Armature Or Primary Patents (Class 310/195)
  • Patent number: 11962228
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11962195
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present disclosure provides a rotary electric machine including: a rotor; and a concentrated winding stator arranged coaxially to the rotor, in which the number of teeth of the concentrated winding stator is set to be a value where an integer which is multiple of 3 between adjacent prime numbers in a prime number sequence is multiplied by 2 and the number of poles of the rotor is set to be a value where any prime number between the adjacent prime numbers is multiplied by 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11848593
    Abstract: A stator device for an electric machine, including a laminated core arrangement with a plurality of receiving grooves for receiving, in each receiving groove, at least one conductor element of a stator winding in a conductor channel, wherein the receiving grooves each provide at least one flow channel, wherein the laminated core arrangement includes a plurality of laminated core units which are lined up axially and which each provide axial groove sections of the receiving grooves, and wherein the groove sections associated with each of the plurality of laminated core units at least in part have a groove geometry variant taken from a group of at least two different groove geometry variants, such that the receiving grooves, over an axial extent along the laminated core arrangement, each have at least two different groove geometry variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Holger Hinrich, Johannes Wende
  • Patent number: 11670988
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11527945
    Abstract: In the formation of coil windings of an electrical machine, the invention provides a ring arrangement device for forming a ring arrangement from a plurality of concentrically arranged rings of electrical conductors to form a coil winding of a component of an electrical machine, comprising a collecting receptacle with a plurality of grooves arranged in a ring around an axis and delimited by radial webs and a ring positioning device for the relative axial positioning of one or more of the rings, wherein the ring positioning device has a support device for supporting the electrical conductors of one of the rings to be inserted in an axial insertion position and one holding device for holding the conductors in a storage position, in which the conductors of a completely inserted ring are moved further into the collecting receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: Clemens Dreher
  • Patent number: 11444501
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, and a coil mounted on the stator core and having an insulating film, at least a part of the insulating film being coated with a protective paint, wherein the insulating film has a vacancy, and the vacancy is formed by a hollow capsule. In addition, the protective paint has a powder, and an internal form of the vacancy is smaller than an external form of the powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryotaro Kaneko, Tadao Nishiyama, Keisuke Azusawa
  • Patent number: 11411453
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor with a shaft disposed along a central axis, a stator including coils and facing the rotor via a gap in a radial direction, bus-bars electrically connected to the stator, and bus-bar holders on one side in the axial direction of the stator that are distinct members separated from each other. The coils define coil groups having power systems different from each other. Each of the bus-bar holders holds at least one of the bus-bars different from each other. In each of the bus-bar holders, at least one of the bus-bars held on the bus-bar holder includes a connection terminal electrically connected to an electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Iwano, Tatsuya Onishi, Kosuke Ogawa, Takashi Seguchi
  • Patent number: 11223311
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a rotor, and a stator. The stator includes slots provided in a circumferential direction thereof, and stator windings wound in the slots. The stator windings include n groups of three-phase windings, where n is a power of 2. The slots include first slots each accommodating portions of same-group and same-phase windings in the n groups of three-phase windings. The energizing directions of the same-group and same-phase windings are identical to each other. The second slots each accommodate different-group and same-phase windings in the n groups of three-phase windings. The first slots and the second slots are arranged in the stator at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the stator, and the three-phase windings of each group are wound around the stator with regular intervals therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kinjo, Toru Wakimoto, Makoto Taniguchi, Keiji Kondo, Jun Ishida, Tomoya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11152830
    Abstract: A connector assembly (12) for electrically and mechanically connecting via bolting, the top and bottom stator coil sections (14, 16) of an electrical generator comprising at least one pair of stator coil sections (14, 16) having spaced apart upper coil headers (18, 20) and lower coil headers (22, 24), each comprising a conductive material to provide at least two parallel paths for passing respective flows of electric current; first and second connectors (26, 28) including respective couplers (36, 38, 40, 42) for connecting the headers (18, 20, 22, 24), wherein the first and second connectors (26, 28) are electrically and mechanically isolated from one another via an air gap (34) therebetween so that none of the couplers (36, 38, 40, 42) bridge the air gap (34) and thereby allow relative movement between the first and second connectors (26, 28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: David Earl Hulsey, William Green, Robert Gore
