Plural Windings Patents (Class 310/198)
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Patent number: 11239717Abstract: Various examples related to shifted fractional pitch wye-delta multilayer windings and their use in AC machines. In one example, a winding includes a first wye-delta winding with first wye and delta windings for each phase and a second wye-delta winding with second wye and delta windings for each phase. The first and second wye windings for each phase are connected in series and the first and second delta windings are connected in series, and formed wye and delta windings are connected in a wye-delta configuration thereby providing an electrical phase shift between the two windings. The windings are interdigitated to provide a physical shift between the first and second wye windings and the first and second delta windings. Such windings can be used in, e.g., permanent magnet synchronous machines, synchronous machines, reluctance machines, and induction machines.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Md Sariful Islam, Md Ashfanoor Kabir, Iqbal Husain
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Patent number: 11128190Abstract: A winding electric wire enables a space factor to be increased and an eddy current to be suppressed, despite using an easy winding process. A winding electric wire is configured such that one enameled wire or a plurality of enameled wires bundled in parallel or in a litz form are braided so as to be formed into a belt-like rectangular or square wire shape having flat braided wires forming flatly-molded layers the number that is two or a multiple of two.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MEIKO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kimiaki Iwaya, Yuki Kaketa
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Patent number: 11121614Abstract: An assembly for use in an axial flux motor or generator includes a rotor plate and a magnet, the magnet having a surface that is orthogonal to a magnetization direction of the magnet. The rotor plate is adapted to engage a rotor shaft that rotates about an axis of rotation, and the magnet is attached to the rotor plate. The rotor plate and magnet are configured and arranged such that, if the rotor plate and the magnet are separated from all other magnetic field generating components, then a distance between a first plane that intercepts a first point on the surface and to which the axis of rotation is normal and a second plane that intercepts a second point on the surface and to which the axis of rotation is normal is substantially greater than zero.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: E-Circuit Motors, Inc.Inventor: George Harder Milheim
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Patent number: 11081922Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core defining circumferentially-arranged slots each having radial pin positions arranged to define radial layers and a hairpin winding including a first path of interconnected hairpins disposed in the stator core. The hairpins are arranged such that a leg portion of each hairpin is routed through a radial pin position of each slot wherein at least one uniquely-pitched hairpin is provided along the first path to induce a first shift in a trailing portion of the first path.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Adeeb Ahmed, Jacob Krizan
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Patent number: 11043886Abstract: According to the present invention, a coil is continuously wound in a single pass around each of a series of teeth, and connected to each segment.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: MITSUBA CorporationInventors: Naoki Ogata, Naoki Shioda
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Patent number: 11038391Abstract: A stator includes a cylindrical core with a plurality of longitudinally extending slots, a first winding set formed as a first cascaded wire in two radial layers of the slots, a second winding set formed as a second cascaded wire in two other radial layers of the slots, and a jumper connecting the first and second wires. A first winding set may have three cascaded phase wires in first and second layers of the slots, and a second winding set may have three cascaded phase wires in third and fourth layers of the slots. A winding set of a first phase may have a first cascaded wire in two radial layers of a first one of the slots, and a winding set of a second phase may have a second cascaded wire in two other radial layers of the first one of the slots.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Kirk Neet
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Patent number: 11018542Abstract: Rotating machinery includes a two-pole rotor, a stator core with seventy-two slots, and three-phase armature windings, as an example. The armature winding has two phase belts per phase. The phase belt includes a first parallel winding and a second parallel winding which are arranged in the stator slots as top coils and bottom coils. When a circumferential mean position of all top coils and bottom coils included in the phase belt is defined as a phase belt center, an arrangement of the first and second parallel windings in the phase belt, as viewed in order of proximity to the phase belt center, is such that the first and second parallel windings are arranged in order of second/first/second/first/first/second/first/second/first/second/second/first parallel windings as the top coils, and the first and second parallel windings are arranged in order of first/second/second/first/second/first/first/second/first/second/second/first parallel windings as the bottom coils connected to the top coils.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Harumasa Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10998787Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots and hairpins disposed in the slots. The hairpins are selectively joined at connections to form windings that include at least first and second radial layers. Each connection is disposed in one of the layers. The connections are staggered such that the connections of the first layer are circumferentially offset from the connections of the second layer to increase clearance for tooling that forms the connections.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Franco Leonardi, Feng Liang
