E-shaped Patents (Class 310/216.021)
  • Patent number: 11183912
    Abstract: The described apparatus and method enable alteration of motor properties during operation of a motor. For example, the rotor of the motor may be adjustable, during motor operation, between a first diameter and a larger, second diameter. When the diameter of the rotor increases, the distance between the electromagnetic coils of the stator and the magnets of the rotor increases, thereby reducing the back-electromotor force (back-EMF) of the motor. When the back-EMF of the motor decreases, the torque of the motor decreases but the maximum revolutions per minute (RPM) increases. When the diameter of the rotor decreases, the distance between the electromagnetic coils of the stator and the magnets of the rotor decreases, thereby increasing the back-EMF of the motor. When the back-EMF of the motor increases, the torque of the motor increases but the maximum RPM decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, Austin Brown
  • Patent number: 10920781
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotary pump including a magnetic rotor arranged in a pump housing and having a magnetic rotor plane, which rotor is operatively connected to a drive for conveying a fluid. The drive is a bearingless motor having a stator configured as a bearing stator and drive stator and having a magnetic stator plane, wherein the stator bears a drive coil and a bearing coil lying in the stator plane and/or a drive bearing coil. The rotor is magnetically contactlessly journalled within the stator, wherein an axial height (H) of the rotor is smaller than or equal to half a diameter (D) of the rotor so that the rotor is passively magnetically stabilized by reluctance forces with respect to the magnetic stator plane both against axial displacement and against a tilt from an equilibrium position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Levitronix GmbH
    Inventor: Reto Schöb
  • Patent number: 10396624
    Abstract: The torque motor as disclosed depends on decreasing the gap between a surface on a fixed part and a corresponding inclined facing surface on a rotating part, where the gap width is proportional to its distance from the angle vertex, in magnifying the electromagnetic force and its resulting torque. Therefore, the surface on the fixed part starts directly at—or close to—a point in align with the rotating part center of rotation, and hence the gap width is minimum at the start point and increases away from this point due to the inclination angle. The motor includes features, such as, utilizing many pairs of facing surfaces, many electromagnetic circuits; arrange the surfaces in pairs for balanced forces, works in one or two directions, the two directions electromagnetic circuits installed in one or two levels, and precautions and ways to avoid magnetic field interference and leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Inventor: Mohamed Ahmed Elgamil
  • Patent number: 9711274
    Abstract: The invention provides a stationary induction apparatus excellent in core vibration damping, being capable of realizing reduction in core excitation-noise. The stationary induction apparatus according to the invention includes a core made up of plural of core-legs formed by lamination of electromagnetic steel sheets, and a core-yoke formed by lamination of electromagnetic steel sheets to join the plural core-legs together; a core-tightening clasp for tightening a joint between the core-yoke and the core-legs, in the direction of the lamination of the electromagnetic steel sheets, to be secured, a winding, a tank, and an insulating sheet disposed between the core-tightening clasp and the core-yoke. Further, a concave hollowed-out part or a notched part is provided on the insulating sheet, positioned at a joint between the core-yoke and the core-leg, and a vibration insulator is disposed in the concave hollowed-out part or the notched part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Oyama, Takahide Matsuo, Kenichi Kawamura, Akira Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 9476404
    Abstract: In a method an inner segment is first pre-assembled on each of a number of outer segments by at least one fixing element, so as to produce a plurality of segment modules having each a predetermined air gap between the inner segment and the outer segment. The inner segments and the outer segments are assigned to the rotor or stator of the electrical machine. The inner segments of the plurality of segment modules are fastened to an inner assembly device (for example a hub). The outer segments of the plurality of segment modules are fastened to an outer assembly device (for example a supporting structure). Finally, the fixing elements between the inner segments and the outer segments are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kornel Feher, Ulrich Hartmann, Martin Junge, Andreas Jöckel, Martin Kristl, Wilfried Luchs, Oliver Memminger, Joachim Mucha, Axel Möhle
  • Patent number: 8901798
