Plural Field Windings Patents (Class 310/184)
  • Patent number: 8288979
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a wheel motor is provided. A plurality of switches is provided for controlling a direction of current through motor coils of the wheel motor. A brushless motor control circuit is connected to each of the plurality of switches. Responsive to a request to adjust one of an angular velocity and an angular acceleration of the wheel motor, the plurality of switches are activated to place the motor coils in a predetermined configuration to maximize torque or reduce a total back electromotive force (BEMF) from the motor coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Nhan Xuan Bui, Reed Alan Hancock, Wayne Isami Imaino, Daniel James Winarski
  • Publication number: 20120256510
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator that creates a rotating magnetic field, and a rotor around which a rotor winding is wound so that induced electromotive force is created by a harmonic component of the rotating magnetic field, and in which a magnetic pole is created through the induced electromotive force. The stator has an auxiliary pole that is a leading portion that leads the harmonic component from the stator to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji YAMADA, Ryoji MIZUTANI, Shintaro CHINEN, Kenji HIRAMOTO, Hideo NAKAI, Norimoto MINOSHIMA
  • Patent number: 8283830
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, each phase of a plurality of three-phase windings is divided into a plurality of partial windings, disposed on a stator core. For example, the partial windings of the U-phase are distributively arranged on four U-phase winding areas 2U1 to 2U4, and on each of these winding areas, two partial windings overlap through a pair of slots between which two teeth are interposed. At each coincident location of a pair of slots, two partial windings of different three-phase windings overlap. For example, a pair of slots on the U-phase winding area 2U1, a partial winding UA1 of a U-phase winding UA and a partial winding UB3 of a U-phase winding UB overlap. At a pair of slots on the U-phase winding area 2U1, a partial winding UG2 of a U-phase winding UG and a partial winding UB2 of a U-phase winding UB overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinari Fujisawa, Toshihiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 8264114
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine is disclosed which includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and first and second three-phase stator coils. The stator core has a plurality of stator core teeth formed at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Each of the first and second three-phase stator coils is comprised of three phase windings. Each of the phase windings of the first and second three-phase stator coils is wound around each of a predetermined number of the stator core teeth by a predetermined number of turns. The rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles the polarities of which alternate between north and south in the circumferential direction of the stator core. Further, the first and second three-phase stator coils are offset in the circumferential direction of the stator core to have a phase difference of ?/6 therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Asuka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8264115
    Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil comprised of electric wires. Each of the electric wires has n in-slot portions and (n?1) turn portions, where n?4. The in-slot portions are sequentially received in p slots of the stator core, where p?n. The turn portions are located outside the slots to connect adjacent pairs of the in-slot portions. The radial distances from the longitudinal axis of the stator core to the first to the nth in-slot portions successively decrease. Each of the electric wires further includes bulges. Each of the bulges is formed, on a surface of a corresponding one of the in-slot portions or a surface of a portion of the electric wire which falls on an imaginary line extending axially from the corresponding in-slot portion, so as to protrude from the corresponding in-slot portion in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8258667
    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, said second coil being connected to a first neutral point; a third coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first neutral point; a fourth coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the third coil in series, said fourth coil being connected to a first output line for outputting power; and a rotational shaft disposed in the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Toshio Goda
  • Patent number: 8258668
    Abstract: A stator in which coil conductors of three phases are disposed in a plurality of slots provided in a stator core, wherein the coil conductors are formed by connecting a plurality of slot conductor portions disposed in the slot, a plurality of coil end conductor portions extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core on an outer side of an axial end surface of the stator core, and a plurality of upstanding conductor portions, each of which connects the coil end conductor portion and the slot conductor portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Kuroyanagi
  • Patent number: 8253298
    Abstract: A stator includes an elongate core defining an inner volume to receive a rotor of an electric machine. The core includes a yoke and an array of teeth extending from the yoke toward the inner volume. The array of teeth defines slots between each pair of adjacent teeth in the array. Each slot includes a first slot region adapted to hold at least a portion of a conductive winding and a second slot region adapted to hold at least a portion of a conductive winding. The first slot region is defined by two non-parallel opposing slot side portions, and the second slot region is defined by two parallel opposing slot side portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Direct Drive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Saban, John Stout, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
  • Patent number: 8237395
    Abstract: A dual-speed single-phase AC motor, including: a stator, including a stator core, and a coil winding, including a starting winding, a first main winding, and a second main winding, a rotor, and a starting circuit, including a rectifying and voltage-stabilizing circuit, a detecting circuit, a voltage comparison circuit, a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, and a third switching circuit. The number of poles of the starting winding is the same as that of the first main winding. The number of poles of the first main winding is less than that of the second main winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 8230578
