Pole Structure Patents (Class 310/216.074)
  • Patent number: 11909259
    Abstract: A stator includes a first core that includes a first tooth extending in a first radial direction and a first core back extending in a circumferential direction and a second core that includes a second tooth extending in a second radial direction and a second core back extending in the circumferential direction. The first core back includes a depression formed with at least a first face and a second face in an outer peripheral surface of the first core back and a connection part facing the second core back. The stator satisfies ?1<?2, where ?1 represents an angle between the first face and the first radial direction and ?2 represents an angle between the second face and the first radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11384767
    Abstract: A blower apparatus includes a casing, ribs located radially inward of the casing and integrally provided with the casing, a motor housing located radially inward of the ribs and integrally provided with the ribs, a first housing located radially inward of the motor housing, a first motor supported on one side in an axial direction by the first housing, a first impeller rotatable around the central axis on one side in the axial direction by the first motor, a second housing located on the other side of the first housing in the axial direction, a second motor supported on the other side in the axial direction by the second housing, and a second impeller rotatable around the central axis on the other side in the axial direction by the second motor. The second housing is fixed to the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guiling Zhang, Hidenobu Takeshita
  • Patent number: 11355984
    Abstract: An insulator includes a part to be wound with a coil; a first flange; and a second flange. The first flange is formed at the side of the part closer to a core segment, and includes a coil guide groove that guides the coil to the part. The second flange is formed at the side of the part closer to a distal end of a teeth. The coil guide groove includes a first guide groove and a second guide groove symmetrical with respect to a radial plane. Each of the first and second guide grooves and—extends at an acute angle from an inner surface of the first flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuoki Hishida, Hiroshi Yoneda, Hirokatsu Kunitomo
  • Patent number: 11251670
    Abstract: An axial air-gap rotary electric machine includes a stator, a coil, and a bobbin. The bobbin includes a tube and a flange. The coil is wound on the outer periphery of the tube portion with regular winding. A number of turns of each of a plurality of layers wound around an external side of a last layer in contact with the flange is at least one less than a number of turns of each of a plurality of layers wound around an adjacent internal side of the last layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Daisuke Kitajima, Tomonori Kawagoe, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Toru Sakai, Shuuichi Takahashi, Toshifumi Suzuki, Norihisa Iwasaki, Ryousou Masaki, Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 10498185
    Abstract: A stator includes an annular core back extending circumferentially around a central axis extending vertically; a plurality of teeth extending radially from the core back; a plurality of insulators covering at least part of the teeth; and a coil formed of a conducive wire wound around the teeth via the insulators. The insulator has a cylinder extending radially, an umbrella disposed radially at an end of the cylinder and extending circumferentially in both sides, and a wall protruding from the outer side surface of the cylinder circumferentially to one side. At least part of a tip surface of the wall is inclined and approaches closer to the cylinder as it moves toward the umbrella in the radial direction. The insulator has at least one protrusion protruding to the core back side from the end of the umbrella in one side of the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Asahi, Shunsuke Murakami, Takao Atarashi, Masayoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 10128706
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator having an open slot configuration and a plurality of stator poles with a coil positioned about each stator pole. Each coil has a plurality of electrically conductive wires defining a group of wires and the group of wires is wrapped generally around a stator pole to define a plurality of turns. At least a portion of the group of wires is twisted, and the portion of the group of wires has between approximately 1 and 5 twists per turn. A method of fabricating a stator assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Rodwan T. Adra
  • Patent number: 9539909
    Abstract: Phase coils are each configured by winding a conductor wire in a concentrated winding consecutively on three circumferentially consecutive tooth portions, six inverter units of an inverter module are each disposed in close proximity to a motor so as to face each of the phase coils axially, and the motor and the inverter module are electrically connected by connecting an alternating-current output terminals of each of the plurality of inverter units to output wires of the phase coils that face the inverter units axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masaya Inoue, Yoshiko Obiraki, Tatsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9172289
