Coil Retainers Or Slot Closers Patents (Class 310/214)
  • Publication number: 20040056551
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine (1) has a rotor, a stator (2), and stator windings (3, 4). The windings (3, 4) include high voltage cable drawn through slots (5, 6) in the stator (2). Support members (8) are arranged inside the slots (5, 6) along and in contact with the windings (3, 4), said support members (8) comprising a hose (8′) with a substantially triangular cross-section. A wire (9) is extending through and being attached to each support member (8). When mounting the support members (8) air inside a support member (8) is evacuated in order to shrink the support member (8). Then the wire (9) extending through the support member (8) is used to pull the evacuated support member (8) into a slot (5, 6), whereupon the evacuated support member (8) is expanded by releasing the vacuum inside in order to make it clamp a cable inside a slot (5, 6) of the stator (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Olof Lundeberg, Pentti Virtanen
  • Patent number: 6710475
    Abstract: A projected board portion that is a part of a printed board is positioned externally to an outer diameter position of an annular stator, and can be connected to any of a connector and a lead wire even after resin scaling is performed. In a stator structure having a printed board according to the present invention, a projected board portion of a printed board provided to an insulating cover of an annular stator extends outward beyond an outer diameter position of the annular stator, and a connector or a lead wire can be freely selected and connected to the projected board portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Nishida, Atsushi Kindaichi
  • Patent number: 6703733
    Abstract: A multi-pole electric machine rotor assembly includes a rotor forging including a rotor body having poles 13 with pole faces and a winding module including a plurality of field windings positioned adjacent the pole faces and winding insulators disposed between each successive pair of the field windings, respectively. A winding block, disposed in engagement with the winding module, is shaped to be shifted to a final position relative to the winding module when the rotor assembly rotates at about its rated speed to thereby compress the winding module. Either the winding block or the winding module can be displaced by centrifugal forces during rotation. In the final position, the winding block is locked by friction in a position to maintain compression in the winding module. The winding block serves to provide a pre-stress in the field windings to keep the field windings tight over the design range of spin speeds, thereby controlling winding position and reducing alternating radial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Robert John Nygard, James Pelligrino Alexander
  • Patent number: 6703752
    Abstract: In a stator winding bar for an electrical machine without end winding transposition and with transposition in the active part of 450°, the middle part of the active part, in order to compensate the external fields acting in the region of the end windings and inducing circulating currents, has a length that is greater than ¾ of the total length of the active part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Johann Haldemann
  • Patent number: 6700283
    Abstract: This invention provides a rotating electric machine using an inner section of a slot of a stator as a cooling passage and allowing a high cooling efficiency. Furthermore, it provides a manufacture method for the rotating electric machine which allows streamlining of the manufacture of the cooling passage. A plate is attached to the plate retaining groove formed in proximity to the opening of the slot of the stator. A resin layer is formed by injection of resin into a space formed between the outer face of the plate and the mold set on an inner peripheral face of the stator. The plate is pressed by the injection pressure of the resin to come into close contact with the stopper and to create a seal which prevents leakage of resin into the slot. A leg is provided on the plate and extends into the slot for reducing the cross sectional surface area of the cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kikuchi, Shinichiro Kitada, Yutaro Kaneko, Takashi Tsuneyoshi
  • Patent number: 6700272
    Abstract: A reluctance motor with a stator (1) which has a three-phase current stator winding for generating a rotary magnetic field and a rotor (3) which is located on the shaft (2) and which is made primarily of a ferromagnetic material. The rotor is formed of a predetermined number of angular regions of the same peripheral angle which adjoin one another in a circumferential direction and preferably have at least one pair of flux guidance regions (10, 11) facing the stator (1), with flux guidance properties which differ in the main direction of the rotary field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: EMF 97 Elektro-Maschinen-Vertrieb-Magnettechnik- und Forschungs GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Lindner
  • Patent number: 6683398
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, Jr., James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Patent number: 6674209
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, Jr., James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Patent number: 6674210