  • Patent number: 11146138
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine of a brushless wound field type disposed between a stationary case and rotating member that rotates inside the case includes a stator held by the case, including an AC coil that generates a rotating magnetic field with an alternating current, a field core held by the case, the field core including a field coil that generates a magnetic flux with a direct current, a rotor fixed in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the rotating member and held rotatably relative to the stator and field coil, a rotor side core portion that is a part of the rotating member. The magnetic flux of the field coil passes from the field core through the rotor via the second air gap, the stator and rotor via the first air gap, the rotor side core portion, and the field core via the third air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Katsura, Taichi Kitamura, Kimitaka Uemura
  • Patent number: 11114927
    Abstract: A brushless electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a core defining a plurality of stator teeth, a first end cap proximate a first end of the core, a second end cap proximate a second end of the core, and a plurality of coils disposed on the respective stator teeth. The stator also includes a plurality of coil contact plates overmolded within one of the first end cap or the second end cap that short-circuit diagonally opposite coils on the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Keith Boulanger, Matthew R. Bailey, Carl B. Westerby
  • Patent number: 10985630
    Abstract: A cooling fan module includes a fan and a PMDC motor. The PMDC motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has 2P magnetic poles. The rotor includes a rotary shaft, a rotary core, a commutator, and a winding. The rotor core includes m×P pole teeth. The commutator includes k×m×P commutator segments. Adjacent pole teeth define therebetween winding slots for receiving the winding. The winding includes winding units each having P coils. Each of two ends of each winding unit includes a lead-out line connected to the commutator segment. Any two lead-out lines extending out of different winding slots are spaced from each other at locations outside the commutator segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Electric International AG
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 10910900
    Abstract: A coil (3) for a rotary electric machine (3) is constituted by eight layers, and includes an inner coil member (10B) constituting one layer, three layers, five layers, and seven layers, and an outer coil member (10A) constituting two layers, four layers, six layers, and eight layers. An outer upper right arm bending part (31), an outer upper left arm bending part (32), an outer lower right arm bending part (33), and an outer lower left arm bending part (34) of the outer coil member (10A) are formed, at a position where some portions are not overlaid on each other, when six inner coil members (10B) constituting seven layers are arranged to be overlaid on six outer coil members (10A) constituting eight layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Patent number: 10826346
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine includes a stator core, two insulators, and conductive wires forming coils. At least one of the insulators includes guide grooves and through-grooves. The through-grooves include at least two first grooves each of which divides at least two of the guide grooves. Each of the first grooves has a recess that is recessed in the circumferential direction with respect to the rest of the first groove at a portion that divides one of the at least two guide grooves divided by the first groove. The conductive wires extending through the corresponding through-grooves and outward in the radial direction of the insulator base are guided in the circumferential direction by the corresponding guide grooves. The conductive wires extend through the recesses in the corresponding first grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomoaki Miyata, Shinichi Okuyama, Tatsuya Horiba, Taizo Hirano
  • Patent number: 10790716
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots. A layered conductor is wound into the slots. The layered conductor includes a plurality of layers wherein at least two adjacent layers in the plurality of layers have electrical conductivities that are different from one another. The at least two adjacent layers can form an interface therebetween that is tangentially aligned with a circumferential direction around the stator. The at least two adjacent layers can be in electrical communication with one another with no intervening insulator therebetween. One of the at least two adjacent layers can include a relatively high electrical conductivity metal, and another one of the at least two adjacent layers can include a relatively low electrical conductivity metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas C. Koenig, Dhaval Patel
  • Patent number: 10608493
