Coils Patents (Class 310/208)
  • Publication number: 20150061448
    Abstract: An armature includes a core having a plurality of teeth, which are radially formed with a rotation axis as the center, a plurality of coils where each coil is wound around each set of teeth containing at least two teeth. The plurality of coils have a plurality of inside coils placed on a rotation axis side of the teeth and a plurality of outside coils placed outside the inside coils. The plurality of inside coils are circularly arranged so that inside coils adjacent to each other are not wound around the same tooth. The plurality of outside coils are circularly arranged so that outside coils adjacent to each other are not wound around the same tooth. The outside coils are wound around a second set of combinations of teeth, which are different from a first set of combinations of teeth around which the inside coils are wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kimura, Takashi Muramoto, Hisashi Ogino
  • Publication number: 20150054375
    Abstract: A stator for a rotational electrical machine includes a cylindrical stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes slots arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction. The slots pass through the stator core in an axial direction. The stator winding is obtained by joining together ends of U-shaped conductors inserted through the slots. A second insertion part is located away from a first insertion part in the circumferential direction and is inserted in its corresponding slot. A joining end part is joined to another U-shaped conductor at a joining position away from the insertion part in the circumferential direction. The joining end part includes a first bent part and at least one second bent part. The first bent part is bent near an opening of its corresponding slot. The second bent part is bent between the first bent part and the joining position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Nobuyuki KIMURA, Masaru WATANABE, Hideaki KURI
  • Publication number: 20150048710
    Abstract: A method for producing rotating electrical machines having a motor coil produced in a cantilevered manner for motors or generators, wherein the coil already surrounds the inner part during the manufacturing process, i.e. is pre-assembled, and this is also used as an aid for coil shaping during the production of the coil, includes a first step, in which the motor coil is wound in a stepwide process between two end faces over the magnetic inner part and completely surrounds the inner part, a second step, in which the shaping of the motor coil is carried out by pressing the winding wires by moving the shaft with the surface of the inner part against the inner side of the motor coil, in particular by eccentrically rolling off of the latter and pressing it against an abutment, and a third step, in which the pressed motor coil is baked by way of applying heat. Also provided is a rotating electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Traugott Weller, Susanne Weller
  • Publication number: 20150042188
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-cooled dynamoelectric machine (1), in particular for low voltage<1000 V, comprising a stator (2), grooves (10) extending axially and facing a stator bore (9), in which grooves a multi-phase winding system is arranged, which forms a winding head (7) at each end face of the stator (2), wherein a phase separator (8) is provided between the different phases of the winding system in the winding head (7), wherein the phase separator (8) comprises two layers, with spacing elements (11) lying therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Willi Lutz, Norbert Schönbauer
  • Patent number: 8952588
    Abstract: A disk motor including: a rotor; a stator; at least one coil disk provided to one of the rotor and the stator; at least one magnet provided to the other of the rotor and the stator and facing a coil pattern of the coil disk; a current supply part for supplying current to the coil pattern; and an output shaft rotated by a rotating force of the rotor, wherein an insulating resin layer is provided between the coil pattern and the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20150035404
    Abstract: The electric motor includes a rotor and a stator, the stator having a conductive wire wound thereon via a stator core and insulators. The insulators include an annular outer peripheral wall portion with the conductive wire run on an outer periphery side of the peripheral wall portion, a plurality of winding body portions protruding radially from the outer peripheral wall portion, and an inner flange portion. The outer peripheral wall portion on the winding body portion side includes an outer peripheral surface formed in an arc shape. The radial thickness of the outer peripheral wall portion is increasingly greater toward the circumferential center of the winding body portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Taema
  • Patent number: 8946965
    Abstract: An armature of an electric motor includes a core and a winding. The core has a plurality of slots and a plurality of teeth formed between the slots. The winding is composed of a plurality of wires. The winding has a plurality of coil parts and connecting portions. The coil parts are inserted into the slots and wound around and across the teeth. The connecting portions connect the coil parts together. The winding has a twisted shape in the connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Teiichirou Chiba, Tsuyoshi Kobayakawa, Daisuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150028715