    Abstract: When molding reinforced fiber layers of a creepage block which is in contact with a field winding in a rotor of a rotary electric machine, a layer containing organic fibers made from polybenzoimidazole, polyparaphenylenebenzobisoxazole, aromatic polyamide, polyarylate, and aromatic polyester is integrally molded on that side of the creepage block which is for contact with a field winding. The rotor thus formed stabilizes a slippage between the field winding and the creepage block caused by thermal expansion of the field winding in the rotor during the operation and thereby minimizes the amount of bending of a rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazuo Gotou, Hidehiro Ejima, Takashi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6653759
    Abstract: A stator (10′) for a power generator having a coil support finger plate (20′) and associated methods are provided. The stator (10′) preferably has a plurality of laminations or step irons having a plurality of spaced-apart stator coil slots (30′) formed therein and stator coil slot contents (40) positioned in each of the plurality of stator coil slots (30′). The stator coil slot contents (40) preferably include at least one stator coil (43). The stator (10′) also preferably has a coil support finger plate (20′) positioned at an end portion of the plurality of stator coil slots (30′). The coil support finger plate (20′) has a base (21′) and a plurality of fingers (26, 27) extending outwardly from the base (21′) between the plurality of spaced-apart stator coil slots (30′).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Ward, Mehrzad Tartibi
  • Patent number: 6646363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electric machine comprising a stator (4) provided with windings drawn through slots in the stator, and a rotor (1) having a central axis (2) and poles (5, 6) in the form of pole pieces (8, 9) provided with windings and forming solenoids, pole gaps (13) being arranged between the poles. The machine also comprises coil supports (15, 16) in said pole gaps in order to support the solenoid windings (10, 11). It is characterized in that the coil supports (15, 16) are arranged in pairs and that each coil supports (15, 16) is shaped so that it supports only a part of the solenoid windings (10, 11) of the two adjacent poles (5, 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Gunnar Kylander, Arne Edman, Mats Leijon, Nils-Ivar Landgren
  • Publication number: 20030201687
    Abstract: A stator core has slot closures formed at radial inner ends of slots. The slot closures, extending in the circumferential direction from radial inner ends of respective teeth, substantially isolate the slots from an electromagnetic gap (g). A plurality of conductor segments are inserted into the slots, with ends of the conductor segments being sequentially connected at an axially outside of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20030184180
    Abstract: A coil retention system for a rotor of a high speed electrical generator, such as an aircraft generator, that uses compliant material to fill variable dimension voids and/or gaps in the coils wound around the rotor of an electrical machine. During processing of the rotor and coil retention system, the compliant material hardens and is able to withstand the centrifugal loads imposed by, and environmental conditions within, the high speed generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Kieran P.J. Doherty, David E. Stout, Balwinider S. Birdi, Edward M. Down, Simon L. Waddell, David J. Roden
  • Patent number: 6618928
    Abstract: A method for loading slot cell insulators into a plurality of slots in a stator core of a dynamoelectric machine is disclosed. The method includes forming a slot cell insulator having a generally U-shape cross-section. The slot cell insulator may be turned so that an open end of the generally U-shape slot cell insulator face a loading assembly. The slot cell insulator is moved into the loading assembly. The forming and moving are repeated until a plurality of slot cell insulators are stored in the loading assembly. The plurality of slot cell insulators are pushed from the loading assembly into the slots of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Hobart DeHart
  • Patent number: 6611076
    Abstract: Tooth tips, which fit over teeth and distal ends of fingers formed between slots in laminated disks making up a portion of a stator in a generator, facilitate slipping stator windings into the slots from a central opening in the laminated disks; cooperate with wedges to affix stator windings in the slots; and provide a slot gap between adjacent tooth tips, which is substantially smaller than the width of the slots, to reduce slot harmonics and improve performance of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Lindbery, Kourosh Mehrayin
  • Patent number: 6605885
    Abstract: A rotor is disclosed for a synchronous machine comprising: a rotor core; a super-conducting coil winding extending around at least a portion of the rotor core, said coil winding having a side section adjacent a side of the rotor core; at least one tension rod extending through a conduit in said rotor core; at least one tension bolt extending between an end of the tension rod and abutting the side section of the coil winding; and a channel housing attached to the tension bolt and the coil winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, James Pellegrino Alexander