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing at least one winding of an electrical machine that has a plurality of poles, in particular of a motor generator, preferably for a hybrid drive of a motor vehicle, the winding being formed by winding parts connected in parallel and each pole being associated with at least one groove set that is associated with the winding parts and comprises a plurality of grooves which have different circumferential angle positions relative to the associated pole, grooves with the same circumferential angle position forming equivalent grooves and each winding part of the winding being wound with the same number of windings in equivalent grooves. The invention also relates to a corresponding winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Knappenberger
  • Patent number: 8174160
    Abstract: A group of three stator windings for a stator of an electric machine, a stator arrangement, a generator, and wind turbine are provided. The first winding head segments of the three stator windings differ in form such that the first winding head segments of at least two of the three stator windings are differently tilted in radial direction of the electric machine and the length of the three stator windings is substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8174159
    Abstract: An electrical motor or generator asymmetrical armature winding configuration generating a multi-phase balanced power output. Each winding group for each pole, and the conductors constituting each winding group, are chosen individually according to their magnetomotive force (MMF) vector relationship to provide a balanced power output even though the individual windings may not be balanced or symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Xu, Wayne Pearson, Cristian Anghel
  • Patent number: 8154167
    Abstract: A high efficiency, high torque density, high speed induction motor is provided, the motor utilizing (i) stator teeth with parallel side surfaces; (ii) rotor teeth with parallel side surfaces; (iii) wide open stator slots; (iv) closed rotor slots with thick tooth bridges; and (v) deep stator and rotor slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventor: Yifan Tang
  • Patent number: 8154166
    Abstract: A dual-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Patent number: 8149520
    Abstract: A rotary actuator includes a multi-polar magnet, in which north and south poles are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, the multi-polar magnet being shaped into one of a circular ring and a circular arc member; and a coil body having coils which are provided around the multi-polar magnet to be capable of moving in the circumferential direction of the multi-polar magnet, each of the coils substantially lying on a plane that extends in a radial direction of the multi-polar magnet and orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the multi-polar magnet. The north and south poles of the multi-polar magnet are positioned apart from each other by a predetermined interval in the circumferential direction. Dimensions of each coil are predetermined so that length of each coil in the circumferential direction is associated with the predetermined interval. Predetermined currents are passed through the coils in a properly phased manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 8143753
    Abstract: A motor stator is disclosed. Each of a first phase, second phase and third phase of three-phase winding has multiple toroidal coils and crossover wires connecting the coils. The crossover wire of the first phase runs inside the second phase coil and the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the second phase runs over the first phase coil with a guide by guide posts and runs inside the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the third phase runs over the first phase coil and the second phase coil with a guide by the guide posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutake Seki, Akihiko Yamazaki, Yukinori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8136221
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a stator coil for a rotary electric machine, which is formed by winding up a plurality of phase wires. The method includes a shaping step for shaping a plurality of shaped wire members from electrically conductive wires, an integrating step for integrating the plurality of shaped wire members with each other to form an integrated body, and a winding-up step for winding the integrated body about a core member to form a wound body. At the winding-up step, curve forming is performed by plastically deforming turn portions of the integrated body into a curved shape, during conveyance of feeding the integrated body to the core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Akito Akimoto, Atsuo Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 8134270
    Abstract: Provided is a synchronous motor comprising a rotor that includes magnetic poles arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and a stator that includes stator teeth arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction. Stator teeth other than a reference tooth are displaced from positions corresponding to integral multiples of the phase difference of two-phase alternating currents with respect the stator tooth in electrical angle. Both a first-type coil supplied with a first phase and a second-type coil supplied with a second phase are wound by concentrated winding on the stator teeth arranged at the displaced positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyoshi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8134271
    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: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventor: Panchien Lin
  • Patent number: 8134269
    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: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8134272
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamoelectric machine that suppresses the occurrence of insulation failure that accompanies oxidation of a stator core without lowering output, and that also suppresses stator temperature increases by transferring heat that is generated in a stator coil efficiently to a frame. A stator core is configured by laminating and integrating thin magnetic plates, and has an outer circumferential surface that has a cylindrical surface, and receiving grooves are formed on inner circumferences of openings of frames. The receiving grooves are constituted by: an annular axial surface that is constituted by a flat surface that is perpendicular to a central axis of the stator core; and a radial surface that is constituted by a cylindrical surface that is centered around the central axis. Metal surfaces of the thin magnetic plates at two axial ends of the stator core are held between each of the axial surfaces of the pair of frames in a state of close contact around an entire circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Okamoto, Toshiaki Kashihara
