device also includes one or more switches that enable reconfiguration of the phase element by switching an electrical configuration of the coils. In a first mode, the coils are arranged with the first coil in a first coil path and the second coil in a second coil path that is coupled in parallel with the first coil path. The coils are arranged such that a voltage generated across the first coil path is substantially equal to a voltage generated across the second coil path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John R. Hull, John F. Gonder
  • Publication number: 20140203899
    Abstract: An electromagnet includes a core and a wire wound on the core. The wire includes an electric conductor and a magnetic layer provided on a surface of the electric conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicants: Furukawa Magnet Wire Co., Ltd., Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo TANAKA, Noriyoshi FUSHIMI
  • Publication number: 20140197709
    Abstract: An assembly conducting wire for a rotary electric machine winding includes a plurality of bundled wires, the plurality of wires being twisted in a circumferential direction of the assembly conducting wire, and the plurality of wires being welded together at a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ayako HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 8779644
    Abstract: A group of coils used in a stator of a rotating electrical machine, wound continuously upon a divided core with a crossover wire, in which 2N coils (where N is a natural number) are arranged at approximately regular intervals, wherein a winding direction of N coils, which are first through Nth continuously wound coils, of a front half of the 2N coils, and a winding direction of rear half coils which are (N+1)-st through (2N)-th continuously wound coils, are opposite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ishigami, Kota Sakuma, Toshihiko Mato
  • Patent number: 8779642
    Abstract: An electric power distribution member for stator is a member for connecting a plurality of coils to one another, each having coil opposing end portions located on an inner circumferential side and on an outer circumferential side in a radial direction of a stator, and it includes a plurality of conductor pieces and a plurality of insulating holding portions. The conductor piece has a first connection end portion in a flat plate shape connected to an inner circumferential side end portion of a coil and a second connection end portion in a flat plate shape connected to an outer circumferential side end portion of another coil. In addition, the insulating holding portion integrally holds adjacent conductor pieces at a distance from each other at a portion other than the opposing connection end portions of each conductor piece. The insulating holding portions are arranged in a manner discrete from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Matsuyama, Yutaka Komatsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Masao Okumura, Takahiro Kayano
  • Publication number: 20140180617
    Abstract: A phase-to-phase insulation partial discharge inspection apparatus includes: an impulse power supply (1) configured to apply an impulse voltage having a voltage rise time period tr which satisfies an expression “tr>(?coil·Vmax)/(PDIV)” to a rotary electric machine (2); a measurement section (12) configured to measure partial discharge which occurs when the impulse voltage is applied to the rotary electric machine (2); and a decision section (15) configured to determine that, when partial discharge is not measured by the measurement section (12), a phase-to-phase insulation performance is acceptable. In the expression, ?coil is a surge propagation time period of one coil of a rotary electric machine winding, PDIV a partial discharge inception voltage between winding turns, and Vmax a peak of a partial discharge testing voltage for the phase-to-phase insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventor: Koji Obata
  • Publication number: 20140152140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric machine, in particular a brushless permanent magnet motor, comprising a stator which comprises a plurality of teeth having at least one needle-wound winding strand, the at least one winding strand having at least two windings on adjacent teeth which are arranged in series, the at least two windings each comprising at least one winding layer, a needle channel being provided which is formed between the at least two windings by a crossing portion of the at least two windings and is filled at least in part. The present invention further relates to a method for winding a coil of an electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Brose Fahzeugteile GmhN & Co. Kommanditgesellschaf Wurzburg
    Inventor: Stefan Keul
  • Patent number: 8735724
    Abstract: An electric equipment of the present invention has an insulation structure at a welding part formed by joining end parts of a plurality of conductors with each other, the welding part having a rectangular cross section and being coated with an insulating coating, in which the insulating coating is voidless and has a coating thickness of 50 to 1000 ?m in the welding part, and in which an edge cover ratio of the insulating coating is 20% or more. According to the present invention, the insulation performance of the insulation structure in which the welding part formed by joining the end parts of the plurality of conductors with each other can be improved, the welding part having a rectangular cross section and being coated with an insulating coating, and a highly reliable electric equipment can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahito Muraki, Satoru Amou
  • Patent number: 8729765
    Abstract: A field coil segment for an electric machine including a rotor and a stator includes a first wire element having a first cross sectional area electrically connected in parallel with a second wire element having a second cross sectional area greater than the first cross sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Lei Hao
  • Patent number: 8726493