  • Patent number: 6601287
    Abstract: An electric motor including a permanent-magnet rotor having embedded magnets held in place by several segments. The embedded magnets are secured by segments including non-circular openings near their centers. Several non-magnetic, non-conductive bars extend through the non-circular openings of the segments to secure the segments in relation to the shaft. The motor is capable of producing high torque while only requiring a minimum amount of space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen L. Pop, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20030141776
    Abstract: The invention comprises a two part rotor coil support block, wherein a spring disposed between the two block halves allows for the thermal expansion of coils wound around the assembled block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Robert G. Hamilton, Thomas Blakelock, Leonard P. Squillacioti
  • Patent number: 6600251
    Abstract: A rotor is disclosed for a synchronous machine comprising: a rotor core; a super-conducting coil winding extending around at least a portion of the rotor core, said coil winding having a side section adjacent a side of the rotor core; at least one tension rod extending through a conduit in said rotor core; at least one tension bolt extending between an end of the tension rod and abutting the side section of the coil winding; and a channel housing attached to the tension bolt and the coil winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, James Pellegrino Alexander
  • Patent number: 6584672
    Abstract: The method makes it possible to form a stator of an electric motor by means of a multiple-slide press (21, 22, 23). The starting point is a bundle consisting of rectilinear segments of sheets obtained by stamping and welded. The stator is formed by means of four successive operations carried out by four groups of slides of a multiple-slide press and corresponding dies. The cylinder formed is subsequently welded along its joining generatrix and is calibrated in a hydraulic press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: R. Bourgeois
    Inventor: Raymond Bourgeois
  • Publication number: 20030117034
    Abstract: A stator and a stator manufacturing method is provided in which a space factor can be improved, while reducing the number of components and simplifying the manufacturing process. A stator comprises a plurality of teeth cores 11 positioned at predetermined intervals on a predetermined circumference, a core back core 12 provided on a circumferential outside between adjacent teeth cores, and stator windings 13 which are wound around the teeth cores. An approximately U-shaped insulating sheet 14 is provided between adjacent teeth cores 11 with the ends of the sheet facing towards the circumferential outside, the insulating sheet 14 is provided between the teeth cores 11 and the stator windings 13, and the ends of the insulating sheet 14 are bent inward and occluded by an inner end surface of the core back core 12 which is inserted from the circumferential outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Fukuda, Takeo Arai, Hirofumi Atarashi, Mitsuyoshi Takao, Toshinori Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Endo, Kaoru Noji, Takahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 6580192
    Abstract: An electric rotating machinery is provided with a stator coil support device, which comprises a stator core provided with a slot having an opening, a stator coil installed in the slot of the stator core, a wedge member disposed so as to close the opening of the slot of the stator core, and an elastic plate member inserted between the stator coil and the wedge member. The wedge member is formed so as to have an inclination towards an axial direction of the stator core and the elastic plate member has a structure undulating towards the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kiyoko Murayama, Katsuhiko Yoshida, Noriyuki Iwata, Hiroshi Hatano, Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya, Hisayuki Hirai, Toshiyuki Aso
  • Patent number: 6573631
    Abstract: An outboard bearing is constituted by a multi-row bearing having one inner ring and one outer ring, a plurality of ball tracks disposed axially between the inner ring and the outer ring, and a plurality of balls disposed in each of the ball tracks. A rectifier is disposed in an outboard bracket on an outer circumferential side of an outboard bearing box, and a ventilation aperture is bored through the outboard bracket on an outer circumferential side of the outboard bearing box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6570291
    Abstract: Method and device (4) for balancing rotors (1), in particular for electric motors, by the addition of material, in which the actual balancing step is carried out by inserting, inside one or more recesses (2) formed in the rotor (1) and designed to seat the rotor winding (3), one or more self-locking balancing devices (4) made of non-ferromagnetic material and having a mass which can be determined beforehand in terms of both its amount and its distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Spal's S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alessandro Spaggiari
  • Patent number: 6568066
