Bar Windings Patents (Class 310/201)
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Patent number: 8072102Abstract: A stator of a turbo generator for the generation of electrical energy is provided with: a cylindrical core, which extends along a longitudinal axis and presents a plurality of axial cavities and two opposite headers; connection terminals of the turbo generator; a plurality of electrical windings, which are split into groups and which extend along paths defined in part in the axial cavities and in part at the headers; the electrical windings of each group being isopotential and connected in parallel between a pair of terminals; and a plurality of connection devices, each of which is adapted to define, at least at one of the headers, a segment of path in common with the isopotential electrical windings.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Ansaldo Energia S.p.A.Inventor: Roberto Garello
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Patent number: 8072114Abstract: A multiphase synchronous electrical machine for converting kinetic energy into electrical energy and electrical energy into kinetic energy has a rotor, extending along an axis, and a stator, which is provided with a stator pack having slots and with an electrical winding, which extends in part in the slots and in part at two heads arranged on opposite sides of the stator pack and which has bars, housed in the slots and connected to one at the heads, connection plates, each of which has: a main body having at least two seats for housing the bars; and an arm, which is set between the two seats and extends from the main body towards the axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.Inventors: Franco Ciampolini, Augusto Eugenio Michele Maria Guccione, Egidio D'Alpaos, Paolo Lissoni
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Patent number: 8058765Abstract: A bar-wound stator includes a plurality of bar-type conductors disposed within the plurality of slots, wherein, within each slot, at least one of the bar-type conductors has an orientation that differs from the remaining bar-type conductors within that slot by a predetermined angle. For example, conductors with rectangular cross-sections can be inserted such that the conductors closest to the inner surface of the stator are rotated ninety degrees with respect to the remaining conductors.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Khwaja M. Rahman, Edward L. Kaiser
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Patent number: 8056215Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masahiro Takada, Kuniharu Teshima, Hideji Shimaoka, Toshiaki Oohara
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Patent number: 8053944Abstract: Electrical machines, for example transverse flux machines and/or commutated flux machines, may be configured to achieve increased efficiency, increased output torque, and/or reduced operating losses via use of extended magnets, overhung rotors, and/or stator tooth overlap. Extended magnets may reduce flux leakage between adjacent flux concentrators. Overhung rotors may reduce flux leakage, and may also facilitate voltage balancing in polyphase devices. Stator tooth overlap may reduce hysteresis losses, for example losses in flux concentrating portions of an electrical machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Motor Excellence, LLCInventors: David G. Calley, Daniel S Cole, John M. Dyer, Thomas F. Janecek
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Patent number: 8053943Abstract: A stator structure includes: a stator core (104) having a large number of concave slots (105) and a large number of convex magnetic poles (106) circumferentially alternately arranged; and magnet wires (101) of rectangular cross section in each of which an insulating coating (103) is formed on the outer surface of a metal wire (102), wherein each of the slots (105) is formed so that the distance (W2) between both the side surfaces (109, 109) of the slot (105) gradually decreases from the bottom (107) to a distal opening (108) of the slot (105), each of the magnet wires (101) is wound around the associated magnetic pole (106) and inserted in tiers in the associated slot (105), and the magnet wire (101) is placed in the slot (105) so that the width (W1) thereof continuously or stepwise decreases from the bottom (107) to the distal opening (108) of the slot (105).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kamibayashi, Yasunori Kashima, Takafumi Tanabe, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasushi Kawakami
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Patent number: 8049390Abstract: A stator structure includes: a stator core (104) having a large number of concave slots (105) and a large number of convex magnetic poles (106) circumferentially alternately arranged; and magnet wires (101) of rectangular cross section in each of which an insulating coating (103) is formed on the outer surface of a metal wire (102), wherein each of the slots (105) is formed so that the distance (W2) between both the side surfaces (109, 109) of the slot (105) gradually decreases from the bottom (107) to a distal opening (108) of the slot (105), each of the magnet wires (101) is wound around the associated magnetic pole (106) and inserted in tiers in the associated slot (105), and the magnet wire (101) is placed in the slot (105) so that the width (W1) thereof continuously or stepwise decreases from the bottom (107) to the distal opening (108) of the slot (105).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kamibayashi, Yasunori Kashima, Takafumi Tanabe, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasushi Kawakami
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Publication number: 20110260570Abstract: A turn part of a lead wire includes a projection part, a slope part and a second bent part. The projection part projects from a first slot to a direction parallel to an axial direction of the stator core. The slope part is diagonally extended at an angle of less than 90 degrees aiming to a Kth slot. The Kth slot is separated from the first slot at a specific interval via a first bent part that is bent in a circumferential direction from a tip of the projection part. The second bent part is connected with the slot accommodation part accommodated in the Kth slot, and is bent to the direction parallel to the axial direction of the stator core from a tip of the slope part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Keiji Kondou, Akito Akimoto
