Coils Patents (Class 310/208)
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Patent number: 12104582Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an armature for a wind turbine generator. The generator may be a permanent magnet generator. The present disclosure further relates to methods for operating such armature, generator and wind turbine. A method may include partially short-circuiting the armature windings by closing a first switch and inducing currents in the armature windings by the wind acting on the wind turbine blades.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.Inventors: Julio Cesar Urresty, Javier Luque Clavijo
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Patent number: 12081067Abstract: A stator includes insulation including a back insulation portion covering a back stator portion, a first tooth portion covering a first tooth, a second tooth portion covering a second tooth. A first flange portion has a first face that is in facing relationship with the back insulation portion. A second flange portion has a second face that is in facing relationship with the back insulation portion. The first face and the second face together substantially defining a boundary plane, such that a cross-sectional slot area is defined between the back insulation portion, the first tooth portion, the second tooth portion, and the boundary plane. A plurality of conductive wires are arranged in the cross-sectional slot area, the wires defining a cross-sectional winding area within the cross-sectional slot area. A ratio of the cross-sectional winding area to the cross-sectional slot area is greater than or equal to 0.45.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Keith Boulanger, Ryan B. Jipp, Timothy R. Obermann, Matthew R. Bailey
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Patent number: 12062965Abstract: A plural magnet arrangement of a matrix of rows and columns having an altered magnet field alignment of a plurality of the magnets in a matrix comprising rows and columns of magnets in such a manner that there are at times a co-existing combination of changing attractive and repelling magnetic field regions all throughout the coil winding volume, reducing the counter electromotive force (voltage) during electrically connecting a load to the coil winding terminals and extends the time duration of the output voltage waveform and this is accomplished wherein the rotational torque required to rotate the centre magnet through the coil of which it is centred within is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: WEPOWER TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: David Deak, Sr.
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Patent number: 11979069Abstract: The coil winding has an electrical conductor for an electrical machine and includes at least two layers. The electrical conductor, following its longitudinal extension, runs inwardly wound in a first of the at least two layers, and then extends to a second of the at least two layers and runs outwardly wound in the second layer. The electrical machine includes at least one such coil winding. The hybrid electric aircraft is in particular an airplane and includes such an electrical machine and/or at least one such coil winding.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Matthias Böhm, Mykhaylo Filipenko, Thomas Gleixner, Peter Gröppel, Marc Lessmann
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Patent number: 11979070Abstract: An insulation system and method are disclosed for insulating formed coils of electrical machines, such as motors and generators. The system includes strand/turn insulation that may include one or more layers of different materials, depending upon the dielectric requirements. A ground wall insulation is applied over the group of turns. The coil may be sized in a slot cell section. Additional insulation layers are provided, including a slot corona suppression insulation that extends just beyond stator slots, a voltage grading layer, and an armor layer. The resulting system is highly adaptable to different machine designs and ratings, and affords superior resistance to degradation.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Integrated Power Services LLCInventors: Ray Thomas Reid, Mark D. Nikrandt, Donald Dolence, David N. Scherer
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Patent number: 11973384Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, an insulating layer, and a wire. The stator includes a first circular laminate and a second circular laminate. The first laminate includes a first finger having a distal end extending toward a center point of the first circular laminate. The second laminate includes a second finger having a distal end extending toward a center point of the second circular laminate. The first and second fingers define a wall. The distal ends of the first and second fingers define a space therebetween. The insulating layer extends along the wall and into the space. The insulating layer is spaced from the distal end of the second finger. The wire extends along the insulating layer below the distal ends of the first and second fingers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventor: Xiaogang Zhang
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Patent number: 11811265Abstract: A motor includes an annular stator core having a plurality of core segments connected via connecting portions in a circumferential direction about an axis, a cover portion covering the stator core and having a core-surrounding portion surrounding the stator core from an outer side in a radial direction about the axis, and a rotor having a rotor core provided on an inner side of the stator core in the radial direction and a magnet attached to the rotor core. The magnet forms a first magnetic pole, and a part of the rotor core forms a second magnetic pole. A minimum distance R1 in the radial direction from the axis to an outer circumference of the core-surrounding portion and a minimum distance R2 in the radial direction from the axis to an outer circumference of the stator core satisfy R1?1.15×R2.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Ryogo Takahashi, Kazuma Nomoto