    Abstract: There is provided a stator for a rotary electric machine including a stator core including a plurality of teeth arranged along a circumferential direction and a plurality of slots formed between the teeth adjacent to each other, and multi-phase coils in which windings of different phases are respectively wound around the teeth by distributed winding. Each of the slots is provided therein with a plurality of windings forming the coils. The plurality of windings of the different phases are arranged to be overlapped in the circumferential direction in at least a part of the plurality of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Adachi, Toshitaka Kato, Masayuki Inada, Mitsuo Nakazumi
  • Patent number: 10298081
    Abstract: A separator (10, 60, 65, 100) is disclosed for electrically separating groups of end windings (52) in the stator of a rotating electrical machine. The separator is arranged to provide circumferential air channels (24, 74, 85) through the windings. This can allow air flow to be delivered to inside the windings, thereby cooling the windings more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Rahul Prakash Mokhadkar, Gareth Gilson, Tom Ede, Dave Worthington, Mark Riches, Richard Clark, Chris Gutteridge, Philip David Bend
  • Patent number: 10170950
    Abstract: First and second winding bodies are each configured so as to have a helical shape by winding a conductor wire for m turns, where m is a natural number that is greater than or equal to two, an armature winding is configured by mounting two-lane winding bodies into respective pairs of slots, two-lane winding bodies being configured by assembling the first and second winding bodies, the coil ends include a top portion that displaces in a radial direction at a central portion, and the radial displacement at the top portion is a×d, where a is a natural number that is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 2×(m?1), and d is a radial thickness of the rectilinear portions, 4×m of the rectilinear portions being housed inside the slots so as to line up in single columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10044236
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having slots and a stator coil comprised of three star-connected phase windings. In each of the slots, there are arranged in-slot portions of the phase windings in six layers. Each of the phase windings is comprised of five parallel-connected sub-windings. At each of the six layers, the in-slot portions of the sub-windings are arranged in a plurality of slot pairs; the slot pairs are circumferentially spaced from one another and each consist of two consecutive slots that are respectively identified as types A and B of the slots. Moreover, for each of the sub-windings, the in-slot portions of the sub-winding are evenly distributed to the two types A and B so that the number of the in-slot portions of the sub-winding arranged in the slots of the same type at each of the six layers is equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akito Tamura
  • Patent number: 10020694
    Abstract: A generator includes a plurality of magnets defining one of a rotor and a stator, a conductor including a core and a coil, the conductor defining the other of the rotor and the stator, and a shaft to which the stator is fixable. The core has a width inwardly narrowed from an outer edge toward an inner edge along a longitudinal direction of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Inventor: Ja Choon Jung
  • Patent number: 9985491
    Abstract: Stator coils each consist of a plurality of rectangular conductor coil pieces, the adjacent connection ends of which are connected to each other on the outer diameter side of a stator. The coil pieces each have: a folded portion folded in a rotation axis direction on the inner diameter side of the stator; inner diameter-side open leg portions opened from both sides of the folded portion toward the circumferential directions of the rotation axis; linear portions each bent from each of the inner diameter-side open leg portions and disposed so as to pass through the stator from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side; and an outer diameter-side open leg portions opened from the linear portions toward the circumferential directions of the rotation axis and extending to the connection ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Koichi Watanabe, Satoshi Kikuchi, Akihito Nakahara, Kenta Deguchi
  • Patent number: 9966808
    Abstract: A mechanical energy-to-electricity transformer using kinetic energy of a hydraulic machine is provided, including: a power unit, for connecting to the hydraulic machine; a generator, including a rotor, a stator and an output electrode set, the rotor connected to the power unit and twelve magnetic members, the rotor being rotated with a rotational speed lower than or equal to 600 rpm, N pole and S pole of the magnetic members circumferentially alternatively arranged, the stator having thirty-six ditches axially, between every adjacent two ditches forming a tooth, the ditches, teeth, coil units magnetic members defining winding sets circumferentially arranged in intervals by 120 degrees to form a three-phase AC structure electrically connected with the output terminal, the three-phase AC structure being rotatable relative to the magnetic members to generate AC power of 60 Hz and 220 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Yao-Lin Wang
  • Patent number: 9685832
