Plural Field Windings Patents (Class 310/184)
  • Patent number: 7859160
    Abstract: The electrical machine (1) has a stator (2), which has slots (6) distributed about the periphery, between which a tooth (7, 8) is placed, and in which a winding system (9) with at least one winding phase is placed. Each winding phase contains at least one coil group. Each coil group contains a first single coil (10) and at least one additional coil (11). All single coils (10, 11) of each coil group are electrically connected in series. Each of the additional single coils (11) is arranged in an offset manner with an offset angle (?mk,i) in relation to the first single coil (10). The respective offset angle (?mk,i) is calculated according to: formula (I) in which k ? {1, 2, . . . (n?I, i ? {0, 1, . . . (6?pN?1)}, n being a group coil number of all single coils (10, 11) of the respective coil group, k being a coil index of the additional single coils (11), i being a position index, and pN being an effective pole number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 7859146
    Abstract: A rotary cooling system is provided that includes a stator having at least one tooth and a plurality of wires coiled around the tooth and a passage extending between the plurality of wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Fronz Robinson, Juha Saari
  • Patent number: 7847465
    Abstract: A stator has conductor segments serially wound on a core. Each segment inserted in one of slots of the core has a slanting portion protruding from the slot and inclined toward circumferential and axial directions of the core. Each slanting portion has an oblique portion with a film removal surface and a film removal portion with a film removed surface to have a slanting removal area covered with no insulation film and extending on the oblique portion. Each film removal portion has a connection portion on an end thereof. The connection portions are aligned along a radial direction of the core to form a plurality of end pairs. The connection portions of each end pair are connected with each other so as to serially connect the segments with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Tokizawa
  • Patent number: 7834507
    Abstract: Rotational electric machine stator winding arrangement characterized, inter alia, by at least one coil of each parallel circuit being discontinuous with the other coils of the corresponding circuit, and by coils configured to accept phase voltage not being adjacent coils having a point at the lowest potential of a corresponding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Michael Degner
  • Patent number: 7834506
    Abstract: In a stator winding, series coils are connected in parallel. One series coil includes series-connected U phase coils that are wound oppositely in direction by turns in the order in which the coils are series-connected and that are arranged in the manner that one and the other coil sets of the U phase coils are separated in the circumferential direction of a stator core and are opposite to each other in the radial direction thereof. The other series coil includes series-connected U phase coils that are wound oppositely in direction by turns in the order in which the coils are series-connected and that are arranged in the manner that one and the other coil sets of the U phase coils are separated in the circumferential direction of the stator core and are opposite to each other in the radial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7830060
    Abstract: An electric motor comprising a rotor having plural magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a stator whose teeth are disposed opposite to the periphery of the rotor, with an air gap interposed between the rotor and the stator, wherein the coil conductors are wound on the stator so that two stator magnetic poles may be formed by two coil units of a phase wound around stator teeth within the range of 360 electrical degrees subtended by the magnetic poles of the rotor; each of the two coil units forming the stator magnetic poles spans an electrical angle less than 180 electrical degrees; the two coil turns forming the two stator magnetic poles are laid out so that they may not overlap each other; and the coil conductors are so wound that the adjacent stator magnetic poles exhibit opposite magnetic polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7825561
    Abstract: A brushless motor and a related control device are disclosed in a structure wherein a stator has U-phase, V-phase and W-phase stator poles, with two of the U-phase V-phase and W-phase stator poles carry thereon respective phase windings, in the absence of a selected phase winding related to a remaining one of the U-phase V-phase and W-phase stator poles. The respective phase windings have end portions connected together at a junction point. A three-phase alternating voltage is applied to the respective phase windings and the junction point to allow the stator to have an electromagnetic action thereby drivably rotating a rotor. The stator poles may be formed in trapezoid shapes to minimize interference between associated component parts for easy assembly in high productivity and efficiency with a reduction in torque ripple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Shinji Makita, Yoshinobu Kamada
  • Patent number: 7825562
    Abstract: In a distribution winding stator using a coil for a rectangular conductor, a coil end is made smaller than before, and the reduction in the current density is aimed, so that a rotary electric machine of a small size and a high power output is obtained. A conductive wire of a rectangular shape in cross section is double-wound, and is allowed to be shifted by the whole width of the wire having double-wound the crowns of both ends, and is formed to crank shape so as to become a length within the range of the intervals of the adjacent slots, so that the conductive wire is formed by being inserted into the slot of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Naganawa, Takashi Ishigami, Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Kenichi Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Goto, Yoshimi Mori, Tomohiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 7806225