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator in which a plurality of armatures each have a coil formed by a winding wire wound in plural layers around bobbins mounted to a magnetic pole tooth, which are disposed annularly on an inner circumference of a cylindrical frame. The coil is formed by the winding wire being wound with a constant feed pitch in parallel with slots of the bobbins in plural layers. The winding wire forming a first layer of the coil is shifted by half the feed pitch between a left side and a right side of a center axis of the coil as viewed from a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of a stacked iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Shinichiro YOSHIDA, Yutaro SHIRAI, Hiroyuki AKITA, Masaya INOUE, Daisuke SHIJO, Shogo OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150028704
    Abstract: A high-output, high-efficiency and high-quality rotating electrical machine is provided which has a stator shaped to avoid interference between coil end portions even in cases where the coil space factor of stator coils is raised and the stator coils are formed by winding continuous wires, each having a rectangular cross-section, for high productivity. The stator coils include coils of plural turns straddling plural slots with the coils thus wound interconnected, to be continuous, with connectors. The stator has a stator core mounted, around an entire periphery thereof, with plural stator coils. The coil-end apex portions, disposed on both axial end sides of the stator core, are each approximately Z-shaped without any twisted portion. Each coil-end apex portion is divided into levels of different heights from the stator core end face in the axial direction. In this way, the thickness of overlapping coil layers is reduced to avoid interference between coil end portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Ohsawa, Yasuhiko Kimura, Toshio Ishikawa, Masahiko Honma
  • Publication number: 20150022919
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a spindle motor, a sheet preferably made of a thermoplastic resin is closely adhered to an upper surface of a base portion of a spindle motor such that the sheet covers a base hole of the base portion. Next, heat is applied to a region of the sheet which coincides with the base hole to define a sheet hole continuous with the base hole. Thereafter, a coil is arranged over the base portion, and a conducting wire defining the coil is extended through the sheet hole and the base hole to be drawn downwardly out of the base portion. The sheet hole is thus defined after the sheet is closely adhered to the base portion. In addition, the sheet hole is defined by melting the resin through application of the heat. It is therefore easy to arrange the sheet and define the sheet hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masakazu MATSUYAMA, Ryosuke ONOE, Kazuhiro FUJITANI, Xiang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20150022048
    Abstract: Provided are an armature for rotary electric machine, an insulator therefor, and a coil winding device for winding a conductive wire on a tooth to which the insulator has been attached, wherein in each of all forward-wound coils and reversely-wound coils, a part wound on a first side surface of two side surfaces of each tooth that are opposed to the respective adjacent teeth forms a straight portion in which conductive wires in respective layers of the coil are parallel, a part wound on a second side surface forms a cross portion in which the conductive wire in an upper layer is wound in a crossed manner on the conductive wire in an adjacent lower layer, and an insulator has a guide for guiding the conductive wire along a base of an inner flange of the insulator at a first turn of each coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita, Kunihiro Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20150022046
    Abstract: A coil structure for a rotary electric machine includes phase coils for magnetic flux generation. Each of the phase coils includes a plurality of first element conductors, a plurality of second element conductors, a plurality of first crossover portions, and a plurality of second crossover portions. The plurality of second element conductors are provided in a plurality of second slots among slots. The second slots are provided in a circumferential direction of a stator at a pitch of a first predetermined interval. The second slots are shifted in phase by a second predetermined interval with respect to first slots in the circumferential direction of the stator. The first predetermined interval is set to be an interval equivalent to N times a unit pitch. The second predetermined interval is set to be an interval smaller than the first predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi SHIBATA, Yoshihisa MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20150022047