  • Patent number: 8122590
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a triple-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Patent number: 8115443
    Abstract: A PSC motor includes a stator core, a rotor arranged in a rotation relationship with respect to the stator core, a first to eighth winding coil sets wound around the stator core and a capacitor. The motor has two kinds of configurations for 4-pole and 6-pole operation modes, respectively. Both configurations comprise a primary winding and a secondary winding which is connected in series with the capacitor, and have two reversible operation directions. The configurations operate different sets of winding coils when operating in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Renyan William Fei, Liang Sun
  • Patent number: 8074922
    Abstract: A flying craft has an aerodynamic aircraft fuselage structure preferably disc shaped. A pair of coaxial electrokinetic motor-generators are mounted concentrically, and preferably centered within the disc shaped structure of the craft. Each of the motors is toroidal in configuration, providing a ring-shaped stator and rotor portions. The rotor portions of the motors drive counter rotating fans which are electro-magnetically levitated. The structure is open to the fans so that air may be drawn into the structure and expelled downward providing vertical lift to the aircraft. By use of auxiliary air braking flaps and electrokinetic thrusters, the craft may be tilted so as to develop a desired horizontal thrust. By impulse breaking one of the fans through tracking solenoids at different points around the stator, the aircraft may be made to rotate about its own vertical axis for changing direction. By a series of sudden braking of the motors the craft may be made to move by inertial reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Dumitru Bojiuc
  • Patent number: 8072102
    Abstract: A stator of a turbo generator for the generation of electrical energy is provided with: a cylindrical core, which extends along a longitudinal axis and presents a plurality of axial cavities and two opposite headers; connection terminals of the turbo generator; a plurality of electrical windings, which are split into groups and which extend along paths defined in part in the axial cavities and in part at the headers; the electrical windings of each group being isopotential and connected in parallel between a pair of terminals; and a plurality of connection devices, each of which is adapted to define, at least at one of the headers, a segment of path in common with the isopotential electrical windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Ansaldo Energia S.p.A.
    Inventor: Roberto Garello
  • Patent number: 8072113
    Abstract: The electric machine comprises a rotor and stator, the rotor and stator having generally equal axial lengths. The stator has at least one primary and at least one control winding disposed around the stator. The electric machine comprises a stator extension of a magnetic material. The stator extension is disposed coaxially with the stator and has only the at least one control winding wrapped therearound. The stator extension extends axially adjacent the stator beyond an axial terminus of the rotor and defines a magnetic circuit around the at least one control winding. The stator extension is configured such that in use, the magnetic circuit remains unsaturated thereby increasing inductance of at least one control winding in an electric alternator/motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Kevin Allan Dooley, Joshua David Bell
  • Publication number: 20110278979
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a magnetic field induction device and an induced field device, rotating relative to one another, wherein the induction device comprises a set of two conducting coils around an axis, through which currents travel in the same direction, and a central part, placed between the two coils, comprising a superconducting element placed in a plane that is inclined relative to the axis of the coils, channeling the magnetic field produced by the coils on either side of the inclined plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE HENRI POINCARE NANCY 1
    Inventors: Jean Leveque, Denis Netter, Abderrezak Rezzoug
  • 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: 8040003
    Abstract: Present invention prevents connection terminals for connecting stator windings to external conductive wires from densely concentrating on a bobbin. A multipolar generator includes a stator core 10 on which salient poles 11 of integral multiples of “3” are provided, and main windings 17 wound around the salient poles 11. Auxiliary machine windings 18 to 20 in place of the main winding 17 are wound around at least one of three salient poles 11 provided at intervals of integral multiples of “3” from the salient poles 11 of both ends of six continuous salient poles 11 around which the winding start and winding finish of the main winding 17 are wound. The auxiliary windings are arranged each other at intervals of integral multiples of “3”. When the number of the auxiliary windings is 2 or less, the salient pole 11 around which the other auxiliary winding should be wound, is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Yoshihisa Hirose, Yoichi Yamamura
  • 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: 8035265
    Abstract: A motor stator is disclosed. Each of a first phase, second phase and third phase of three-phase winding has multiple toroidal coils and crossover wires connecting the coils. The crossover wire of the first phase runs inside the second phase coil and the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the second phase runs over the first phase coil with a guide by guide posts and runs inside the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the third phase runs over the first phase coil and the second phase coil with a guide by the guide posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutake Seki, Akihiko Yamazaki, Yukinori Nakagawa
  • 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: 8013491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator (1) for an electric drive motor having a number of stator teeth separated by grooves, wherein the stator teeth are wound by a multi-strand winding, and wherein one strand comprises several coils (5, 6), and wherein individual coils (5) each comprise multiple stator teeth, and preferably multiple stator teeth are combined at the height of their tooth necks into a collective stator tooth (4) having a tooth base (3) and multiple tooth heads (2), characterized in that two stator teeth each are combined into a collective stator tooth (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Krauth, Eike Hermann Timm