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Patent number: 11777354Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include rotors having magnets and an axis of rotation. A stator assembly can be located axially between the rotors. The stator assembly can include PCB panels. Each PCB panel can have layers. Each layer can include coils. Each coil can have radial traces relative to the axis. The radial traces can include non-linear radial traces coupled by arch traces that are transverse to the non-linear radial traces.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC, INC.Inventors: Paulo Guedes-Pinto, Ben Schuler
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Patent number: 11699942Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electro-mechanical device includes creating a plurality of substrates using a first additive manufacturing process. Each of the substrates includes a polymeric material. The substrates include a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first main body and defines a protrusion extending from the first main body. The second substrate includes a second main body and a recess defined in the second main body. The method includes coupling the first substrate to the second substrate by inserting the protrusion into the recess such that the protrusion elastically deforms to an elastically averaged configuration. The protrusion and the recess together form an elastic averaging coupling. The method includes creating a plurality of electrically conductive components using a second additive manufacturing process and then coupling the electrically conductive components to at least one of the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Hongliang Wang, James G. Schroth, Matthew T. Vanderlip, Edwin H. Chang
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Patent number: 11641142Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stator and winding assembly thereof. The stator includes a stator core including a tube wall and a hollow portion and a winding assembly. The winding assembly is disposed in the hollow portion and includes a first winding group and a second winding group. The first winding group includes plural winding units disposed on an inner side of the tube wall and defining an outer layer. The second winding group includes plural winding units disposed on an inner side of the outer layer and defining an inner layer. Any one of the projections of the winding units at the inner layer is partially overlapped with the projections of the two adjacent winding units at the outer layer. A number of turns of the winding units of the first winding group is equal to or greater than that of the winding units of the second winding group.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Cheng-An Wu, Wei-Lun Kao, Min-Fu Hsieh
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Patent number: 11588365Abstract: A stator includes multiple coils. The coils include multiple outer coils arranged on the base side of teeth and multiple inner coils arranged on the tip side of the teeth. The outer coils and the inner coils are alternately arranged along the circumferential direction of a stator core. Each coil winding of the outer coils is formed in a non-fixed state, and each coil winding of inner coils is formed in a fixed state.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsuya Senoo
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Patent number: 11588385Abstract: A method for gel curing a varnish of a stator assembly includes: applying an electrically-insulating material to a plurality of electrical conductors of a stator assembly; monitoring a temperature of the stator assembly using at least one temperature sensor; determining whether the temperature of the stator assembly has reached a target temperature; in response to determining that the temperature of the stator assembly is equal to the target temperature, heating the stator assembly using an induction heating element to maintain the temperature of the stator assembly at the target temperature for a predetermined amount of time; determining whether the temperature of the stator assembly is equal to the final target temperature; in response to determining that the target temperature is not equal to the final target temperature, increasing the target temperature by a predetermined amount of degrees.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Dalton D. Matznick, Timothy M. Wilson, Eric J. Ciavarelli
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Patent number: 11502583Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor having an axis of rotation and a magnet. The stator includes a PCB having PCB panels. Each PCB panel is assigned to one electrical phase. Each PCB panel has a pair of PCB layers. Each PCB layer includes coils, and each coil in each PCB layer of a PCB panel is circumferentially aligned with a corresponding coil in another PCB layer. One coil in one PCB layer is coupled to a corresponding coil in another PCB layer with a via. A number of turns in each coil is a multiple of a number of electrical phases configured for the PCB stator. In addition, the vias that connect two coils in a pair of PCB layers that belong to a same electrical phase do not intersect coils in PCB layers that belong to other electrical phases of the PCB stator.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Infinitum Electric, Inc.Inventors: Rich Lee, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
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Patent number: 11489374Abstract: A rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core and a coil wound around the armature core, wherein: the coil is formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other; the segment conductors have respective conductor side portions that extend along the axial direction; the conductor side portions are provided with respective joint portions; the joint portions have respective facing surfaces; the joint portions of a pair of the segment conductors are joined to each other with the facing surfaces of the joint portions facing each other; and a facing surface of the facing surfaces is formed so as to have a portion that faces a radial direction and so as not to have portions that overlap each other as viewed in the radial direction over the entire facing surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