    Abstract: A plurality of magnetic pole bodies, provided on a stator of a steering motor, are divided into two electrically independent groups. Each group includes i) six magnetic pole bodies that are arranged in succession and ii) a corresponding number of magnetic pole bodies arranged opposing those six magnetic pole bodies. The two groups vibrate only slightly when operating normally. However, if one of the groups fails, vibration of the stator from elastic deformation in an undulating manner in the circumferential direction will increase, thereby alerting the driver of an abnormality in the steering motor. This increases the likelihood of measures being taken promptly to fix the abnormality in the steering motor, thus improving fail-safe performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Itoh
  • Patent number: 7788790
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine having secured core slot insulators includes a multi-phase stator winding, having a plurality of slot segments that are adapted to be radially inserted into a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially-extending core slots in a surface of a cylindrically-shaped stator core. The stator winding includes the plurality of slot segments alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments to form the winding. The plurality of core slots house an insulator to electrically isolate the slot segments from the core slots. The insulator is secured to the sides of the core slot prior to the process of radial inserting the plurality of slot segments into the plurality of core slots of the cylindrically-shaped stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Kirk E. Neet
  • Patent number: 7791245
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of magnets for generating a first magnetic field. A magnet holder retains the plurality of magnets. A first stator is disposed radially outward from the magnet holder for generating a second magnetic field. The first stator includes a plurality of stator poles separated by slots with each of the stator poles having a concentrated winding with a respective number of turns formed around each respective stator pole. A second stator is disposed radially inward from the magnet for generating a third magnetic field. The second stator has a plurality of stator poles separated by slots with each of the stator poles having a concentrated winding with a respective number of turns formed around each respective stator pole. The magnet holder and magnets retained therein are rotatable between the first stator and second stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Hao, Chandra S. Namuduri, Balarama V. Murty
  • Patent number: 7786643
    Abstract: The electrical machine (1) has a stator (2) and a rotor (5), wherein the stator (2) has stator slots (8), in which a stator winding (4) with redundant and at least three-phase winding systems (U1, V1, W1; U2, V2, W2) is laid. According to the invention, the electrical machine (1) has a large number of poles with a pole number (PZ) of at least four, a number (NZ) of stator slots (8) which corresponds to the product of a phase number and the square of the pole number (PZ) of the electrical machine (1) or an integral multiple thereof, and a number of winding systems (U1, V1, W1; . . . ; U4, V4, W4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ). In each case a number of in-phase winding sections (U1-U4, V1-V4, W1-W4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ) are combined to form a group of phase winding sections (PU, PV, PW). The phase winding section groups (PU, PV, PW) are laid, phase-cyclically and pole-for-pole, in the stator slots (8) of the stator (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maria Bade, Axel Möhle
  • Patent number: 7786642
    Abstract: In a rotating machinery having armature windings constituted by a lot of strands, when the armature winding is constituted by four layers, a step number of the strands becomes half with respect to two layers of armature windings so as to facilitate manufacturing an armature winding of 540 degree transposition in which a transposition pitch is elongated and a circulating current loss is reduced, but since an output voltage becomes twice, for securing a voltage limit value caused by an isolation resisting force, one layer of armature windings are constituted by sub windings separated into at least two layers in a vertical direction, a transposition is independently applied to each of the sub windings, the sub windings are connected to the armature windings of the other slot while keeping an isolation of the sub winding at an armature winding end region by at least two connecting methods, and the sub winding constructs a parallel circuit by the armature windings of a plurality of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori, Masami Sukeda, Atsushi Ishihara, Takahiko Sano
  • Patent number: 7768176
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power storage system intended to transmit power to and from a driving system of a vehicle. A power storage having a stator provided with two windings and at least one rotor provided with a magnetic-flux generating device is comprised. The rotor is connected to a flywheel intended for storage of energy. The two windings of the stator are arranged for high and low voltage, respectively. The power storage is arranged to transmit power to and from the electric apparatus as well as store energy transmitted from the electric apparatus in the flywheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Electric Line Uppland AB
