Plural Windings Patents (Class 310/198)
  • Patent number: 8134268
    Abstract: A high speed aircraft generator may utilize a prefabricated crossover subassembly to interconnect field coils. The crossover may include two attachment leads interconnected with a section of braided wire. The braided wire may remain free of brazing filler metal after the crossover subassembly is brazed into position between field coils of the generator. Consequently, the crossover may remain flexible and may have reduced susceptibility to fatigue failure that may otherwise result from circumferential relative displacement of the field coils from one another during changes of rotational speed of the field coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Waddell, David Kane
  • Patent number: 8134270
    Abstract: Provided is a synchronous motor comprising a rotor that includes magnetic poles arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and a stator that includes stator teeth arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction. Stator teeth other than a reference tooth are displaced from positions corresponding to integral multiples of the phase difference of two-phase alternating currents with respect the stator tooth in electrical angle. Both a first-type coil supplied with a first phase and a second-type coil supplied with a second phase are wound by concentrated winding on the stator teeth arranged at the displaced positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyoshi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8131413
    Abstract: An electric motor and conversion system includes a direct current power source, a rotor with two sides and two series of permanent magnets alternating in polarity, two stators on opposing sides of the rotor where each stator has a series of winding coils, magnet position identifiers, and a control system comprising a sensor that cooperates with the magnet position identifiers and a microcontroller to individually controls winding drivers. Preferably, the number of magnets on the rotor does not equal the number of winding coils on the stators. Also preferably, the magnet position identifiers are a series of apertures on the rotor through which signals pass. The conversion system can also include connectors for connecting to an axle, a removable throttle, and electric cables for electrically connecting the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Max Power Motors, LLC
    Inventor: Max Yuan
  • Patent number: 8125117
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotor; a stator; and brush gear. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core and a commutator fitted to the shaft. The rotor core has 5n teeth, n being a positive integer. Two coils are wound on each tooth with each coil being wound about a single tooth and having two ends. The commutator has 10n bars forming a brush contact surface. The stator includes a yoke and a plurality of permanent magnets installed at an inner surface of the yoke and facing the rotor core. The ends of the two coils wound on each tooth are respectively connected to two pairs of adjacent bars and the center line between one pair of the two pairs of adjacent bars and the center line between the other pair of the two pairs of adjacent bars are diametrically opposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Jian Zhao, Yong Li, Chang Lin Jin
  • Patent number: 8122590
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a triple-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Publication number: 20120032550
    Abstract: The invention relates to the electric connection of conductor ends (26b), which are arranged in pairs and are positioned on top of each other, of a winding comprising individual conductors and to a method for establishing the connection, wherein a plurality of the conductor ends in pairs are arranged next to each other at a distance (a). In order to establish the electric connection with the briefest and most spatially delimited heating possible, it is proposed to insert a nanofoil (30) between the conductor ends (26b) that are to be connected in pairs, to then press the conductor ends together to clamp the nanofoil (30), and to finally weld or solder the conductor ends to each other by igniting the nanofoil (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Gert Wolf
  • Patent number: 8106558
    Abstract: A plurality of permanent magnets are provided at a rotor at equal angular intervals. A plurality of magneto coils are provided at a stator at unequal angular intervals. The number of the plurality of magneto coils is not a multiple of three. The plurality of magneto coils include U-phase magneto coils, V-phase magneto coils and W-phase magneto coils. The U-phase magneto coils are arranged and connected such that phases of currents passing through the U-phase magneto coils are equal. The V-phase magneto coils are arranged and connected such that phases of currents passing through the V-phase magneto coils are equal. The W-phase magneto coils are arranged and connected such that phases of currents passing through the W-phase magneto coils are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Motor Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120007461
    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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Xuefan WANG, Dixian SHU
  • Publication number: 20120010081
    Abstract: A motor and a method of operating the motor are provided. The motor includes a stator including a high-temperature superconductor material at a temperature. The superconductor material is in a superconducting state in the presence of an external magnetic field below a critical field strength, wherein the critical field strength is a function of the temperature of the superconductor material. The motor further includes a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets and configured to rotate about an axis, wherein each magnet of the plurality of permanent magnets has a magnetic field that interacts with the superconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventor: Alexander R. Vaucher