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a three-phase coil including a first phase coil, a second phase coil, and a third phase coil for magnetic flux generation. A bridge conductor connecting an ath end and a bth end of the first phase coil, and a bridge conductor connecting the ath end and the bth end of the third phase coil are provided in a protruding shape on one side of a stator in a radial direction when viewed in a axial direction of the stator. A bridge conductor connecting the ath end and the bth end of the second phase coil is provided in a protruding shape on the other side of the stator in the radial direction when viewed in the axial direction of the stator. The bridge conductor of each coil in the three-phase coil is arranged at the same height position in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi SHIBATA, Yoshihisa MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 8933608
    Abstract: A commutator motor is configured such that an armature includes an armature core having teeth and slots, an armature coil, and a commutator having segments. The armature coil includes coil units in which windings are wound on the teeth, and jumper wire units for interconnecting between the coil units. Segment group includes first and second segments to which the coil units are connected, and a third segment to which only the jumper wire unit is connected. The first and second segments are disposed adjacent to each other, and the third segment is disposed next to the adjacent arrangement. The configuration includes the jumper wire unit that is wired from the third segment such that each of one part of the wire unit running to one side and the other part of the wire unit running to the other side is wired to pass through the same slot to interconnect between the coil units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Syouzou Sakon, Kazuo Toya, Yasuharu Uchida
  • Publication number: 20150010414
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stator, a three-phase induction motor and a compressor. The stator is applied to a three-phase induction motor of a compressor. The stator includes: a stator iron core; a plurality of stator teeth extending inwards along a radial direction of the stator; stator slots distributed between the plurality of stator teeth; and three phases of windings wound around the stator teeth to generate a rotating magnetic field, where a coil of each phase of winding in the three phases of windings is made of a composite wire. The composite wire includes a wire core made of a first conductive metal material, and an outer layer wrapping an outer circumferential surface of the wire core and made of a second conductive metal material, wherein the first conductive metal material and the second conductive metal material have different electrical conductivities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Weiping Tang, Li Yao, Wanzhen Liu, Guangqiang Liu, Yan Lin, Zhenyu Wang
  • Publication number: 20140375150
    Abstract: A high-efficiency electric motor generally comprises one or more high-winding inductive coils and a rotor element coupled to one or more permanent magnets for creating rotation driven by the inductive coils, wherein the motor is optimized using dielectric materials for reduced loss. Reduced loss is achieved in several ways, for example by reducing eddy currents, hysteresis, and magnetic drag presented by ferrous and other metallic materials. Thus, the inductive coils generally comprise a dielectric core, as opposed to a metallic or ferrous core material since such materials can create magnetic drag, eddy currents, and hysteresis leading to power loss. Moreover, the motor housing and other motor components may comprise a dielectric material for further reduced energy loss and enhancement of motor efficiency. Other features related to a recycling circuit of certain embodiments wherein energy from a collapsing field of the coils is reused.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Reginald Miller
  • Publication number: 20140375161
    Abstract: A stator unit including a coil in which a distance between an m?1-th turn and an m-th turn is wider than each distance in a first turn to the m?1-th turn. The m+1-th turn is disposed between the m?1-th turn and the m-th turn. Further, in a cross-section perpendicular to a central axis and passing a tooth, an angle between a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m?1-th turn and a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m-th turn is about 120° or more. With this structure, bulging in a circumferential direction of the coil adjacent to an inner peripheral portion of the tooth can be suppressed and a clearance can be secured between adjacent coils such that the number of turns of the coil can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Hidehiro HAGA, Kuniaki ADACHI, Kensuke SHOJI, Takashi HATTORI, Takao ATARASHI, Masato AONO
  • Patent number: 8916999