    Inventors: Mats Leijon, Hans Bernhoff, Bjorn Bolund
  • Patent number: 7764001
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine that is formed of a distribution winding motor with two slots per each pole and each phase, a stator core includes an air gap of a constant width dg1 between the leading end of a same-phase-intermediate tooth and the outer circumferential face of a rotor core, and an air gap of a width not uniform in the circumferential direction between the leading end of a different-phase-intermediate tooth and the outer circumferential face of the rotor core, with a width dg2 (>dg1) as the largest value. A magnetic circuit having a magnetic resistance higher than that of the same-phase-intermediate tooth is formed at the different-phase-intermediate tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7750525
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine comprising a stator core having a plurality of slots that are equally spaced on the inner surface of the stator core in the peripheral direction, a rotor that rotates inside the stator core, and an armature winding that is applied to each of the slots, wherein the armature winding is made up with a plurality of serially-connected single-turn coils that are respectively applied to the slots and the serially-connected coils of respective phases are connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori, Masami Sukeda, Akihito Nakahara
  • Patent number: 7750526
    Abstract: The invention is a compensator for minimizing circulatory current losses generated in a winding of an electric machine, the compensator comprising a frame part made of a magnetically conductive material and a winding formed in the frame part, the winding comprising at least one conductor having at least two sub-conductors; and at least one opening in said frame part. Said at least two sub-conductors extend through said at least one opening in such a way that the total current flowing through the opening is substantially zero, when a substantially equal current is led to the sub-conductors; and that at least two different sub-conductors are placed to extend through at least one opening. There is also disclosed an electric machine, the compensator being used in connection with the stator of the electric machine; and a method for forming a compensator to be used for minimizing circulatory current losses generated in a winding of an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: High Speed Tech Oy Ltd.
    Inventors: Erkki Lantto, Ville Tommila
  • Patent number: 7739788
    Abstract: A base plate for magnetic disk drives is provided that includes a hooked protrusion integrated therein between adjacent spindle motor coils. The cross-over wires that span between adjacent coils are secured by the hooked protrusions, thereby optimizing coil height and reducing manufacturing steps. The hook-like protrusions of one embodiment of the present invention are preferably stamped into the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Maxtor Corporation
    Inventors: Vaclav Prochazka, Torin Meyers, Wendy Lorimer
  • Patent number: 7732967
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electric machine (1) comprising a stator (2) that encompasses a winding system (10) with three winding branches, and a certain number of effective pole pairs. Each winding branch is provided with at least one coil group, each of which contains an even number of serially connected individual coils (11) that generate an individual magnetic field, respectively. Two respective individual coils (11) of a coil group are offset relative to each other in a circumferential direction of the stator (2) in such a way that the associated individual magnetic fields are provided with an offset electrical angle relative to one another at the sixth harmonic of the number of effective pole pairs, said offset electrical angle being equal to an odd multiple of 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Vollmer, Holger Schunk, Albrecht Storath
  • Patent number: 7723888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a synchronous electromechanical transformer that can be used as a multi-phase motor and generator, has a high specific torque, a small or negligible stop moment, a small moment irregularity, can be quietly operated, and has good heat permeability between the windings and the housing. It contains a rotor having uniformly distributed magnetic poles (4), and two stators (2) with concentrated windings (8) of at least two electrical phases. The individual stator contains the same number of similarly arranged electromagnetic poles (9) of each of at least two electrical phases arranged in related groups (7) of at least two electromagnetic poles of the same electric phase. The stator poles (9) can contain magnetically permeable polar cores and can be uniformly or non-uniformly distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Inventor: Marko Petek
  • Patent number: 7709990
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power-wrench comprising an electrical converter-fed motor having a permanent-magnetized rotor and a stator provided with winding, the motor winding (1) comprising at least two winding parts, which independently of each other are connected and disconnected by a switch-over device (4). According to the invention, a first winding part (2) may be arranged to control the magnetic field of the motor so that the motor, having the first winding part (2) connected, is adapted for the threading-down phase of the nut driving and operates with low torque and high number of revolutions adapted to said phase, as well as that a second winding part (3) may be arranged to control the magnetic field of the motor so that the motor, having the second winding part (3) connected, is adapted for the final-threading phase of the nut driving and operates with high torque and low number of revolutions adapted to said phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Tools AB