  • Patent number: 8093777
    Abstract: In one aspect, a stator is provided having a first cylindrical surface with a plurality circumferentially spaced winding slots, each winding slot extending along an axial length of the first cylindrical surface and formed to embed a segment of a single stator winding, Each stator winding is pre-formed as a closed loop and two substantially parallel segments of each stator winding formed to be embedded in a first and a second winding slot of the stator, with the second winding slot being the third adjacent winding slot to the first winding slot. Each of the three stator windings has a first winding head segment leaving the winding slots in axial direction of the stator, the first winding head segment of a first winding of the three stator windings describing in space in parts a combination of a rotation about an axis and a translation along that axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8084912
    Abstract: Provided is a DC motor capable of eliminating a DC current reverse rectification performed in a conventional DC motor and enabling rotation of maximum torque at all rotation angle and having a shape and a function for facilitating a combination with a speed change gear mechanism. Also provided is a planetary gear dynamo using the shape and the function of the present invention and capable of reducing inverse torque when the function is used as a generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Venera Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Mizushima
  • Publication number: 20110309315
    Abstract: A direct drive drawworks has a permanent magnet motor with a first set of windings and a second set of windings, a shaft extending from the permanent magnet motor such that the permanent magnet motor directly rotates the shaft, a drum connected to the shaft away from the permanent magnet motor such that the rotation of the shaft causes a corresponding rotation of the drum, and a switch cooperative with the first set of windings and the second set of windings so as to cause the sets of windings to be selectively connected in parallel or in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Kevin R. Williams
  • Patent number: 8080916
    Abstract: A direct current motor with brushes in which an armature is provided with a rotating shaft that is supported by a yoke housing, an armature core that is fitted and fixed to a rotating shaft from the outer side, and a commutator that is provided on the rotating shaft adjacent to the armature core with nine segments arranged in the circumferential direction. The armature core has nine teeth that extend in the radial direction in a radial pattern and nine slots that are formed between the teeth and extend in the axial direction, the segments having the same polarity are connected with short-circuiting members, and a pair of brushes that make sliding contact with the segments is disposed so as to be mutually point symmetric centered on the rotating shaft. According to the preset invention, it is possible to effectively achieve flattening of the direct current motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Shioda, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8079133
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing the rotor winding of an electric machine comprising at least four exciter poles in the stator and a commutator rotor with a number of pole teeth which deviates from the number of exciter poles as well as a number of individual tooth coils and commutator segments that is at least twice as large as the number of pole teeth. In order to obtain low torque ripple and a long service life by optimally commutating the coils, a first coil is wound from an initial segment at a selectable offset angle to the initial segment on a first pole tooth, the winding wire is then fixed to another commutator segment at a predefined segment interstice length, whereupon a coil is successively wound from each segment onto the pole tooth having the lowest angular error relative the offset angle in relation to the pole separation of the stator, and the winding wire is then contacted on another segment at the same segment interstice length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20110298328
    Abstract: There is provided an generator, the power generation efficiency of which is further improved by employing a configuration in which a power generation mechanism having a back-electromotive force prevention function is divided into two independent mechanisms, the phases thereof are completely shifted to each other to generate electric power, thereby strengthening the rotational driving force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Tetsuo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8056215
    Abstract: A first tool set holds a wire covered with an insulation film at a bending point of the wire to protrude the wire from the first tool set. A second tool set holds the protruded portion of the wire. The second tool set is rotated about the first tool set to bend the wire along a wall of the first tool set and to form a boundary corner in the wire at the same radius of curvature as the wall. The wire is released from the second tool set and is moved to place the first tool set at another bending point while protruding from the first tool set. The second tool set is placed at the protruded portion of the wire. When the wire is bent at a predetermined number of bending points and is rounded, a stator coil formed in a corrugated shape is manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Kuniharu Teshima, Hideji Shimaoka, Toshiaki Oohara
  • Patent number: 8040012
    Abstract: An alternating current machine which generates a magnetic field or induces a voltage. In one embodiment the machine includes a stator and a rotor positioned about an axis. The stator includes three sets of coils, each set including at least a first pair of coil rows wired in series, with first and second members of the first pair configured to generate axial fields in opposite directions. Coil rows in the first pair of each set of coils are each arranged a different distance from the axis. A first member of the pair of the second set of coil rows is positioned between the first and second members of the pair of the first set of coil rows. The distance between the axis and the first member of the second pair of coil rows is intermediate the distances between the members of the first pair of coil rows and the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Meinke, Philippe Masson, Sasha Ishmael