    Abstract: A motor includes a motor case, and a rotor and a stator, which are disposed in the case. The case has a tubular portion, a front cover mounted to an axial end of the portion, and a rear cover mounted to the other axial end of the portion. The rotor has a rotary shaft and the stator includes a plurality of teeth, which extend toward a central axis of the shaft and are circumferentially disposed at equal intervals. Between each circumferentially adjacent pair of the teeth, a slot extending toward the axis is formed. In each slot, a U-shaped segment is inserted in parallel with the axis. The distal ends of the segments projecting out from the slots are electrically interconnected, thereby forming an SC coil including the segments disposed circumferentially. The SC coil includes a receiving terminal, and the terminal includes leads extending in parallel to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Imai, Yusuke Tateishi, Keisuke Koide, Tatsunori Banba, Takumi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20140368079
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for assembling a motor. The method may include providing a first rotor, a second rotor and a stator; and assembling the first rotor, the second rotor and the stator such that the stator is arranged between the first rotor and the second rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Chiew Leong Wong, Ralph Stephen Viskochil
  • Publication number: 20140346918
    Abstract: A stationary portion of a motor includes a stator core, insulators, and coils. The stator core includes a core back having an annular shape, and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the core back. A radially inner end portion of each tooth has a circumferential width substantially equal to or smaller than a circumferential width of a remaining portion of the tooth. The core back includes a protruding portion protruding radially inward between adjacent teeth, a cut extending radially outward from the protruding portion, and a through hole extending in an axial direction through the core back defined at a radially outer end portion of the cut. The protruding portion increases a radial dimension of the core back to achieve a reduction in magnetic reluctance in the vicinity of the cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Uchitani, Yuji Tanaka, Tomoyoshi Yokogawa
  • Publication number: 20140346917
    Abstract: A stator for a generator, comprises a coil support frame and a conductive wire unit arranged on the coil support frame, wherein the conductive wire unit comprises one basic conductive wire unit or a plurality of stacked basic conductive wire units, the basic conductive wire unit comprises a conductive wire layer and a magnetic-conducting sheet conformably stacked on and insulated from the conductive wire layer. A generator with closed-magnetic-path comprises a rotor and a stator, wherein the stator comprises the above conductive wire unit having a magnetic-conducting base plate, wherein the stator further comprises a magnetic yoke, the rotor comprises a transmission shaft, the conductive wire unit is fixedly connected in the magnetic yoke, at least a magnetic-conducting plate is coaxially connected on the transmission shaft, a magnet is connected on the magnetic-conducting plate, of which a magnetic pole is arranged towards the conductive wire unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: GANG LIU
  • Publication number: 20140346916
    Abstract: A commutator motor is configured such that an armature includes an armature core having teeth and slots, an armature coil, and a commutator having segments. The armature coil includes coil units in which windings are wound on the teeth, and jumper wire units for interconnecting between the coil units. Segment group includes first and second segments to which the coil units are connected, and a third segment to which only the jumper wire unit is connected. The first and second segments are disposed adjacent to each other, and the third segment is disposed next to the adjacent arrangement. The configuration includes the jumper wire unit that is wired from the third segment such that each of one part of the wire unit running to one side and the other part of the wire unit running to the other side is wired to pass through the same slot to interconnect between the coil units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Syouzou Sakon, Kazuo Toya, Yasuharu Uchida
  • Publication number: 20140339938
    Abstract: Embodiments of a gas turbine engine actuation system are provided, as are embodiments of a high temperature actuator and methods for the manufacture thereof. In one embodiment, the gas turbine engine actuation system includes an actuated gas turbine engine component and a high temperature actuator, which has a rotor mechanically linked to the actuated gas turbine engine component and a stator surrounding at least a portion of the rotor. The stator includes, in turn, a coil support structure having a plurality of spokes extending radially therefrom. A plurality of pre-formed electromagnetic coils is circumferentially distributed about the coil support structure. Each of the plurality of pre-formed electromagnetic coils is inserted over at least one of the plurality of spokes in a radial direction. The stator further includes an inorganic dielectric material in which each of the plurality of pre-formed electromagnetic coils is at least partially embedded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
  • Publication number: 20140339831
    Abstract: A device, including a rotor, a stator, a coil wound around the stator, wherein the stator has a coil support structure having at least one side edge arranged along a line which is not parallel to a line extending from an axis of the rotor through a center of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: John D. LONG, David R. VADEN, Craig B. RUTHERFORD