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Patent number: 11398760Abstract: A stator member includes a stator core, a coil, and an insulator. The stator core has a shape extending in an axial direction, and has a side surface parallel to the axial direction. The coil has a linear shape and is wound around the side surface of the stator core. The coil has a coil end portion 231 at one end of the coil having the linear shape, and a coil end portion 232 at another end of the coil having the linear shape. The insulator has insulation properties, and is provided with an outer member. The outer member has a first recess and a second recess extending in a thickness direction. The coil end portion 231 is inserted into the first recess. The coil end portion 232 is inserted into the second recess.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsutoshi Natsumeda, Hisato Amano, Takashi Sakurada, Eiji Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11394256Abstract: A torque delivering apparatus, including: polygonal cross-section stator body having a plurality of exterior side faces of even number extending between opposite axial end faces, the stator including cylindrical bore extending between the opposite axial ends and centred on central axis of the stator body; a rotor assembly having cylindrical cross-section sized for rotation within the cylindrical bore about the central axis with at least one permanent magnet and shaft coupled to the magnet for rotation; and a plurality of solenoid coils, each coil having plurality of windings and routed to have sections extending parallel along opposite ones of the plurality of exterior side faces; wherein each of the plurality of coils is configured to selectively receive current and generate magnetic field in the stator that is applied to the rotor magnet, the rotor being subject to magnetic torque within the cylindrical bore for rotating and aligning the magnetic field of the permanent magnet with the generated magnetic fieType: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Magswitch Technology Inc.Inventors: David H. Morton, Michael H. Reed, Thomas R. Whitt, Michael C. Blanchard
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Patent number: 11368079Abstract: A plural magnet arrangement of a matrix of rows and columns having an altered magnet field alignment of a plurality of the magnets in a matrix comprising rows and columns of magnets in such a manner that there are at times a co-existing combination of changing attractive and repelling magnetic field regions all throughout the coil winding volume, reducing the counter electromotive force (voltage) during electrically connecting a load to the coil winding terminals and extends the time duration of the output voltage waveform and this is accomplished wherein the rotational torque required to rotate the centre magnet through the coil of which it is centred within is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventor: David Deak, Sr.
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Patent number: 11368061Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the fixing force of a stator core at low cost. The rotating electric machine includes a stator 300 in which a plurality of stator cores 400 are annularly arranged, a rotor to be arranged on the inner circumferential side of the stator 300, and a housing 500 having a cylindrical shape for fixing each of the plurality of stator cores 400. The stator core 400 has outer circumferential surfaces 410 and 420 arranged to face the inner circumferential surface 510 of the housing 500, and the outer circumferential surfaces 410 and 420 of the stator core 400 are slanted with respect to the inner circumferential surface 510 of the housing 500.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Mohdbasir Zulaika, Shinji Yamazaki, Shinjirou Watari
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Patent number: 11356005Abstract: The present invention discloses a stator, a rotor and a multi-working-harmonic permanent magnet motor using the above rotor and the stator, wherein the N poles and the S poles are alternately distributed in a circumference direction of the rotor core or the stator core; any N pole comprises at least one N-pole permanent magnet; any S pole comprises at least one S-pole permanent magnet; and at least two adjacent N pole and S pole has different widths. According to the invention, through the arrangement of magnetic poles with different widths on a rotor or a stator, it is possible to generate magnetic fields containing a plurality of harmonic magnetic fields with high amplitudes so that the harmonic magnetic fields can interact with the magnetic fields generated by the armature windings of the permanent motor to realize the superposition of multi-part torques, thereby further enhancing the outputted torque of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Dawei Li, Kangfu Xie, Ronghai Qu
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Patent number: 11322994Abstract: A radial flux electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation and a stator. At least one of the rotor or the stator may include a plurality of teeth annularly arranged about the axis of rotation. The electric machine may also include a plurality of electromagnetic coils. Each coil of the plurality of electromagnetic coils may have a non-uniform trapezoidal cavity therethrough. Each cavity may be configured to contain therein one tooth of the plurality of teeth. Each tooth of the plurality of teeth may be formed of multiple pieces that, when assembled together correspond to a shape of the non-uniform trapezoidal cavity.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 11316414Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil includes forming a wound body by winding a coil wire in multiple layers, and forming a coil by pressing the wound body using a die surrounding the wound body and compressively deforming the wound body. The wound body has a contour of a rectangular or substantially rectangular shape in cross section, and includes coil wire portions located in the cross section of the coil wire, the coil wire portions being aligned along each side of the rectangular or substantially rectangular shape. The coil has a contour of a fan shape or approximate fan shape in the cross section, where the coil wire portions are aligned in a direction along an arc and a radial direction of the fan shape or approximate fan shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeharu Sumi
