Windings And Core Structure Patents (Class 310/179)
  • Patent number: 8067867
    Abstract: A stator includes multiple motor coils. The motor coils include multiple U-phase coils, multiple V-phase coils and multiple W-phase coils which are arranged in a circumferential direction of a motor. A neutral bus ring connects the motor coils together. The neutral bus ring is divided into multiple bus ring members. Each bus ring member connects together any one of the U-phase coils, any one of the V-phase coils and any one of the W-phase coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Ueta, Hiroaki Sagara, Yukifumi Yamaguchi, Takashi Uchino, Kenji Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8056215
    Abstract: A first tool set holds a wire covered with an insulation film at a bending point of the wire to protrude the wire from the first tool set. A second tool set holds the protruded portion of the wire. The second tool set is rotated about the first tool set to bend the wire along a wall of the first tool set and to form a boundary corner in the wire at the same radius of curvature as the wall. The wire is released from the second tool set and is moved to place the first tool set at another bending point while protruding from the first tool set. The second tool set is placed at the protruded portion of the wire. When the wire is bent at a predetermined number of bending points and is rounded, a stator coil formed in a corrugated shape is manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Kuniharu Teshima, Hideji Shimaoka, Toshiaki Oohara
  • Patent number: 8058766
    Abstract: A rotational motor includes a stator formed by a core member including: a magnetic core portion extending in a radial direction of the rotational motor and formed into a fixed shape in every cross section thereof extending orthogonally relative to the radial direction, a coil wound around the magnetic core portion to form a plurality of layers and an engagement member engaging with the coil. A gap is generated between windings of the coil at a predetermined position when an uppermost layer winding portion of the coil is wound in series with a second layer winding portion from an outer side to an inner side of the uppermost layer winding portion in the radial direction. The coil is wound to fill the gap when a winding position of the coil is returned from an innermost side to the outer side of the uppermost layer winding portion in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui
  • Publication number: 20110273041
    Abstract: An electricity-generating device has a rotator unit has a rotator, multiple magnetic strips and a shaft and has a stator unit comprising multiple annular steel sheets, a positioning post, multiple dividing boards, multiple insulating sheets, an inner coil and an outer coil. The shaft is connected to a drive motor and receives power from the drive motor so that the rotator unit rotates inside the stator unit of energy-generating device. By continuously shearing to perform electromagnetic inducement interaction, induced current is generated to output and to supply battery charge and outside electrical consumption or to actuate multiple electricity-generating modules arranged in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: HUAN-CHING TSENG, Chiun-Liang Tsai, Chun-Hsin Tsai
  • Patent number: 8040012
    Abstract: An alternating current machine which generates a magnetic field or induces a voltage. In one embodiment the machine includes a stator and a rotor positioned about an axis. The stator includes three sets of coils, each set including at least a first pair of coil rows wired in series, with first and second members of the first pair configured to generate axial fields in opposite directions. Coil rows in the first pair of each set of coils are each arranged a different distance from the axis. A first member of the pair of the second set of coil rows is positioned between the first and second members of the pair of the first set of coil rows. The distance between the axis and the first member of the second pair of coil rows is intermediate the distances between the members of the first pair of coil rows and the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Meinke, Philippe Masson, Sasha Ishmael
  • Patent number: 8040085
    Abstract: A brushless motor apparatus includes a fixedly arranged stator 14, a rotor 12 rotated in a manner sequentially excited by a plurality of excitation patterns, a magnetic-pole-position detecting magnet 16 fixed to the rotor and having twice the number of poles of the rotor, and a position detecting element 18 arranged opposite to the magnetic-pole-position detecting magnet and detecting the position of magnetic poles of the rotor, and further includes a motor drive circuit serving as a control such that when the stator is excited with a different excitation pattern between regular excitation patterns on normal operation at the time of phase matching carried out upon actuation of a power source, the rotation angle of the rotor is one-half the rotation angle corresponding to the regular excitation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawamura, Masayuki Yokoyama, Kazuaki Shinya
  • Patent number: 8035263