  • Publication number: 20140339949
    Abstract: A preformed coil (20) to produce a self-supporting air-gap skewed winding of a small electric motor consisting of at least two preformed coils (20) positioned overlapping on a circumference of a winding (6) and a method and device for producing the coil. Two preformed coil sides (24a, 24b) lying in different radial planes are formed which are connected on their front ends (26a, 26b) by front connections. The front connections feature the radial plane offset from the winding offset sections (28) bridging the preformed coil sides (24a, 24b). The preformed coil sides (24a, 24b) are formed curved with a circular shape around a longitudinal axis (16), and the radius of curvature of the one radial outer preformed coil side (24a) is greater than the radius of curvature of the radial inner preformed coil side (24b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Dr. Fritz Faulhaber GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Keller, Armin Nagel, Andreas Holder, Markus Krumbein, Janos Puplics
  • Patent number: 8890388
    Abstract: In this winding structure for a rectangular wire, a coil is formed that is provided with: a core that forms a core main body; a teeth portion that is formed extending inwards in a radial direction from the core; and a jaw portion that is formed extending in a circumferential direction from a distal end on the inner side in the radial direction of the teeth portion, and in which a rectangular wire is wound in multiple layers around a slot that is formed surrounded by the teeth portion, the core, and the jaw portion. The ellipticity, which is a ratio of a width dimension relative to a thickness dimension of a cross-section of the rectangular wire, becomes larger as it is wound from inner layers of the coil towards outer layers thereof, and the ellipticity of the rectangular wire in each of the layers is set in accordance with the width dimension of the slot in each layer of the coil such that the generation of gaps between the slot and the rectangular wire is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Kobayashi, Mikio Kawamura, Masahiro Otawara, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140333172
    Abstract: In the automotive rotary electric machine stator according to the present invention, a stator winding is constituted by distributed windings, slot-housed portions and root portions of coil end portions are formed so as to have flat cross sections, and the slot-housed portions are housed in the slots in contact with each other so as to line up in a single column in a radial direction such that long sides of the flat cross sections are oriented circumferentially. Flatnesses of root portions of the coil end portions that are radially adjacent and that extend outward in different circumferential directions from the slots are mutually different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi Onishi, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140333170
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided armature windings of a rotating electrical machine, in which a 3-phase winding of two layers including upper and lower layers is constituted of phase belts having an electrical phase difference of 60° in between, pairs of upper coil pieces and lower coil pieces are contained in slots, the number of slots per pole per phase includes a fractional number, and a denominator thereof is an integral number greater than or equal to 4, wherein coil arrangement is carried out such that at least one coil piece in either of the upper or lower coil pieces included in two layers of upper and lower layers in one phase belt is replaced with a coil piece of an adjacent different phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kadek Fendy SUTRISNA, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Masashi Okubo, Toshiyuki Aso, Takashi Ueda, Kazuma Tsujikawa, Hideyuki Hachiya, Daisuke Hiramatsu, Toru Otaka
  • Publication number: 20140333171
    Abstract: An electric motor is provided having a rotor and a stator and in which the stator has poles which are surrounded by turns of a coil. Each turn is of planar design and the lower faces of subsequent turns rest on the upper faces of the respectively preceding turns. The system provides a simple, robust and efficient electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: MATUSCHEK MESSTECHNIK GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Lange, Philipp Matuschek
  • Patent number: 8884489
    Abstract: A flat conductor wire in a U-phase first slot of a first group block and a flat conductor wire in a U-phase second slot of a second group block form an outer circumference base unit. A flat conductor wire in a U-phase second slot of the first group block and a flat conductor wire in the U-phase first slot of the second group block form an inner circumference base unit. The inner circumference base unit is located inside the outer circumference base unit. A coil end portion at one end of the inner circumference base unit and a coil end portion side at one end of the outer circumference base unit are bent toward the rotor side with respect to an in-slot conductor portion in the stator core. The coil end portion side at one end of the inner circumference base unit and the coil end portion side at one end of the outer circumference base unit are located further toward the axis of the rotor than an inner peripheral surface of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Atsushi Watanabe, Manabu Kitamura, Shingo Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8884488