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Patent number: 11303176Abstract: A coil winding (20) that consists of a number of wires (22) braided with one another and bent multiple times in opposite directions such that mutually parallel legs (28, 30) of the wires (22) which are intended to fill the slots (16) are connected by winding overhangs (32, 34) which project from the end face of the stators (10) or rotors. The winding overhangs (32, 34) each have two oblique winding overhang sections (36, 38, 40, 42) having a winding overhang tip (44, 46) in between. The wires (22) are arranged one behind the other in a longitudinal direction (L) of the coil winding (20). The winding overhangs (32, 34), which are distributed in the longitudinal direction (L) over the entire length of the coil winding, of at least one wire (22) protrude transversely to the longitudinal direction (L) beyond the winding overhang (28, 30).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler ELMOTEC STATOMAT GmbHInventors: Sadik Sadiku, Keith Witwer
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Patent number: 11296584Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
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Patent number: 11283319Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device with a PCB stator having interleaved PCBs is disclosed. The device can include rotors that have magnets and an axis of rotation. A stator assembly can be located axially between the rotors to operate electrical phases. The stator assembly can include PCB panels. Each PCB panel can have layers, and each PCB panel can be designated to one of the electrical phases. Each electrical phase of the stator assembly can be provided by a plurality of the PCB panels. In addition, the PCB panels for each electrical phase can be axially spaced apart from and intermingled with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Infinitum Electric, Inc.Inventors: Jerad Park, Rich Lee, Paulo Guedes-Pinto, Mark Preston
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Patent number: 11211855Abstract: The present invention provides a direct current motor, comprising: a casing; m pairs of brushes fixed within the casing; a stator provided within the casing, including m main poles corresponding to the m pairs of brushes, and n field winding parts; and a rotor provided within the stator, including a plurality of armature windings in a predetermined connection, wherein each pair of main poles includes an S-polarity main pole and an N-polarity main pole; each pair of brushes includes an S-pole corresponding brush corresponding to the S-polarity main pole, and an N-pole corresponding brush corresponding to the N-polarity main pole, the field winding part includes k field winding units, each field winding unit is made up of field coils formed by winding an insulated conductor strip, which is made of a metal wire coated with an insulating layer, around the m pairs of main poles, and m is a positive integer not less than 2, n is 1 or 2, and k is a positive integer not less than 2.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Aijuan Jin, Shaolong Li
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Patent number: 11201516Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include a housing having an axis with an axial direction. A stator assembly can include stator panels that are discrete panels from each other. The stators panels can be mechanically and stationarily coupled to the housing. Each stator panel can include a printed circuit board (PCB) having coils that are electrically conductive, and each stator panel can operate with a single electrical phase. In addition, rotors can be rotatably mounted within the housing on opposite axial ends of the stator assembly. The rotors can be mechanically coupled together with a rotor spacer. Each rotor can include magnets. In addition, in one version, no rotor is disposed between axially adjacent ones of the stator panels.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Infinitum Electric, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard L. Schuler, Rich Lee, Jorgen Rasmussen
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Patent number: 11183897Abstract: A stator of a rotating electric apparatus is disclosed. The stator includes a stator core that defines a plurality of slots that are located a circumference of the stator core. The stator further includes a stator coil that includes a plurality of conductors electrically connected, located in the plurality of slots, and configured to conduct electricity. The stator coil includes a plurality of phase coils that are each connected to a phase of a power source. A first conductor of the stator coil is connected to a power line and is located in an nth layer that is an outermost layer of one of the plurality of slots. An Nth conductor of the stator coil is connected to a neutral line and is located in an n?1th layer that is located nearer to a center of the stator than the nth layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyounggun Lee, Minjung Kim