    Abstract: A wire assembly for use in an electric machine is provided. The assembly includes a member and a wire. The wire conducts electrical current. At least a portion of the wire is adapted to be wrapped at least partially around the member. The member defines a periphery of the member. At least a portion of the periphery of the member is conformable when the wire is wrapped at least partially around the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Jon Kreidler, William Joseph Conway
  • Patent number: 9060883
    Abstract: In a powered actuator for supplying torque, joint equilibrium, and/or impedance to a joint, a motor is directly coupled to a low-reduction ratio transmission, e.g., a transmission having a gear ratio less than about 80 to 1. The motor has a low dissipation constant, e.g., less than about 50 W/(Nm)2. The transmission is serially connected to an elastic element that is also coupled to the joint, thereby supplying torque, joint equilibrium, and/or impedance to the joint while minimizing the power consumption and/or acoustic noise of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: iWalk, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh M. Herr, Jeff A. Weber, David A. Garlow, Richard J. Casler, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9013083
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet type motor including: a rotor including a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets; a conducting circuit including a first electric conductor extending in an axial direction of the rotor and being disposed between permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor and a second electric conductor for connecting the first electric conductors electrically; and a stator disposed so as to be opposed to the rotor, including a stator core and an armature winding. A rotation angle is detected by measuring current flowing in the armature winding. The stator core is formed to have a shape in which, a slot pitch is defined by ?s=(2×?×Rs)/Ns, where an inner radius of the stator is represented by Rs and a number of slots is represented by Ns, a value Wsn obtained by dividing a slot opening width Ws by the slot pitch ?s satisfies “0.08?Wsn”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electic Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Morita, Masatsugu Nakano, Sachiko Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20150102700
    Abstract: An electric motor including a rotor including magnetic pole units and a stator including slots facing an outer peripheral surface of the rotor. Each of the magnetic pole units is bulged to an outside in a radial direction so that a waveform of a magnetic flux density generated from the rotor is a sine wave shape, and a concave part or convex part which is small enough to prevent changing of a waveform cycle of cogging torque determined by a least common multiple of the number of slots and the number of magnetic poles of the rotor, is formed at a central part in a circumferential direction of an outer peripheral surface in each of the magnetic pole units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Takuya Maeda
  • Patent number: 9000648
    Abstract: A reluctance machine is disclosed. The reluctance machine includes a stationary member including a housing, a plurality of windings disposed in the housing, a plurality of electrical connections each electrical connection coupled to a corresponding winding of the plurality of windings, and a plurality of teeth coupled to the housing, a rotating member having a center including a mechanical coupling member formed about the center, and a plurality of outwardly protruding poles centrally located within the stationary member each outwardly protruding pole having a continuous outer surface adjacent to at least one tooth of the plurality of teeth, wherein each outer surface of each outwardly protruding pole having a first portion being a first distance away from the center and a second portion being a second distance away from the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Cahya Harianto, Scott Sudhoff
  • Publication number: 20150061453
    Abstract: A stator core includes a yoke member and a teeth member. The yoke member is in an annular shape. The teeth member includes teeth and connecting portions. The teeth are projected from the yoke member radially inward. The teeth are formed of a steel plate stacked along a circumferential direction. At least one of the connecting portions connects a part of a tip end of one of the teeth in an axial direction with a part of a tip end of an other of the teeth in the axial direction. The one of the teeth and the other of the teeth are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Makoto Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8952589
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine of axial-gap type in which a stator and a rotor are opposed to each other in arrangement and winding axis is parallel with a rotating shaft direction, the stator has an “m” protruding in the rotating shaft direction are distributed along a circumferential direction thereof, in which the winding pole is formed of a magnetic member having a plurality of teeth in a circular-arc shape in a diameter direction, and wherein the rotor is formed of a magnetic member having a plurality of teeth in a circular-arc shape in a diameter direction, and the number of the teeth of the stator and the rotor are arranged in a manner opposite to each other through air gap so as to be engaged with each other. The stator and the rotor are opposed on both sides of the rotor and the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masafumi Sakamoto, Shigeyoshi Sato, Shunsuke Takeguchi
  • Patent number: 8922944