    Abstract: A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a stator core which has a plurality of slots and a stator winding which is provided at the stator core. The stator winding has a plurality of conductor segments each of which includes an inner conducting body accommodated in the slot of the stator core and coil ends exposed from the slot, and weld portions which are connected with each other by welding the conductor segments at at least one of the coil ends. The weld portions are annularly disposed with an interval therebetween. The weld portions are coated with an insulating resin material. The resin material is formed of a plurality of layered insulating films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenobu Nakamura, Akira Takasaki
  • Publication number: 20140327335
    Abstract: An electromagnetic coil having an insulating coating formed by alternately laminating, on a coil conductor, a mica layer including mica and a reinforcing layer including fiber reinforcing material, inorganic particles and resin, wherein the inorganic particles include secondary agglomerate particles formed by agglomeration of primary particles of hexagonal crystal boron nitride. The electromagnetic coil is provided with an insulating coating that suppresses external outflow of inorganic particles and ensures favorable thermal conductivity. Furthermore, the invention also provides an insulating tape having a mica layer including mica and a reinforcing layer including fiber reinforcing material, inorganic particles and resin, which is layered on the mica layer, wherein the inorganic particles include secondary agglomerate particles formed by agglomeration of primary particles of hexagonal crystal boron nitride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Mabuchi, Shigeyuki Yamamoto, Makoto Tsukiji, Kazuki Kubo
  • Patent number: 8878413
    Abstract: An alternating-current generator, in particular a three-phase generator, for a motor vehicle, having a rotor including north and south poles, particularly having claw-pole fingers extending in the axial direction and alternating as north and south poles at the rotor's periphery, a stator having a magnetic core, especially laminated core, having slots and a stator winding disposed in the magnetic core's slots, the stator winding having winding overhangs that are coolable by an approximately radial air flow produced by at least one fan mounted at the rotor, the stator being situated opposite the rotor, and the stator and the rotor having defined positions relative to each other, the multiphase stator winding being made up of winding elements, at least one winding element having more than two sections inserted in slots, and at least one winding element having more than one reversal section which brings about a change in the radial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Wolf, Thomas Berger, Eberhard Rau, Alexander Shendi, Helmut Kreuzer, Christoph Schwarzkopf
  • Patent number: 8875381
    Abstract: A coil strand is wound on an insulator to produce a divided core member, and then the divided core member is placed on a table. While the table rotates about its axis, ends of the coil strands are inserted into lead end holding grooves, which are defined in a surface of the insulator on an outer circumferential edge of a stator and which extend along a circumferential direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Uchiumi, Hiroki Tahira, Kohei Fujinoto, Yasuto Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8878414
    Abstract: A method of forming a weld joint includes removing a portion of an insulator from a first core of a first magnet wire and a second core of a second magnet wire so that the first wire has a first heat affectable zone and a first insulator portion adjacent the first zone, and the second wire has a second heat affectable zone and a second insulator portion adjacent the second zone. The first and second insulator portions include the insulator disposed on the first and second cores, respectively. The first and second zones have a first and second distal end spaced apart from the first and second insulator portions, respectively. The method includes welding together only the first end and the second end to form the weld joint, wherein welding does not transfer heat to the first and second insulator portions sufficient to burn the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Julien P. Mourou, Urban J. De Souza
  • Publication number: 20140319955
    Abstract: A stator comprising a coil wound onto a bobbin. The coil is wound as a plurality of layers, each layer comprising a plurality of turns that extend between opposite ends of the bobbin. The outermost layer has a turn pitch greater than that of a lower layer. Additionally, an electrical machine comprising the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Edward Leaver, Stephen Greetham, Kenneth Lee
  • Publication number: 20140319954