    Inventors: Peter Kjellqvist, Tobias Lindbäck
  • Patent number: 7705506
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a first group of first and second sets of three-phase windings of a stator coil is disposed in part of substantially circumferentially spaced slots of a stator core, and a second group of third and fourth sets of three-phase windings of the stator coil is disposed in another part of the slots. The first to fourth sets include first to fourth three-phase windings, respectively. Output ends of the first to fourth three-phase windings and input ends of the second and fourth windings are disposed at one of opposing end surface sides of the stator core. The output ends of the first and second three-phase windings of the first and second sets included in the first group are separated from the output ends of the third and fourth three-phase windings of the third and fourth sets included in the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Koike, Shinichi Matsubara, Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7705507
    Abstract: The electrical machine has a stator, which comprises thirty-six slots and thirty-six teeth with an alternating sequence and a winding system (10) which is arranged at least partially in the slots and has three winding phases (34, 35, 36). The winding system (10) contains in total eighteen coil elements (11-28), which are laid in each case two slots, with the result that a slot associated with another of the coil elements (11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 28) is located between the two slots associated with one of the coil elements (13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27). In each case two of the coil elements (11-28) form one of nine interwound groups of coil elements (29), wherein, of the four adjacent slots belonging to a group of coil elements (29), the first and the third slot are associated with one coil element (13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27), and the second and the fourth slot are associated with the other coil element (11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 28) in this group of coil elements (29).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 7692351
    Abstract: A stator winding has series coils and the series coils are connected in parallel. One of the series coil includes series-connected U phase coils and the other series coil includes series-connected U phase coils. A part of a wire connecting U phase coils of that one series coil is wound around the same teeth as those around which one of the U phase coils of the other series coil is wound, so as to form a U phase coil. A part of a wire connecting U phase coils of the other series coil is wound around the same teeth as those around which one of the phase coils of that one series coil is wound, so as to form a U phase coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
  • Patent number: 7687962
    Abstract: In this stator, first and second U-phase loop windings and first and second W-phase loop windings are short-pitch wave windings, and the width in the circumferential direction of the slot between the U and V-phases in which the loop windings are disposed and the slot between the V and W-phases in which the loop windings are disposed is set to a value that is ½ the width in the circumferential direction of the slot between the W and U-phases in which the loop windings are disposed. The ratio of the first winding turns number of the loop windings and the second winding turns number of the loop windings is set so that when having added the induced voltages by the loop windings or having added the induced voltages by the loop windings in the slots, the phase difference of the induced voltages obtained by addition is 120 electrical degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Imai, Tadanobu Takahashi, Shigeru Tajima, Junji Inoue
  • Patent number: 7683517
    Abstract: A method for mounting coil onto stator for rotary electric machine. The method includes forming coil pieces by winding wire with flat cross section into single row lamination state including wire layers aligned along perpendicular line to flat surfaces of wire. The coil is formed for first portion to be inserted in slot and second portion not inserted in slot appear alternately along the coil. The method displaces wire layers at the first portion changing the single row lamination state to connectively laminated state where wire layers at portion to be inserted in slot each adjacent pair of the wire layers partially overlap with respect to direction perpendicular to flat wire surfaces. The method includes inserting wires of first portion into slot, passing each wire layer through slot opening successively from the top wire layer of lamination and displacing each wire layer at first portion from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Taku Adaniya
  • Patent number: 7679239
    Abstract: Provided is a flat type vibrating motor capable of reducing a consumed current of the motor while maintaining torque of the motor, lengthening even more an operating time of an apparatus such as a mobile communication apparatus in which the flat type vibrating motor is mounted, and shortening a charging period. At least one auxiliary coil separated at a predetermined mechanical degree with respect to a center of the primary coil mounted on the substrate, and series-connected to the primary coil is provided, so that a current flowing through the coil is reduced and torque equivalent to or greater than that of a related art motor can be obtained. Accordingly, an amount of a consumed current of the motor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Il Park, Sung Hwan An