    Abstract: A rotating device includes: a hub that is rotatably supported by a base, on which a recording disk is to be mounted; a stator core fixed to the base, the core having a ring portion and multiple salient poles that radially extend from the ring portion; and a magnet fixed to the hub, the magnet having multiple magnetic poles arranged along its circumference on its side surface on the salient pole side. The magnet is arranged such that its side surface on the salient pole side faces a side surface of each salient pole and a side surface of a portion of the hub that faces the stator core along a rotational axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Kodama, Daiki Hayashi, Takanori Watanabe, Takuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 8901785
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor including an iron core and a plurality of windings, and a stator including a plurality of permanent magnets forming a plurality of poles. The iron core has a plurality of primary teeth around each of which a winding is wound and a plurality of secondary teeth around each of which no winding is wound. The primary teeth and the secondary teeth are formed alternately with each other. The electric motor is configured such that a ratio between the number of poles formed by the permanent magnets of the stator and the number of phases formed by the windings of the rotor is 4m:3n (m and n are any natural numbers, excluding the case where m:n=2:3 is satisfied).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nishifukumoto, Takuya Maeda, Yoshifumi Shimura
  • Patent number: 8878416
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stator core including a core back fixedly inserted onto an outer surface of a stationary member, a plurality of teeth protruding from the core back in an outer diameter direction, wherein a coil is wound around the plurality of teeth so as to allow magnetic flux from a magnet to flow to the teeth, front end portions defining outer edges of the teeth, respectively, and body portions defining a length of the teeth and having a width increasing from the core back toward the front end portions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Seob Shin, Sang Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8860282
    Abstract: The invention concerns a polyphase motor comprising M phases, M being equal to 2 or 3, the motor consisting of a stator part (1) excited by electric coils and by a magnetized rotor (2). The invention is characterized in that the rotor (2) has a disc-shaped magnetized part with R pairs of alternately poles magnetized in alternating directions in the thickness, R being equal to n*(M+1) or 5*n, and said stator part (1) has S poles, some of which excited at least by an electric coil, S being equal to 8*n, for even M, and 9*n for odd M, n being an integer not less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Moving Magnet Technologies
    Inventors: Pierre Gandel, Daniel Prudham
  • Patent number: 8766507
    Abstract: A motor pulley minimizes an influence of a resonance phenomenon, thereby reducing noise and vibrations and preventing lowering of durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventor: Hee Kwon Jo
  • Patent number: 8766506
    Abstract: A stator core includes a cylindrical yoke and teeth that are disposed in an inner circumference surface of the yoke along its circumferential direction and that are subjected to magnetic flux from the rotor of the rotating electrical device. The teeth include a trapezoidal tooth that has a trapezoidal cross section that is taken vertically along a central axis of the yoke and an oddly shaped tooth of which a tip section has the same shape as the trapezoidal tooth and a base section from the tip section to the yoke has a different shape from the trapezoidal tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Sano, Isao Kato
  • Patent number: 8729767
    Abstract: An electric machine (1), particularly used as an electric motor, has a rotor (2) comprising a plurality of disks (4). A disk (4) of the rotor (2) is divided in a circumferential direction (5) into a plurality of disk sectors (6, 7, 8) between which magnetic pockets (9, 10) are designed. Furthermore, the disk (4) has an inner fastening collar (15) and connecting members (20, 23, 24) connecting the disk sectors (6, 7, 8) to the fastening collar (15). Such a connecting member (20) comprises a main web (21), a side arm (30) branching off the main rib (21) in the circumferential direction (5), and a side arm (31) branching off the main web (21) opposite to the circumferential direction (5). High mechanical stability of the disk (4) can thus be ensured, wherein magnetic flow losses are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Lin Feuerrohr, Karl-Juergen Roth, Tilo Koenig, Bruno Holzwarth
  • Publication number: 20140117791
    Abstract: An assembly includes multiple adjoined rotor sections each having multiple poles and multiple void rows therethrough that are radially distributed in each of the poles. The rotor sections are skewed in a circumferential direction. The assembly also has multiple conductive rings that substantially surround one of the void rows. A method of assembly and electric machines and vehicles using the assembly are also disclosed. Aspects reduce torque ripple in electric machines and allow for encoderless/sensorless operation in an electric machine using the rotor assembly. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander Felix Fiseni, Kum-Kang Huh, Mohamed Osama, Francesco Papini
  • Patent number: 8704422