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Patent number: 10965178Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots and a hairpin winding path disposed in the slots. The winding path includes first and second hairpins having legs with same slot spans and twist with same slot spans. The hairpins are installed in the core such that one of the twists of the first hairpin crisscrosses with one of the twists of the second hairpin. A reverse jumper joins the twists that crisscross.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Chun Tang, Adeeb Ahmed, Kyi Shin Shiah, Jacob Krizan, Joel Hetrick
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Patent number: 10931220Abstract: Solar Motor Controller is an electronic device with DC power input terminals that may connect directly to solar PV panels, and output terminals that may connect directly to single or multiphase phase AC electric motors without requiring an energy storage subsystem. The Controller runs electric motors of many frequencies and is capable of interfacing to multiple voltages of solar PV panels with or without maximum power point tracking. The Controller may drive motors in water pumping, HVAC, refrigeration, compressors operation, blowers, machine tools, and many other applications; some controller applications may operate at motor speeds adjusted to conform to power available from attached solar panels.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: PREMIER ENERGY HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Yusuf Gurkaynak, Nikola Milivojevic, Gerhard Hautmann, John LoPorto
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Patent number: 10826359Abstract: A two-pole brush-commutated DC electric motor with a stator and a rotor with a hollow-cylindrical ironless winding having n coil segments and a commutator having n commutator segments. Each coil segment being electrically connected to two adjacent commutator segments. An axis of gravity intersects the rotor axis perpendicularly and passes through the center of gravity of a coil segment or a center line of the coil segment that passes through the center of gravity and the rotor axis spanning a coil plane that defines the angular position of the associated coil segment. Two brush contact surfaces of the commutator segments are electrically connected to this coil segment have a distance bisector intersecting the rotor axis perpendicularly. The distance bisector and the rotor axis span a commutator plane which defines the angular position of the associated commutator segments.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: LAKEVIEW INNOVATION LTD.Inventor: Jens Schulze
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Patent number: 10770945Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a rotating electrical machine coil with a conductor and an insulation layer that is provided around the conductor to cover the conductor, the rotating electrical machine coil including a linear part of the coil and a coil end that is separable from and electrically connectable to the linear part of the coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hidehito Matsuzaki, Tetsushi Okamoto, Fumio Sawa, Miki Nakamura, Atsushi Yamamoto, Yo Sasaki, Masafumi Fujita, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Takashi Harakawa, Norio Takahashi, Takaaki Hirose, Hiroaki Ishizuka
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Patent number: 10756598Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooling a rotor assembly includes a rotor core having a rotatable shaft and defining at least one rotor post, a winding wound around the post, and at least one coolant conduit supported by the rotor core and in a thermally conductive relationship with a portion of the winding.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Mohammad Khaja Mohiddin Shaik, David Raju Yamarthi, Balamurugan Sridharan, Anirban Chatterjee, Prateek Jalan
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Patent number: 10749399Abstract: Stators for an electrical machine which are fitted with a polyphase winding which is in the form of a plug-type winding and the winding sections of which run through slots of the stator and comprise a plurality of different conductor elements are already known. At least some of the said conductor elements have in each case two conductor limbs and in each case one connecting conductor which connects the two conductor limbs, wherein an even number of n conductor limbs is arranged one above the other in the radial direction with respect to a stator axis in each slot. Each conductor limb of one of the conductor elements is provided in its slot in a specific position with respect to a slot base of the slot. These polyphase windings comprise a comparatively large number of different conductor elements, in particular so-called special conductors which differ from the standard conductor elements. These special conductors increase the manufacturing costs.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Johannes Riedl, Alexander Kudlek, Patrick Fruehauf