    Abstract: An electric motor has a rotor (52) rotatable around a rotation axis (56) and has a stator (60) arranged around said rotor (52), which stator is equipped with poles (11? to 16?). Each pole has an individual winding (11 to 16), and the latter together form a winding arrangement (30) that serves to generate a rotating field. Arranged approximately concentrically with the rotation axis (56) is an arrangement having electrical connection elements (U, V, W, U?, V?, W?). The latter are equipped with mounting elements (34, V1, W1, U?1, V?1, 32, 36) to each of which an associated end of an individual winding is mechanically and electrically connected. A connection arrangement (40) has a plurality of conductors (42, 44, 46) each of which is connected, by means of a welded connection (155), to the connection elements of the stator in order to electrically interconnect them in a predetermined fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Kienzler, Ismail Altindis, Reimund Weisser, Jürgen Maier
  • Patent number: 8035270
    Abstract: A wheel motor can include a stator adapted to be coupled to a vehicle. The stator can include a body portion and a core extending radially outward from the body portion. A rotor can be disposed about the stator and can have a portion positioned radially outboard of and around the stator core. The rotor can include a plurality of magnets aligned with the stator core, and can be adapted to be coupled to a rotatable vehicle component. At least one winding element can be disposed circumferentially around the stator core, and a controller can be positioned in a pocket integrally formed in the stator body portion. The controller can be coupled to the at least one winding element and can be arranged to selectively provide a current supply to the at least one winding element to generate a magnetic flux to rotate the rotor relative to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Marsh, Herbert L. Adams, Charles D. Syverson
  • Patent number: 8022589
    Abstract: Teeth of a stator core are arranged one after another in the circumferential direction at alternating first and second pitches. Each corresponding adjacent two of the teeth, which are spaced from each other by the first pitch, are wound with corresponding two, respectively, of stator coils, which form a corresponding common phase. Each corresponding adjacent two of the teeth, which are spaced from each other by the second pitch, are wound with corresponding two, respectively, of the stator coils, which form corresponding different phases, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8022588
    Abstract: It is an object to obtain a highly efficient and low-cost single-phase motor by producing the motor in a form that allows a proper material layout, with securing a magnetic path of a coreback of a stator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Yoshino, Yoshio Takita, Koji Yabe, Tomoaki Oikawa, Takahiro Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 8022583
    Abstract: A direct current drive motor with a stator core, an end insulator, and a coil winding forming a stator, and a housing, a magnetic yoke shell, and multiple magnetic tiles, forming a rotor. The magnetic yoke shell and the magnetic tiles are disposed on the housing. Multiple teeth protrude from a side wall of the stator core. A slot is formed between two adjacent teeth. The coil winding is disposed in the slot and wraps around the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8018112
    Abstract: A coil wire for a coil assembly of a rotating electrical machine is provided such that sufficient space in braiding is secured when coil-wire-bundles bundling a plurality of the coil wires are braided. Each of the coil wires has a predetermined length, a plurality of straight portions and a plurality of turn portions, the straight portions linearly-extend in parallel in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the overall length direction of the coil wires, the turn portions connect two of the straight portions to be adjacent via first-kinked-portions and second-kinked-portions, the first-kinked-portions are kinked in a second direction substantially perpendicular to both the first direction and the length direction of the coil wires, the second-kinked-portions are kinked in a third direction substantially opposite to the second direction so that the turn portions are formed in a wave-shape in the length direction of the coil wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masaomi Dobashi, Akito Akimoto
  • Patent number: 8008826
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide for a high specific power electro-dynamo device that utilizes high-temperature superconductors, a dysprosium core, and superconducting coils to provide power. According to various embodiments, a rotor includes a number of rotor arms with a high-temperature superconductor attached to each arm. A stator includes a number of stator arms with stator coils wrapped around each arm. The stator coils may include superconducting wires for providing a charge to the high-temperature superconductors and non-superconducting wires for inducing a voltage from the trapped flux provided by the superconductors during operation in generator mode. The dysprosium core maximizes the magnetic flux saturated by the core while providing additional safety measures during operation. A backup power wheel or permanent magnets positioned in series with the high-temperature superconductors may provide emergency power at non-cryogenic temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John R. Hull, Michael Strasik