    Abstract: An electromagnetic machine has a rotor and a stator core. The stator core has a plurality of radially-extending teeth and a plurality of bridges having opposite ends secured to corresponding teeth. Stator windings are positioned at least partially in slots between the teeth. Each of the bridges is in a compressed configuration and includes a midsection radially offset from the ends. In a method of making an electromagnetic machine, stator windings are wound around the teeth of the stator core while the stator core is in an expanded configuration in which each of the slots is relatively wider and the configuration of the stator core is changed after winding, for example by compressing or otherwise deforming the bridges, to a compressed configuration in which each of the slots is relatively narrower. The bridges hold the teeth in the expanded configuration facilitating high slot fill without using a segmented stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Jason Jurkowski
  • Patent number: 8689427
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor has a stator core, a winding and a housing enclosing the stator core and winding. The stator core has a yoke and a plurality of poles extending inwardly from the yoke. The winding formed by coils wound about the poles of the stator core. The housing grips the stator core and has at least one inwardly deformed portion that retains the stator core in the housing and prevents rotational movement of the stator core relative to the housing. A method of producing the stator is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Yvan Bourqui, Miha Furlan, Michael Watzek, David Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8680739
    Abstract: When a conventional technology is employed, it is difficult to manufacture a magnet row because magnets are disposed so that N-poles face each other while S-poles face each other. Further, magnetic reluctance is increased because a generated magnetic flux obliquely crosses an air gap in which the magnets are disposed. Furthermore, the conventional technology is at a disadvantage in that magnetic flux interference occurs between neighboring magnetic poles. The present invention has been made to address the above problems and provide a rotary electrical machine capable of generating high torque at low speed. The rotary electrical machine includes a rotor disc and an armature. The rotor disc is configured so that plural rectangular magnets whose longitudinal direction crosses the direction of rotor disc rotation are disposed on the rotor disc, and that the polarities of neighboring magnets differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Takafumi Koseki
  • Publication number: 20140035418
    Abstract: A motor is provided for use in a machine. The motor includes a segmented stator comprising magnetically isolated core segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Horst
  • Publication number: 20140028147
    Abstract: A Back Torque reducing electrodynamic generator machine is disclosed. Some embodiments include a multi-pole stator comprising field windings and power windings and a rotor having a flux path element. For some embodiments, the flux path element is attached to a rotor shaft at an oblique angle to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The flux path element has a shape that provides a uniform constant air gap between it and the stator poles when the shaft is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Convergent Power, Inc.
    Inventor: James F. Murray
  • Publication number: 20140015356
    Abstract: An electric machine having a segmented core wherein the core includes a plurality of core segments. The segments are secured together with a belt member that substantially encircles the core segments but does not extend the full axial length of the segments. In some embodiments, the individual segments include a recess on their outer radial surface in which the belt member is positioned. A method of assembling an electric machine having a segmented core is also disclosed. Coils are wound about the poles of a plurality of segments. After forming the coils on the segments, the segments are joined together with a belt member wherein the belt member does not extend the full axial length of the core segments and is positioned between the two axial ends of the core assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Bradley D. Chamberlin
  • Publication number: 20140001914
    Abstract: A novel stator for an electric drive, is described and which includes—a stator body defining a coil space for accommodating a coil wire in the form of a coil, and wherein the coil space comprises a plurality of slots, which are delimited by a stator wall and pole horns made integral with the stator; and wherein—the coil wire is inserted into the coil space, and is subsequently wound out via the slot in the region which is located between the two pole horns. In addition, the disclosed invention relates to a method for producing a stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Schmohl, Felix Ebner, Enrico Flote
  • Patent number: 8614531
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stator core including a core back fixedly inserted onto an outer surface of a stationary member, a plurality of teeth protruding from the core back in an outer diameter direction, wherein a coil is wound around the plurality of teeth so as to allow magnetic flux from a magnet to flow to the teeth, front end portions defining outer edges of the teeth, respectively, and body portions defining a length of the teeth and having a width increasing from the core back toward the front end portions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Seob Shin, Sang Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8593031