    Abstract: A two-phase switched reluctance machine is provided using discontinuous core structures as the stator for low-cost, high-performance drives. This discontinuous stator core structure contains short flux paths and maximum overlap between the rotor poles and stator poles in the stator discontinuous core structures, regardless of the rotor position. Example configurations of such core structure include E-core, L-core and I-core configurations. Using less steel and magnet wire than in conventional SRM designs results in cost savings of stator material and winding material. Efficiency of this novel SRM is improved because of shorter flux paths resulting in reduction of core losses and decreased phase resistance resulting in reduction of copper losses. Two-phase simultaneous excitation of the novel SRM can reduce torque ripple during commutation as compared with existing two-phase SRMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnan Ramu, Nimai Lobo, Cheewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 8772998
    Abstract: The device comprises a single circular row of permanent magnetic poles and a circular row of electromagnets, magnetic-force-conducting elements of which have central polar part and two lateral polar parts connected to the central polar part and spaced from opposing (in the direction which is essentially perpendicular to the rotation axis) sides of the central polar part. Winding is situated upon central polar part. The part of winding positioned between the polar parts of the magnetic-force-conducting element is more than half the length of the whole winding. Central polar part may have at least one groove. The distance between the centers of adjacent polar surfaces of the magnetic-force-conducting element is set depending on the angle between the magnetic poles in the circular row. The angular dimension of the polar surface of the lateral polar part depends on the angular dimension of the polar surface of the central polar part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Andrei Mikhailovich Maximov
  • Patent number: 8536757
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a three-phase brushless DC motor providing a high torque and performs stable operations which can be used even when an installation space is restricted. To achieve the object, the present invention adopts an inner rotor-type three-phase brushless DC motor in which an inner rotor-type three-phase brushless DC motor comprising a rotor provided with a plurality of magnetic poles divided equally in a circumferential direction at an outer peripheral of the rotor and a stator separately arranged along an outer peripheral of the rotor, wherein the stator is provided with M?n (wherein, n is an integer equal to or larger than 1) of stator sections each provided with three stator poles each having different phases, and the relationship between number of magnetic poles provided in the rotor and the total number of stator poles is made different from the conventional one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Shiga
  • Patent number: 8476794
    Abstract: An in-wheel motor having an inner stationary portion (the stator), and an outer rotating portion (the rotor) that rotates around the stator and drives a wheel directly attached to the rotor. The stator may comprise an inner support structure around which a plurality of magnets having windings are disposed in a circumferential fashion. The rotor circumferentially surrounds the stator, and includes permanent magnets placed at an interval along a surface of the rotor. An intermediate layer between the rotor and the stator is comprised of a bearing that allows movement of the rotor relative to the stator. By attaching a wheel directly to the outer surface of the rotor, a compact and efficient wheel-mounted electrical motor may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Velayutham Kadal Amutham
  • Patent number: 8415850
    Abstract: A universal motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The stator includes a stator core and winding wound on the stator core. The stator core has an E-shape cross section and comprises a main part and three extension parts extending perpendicularly from the main part. Each extension part has an arc surface. The arc surfaces of the extension parts cooperatively form a space into which the rotor is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Jian Zhao, Yong Li, Yu Li Yang
  • Patent number: 7712982
    Abstract: An actuator includes a rotor, a stator containing the rotor, and a bearing to support the rotor to be rotatable with respect to the stator about the central axis of the rotor and an axis perpendicular to the central axis. The rotor includes rotor central magnetic poles, a rotor upper magnetic pole, and a rotor lower magnetic pole. The stator includes stator central magnetic poles larger in number than the rotor central magnetic poles, stator upper magnetic poles, stator lower magnetic poles, central coils to appropriately magnetize the stator central magnetic poles, upper coils to appropriately magnetize the stator upper magnetic poles, and lower coils to appropriately magnetize the stator lower magnetic poles. The length of each stator central magnetic pole along a central axis of the stator is larger than a length of each rotor central magnetic pole along the central axis of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshikatsu Akiba