Plural Sets Of Poles Patents (Class 310/185)
  • Patent number: 11901770
    Abstract: The invention relates to an external stator of a rotating-field machine with internal rotor, which external stator is designed as an internal stator or external stator and which external stator has a number of N stator teeth which together form a number of N/2 tooth groups, and each stator tooth has in each case one pole core and one pole shoe integrally formed thereon, wherein the pole cores are manufactured from a first material, and that in each case one tooth group is formed by two directly adjacently arranged stator teeth which, together with a magnetic return means, are constituent parts of a magnetic circuit, characterized in that, between two adjacent stator teeth of two adjacent tooth groups, there is arranged in each case at least one intermediate element which extends in particular in an axial direction of the stator and which is manufactured from a second material, and in that differs from the first material of the pole cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LSP INNOVATIVE AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Leiber, Jochen Keller
  • Patent number: 10923973
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine includes a cylindrical rotor core configured to be arranged radially inside of a stator with a coil wound therearound. An outer circumferential surface of the rotor core is opposed to the stator with a gap therebetween. The rotor core has a plurality of magnetic pole regions in a circumferential direction and also has, in each of the magnetic pole regions, a flux barrier extending along q-axis magnetic paths. An inner wall of the flux barrier has a radially outer wall surface and a radially inner wall surface. The radially inner wall surface is broadened to be closer to the adjacent magnetic pole region than a position along the q-axis magnetic paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Naotaka Toida, Taizo Kusadome, Motoki Shimogawa
  • Patent number: 10910964
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 10873252
    Abstract: A turning device for a turbomachine comprises a plurality of electromagnets connectable to an electric power source; a rotor magnetically coupled with the electromagnets, connectable to a main shaft of the turbomachine and having a rotation axis, the electromagnets are arranged facing the rotor in order to induce eddy currents on a surface of the rotor and apply a torque to the rotor, thus rotating the main shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NUOVO PIGNONE TECNOLOGIE SRL
    Inventors: Sergio Defranciscis, Lorenzo Naldi, Duccio Fioravanti, Massimiliano Ortiz Neri
  • Patent number: 10727707
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reluctance rotor lamination that permits easy assembly of a rotor, in particular by means of press fitting, wherein there must be sufficient stability. For this purpose, a reluctance rotor lamination (18) is provided, wherein an opening (6, 42) for stress reduction is arranged on each d axis half (32) in each flux-conducting section (24), such that a partial flux-conducting section (36, 37) is formed on each of the two sides of each d axis half (32) in each flux-conducting section (24). The sum of the smallest cross-section of each of the two partial flux-conducting sections (36, 37) is substantially greater than or equal to a smallest cross-sectional area of the flux-conducting section (36, 37) perpendicular to each partial d axis half (32) radially above the opening, such that the opening (6, 42) does not cause magnetic impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marion Ballweg, Klaus Büttner
  • Patent number: 10720800
    Abstract: A stator core has first, second, and third pole teeth disposed circumferentially and projecting radially outward, the first pole teeth face rotor magnets and have symmetric tooth tips, the second and third pole teeth are circumferentially disposed adjacent to the first pole teeth and have asymmetric tooth tips, and a distance between the tooth tips of the second and third pole teeth is smaller than a distance between the tooth tips of the first and second pole teeth and the distance between the tooth tips of the first and third pole teeth. This apparently reduces the facing ratio between the stator pole teeth and the rotor magnetic poles and increases the cogging torque while preventing increase in cost and reduction in workability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Katsutoshi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 10707733
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor assisted by permanent magnets comprises a stator provided with stator windings, for generating a magnetic flux, which has a circular central seat to house a cylindrical shaped rotor suitable for being actuated in rotation about an axis of rotation, wherein the rotor comprises internal slots, for housing respective permanent magnets, and wherein the internal slots and the permanent magnets are curvilinear shaped in order to optimise the magnetic interaction between the rotor and the stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Enerdrive Limited
    Inventors: Davor Filipeti, Boris Karuzic
  • Patent number: 10630155
    Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes an outer yoke, teeth extending inwardly from the outer yoke, and pole shoes extending from inner ends of the teeth. The rotor is received in a space cooperatively defined by the pole shoes. The rotor includes circumferentially arranged permanent magnetic poles. An outer circumferential surface of the permanent magnetic poles is concentric with an inner circumferential surface of the pole shoes, such that a uniform air gap is formed between the pole shoes and magnetic poles. The single phase permanent magnet motor forms the uniform air gap, which reduces the vibration and noise. The pole shoes form invisible positioning slots, which avoids the negative effect of the positioning slots to the thickness of the air gap and reduces the startup dead point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yue Li, Chui You Zhou, Yong Wang, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 10601267
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a synchronous reluctance electric machine. It includes a stack of consecutive magnetically conductive core elements; each core element includes at least two adjacent sectorial sections with flux barriers and a central area surrounding the rotational axis. A binding structure includes core end plates which form together with interconnection casts a unitary casted structure. The interconnection casts are casted into channels extending through the stack and which are located in an area defined by the flux barriers of the adjacent sectorial sections and the central area of each core element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jere Kolehmainen, Jouni Ikäheimo, Kari Heikfolk, Tero Känsäkangas
  • Patent number: 10516322
    Abstract: An electric motor is disclosed having a detachable stator tooth. In some implementations, coil windings of the electric motor may be coupled to one or more drivers independently of other coil windings. A method of repairing and manufacturing an electric motor having a detachable stator tooth is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: ARM Ltd.
    Inventor: David Victor Pietromonaco
  • Patent number: 10432040
    Abstract: A 10-pole 9-slot permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator core including an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth. Each of the plurality of teeth has a winding portion around which a coil is wound. The plurality of teeth include three teeth groups. Each of the three teeth groups includes a first tooth, a second tooth, and a third tooth of the teeth group sequentially arranged in a rotational direction of a rotor and around which coils of one phase are wound. The first tooth, second tooth, and third tooth of each of the three teeth groups are sequentially arranged in the rotational direction of the rotor. A width of the winding portion of the third tooth is narrower than a rotational direction width of the winding portion of the first tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 10411532
    Abstract: A motor is provided that is capable of electronically switching between operating in a high torque mode and a low torque mode. The high torque mode may be switched reluctance mode and the low torque mode may be synchronous reluctance mode. The motor has a stator having two sets of armature windings, and a rotor having two sets of flux barriers each adapted to shape a magnetic flux distribution generated by a corresponding one of the sets of armature windings. The stator may comprise a plurality of teeth circumferentially spaced apart from one another around a rotation axis of the motor. The armature windings may include switched reluctance armature windings, each wrapped around a single stator tooth, and synchronous reluctance windings, each wrapped around multiple adjacent stator teeth. An inverter and controller may be connected to each set of armature windings for controlling the electronic switching of the armature windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Moovee Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Yee-Chun Lee, Donald Ho-Yin Wong
  • Patent number: 10312752
    Abstract: To reduce stray magnetic fields and the accompanying inefficiency in electric motors, the present specification provides a motor having a plurality of stator poles and rotor poles. The rotor poles are configured to rotate across the stator poles. Each of the rotor poles has a first rotor pole component and a second rotor pole component disposed on opposite sides of the plurality of stator poles. Each of the stator poles comprises at least a first sub-pole and a second sub-pole arranged such that at least a portion of magnetic flux from the first sub-pole flows through the first rotor pole component, through the second sub-pole, through the second rotor pole component and back through the first subpole. As the rotor poles rotate with respect to the stator poles, the magnetic flux exerts a rotating force on the plurality of rotor poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Tim Lambert
  • Patent number: 10110076