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Patent number: 11165298Abstract: An electric machine having a stator core with axially extending slots and a plurality of windings. Each stator winding defines a continuous electrical conductor having a first wire and a second wire connected in series. The first wire defines a plurality of first axially extending segments disposed in the slots and a plurality of first end turn segments. The second wire defines a plurality of second axially extending segments disposed in the slots and a plurality second end turn segments. The first wire is a solitary wire defining a first cross sectional area and the second wire comprises a plurality of individual strands wherein each strand defines a second cross sectional area less than the first cross sectional area. In slots containing both first and second axially extending segments, the second axially extending segments are disposed closer to the rotor than the first axially extending segments.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Tausif Husain, Josh Lahrman
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Patent number: 11165303Abstract: Various embodiments include a guide ring for connection to a housing of an electric machine comprising: a main body having a ring element; a plurality of busbars; and a plurality of pressure elements. The busbars are overmolded by the main body. Each of the plurality of pressure elements projects from an outer circumferential surface of the main body and to frictionally connect the guide ring to an inner receiving surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Swen Wiethoff, Zoran Dmitrasinovic
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Patent number: 11114914Abstract: A motor includes a stator core, a first coil, and a second coil provided adjacent to the first coil in the radial direction. The first coil and the second coil do not coincide in position with each other as seen in the axial direction of the stator core. A first coil end portion of the first coil and a second coil end portion of the second coil respectively include a first facing portion and a second facing portion facing each other in the radial direction. The motor further includes an out-slot insulator interposed at least between the first facing portion and the second facing portion and provided so that at least a part of the first coil end portion and the second coil end portion is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro Kumagai
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Patent number: 11101722Abstract: A method of manufacturing a segment for a stator of an electrical generator includes manufacturing a segment body circumferentially extending between at least a first end slot and a second end slot, providing the coil concentrated winding in the slots of the segment body, providing a first pressure plate a second pressure plate for respectively holding the coil in the first end slot and the second end slot, applying vacuum pressure impregnation to the coil concentrated winding in the slots of the segment body, and removing the first pressure plate and the second pressure plate for obtaining the segment.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/SInventor: Subhra Samanta
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Patent number: 11095177Abstract: A coil wound around a core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are arranged in a circumferential direction, the coil including a plurality of slot-housed portions respectively disposed in the plurality of slots; and a plurality of crossover portions that each connect between a first slot-housed portion and a second slot-housed portion, which are a pair of slot-housed portions of the plurality of slot-housed portions disposed in slots of the plurality of slots that are different from each other, on an outer side in the axial direction with respect to the core.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventor: Kiyotaka Koga
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Patent number: 11095197Abstract: A modular stator includes a first stator module and a second stator module. The first stator module includes a plurality of first coil end regions and a plurality of first junctions. The second stator module includes a plurality of second coil end regions and a plurality of second junctions. The first stator module and the second stator module are joined at the plurality of first junctions and the plurality of second junctions.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: John S. Agapiou, John D. Campbell, Frederick W. Rhoads, Hongliang Wang, James G. Schroth, Thomas A. Perry
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Patent number: 11081870Abstract: A bus bar unit includes a bus bar holder and bus bars. The bus bar holder is provided on an upper side of a stator disposed in a ring around a central axis extending in a vertical direction. The bus bars are supported by the bus bar holder and connected to coil wires extending from the stator. The bus bars are plate-shaped conductors and are supported by the bus bar holder with a plate surface facing in the vertical direction. The bus bars include coil connecting portions connected to the coil wires, and a bus bar body portion connecting the coil connecting portions through a radially inner side of the plurality of the coil connecting portions, respectively, and at least one bus bar crosses over an upper side or a lower side of at least one of the other bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Ogawa, Takashi Seguchi, Shunsuke Murakami, Takao Atarashi
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Patent number: 10951100Abstract: A winding method for an electric motor stator includes at a start of winding of the coil, a first step for forming a two-turn winding portion by winding a magnet wire upwardly around a pin for two turns; a second step, subsequent to the first step, for winding the magnet wire to cross the two-turn winding portion from an outside from an upper side to a lower side on a side surface of the pin opposite from the power supply terminal; and a third step, subsequent to the second step, for winding the magnet wire for a half turn above the two-turn winding portion and then guiding the magnet wire to the power supply terminal to be hooked on the bent back section.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shigeru Matsuda, Takeharu Kato