    Abstract: A miniature motor includes: a plurality of magnets serving as stator poles and attached to an inner surface of a motor casing having a closed-bottomed cylindrical shape; a salient-pole rotor having a core mounted on a rotor shaft and windings placed on the core; and a commutator mounted on the rotor shaft. The core includes a center portion having a hole formed therein at the center for engagement with the rotor shaft, a plurality of leg portions extending integrally and radially from the center portion in equal number with the salient poles, and a plurality of wing portions, each extending integrally and symmetrically from an end of each of the leg portions. The core includes core laminations blanked from sheet steel and assembled together and is formed through deformation of the entire wing portions such that the radius of a circumcircle of the core coincides with a designed final radius of curvature of outer circumferential surfaces of the salient poles of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Furuya, Toshiya Yui, Kazuaki Takayama, Hiroshi Otsubo
  • Patent number: 6570292
    Abstract: A rotor is disclosed for a synchronous machine comprising: a rotor core; a super-conducting coil winding extending around at least a portion of the rotor, said coil winding having a side section adjacent a side of the rotor core; at least one tension rod extending through a conduit in said rotor core; and a housing attached to the tension rod and connected to the side section of the coil winding, wherein the housing comprises a pair of side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Robert John Nygard, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, James Pellegrino Alexander
  • Patent number: 6566779
    Abstract: An improved armature winding arrangement for a rotating electrical machine such as a specifically illustrated DC motor for driving a vehicle wheel. The assembly is such that the armature core can be formed from two laminated pieces that are rigidly connected to each other and held against axial movement. This eliminates the need for bonding adhesive. In addition, an improved bobbin arrangement is employed for both permitting attachment of a wiring plate directly to the core but also for retaining the ends of the individual windings to prevent them from becoming loose either during assembly or in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Moric
    Inventors: Tadashi Takano, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6559570
    Abstract: A high efficiency electric motor has a generally polyhedrally shaped bulk amorphous metal magnetic component in which a plurality of layers of amorphous metal strips are laminated together to form a generally three-dimensional part having the shape of a polyhedron. The bulk amorphous metal magnetic component may include an arcuate surface, and preferably includes two arcuate surfaces that are disposed opposite to each other. The magnetic component is operable at frequencies ranging from between approximately 60 Hz and 20,000 Hz and exhibits (i) a core-loss of less than or approximately equal to 1 watt-per-kilogram of amorphous metal material when operated at a frequency of approximately 60 Hz and at a flux density of approximately 1.4 Tesla (T); (ii) a core-loss of less than or approximately equal to 20 watts-per-kilogram of amorphous metal material when operated at a frequency of approximately 1000 Hz and at a flux density of approximately 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas John DeCristofaro, Peter Joseph Stamatis
  • Publication number: 20030067241
    Abstract: The stator includes core back iron cores disposed on outer circumferential sides between a plurality of teeth iron cores disposed at regular intervals of a predetermined distance in a predetermined circumferential direction. A stator winding is disposed on inner circumferential sides between the plurality of teeth iron cores. The stator winding is constituted by a plurality of wire bundles each of which is a bundle of a predetermined number of electric wires and which are connected in parallel with one another. The wire bundles are set so that the number of electric wires constituting a wire bundle located on the inner circumferential side between adjacent teeth iron cores is smaller than the number of electric wires constituting a wire bundle located on the outer circumferential side. Hence, the ratio (L/A) of the circumferential length L of each wire bundle to the sectional area A thereof is set at a value in a predetermined allowable range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Takao, Hirofumi Atarashi, Yasuhiro Endo, Akira Kato, Toshinori Tsukamoto, Keisuke Urushihara, Takeo Arai, Takeo Fukuda, Kazuaki Igarashi, Hiroyuki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 6541888
    Abstract: A winding body has a winding area (31) for a winding (13), which winding area (31) is formed by a winding carrier (32) and two legs (34, 35) which define the winding area (31) in axial direction (L) and are connected with the winding carrier (32). The winding carrier (32) has a locking device (40) for locking the winding body (30) at a winding tooth (24). Further, a temperature sensor (50) for measuring the temperature in a coil (25) can be provided in the winding body (30). The winding body (30) has a receiving area (36) for a connection device (70) for the windings (13), wherein the receiving area (36) is formed by one of the legs (35), an elongation area (33) of the winding carrier (32) extending beyond this leg (35), and a fixing leg (60) at a distance from the leg (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Marcus van Heyden, Horst Oppitz, Jens Baumeister, Edmund Grau