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator is disposed near to the rotor and has at least one first stator unit and at least one second stator unit. The first stator unit has a first tooth and a second tooth, and the second stator unit has a third tooth and a fourth tooth. The rotor has a rotating direction or a moving direction with respect to the stator. The first tooth and the third tooth are adjacently disposed to each other along the rotating direction or the moving direction. The protruding directions of the first tooth and the third tooth respectively form a first angle and a third angle with the radial direction of the rotor, and the first angle and the third angle are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: GHING-HSIN DIEN
  • Patent number: 8866358
    Abstract: An incorporated electric motor-generator (IEMG), including: a plurality of disk surfaces each having a main longitudinal axis, at least one peripheral motor section and at least one central generator section; a plurality of stationary support structures, each of which sustains an array of electromagnetic coils; and a rotating shaft affixed to the disk surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Inventor: Uri Rapoport
  • Patent number: 8866361
    Abstract: A conductor is provided for an electric machine having an axis, a radial direction extending outward from the axis, and a tangential direction perpendicular to the radial direction. The conductor includes a solid core, having radial faces substantially perpendicular to the radial direction of the electric machine and tangential faces substantially perpendicular to the tangential direction of the electric machine. At least one tangential depression is formed on at least one of the tangential faces. The tangential depression creates a tangential void within a rectangular envelope defined by the solid core. Therefore, the surface area of the solid core is greater than the surface area of the rectangular envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Peter J. Savagian, Rajeev Vyas
  • Publication number: 20140300238
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor has an iron core and a winding wound about teeth of the rotor core. Slots are formed between the teeth to accommodate coils of the winding. The winding includes several layers of windings distributed in the radial direction of the rotor. Each winding layer has a plurality of coils with the coils of each winding layer being wound on the teeth in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The overall center of gravity of the winding layers is substantially positioned at the geometric center of the rotor. Thus the center of gravity of the entire winding is located substantially at the geometric center of the rotor, thereby preventing noise caused by unstable rotation due to the deviation between the center of gravity of the winding and the geometric center of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: James Ching-Sik LAU, Chun Kit CHEUNG, Duncan Yiu Lung WONG, Xiao Jun YANG
  • Publication number: 20140300239
    Abstract: A segment coil capable of achieving effective prevention of magnetic flux leakage or eddy current and enhancing efficiency of a motor is provided. Segment coils in stator of a rotating electric machine including an annular core and rectangular wire coils in a plurality of layers, which are attached on an innermost circumferential side in a direction of radius of a slot formed in an inner circumferential portion of the annular core and are opposed to a rotor, are each constituted of a plurality of divided wires as divided in a circumferential direction of the annular core. The plurality of divided wires are integrally joined in coil end portions extending from the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Keiji Takizawa, Tomoka Suzuki, Shinichi Iizuka, Hironobu Saka, Takeshi Ariyoshi
  • Patent number: 8847459
    Abstract: An axial self-supported coil for a slotless rotating electric motor. The axial self-supported coil includes one coil body formed by winded electrical conductors, with a head at each end, the electrical conductors in the coil body being substantially coplanar with the motor rotation axis, each coil head having an axial thickness, the axial self-supported coil having a conductor filling factor, characterized in that at least one of the electrical conductors is a multi-stranded conductor, in that a deformation arrangement of the multi-stranded conductor increases the conductor filling factor and in that a bending arrangement of the multi-stranded conductor reduces the axial thickness of each coil head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Portescap SA
    Inventors: Julien Baudey, Cyril Baud, Alexis Montagnat-Rentier
  • Patent number: 8847458
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes an armature and at least one field magnet arrangement separated by a gap from each other. The armature and/or the field magnet arrangement include a plurality of coils. Each coil includes conductive body sections. The body sections of the coils are joined electrically by conductive end sections. At least one of the end sections of at least one coil of the armature is tilted in a direction away from the armature towards the field magnet arrangement and/or at least one of the end sections of at least one coil of the field magnet arrangement is tilted in a direction away from the field magnet arrangement towards the armature. The electrical machine may be used in a wind turbine to generate electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jean Le Besnerais