  • Patent number: 8008828
    Abstract: The electric rotating machine includes a rotor around which a field coil is wound, and a stator including a stator core around which an armature winding is wound. The armature winding includes a first three-phase winding whose phase coils are delta-connected to form a delta winding, and a second three-phase winding whose phase coils are connected to corresponding nodes of the delta winding to form a star winding. The delta winding and the star winding are wound around the stator core such that the phase coils of the delta winding and the phase coils of the star winding share the same slots of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Akihito Koike
  • Publication number: 20110193442
    Abstract: There is disclosed an insulated wire comprising a conductor, a primer layer coating the conductor, and an insulating layer coating the primer layer. The primer layer is formed by curing an epoxy resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Kengo Yoshida, Katsufumi Matsui, Masahiro Koyano
  • Patent number: 7994684
    Abstract: An automotive generator that includes a Lundell rotor. First and second protruding portions are disposed so as to project from inner wall surfaces of portions of first and second yoke portions at root portions of first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, and first and second recess portions are recessed into inner wall surfaces of portions of the first and second yoke portions that face the second and first protruding portions. In addition, a shape of a region in which the field coil is disposed is configured into a wave shape that has a cross-sectional shape in a plane that includes a central axis of the pole core that is approximately constant in a circumferential direction and that zigzags alternately in an axial direction at positions of each of the first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Inoue, Kouki Naka, Hiroyuki Akita, Kanji Shinkawa, Yoshinori Miyamoto, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Haruyuki Kometani
  • Patent number: 7990013
    Abstract: A stator coil of a slotless motor is disclosed in which the stator coil is formed in such a manner that respective both distal ends of two unit coil bodies, each unit coil body arranged to face each other, are respectively coupled to form a plurality of circular coil bodies, each circular coil body having a different inner diameter, and a circular coil body having a smaller inner diameter is sequentially inserted into an inner side of a circular coil body having a larger inner diameter, whereby a horizontal width of the plurality of unit coil bodies of U, V and W phases is equal there among to cause the strength of the magnetic field of U, V and W phases to be equal, and to allow the stator to be accurately manufactured, thereby catering to a designer's intention and markedly simplifying the assembly processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Jung Moo Seo, Joo Han Kim, Se Hyun Rhyu, In Soung Jung, Seung Bin Lim, Jun Hyuk Choi, Young Kyoun Kim, Bon Gwan Gu
  • Patent number: 7986063
    Abstract: A high-precision cylindrical coil having a high-precision fine coil pattern and a high mechanical precision such as fine roundness and no axial runout, and a cylindrical micrometer using the cylindrical coil are provided. In a cylindrical coil, a plurality of layers of coil patterns formed by filling the coil pattern grooves formed on a cylindrical substrate with a conductor and a plurality of insulating layers coating the cylindrical substrate are formed, the layers of coil patterns are electrically interconnected to each other by filling a through-hole formed by performing a hole forming process with a conductor, and the outmost layer is made of an insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Namiki Seimitsu Houseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuya Nakamura, Yoshihito Hiyama, Nobuo Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 7977840
    Abstract: A stator winding for a slotless motor is formed by winding a magnet wire 22 into a single layer coil 24. The coil 24 is deformed e.g., by pressing, to form a double layer web 26 which is rolled up end to end to form a cylindrical stator winding 20. The coil 24 is divided into a number of phase windings 27 extending between connection tappings 25. The magnet wire 22 is a multi-core magnet wire formed from a plurality of core wires 23. Each core wire 23 is an insulated single core wire. Optionally the core wires are twisted together. The core wires 23 are electrically connected together at the connection tappings 25 to form a plurality of parallel electrical paths or sub-windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Jun Jie Chu, Xiao Peng Ma
  • Patent number: 7977842