  • Patent number: 8040003
    Abstract: Present invention prevents connection terminals for connecting stator windings to external conductive wires from densely concentrating on a bobbin. A multipolar generator includes a stator core 10 on which salient poles 11 of integral multiples of “3” are provided, and main windings 17 wound around the salient poles 11. Auxiliary machine windings 18 to 20 in place of the main winding 17 are wound around at least one of three salient poles 11 provided at intervals of integral multiples of “3” from the salient poles 11 of both ends of six continuous salient poles 11 around which the winding start and winding finish of the main winding 17 are wound. The auxiliary windings are arranged each other at intervals of integral multiples of “3”. When the number of the auxiliary windings is 2 or less, the salient pole 11 around which the other auxiliary winding should be wound, is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Yoshihisa Hirose, Yoichi Yamamura
  • Patent number: 8022588
    Abstract: It is an object to obtain a highly efficient and low-cost single-phase motor by producing the motor in a form that allows a proper material layout, with securing a magnetic path of a coreback of a stator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Yoshino, Yoshio Takita, Koji Yabe, Tomoaki Oikawa, Takahiro Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 8018113
    Abstract: A motor winding arrangement that is capable of delivering relatively flat torque over a wide range of speeds, thus achieving increasing power throughout its operating range, is provided. In a multi-phase, e.g., three-phase, motor utilizing the winding arrangement of the invention, each winding layer corresponds to one phase of the motor and occupies every slot of the stator. The poles for each winding layer consist of concentric and non-overlapping coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventor: Yifan Tang
  • Patent number: 8013491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator (1) for an electric drive motor having a number of stator teeth separated by grooves, wherein the stator teeth are wound by a multi-strand winding, and wherein one strand comprises several coils (5, 6), and wherein individual coils (5) each comprise multiple stator teeth, and preferably multiple stator teeth are combined at the height of their tooth necks into a collective stator tooth (4) having a tooth base (3) and multiple tooth heads (2), characterized in that two stator teeth each are combined into a collective stator tooth (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Krauth, Eike Hermann Timm
  • Patent number: 8013490
    Abstract: An armature includes a plurality of armature elements, wherein each of the armature elements has an armature element core that has a predetermined core length and has end faces spaced apart in a core length direction and side faces connecting the end faces, a first coil that is formed by winding a wire over the side faces and the end faces, a second coil that is formed, after forming the first coil, by winding a wire over the side faces and the end faces so that on the side faces the second coil is formed contiguously to the first coil, and an end structure member that is provided on each of the end faces, has a first-winding face and a second-winding face on which the wires of the first coil and the second coil are wound, respectively, and has a riser formed between the first-winding face and the second-winding face, the end structure member in which a vicinity of the riser on the second-winding face is positioned farther from the each of the end faces than the first-winding face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Hiroyuki Akita, Takumi Nakaue
  • Patent number: 8008828
    Abstract: The electric rotating machine includes a rotor around which a field coil is wound, and a stator including a stator core around which an armature winding is wound. The armature winding includes a first three-phase winding whose phase coils are delta-connected to form a delta winding, and a second three-phase winding whose phase coils are connected to corresponding nodes of the delta winding to form a star winding. The delta winding and the star winding are wound around the stator core such that the phase coils of the delta winding and the phase coils of the star winding share the same slots of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Akihito Koike
  • Patent number: 8008829
    Abstract: In an armature, the upper and lower coil pieces in one half of the parallel circuits are located at the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 12th and 14th positions, and the upper and lower coil pieces in remaining half of the parallel circuits are located at the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 13th positions, when relative positions of the upper and lower coil pieces in each phase belt are indicated by positions counted in a direction separating away from a pole center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Tokumasu, Masafumi Fujita, Takashi Ueda, Mikio Kakiuchi
  • Publication number: 20110198961
    Abstract: A triple-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided as well as a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Publication number: 20110198962
    Abstract: A high efficiency, high torque density, high speed induction motor is provided, the motor utilizing (i) stator teeth with parallel side surfaces; (ii) rotor teeth with parallel side surfaces; (iii) wide open stator slots; (iv) closed rotor slots with thick tooth bridges; and (v) deep stator and rotor slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: TESLA MOTORS, INC.