  • Patent number: 7679242
    Abstract: An electrical motor for an electrical submersible pump wherein the electrical motor has increased heat transfer capabilities. The electrical motor includes a housing and a plurality of stator laminations within the housing. Each stator lamination defines a central orifice and a plurality of lamination slots. A plurality of magnet wires pass through each of the plurality of lamination slots formed by the stacked plurality of stator laminations. Shrink wrap surrounds each of the plurality of magnet wires to secure the magnet wires in bundles. The result is that the wires are effectively bound together in a manner that allows oil to move freely inside the lamination slots surrounding the wire bundles. Since fluid can pass between and around the windings, the overall winding temperature will be normalized, essentially reducing hot spots that occur in prior art designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry J. Parmeter, John M. Knapp
  • Patent number: 7679253
    Abstract: A stator assembly for a dynamoelectric machine featuring a cascaded construction includes several conductors, each having a plurality of slot segments interconnected by plurality of end loop segments. The consecutive slot segments of a first conductor forms nearly all of a radially-outermost first layer of the stator winding, with the remaining portion of the radially-outermost winding layer being defined by a slot segment of a second conductor that is then inserted into the core to form nearly all of a second layer of the stator winding radially-inwardly of the first winding layer. The second winding layer is completed with an additional single slot segment of the first conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kirk E. Neet
  • Patent number: 7659651
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator core of a cylindrical shape, a rotor core coaxially rotating inside the stator core, and a plurality of coils each formed by winding magnet wires using a slot formed axially in either the stator core or the rotor core, or both: it is preferable that each of the coils be split into a plurality of coil groups, that starting sections of winding of the magnet wires in one of the coil groups be wound adjacently to ending sections of winding of the magnet wires in another of the coil groups, and that the starting sections and ending sections of winding of the magnet wires in the two coil groups be connected at respective outgoing wire ends to one another, outside the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Obata, Masaharu Senoo, Takeshi Obata, Akihiro Sekine, Mituru Itou, Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi
  • Patent number: 7647689
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator of a rotating electric machine includes a conductor end shaping process for shaping multiple lead wires aligned side by side in a single layer into a specific form in a plane in which the lead wires are initially aligned before a flat-patterned winding assembly configured by aligning multiple line conductors side by side and shaping the line conductors in spiral form is fitted into multiple slots formed in a flat stator core plate. The shaping process includes the steps of shaping the lead wires into bent form by using a stairstep conductor shaping jig under conditions where the lead wires are separated from one another along a direction generally perpendicular to the plane in which the lead wires are initially aligned, and causing the lead wires to return to positions in the initial alignment plane thereof by removing the stairstep conductor shaping jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasukazu Nishimura, Yoshihiro Harada, Yoshinori Kanazawa, Yutaka Hirota
  • Patent number: 7631413
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing armature windings for an electro-mechanical machine, includes manufacturing a band of conductor elements with at least one layer, formation of windings on a tool and installation of the windings into an armature. The method results in a highly uniform winding, increased fill percentage in slots, improved electrical efficiency, lower material cost and labor consumption for manufacturing and complete automation of production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Bison Gear & Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald D. Bullock, Edmund P. Henke, Boris Zlotin, Alla Zusman, Peter Ulan, Vladimir Gerasimov, Vladimir Proseanic
  • Patent number: 7633204
    Abstract: A motor stator includes a stator core stack having a core back and a plurality of teeth extending from the core back in a radial direction of the core back. The motor stator also includes winding wires wound around the teeth and having no bonding layer. Only winding wires of the first and third phases are wound to prevent loosening thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Wataru Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 7622842
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, output ends of first and second three-phase windings of first and second sets included in a first group are separated from those of third and fourth three-phase windings of third and fourth sets included in a second group. Each of the first to fourth three-phase windings is inserted in the slots while being turned at one of the first and second opposing end surface sides of a stator core. Turn portions of each of the first to fourth three-phase windings at the one of the first and second opposing end surface sides of the stator core have a substantially U shape, and are so disposed as to be nonoverlapped with each other in an axial direction of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hayashi, Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7615906