  • Publication number: 20030057794
    Abstract: A wedge (40) and methods of using the wedge (40) for a power generator (30) are provided. The wedge (40) preferably has a wedge body (41) and at least one substantially hollow cavity (45) formed in the wedge body (41) so that the at least one hollow cavity (45) is substantially evenly distributed about a neutral axis of stress applied to the wedge body (41) when in use and so that the neutral axis of stress of the wedge body (41) having the hollow cavity (45) is substantially the same neutral axis of stress of a wedge body (41) having substantially the same shape as the wedge body (41) without a hollow cavity. A method of using a wedge (40) preferably includes increasing the mass of the contents of a slot (35) of a power generator (30) and positioning a wedge (40) having at least one longitudinally extending and substantially hollow cavity (45) formed therein and extending throughout major portions of the wedge (40) to overlie the slot (35) and retain the slot contents therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Neil Leslie Kilpatrick, Kevin M. Light
  • Publication number: 20030057795
    Abstract: When molding reinforced fiber layers of a creepage block which is in contact with a field winding in a rotor of a rotary electric machine, a layer containing organic fibers made from polybenzoimidazole, polyparaphenylenebenzobisoxazole, aromatic polyamide, polyarylate, and aromatic polyester is integrally molded on that side of the creepage block which is for contact with a field winding. The rotor thus formed stabilizes a slippage between the field winding and the creepage block caused by thermal expansion of the field winding in the rotor during the operation and thereby minimizes the amount of bending of a rotor shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazuo Gotou, Hidehiro Ejima, Takashi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6526647
    Abstract: Radial pressure is applied to a turbine generator armature bar using a simple hand held device that can be readily manipulated by a single human operator. A retainer platform has two wedge shaped portions with handles, and by the operator sliding the wedge shaped portions with respect to each other the operative width of the platform may be adjusted, including to slide and lock the platform in a conventional dovetail slot in a stator. An inflatable bladder is positioned on or mounted to the top surface of the platform and is dimensioned so as to apply radial pressure (for example through a filler) to armature bars mounted in the stator. A conduit, preferably having a valve with quick-release actuator in it, extends from the inflatable bladder and connects to a source of gas under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth John Hatley, Sean Michael McDonnell, Alan Michael Iversen
  • Publication number: 20030020354
    Abstract: A laminate core of a stator of an electrical machine with an internal rotor includes slots each having a slit opening dimensioned such that only a single winding wire can be inserted therethrough into the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Falko Abel, Rainer Munzner, Holger Pertermann
  • Patent number: 6504282
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an armature core of a start motor in which in which the depth of a slop in which an insulation member installed in a core is overlapped is deeper than other insulation members by 1.5 through 2.5 times compared to the thickness of an insulation member, and the width of the slot is the same as that of the other slots. There is provided an armature core of a start motor in which a width “a” of the insulation overlapping slot and a width “b” of other slot are same, and a depth “A” of the overlapping slot is 1.5 through 2.5 times of a thickness of the insulation member compared to a depth “B” of the slot, and a groove is formed at an entrance portion of the slot in a structure that a front end and rear end of an insulation member are overlapped and inserted in an armature core of a start motor, and one insulation member overlapping slot and a plurality of slots each having a certain width and depth are radially formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Valeo Mando Electrical Systems Korea Limited
    Inventor: Won-Jeong Lee
  • Patent number: 6498416
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator has a stator core, an armature and a coil. The stator core is formed as a seamless cylindrical tube having a thin wall as a magnetic restrictor. The thin wall has a thickness sufficient to maintain a mechanical strength of the stator core. A permanent magnet is located on an outside of the thin wall to generate a magnetic flux passing through the thin wall in the same direction as a magnetic flux generated by the coil. The thin wall is magnetically saturated with the magnetic flux generated by the permanent magnet. When the coil is energized, a magnetic flux generated by the coil gets around the saturated thin wall and passes through the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Oishi, Motoyoshi Ando, Hiroyuki Nakane, Seiji Tachibana, Tetsuya Aoki
  • Patent number: 6495942