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Patent number: 8040002Abstract: A ventilated rotor of a high-power turbogenerator for the production of electricity has a shaft extending along an axis; a plurality of axial slots obtained in the shaft; a plurality of conductor bars arranged at least partly in the slots; a plurality of axial channels suitable for ventilating the conductor bars; a plurality of subslots, each of which is arranged below a slot to distribute a ventilating gas; a plurality of axial portions traveled over by respective flows of ventilating gas along each axial channel; and at least one radial channel, which is intended to convey directly the ventilating gas from the subslot to the outer surface of the rotor via the conductor bars and is arranged between two consecutive and adjacent axial portions of an axial channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Ansaldo Energia S.p.A.Inventor: Vincenzo Tartaglione
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Patent number: 8030818Abstract: A stator coil includes a plurality of copper strands and a layer of high thermal conductivity polymer disposed adjacent at least one of the copper strands. The high thermal conductivity polymer includes a host polymer and a high thermal conductivity filler. The high thermal conductivity polymer improves heat transfer from the plurality copper strands.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.Inventors: Thomas I. Nelson, John W. Wood, Lon W. Montgomery
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Patent number: 8030812Abstract: 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: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ishigami, Kenichi Nakayama, Yasuyuki Saito
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Publication number: 20110227443Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideki Kamatani
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Patent number: 8008830Abstract: The wire 30 forming the stator winding 20 includes the in-slot portions 40 to be disposed in the slots 14 and 15 of the stator core 12 and the turned portions 42 connecting the in-slot portions 40 disposed in the circumferentially different slots 14 and 15. The turned portions 42 formed on axial opposite end sides of the stator core 12. The crank portion 44 which does not twist is formed at substantially the center of the turned portion 42. Steps are formed at sections of the turned portion 42 which protrude outside the stator core 12 from the slots 14 and 15. Further, the turned portion 42 of the wire 30 also has two steps 48 formed between the substantially central crank portion 44 and each of the steps 46 formed at the protruding sections of the turned portion 42.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shinji Kouda, Hiroaki Kajiura, Masahiro Takada
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Publication number: 20110193443Abstract: A conducting wire for a stator of an electric machine includes a cross section having a first side, a second side, a third side and a fourth side. The third side and the fourth side are parallel with each other, with the first side and the second side extending between the third side and the fourth side. The first side and the second side each define a concave depression.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2010Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Peter J. Savagian, Rajeev Vyas
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Patent number: 7994678Abstract: Disclosed are single- and poly-phase transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may variously be configured with an interior rotor and/or an interior stator. Other exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may be configured in a slim, stacked, and/or nested configuration. Via use of such polyphase configurations, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Motor Excellence, LLCInventors: David G. Calley, Thomas F. Janecek
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Patent number: 7994677Abstract: A stator for a multiple-phase rotary electric machine is provided with a stator core with slots and a coil formed of a plurality of windings for individual phases. Each winding has slot-accommodated portions accommodated in different slots, turn portions connecting the slot-accommodated portions outside of the slots in an axial direction, and a return portion that connects two of the turn portions and changes a winding direction of the winding at given slots. The turn portions include specific turn portions which are the same in a circumferential position as the turn portion connected to one of the return portion. The first and second windings are jointed to each other via a joined portion disposed in a specific slot among the slots.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shinji Kouda, Shinichi Ogawa, Akiya Shichijoh, Takeo Maekawa
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Publication number: 20110181145Abstract: An conductive bar (1) for electric machines includes a plurality of interwoven conductive strands (2) insulated from one another and defining two side-by-side stacks (4). The outer surface of the conductive bar (1) is at least partly uneven.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Francois Vannay
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Publication number: 20110175483Abstract: A stator includes a stator coil formed of electric wires which include a joined pair of first and second electric wires. The first electric wire has a lead portion led out from the radially inner periphery of a first slot of a stator core and including a crossover part. The crossover part crosses over an axial end face of an end part of the stator coil from the radially inside to the radially outside of the axial end face; the end part protrudes from an axial end face of the stator core. The second electric wire has a lead portion led out from the radially outer periphery of a second slot of the stator core. The lead portions of the electric wires are joined together with a joint formed therebetween. The joint is positioned closer to the axial end face of the stator core than the crossover part is.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akihito KOIKE, Mitsuru Katoh, Masashi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20110175482Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator assembly concentrically located about the rotor. The stator assembly includes a stator stack and a plurality of spaced apart stator teeth extending radially from the stator stack. The plurality of stator teeth defines a plurality of stator slots. Each stator tooth defines a stator tooth tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Peter J. Savagian, Edward L. Kaiser, Khwaja M. Rahman