    Inventor: Yifan Tang
  • Publication number: 20110198960
    Abstract: A dual-winding layer arrangement for a three-phase, four pole motor is provided as well as a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Tang, Shyi-Perng Phillip Luan
  • Publication number: 20110187220
    Abstract: A reverse electromotive force generating motor includes a stator yoke; a rotor disposed in the stator yoke; a first coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to a first input line of a power source with a first phase; a second coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first coil in series, said second coil being connected to a first neutral point; a third coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the first neutral point; a fourth coil disposed in the stator yoke and connected to the third coil in series, said fourth coil being connected to a first output line for outputting power; and a rotational shaft disposed in the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Toshio Goda
  • Publication number: 20110175481
    Abstract: The permanent magnet type rotary machine is capable of reducing cogging torque even if permanent magnets are displaced in the axial direction and which is capable of reducing production cost and increasing torque. At least a stator unit of a first phase out of two stator units, which are stacked with a phase difference of (360°/(2P)), is stacked m-th, from one end of the stack of the stator units, to face magnetic poles of one of the permanent magnets. The other stator unit of the second phase, whose excitation cycle is shifted ¼ cycle with respect to that of the stator unit of the first phase, is stacked ((nQ/2)+m)-th, from the one end of the stack, to face magnetic poles of another permanent magnet. Note that, P is number of the magnetic poles of the permanent magnet; m is an integer of (nQ/2) or less, and one or more; Q is an even number of two or more; and n is an integer of one or more, and the product of n×Q is an integer of four or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kouji Kebukawa
  • Patent number: 7982354
    Abstract: A DC motor, has a stator housing accommodating a permanent magnet stator; a rotor, rotatably mounted confronting the stator, the rotor having a shaft, a rotor core fitted to the shaft and having laminations forming salient poles, a commutator fitted to the shaft adjacent one end of the rotor core, windings wound about poles of the rotor core and terminated on the commutator, the windings each being wound around a single pole of the rotor; and brush gear comprising brushes in sliding contact with the commutator for transferring electrical power to the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: RuiFeng Qin, Ling Yang, BaoTing Liu, TingTuan Xu
  • Patent number: 7977842
    Abstract: An adaptive winding configurations and control method is disclosed for the electromagnetic poles of electric machines, including motors and generators. Motors utilizing the inventive adaptive winding configuration and control method are able to dynamically adjust their operating characteristics to maintain a constant rated power over a large operating speed range with high efficiency. Generators employing the inventive adaptive winding configuration and control method are able to dynamically adjust their operating characteristics in response to a variable driving force to achieve maximum power conversion efficiency. These generators are also able to dynamically change their output voltage and current (thus charging speed) when charging batteries depending on the charged state of the battery, and on the expected duration of the input power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Inventor: Panchien Lin
  • Patent number: 7977840
    Abstract: A stator winding for a slotless motor is formed by winding a magnet wire 22 into a single layer coil 24. The coil 24 is deformed e.g., by pressing, to form a double layer web 26 which is rolled up end to end to form a cylindrical stator winding 20. The coil 24 is divided into a number of phase windings 27 extending between connection tappings 25. The magnet wire 22 is a multi-core magnet wire formed from a plurality of core wires 23. Each core wire 23 is an insulated single core wire. Optionally the core wires are twisted together. The core wires 23 are electrically connected together at the connection tappings 25 to form a plurality of parallel electrical paths or sub-windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Jun Jie Chu, Xiao Peng Ma
  • Publication number: 20110163625