    Abstract: A stator includes an iron core 3 in which a plurality of teeth 2 are connected into an integral body, and coil wires 5 each of which is wound in series around each set of a predetermined number of teeth included in the plurality of teeth. Each of the coil wires 5 is routed in a slanting direction between opposed faces of two adjacent teeth 2 in each set of the predetermined number of teeth 2, so that each of the coil wires makes a transition from a wire wound around one of them 2 to a wire wound around the other tooth 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinugawa, Hiroyuki Ogura, Tatsuhiro Ujiie
  • Patent number: 8569924
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a case, a plurality of teeth, coils and insulating films. The teeth are circumferentially arranged around a predetermined axis forming a center of the teeth. Each tooth has a first end disposed radially at an opposite side thereof from the predetermined axis. The a back yoke has a circular outer periphery, and a cylindrical inner periphery connecting the first ends of the teeth. The outer periphery has a plurality of concave parts opening radially inwardly toward the teeth at positions overlapping with the teeth as viewed radially. A minimum distance measured from an exposure surface of each tooth to the concave part overlapping therewith is smaller than a radial width of the back yoke at a portion where the concave parts are not provided. The exposure surfaces extend radially inwardly of the inner periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Yasuda, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 8508095
    Abstract: A flux-switching machine stator comprising two or more C-cores, each C-core having two legs and a back portion joining the legs, and a permanent magnet arranged between legs of adjacent C-cores. Each leg has a main portion and a tip portion further from the back portion characterized in that the tip portion of each leg is angled relative to the main portion of the respective leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Stephen Mark Husband, David James Powell, Zi-Qiang Zhu, Geraint Wyn Jewell, Arwyn Thomas
  • Publication number: 20130187488
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine of axial-gap type in which a stator and a rotor are opposed to each other in arrangement and winding axis is parallel with a rotating shaft direction, the stator has an “m” protruding in the rotating shaft direction are distributed along a circumferential direction thereof, in which the winding pole is formed of a magnetic member having a plurality of teeth in a circular-arc shape in a diameter direction, and wherein the rotor is formed of a magnetic member having a plurality of teeth in a circular-arc shape in a diameter direction, and the number of the teeth of the stator and the rotor are arranged in a manner opposite to each other through air gap so as to be engaged with each other. The stator and the rotor are opposed on both sides of the rotor and the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD
  • Patent number: 8471427
    Abstract: A motor magnetic pole assembly includes a coil body, a base, and two conductive portions. The coil body has a central shaft in a center and connection ends at two ends respectively. The base includes a column and a first plate body, the coil body surrounds the column, and the central shaft is parallel with the column. The two conductive portions are respectively arranged on a surface of the first plate body and are spaced by a distance, and the two connection ends are electrically connected to the two conductive portions respectively. The base may further include a second plate body, such that the first plate body, the column and the second plate body form an H shape. Therefore, the motor magnetic pole assembly may be precisely and quickly placed on a circuit board through an automation process, thereby increasing a processing speed of a production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Risun Expanse Corp.
    Inventor: Chiang-Cheng Huang
  • Publication number: 20130119817
    Abstract: A rotor (10) of a buried magnet-type electric motor, wherein the magnetic poles thereof are each constituted by two rows of magnets (M1, M2) of the same pole, wherein a core portion (12) between magnet slots of the same pole is arranged between the magnet slots (31, 32) in which the two rows of magnets are arranged, and wherein, of the edges constituting said magnet slots, the portions connecting the edges (31a, 32a) on the inner side in the radial direction to the outer edges of the core portion between the magnet slots of the same pole, have curved portions (41, 42) that connect a curve of a small curvature to a curve of a large curvature starting from the edges on the inner side in the radial direction and heading toward the outer edges of the core portion between the magnet slots of the same pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei ARIMATSU, Kenji KAWAI
  • Patent number: 8436504
    Abstract: An electric machine having a stator surrounding a rotor with an air gap therebetween. The stator has slots in its inner margin for accommodating stator coil windings. Stator teeth defined by the slots have irregular shapes to modify a variable flux flow pattern in the air gap to reduce harmonic torque components with minimal effect on an average value of rotor torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Michael W. Degner, Alfredo R. Munoz, Wen Ouyang
  • Patent number: 8415855
    Abstract: A brushless direct current (BLDC) motor has a 3-phase winding 20 and six stator teeth 14, 15 with alternate stator teeth 14 being wound and the remaining stator teeth 15 being left unwound. The winding 20 has three legs, one for each phase and each leg has one coil 22 wound about one of the stator teeth 14. Each leg has a first end A,B,C, arranged to receive electrical power and a second end X,Y,Z, which is connected to the second end of the other legs to form a star connection 24. Selected stator teeth have grooves in a face thereof dividing those teeth into a plurality of stator poles. The motor may be used to drive a fuel pump for an internal combustion engine, typically for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Yong Bin Li, Wei Feng Yuan, Ning Sun, Xin Ping Wang