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Publication number: 20110163626Abstract: A stator structure includes: a stator core (104) having a large number of concave slots (105) and a large number of convex magnetic poles (106) circumferentially alternately arranged; and magnet wires (101) of rectangular cross section in each of which an insulating coating (103) is formed on the outer surface of a metal wire (102), wherein each of the slots (105) is formed so that the distance (W2) between both the side surfaces (109, 109) of the slot (105) gradually decreases from the bottom (107) to a distal opening (108) of the slot (105), each of the magnet wires (101) is wound around the associated magnetic pole (106) and inserted in tiers in the associated slot (105), and the magnet wire (101) is placed in the slot (105) so that the width (W1) thereof continuously or stepwise decreases from the bottom (107) to the distal opening (108) of the slot (105).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI CABLE INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki KAMIBAYASHI, Yasunori Kashima, Takafumi Tanabe, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasushi Kawakami
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Publication number: 20110148240Abstract: A motor having a rotor and a stator is disclosed. The rotor is a consequent-pole rotor having a rotor core, a plurality of magnets, and a plurality of salient poles. The stator includes a stator core and multiphase coils. Each coil is wound about the teeth by distributed winding, in such a manner as to wind two or more consecutive teeth in single winding. The opening degree each of salient pole opposed to the distal ends of the teeth is set greater than or equal to twice the opening angle of the distal end of each tooth.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Koide, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shinji Santo
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Publication number: 20110148242Abstract: Dynamoelectric device and stator bar therefor, where the stator bar includes a linear portion for positioning in a slot of a stator core, the slot extending in a radial direction relative to an axis of the stator, and an end arm portion having an involute-on-cone bend relative to the linear portion and an elongated cross-section that is substantially aligned with the radial direction of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventor: James Oldham Lambert
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Patent number: 7965013Abstract: An insulating cover or a bar-to-bar connection of a stator winding of an electric machine has only one opening and is made from a flexible insulating material embedding the bar-to-bar connection entirely in a tight fit. Methods for producing and applying such an insulating cover are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Alstom Technology LtdInventors: Matthias Baenziger, Christian Bencharab, Christophe Cottet, Bruno Frattini, Werner Ladstaetter, Francesco Stallone, Michel Claude Verrier
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Publication number: 20110133593Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil comprised of electric wires. Each of the electric wires has n in-slot portions and (n?1) turn portions, where n?4. The in-slot portions are sequentially received in p slots of the stator core, where p?n. The turn portions are located outside the slots to connect adjacent pairs of the in-slot portions. The radial distances from the longitudinal axis of the stator core to the first to the nth in-slot portions successively decrease. Each of the electric wires further includes bulges. Each of the bulges is formed, on a surface of a corresponding one of the in-slot portions or a surface of a portion of the electric wire which falls on an imaginary line extending axially from the corresponding in-slot portion, so as to protrude from the corresponding in-slot portion in a radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Shigenobu NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 7952250Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a field coil member includes a first edgewise coil composed of a plurality of coaxially layered convolutions. The coaxially layered convolutions are wound around the outer periphery of the first pole core. The field coil member includes a second edgewise coil composed of a plurality of coaxially layered convolutions. The coaxially layered convolutions are wound around the outer periphery of the second pole core. The field coil member includes a link portion connecting between the first edgewise coil and the second edgewise coil in series. One of the first and second edgewise coils has one coil end extending therefrom to cross over the link portion at a crossover portion thereof. The crossover portion between the one coil end and the link portion is arranged to be non-overlapped with the convolutions of the one of the first and second edgewise coils.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Youichi Hasegawa, Tomoya Imanishi
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Patent number: 7948143Abstract: A stator for an electric rotary machine which includes a stator coil which is made up of conducting wires each of which includes in-slot portions disposed one in each of slots formed in a stator core and turned portions each of which connects adjacent two of the in-slot portions outside the slots. Each of the turned portions includes steps adjacent connected through a curved bend. The curved bend of one of the conducting wires is laid to overlap one of turned portions of the other conducting wire in an axial direction of the stator core through a gap. The curved bend has walls extending toward one of the turned portions of the other conducting wire to define a chamber. The walls increase a total area of the stator coil from which thermal energy will dissipate, thus enhancing the ability of the stator coil to be cooled.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Shigenobu Nakamura