    Abstract: An adaptive winding configurations and control method is disclosed for the electromagnetic poles of electric machines, including motors and generators. Motors utilizing the inventive adaptive winding configuration and control method are able to dynamically adjust their operating characteristics to maintain a constant rated power over a large operating speed range with high efficiency. Generators employing the inventive adaptive winding configuration and control method are able to dynamically adjust their operating characteristics in response to a variable driving force to achieve maximum power conversion efficiency. These generators are also able to dynamically change their output voltage and current (thus charging speed) when charging batteries depending on the charged state of the battery, and on the expected duration of the input power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Inventor: Panchien Lin
  • Patent number: 7969058
    Abstract: Permanent magnet motors with improved torque ripple and methods for designing the same have been provided. The permanent magnet motor can include a stator having a hollow core and defining a plurality of slots; a winding disposed in each of the slots; a rotor rotatably disposed inside the hollow core of the stator; and a plurality of permanent magnets supported by the rotor. Each of the slots has a slot opening, and at least one of the slot openings can be off-center with respect to the respective slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Peter J. Savagian, Matthew D. Laba
  • Patent number: 7965011
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor structure with a constant ratio of multiple rotor poles to slots of the stator is disclosed, which is characterized primarily by forming the stator of the motor by multiple ferromagnetic silicon steel sheets, where the ferromagnetic silicon steel sheets are provided with the multiple slots whose number is a multiple of 15, and the stator of the motor is formed by windings of the three phases, X, Y, and Z. Each phase includes 2 to 4 phase portions and each group has 5 slots. The rotor of the motor is made up of a plurality of arced magnets which are fixed orderly and equally along a ferromagnetic steel ring, and the radial direction of each arced magnet is opposite to that of the adjacent magnetic poles. An arced magnet represents a magnetic pole, and the number of the magnetic poles is a multiple of 14 or 16. By means of the aforementioned setting, the reduction of the cogging torque of the motor is achievable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Unique Product & Design Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gordon Liao
  • Patent number: 7965013
    Abstract: An insulating cover or a bar-to-bar connection of a stator winding of an electric machine has only one opening and is made from a flexible insulating material embedding the bar-to-bar connection entirely in a tight fit. Methods for producing and applying such an insulating cover are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Matthias Baenziger, Christian Bencharab, Christophe Cottet, Bruno Frattini, Werner Ladstaetter, Francesco Stallone, Michel Claude Verrier
  • Patent number: 7960878
    Abstract: The electric rotating machine includes a rotor, a stator having a stator core and a stator winding wound on the stator core, and a cooling liquid feeding function of applying cooling liquid to the coil end of the stator winding. The stator winding constituted by coils wound along the circumferential direction includes crossover portions each of which electrically connects the ends of two of the coils through which currents in the same phase flow, respectively. The crossover portions are arranged so as to overlap one another only partially in the circumferential direction. The cooling liquid feeding function applies the cooling liquid to at least one of the crossover portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Ishizuka, Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7959238
    Abstract: The motor of an anti-lock braking system comprises a stator having six stator poles and a rotor with a rotor core having nine teeth. The rotor is rotatably mounted to the stator with the rotor core confronting the stator poles. Rotor windings are wound about the teeth and electrically connect to a commutator fixed to a rotor shaft. A bearing is fixed onto one end of the rotor shaft. Pump pistons radially attach to the bearing. The mechanical centreline of the bearing is offset from the rotational axis of the rotor shaft so that the pistons are driven by the bearing when the rotor turns. The windings comprise a plurality of concentrated coils so that the coils do not overlap with each other. The axial length of the motor is thus reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Ting Tuan Xu, Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 7956508
    Abstract: The invention relates to a generator, especially for motor vehicles, which comprises a generator stator (36) having winding slots and subcoils (10 21) lying in said winding slots (35). The subcoils (10 21) are connected to each other via a bridge circuit (3) in order to produce a DC voltage from a multiphase AC voltage produced by a rotary field. The generator is configured as a multiphase generator (30), preferably a three-phase or six-phase generator (30). The aim of the invention is to reduce magnetic nose and torque ripple merely by modifying the subcoil wiring. For this purpose, the subcoils (10 21) are connected to an angular ring and the bridge circuit (3) connected to the ring has a lower phase number than corners of the angular ring circuit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gert Wolf