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Patent number: 10938283Abstract: An assembling device (10) includes a first arranging section (11), a second arranging section (12), eighteen support arms (13) for supporting coil segments (4), a feeding part (14), and a controller (16). When the controller (16) drives a motor (35) to rotate the feeding part (14) in a counterclockwise direction D1, a pressing roller (14c) rolls in the direction D1 along a first guide portion (11a), and presses a base part (21) of the eighteenth support arm (13) in the direction D1. Thus, the first to eighteenth support arms (13) are rotated in the direction D1 to insert the base parts (21) of the first to eighteenth support arms (13) sequentially in a second guide portion (12a) of the second arranging section (12), so that the first to eighteenth support arms (13) are rotated in a clockwise direction D2 to assemble the coil segments (4) while overlapping with one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Yoshida, Shuhei Okuda, Takumi Fukaura, Hiroshi Isozaki
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Patent number: 10923979Abstract: The present invention provides an insulator which comprises: an inner guide; an outer guide; and a body connecting the inner guide and the outer guide, and having a coil wound thereon, wherein a rotatable wing is connected to an outer surface of the outer guide.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Hae Seok Lee
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Patent number: 10886807Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator, a control device, and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and windings. The stator core includes teeth arranged next to one another in a circumferential direction and slots formed between the teeth. The windings are inserted into the slots and wound around the stator core as three-phase windings of a plurality of systems. The control device generates a three-phase driving current. The rotor is rotated and driven when the three-phase windings are supplied with the three-phase driving current. The windings are operable independently in each system. At least two windings of different systems and the same phase are arranged mixed in the same slot. The driving current of the same phase is supplied to the two windings of different systems and the same phase arranged in the same slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Rintaro Horizumi
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Patent number: 10886804Abstract: A rotating electrical machine that includes a rotor core; a stator core disposed so as to face the rotor core in a radial direction and including a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots each located between adjacent ones of the teeth; and a concentric coil formed by concentrically winding a wire, and including a slot accommodated portion placed in the slot of the stator core and a coil end portion projecting in an axial direction from the stator core, wherein of the slot accommodated portion of the concentric coil, an axial end of the slot accommodated portion located on a side facing the rotor core is located closer to an outside in the radial direction than an axial middle part of the slot accommodated portion located on the side facing the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Shingo Hashimoto, Shingo Sato
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Patent number: 10790728Abstract: A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Enure, Inc.Inventors: Wally E. Rippel, Eric Rippel
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Patent number: 10727712Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include a housing having an axis with an axial direction. A stator assembly can include a plurality of stator panels that are discrete panels from each other. The stators panels can be mechanically and stationarily coupled to the housing. Each stator panel can include a printed circuit board (PCB) having coils that are electrically conductive, each stator panel consists of a single electrical phase. In addition, rotors can be rotatably mounted within the housing on opposite axial ends of the stator assembly. The rotors can be mechanically coupled together with a rotor spacer. Each rotor can include magnets. In addition, in one version, no rotor is disposed between axially adjacent ones of the stator panels.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Infinitum Electric, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard L. Schuler, Rich Lee, Jorgen Rasmussen
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Patent number: 10720818Abstract: A synchronous reluctance type rotary electric machine of an embodiment includes a shaft, a rotor core, rotor core pressers, a plurality of conductor bars, and short-circuit rings. The shaft rotates around a rotation axis. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft and includes multi-layered hollow parts having a convex shape toward a radially inward side formed for each pole in cross section. The rotor core pressers hold the rotor core by pressing the rotor core from both sides in a rotation axis direction. The plurality of conductor bars are disposed in the hollow parts to extend along the rotation axis and have both ends protruding through the rotor core pressers. The short-circuit rings are provided at both ends of each of the plurality of conductor bars and connect the plurality of conductor bars together. Thus, the conductor bars are fixed to the rotor core pressers.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignees: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Masaaki Matsumoto, Takashi Araki, Makoto Matsushita, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Toshio Hasebe
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Patent number: 10686350Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The rotary electric machine includes a stator provided with a stator iron core, which is cylindrical and in which slots are formed in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface, and coils of phases that are each inserted into the slots, and a movable element provided with a movable element iron core supported in a rotatable manner relative to the stator and at least a pair of movable element magnetic poles provided in the movable element iron core. The method includes: a split flux coil formation step; a coil setting step; a stator iron core setting step; and a split flux coil collective insertion step.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Yusaku Kawanishi, Akinori Hoshino, Hiroaki Yabui, Koji Sato