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Patent number: 10707713Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots having radial layers that each include adjacent first and second pin positions. Pins are disposed in corresponding ones of the slots and are interconnected to form a winding path. The path occupies the first and second positions of each layer, and, for each of the corresponding slots, the pins are in a same layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Feng Liang, Franco Leonardi, Becky Sue Morris, Michael W. Degner
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Patent number: 10702835Abstract: A stator operable to generate a rotating magnetic field for an electrical rotating machine, the stator comprising at least one circuit board with electrically conductive portions formed thereon, the electrically conductive portions connected with a multiphase configuration, wherein a phase comprises: on a first face of the circuit board(s) electrically conductive portions arranged as a plurality of elements, an element comprising a radially extending radial portion having: connected at a proximal end thereof a proximal portion, the proximal portion extending therefrom with a directional component in a first angular direction; and connected at a distal end thereof a distal portion, the distal portion extending therefrom with a directional component in a second opposed angular direction, whereby proximal and distal are defined relative the centre of rotation of the magnetic field and said angular direction is defined about said centre of rotation; and on a second face of the circuit board(s) electrically conducType: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Luan Vu Tran, Xuan Mai Tu, Alexa Perrin
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Patent number: 10673293Abstract: An electric machine including a rotor operably coupled with a stator having a plurality of stator windings. Each stator winding defines has a plurality of axially extending segments disposed within the stator slots and a plurality of end turn segments. At least one first axially extending segment defining a first cross sectional area and at least two second axially extending segments defining a smaller second cross sectional area are disposed in each of the stator slots. At least one of the plurality of end turn segments conductively couples a single first axially extending segment in a first one of the plurality of slots to at least two second axially extending segments in a second one of the plurality of slots. In some embodiments, the larger first axially extending segments are all disposed radially outwardly of the smaller second axially extending segments. The windings may be formed using hairpin conductors.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventor: Seong Taek Lee
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Patent number: 10622876Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a DC motor for driving the electric device; a DC power source for outputting constant-voltage DC power to the DC motor; and a chopper for converting the constant-voltage DC power into variable-voltage DC power according to a driving signal and providing the variable-voltage DC power to the DC motor. The DC motor has 2j armature winding branches, each of which consists of m windings, 2j×m commutator segments connected to the windings, and two brush sets respectively connected to two power line sets of the DC motor and in contact with the commutator segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: University of Shanghai for Science and TechnologyInventors: Aijuan Jin, Shaolong Li
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Patent number: 10615655Abstract: An electric machine with a stator operably coupled with a rotor. The stator includes a stator core defining a plurality of slots. Each of the slots defines a plurality of layer positions located at different radial distances from a rotational axis of the electric machine. At least three windings are associated with each of the phases of the machine. In a first slot, a first winding is disposed in a first layer position. A second winding is disposed in a second layer position. A third winding is disposed in a third layer position. The first winding includes a first outside lead wire extending from the first slot. The second winding includes a second outside lead wire extending from a second slot. The third winding includes a third outside lead wire extending from a third slot. Each of the outside lead wires are in the first layer position.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.Inventor: Kirk E. Neet
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Patent number: 10505424Abstract: Each of phase windings includes parallel windings for each phase connected together in parallel, and the parallel windings include power-wire partial windings connected to a power supply side, neutral-line partial windings connected to a neutral point, and at least one of a set of 5-pitch and 7-pitch jumper wires, the power-wire partial windings, the neutral-wire partial windings, and the jumper wires being included in the plurality of partial windings forming the parallel windings. For two of the three phases, each of the 5-pitch jumper wires and a corresponding one of the 7-pitch jumper wires overlap each other, and for the remaining single phase, two of the 5-pitch jumper wires are spaced from each other in the circumferential direction, and each of the power-wire partial windings is adjacent to another power-wire partial winding for an identical phase or to a corresponding one of the neutral-line partial windings for a different phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akito Tamura, Akira Fukushima