    Abstract: A stator which may be employed in an electric rotating machine. The stator includes a stator winding which includes in-slot portions disposed in slots of a stator core. The in-slot portions are arrayed in each of the slots in a form of multiple layers aligned in a radial direction of the stator core. The stator winding is made up of a first winding and a second winding which are connected together through a joint. The first winding is defined by a portion of the stator winding between the joint and an end of the stator winding which is to be connected to an external. The second winding includes the in-slot portion placed within at least one of the slots as an outermost layer that is one of the layers placed most outwardly in the radial direction of the stator core. This results in a great decrease in leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira FUKUSHIMA, Keiji Kondo, Akito Akimoto, Takeo Maekawa, Makoto Taniguchi, Shin Kusase
  • Patent number: 7969104
    Abstract: In a rotary electric system, a rotary electric machine is provided with an armature core and star-connected multiphase windings with a neutral point wound in the armature core. Each of the star-connected multiphase windings has a predetermined winding configuration that prevents, when a zero-phase current is supplied from a direct current power source to the star-connected multiphase windings via the neutral point, a zero-phase magnetic flux created in the armature core based on the zero-phase current flowing in each phase winding of the star-connected multiphase windings from being cancelled out by a zero-phase magnetic flux created in the armature core based on the zero-phase current flowing in another one phase winding of the star-connected multiphase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20110147144
    Abstract: A motor for actuating brake members of an electric parking (EPB) system, comprises a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor comprises a shaft, a commutator, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and electrically connected to segments of the commutator. The rotor windings comprise a plurality of winding units, each of the wining units comprising at least two coils. The coils of each winding unit are wound about the same teeth and connected to a same pair of segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Hang Cheong MA, Hing Shing Chung, Hai Ning Liao
  • Publication number: 20110148238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cylindrical rotating electric machines which comprise armature and field source, with either the field source or the dual armature being the rotating component. The dual armature is composed of two concentric cylindrical sets of coils with the field source situated in the gap between the inner and outer armature sections. Relative rotational motion between the field source and armature coils can be achieved by having either one be the rotor. By using two armature coil sections, one inside the field source aperture and the other external to the field source, the flux linkage between the armature and field source can be approximately doubled. The increased flux linkage in the invented technology produces a substantially higher power density than can be obtained with conventional machine technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Carl L. Goodzeit, Millicent J. Ball
  • Patent number: 7965011
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor structure with a constant ratio of multiple rotor poles to slots of the stator is disclosed, which is characterized primarily by forming the stator of the motor by multiple ferromagnetic silicon steel sheets, where the ferromagnetic silicon steel sheets are provided with the multiple slots whose number is a multiple of 15, and the stator of the motor is formed by windings of the three phases, X, Y, and Z. Each phase includes 2 to 4 phase portions and each group has 5 slots. The rotor of the motor is made up of a plurality of arced magnets which are fixed orderly and equally along a ferromagnetic steel ring, and the radial direction of each arced magnet is opposite to that of the adjacent magnetic poles. An arced magnet represents a magnetic pole, and the number of the magnetic poles is a multiple of 14 or 16. By means of the aforementioned setting, the reduction of the cogging torque of the motor is achievable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Unique Product & Design Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gordon Liao
  • Publication number: 20110140421
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a method for operating a wind turbine having a generator, the generator having for each phase a plurality of coils, wherein the plurality of coils of each phase includes at least one group of coils including at least two coils, the group of coils including at least two subgroups including at least one coil, wherein the generator has a first state in which the coils of the group of coils are electrically connected in series, and, the generator has a second state in which the at least two subgroups are switched electrically in parallel; the method including: changing the state of the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Hartmut SCHOLTE-WASSINK
  • Publication number: 20110133703