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Patent number: 7944187Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for producing current with a desired output frequency from one or more fixed or variable speed alternators by varying a saturation level of a portion of the alternator(s) based on a output frequency desired, and preferably then rectifying the output to produce a desired electrical output which may be provided as direct current or alternating current to a suitable load.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Patent number: 7941910Abstract: Method for removing winding conductors from a twisting machine and placing them in a rotor or stator stack. For a plurality of rectangular winding conductors each having a pair of legs separated by an amount equal to the distance between a predetermined number of rotor or stator slots in which they will be inserted, moving a plurality of fingers of a clamping assembly between the legs of a plurality of winding conductors in a twisting fixture to retain the winding conductors, moving the clamping assembly away from the twisting fixture to withdraw the winding conductors from the twisting fixture, providing relative movement of the clamping assembly and a rotor or stator to insert free ends of the winding conductors into a rotor or stator, and moving the fingers of a clamping assembly from between the legs of a plurality of winding conductors. A preferred embodiment of the method is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Tecnomatic S.p.A.Inventor: Sante Guercioni
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Publication number: 20110109186Abstract: A conductor bar for a stator of a generator includes a plurality of internal conductor elements; an insulation wound around the plurality of internal conductor elements so as to externally enclose the plurality of internal conductor elements, the insulation including impregnated glass/mica bands; and at least one interlayer disposed between the insulation and the plurality of internal conductor elements so as to improve a mechanical connection between the plurality of internal conductor elements and the insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2011Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTDInventor: Thomas Baumann
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Patent number: 7928625Abstract: Dynamoelectric device and stator bar therefor, where the stator bar includes a linear portion for positioning in a slot of a stator core, the slot extending in a radial direction relative to an axis of the stator, and an end arm portion having an involute-on-cone bend relative to the linear portion and an elongated cross-section that is substantially aligned with the radial direction of the slot.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: James Oldham Lambert
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Patent number: 7928623Abstract: An apparatus for producing electrical power from mechanical power, includes a generator with a rotor and a stator for conversion of mechanical power to a polyphase alternating current having more than three phases. The stator has a stator core with a cylindrical stator bore and a plurality of parallel stator slots disposed at a distance from one another, extending axially along a length of the stator core and being open towards the stator bore. A plurality of stator winding bars are disposed in the stator slots so as to form delta-connected windings for producing the polyphase alternating current. A static frequency converter in the form of a matrix converter converts the polyphase alternating current to a desired output alternating current, wherein the stator is a polygonal stator having external winding connections that are bridged, wherein inputs to the matrix converter are connected to end connections of the winding bars.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventor: Alain Lacaze
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Patent number: 7928626Abstract: A stator structure includes: a stator core (104) having a large number of concave slots (105) and a large number of convex magnetic poles (106) circumferentially alternately arranged; and magnet wires (101) of rectangular cross section in each of which an insulating coating (103) is formed on the outer surface of a metal wire (102), wherein each of the slots (105) is formed so that the distance (W2) between both the side surfaces (109, 109) of the slot (105) gradually decreases from the bottom (107) to a distal opening (108) of the slot (105), each of the magnet wires (101) is wound around the associated magnetic pole (106) and inserted in tiers in the associated slot (105), and the magnet wire (101) is placed in the slot (105) so that the width (W1) thereof continuously or stepwise decreases from the bottom (107) to the distal opening (108) of the slot (105).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kamibayashi, Yasunori Kashima, Takafumi Tanabe, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasushi Kawakami
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Patent number: 7923884Abstract: In a stator coil of a rotary electric machine, a first crank portion radially shifts one side of a turn portion from the other side thereof by a first length. The one side extends to one of paired straight portions, and the other side extends to the other thereof. A second crank portion radially shifts one side of a turn portion from the other side thereof by a second length. The one side extends to one of the paired straight portions, and the other side extends to the other thereof. The first length is equivalent to a radial width of the turn portion of the first segment of each set. The second length allows the second crank portion of the second segment of each of the sets to substantially overlay the first crank portion of the first segment of each set.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masahiro Seguchi, Shinji Kouda, Tetsuya Gorohata