  • Patent number: 7952250
    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: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Youichi Hasegawa, Tomoya Imanishi
  • Patent number: 7944109
    Abstract: A stator of a motor is provided with a stator core having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of windings wound around teeth of the stator core. The stator also has an insulator that is provided with a plurality of lead-out guide portions that enable lead-out wires of the windings to be drawn out from the tooth winding portions in a state of being close to the tooth winding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuichiro Amano
  • Patent number: 7939984
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator, and a rotor disposed within the stator. The stator has a set of stator laminations and a set of windings held in position by the set of stator laminations. The rotor is arranged to rotate about an axis. The set of stator laminations is arranged into a stack. Each stator lamination includes an outer section, and a set of teeth coupled to the outer section. Each tooth of the set of teeth extends from that outer section toward the axis. Each tooth has (i) a first end which is proximate to the outer section and distal to the axis, and (ii) a second end which is proximate to the axis and distal to the outer section. A width of the first end of each tooth is substantially greater than a width of the second end of each tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Woodward HRT, Inc.
    Inventor: M. Robert Mock
  • Publication number: 20110095638
    Abstract: In an electric motor, magnets (4) have two pairs of poles, the number of teeth (9) is 18, and the number of segments (14) of a commutator is 18. Winding wires (12, 25) for forming an armature coil (7) are formed by a first conductive wire (110) or a second conductive wire (120). The winding wire (25) has a first coil winding wire (7A) and a second coil winding wire (7B). The coil winding wires are each wound around four teeth (9) adjacent to each other. An end (31) of the second coil winding wire is connected to a segment (14) adjacent to a segment arranged at a position which is point symmetric with respect to a segment to which an end (30) of the first coil winding wire is connected. According to the invention, in the electric motor capable of changing the rotational speed of the armature by switching application of an electric current among three brushes, vibration and operating noise can be reduced, and mounting of the connecting wires and the winding wires can be facilitated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Kenji Sakata, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Patent number: 7928624
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric motor and to a method for manufacturing an electric motor. The electric motor comprises at least a stator (24), a rotor (25) and an air gap (26) between these, in which motor the stator and/or rotor comprises slots (4) and teeth (5) between slots, and in which the stator and/or rotor has a concentrated winding fitted in the slots. In the method of the invention, the phase windings are fitted as a concentrated fractional-slot winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventors: Jussi Huppunen, Asmo Tenhunen, Petri Alkula, Mika Olkkonen
  • Patent number: 7928619
    Abstract: A gap winding motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and air-core coils for generating a rotating magnetic field which are attached to an inner peripheral surface of the stator core. The rotor is disposed so as to face the stator with an air gap therebetween. A stator core is divided into two core portions in an axial direction of the motor, and a spacer is disposed between the core portions. A unique air-gap section is provided between the core portions, and coil terminal processes are performed in the air-gap section between the core portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Masahiko Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7928623
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing electrical power from mechanical power, includes a generator with a rotor and a stator for conversion of mechanical power to a polyphase alternating current having more than three phases. The stator has a stator core with a cylindrical stator bore and a plurality of parallel stator slots disposed at a distance from one another, extending axially along a length of the stator core and being open towards the stator bore. A plurality of stator winding bars are disposed in the stator slots so as to form delta-connected windings for producing the polyphase alternating current. A static frequency converter in the form of a matrix converter converts the polyphase alternating current to a desired output alternating current, wherein the stator is a polygonal stator having external winding connections that are bridged, wherein inputs to the matrix converter are connected to end connections of the winding bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Alain Lacaze
  • Patent number: 7921545