  • Patent number: 8410654
    Abstract: A motor comprises a stator having a plurality of magnetic poles disposed at first predetermined intervals along an outer periphery thereof, and a rotor having a permanent magnet with poles magnetized alternately to have different polarities at second predetermined intervals and disposed rotatably around the outer periphery of the stator with a predetermined gap. The magnetic poles of the stator has extended portions formed in a manner to extend from magnetic polar bases into a direction generally parallel to the permanent magnet, and the extended portions are formed of a high-permeability magnetic steel sheet with silicon content less than 3.0 wt-%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Koji Kadowaki, Haruki Kato, Yasuo Kunishige
  • Patent number: 8405276
    Abstract: The motor comprises a stator, a rotor, and magnets. The stator has a plurality of magnetic poles circumferentially arranged at first spaced intervals. The rotor is rotatably arranged in a position opposing to the stator. The magnets are arranged at second spaced intervals circumferentially on a surface of the rotor. The stator is formed by laminating plate materials, and a plurality of laminated plate materials at least including outermost layers of a laminated body thereof are bent in a direction substantially parallel to the magnet in order to form extended portions. And, when a magnet opposed area of pole tip portion being closest to a magnet including the extended portion is S, and a sectional area of magnetic pole is A, then area ratio (S/A) fulfills the relation of 4.8>(S/A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawasaki, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Yasuhiro Inoue, Koji Kadowaki, Yasuo Kunishige
  • Publication number: 20130050873
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a plurality of coils. The stator core includes a core-back and a plurality of teeth portions. Each of the teeth portions includes a coil winding portion, a tip end portion, and an increased width portion. The tip end portion has a circumferential width larger than a smallest width of the coil winding portion. The increased width portion has a circumferential width larger than the smallest width of the coil winding portion. The increased width portion includes a slanted portion extending radially outward and upward. An axial position of a magnetic center of the rotor magnet positioned radially outward of the stator overlaps with an axially extending range of the tip end portion. A thickness of the slanted portion in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the slanted portion is smaller than an axial thickness of the coil winding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ABE, Takehito TAMAOKA, Kazuhiro SATO
  • Patent number: 8378533
    Abstract: A pump motor includes a stator, a rotor and a housing accommodating the stator and the rotor. The stator has a plurality of teeth, each of the teeth being provided with a cap portion at its tip end. The rotor is arranged inside the stator in an opposing relationship with the cap portion of each of the teeth. The housing includes a fluid path defined therein. The fluid path includes a substantially annular gap axially extending between the stator and the rotor. The cap portion includes a first opposing surface and a second opposing surface provided in an opposing relationship with the rotor to define a portion of the fluid path, the distance between the first opposing surface and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor being greater than the distance between the second opposing surface and the outer circumferential surface of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Suzuki, Kyohei Asahi
  • Patent number: 8344580
    Abstract: A stator (16) is proposed for a polyphase electric machine, having a core body (17), which is provided with slots (114), which are situated in the radial direction with respect to an axis of rotation of the electric machine on one side of the core body (17) parallel to the longitudinal axis of the core body (17), having a slot width (bn1, bn2) and a stator yoke (122) being provided on the opposite side, with two slots (114) each being separated from one another by a tooth (116) having a tooth width (bz1, bz2) and extending from a slot base (120) to a tooth head (118), these slots (114) being provided to receive at least one coil winding having a plurality of coils that is electrically connected in series and are manufactured from at least one continuous wire (124) without interruption, the ratio (bz2/hj) of the tooth width (bz2) to the yoke height (hj) at the tooth head (118) being between 0.3 and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhard Rau, Alexander Shendi
  • Patent number: 8334667
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine capable of conducting a variable speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability in a wide operating range. Two kinds of permanent magnets having different shapes or different magnetic characteristics are embedded in a rotor core, to form a magnetic pole. The permanent magnets arranged at the magnetic pole include a permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along a magnetizing direction is small and a permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along the magnetizing direction is large. A magnetic field created by passing a current to an armature coil for a short time is used to irreversibly magnetize the permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and thickness along magnetizing direction is small, thereby changing a total linkage flux amount, and a positive d-axis current is passed when torque is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Kazuaki Yuuki