    Abstract: The electric motor includes a rotor and a stator, the stator having a conductive wire wound thereon via a stator core and insulators. The insulators include an annular outer peripheral wall portion with the conductive wire run on an outer periphery side of the peripheral wall portion, a plurality of winding body portions protruding radially from the outer peripheral wall portion, and an inner flange portion. The outer peripheral wall portion on the winding body portion side includes an outer peripheral surface formed in an arc shape. The radial thickness of the outer peripheral wall portion is increasingly greater toward the circumferential center of the winding body portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Taema
  • Patent number: 9641035
    Abstract: A stator for a motor that includes an armature coil that generates an N-pole and an S-pole by applying a current and forty-eight slots radially formed at which the coil is disposed and in which the armature coil alternately implements N-poles and S-poles by arranging six slots as a single unit as the current is applied to the coil. The slot includes a plurality of phase drawing out slots, and when the order of the phase drawing out slots is determined in a clockwise direction by setting one phase drawing out slot as a first phase drawing out slot, at least two methods of winding the armature coil to turn around the slot may be used to decrease a distance from the first phase drawing out slot to the last phase drawing out slot to a minimum value by setting a cell between neighboring slots as a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dongyeon Han, Young Jin Seo, Hyoungjun Cho, Myeong Kyu Jung
  • Patent number: 9455616
    Abstract: A control device 50 that drives and controls a brushless motor 3 of a four-pole 24-slot configuration includes: a base current calculation section 52 that calculates fundamental-wave current indicating a winding current value associated with maximum torque control; a correction component calculation section 59 that calculates 12th-order first higher harmonic wave component B sin 12(?+?) to cancel a torque ripple of magnet torque, and 12th-order second higher harmonic wave component A sin 12(?+?) to cancel a torque ripple of reluctance torque, based on a phase current value detected by a current sensor 64; a correction map 58 in which relation between phase current and parameters A, B, ?, and ? of the both higher harmonic wave components is stored; and a current correction section 60 that corrects supply current by superimposing each 12th-order higher harmonic wave component on the fundamental-wave current in order to create current command values Id? and Iq?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Okubo, Keisuke Mitsuoka
  • Patent number: 9325214
    Abstract: An electric power collection and distribution ring includes first to third bus rings configured to collect and distribute electric power from and to winding wires of a plurality of phases. The first to third bus rings include first to third annular conductor parts, respectively, and first to third feeding terminal parts, respectively, configured to feed electric power to the first to third annular conductor parts, respectively. The second feeding terminal part projects toward another side in an axial direction of the first to the third annular conductor parts without projecting toward the one side in the diameter direction than the first annular conductor part. The third feeding terminal part projects toward the another side in the axial direction of the first to the third annular conductor parts without projecting toward the one side in the diameter direction than the second annular conductor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tomita, Kenichi Egami
  • Patent number: 9178390
    Abstract: A motor comprises a coil structure and a plurality of magnetic materials. The coil structure includes three winding groups, each of which has a plurality of winding portions. The winding portions have an interval therebetween, and are electrically connected by a wire. The magnetic materials are disposed adjacent to the coil structure and corresponding to the winding groups. Accordingly, the motor has more magnetic materials within the same bending angle of the enameled wire, so that the motor can output larger torsion and power to enhance the motor efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-En Mai, Chia-Hung Hsu, Yen-Chun Huang
  • Patent number: 9035525
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Publication number: 20150123508
    Abstract: Rotating machinery of the invention includes a 2n-pole rotor, 72n slots, and three-phase armature windings (n?1). Each of the slots houses a top coil on an inner radius side of the slots and a bottom coil on an outer radius side thereof. Each of the armature windings is formed by connecting the top and bottom coils and has 2n phase belts per phase. Each of the phase belts includes a first parallel winding and a second parallel winding. The top and bottom coils are formed by arranging the first and second parallel windings in a predefined order when a circumferential mean position of all top coils and bottom coils in each of the phase belts is defined as a phase belt center and an arrangement of the first and second parallel windings in at least one phase belt is viewed in an order of proximity to the phase belt center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Norihito YANAGITA, Shigeki TOUNOSU
  • Publication number: 20150076951