    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: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakai, Yoshimi Mori, Yasuhiko Kimura, Masahiko Honma, Fuminori Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7605513
    Abstract: A first coil includes a first inner-coil bundle and a first outer-coil bundle. The first outer-coil bundle is positioned radially outwardly of the first inner-coil bundle in a radial direction of a stator core. A second coil includes a second inner-coil bundle and a second outer-coil bundle. The second outer-coil bundle is positioned radially outwardly of the second inner-coil bundle. A first inner-coil end and a first outer-coil end form a gap and a groove. A second inner-coil end and a second outer-coil end also form a gap and a groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Teruo Imai, Kenji Niwa, Tomoyoshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 7600311
    Abstract: A method for producing a magnetically excitable core for an electrical machine, by which in a method step (S1), the core, having a substantially parallelepiped shape with slots extending parallel on one side, is furnished, into whose slots, in a method step (S2), the core winding is inserted by its winding sides, and then in a method step (S3), the core together with the core winding is reshaped into a cylindrical ring shape with radially inward-oriented slots, is proposed. The method is characterized by a further step, according to which in each case all winding sides that are inserted into each slot are pressed into a slot shape in a tool and reshaped before being inserted into the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Kreuzer, Eberhard Rau, Adam Willmott, Alan Fussey, Williams Neil, Martin Henne, Klaus Pflueger
  • Patent number: 7602093
    Abstract: A vehicle alternator and a stator for the vehicle alternator are disclosed wherein a stator winding includes a plurality of base segments wound on slots of the stator, each of the base segments including a large segment and a small segment disposed in the same slots distanced from each other by one-pole pitch. The large and small segments have turning portions extending from one axial end of the stator to form coil ends, respectively, with the turning portions of the large and small segments being dislocated from each other in a circumferential direction of the stator core to provide a circumferential space to create a cooling wind flow path to pass cooling wind in a radial direction of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Oowatari, Tooru Ooiwa
  • Patent number: 7598648
    Abstract: A multi-speed single-phase induction motor including a stator having a main winding selectively adapted for 2n-pole operation and 6n-pole operation, where n is an integer. The main winding includes a plurality of coil sets. The motor is configured to energize at least one of the coil sets during 2n-pole operation and during 6n-pole operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: Renyan William Fei
  • Patent number: 7598646
    Abstract: Electric motor configurations are provided with Halbach arrays. In one example, an electric motor includes a first plurality of magnets arranged in a first Halbach array. The first plurality of magnets is configured to provide a first magnetic field that substantially exhibits a first Halbach flux distribution. A first plurality of electromagnets comprising a first plurality of coils are arranged in a second Halbach array. A controller is adapted to selectively direct current through the first plurality of coils to induce a second magnetic field to interact with the first magnetic field. The second magnetic field substantially exhibits a second Halbach flux distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Mark A. Cleveland
  • Publication number: 20090243417
    Abstract: When driven by a variable speed prime mover, a generator system provides relatively constant frequency AC power by independently controlling the main rotor flux rotational speed. The generator system includes an exciter stator that induces current in the exciter rotor windings at a desired frequency and phasing. The exciter rotor windings are electrically connected to and located in a common core as the main rotor windings to provide two-phase excitation current to the main rotor windings. The exciter stator winding is also located in a common core as the main generator stator windings. Excitation is supplied to the exciter stator from an exciter controller, which controls the frequency and phasing of the exciter excitation, based on the rotational speed and rotor position of the generator, to maintain a constant output frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: MING XU, Christian Anghel, William Scherzinger
  • Patent number: 7579736
    Abstract: A three-phase DC brushless motor and coil winding method provide a coil winding enabling consistent starting with PWM sensorless driving by suppressing the DC offset component of the induced voltage resulting from an imbalance in the motor coil windings. The method of winding the armature winding of the three-phase DC brushless motor renders the difference in mutual inductance substantially zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Nishino, Kiyotaka Tanimoto, Taishii Iwanaga, Shinichi Kuroshima, Yoshiaki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20090195127