    Abstract: It is described a clamping system (30) of special conductors (S1, S2, S3) for a stator or rotor bar winding (U1, S1, S2, S3) for an electric machine, such as connection terminals (S1), jumpers (S2), neutrals or star points (S3), etc. The system (30) allows the special conductors (S1, S2, S3) to be clamped during a twisting step and/or a step of picking up such conductors from a twisting device (250). The system comprises a system axis (T-T), a plurality of grippers (10) aligned or able to be aligned along a circumference lying on a plane substantially perpendicular to the system axis (T-T) and actuation elements (50, 60, 70, 80, 90) of the grippers (10). Each gripper includes a pair of jaws (32, 33) mounted so as to be mobile in a plane transversal to said system axis (T-T).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Tecnomatic S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sante Guercioni
  • Patent number: 8723386
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine, especially an alternator (10) comprising a stator winding (11) with a total of seven phase conductors (P1 to P7) which are interconnected in series at the same electrical angle (a). The aim of the invention is to dampen magnet noise and to increase machine performance. For this purpose, at least every other electrically subsequent phase conductor (P) is skipped when the phase conductors (P1 to P7) are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Wolf, Norbert Pfitzke
  • Patent number: 8716910
    Abstract: An electric machine a cylindrical stator core having an outer perimeter surface and an inner perimeter surface with a plurality of slots formed between the inner perimeter surface and the outer perimeter surface. The inner perimeter surface defines an inner cylindrical space for the stator that extends in an axial direction within the stator. The stator core is configured to retain a winding arrangement comprised of a plurality of conductor segments positioned in the plurality of slots of the stator core. The winding arrangement further includes a jumper extending into the inner cylindrical space and connecting two of the plurality of conductor segments. Accordingly, the jumper appears as a chord of a circular end shape of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Remy Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Samuel R. Edrington
  • Patent number: 8704420
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stator for an electric machine. The stator is provided with a stator core, and first and second series of coils each formed into a predetermined shape. Each of the coils in the first series is provided with a pair of first coil ends which respectively protrude from both end faces of the stator core. Each of the first coil ends is provided with a pair of bent portions which extend outward in the radial direction of the stator, and a bridge portion which connects the bent portions. Each second coil end is provided with a pair of upright portions and a bridge portion which connects the upright portions. The bridge portions of the coils in the first series are disposed outside the bridge portions of the coils in the second series in the radial direction of the stator. The bridge portion of each of the coils in the second series extends across the bent portions of two adjacent coils in the first series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawano, Hirohito Hayashi, Satoru Baba
  • Patent number: 8680733
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine includes a multi-phase armature coil that is wound around a cylindrical armature core in a distributed winding manner. Each of phase windings of the armature coil is formed of an electric wire bundle which includes a plurality of insulation-coated electric wires that are electrically connected to one another. Each of the electric wire bundles forming the phase windings has a plurality of in-slot portions and a plurality of turn portions. Each of the in-slot portions is received in a corresponding slot of the armature core. Each of the turn portions protrudes from a corresponding axial end face of the armature core and extends to connect a corresponding adjacent pair of the in-slot portions of the electric wire bundle. For each of the electric wire bundles, the electric wires of the electric wire bundle are stranded at least at the turn portions of the electric wire bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Osada, Takuzou Mukai, Aki Itakura
  • Publication number: 20140077648
    Abstract: A winding is provided for electric energy converters, such as electric machines, like electric motors, generators or transformers, and a respective machine. The winding has conductor paths applied to a flexible carrier material by means of a printing process, in particular screen printing process. The conductor path preferably includes an electrically conductive paste. The conductor paths are printed one above the other in layers, and an insulating layer is applied between individual layers of the conductor paths. The conductor paths are arranged such that the conductor paths of superimposed winding layers preferably are transversely shifted against each other in a pre-finished, rolled up state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Patrick BRÄUER, Johannes RUDOLPH
  • Patent number: 8674576
    Abstract: An electropermanent magnet-based motor includes a stator having at least one electropermanent magnet, at least one coil around the electropermanent magnet configured to pass current pulses that affect the magnetization of the magnet, and a rotor that is movable with respect to the stator in response to changes in the magnetization of the electropermanent magnet. A wobble motor has a stator with a centrally-located core from which arms radiate outward, an electropermanent magnet and coil on each arm, and a rotor exterior to the stator such that the rotor can rotate around the stator arms. A rotary motor has a centrally-located rotor that rotates about its axis and a stator exterior to the rotor such that the rotor may rotate within the stator arms, the stator including an anteriorly-located stator core from which stator arms radiate inward toward the rotor, and an electropermanent magnet and coil on each stator arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Ara Knaian, Neil Gershenfeld, Maxim Lobovsky
  • Patent number: 8669681