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a laminated stack. The laminated stack includes first and second additively manufactured conductive phase coils. Each of the first and second additively manufactured phase coils includes of a plurality of conductive strands. An additively manufactured end winding conductively couples the first and second phase coils. The end winding has a non-circular cross-sectional geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Lynch, Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany, William A. Veronesi, Jagadeesh Tangudu, Andrzej Ernest Kuczek, Vijay Jagdale
  • Publication number: 20150061449
    Abstract: A three-phase electromagnetic motor includes: a stator that is formed by winding a winding around a magnetic pole formed between slots of a stator core; and a rotor that is disposed inside the stator and has a permanent magnet. The three-phase electromagnetic motor is formed of 8n poles and 6n slots (n is a natural number). 3n windings are wound around every other magnetic pole among a plurality of magnetic poles of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Manabu HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150048709
    Abstract: Electrically insulating material so foldable as to form an interphase insulator so configured as to be inserted in the slots of the stator or the rotor of an electric machine to prevent separate coils inserted in the same slot to be in direct contact with one another and to prevent the coil heads of different coils to be in direct contact is described herein. The interphase insulator may be so folded that the coil heads are properly insulated from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Gyula Bihari
  • Patent number: 8946963
    Abstract: A polyphase stator for an internally ventilated rotating electrical machine comprises a body (14) provided with slots and carrying a coil (12) having at least one winding per phase. A plurality of pairs of lateral branches are mounted in a slot of the body (14). A plurality of connecting heads (50 to 55) extend outside the body (14) so as to form a first lead-out (42) and interconnect each pair of lateral branches. A plurality of coupling feet (150 to 155) are offset circumferentially with respect to the plurality of connecting heads and extend outside the body (14) so as to form a second lead-out (43) and interconnect each pair of lateral branches. One of the pluralities has a generally pointed shape and has an axial length of between 15 and 20 mm. The stator is used with an alternator or alternator-stator for a motor vehicle. An internally ventilated electrical machine is equipped with the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Xavier Dunesme, Jerome Fournier, Nicolas Langlard, Pierre Faverolle
  • Publication number: 20150028712
    Abstract: An overlapping portion of an insulating portion formed in an annular shape is held between a workbench having a linear projection and an ultrasonic horn having a circular projection with at least part of the linear projection and of the circular projection opposed to each other and ultrasonically welded. In the ultrasonic welding, even though the ultrasonic horn under ultrasonic vibration rotates on the overlapping portion of the insulating portion, the area in the overlapping portion held between the linear projection and the circular projection with at least part of the linear projection and of the circular projection opposed to each other is not reduced after ultrasonic vibration is applied to the ultrasonic horn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya HORIBA, Shinichi OKUYAMA, Taizo HIRANO, Minoru MERA, Hiroshi FUKASAKU
  • Patent number: 8928199
    Abstract: A wound rotor brushless doubly-fed motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes two sets of three-phase windings and the number of pole pairs is p1 and p2 respectively. The rotor includes a multi-phase wound winding and phase number m is satisfied with the relation m=(p1+p2)/mk, in which, when p1+p2 is odd, mk=1; when p1+p2 is even, mk=2. Rotor slots are evenly distributed along the circumference of the air gap and the number of the rotor slots Z? is satisfied with the relation Z?=n(p1+p2), in which n is a positive integer. Rotor winding coils are multi-turn structure, coil number of each phase winding is nmk and each coil has the same span, but turn ratios among the coils are different. When the phase winding coils number ?nmk, all coils within the phase winding are automatically connected in short after being connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Changjiang National Shipping Group Motor Factory
    Inventors: Xuefan Wang, Dixian Shu
  • Patent number: 8922089
    Abstract: In a direct-current motor armature 3 corresponding to an 8-pole-10-slot-20-segment or 12-pole-15-slot-30-segment, a connection wire 25 for short-circuiting segments 14 having the same degree of electric potential is provided to a commutator, a coil 12 is connected electrically to the segments 14 having a potential difference that is equal to a potential difference between the adjacent segments 14, and the coil 12 is wound around teeth 9 to form armature coils 7. Accordingly, an armature for use in a direct-current motor, a direct-current motor, and a method for winding wires around the armature of the direct-current motor for enabling down-sized direct-current motors having extended product life and enhanced performance can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Naoki Shioda
  • Publication number: 20140368079
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for assembling a motor. The method may include providing a first rotor, a second rotor and a stator; and assembling the first rotor, the second rotor and the stator such that the stator is arranged between the first rotor and the second rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Chiew Leong Wong, Ralph Stephen Viskochil