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Patent number: 10411530Abstract: A rotating electric machine of one embodiment includes a stator provided with a stator core having windings of each pole of each phase lap wound thereto; and a rotor provided rotatably with respect to the stator. The stator core is provided with slots each having two or more parallelly connected windings of equal turns count inserted therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Toi, Minoru Awazu, Nobutaka Akiura
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Patent number: 10348147Abstract: In a rotating armature, the numbers of teeth straddled by each of plural coil portions are all the same as each other, three. In plural windings that form the plural coil portions, three individual coil portions that, out of the plural coil portions, are disposed at uniform intervals around the circumferential direction of the armature core and are connected together in series are formed in each of the windings. In each of the windings including the three individual coil portions, one segment out of the plural segments is connected to another segment that has the same phase as the one segment out of the plural segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Sugishima, Tetsuji Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10312761Abstract: In a rotating armature, the numbers of teeth straddled by each of plural coil portions are all the same as each other, three. In plural windings that form the plural coil portions, three individual coil portions that, out of the plural coil portions, are disposed at uniform intervals around the circumferential direction of the armature core and are connected together in series are formed in each of the windings. In each of the windings including the three individual coil portions, one segment out of the plural segments is connected to another segment that has the same phase as the one segment out of the plural segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Sugishima, Tetsuji Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10305339Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator having a stator core, coil groups, and a rotor. The coil groups include a first coil group located at an outer circumference side of the stator core and a second coil group located at an inner circumference side of the stator core. The first and second coil groups are formed into an annular shape by inserting unit coils into stator core slots so that the coils adjacent in a circumferential direction overlap alternately in a radial direction and so that an inside and an outside of the overlap alternate with each other. The first coil group is disposed to surround an outside of the second coil group. The first and second coil groups are disposed in a concentric manner. The unit coils constituting the second coil group have shorter circumferential lengths than the unit coils constituting the first coil group.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Awazu, Kyouichi Okada, Isamu Nitta, Hisaaki Shimozu
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Patent number: 10250091Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine, which comprises a stator (1) and a rotor (2) that can be moved in relation to the stator. The stator (1) has a first multi-strand winding (I) and at least a second multi-strand winding (II), which each comprise two sub-windings (A1, A2) mechanically shifted in relation to each other. In a slot (3) of the stator, a number of windings (Nw1) of the first sub-winding (A1) of a multi-strand winding is different from a number (Nw2) of windings of the second sub-winding (A2) of said multi-strand winding. The stator (1) has a number of slots (3) that is twice the number of slots minimally required for a given pole pair number p of the rotor (2) for one of the multi-strand windings.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: FEAAM GMBHInventor: Gurakuq Dajaku
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Patent number: 10250113Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotor having a rotor yoke and a magnet; and a stator formed by stacking, in a rotation axis direction of the rotor, a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheet layers in each of which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets each having two teeth is annularly arranged. A core of a coil provided in the stator is formed of the teeth stacked in the rotation axis direction, there are two types of phases for arrangement of a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in one electromagnetic steel sheet layer, and the stator includes the electromagnetic steel sheet layers having the two types of phases.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Hayao Watanabe