    Abstract: Stator coils are retained by an inserting blade and a setting blade. The setting blade is rotated in this state. Then, after rotation, the stator coils are set on the inserting blade. At this time, the stator coils are arranged in the inserting blade in a state where the stator coils overlap one another to form a spiral shape. Thus, the stator coils are arranged uniformly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7923883
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stator coiled in a spiral, capable of mechanically inserting a wound coil in the slot of a stator core. In a stator in which coils are overlapped in a spiral when viewed from the end surface of the stator core after each of one sides of a plurality of coils wound in advance is inserted in the slot of the stator core and each of the other sides of the plurality of coils is inserted in a different slot, by repeating the inserting operation twice or more, the loop of the coils overlapped in a spiral are piled in two layers or more in the radius direction of the stator core and the total coil sectional area inserted in the slots of the stator core is larger than a prescribed value based on the inside radius of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yamaguchi, Kenji Endo, Yoshio Kato
  • Patent number: 7915778
    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: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110068653
    Abstract: A coil wound body may include a coil bobbin around which a coil wire is wound. The coil bobbin may include a wound part around which the coil wire is wound, a terminal block part, a circuit board receiving face which is provided on the terminal block part and on which a wiring circuit board is disposed, and pin-shaped terminals. The coil bobbin is provided with a coil wire leading-out path reaching to root portions of the pin-shaped terminals from the wound part through an inner side of the circuit board receiving face. The coil wire are led out to the pin-shaped terminals by passing through the coil wire leading-out path without passing through a position overlapping with the outer side of the circuit board receiving face. The coil wound body is preferably applied to a motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo AGEMATSU
  • Patent number: 7911175
    Abstract: A six lead, two speed, consequent wound, single phase induction motor with a tapped auxiliary winding having a 2-pole high speed mode and 4-pole low speed mode. A portion of the auxiliary winding is connected in series with the four pole main winding. The 4-pole low speed mode has an efficiency of over 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Vincent Fargo, Dick Cao, Yang Xilai
  • Patent number: 7911106
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to present invention comprises a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor in which the stator includes a stator core having, along its inner periphery region, a plurality of axially extending stator slots and an armature winding wound through the stator slots. In this rotary electric machine, each stator slot contains four radially layered armature bars; each armature winding is formed by electrically connecting at least one of the armature bars in a first slot and at least one of the armature bars in a second slot to each other; and the armature bars of a pair specified in accordance with a required output voltage of the rotary electric machine are connected to each other with a connecting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Masami Sukeda, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20110057535
    Abstract: A reverse electromotive force generating motor includes a stator yoke; a rotor disposed in the stator yoke; a first coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to a first input line of a power source with a first phase; a second coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first coil in series, the second coil being connected to a neutral point; a third coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first input line; a fourth coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the third coil in series, the fourth coil being connected to a first output line for outputting power; and a rotational shaft disposed in the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventor: Toshio GODA
  • Publication number: 20110057534
    Abstract: A reverse electromotive force generating motor includes a stator yoke; a rotor disposed in the stator yoke; a first coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to a first input line of a power source with a first phase; a second coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first coil in series, the second coil being connected to a neutral point; a third coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first input line; a fourth coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the third coil in series, the fourth coil being connected to a first output line for outputting power; and a rotational shaft disposed in the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventor: Toshio GODA
  • Patent number: 7894158