    Abstract: A bar-wound stator, which is connectable to a plurality of fixed terminal points, includes a plurality of stator teeth and a plurality of magnet wires. Each of the plurality of magnet wires has a winding portion wound about at least one of the plurality of stator teeth and a junction portion extending away therefrom. A plurality of flexible leads each have a first portion ultrasonically welded directly to a respective one of the junction portions of the plurality of magnet wires. A second portion of each of the plurality of flexible leads extends flexibly away from the first portion and is configured for attachment to a respective one of the fixed terminal points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Edward L. Kaiser, Peter Bostwick
  • Patent number: 8664824
    Abstract: A Halbach array is radially disposed in an environment optimized for efficiency and controlled for efficient generation and use of power in order to generate, establish, and maintain a desired level of rotational energy with enhanced efficiency and in order to make the most efficient use of electromotive forces and magnetic fields which are either intentionally created for the operation of the apparatus or which result from the operation of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Maglev Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Epstein, Jon Eric Harms
  • Patent number: 8659196
    Abstract: An electrical supply device includes a set of armature coils which are coupled together in a polygonal mode. The coils are connected to a single bridge rectifier which includes a set of controllable elements allowing switching between a first operating mode in which some of the coils are electrically connected in series and a second operating mode in which all of the coils are electrically connected in parallel. An alternator for a motor vehicle includes the disclosed supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Marc Tunzini, Michaël Chemin
  • Patent number: 8659202
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a stator coil comprised of a plurality of electric conductor segments mounted on the stator core. Each of the electric conductor segments has an insulating coat-removed portion. Each corresponding pair of the insulating coat-removed portions of the electric conductor segments are joined with a joint formed therebetween. Each of the electric conductor segments also has an oblique portion that is comprised of a first part and a second part. The first and second parts extend, along the circumferential direction of the stator core, obliquely with respect to an axial end face of the stator core respectively at first and second oblique angles ?1 and ?2, where ?2>?1. The second part is positioned closer to the joint, where the insulating coat-removed portion of the electric conductor segment is jointed to that of another electric conductor segment, than the first part is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Kazumasa Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20140035713
    Abstract: A magnetic core of superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles having a particle size of less than 200 nm; wherein the core is an iron cobalt ternary alloy and the shell is a silicon oxide is provided. The magnetic core is a monolithic structure of superparamagnetic core grains of an iron cobalt ternary alloy directly bonded by the silicon dioxide shells. A method to prepare the magnetic core which allows maintenance of the superparamagnetic state of the nanoparticles is also provided. The magnetic core has little core loss due to hysteresis or eddy current flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NA
    Inventor: Michael Paul ROWE
  • Publication number: 20140021279
    Abstract: In a drive arrangement for a heavy duty mill an electric motor with a high number of magnetic poles and a stator that is segmented into at least four stator segments is used. By providing one, more or all of the stator segments with a three phase winding system, a highly modular mill drive with a high power density and therefore reduced space requirements is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Stefan Rittler, Stefan Berchten
  • Publication number: 20140021822
    Abstract: To realize a highly efficient rotating electrical machine having high torque at low cost by a reliable method. The inner rotor type rotating electrical machine including a stator core and a rotor core facing each other, and a gap provided in a recessed and projected state between the stator core and the rotor core, the rotating electrical machine being featured in that the stator core includes at least an armature and is configured by assembling a plurality of divided dust cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Masafumi SAKAMOTO, Shigeyoshi SATO, Shunsuke TAKEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8630688
    Abstract: A winding for use in a superconducting electric generator having a rotating rotor assembly surrounded by a non-rotating stator assembly is provided. The winding comprises at least one conductor structure associated with a component in the superconducting electric generator. The conductor structure comprises a plurality of conductive elements formed from a high temperature superconductive material. At least a portion of the conductive elements is arranged in a transposed relationship. A protective shell is positioned about the conductive elements and formed from a high strength alloy suitable for cryogenic temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiping Zhang, William R. McCown
  • Patent number: 8604655
    Abstract: A multi-phase, permanent magnet brushless DC electric motor includes 24 phase windings operating at a reduced voltage so that the motor can be powered by batteries or other sources of DC voltage to enable the motor to be used safely for propelling watercraft or other vehicles where the higher voltages required for conventional high horsepower motors would not be acceptable. The motor is wound by solid conductors spaced apart by 7.5 degrees. The conductors are interconnected and electrically driven by a sequence of drive currents to provide a six-pole stator. The connections to and interconnections between the stator windings are mirrored at each end of the stator to distribute the connections and interconnections between the two ends of the motor. A corresponding six-pole rotor using permanent magnets secured to a hollow rotor core is caused to rotate by the fields generated by the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Electro-Mariner Corp.