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Patent number: 7919894Abstract: The invention includes an electric machine having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, and a secondary winding, electrically isolated from the first winding and inductively coupled to the first winding, which may be used to control at least one of the output voltage and current of the first winding.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Patent number: 7911105Abstract: Disclosed is an improved stator for a dynamoelectric machine including a stator core which has a plurality of core slots extending axially from a first end of the stator core to a second end of the stator core. The stator also includes a stator winding having a plurality of phases. Each phase of the stator winding includes at least a first filar. The first filar extends around the stator core and form a plurality of layers and has a plurality of slot segments disposed in the plurality of core slots. The slot segments are alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments. The slot segments are configured such that at least two consecutive slot segments are disposed in substantially the same radial position relative to additional slot segments of the plurality of slot segments disposed in the respective core slots, and the at least two consecutive slot segments are disposed at differing radial distances from a central axis of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Remy International, Inc.Inventor: Kirk Neet
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Patent number: 7911106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Masami Sukeda, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori
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Patent number: 7893574Abstract: In a rotor of a rotary-electric machine, in order to improve a cooling performance of a rotor winding on an end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, the rotor winding being held by a retaining ring of the rotor winding formed by laminating conductors in slots of a rotor iron core extending in an axial direction and having slots formed at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction, ventilation channels through which cooling air flows are formed in the surfaces of the conductors along a longitudinal direction. The ventilation channels have air inlet holes which guide the cooling air and exhaust holes which exhaust the cooling air, the conductors are laminated to constitute the rotor winding, and the conductors include openings of the air inlet holes in bottoms of the conductors on a side opposite to a side on which the ventilation channels are formed.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Mitsuru Saeki, Akitomi Semba, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Takashi Watanabe, Manabu Suzuki, Takashi Shibata, Seijiro Muramatsu
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Patent number: 7891082Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil assembly unit comprises steps of coil forming, weaving, compressing steps. In the forming step, each coil wire is formed which provides linear portions and turn portions each connecting linear portions, during which bent portions are formed at both ends of each linear portion, the bent portions being bent so that mutually adjacent linear portions are deviated from each other. In the weaving step, the coil wires are mutually woven in turn, in which the turn portions intersect in turn. All the coil wires are subjected to the weaving step in turn to produce a woven coil assembly. In the compressing step, the woven coil assembly is compressed by compressing the woven coil so that each bent portion is deformed to be linear to allow the mutually adjacent linear portions to come closer to each other, thus producing the coil assembly unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Akito Akimoto
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Publication number: 20110012471Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a plurality of slots, and a conductor. The plurality of slots are formed within the stator core. The conductor is disposed continuously within at least two of the plurality of openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: DANG DINH DANG, ROLF BLISSENBACH, DAVID SCHAUER, JOHN WATTLEWORTH, MICHAEL MILANI, ERIK HATCH
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Patent number: 7872390Abstract: A method for manufacturing a conductor bar of a rotating electrical machine includes providing a conductor defining a longitudinal direction and having a rectangular cross section, and building up an insulation to a thickness d around the conductor by progressively winding an insulating tape around the conductor a plurality of times in the form of a spiral in the longitudinal direction. The building up of the insulation includes winding the insulation tape around the conductor using parallel winding up to a first partial thickness, and winding the insulating tape around the conductor using non-parallel winding from the first partial thickness.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Alstom Technology LtdInventor: Thomas Baumann
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Patent number: 7868508Abstract: Disclosed are single- and poly-phase transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may variously be configured with an interior rotor and/or an interior stator. Other exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may be configured in a slim, stacked, and/or nested configuration. Via use of such polyphase configurations, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Motor Excellence, LLCInventors: David G. Calley, Thomas F. Janecek
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Patent number: 7863795Abstract: A conductor bar for a large, rotating electric machine includes a press-formed conductor loop having a rectangular cross-sectional shape. The conductor loop includes a plurality of identical, helically wound, Roebel transposed, stranded conductors. Each of the stranded conductors includes a cable including a plurality of electrically insulated individual wires, wherein the cross-sectional shape is constant along a length of the conductor bar.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Alstom Technology LtdInventor: Reinhard Joho