    Abstract: A dual source electric power generating system (EPGS) provides both a regulated AC output and a regulated DC output. The EPGS includes a rotating portion and a stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a plurality of windings (permanent magnet generator (PMG) armature windings, an exciter field winding, and high-voltage main generator armature windings), a voltage regulator, a rectifier, an inverter, a point of regulation (POR) sensor. The high-voltage main generator armature windings generate a high-voltage AC that is converted to a regulated, high-voltage AC by the rectifier and the inverter. The stationary portion is further characterized by circuitry for producing the regulated DC output from AC voltage produced by a winding other than the high-voltage main generator armature windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory I. Rozman, David W. Chaudoir, Jacek F. Gieras
  • Publication number: 20110133591
    Abstract: A coil structure for a coreless motor includes a plurality of first conductive traces and a plurality of second conductive traces. The first conductive traces are disposed in succession relative to one another, and are each arranged into a planar spiral configuration having a substantially polygonal shape. At least one adjacent pair of the first conductive traces cooperate to define a space therebetween. Each of the second conductive traces is disposed in the space defined by a corresponding adjacent pair of the first conductive traces, and is arranged into a planar spiral configuration that has one of a substantially triangular shape and a substantially rhombic shape so as to substantially fill the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Guo-Jhih Yan, Guang-Miao Huang, Jing-Hui Wang, Cheng-Liang Yao, Hsin-Te Wang, Liang-Yi Hsu
  • Publication number: 20110110800
    Abstract: A three-phase motor includes a bearing structure, a rotor structure and a stator structure. The bearing structure has a bushing. The rotor structure has a shaft disposed in the bushing. The stator structure is disposed corresponding to the rotor structure and includes a first coil assembly and a second coil assembly overlapped on the first coil assembly. A fan with the motor is also disclosed. The present invention can increase the ratio of the effective coils of the stator structure, and further promote the operation efficiency of the three-phase motor and the fan with the three-phase motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Chin-Chun LAI, Kun-Fu Chuang, Shin-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 7936099
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electronically switchable electric motor comprising a cylinder-shaped envelop and several poles, which are made of an ferromagnetic material and inwardly oriented in front of the cylinder axis (3), wherein said poles (P1 to P12) surround a cylindrical cavity for receiving the rotor (2), each pole (P1 to P12) is provided with a coil (L1 to L12) consisting of several wire windings in such a way that a magnetic armature is formed and the windings of coils (L1 to L12) are wound about the poles (P1 to P12) successively and without interruptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Presta AG
    Inventors: Christian Staudemann, Christoph Battisti, Lukas Battisti, legal representative, Marion Battisti, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7923878
    Abstract: An axial gap coreless motor includes a stator including a stator yoke having a surface and being composed of a plurality of laminated layers of silicon steel sheets secured together, a wiring substrate having a surface and being disposed on the stator yoke surface, and a plurality of coreless coils annularly disposed on the wiring substrate surface; and a rotor including a rotor magnet having a plurality of circumferentially arranged magnetic poles, wherein the rotor is rotated relative to the stator such that the rotor magnet axially confronts the coreless coil over an air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Minoru Awazu, Katsuya Seko
  • Patent number: 7919899
    Abstract: The invention describes an electrical machine having an armature with armature slots for accommodating armature coils. At least one armature coil is formed from two coil elements which are arranged symmetrically with respect to one another in relation to an axis of symmetry, which runs through the center-point of the armature shaft. The coil elements are connected to two adjacent commutator laminates of a commutator. A first brush, a second brush and a third brush bear against the commutator in a manner such that they can slide. The second brush interacts with the first brush or the third brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Weigold, Christian Schneider, Andreas Saum
  • Patent number: 7915778
    Abstract: An electric motor comprising a rotor having plural magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a stator whose teeth are disposed opposite to the periphery of the rotor, with an air gap interposed between the rotor and the stator, wherein the coil conductors are wound on the stator so that two stator magnetic poles may be formed by two coil units of a phase wound around stator teeth within the range of 360 electrical degrees subtended by the magnetic poles of the rotor; each of the two coil units forming the stator magnetic poles spans an electrical angle less than 180 electrical degrees; the two coil turns forming the two stator magnetic poles are laid out so that they may not overlap each other; and the coil conductors are so wound that the adjacent stator magnetic poles exhibit opposite magnetic polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyata, Yoshihisa Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110068652
    Abstract: A traction motor for an electric vehicle, comprises a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted to the stator. The rotor comprises a rotor core and magnets fixed to the rotor core. The rotor core has 2P rotor poles formed by the magnets, P being an integer greater than one. The stator comprises a stator core having S teeth and field windings wound on the teeth, S being equal to 3·m·P where m is the number of phases. Field windings of each phase comprises P winding units. Each the winding unit comprises a first coil and a second coil connected in series. The first coils have a larger coil pitch and a greater number of turns compared to the second coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Rui Feng QIN, Chang Jin Zhou, Ling Yang
  • Publication number: 20110068643
    Abstract: A voltage grading structure (40) as may be used in the stator coils of an electromotive machine is provided. A filler material (44) may be disposed on a top surface and a bottom surface of a stack of coil strands (22). The voltage grading structure may include an electrical isolation layer (46) on the filler material and may further include an electrically conductive layer (48) on the electrical isolation layer. An electrically conductive bar (50) is positioned on the electrically conductive layer. The conductive bar is electrically connected to at least one of the coil strands (22) to shunt a capacitance effect between the conductive layer and the stack of coil strands and force the conductive layer to be substantially at a common voltage level relative to the stack of coil strands and thereby avoid an overvoltage condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventor: Franklin T. Emery
  • Patent number: 7911106
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to present invention comprises a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor in which the stator includes a stator core having, along its inner periphery region, a plurality of axially extending stator slots and an armature winding wound through the stator slots. In this rotary electric machine, each stator slot contains four radially layered armature bars; each armature winding is formed by electrically connecting at least one of the armature bars in a first slot and at least one of the armature bars in a second slot to each other; and the armature bars of a pair specified in accordance with a required output voltage of the rotary electric machine are connected to each other with a connecting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Masami Sukeda, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 7902714
    Abstract: A motor stator includes a silicon steel seat wound with six sets of starting coils and six sets of operating coils formed with resistant enameled coils. The six sets of starting coils are respectively made of the resistant enameled coils in directions respectively of entering into a first slot and out a fifth slot of the silicon steel seat, entering into a second slot and out a sixth slot, entering into a third slot and out a seventh slot, entering into an eleventh slot and out a seventh slot, entering into a twelfth slot and out an eighth slot, and entering into a first slot and out a ninth slot. And the six sets of operating coils are respectively composed of the resistant enameled coils in directions respectively different from the winding directions of the six sets of starting coils, able to quickly and evenly complete winding work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Sheng-Chung Lee
  • Publication number: 20110050157
    Abstract: An active reactive induction motor is provided. The motor comprises two sets of three-phase windings. One set of windings carries the active power and is called the power windings. The second set of windings carries the reactive power and is called the flux windings. The power windings carrying the active power provides more power to the induction motor than the flux windings carrying the reactive power. A driver circuit for driving the active reactive induction motor and the corresponding modes of operation is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
    Inventors: Vilanguppam Thathachary Ranganathan, Kamalesh Hatua