    Abstract: A non-metallic structural enclosure for a generator rotor replaces conventional containment components including rotor wedges, rotor teeth and retaining rings. The enclosure includes a non-metallic tube formed of a plurality of spaced rings or of a continuous tube including ventilation holes or slots. The simplified rotor assembly serves to restrain the winding against centrifugal forces with a more highly optimized use of space and materials. The arrangement allows more space for copper and ventilation, thereby benefiting both efficiency and the performance of the machine. The use of individual rings has the additional benefit of providing restraint against centrifugal forces without reducing the effectiveness of cross slots in the rotor body from correcting peripheral dissymmetries in rotor stiffness. The rings also provide openings for ventilation without introducing stress concentrations in the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher A. Kaminski, Richard J. Keck, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 6484388
    Abstract: A process to perform a flaring operation on a rotating electrical device (stator) designed with a number of these spaced axially oriented splines around its perimeter. The design of the stator requires that these perimeter splines possess a flared outer end, creating a rounded cavity contour between adjacent splines to effectively retaining the stator winding in place. The method of this invention reduces damage to the stator windings and allows more wire fill during the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Alan Amlee, Stephen Alan Alford
  • Patent number: 6486575
    Abstract: A molded rotor block, as well as other molded articles of manufacture, are made from a resin material selected from the group consisting of epoxy thermosets, polyester thermosets, phenolic, and melamine; and a reinforcement material selected from the group consisting of glass and mineral filler. The article of manufacture is adapted to withstand temperatures that range from about −40° C. to about 180° C.−40° C. and to withstand centrifugal loading at about 1500 RPM to about 4500 RPM while functioning as an insulator. The molding operation provides many advantages over CNC machining and other manufacturing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Inventor: Mark Lee Miller
  • Patent number: 6483211
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a turbine comprising a plurality of radially oriented, axially extending slots, each slot having a plurality of field windings seated therein; a sub-slot cover separating the windings from a base of the slot, thereby forming a coolant sub-slot radially inwardly of the windings; and an aerodynamic scoop fixed at an entrance to the sub-slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Frederick John Rink, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6462455
    Abstract: Radial pressure is applied to a turbine generator armature bar using a simple hand held device that can be readily manipulated by a single human operator. A retainer platform has two wedge shaped portions with handles, and by the operator sliding the wedge shaped portions with respect to each other the operative width of the platform may be adjusted, including to slide and lock the platform in a conventional dovetail slot in a stator. An inflatable bladder is positioned on or mounted to the top surface of the platform and is dimensioned so as to apply radial pressure (for example through a filler) to armature bars mounted in the stator. A conduit, preferably having a valve with quick-release actuator in it, extends from the inflatable bladder and connects to a source of gas under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth John Hatley, Sean Michael McDonnell, Alan Michael Iversen
  • Patent number: 6453545
    Abstract: Radial pressure is applied to a turbine generator armature bar using a simple hand held device that can be readily manipulated by a single human operator. A retainer platform has two wedge shaped portions with handles, and by the operator sliding the wedge shaped portions with respect to each other the operative width of the platform may be adjusted, including to slide and lock the platform in a conventional dovetail slot in a stator. An inflatable bladder is positioned on or mounted to the top surface of the platform and is dimensioned so as to apply radial pressure (for example through a filler) to armature bars mounted in the stator. A conduit, preferably having a valve with quick-release actuator in it, extends from the inflatable bladder and connects to a source of gas under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth John Hatley, Sean Michael McDonnell, Alan Michael Iversen
  • Patent number: 6455976
    Abstract: A motor/generator is provided with a stator (14) and rotors (2, 3). The stator (14) comprises a plurality of cores (11, 12) arranged on a circle. Each core (11, 12) has a base (11A, 12A) of a trapezoidal cross-section which increases a width in a direction away from the center of the stator (14). Deformation of the cores (11, 12) towards the center of the stator (14) is limited by retaining plates (18) each of which is engaged with the bases (11A, 12A) of adjacent cores (11, 12). The retaining plates (18) are formed to have a trapezoidal cross-section which increases a width in a direction towards the center of the stator (14). Rings (21, 22) are press fitted to an inner side of the both ends of the retaining plates (18). Preferably a reinforcing ring (25) is provided to support the inner periphery of the retaining plates (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20020130580