  • Patent number: 8008827
    Abstract: A triple-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided as well as a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7999431
    Abstract: The invention includes an electric alternator/motor having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, the machine also having and first and second magnetic circuits, one of which includes a saturable portion in which saturation may be controlled to permit control of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Kevin Allan Dooley, Joshua David Bell
  • 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: 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: 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: 7948139
    Abstract: An electric alternator/motor having a stator with at least two non-overlapping sectors is provided. Each sector includes a first winding, first and second magnetic circuits and a saturation control assembly. A cross-talk reduction feature, such as a peripheral slit is provided between each sector of the stator for impeding magnetic flux crossing between the sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Kevin Allan Dooley, Joshua D. Bell
  • Patent number: 7948140
    Abstract: When electric wires (joint conductors) are disposed adjacent each other in a peeled state of coatings, a gap corresponding to the total thickness of both conductors' insulating films as skin layers is formed between end joined face portions of the conductors. The gap becomes larger because the conductors are tapered. Therefore, the adhesion between both conductors is impaired, with a consequent fear of occurrence of joining imperfection. In opposed joined face portions of electric wires (joint conductors), the conductors are deformed from the tips of their axes to the joined face side in such a manner that exposed portions at the tips of the conductors and insulating film faces located in the vicinity thereof are flush with each other or the exposed portions are projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakai, Yoshimi Mori, Yasuhiko Kimura, Masahiko Honma, Fuminori Ishikawa
  • 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: 7932650
    Abstract: A motor stator is disclosed. Each of a first phase, second phase and third phase of three-phase winding has multiple toroidal coils and crossover wires connecting the coils. The crossover wire of the first phase runs inside the second phase coil and the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the second phase runs over the first phase coil with a guide by guide posts and runs inside the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the third phase runs over the first phase coil and the second phase coil with a guide by the guide posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutake Seki, Akihiko Yamazaki, Yukinori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7923885
    Abstract: A stator for a multiple-phase rotary electric machine provided a stator core with slots and a coil formed of a plurality of windings for individual phases. Each winding has slot-accommodated portions held in different slots, turn portions connecting the slot-accommodated portions outside of the slots in an axial direction, and a return portion that connects two of the turn portions and changes a winding direction of the winding at given slots. The turn portions include specific turn portions which are the same in a circumferential position as the turn portion connected to the one of the return portion. The specific turn portions are located, in a radial direction, to be drawn apart from the rotor than the slot-accommodated portions connected to the specific turn portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ogawa, Shinji Kouda, Akiya Shichijoh, Takeo Maekawa
  • 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: 7915771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a salient-pole machine comprising at least one field coil that extends in an axial direction of the salient-pole machine and is located below a pole shoe on a rotor body. Said machine is characterized in that the field coil is pressed against the pole shoe by means of at least one spring that is provided between the field coil and the rotor body and that an axial cooling channel is created in the gap between the field coil and the rotor body that is formed by the spring. The spring is configured in particular as a bent plate spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Haiko Adolf, Günther Hautke, Jens Möbius
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7911105
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved stator for a dynamoelectric machine including a stator core which has a plurality of core slots extending axially from a first end of the stator core to a second end of the stator core. The stator also includes a stator winding having a plurality of phases. Each phase of the stator winding includes at least a first filar. The first filar extends around the stator core and form a plurality of layers and has a plurality of slot segments disposed in the plurality of core slots. The slot segments are alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments. The slot segments are configured such that at least two consecutive slot segments are disposed in substantially the same radial position relative to additional slot segments of the plurality of slot segments disposed in the respective core slots, and the at least two consecutive slot segments are disposed at differing radial distances from a central axis of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Remy International, Inc.
    Inventor: Kirk Neet
  • Patent number: 7902714
    Abstract: A motor stator includes a silicon steel seat wound with six sets of starting coils and six sets of operating coils formed with resistant enameled coils. The six sets of starting coils are respectively made of the resistant enameled coils in directions respectively of entering into a first slot and out a fifth slot of the silicon steel seat, entering into a second slot and out a sixth slot, entering into a third slot and out a seventh slot, entering into an eleventh slot and out a seventh slot, entering into a twelfth slot and out an eighth slot, and entering into a first slot and out a ninth slot. And the six sets of operating coils are respectively composed of the resistant enameled coils in directions respectively different from the winding directions of the six sets of starting coils, able to quickly and evenly complete winding work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Sheng-Chung Lee