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Patent number: 10228298Abstract: A torque sensor coil includes a non-magnetic bobbin that includes first inclined grooves inclined at a predetermined angle relative to an axial direction and second inclined grooves inclined at the predetermined angle relative to the axial direction in a direction opposite to the first inclined grooves, a first detection coil formed by winding an insulated wire around the bobbin along the first inclined grooves, and a second detection coil formed by winding an insulated wire around the bobbin along the second inclined grooves. The bobbin is divided into plural regions along the circumferential direction, side walls of the first and second inclined grooves in each region are all parallel to a mold draw direction set to be different for each region or are inclined with respect to the parallel direction in such a manner that the first and second inclined grooves are widened toward the outside in a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Shimizu, Teruyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10193406Abstract: Rotating machinery includes a rotor of 2n poles, 84n slots, and three-phase stator windings, where n is an integer equal to or greater than 1. A top coil and a bottom coil accommodated at the diametrically inner and outer sides of the slot are connected to each other to form the stator winding. The stator windings have 2n phase belts per one phase, the phase belt including two parallel windings. In at least one of the phase belts, the one coils are disposed in the order of the second, first, first, second, first, second, first, second, second, first, second, first, second, and first parallel windings; the other coils connected to the one coils are disposed in the order of the first, second, second, first, second, first, second, first, second, first, first, second, first, and second parallel windings.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kiyoteru Tanaka, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Toru Muto
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Patent number: 10186923Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase even-numbered-pole 2-layered armature winding housed in 45 slots per pole provided in a laminated iron core. The coil pieces corresponding to first, second, and third parallel circuits are placed in the first phase belt, and the coil pieces corresponding to fourth, fifth, and sixth parallel circuits are placed in the second phase belt. The upper coil pieces and the lower coil pieces of each parallel circuit are mutually placed in identical-numbered positions from a pole center.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi Ueda, Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Kazuma Tsujikawa
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Patent number: 10153674Abstract: An armature for an electric machine according to the present invention includes: an armature core in which a plurality of slots are arranged in a circumferential direction; and an armature winding that is mounted to the armature core, and includes a plurality of two-lane winding bodies that are each produced by stacking and winding two jointless continuous conductor wires that are coated with insulation such that the two conductor wires are stacked in a radial direction of the armature core, the two-lane winding bodies being arranged at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction so as to be mounted into a third slot, a first slot, and a second slot that line up consecutively in the circumferential direction at an angular spacing of six slots.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Atsushi Sakaue, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 10148146Abstract: A brush-commutated direct-current motor comprises a stator which includes a plurality of exciter poles, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, a plurality of pole teeth arranged on the rotor, and grooves arranged between the pole teeth, wherein the pole teeth are separated from each other by the grooves along a circumferential direction around the axis of rotation. On the pole teeth coil windings are arranged. A commutator is arranged on the rotor and includes a plurality of lamellae, wherein each coil winding is connected with one of the lamellae via a first connecting arm and is connected with another one of the lamellae via a second connecting arm.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WuerzburgInventors: Akram Ben Helal, Walter Roeder, Norbert Heim, Johannes Bartoschek
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Patent number: 10128713Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a 3-phase even-numbered-pole 2-layered armature winding housed in 45 slots per pole provided in a laminated iron core. In each coil piece group of each phase belt, the coil pieces of the second and fifth parallel circuits are placed in the second positions from the pole center among three positions of coil pieces in corresponding coil piece group. In six or four groups out of ten coil piece groups of each phase belt, coil pieces of the first or fourth parallel circuit are placed in the first position from the pole center. In first and second coil piece groups, coil pieces of the first or fourth parallel circuit are placed in different-numbered positions from the pole center.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Tadashi Tokumasu, Kazuma Tsujikawa, Masanori Arata
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Patent number: 10090722Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yoshida, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Norihito Yanagita, Shigeki Tounosu
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Patent number: 10033237Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core, a rotor shaft, a coil, a bind, a lead-out wire of which one end is connected to the coil and the other end is connected to a neutral ring. A filling is filled between the coil and the neutral ring. The neutral ring is formed with a plurality of members that are connected with one another to have flexibility.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Hayasaka, Masanori Matsumoto, Yasunori Otsuki, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Yoshihiro Yasui, Motonobu Iizuka, Masaaki Endou, Atsushi Fukunaga, Takeshi Nakayama