  • Publication number: 20120299434
    Abstract: A stator of a permanently excited rotating electric machine has a plurality of segments abutting each other at radially and axially extending segment boundaries. Each segment has a plurality of radially projecting teeth of uniform width and grooves extending in the axial direction and alternatingly arranged in a peripheral direction of the stator. Abutting segments touch each other at the segment boundaries such that an outer tooth of one segment touches an outer tooth of an abutting segment, wherein a sum of the widths of the two teeth touching each other at the corresponding segment boundary is greater than the uniform width of at least a majority of the plurality of teeth of a segment that are not arranged directly at a segment boundary of that segment. Detent moments and/or oscillating moments occurring in a permanently excited rotating electric machine can thereby reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ulrich Hartmann, Axel Möhle
  • Patent number: 8258669
    Abstract: A motor including a stator and rotor. The stator includes a stator core, slot portions and coils. The stator core includes stator core pieces with teeth portion having a distal end portion and two side portions, a yoke portion, and a claw portion formed at one of the two side portions. At the distal end portion, the stator core pieces are connected so that claw portions protrude in the same circumferential direction to form the stator core into a cylindrical shape. The slot portions are formed between adjacent teeth portions and between the stator core pieces. The coils form three phases which are inserted into the slot portions, are bridged between two of the slot portions and include end portions that protrude from an edge face of the stator core in an axial direction. The coils are arranged so that the end portions are intersected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Shikata
  • Patent number: 8232704
    Abstract: An electric motor comprises a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted confronting the stator. The rotor has a rotor core which comprises at least a first tooth, a second tooth and a third tooth which are adjacent. Each of the teeth comprises a rib section radially and outwardly extending from a core and a tooth section located at an outer end of the rib section. The angle between the first tooth and the second tooth is n degrees, wherein when the rotor core is rotated n degrees to move the first tooth towards the second tooth, the rotated second tooth does not coincide with the pre-rotated third tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Feng Qin, Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 8217547
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a path length between a rotor and an inter-hetero-phase tooth where a magnetic flux from a magnetic pole proceeds from the rotor and starts to enter the inter-hetero-phase tooth is longer than a path length between the rotor and an inter-V-phase tooth where the magnetic flux proceeds from the rotor and starts to enter the inter-V-phase tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Munehiro Kamiya, Shigenori Yoneda, Hiroshi Kaneiwa, Hiroyuki Ikuta, Yasuhide Yagyu, Tomofumi Morishita
  • Publication number: 20120139385
    Abstract: A stator core includes three split cores, each of the split cores including a core-back portion including an inner surface facing a rotor, a tooth base portion protruding radially inwards from the inner surface of the core-back portion and a pair of tooth overhang portions protruding from both sides of a tip end of the tooth base portion in a circumferential direction. The inner surface of the core-back portion including a pair of orthogonal surface regions extending from both sides of a base end of the tooth base portion in a direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the tooth base portion, the orthogonal surface regions extending radially outwards beyond projection positions of tip ends of the tooth overhang portions when the tooth overhang portions are projected on an imaginary plane including the orthogonal surface regions in parallel or substantially in parallel to the tooth base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: NIDEC TECHNO MOTOR HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20120126659
    Abstract: An electromagnetic machine has a rotor and a stator core. The stator core has a plurality of radially-extending teeth and a plurality of bridges having opposite ends secured to corresponding teeth. Stator windings are positioned at least partially in slots between the teeth. Each of the bridges is in a compressed configuration and includes a midsection radially offset from the ends. In a method of making an electromagnetic machine, stator windings are wound around the teeth of the stator core while the stator core is in an expanded configuration in which each of the slots is relatively wider and the configuration of the stator core is changed after winding, for example by compressing or otherwise deforming the bridges, to a compressed configuration in which each of the slots is relatively narrower. The bridges hold the teeth in the expanded configuration facilitating high slot fill without using a segmented stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventor: Jason Jurkowski