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Publication number: 20100320864Abstract: A bar-wound stator includes a plurality of bar-type conductors disposed within the plurality of slots, wherein, within each slot, at least one of the bar-type conductors has an orientation that differs from the remaining bar-type conductors within that slot by a predetermined angle. For example, conductors with rectangular cross-sections can be inserted such that the conductors closest to the inner surface of the stator are rotated ninety degrees with respect to the remaining conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Khwaja M. RAHMAN, Edward L. KAISER
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Patent number: 7847465Abstract: A stator has conductor segments serially wound on a core. Each segment inserted in one of slots of the core has a slanting portion protruding from the slot and inclined toward circumferential and axial directions of the core. Each slanting portion has an oblique portion with a film removal surface and a film removal portion with a film removed surface to have a slanting removal area covered with no insulation film and extending on the oblique portion. Each film removal portion has a connection portion on an end thereof. The connection portions are aligned along a radial direction of the core to form a plurality of end pairs. The connection portions of each end pair are connected with each other so as to serially connect the segments with one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Takashi Tokizawa
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Patent number: 7830062Abstract: A straight line portion of a substantially U-shaped angular wire having a substantially rectangular cross section and a straight line portion of a substantially U-shaped round wire having a substantially circular cross section are accommodated at a slot arranged at a stator of a motor. The round wire is arranged at a more radially inward portion of the slot than the angular wire is. The connecting portion of the round wire is arranged radially inwardly of the straight line portion thereof. The connecting portion of the angular wire is arranged radially outwardly of the straight line portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Yoshio Fujii, Yosuke Yamada, Hideaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7812499Abstract: An armature winding of an electric rotating machine is provided, which includes at least one armature winding bar composed of a plurality of element wire conductors, wherein the armature winding bar includes an element wire conductor configured to have twisted transposing angles of 180 degrees at one border zone and a middle zone in a winding slot and a twisted transposing angle different from 180 degrees at the other border zone of the winding slot of the element wire conductor.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Mikio Kakiuchi
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Patent number: 7812498Abstract: The stator of an electric rotating machine includes a stator core having slots formed therein along a circumferential direction thereof, and a stator winding formed by conductive wires wound on the slots. The stator winding includes in-slot portions accommodated in the slots and turn portions each of which connects each adjacent two of the in-slot portions outside of the slots. Each of the turn portions includes a first turn portion formed with M1 steps (m1 being a positive integer) extending along axial ends of the stator core, and a second turn portion formed with m2 steps (m2 being an integer larger than m1) extending along the axial ends.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Shinji Kouda
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Patent number: 7805825Abstract: Method and apparatus for forming motor winding conductors rectangular conductor wire.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Tecnomatic S.p.A.Inventor: Sante Guercioni
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Patent number: 7786642Abstract: In a rotating machinery having armature windings constituted by a lot of strands, when the armature winding is constituted by four layers, a step number of the strands becomes half with respect to two layers of armature windings so as to facilitate manufacturing an armature winding of 540 degree transposition in which a transposition pitch is elongated and a circulating current loss is reduced, but since an output voltage becomes twice, for securing a voltage limit value caused by an isolation resisting force, one layer of armature windings are constituted by sub windings separated into at least two layers in a vertical direction, a transposition is independently applied to each of the sub windings, the sub windings are connected to the armature windings of the other slot while keeping an isolation of the sub winding at an armature winding end region by at least two connecting methods, and the sub winding constructs a parallel circuit by the armature windings of a plurality of slots.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori, Masami Sukeda, Atsushi Ishihara, Takahiko Sano
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Patent number: 7786644Abstract: An electric rotary machine, an armature for use in the electric machine, a method of forming an electric rotary machine and a forming machine for an armature of an electric rotary machine are disclosed wherein insulator-coated coils are wound in slots of an armature core from which lower and upper layer coil extensions extend and are connected to a commutator. The upper layer coil extension has a contour deformation part at an intersecting region where the lower and upper layer coil extensions intersect with each other to have an insulating distance between the lower and upper layer coil extensions. The forming machine includes a work holder holding the armature, and a forming jig forming a curvature portion on the upper layer coil extension.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kazuyuki Kitou, Akiyasu Itoh, Katsunobu Inoue, Eiji Sakai, Minoru Fukui