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Patent number: 10637314Abstract: The invention relates to a bar winding arrangement of a stator or a rotor of an electric machine, including a number of bar segments, which are housed in a plurality of slots of the stator or the rotor and are electrically connected to one another in such a way that they form a continuous winding of the stator or the rotor, wherein each of the slots is divided by the bar segments into a first group of bar segments and at least one second group of bar segments, wherein the bar segments of the first group have a smaller cross section than the bar segments of the second group, wherein the bar segments of the first group are electrically connected in series and the bar segments of the second group are electrically connected in series and in parallel with the bar segments of the first group and wherein the bar segments of the first group are arranged closer to a slot opening in the radial direction than the bar segments of the second group.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stefan Götz, Malte Jaensch
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Patent number: 10622820Abstract: Embodiments describe a wireless charging transmitter coil includes: a support structure having an outer perimeter surrounding a contact housing and having first and second channels extending from the outer perimeter to the contact housing; first and second contacts positioned within the contact housing; and a wire wound around the outer perimeter of the support structure, the wire having a first end that extends through the first channel and a second end that extends through the second channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric S. Jol, Christopher S. Graham, Demetrios B. Karanikos
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Patent number: 10614951Abstract: A winding unit including a case is provided. The case has a receiving space capable of housing at least one turn of a coil portion in addition to a winding portion in a radial direction. In case, a blank portion having a dimension of one turn of the coil portion in the radial direction is formed between the two coil portions next to each other in the winding portion. When manufacturing the winding unit, the blank portion can be formed in a suitable position, and the number of turns of the winding portion (the number of coil portion) does not need to change. Further, an inductance value of the winding portion can be adjusted with simply structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Nakahara, Ngahu Antony Wambugu, You Yanagida, Masao Ishizaka
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Patent number: 10587157Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine, the stator including a tubular core having a plurality of slots; and a coil mounted in the core, wherein the coil includes a plurality of conductor wires aligned in the slots, each of the conductor wires has ends projecting beyond the slot, a pair of the ends are bonded together to form a bonded end, a plurality of the bonded ends are arranged next to each other in a circumferential direction of the core and are arranged in a radial pattern so as to extend in a radial direction of the core, and a cap is formed by molding using a resin material having electrical insulation properties so that the cap integrally covers adjacent ones of the plurality of bonded ends.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoichi Miyoshi, Junichi Yokota, Kiyotaka Koga, Junichi Sugawara, Hideaki Kimura
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Patent number: 10574107Abstract: In some embodiments, a system includes a machine segment that includes multiple coils. Each coil is electrically isolated from the other coils in the machine segment, and each coil is electrically coupled to at least one electrical terminal to provide electrical access to the coil. Each electrical terminal provides electrical access to the coil to which it is electrically coupled such that the coil can be removably electrically coupled to an electrical circuit. The machine segment is also configured to be removably mechanically coupled to a second machine segment to form at least a portion of a stator or a portion of a rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: BWP GroupInventors: James S. Smith, Marc W. Eichinger, Stephane A. Eisen, James D. Jore, Michael A. Kvam, Brian J. Sullivan
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Patent number: 10511199Abstract: The rotary machine of the present disclosure is provided with an annular stator that has: an annular yoke section; multiple salient poles that protrude radially inward and are arranged circumferentially; and coils disposed on the salient poles. Circumferential surfaces of the salient poles are formed into tapered surfaces that taper toward the tip of the salient poles, and the coils include a first coil and a second coil.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Narifumi Tojima, Takehiro Jikumaru
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Patent number: 10505426Abstract: A reduction in size and an improvement in cooling performance of a dynamo-electric machine are achieved. A stator of a dynamo-electric machine according to the present invention includes a plurality of segment coils surrounding a rotation axis, a stator core partially accommodating each of the segment coils, and an insulating coating covering at least certain portions of the segment coils protruding from the accommodating space of the stator core, in which the segment coils are arranged in a direction from the rotation axis to a radially outer side, and the volume of the insulating coating is larger on a radially outer side than on a side close to the rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoki Nishikawa