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor minimizes a chance of dislocation of or damage to an insulator used in the brushless DC motor. Slant portions are provided at end portions of the insulator; therefore, even if a nozzle of a machine for installing a winding should hit the insulator while moving between teeth, the insulator moves in a direction for coming in close contact with a slot aperture, i.e., in a direction substantially at right angles to a direction in which the nozzle moves. This arrangement prevents the insulator from moving by being pushed by the nozzle, making it possible to minimize a chance of occurrence of an insulation failure caused by a damaged or dislocated insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Keijiro Igarashi, Masaaki Takezawa
  • Publication number: 20020125785
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electric machine comprising a stator (4) provided with windings drawn through slots in the stator, and a rotor (1) having a central axis (2) and poles (5, 6) in the form of pole pieces (8, 9) provided with windings and forming solenoids, pole gaps (13) being arranged between the poles. The machine also comprises coil supports (15, 16) in said pole gaps in order to support the solenoid windings (10, 11). It is characterized in that the coil supports (15, 16) are arranged in pairs and that each coil support (15, 16) is shaped so that it supports only a part of the solenoid windings (10, 11) of the two adjacent poles (5, 6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 1999
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: GUNNAR KYLANDER, ARNE EDMAN, MATS LEIJON, NILS-IVAR LANDGREN
  • Publication number: 20020121830
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort
  • Patent number: 6438820
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine including a rotor and a stator surrounding said rotor in substantially concentric relation therewith to establish a gap therebetween, and wherein the stator is formed with a plurality of radially oriented slots, each slot receiving a stator bar held in place by a wedge, an arrangement to minimize rotor windage loss wherein each wedge substantially fills its respective slot such that an end surface of the wedge is substantially flush with adjacent surfaces of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Brian E. B. Gott
  • Patent number: 6429563
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mounting device (80) for reducing short-circuiting forces that are transmitted from a stator core to a stator body in a rotating electric machine comprising a stator with windings drawn through slots in the stator, wherein the stator core is composed of a number of packs (82), each of which includes a number of metal sheets, or of a number of metal sheets, each pack (82) or metal sheet having two identical grooves (84) arranged for cooperation with wedge members (86) designed to join together packs (82) or metal sheets, and wherein the stator body comprises beams (88), each connected to a wedge member (86). The mounting device (80) also comprises a connector (90) arranged through the beam (88) and secured in the wedge member (86) in order to connect the beam (88) and wedge member (86) in such a manner as to permit sliding between the wedge member (86) and the beam (88) in the event of short-circuiting. The windings also consist of high-voltage cable (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Bengt Rothman, Ivan Jonas, Kenneth Lundquist, Kent Engvall, Mats Leijon
  • Patent number: 6426578
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine having a rotor, rotatably disposed in an inner radius side of a stator through a gap, including rotor windings contained in a plurality of slots formed in a rotor core, a slot insulation placed between the rotor winding and the slot, an insulation block placed between a wedge arranged at a peripheral side of the rotor core outward of the rotor winding of the slot and the rotor winding. At least one of the slot insulation and the insulation block is an insulation formed by filling or mixing granular and/or short-fiber insulating materials having a thermal conductivity higher than 5 W/m·K in a resin and a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction higher than 0.35 W/m·K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Mori, Shigeo Amagi, Saburo Usami, Tadashi Sonobe, Yasuomi Yagi, Tomoya Tsunoda, Mitsuru Onoda
  • Publication number: 20020096960
    Abstract: A magnetic armature wedge is provided for replacing conventional dovetail wedges in high-powered large-size turbine generators. The magnetic armature wedges that are used for supporting the armature bars are made by molding resin, e.g., epoxy with ferromagnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like embedded therewithin. The magnetic particles, wires, laminates and the like increase the magnetic permeability of the wedges causing higher slot flux leakage and high generator subtransient reactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Frederick John Rink, James Michael Fogarty, John Wesley Griffith, Christian Lee Vandervort