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Patent number: 9983075Abstract: A torque sensor includes a bobbin that includes a plurality of first inclined guide paths inclined at a predetermined angle relative to an axial direction and a second inclined guide paths inclined at a predetermined angle relative to the axial direction in a direction opposite, first and fourth detection coils formed by winding insulated wires around the bobbin along the first inclined guide paths, and second and third detection coils formed by winding insulated wires around the bobbin along the second inclined guide paths. The first to fourth detection coils each form a plurality of layers laminated on the outer surface of the bobbin. The layers of the second and third detection coils are interposed between the plurality of layers of the first and fourth detection coils. The layers of the first and fourth detection coils are interposed between the plurality of layers of the second and third detection coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTDInventor: Teruyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 9979261Abstract: In a brush holder accommodating part 26d of a gear housing 26, paired flat surface parts 26c and paired curved parts 26b are alternately disposed so as to be formed into an elliptical shape, one of the paired flat surface parts is formed with first heat sinks 26i, and two brushes 20 and 20 mounted on a brush holder unit 19 accommodated in the brush holder accommodating part 26d are disposed near the first heat sinks 26i.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Hiroto Tanaka, Takeshi Kanai, Masaaki Kimura, Koji Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 9935534Abstract: An electric machine includes an outer stator having a plurality of windings, an inner stator having a plurality of permanent magnets and arranged within the outer stator in concentric relationship to the outer stator, and a rotor arranged between the outer stator and the inner stator in concentric relationship to the outer and inner stators and movable relative to the outer and inner stators. The rotor includes a mounting element which is made from a non-magnetic material and has a plurality of recesses, with a magnetically soft segment being arranged in each of the recesses. A first cooling device cools the permanent magnets of the inner stator.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 9917485Abstract: An electric machine has grooves and windings, divided into strands, of electrical conductors. At least one strand has a number s of coils connected in series and arranged in the grooves. Each coil has sub-conductors connected in parallel and arranged in bundles. Each bundle is arranged in a groove at a bundle position relative to a deepest possible bundle position in the groove. The positions of all bundles in all coils define a number b of possible bundle positions of the strand. The bundles are interchanged between the coils such that each bundle is arranged in the grooves at least n times and at most n? times at each possible bundle position, wherein n is the integer quotient in regard to the quotient of the number s and the number b, wherein n?=n if s is divisible by b and n?=n+1 if s is not divisible by b.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Matthias Centner, Patrick Gels, Rüdiger Schäfer, Jörg Waschek
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Patent number: 9882518Abstract: An auxiliary winding for use in an engine-driven generator system is disclosed. The auxiliary winding is separate from but resides with the main winding in the stator slots of an alternator in the generator system. The auxiliary winding is configured to utilize the fundamental component of the flux in the airgap of the alternator along with selected spatial harmonic components to provide power to an automatic voltage regulator during all operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Generac Power Systems, Inc.Inventor: Graham W. McLean
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Patent number: 9825498Abstract: An armature including a core that includes plural teeth extending in a radial shape, and that has a slot formed between each of the plural teeth; a plurality of first winding coil sections formed by winding coil wire plural times spanning different respective sets of least two of the teeth, while shifting by one slot each time toward one side in the circumferential direction of the core; and a plurality of second winding coil sections formed by winding coil wire plural times spanning different respective sets of least two of the teeth, while shifting by one slot each time toward the other side in the circumferential direction of the core.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Odani, Akihiko Seki
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Patent number: 9742306Abstract: A converter device includes: a converter circuit unit converting alternating-current voltages from a ? connection and a Y connection of a twelve-phase rectification transformer, into a direct-current voltage; a current detection unit detecting a current of a direct-current bus connected to the converter circuit unit; an open-phase detection unit connected to a side of the ? or Y connection to detect whether open phase is caused in the connection connected thereto; and an output unit outputting, when detected that there is open phase caused in the ? or Y connection based on a detection signal of the open-phase detection unit and a current value of the direct-current bus detected by the current detection unit, an indication that open phase is caused in the ? or Y connection. When open phase is caused, it is possible to output an indication of whether the open phase is caused on the ? or Y connection side.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masahiro Otsubo