  • Publication number: 20140285056
    Abstract: A wound member for manufacturing a coil for manufacturing a coil wound around a slot of a stator core, the wound member for manufacturing a coil includes: a first side and a second side disposed opposite one another so as to be end sides of coil ends; and a third side and a fourth side that respectively couple the first side and the second side, wherein at least one of the first side and the second side is wrapped such that a side end at an outer peripheral side is shifted to an outer peripheral side to form a side end at an outer peripheral side to be an approximately flat surface when the first side and the second side become end sides of the coil ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Kenji TOMOHARA, Akihiko MAEMURA, Takeshi INOUE, Norimasa ADACHI, Junichi YASUKAWA
  • Patent number: 8841806
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotary shaft, a rotor fixed on the rotary shaft, and a stator having plural slots in which coils of different phases are wound. Each of the coils has at least one pair of end wires. At least in the coil located closest to the rotor, one of the end wires located farther from the rotor than the other of the end wires is used as a lead wire that is to be electrically connected to a driver circuit for energizing the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Shinichi Okuyama, Tatsuya Horiba
  • Publication number: 20140265713
    Abstract: An electric wire includes a conductive portion 11 made of a material having a volume resistivity higher than that of copper, wherein the volume resistivity of the conductive portion is specified so that, in a frequency range in which the electric wire is used, a ratio of AC resistance of the conductive portion 11 to AC resistance of reference copper wire is less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi SHINMOTO, Shotaro YOSHIDA, Ning GUAN
  • Publication number: 20140252909
    Abstract: A winding wire (14) includes a first coil (15) formed by being wound N/2+? times between two predetermined slots (13) present in positions which are point-symmetrical with respect to a rotating shaft, and a second coil (16) formed by being wound N/2?? times between the two predetermined slots (13) which are the same as those between which the first coil (15) is formed, when a predetermined number of turns of the winding wire (14) between the predetermined slots is N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Kenji Sakata, Akio Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8829756
    Abstract: A method for making a poly-phase field winding for a slotless stator includes: forming the first coil group by winding an insulated wire for each coil winding in a first direction around a mandrel; axially shifting along the mandrel the insulated wire from a trailing edge of each coil winding a distance substantially equal to one half of twice the number of coil groups multiplied by the number of coil windings minus one times the width of one of the completed windings to position the wires at a leading edge of each of coil winding in the second coil group; forming the second coil group by winding the insulated wire for each coil winding in the first direction; removing the mandrel from the wound coil groups; collapsing the wound coil groups to a single layer web, and wrapping the single layer web into a cylinder to form the field winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: ResMed Motor Technologies Inc
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Peter Jeffrey Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140246942
    Abstract: A stator comprising a plurality of stator elements, each stator element comprising a core and a coil wound about the core. The coil of at least one stator element is wound at angle such that the coil is sheared towards an adjacent stator element so as to reduce magnetic flux leakage between the two elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Greetham, Mark Edward Leaver, David Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 8823237
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator having a magnetic core crossed longitudinally by a stator slot and stator winding having a phase and series of rigid, U-shaped bars inserted through the slot. The slot defines “entry” and “exit” sides in which cusps and legs of the bars are placed. The legs coming out the “exit” side are twisted through relative double folds each of which defines internal and external folds in opposite directions. Ends of the legs are electrically connected to each other to form electrical paths of the winding. A width of the cusps is identical for the bars. The ends of a pair in a part of the winding are initially not adjacent to each other and folded toward each other to be arranged parallel to each other in a circumferential direction so that the ends touch each other to allow an electrical connection between the ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Cominetti, Franco Ciampolini, Vincenzo Giorgianni