  • Publication number: 20140354106
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes an armature defining a winding slot that houses a winding. A slot opening connects into the winding slot. A flux repeller is disposed in the slot opening to reduce slot leakage flux. In certain embodiments the armature is a stationary armature defining a plurality of winding slots, each winding slot housing a winding. A rotor is disposed radially apart from the stationary armature with a radial gap defined between the armature and rotor core. Each winding slot has a slot opening that connects the winding slot to the gap. A plurality of flux repellers is included as described above, with a respective one of the flux repellers disposed in each respective slot opening to reduce slot leakage flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Jacek F. Gieras, Gregory I. Rozman
  • Publication number: 20140346910
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet type concentrated winding motor, the number of magnetic poles is M, a stator Sr has an N number of teeth T around which coils are concentratedly wound and which are circumferentially arranged at equal intervals, M is equal to (18±4)n and N is equal to 18n, an armature winding AW has an m number of parallel circuits, and a 1-phase circuit of the parallel circuits is configured to have a 6n/m number of coils connected in series with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao, Yuji Takizawa, Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140339944
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of electrical engineering, specifically to low-speed electrical generators, and can be used in particular in wind energy installations. In the proposed electromagnetic generator the rotor is equipped with permanent magnets (3, 4) and the stator comprises two parallel plates (5, 6), between which annular windings (7) are arranged. The rotor is formed from two parallel discs (1, 2) fixed to a shaft (10), with circular rows of said permanent magnets arranged on each of said parallel discs on surfaces facing one another, the polarity of said permanent magnets in each row alternating, while the poles of the permanent magnets in one row are turned towards the opposite poles of the permanent magnets in the other row. The annular windings (7) of the stator are inserted in pairs one inside the other and are in the form of isosceles trapeziums, the lateral sides (8, 9) of which are arranged radially relative to the axis (10) of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Sergej Mickhailoich Esakov, Mikhail Sergeevich Esakov, Anatolij Yurievich Veliko-Ivanenko
  • Patent number: 8878413
    Abstract: An alternating-current generator, in particular a three-phase generator, for a motor vehicle, having a rotor including north and south poles, particularly having claw-pole fingers extending in the axial direction and alternating as north and south poles at the rotor's periphery, a stator having a magnetic core, especially laminated core, having slots and a stator winding disposed in the magnetic core's slots, the stator winding having winding overhangs that are coolable by an approximately radial air flow produced by at least one fan mounted at the rotor, the stator being situated opposite the rotor, and the stator and the rotor having defined positions relative to each other, the multiphase stator winding being made up of winding elements, at least one winding element having more than two sections inserted in slots, and at least one winding element having more than one reversal section which brings about a change in the radial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Wolf, Thomas Berger, Eberhard Rau, Alexander Shendi, Helmut Kreuzer, Christoph Schwarzkopf
  • Publication number: 20140319952
    Abstract: The main motor for a railway vehicle is rotationally driven upon receiving an AC power supplied from an inverter circuit that includes a switching element formed by using a wide bandgap semiconductor. The inverter circuit applies a voltage having a PWM waveform to the main motor for a railway vehicle in at least part of a speed range of an electric vehicle. The stator of the main motor for a railway vehicle is configured to include an annular stator core provided with a plurality of slots in a circumferential direction and coils that are wound on the stator core and are accommodated in the slots, and includes a stator winding that is three-phase star-connected and is composed of parallel circuits the number of which is the same as the number of poles for each phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Kaneko, Haruyuki Kometani
  • Publication number: 20140305246
    Abstract: A rotary motor includes a rotor and at least one stator. The rotor has a shaft. The stator has an iron core and a coil wound around the iron core. A cross section of the iron core perpendicular to the shaft has a long axis and a short axis, and the rotor is disposed on an extension line of the long axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: CHING-HSIUNG TSAI, HONG-CHENG SHEU, CHI-WEN CHUNG
  • Patent number: 8860268
    Abstract: Provided is an rotational vibration exciter, and more particularly to an rotational vibration exciter which can accurately generate angular vibration of a printed circuit board including a moving coil for rotational excitation and angular vibration of a rotational shaft integrated with the printed circuit board including the moving coil by replacing a conventional cable as an external current supply line with a vertical flexible PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Wan Sup Chung, Sae Won Yoon, Jong Yeon Lim