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Patent number: 9725258Abstract: An image forming device includes: a conveyance unit; an image forming section; a plurality of storage units; and a sheet feeding roller, wherein provided are: one drive source; a first drive transmission system including a first one-way clutch; a second drive transmission system including: a second one-way clutch; and a first transmission interrupting unit; a third drive transmission system including: a third one-way clutch; and a second transmission interrupting unit; and a control unit, and the control unit is configured to: rotationally drive the drive source in the first direction at the time of the sending operation by the first sheet feeding roller; rotationally drive the drive source in the second direction at the time of the sending operation by the second sheet feeding roller; and rotationally drive the drive source in the second direction at the time of the sending operation by the third sheet feeding roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Katuhisa Ichikawa, Yoshiki Matsui
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Patent number: 9577485Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
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Patent number: 9525324Abstract: An axial flux electrical machine comprises a substantially sealed housing (10) defining a fluid flow path (20), a heat exchanger (22) for transferring heat energy from a fluid flowing in the fluid flow path to another fluid, a stator (16) located within the housing (10), a rotatable shaft (12), a rotor (18) located within the housing (10) on the shaft (12) adjacent the stator (16) and rotatable with respect to the stator (16), wherein the fluid flow path extends between the stator (16) and the rotor (18).Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Inventor: Michael Lamperth
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Patent number: 9509184Abstract: A magnet element (37) and a method of its manufacture for assembly into a rotor (38), the magnet element (37) having magnetic domains aligned anisotropically to form a domain alignment pattern (42), wherein the magnetic domain alignment pattern (42) in the magnet element (37) has an orientation that varies substantially continuously across at least part of the magnet element (37) between its lateral edges from at least partially radial to at least partially tangential.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: FISHER & PAYKEL APPLIANCES LIMITEDInventors: Gerald David Duncan, Christian John Wade Gianni, John Julian Aubrey Williams, Kerrin Edmund Burnnand, Gregory Paul Hill
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Patent number: 9461512Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WürzburgInventors: Grzegorz Ombach, Jacek Junak
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Patent number: 9425663Abstract: A distributed winding arrangement for an electric motor is provided that reduces brush arcing while reducing the size of the commutator. The electric motor is comprised generally of an armature having a plurality of spaced apart posts defining a plurality of spaced apart winding slots; a stator disposed coaxially with the armature; and a commutator having a plurality of commutator bars, where the number of commutator bars is an integer greater than the number of winding slots but less than twice the number of winding slots provided by the armature.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Wei Chen, Jin Fujun, Steven Swaddle, Timothy W. French, Jr.
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Patent number: 9419488Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
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Patent number: 9379593Abstract: A vehicle drive device that has a stator and a rotor disposed on the inside of the vehicle wheel and drives the wheel, wherein the whole stator can be intensively cooled without causing an increase in production costs. The vehicle drive device comprises: the stator that has a stator core (20) and a hollow stator coil (30), is arranged on the inside of the rotating vehicle wheel (10), and electrically generates magnetic force; the rotor that has permanent magnets (11) connected to the wheel (10), and applies rotational force to the wheel (10) using the magnetic force of the stator; a cooling medium that flows through the hollow section of the stator coil (20); and a first radiator unit (50) that releases heat from the cooling medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Sugihara, Satoru Itani
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Patent number: 9362793Abstract: A stator for an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core having a plurality of slots; and segmented coils of a plurality of phases (for example, coils 50 in the embodiment), wherein: the segmented coils of a plurality of phases have pluralities of coil bars which are inserted individually in the plurality of slots in the stator core and which extend substantially in a straight line and pluralities of connection coils which connect together the coil bars of the same phase to thereby make up extending portions; the connection coils each comprise an inner connection coil and an outer connection coil which are disposed in different axial positions; and the inner connection coil faces an outer connection coil of a different phase in an axial direction and the outer connection coil faces the inner connection coil of a different phase in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomotaka Iki, Takeki Kishi