    Abstract: A single-phase brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a number of permanent magnetic poles. The stator includes a stator core and a winding wound on the stator core. The stator core includes an outer annular portion, an inner annular portion, and connecting portions connecting the inner and outer annular portions. The winding is wound around the connecting portions. The rotor is received in the inner annular portion. The inner annular portion and the rotor form a substantially uniform air gap. A recess is formed in an inner surface of a part of the inner annular portion between each pair of adjacent connecting portions. A center of each recess deviates from a center line of symmetry of the corresponding pair of connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC S.A.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Bao Ting Liu, Chui You Zhou, Yong Wang, Ming Chen, Xiao Ning Zhu
  • Patent number: 9866083
    Abstract: A stator includes an annular stator core and a stator coil. The stator core has U-phase slots, V-phase slots and W-phase slots sequentially and repeatedly provided in pairs in its circumferential direction. The stator coil has U-phase, V-phase and W-phase windings respectively received in the U-phase, V-phase and W-phase slots. In each of the slots, there are received 2×N in-slot portions of a corresponding one of the phase windings in radial alignment with each other, where N?2. Each of the phase windings consists of a pair of sub-windings connected parallel to each other. Each of the sub-windings includes winding sections that are classified into N winding section groups. Each of the winding sections of (N?1) winding section groups is connected via only serial connection, and each of the winding sections of the remaining one winding section group is connected via both serial connection and parallel connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akito Tamura
  • Patent number: 9184648
    Abstract: In an electric motor, each tooth of the stator has a radially extending pillar portion and the number of teeth per magnetic pole is k. When the number k is odd and a center line passing each pole agrees with a center of a circumferential width of one tooth, the pole has first and second corners which are the closest to the stator and positioned before and after the center line in a rotational direction, respectively, and the teeth includes teeth which are the closest to the first and second corners and defined as first and second teeth, respectively. The first and second corners are located according to positional relationships of the first and second teeth and edges of the pillar portions of the first and second teeth in the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Kousuke Hanada
  • Patent number: 8987968
    Abstract: This power generator is so formed that a number q of slots per pole per phase obtained by dividing the number of slots by the number of poles of permanent magnets and the number of phases of voltages is a fraction satisfying 1<q?3/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Daisuke Morishita, Yasuhiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8922087
    Abstract: An electrically driven motor, an electrical generator, a rotating electrical machine and method of operating, that includes a rotating rotor having an even number of alternating polarity permanent magnet poles and a stator with an odd number of evenly spaced alternating magnetic polarity electromagnetic poles divided into an odd number of equal stator phase groups with a magnetically unbalanced orphan, pole from each stator phase group removed without re-spacing the remaining stator poles to produce a gap between stator phase groups that is greater than the spacing between adjacent poles in each stator phase group. The rotor can be a rotating external rotor or a stationary internal rotor and the stator can be a stationary interior stator or a rotating exterior stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Norman P Rittenhouse
  • Patent number: 8901797
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Harold L. Castle, David M. Dokas
  • Publication number: 20140292134
    Abstract: This rotating electrical machine has a rotor, stator core, field windings for multiple poles, and armature windings for the multiple poles. The rotor is rotatably supported about a shaft. Convex-shaped multiple salient pole sections are formed on the outer circumference of the rotor while arranged in the circumferential direction. The stator core is provided along the outer circumference of the rotor with an air gap from the rotor. Convex-shaped multiple teeth are formed on the inner circumference of the stator core while arranged in the circumferential direction. The field windings for the multiple poles are wound around each of the multiple teeth while insulated from the field windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicants: KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Tsuda, Mitsuhiro Kawamura, Tadashi Fukami, Kazuo Shima
  • Patent number: 8803376
    Abstract: An AC motor is provided. In the AC motor, there are M pieces (M is an integer of 3 or more) of stator pole groups SPG are arranged in a rotor axis direction, where each of the stator poles groups is composed of a plurality of stator poles which are for the same phase and arranged in a circumferential direction of the motor. Between the stator pole groups SPG, “M?1” pieces of annular windings WR are arranged which allow one-way current to flow therethrough. The windings WR are arranged such that the directions of current passing therethrough are reversed in turn in the rotor axis direction. The stator pole groups SPG are excited to generate magnetic fluxes ?G directed in a one way. The excited directions of the magnetic fluxes ?G are reversed in turn in the rotor axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Tomokazu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140184011
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine includes a stator core including a plurality of slots arrayed in a circumferential direction and a stator winding formed of a conductor having a rectangular cross section and an insulation coating. The stator winding is configured to be inserted in the slot. The stator winding includes a first, a second, and a third phase windings constituted by connecting a plurality of segment coils formed in an approximate U-shape. The stator winding also includes a first neutral wire formed of a single continuous conductor extending across a first slot and a second slot, and configured to connect the first phase winding and the second phase winding. The stator winding further includes a second neutral wire pulled out from a third slot and configured to connect the third phase winding and the first neutral wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kaimori, Yoshimi Mori, Takahiro Omori, Takeshi Matsuo, Yasuyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 8749106
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor magnetically coupled to the stator. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and having a plurality of teeth, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent the rotor core and having a plurality of segments, and rotor winding units wound about the teeth and connected to the segments. Brushes arranged in sliding electrical contact with the commutator transfer power to the rotor. Each of the rotor winding units has at least two subcoils directly connected in series to each other and separated from each other by at least one tooth. An initial subcoil and a final subcoil of each rotor winding unit are respectively directly connected to two adjacent segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Bao Ting Liu, Ji Cheng Pan, Ji Dong Chai, Xu Hai Wei
  • Publication number: 20140139154
    Abstract: A current vector controlled synchronous reluctance motor and control method thereof, wherein the motor has a coil on each of the teeth. The coils form a U-phase winding, a V-phase winding and a W-phase winding. The phase windings receive a balanced three-phase current vector to induce closed magnetic field lines, such that the coils induce same magnetic poles adjacent to the rotor unit. Two short magnetic routes are formed along three adjacent teeth and the rotor unit. The efficiency of the reluctance motor is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tzu-Shien CHUANG, Mi-Ching TSAI, Min-Fu HSIEH
  • Patent number: 8633629
    Abstract: A U phase winding, an X phase winding, a V phase winding, a Y phase winding, a W phase winding, and a Z phase winding are configured by mounting conductor wires so as to alternate repeatedly between 5?/6 short-pitch windings and 7?/6 long-pitch windings, and are mounted into the stator core in that order so as to be stacked sequentially in a radial direction so as to be offset by one slot each in a first circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kashihara
  • Patent number: 8525382
    Abstract: A motor has a stator having a stator core and field windings. The brush gear includes a plurality of brushes, a rotor including a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent the rotor core and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and connected to the commutator. The stator core has a yoke, 2P primary poles about which the field windings are wound, and 2P auxiliary poles. A control device controls the electrical connection of the field windings and the brushes so that 2P or 4P magnetic poles are selectively formed on the stator core when the field windings are electrified. P is an integer equal to or greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Bao Ting Liu, Ji Dong Chai
  • Patent number: 8519590
    Abstract: A magneto generator can be made small in size and light in weight, and improved in power generation efficiency. The magneto generator includes an iron core having an iron core main body and a plurality of teeth (9) radially extending from the iron core main body, and an armature having a first three-phase winding (14) and a second three-phase winding (15) comprising winding portions (18u, 18v, 18w, 19a, 19b and 19c) of individual phases wound around the stator core. The individual first and second three-phase windings (14, 15) have the winding portions (18u, 18v, 18w, 19a, 19b and 19c) constructed by concentratedly winding conductors around the individual teeth (9), respectively, while skipping every predetermined number of teeth (9), and are wound in a state divided into an inner layer side and an outer layer side, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Baba
  • Publication number: 20130214630
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric machine, in particular a brushless permanent magnet motor, provided with a rotor and a stator which has a plurality of teeth with winding phases provided thereon, wherein each winding phase has at least four windings, wherein, of the at least four windings of a winding phase, in each case two windings are connected in series with one another, and wherein these windings which are connected in series are connected in parallel. The present invention also relates to a steering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Grzegorz Ombach, Jacek Junak
  • Patent number: 8471419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating electric machine stator that includes connecting members for connecting jumper wires to each other between neighboring magnetic pole coils of the rotating electric machine stator, and its manufacturing method. In a conventional connecting member, its portions to be connected to the jumper wires are figure-U shaped and have openings on the opposite side to a core's end-face where the jumper wires are disposed, so that, in order to insert the jumper wires into the openings, complex drive controls have been required for the connecting portions being figure-U shaped. In order to simplify the drive controls, such connecting portions being made in curved shapes have openings each facing the end-face of a core. It is possible to generally apply the present invention to rotating electric machine stators that obey coil connection specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Shimomura, Hiroyuki Akita, Takumi Nakaue, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 8378547
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakata, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8294322
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, when a stator winding is wound in concentrated winding, an improvement in performance is achieved by reducing a magnetomotive force harmonic without reducing a fundamental wave magnetic flux generated by a stator. A rotating electrical machine (10) includes a rotor (18), and two stators (14, 16) opposed with the rotor (18) being interposed therebetween either on both sides of the rotor (18) in the axial direction or on both sides of the rotor (18) in the radial direction. Stator windings (22) provided in a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction of each stator (14, 16) are wound in concentrated winding. The directions of magnetic fluxes generated by stator windings (22) having the same phase in the stators (14, 16) are in mutually opposite directions with respect to either the axial direction or the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Aiki, Hideo Nakai, Takaji Umeno, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Norimoto Minoshima, Toshihiko Yoshida, Tatsuya Uematsu, Kenji Endo
  • Publication number: 20120228980
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a two-phase winding stator having 4×n winding poles and auxiliary poles provided between the winding poles, and a rotor constituted by 6×n permanent magnet rotating poles having divided angle. The two-phase brushless motor can be driven by a control device for the two-phase motor which can transform electric power and rectify electronically. The two-phase brushless DC motor can increase a permeance coefficient of the rotor, improve the efficiency and the starting of the motor, and reduce torque ripple and noise thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SNTECH INC.
    Inventor: Young-Chun Jeung
  • Patent number: 8264177
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an efficient hub motor. A stator is attached to a shaft. Coils are embedded in the stator in a circular pattern. Two rotors are rotatably coupled to the shaft with the stator between them. Permanent magnets are embedded in each rotor. Each permanent magnet and each core has a similar cross-sectional shape. The permanent magnets are positioned in a circular pattern corresponding to the coils. The permanent magnets are positioned so that when a coil aligns with a permanent magnet a next coil aligns between two magnets. Shorting bars connect exterior edges of the permanent magnets. A sequence control connects each coil so that current flows in a coil in one direction and the sequence control disconnects the coil and reconnects the coil with current flowing in the opposite direction in response to a set of permanent magnets aligning with a coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Millennial Research Corporation
    Inventor: Denis L. Palmer
  • Patent number: 8148867
    Abstract: A permanent magnet machine (PMM) has a generally cylindrical permanent magnet (PM) rotor that has multiple PM rotor poles arranged around a rotor axis of rotation; and a stator with two generally cylindrical and concentric yokes, an inner yoke proximate the PM rotor with associated multiple inner poles and inner armature windings suitable for multiphase alternating current operation that form a PMM magnetic flux circuit, an outer yoke with associated multiple outer poles and outer control windings suitable for connection to a direct current source, with distal ends of the outer poles in contact with the inner yoke to form an external magnetic flux circuit that diverts magnetic flux from the PMM magnetic flux circuit; wherein application of increasing direct current to the outer windings results in increased magnetic reluctance of the external magnetic flux circuit, thereby causing the external magnetic flux circuit to divert less magnetic flux from the PMM magnetic flux circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Jacek F. Gieras, Gregory I. Rozman, Andreas C. Koenig
  • Publication number: 20120007459
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotating electric machine for generating a constant frequency AC power supply from a variable speed primemover including: a stator wound with two sets of isolated polyphase windings having the same number of poles, with the polyphase windings located at about 90 degree displacement in space between them, and a rotor wound with two sets of isolated polyphase windings having the same number of poles and placed at about 90 degree displacement in space between them. The rotor has two winding terminals interconnected either internally or externally to the machine with mutually reverse phase sequence. When one set of stator winding is energized by an AC power supply of a given frequency and voltage, and the rotor shaft is rotated by an external means in the same direction as that of the rotating field of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Nikhil Mondal, Nirmal Kumar Deb, Sujit Kumar Biswas
  • Publication number: 20110241471
    Abstract: A rotor of alternator has core layer units serially located along axial direction. Each unit has a field coil generating magnetic flux and two rotor cores receiving the flux on respective sides of the coil in axial direction. Each core has a first yoke portion located on inner side of the coil, a second yoke portion extending from the first yoke portion toward the outer side and magnetic poles extending from the second yoke portion in the axial direction. The poles of one core and the poles of the other core in each unit extend toward different axial sides and are alternately arranged in circumferential direction on the outer side of the coil. A ratio of the outer circumferential diameter of the first yoke portions to the rotational diameter of the poles is lower than 0.54.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi TOKIZAWA
  • 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: 8004141
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a two-phase brushless DC motor which can increase a pemerance coefficient of a rotor to the maximum to thereby improve efficiency and starting feature of the motor, and to reduce torque ripple and noise thereof. The brushless motor of the present invention includes a two-phase winding stator having 4×n winding poles and auxiliary poles provided between the winding poles, and a rotor constituted by 6×n permanent magnet rotating poles having divided angle. Auxiliary poles between the stator poles can be provided. The two-phase brushless motor of the present invention can be driven by a control device for the two-phase motor which can transform electric power and rectify electronically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: SNTech Inc.
    Inventor: Young-Chun Jeung
  • Patent number: 7915783
    Abstract: It is designed for accumulator batteries charging and for electrical energy generating with rectified voltage for movable and unmovable vehicles and/or objects. It possesses two identical mirror-image disposed rotor 2 and 2a and excitation 3 and 3a sets and common stator 4 with three-phase stator winding 11 realized in two groups windings, dephasing on 60/q electrical degrees. Each winding 11 is switched on with own terminals and diodes to rectified block 26, build of group isolated 30 and group connected with chassis ground 31 diodes upset in two metal, ribbed, concentric situated inner 32 and outside 33 radiators pressed with their plane surfaces to rear end bell 7 of housing 5. Inner radiator 33 has ventilation holes 35. Advantage of alternator is increased output current at reduced input power and constant alternator volume and speed of rotation as well as increased applied time of alternator and its bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Inventor: Encho Nikolov Popov
  • Patent number: 7911107
    Abstract: A motor is provided, which includes: a rotor having rotor pole groups, in which N-poles and S-poles are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction; an N number (N is a positive integer) of stator pole groups, in which a plurality of stator poles are arranged for individual phases along or in the vicinity of the respective circumferences so as to be positioned at substantially the same rotational phase position in terms of electrical angle; and an (N?1) number of loop windings axially arranged between the stator pole groups, with the same phase being arranged at axial ends, wherein each of the loop windings is arranged radially inner than the outer diameter of each rotor pole group. This simplified winding structure can enhance productivity, reduce size, enhance efficiency and reduce cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Nashiki
  • Patent number: 7816822
    Abstract: A motor includes: a rotor having permanent magnets in which N-poles and S-poles are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction; seven stator pole groups, each of which has a plurality of stator poles arranged in the circumferential direction, the stator pole groups being arranged with the circumferential and axial positions of the stator poles in one stator pole group being offset from those of other stator pole groups; and a plurality of loop windings formed in the circumferential direction and arranged at positions adjacent to the plurality of stator pole groups in the rotor shaft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Nashiki
  • 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: 7755242
    Abstract: A motor having a structure configured to reduce magnetic resistance between a rotor and a stator, a method for manufacturing the motor, and a washing machine using the motor are disclosed. The motor includes a rotor, and a stator co-operating with the rotor. The stator includes a main core and an auxiliary core. The main core includes a base and a plurality of teeth protruding from the base. The auxiliary core is structured to prevent the occurrence of magnetic resistance from being generated from spaces, defined between adjacent teeth, when the stator co-operates with the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Cha Seung Jun, Byoung Wook Min
  • 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: 7687961
    Abstract: A stator includes mutually independent annular coils and of two phases and teeth and of three phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Takahashi, Nobuyuki Imai, Shin Aoki, Daijiro Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20100026131
    Abstract: It is designed for accumulator batteries charging and for electrical energy generating with rectified voltage for movable and unmovable vehicles and/or objects. It possesses two identical mirror-image disposed rotor 2 and 2a and excitation 3 and 3a sets and common stator 4 with three-phase stator winding 11 realized in two groups windings, dephasing on 60/q electrical degrees. Each winding 11 is switched on with own terminals and diodes to rectified block 26, build of group isolated 30 and group connected with chassis ground 31 diodes upset in two metal, ribbed, concentric situated inner 32 and outside 33 radiators pressed with their plane surfaces to rear end bell 7 of housing 5. Inner radiator 33 has ventilation holes 35. Advantage of alternator is increased output current at reduced input power and constant alternator volume and speed of rotation as well as increased applied time of alternator and its bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventor: Encho Nikolov Popov
  • Patent number: 7598633
    Abstract: An ac motor is provided which includes a plurality of looped windings each of which extends in a circumferential direction of a stator. The stator is equipped with N stator pole groups made up of magnetic poles arranged along a circumference thereof. The looped windings are disposed adjacent each other in an axial direction of the stator. The number P of the rotor magnetic poles and the number M of the magnetic poles of the stator are selected to meet a relation of M<(P/2)×N. This structure permits the number of the magnetic poles of the stator to be decreased, which ensures desired air gaps between the magnetic poles of the stator, thus minimizing a leakage of magnetic flux between the magnetic poles of the stator to increase torque to be outputted by the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Makita, Masayuki Nashiki
  • 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: 7518280
    Abstract: A method for selectively operating an electric motor in one of a first pole configuration and a second pole configuration is provided. The first pole configuration has a first phase winding structure, a second phase winding structure and a third phase winding structure. The method includes energizing each of the first phase winding structure, the second phase winding structure and the third phase winding structure to operate the electric motor in the first pole configuration. The first phase winding structure is reconfigured to form a first phase, a second phase and a third phase of the second pole configuration. The first phase winding structure is energized and each of the second phase winding structure and the third phase winding structure is de-energized to operate the electric motor in the second pole configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bruce C. Ley, Michael R. Barone
  • Patent number: 7466057
    Abstract: 2m sets (m being a natural number of 2 or more; and m=2 in embodiments) of teeth (31b to 34b) and 2m?1 slots (41, 42, 43) are disposed alternately in an axial direction; those of windings (36, 37, 38) accommodated in the slots (41, 42, 43), which are each accommodated in the slots (41, 42, 43) spaced apart by m from each other, are connected in line, so that exciting directions are opposite; and phases of magnetic fluxes passed through the teeth (31b to 34b) are displaced by 360°/2m from one another. Therefore, a thin and high-powered claw pole motor can be produced by disusing a portion of the winding which does not contribute to a torque (i.e., a crossover portion) and commonly using a magnetic path in each phase through return passes (31a to 34a). Moreover, a magnetic circuit of a wave winding motor is formed and hence, the output torque can be increased, as compared with a salient pole concentrated winding motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Imai, Shin Aoki, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Masahiro Seki, Tadanobu Takahashi, Shigeru Tajima