  • Publication number: 20140265710
    Abstract: A coil arrangement for an electric machine comprises a spool including a hub, a first wall positioned on a first side of the hub, and a second wall positioned on a second side of the hub. A length of wire is wound on the hub to form a coil positioned between the first wall and the second wall of the spool. The coil includes a plurality of winding layers including an inner winding layer, an outer winding layer, and at least one intermediate winding layer between the inner winding layer and the outer winding layer. A projection is connected to the spool. The projection includes a first end directly connected to the spool and a second end opposite the first end, the second end is positioned between the first wall and the second wall of the spool. The outer winding layer engages the second end of the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: REMY TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Chad Zook, Scott Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20140265750
    Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes a winding support element defining an interior, a rotor having a shaft mounted inside the interior, the shaft defining a central axis, a superconducting wire wound around the winding support element in a winding pattern, where the winding pattern includes a plurality of turns around the winding support element. The winding pattern includes for a first portion of each turn proximate to the rotor, the wiring pattern curves with respect to a toroidal angle about the central axis, and for a second portion of each turn distant from the rotor, the wiring pattern curves with respect to a toroidal angle about the central axis. Cooper pairs travelling through the wire accelerate with respect to the toroidal angle in the first portion, and decelerate with respect to the toroidal angle in the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: PST Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H. Graff, Douglas Torr
  • Patent number: 8836195
    Abstract: A motor is provided. When m is half of a number of slots of one phase and n is a divisor of m, the overall parallel winding of a total number of parallels p is equally divided n-fold into partial parallel windings Ni, having a number of parallels p/n, each partial parallel winding Ni comprises m sub-coils, the m sub-coils including n types of m/n sub-coils having a number of turns tj, at least one of the sub-coils differing in number of turns from the other sub-coils, and, for each pair of the slots in the stator, one sub-coil of each partial parallel winding Ni is wound around the pair of slots, and n sub-coils wound around the pair of the slots include every one of the n types of the sub-coils of the numbers of tj.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Yokochi
  • Patent number: 8829757
    Abstract: A multipolar motor is simply wire-wound and an output thereof is capable of being switched. The motor includes at least 8 magnetic poles, an armature including at least 10 tooth sections; a commutator including at least 20 commutator segments, and brush-sets including 2 positive electrode brushes and 2 negative electrode brushes. A hook-holding section arranged to hook-hold conductor wires is installed on each of the commutator segments. Further, a group of coils is defined by using a single conductor wire that is wound onto each of the plurality of tooth sections and hooked onto the plurality of hook holding sections. This motor can switch the state in which the brush-set is energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Makino
  • Patent number: 8823236
    Abstract: An object is to provide a rotating electric machine offering a high output and high efficiency by balancing inductance of each phase even if a stator is used in which stator windings of different phases are disposed in a slot of a stator core in a three-phase winding. A stator 5 includes a stator core 6 having a plurality of slots arrayed circumferentially and opening to an inner peripheral surface and a stator winding 7 wound in each of the slots. The stator winding 7 is divided into at least two for each phase (7U-A, 7U-B, 7V-A, 7V-B, 7W-A, 7W-B). After insertion of the stator core 6, the stator winding of each phase is connected in parallel or in series. The stator winding of each phase is disposed in slots such that combined inductance of different phases is equalized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Ishikawa, Yasuhiko Kimura, Yoshimi Mori, Masahiko Honma, Yosuke Umesaki
  • Patent number: 8803397
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase 2-pole 2-layer armature winding, housed in 72 slots provided in a laminated iron core, a winding of each phase including six parallel circuits separated into two phase belts. Upper coil pieces of first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, and lower coil pieces of the first and fourth parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, upper and lower coil pieces of second and fifth parallel circuits are placed at 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th positions, and upper coil pieces of third and six parallel circuits are placed at 1st, 6th, 9th, and 10th positions, and lower coil pieces of the third and six parallel circuits are placed at 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 12th positions, from the center of a pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi