Bar Windings Patents (Class 310/201)
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Patent number: 11075551Abstract: A stator of a rotary electrical machine has a stator body formed by a stack of metal sheets. The stator body is delimited by inner and outer radial surfaces. Notches in the stator body extend axially. Each notch has a notch base and a notch opening, and the notch opening is on the side of the inner radial surface. A stator winding is supported by the stator body, and the winding has a plurality of winding parts. Each part is accommodated in one of the notches. Each of the notches at the notch opening has a closure element. Each winding par in a notch is retained between the notch base and the closure element. The closure elements are formed by offsetting at least one of the metal sheets of an adjacent notch in the direction of the notch.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Pierre-Yves Bilteryst, Henri Delianne, David Margueritte, Eric Jozefowiez, Sylvain Perreaut, Patrice Balthaze, Julien Battut
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Patent number: 11063487Abstract: A stator that includes a stator core having a plurality of slots; a first coil that is disposed in a first slot of the plurality of slots; and a second coil that is disposed in a second slot of the plurality of slots that is different from the first slot in which the first coil is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Kiyotaka Koga
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Patent number: 11063488Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stator for an electric rotating machine, the stator comprising a stator core comprising teeth and slots, and a stator coil comprising a plurality of hairpins configured to be inserted into the slots of the stator core in a predetermined pattern. Each of the plurality of hairpins comprises a conductor and a coating layer surrounding an outer surface of the conductor. The plurality of hairpins comprise a first hairpin configured to be placed in a first section of the stator coil predetermined from an end to which power is to be input, and a second hairpin placed in a section after the first section. The first hairpin provides better insulation performance than the second hairpin, and the first section has a higher voltage distribution ratio than the section including the second hairpin.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hojun Shin, Kyeonghwan Kim, Gyeongjae Park, Wonjung Sung, Yangsoo Lee, Junghyun Park, Junho Ahn
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Patent number: 11038456Abstract: A control apparatus is provided to control a rotating electric machine whose number of poles is switched from a pre-switching number of poles to a post-switching number of poles. The control apparatus includes a pre-switching control unit, a post-switching control unit and a transition control unit. The pre-switching control unit controls the torque generated by the machine before the switching of the number of poles. The post-switching control unit controls the torque generated by the machine after the switching. During a pole-number switching period, the transition control unit controls electric currents flowing in stator coils of the machine or voltages applied to the stator coils to make each magnetic pole formed with control by the pre-switching control unit not coincident with any magnetic pole formed with control by the post-switching control unit and having the same polarity as the magnetic pole formed with the control by the pre-switching control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Ishida, Makoto Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11018545Abstract: An electric machine winding assembly including a stator and windings is provided. The stator may define a central axis. The windings may extend from the stator and each may include a pair of conductor ends. Each conductor end may include a minor side and a major side. The windings are arranged with the stator such that each of the major sides are aligned along a circumferential conductor axis relative to the central axis to facilitate welding adjacent conductor ends to one another. Each of the windings may further include two portions defining a U shape. Each of the two portions may include a lower portion, a mid-portion, and an upper portion. One of the mid-portions may include a first bend defining a twist shape to orient the major sides of one of the pair of conductor ends along the circumferential conductor axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Chun Tang, Huifen Qiu
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Patent number: 10910891Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotary shaft member rotating about an axis; a rotor including a rotor core and a magnet, the rotor core being provided on the rotary shaft member, the magnet being provided on the rotor core; and a stator including a stator core and a stator coil, the stator core having a plurality of slots formed in a circumferential direction, the stator core being disposed at an interval in a radial direction that is a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the rotary shaft member with respect to the rotor core, the stator coil being inserted into the plurality of slots and wound around the stator core. Further, the stator coil includes a first conductor and a second conductor having a conductivity greater than a conductivity of the first conductor, and the second conductor is disposed in the slots.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 10903729Abstract: Embodiments involve rotors for axial flux induction rotating electric machines that use a soft magnetic composite for the rotor core. A first embodiment is directed to a rotor for a rotating electrical machine that transmits magnetic flux parallel to a shaft of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor winding and a plurality of cores. The rotor winding consists of a solid piece of conductive material that comprises a plurality of cavities. Each core is placed in a respective cavity and comprises a highly resistive isotropic ferromagnetic powder.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Maxxwell Motors, Inc.Inventors: Michael Cunnyngham, Maksym Pryimak
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Patent number: 10897221Abstract: A motor control circuit includes a control circuit configured to control a switching operation of an inverter circuit, the inverter circuit being configured to supply an alternating current power to a motor, and includes a determination-information generating circuit configured to generate at least one determination value that conveys information on whether the motor malfunctions or deteriorates. The motor control circuit includes a determination circuit configured to determine whether the motor malfunctions or deteriorates based on the determination value to output, as an interrupt signal, a signal indicating that the motor malfunctions or deteriorates to the control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Makio Abe, Takatoshi Itagaki, Shu Hayashi, Masato Aoki
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Patent number: 10778049Abstract: A stator includes layers of coated conductor. The coating is insulative and provides electrical isolation of adjacent conductor layers. The multiple layers of coated conductor form a stator core, and the stator includes magnet assemblies that sandwich the stator core. The conductor layers stack in a direction orthogonal to a plane of the magnet assemblies. The conductor layers have a rectangular cross section.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Sapphire MotorsInventor: Tracy McSheery
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Patent number: 10658897Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes a stator core defining multiple slots, and a stator coil including multiple phase windings each of which is connected to a corresponding phase of a power source. Each phase winding includes multiple conductors that are inserted into the slots, connected to adjacent conductors in series, and spaced apart from the adjacent conductors by multiple slot pitches, unit patterns each of which includes some of conductors, and a bridge conductor connecting the unit patterns to each other in series by connecting a pair of conductors arranged in an innermost layer of corresponding slots. Each first conductor of each phase winding is connected to a power line and arranged in an outermost layer of one of the multiple slots.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyounggun Lee, Minjung Kim, Yangsoo Lee
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Patent number: 10615654Abstract: The disclosed stator or rotor has a distributed wave winding, in which the wires are associated in pairs lying with straight segments in the same slots. Head portions of two successive straight segments of each wire of a pair protrude from opposite ends of slots. For forming two wire groups, a plurality of coil windings are simultaneously created by winding up n parallel wires with intermediate spacing onto a striplike former that is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. From each of the parallel wires one straight segment and one end turn are doubled by being bent over with the wire length of a head portion, and then head portions are formed and the wires interlaced. Finally, the two wire groups are wound onto one another and thereby intertwined with one another, and then introduced as an entire intertwined wave winding strand into the stator or rotor slots.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Elmotec Statomat Holding GmbHInventors: Sadik Sadiku, Keith Witwer
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Patent number: 10608492Abstract: A stator reducing a coil end height without interference between conductor segments and without damage to an insulating coating. Each conductor segment includes linear parts inserted in slots formed in a stator core and different in circumferential direction, inclined parts inclined and extending from respective end parts of the linear parts toward a center part so as to project toward the outside in an axis direction from an axis-direction end surface of the core, and a projecting curve part connecting apical ends of the inclined parts to each other and curves and projects toward the outside in the axis direction. Connection parts between the linear parts and the inclined parts and a curved part of the projecting curve part are all bent parts having the same bend radius of minimum R, which has a size equal to or more than a sheet width of a conductor strand.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Ohguchi, Hitoshi Nakazono, Hideki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 10574108Abstract: A winding arrangement method for a radial gap-type motor in which a three phase winding wound in a distributed winding form is inserted in slots of a stator includes: a coil forming step that, for each phase, forms a coil wound for each one pole pair; a coil group forming step that, for each phase, forms a first coil group by connecting odd-number-th coils along a direction of rotation via crossover wires, and forms a second coil group by connecting even-number-th coils along the direction of rotation via crossover wires; and a parallel-connecting step that, for each phase, connects the first coil group and the second coil group at one end, to form a current input side lead wire at the connection point, and connects the first coil group and the second coil group at the other end, to form a neutral point at the connection point.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Gang Ren, Hidetoshi Uematsu
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Patent number: 10574106Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes an annular stator core and a stator coil. The stator core has a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction thereof. The stator coil is formed of a plurality of electric conductor segments mounted on the stator core. Each of the electric conductor segments has a pair of in-slot portions and a turn portion. Each of the pair of in-slot portions is inserted in a corresponding one of the slots of the stator core. The turn portion is located on one axial side of the stator core and connects the pair of in-slot portions. Moreover, for each of the electric conductor segments, at least one of the pair of in-slot portions of the electric conductor segment includes a protruding part that protrudes in the circumferential direction of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Toshihiro Takei
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Patent number: 10491069Abstract: An electric machine employs laminated sheets windings (LSWs) and permanent magnets which rotate about the LSWs. A ‘radial’ embodiment employs magnets which are magnetized radially and LSWs laid parallel to the rotation axis. An ‘axial’ embodiment uses axially magnetized magnets with LSWs laid radially in the plane of the motor. The magnets may be arranged as Halbach arrays. Magnets and LSWs are arranged concentrically with an air gap therebetween; the motor may employ “Large Air Gap Electric Ring” (LAGER) technology. The laminated sheets form a continuous stack of series-connected concentric metal layers; dielectric layers insulate each metal layer from its adjacent layers. Cuts arranged periodically around each LSW run parallel to the rotation axis and extend through all of the metal layers, with adjacent cuts originating on opposite sides of the LSW such that they form a serpentine path for current to flow as it flows around the winding.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: GreenTech Motors CorporationInventors: Jean-Marc Gery, Dan Jones
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Patent number: 10454332Abstract: An active part of an electric machine includes a plurality of coils, each having a sub-conductor. The coils are formed by windings of the sub-conductors thereof. The windings of a coil each have a predetermined winding length. In addition, the active part has a carrier part, in the grooves of which, the coils are arranged. The coils have a winding head region which projects from an end surface of the carrier part. The coils are also arranged in the form of a tiered winding. At least one of the coils has a V-shaped cross-section in the winding head region, as a result of an arrangement of its sub-conductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Zolt Bogdan, Janos Iles, Andreas Lindmeier, Norbert Schönbauer, Mirjana Vukovic, Robin Brenner, Dominik Ratzisberger, Claus Teringl
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Patent number: 10404112Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having six magnetic poles; a rotary shaft which is provided inside the yoke in a freely rotatable manner; an armature core (6) which has teeth (36) attached to the rotary shaft, radially extending in a radial direction and set in an arrangement of an even number, and an even number of slots (37) formed between the teeth; an armature coil (7) which is wound around the teeth in a single wave winding; and a commutator (13) which is provided in the rotary shaft to be adjacent to the armature core (6) and has a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments (41) to which the armature coil (7) is connected.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
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Patent number: 10389198Abstract: A stator for an electric rotary machine including a stator core and a coil, wherein the coil has plural slot coils, each slot coil being inserted into the slot, and plural connection coils, each connection coil connecting the slot coils in a position lying further axially outwards than an axial end face of the stator core, and is constituted in such a way that the slot coil and the connection coil are joined at an abutment portion; the slot coil and the connection coil are formed by plate conductors, the plate conductor having a plate surface that is planar and that intersects a thickness direction thereof; and the plate surface of the slot coil is brought into surface contact with the plate surface of the connection coil in the abutment portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomotaka Iki
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Patent number: 10369628Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for providing stator bar shape tooling. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for shaping an element. The method can include providing at least one constraining surface, wherein the at least one constraining surface is fabricated at least in part by selective laser sintering, and deforming an element with the at least one constraining surface to define at least an external shape of a formed element.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Caleb James Munholand, Mark Stephen Clough, Mark Kent Shoemaker, David John Wardell
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Patent number: 10333364Abstract: An electrical machine includes a winding core with a plurality of end slots. A winding is seated in the end slots with end windings where the winding crosses from end slot to end slot. A slot insulator is seated in two of the end slots. The slot insulator includes a first slot liner seated in a first one of the two end slots with a winding slot defined therethrough in an axial direction. A second slot liner is seated in a second one of the two end slots with a winding slot defined therethrough in the axial direction, wherein the second slot liner is spaced apart in a lateral direction relative to the axial direction from the first slot liner by a gap. The slot insulator includes a span portion bridging across the gap to connect the first and second slot liners.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Debabrata Pal, Craig R. Legros
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Patent number: 10312762Abstract: Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected at coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Tomohiro Fukuda, Akira Toba, Shinji Yamazaki, Takashi Genmoto, Naoki Nishikawa, Hisaya Shimizu
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Patent number: 10305335Abstract: To improve the insulating reliability of a stator for a rotating electrical machine and the rotating electrical machine, the stator is provided with a winding having a molten metal junction, and covering material which covers the winding. The covering material has a bending part which bends to be partially in contact with the winding.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Nakayama
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Patent number: 10263486Abstract: A plurality of coil groups are each configured by connecting a tip portion of a first conductor terminal and a tip portion of a second conductor terminal that is subject to connection therewith using a connecting conductor, and the connecting conductors include: a pair of connecting portions that are respectively disposed so as to contact the tip portion of the first conductor terminal and the tip portion of the second conductor terminal that is subject to connection therewith in a circumferential direction of the tip portions so as to be parallel to the tip portions, and that are joined together with the tip portions; and a linking portion that links the pair of connecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Akihiro Yamamura, Shinkichi Sawa, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 10236735Abstract: An electric conductor is provided for forming a coil upon being bent. The electric conductor includes a pair of electric conductor wires and an insulating coat. The electric conductor wires each have a substantially rectangular cross section and are arranged in alignment with each other in an alignment direction. The alignment direction is perpendicular to corresponding sides of the substantially rectangular cross sections of the electric conductor wires; the corresponding sides have the same length. The insulating coat is formed on outer peripheral surfaces of the electric conductor wires. The insulating coat has a thick portion formed at a boundary between the electric conductor wires. The thick portion is thicker than and protrudes outward from other portions of the insulating coat which adjoin the thick portion in a circumferential direction of the electric conductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Kudose, Takefumi Kaji
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Patent number: 10164490Abstract: In a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, an armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, that is jointless and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Tatsuro Hino, Atsushi Sakaue, Akira Hashimoto, Kazunori Muto, Masashi Nakamura, Shinkichi Sawa, Hiroyuki Akita
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Patent number: 10050480Abstract: An electrical axial flux machine including a rotor shaft is provided. The rotor shaft is rotatable about an axis of rotation. Two rotors are arranged on the rotor shaft. The two rotors are spaced apart when viewed in a direction of the axis of rotation. The axial flux machine further includes a stator arranged between the two rotors when viewed in the direction of the axis of rotation. The stator includes stator teeth. Each of the stator tooth extends in the direction of the axis of rotation between two end regions. The stator teeth are arranged and distributed uniformly around the axis of rotation at a radial spacing from the axis of rotation and include a stator winding system. At least one ring structure is provided connecting the two end regions of the stator teeth. A housing further surrounds the stator radially on the outside.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Marco Köhler, Korbinian Petermaier, Marco Schramm
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Patent number: 10020702Abstract: A stator having slots separated by stator teeth, into which shaped bars, formed from a plurality of individual wires, are deployed, wherein in each case sidewalls of a stator tooth bounding adjacent slots in a region of the shaped bars run essentially parallel to one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Inventors: Arno Mathoy, Martin Stoeck
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Patent number: 9915554Abstract: The width of a terminal block is decreased by decreasing a space between an external connecting terminal at each end of the external connecting terminals and an end portion of the terminal block, whereas a space between a winding terminal at each end of the winding terminals of terminals and an end portion of the terminal block is sufficiently obtained. A terminal 7 is provided with an external connecting terminal 71 and a winding terminal 72, and the terminal 7 has a shape such that a center line Lp in the width direction of the winding terminal 72 is shifted from a center line Le in the width direction of the external connecting terminal 71. A plurality of the terminals 7 are arranged on a terminal block 11 so that pitches between the winding terminals 72 are unequal.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.Inventor: Haruki Otobe
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Patent number: 9887596Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a stator includes a stator core having slots formed therein and a stator coil comprised of phase windings each of which includes in-slot portions and turn portions. The turn portions of the phase windings together constitute a coil end part of the stator coil. Further, a cooling mechanism is provided to drop liquid coolant onto the coil end part. Moreover, the turn portions of the phase windings include long-pitch turn portions and short-pitch turn portions. In the coil end part, there are axially-overlapping pairs of the long-pitch and short-pitch turn portions over an entire circumferential range of the stator coil. For each axially-overlapping pair of the long-pitch and short-pitch turn portions, the short-pitch turn portion is located axially inside the long-pitch turn portion and faces the long-pitch turn portion through a void space formed therebetween over entire lengths of the long-pitch and short-pitch turn portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akito Tamura
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Patent number: 9831735Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil formed of a plurality of electric conductor segments. Each of the electric conductor segments includes, at least, an in-slot portion received in a corresponding slot of the stator core and a protruding portion that protrudes from the in-slot portion outside of the corresponding slot. Each of the electric conductor segments also has an insulating coat covering its outer surface. For each intersecting pair of the protruding portions of the electric conductor segments, at least one of the two protruding portions of the intersecting pair has an indentation formed in a side face thereof radially facing the other protruding portion at the intersection of the two protruding portions. Further, a thickness of the insulating coats at the indentations is substantially equal to a thickness of the insulating coats at the in-slot portions of the electric conductor segments.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsuo Ishizuka, Tetsuya Gorohata
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Patent number: 9772203Abstract: A stator structure and a VR type resolver, in which the winding of the resolver can be prevented from corroding without increasing the production cost, are provided. The stator structure has stator protruding portions and coils wound around the stator protruding portions, the coils consisting of exciting coils, sine phase detection coils, and cosine phase detection coils, and at least the coils wound at the outermost side are formed by wires in which conductive portions are made of aluminum.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.Inventor: Haruki Otobe
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Patent number: 9748803Abstract: An electric machine comprise a first carrier having an array of electromagnetic elements and a second carrier having electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles, the second carrier being arranged to move relative to the first carrier. An airgap is provided between the first carrier and the second carrier. The electromagnetic elements of the first carrier include posts, with slots between the posts, one or more electric conductors in each slot, the posts of the first carrier having a post height in mm. The first carrier and the second carrier together define a size of the electric machine. The magnetic poles having a pole pitch in mm. The size of the motor, pole pitch and post height are selected to fall within a region in a space defined by size, pole pitch and post height that provides a benefit in terms of force or torque per weight per excitation level.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Genesis Robotics LLCInventor: James Brent Klassen
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Patent number: 9742226Abstract: An electric machine comprise a first carrier having an array of electromagnetic elements and a second carrier having electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles, the second carrier being arranged to move relative to the first carrier. An airgap is provided between the first carrier and the second carrier. The electromagnetic elements of the first carrier include posts, with slots between the posts, one or more electric conductors in each slot, the posts of the first carrier having a post height in mm. The first carrier and the second carrier together define a size of the electric machine. The magnetic poles having a pole pitch in mm. The size of the motor, pole pitch and post height are selected to fall within a region in a space defined by size, pole pitch and post height that provides a benefit in terms of force or torque per weight per excitation level.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Genesis Robotics LLPInventor: James Brent Klassen
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Patent number: 9627946Abstract: A lead wire connection structure includes a rectifier that is arranged at the outside or the inside in an axis direction of the brackets so as to rectify AC voltage, which is generated on the stator, to DC voltage; in which, when a number of conductors of a connecting portion, at which lead conductors of the stator winding and the rectifier are connected, is “N” (N is integer and greater than or equal to 2) per one position, conductors, of which number is less than or equal to “N?1” per one position, are connected at the connecting portion, and conductors excepted from the conductors, of which number is less than or equal to “N?1”, are welded onto the remaining conductors at a position being nearer the stator winding side than the connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshiro Imazawa, Kazunori Tanaka, Ryoichi Sasahara
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Patent number: 9570965Abstract: A rotor coil for a revolving armature includes a strand coil that includes a part arranged in a core slot of the rotor and is composed of a plurality of element wires; and a solid coil welded to an end of the strand coil wherein the end of the strand coil and an end of the solid coil are welded by friction stir welding. A manufacturing method of a rotor coil includes the step of performing friction stir welding wherein the friction stir welding is performed for the butt joint with the end of the strand coil arranged in an advancing side defined by a rotation direction of a tool and with the solid coil arranged in a retreating side.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke Umezu, Yasuaki Kageyama, Juichi Enyama, Seunghwan Park, Satoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 9525316Abstract: A method and system is provided to join the wire ends of a stator by placing a crimpable element on a wire end pair such that the wire ends of the wire end pair are surrounded by the crimpable element, and deforming the crimpable element using a crimping tool to form a crimped joint. The crimped joint is configured to provide an electrical connection between the wire ends of the wire end pair. The wire ends may be retained in substantial contact with each other by the crimpable element. The wire end portion of the stator may be immersed in a molten solder bath to form a solder joint joining the wire end pair comprising a crimped joint. The stator may be configured as a bar pin stator including a plurality of bar pins defining the wire ends.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Richard M. Kleber
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Patent number: 9509188Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine includes a stator core that includes a plurality of slots; and a plurality of conductor segment coils that each have a U-shape. A sectional area of the U-shaped portion of the conductor segment coil that protrudes out from one side in the axial direction of the stator core is larger than a sectional area of a tip end portion of the conductor segment coil that protrudes out from the other side in the axial direction of the stator core; and the sectional area of the tip end portion of the conductor segment coil that protrudes out from the other side in the axial direction of the stator core is larger than a sectional area of an in-slot portion of the conductor segment coil.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroki Kato
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Patent number: 9496773Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator winding includes a plurality of conductor segments inserted through the slots from one end surface of the stator core with end portions of the conductor segments projecting out beyond another end surface of the stator core. The conductor segments include an undeformed portion, a plastically deformed portion formed at the end portions thereof and a tapered portion. The plastically deformed portion has a dimension of the plastically deformed portion along a circumferential direction that is greater than a dimension of the undeformed portion along the circumferential direction and so that a dimension of the plastically deformed portion along a radial direction is smaller than a dimension of the undeformed portion along the radial direction. The conductor segments are welded together at tops of the plastically deformed portions thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Ishigami, Yutaka Matsunobu, Yoshimi Mori
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Patent number: 9337696Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotating shaft having an axis extending in an axial direction; a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft; a stator provided with a plurality of stator coils; a wire connection part provided at one side of the stator coils in the axial direction, the wire connection part connecting end portions of the stator coils in a specified wire connection pattern; and a resin molded part arranged to cover the wire connection part and the stator coils. The wire connection part includes a plurality of conductive members connected to the end portions of the stator coils and an insulating member arranged to at least partially cover surfaces of the conductive members. The insulating member has projection portions protruding toward the resin molded part existing at the one side of the stator coils in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kenji Funakoshi, Hideyuki Onda, Kanta Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9214847Abstract: Provided is a motor comprising: a stator equipped with a coil basket, which is a distributed winding coil that uses flat wire, and a stator core; and a rotor with a central shaft. The motor is characterized in that: the coil end at one end of the coil basket has bent sections that are bent on the rotor side in relation to wire sections inside slots of the stator core; and a lower-side concentric section and horizontal sections, which comprise the coil end at the other end, are positioned further toward the shaft center side of the rotor than the inner peripheral surface of the teeth; and the coil end at one end and the coil end at the other end comprise five flat wires that are lap wound in a flatwise direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kitamura Manabu, Atsushi Watanabe, Takashi Yamada, Shingo Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, Kiyotaka Koga
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Patent number: 9041262Abstract: A stator coil includes first to fourth in-slot portions and first and second turn portions. Both the first and third in-slot portions are received in one slot of a stator core, while both the second and fourth in-slot portions are received in another slot. The first and second turn portions both protrude from an axial end face of the stator core and respectively connect the pair of the first and second in-slot portions and the pair of the third and fourth in-slot portions. The second turn portion is located inside the first turn portion. When viewed along an axial direction of the stator core, the first and second turn portions extend so as to cross each other with a reference line C interposed therebetween; the reference line C is defined to extend along a circumferential direction of the stator core through an intersection between the first and second turn portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Okamura, Norio Kamegawa
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Patent number: 9035523Abstract: The invention relates to a coil (1), in particular for an electric machine, in particular a transformator or an electromechanical converter, in particular an electric motor, for guiding an electric current for producing a magnetic field. Said coil consists of individual windings (2) that are essentially embodied as a flat body thus obtaining a tightly packed structure when the windings (2) are superimposed, and respectively, each winding (2) comprises at least one circulating conductor path with the exception of at least one electric interruption on one side. Said conductor path of a winding (2) comprises, on one point, an electroconductive connection with a conductor path of an adjacent winding (2). The windings (2) are incidentally, essentially electrically isolated to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, WürzburgInventor: Marcus Podack
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Patent number: 9030087Abstract: A system for completing an electrical circuit includes first and second base contacts electrically isolated from each other, each having a magnetic portion secured thereto, each magnetic portion having an opposite polarity, and each of said base contacts electrically connected to an electrical lead for transmitting an electrical signal through said base contacts. The system also includes first and second mating contacts electrically isolated from each other, each having a magnetic portion of opposite polarity secured thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Inventor: Christopher Moore
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Patent number: 9018818Abstract: An insulating cap is provided for an end winding of an electrical machine working at a high voltage, the end winding including a plurality of insulated winding bars protruding from respective winding slots and electrically conductively connected to one another in pairs at their ends so as to form a plurality of electrical connections. The cap includes an opening allowing the insulating cap to be pushed over a region of one of the electrical connections such that the insulating cap insulates an outside of the electrical connection. An interior includes a layer configured to gradually dissipate a high electrical field in the region of the electrical connection to an outside of the insulating cap, the outside of the insulating cap being at earth potential.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Alstom Renewable TechnologiesInventors: Markus Huwyler, Andreas Koepfler, Thomas Klamt
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Patent number: 8987969Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a stator including coils that protrude less in the radial direction of the stator and can be made smaller in the radial direction of the stator, and a method of manufacturing the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideki Kamatani
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Patent number: 8981613Abstract: The electric rotating machine includes a stator winding constituted of conductor segments each having a pair of in-slot portions and a coil end section projecting from both axial ends of a stator core. The coil end section includes a joint-side end portion having a skew portion intersecting with another one of the conductor segments at an axial end of the stator core. The skew portion is formed with a joint end portion at an extremity thereof, the joint end portion being formed with a conductor exposed portion where an inner conductor is exposed and joined to a conductor exposed portion of another conductor segment. A joint area between the joint end portions and a vicinity thereof are covered by an insulating resin member. The insulating resin member is thicker at a portion covering the conductor exposed portions than at a portion covering other than the conductor exposed portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Ikuta, Masato Yamaji
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Patent number: 8963382Abstract: A stator includes a ring-shaped stator core having a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction and a stator coil wound around the slots. The stator coil disposed within the slots is fixed by an impregnating material applied from an inner peripheral side of the stator core. An innermost-diameter coil wire of the stator coil positioned on the innermost-diameter side within the slots is provided with a first angle section that is angled towards an outward core-diameter direction side from a center section in a core-axis direction towards one end side, and a second angle section that is angled towards the outward core-diameter direction side from the center section in the core-axis direction towards another end side. The center section in the core-axis direction of the innermost-diameter coil wire projects towards an inward core-diameter direction side.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shigenori Yoneda, Toshiaki Oohara
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Patent number: 8957562Abstract: A stator includes a core having a plurality of slots and a plurality of U-shaped conductors, which are inserted in the corresponding slots. Each of the conductors has a pair of legs and a joint portion that connects the legs together. Each slot receives four legs and each of the legs in the slot is one leg of the corresponding one of the conductors. Two of the four conductors corresponding to the four legs inserted in each slot are overlapped with each other at the joint portions as viewed at least circumferentially.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimasa Kinpara, Noriyasu Nishio, Teruhisa Tateiwa, Takenobu Kawakami
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Patent number: 8946964Abstract: The invention incorporates a modular winding system for an electrical machine that includes a plurality of readily assembled modular windings for engaging a plurality of stator teeth of the machine. Windings comprise a pair of opposed legs terminating in upper and lower flanges, and are readily secured together to make consistent electrical contact between adjacent windings.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Inventor: Christopher Moore
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Patent number: RE46265Abstract: Each pair of coils mutually connected in a stator winding is arranged in a fashion that a first coil of each pair of coils has an inner-circumferential-side coil terminal (212) led out from an inner-circumferential-side slot position in the direction of a coil end (220) of the stator winding, and that a second coil of each pair of coils has an outer-circumferential-side coil terminal (211) led out from an outer-circumferential-side slot position in the direction of the coil end (220) of the stator winding for connection to the inner-circumferential-side coil terminal (212), wherein there is provided a coil terminal connection structure in which the inner-circumferential-side coil terminal (212) is connected to the outer-circumferential-side coil terminal (211) across the coil end (220), and joint parts (211a, 212a) thereof are bent close to the coil end (220).Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ishigami, Kenichi Nakayama, Yasuyuki Saito