    Abstract: An electric generator includes at least first and second stator units aligned along a stator axis, and a rotor. Each stator unit includes a stator core having a plurality of angularly spaced-apart coil mounting arms that extend in radial outward directions relative to the stator axis, a plurality of field coils each wound on a respective one of the coil mounting arms, and an insulator unit disposed between the field coils and the stator core so as to provide electrical insulation therebetween while permitting electromagnetic coupling therebetween. The first and second stator units are arranged side by side along the stator axis such that the coil mounting arms of the first stator unit are angularly displaced with respect to the coil mounting arms of the second stator unit. The rotor is coupled rotatably to the first and second stator units for inducing electrical currents in the field coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: YLC Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Liang Lin
  • Publication number: 20090189473
    Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor is resistant to degradation in alternative fuels and has desirable magnetic properties. A stator for a brushless DC motor includes coils wound both clockwise and counterclockwise around teeth of a back iron. Pairs of the coils are electrically connected in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Harold L. Castle, David M. Dokas
  • Patent number: 7557483
    Abstract: A stator coil is configured of a first group of six turns of conductive wire, and a second group also of six turns, with the first group of six turns being wound on a spool, leaving a gap the same as the diameter of the conductive wire between winds. Upon completion of winding the first group, the winding is turned back, and the second group of six turns is wound in the gap, so as to be adjacent to the turns of the first group. The article is then inserted into a slot in a stator core of a stator, thereby configuring a stator coil. This provides for a rotating electrical machine and manufacturing method thereof with improved insulation resistivity regarding inverter surge voltage, and moreover high output can be obtained with a machine of comparable external dimensions with conventional machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yasuhara, Takayuki Koizumi, Ryozo Takeuchi, Koji Obata, Hidemitsu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7555893
    Abstract: To provide an aircraft propulsion system which can secure the optimum thrust and thrust vector for flight conditions, as well as the optimum sectional area for the engine, and which is highly compatible with the environment. An electrical generator is coupled to a turbofan engine, the electrical generator is driven by output power of the turbofan engine to output electric power, and an electromagnetic driving fan is driven by the electric power. On the other hand, after bringing each of coils in the electromagnetic driving fan to a superconductive state, liquid hydrogen is introduced to a heat exchanger, collects the energy of exhaust as heat, is then vaporized, and thereafter supplied to a combustor and to a fuel cell. Further, the electromagnetic driving fan is changed in its rotational phase by a rotating mechanism portion, is made movable in a width direction of a wing and a wing chord direction by a slide mechanism portion, and can be stored inside or outside the wing by a storage mechanism portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignees: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Nihon University
    Inventors: Keiichi Okai, Takeshi Tagashira, Ryoji Yanagi, Hiroshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 7554238
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-winding motor. Two three-phase exciting windings Sa, Sb are wound on each of the magnetic pole sections of divided cores 9. Two kinds of discrete winding wirings A, B are wound together with the same winding number onto each of the magnetic pole sections 13A-13L of the divided cores 9. Divided cores 9 wound with the discrete winding wirings A, B are annularly disposed, and are connected in parallel with each other so that the discrete winding wirings are arranged in the order of A, B, A, B . . . within the same connection, and the exciting windings are star-connected to construct two three-phase exciting windings Sa, Sb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Shintarou Koichi, Kazuyoshi Murata, Masanori Sakai
  • Publication number: 20090152973
    Abstract: A winding module for a motor includes at least one support and a plurality of windings positioned on and supported by the support. The windings are electrically connected to each other and include a plurality of wire connections. A packaging body encloses the support and the windings. The packaging body includes a mounting hole for receiving an axle tube of a motor. A plurality of electrical connection members are respectively coupled with the wire connections. Each electrical connection member is partially exposed outside the packaging body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Tso-Kuo Yin
  • Patent number: 7545069
    Abstract: Rotational electric machine stator winding arrangement characterized, inter alia, by at least one coil of each parallel circuit being discontinuous with the other coils of the corresponding circuit, and by coils configured to accept phase voltage not being adjacent coils having a point at the lowest potential of a corresponding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Michael Degner
  • Patent number: 7545070
    Abstract: A commutator motor, which has a series excitation or shunt excitation and which, in particular, is suited for use as a drive motor for a washing drum of a laundry treatment device. The stator of a commutator motor of this type has a number of field winding groups with field windings that are arranged symmetric to the plane of symmetry of the pair of poles and whose starting points and end points are connected to one another. In order to operate the commutator motor in a number of rotational speed ranges, the field winding groups are individually or jointly activated by a control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Schach, Joerg Skrippek