    Inventor: Robert J. Ferran
  • Patent number: 8604659
    Abstract: The invention is based on a stator having an insulation which is arranged around a coil winding package, wherein a stator packet is arranged on the insulation. It is proposed that the insulation means be embodied as a self-supporting sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Rieker, Gerhard Oberli
  • Patent number: 8587164
    Abstract: A system and method of manufacturing an electric machine comprising a rotor and a stator, wherein the stator comprises a fractional-slot concentrated winding having two sets of terminals, wherein a first set of terminals configures the fractional-slot concentrated winding to have a first pole-number (P1), and wherein a second set of terminals configures the fractional-slot concentrated winding to have a second pole number (P2) different from the first pole-number (P1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ahmed Mostafa Elantably, Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie, Robert Dean King
  • Patent number: 8587177
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a distributed winding type multi-phase coil. This coil includes unit coils made by winding a flat conductor wire in plural turns. The unit coils are mounted in slots of the stator core and connected with each other. Each unit coil includes an outer-layer coil and an inner-layer coil each being concentrically wound. Those two layer coils are made of a single continuous flat conductor wire. A winding start portion of the outer-layer coil and a winding end portion of the inner-layer coil form first and second connection end portions of the unit coil respectively. The first and second connection end portions are located separately on both edges of the unit coil above an upper end face of the stator core. The first connection end portion is placed close to an inner circumference of the stator core and the second connection end portion is placed close to an outer circumference of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Kitamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Fujio Ando, Masayoshi Haga
  • Patent number: 8575790
    Abstract: The Superconducting Electrodynamic Turbine produces thrust by transferring momentum to the Earth, via the geomagnetic field. A pair of counter-rotating electrodynamic rotors, that are made from a Superconductor, act together to displace the surrounding geomagnetic field. The rotation of a Superconductor in the geomagnetic field, referred to as the exciting field, creates persistent eddy currents in the Superconductor. Lenz's Law states that an induced eddy current produces a magnetic field that opposes the relative change in the exciting field. A continuous increment of energy, or work, has to be expended to overcome the opposing force and to keep the counter-rotating electrodynamic rotors rotating at a constant rate. This work is transferred to the magnetic field. The Electrodynamic Turbine produces a unidirectional displacement in the exciting magnetic field, creating a force or thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Inventor: William Ivan Ogilvie
  • Patent number: 8573511
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and devices for spraying fluid materials such as paints, stains, and the like, and more specifically, but not by limitation, to a dual voltage electromagnet motor for an airless fluid sprayer. In one example, a dual-voltage electric airless fluid sprayer is provided and includes a fluid reservoir and a pump configured to receive fluid from the fluid reservoir. An electric motor is operably coupled to the pump and includes a plurality of windings. The plurality of windings include a first winding portion having a first wire gauge and a first number of windings and a second winding portion having a second wire gauge and second number of windings. A power-module receiving portion is configured to receive a power module to couple one of the first or second winding portions to a source of electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Sandahl
  • Patent number: 8564167
    Abstract: A three-phase, multi-speed electric induction motor assembly is configured to include a controller to change motor speeds. The motor assembly includes a stator core assembly, a pair of main winding coil groups corresponding with each phase, and a pair of selectable extra winding coil groups corresponding with each phase. During the lower-speed operation, the controller connects a first set of three leads to a power source such that only the main coil groups are energized. During the higher-speed operation, the controller connects a second set of three leads to the power source such that both the main coil groups and the selectable extra coil groups are energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Vincent P. Fargo, Pingshan Cao, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 8552610
    Abstract: An alternator including a rotatably-assembled permanent magnet, the magnetization direction of the magnet being orthogonal to the rotation axis, and a winding with no iron core surrounding the magnet and having each turn in a plane substantially parallel to a plane containing the rotation axis, the winding extending across a dihedral angle from the rotation axis smaller than 75 degrees and, radially, over a distance ranging between one quarter and half of the magnet diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Marc Beranger