    Abstract: An embodiment of a magnetic disk apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head assembly having a magnetic head which reads and writes data on the magnetic recording medium, and a motor coil assembly rotationally driving a spindle motor rotation body, in which plural motor coils are arranged on a circumference around the rotation center of the spindle motor rotation body so that intervals in the circumferential direction are equal, in a stator base surrounding a periphery of the spindle motor rotation body and having a shape in which a prescribed moving locus portion of at least the magnetic head assembly is cut out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Hanada, Masaru Muranishi, Takashi Matsuki, Yuuji Ishima
  • Patent number: 7893587
    Abstract: The brushless DC electric motor comprises, a rotor including a shaft and a permanent magnet fixed on said rotor shaft, stator including a winding in the shape of a hollow cylinder and composed of a plurality of rhombic single coils made of flat wire. The single coils overlap each other in an imbricated manner, wherein the single coils are performed to form an offset at least in the region of two opposite corners. The winding have legs, wherein half of the legs are located in a first radius and half of the legs are located in a second radius. The motor further comprises a housing having two end plates and supporting said rotor and stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: Electromag SA, Micronel AG
    Inventor: Vincent Comte
  • Patent number: 7891082
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil assembly unit comprises steps of coil forming, weaving, compressing steps. In the forming step, each coil wire is formed which provides linear portions and turn portions each connecting linear portions, during which bent portions are formed at both ends of each linear portion, the bent portions being bent so that mutually adjacent linear portions are deviated from each other. In the weaving step, the coil wires are mutually woven in turn, in which the turn portions intersect in turn. All the coil wires are subjected to the weaving step in turn to produce a woven coil assembly. In the compressing step, the woven coil assembly is compressed by compressing the woven coil so that each bent portion is deformed to be linear to allow the mutually adjacent linear portions to come closer to each other, thus producing the coil assembly unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Akito Akimoto
  • Patent number: 7888836
    Abstract: A direct current motor including a rotor, a stator, a brush holder, and a brush. The rotor includes a core, a plurality of commutator segments, and a plurality of segment coils. The core has a plurality of teeth arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor. A slot is formed between adjacent ones of the teeth in the circumferential direction. The plurality of commutator segments are arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor inward from the plurality of teeth in the radial direction of the rotor. Each segment coil includes a plurality of segment conductors electrically connected to each other. The plurality of segment conductors in each segment coil extends through the slots along the axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Santo
  • Patent number: 7877861
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of making a transformer having a stacked core, which includes top and bottom yokes and first and second outer legs. The core also includes an inner leg that is formed from a pair of stacked plates, which abut each along a seam that extends in the longitudinal direction of the inner leg. Each of the upper and lower yokes may be formed from a single stack of plates, or a plurality of stacks of plates. Each of the inner and outer legs may also be formed from a single stack of plates, or a plurality of stacks of plates. The cross-section of the core may be rectangular or cruciform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: William E. Pauley, Jr., Charlie H. Sarver, Rush B. Horton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7876016
    Abstract: A stator assembly includes a stator core and at least one conductive bundle. The stator core has a first end, a second end, and a plurality of slots extending from the first end to the second end. The conductive bundle includes a plurality of individually insulated conductive wires. At least one portion of the at least one conductive bundle extends from the first end to the second end of one slot of the plurality of slots. The at least one portion is twisted by a predetermined amount within the one slot to minimize a circulatory current along the plurality of individual insulated conductive wires in the at least one portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sundyne Corporation
    Inventors: Juha Saari, Erkki Lantto, Marko Palko
  • Publication number: 20110012474
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improved process for removing conductors and electrical insulation parts from electrical device components so that these devices can be refurbished with new insulation and conductors. This invention also relates to an electrical device component having an electrical winding support, a laminate electrical insulation part, an electrical conductor, and an encapsulating resin, that has a special laminate electrical insulation part that allows more efficient and environmentally friendly refurbishing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Mikhail R. Levit, Roger Curtis Wicks
  • 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