  • Patent number: 8552609
    Abstract: A synchronous motor which has reduced torque ripple while having a high torque includes a rotor and a stator, and U-phase coils, V-phase coils, and W phase coils are wound around sections of the yoke each located between two adjacent stator teeth. The number of turns in each coil and the direction in which each coil is wound are set to compensate for a difference between a timing at which a magnetic field produced at each stator tooth is at a maximum value and a timing at which a point between magnetic poles passes by the stator tooth as the rotor rotates, the difference in timing being caused by a difference between the interval between the magnetic poles and the interval between the stator teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyoshi Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20130257214
    Abstract: A composite electrical insulation material is comprised of first, second and third layers. The first and third layers are glass fiber mat and the second layer is a thin film material. The first and third layers are bonded to the second layer using a thin resin solution. The insulation is used in electrical machines such as transformers, generators, and motors. The insulation serves as a high/low barrier, high voltage conductor wrap, and low voltage sheet insulation in transformers. In generators and motors, the insulation serves as wrap for conductor windings and wedge insulation for stator and rotor assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Joel A. Kern, Thomas A. Hartmann, Samuel S. Outten
  • Patent number: 8546991
    Abstract: A synchronous generator 1 including a rotor having a field winding placed in the slots thereof and a stator having an armature winding placed in the slots thereof, wherein the value of the number of slots per two poles in stator minus the number of slots per two poles in rotor is equal to or greater than +9, or equal to or smaller than ?9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Sawahata, Kazuo Nishihama, Hiroyuki Mikami, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Motonobu Iizuka, Shuji Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8546986
    Abstract: A stator connector has an annular carrier structure adapted to be superposed on and fixed to the central annular portion of the stator and manufactured from an electrically insulating plastic overmolded onto a group of N conducting members which are separated from each other and electrically insulated by said plastic and having a generally arcuate shape. The conducting members have respective first projections extending out of the annular carrier structure. These first projections are adapted to be connected, in particular by soldering or welding, to terminals or ends of coils of the stator. Each conducting member further has at least one additional connection projection extending out of the annular carrier structure to form phase terminals for the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Gate S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luciano Marchitto, Nicola Re
  • Patent number: 8541921
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stator for a motor having a stator core having an annular back yoke and teeth protruded annularly in a radial direction from the back yoke, a plurality of coils adapted to be wound on the teeth, and an insulator adapted to cover the stator core and the coils for insulation and having supporting ends formed sequentially to have different heights so as to support the plurality of coils thereon, thereby preventing the plurality of coils from being in contact with one another and locking projections formed at both sides or one side of the supporting ends so as to prevent the coils from escaping from the supporting ends, wherein each of the supporting ends has a stepped groove formed at a position spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the locking projections so as to allow the nozzle of the coil winding machine to be accessed thereto, and a total of the depth of the stepped groove and the height of each of the locking projections is larger than the radius of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: New Motech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Cheol Jang, Ji Min Lee
  • Patent number: 8541920
    Abstract: A switched reluctance motor includes at least four stator poles and an electrically conductive material around each of the stator poles. The geometric outline, on one side of the stator pole, of at least one of the conductive materials is not rectangular, as viewed from a cross-section of the switched reluctance motor showing each of the stator poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventor: Krishnan Ramu
  • Patent number: 8531075
    Abstract: A system for completing an electrical circuit includes first and second base contacts electrically isolated from each other, each having a magnetic portion secured thereto, each magnetic portion having an opposite polarity, and each of said base contacts electrically connected to an electrical lead for transmitting an electrical signal through said base contacts. The system also includes first and second mating contacts electrically isolated from each other, each having a magnetic portion of opposite polarity secured thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Inventor: Christopher Moore