Dovetail Connection Patents (Class 310/216.086)
  • Patent number: 11303179
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator active part for an electric motor, preferably a permanent-magnet-excited synchronous machine consisting of a hollow-cylindrical yoke, comprising an inner cladding and having a receptacle space, into which a coil support is inserted, wherein the coil support consists of a peripherally-closed, hollow-cylindrical tubular body extending in the axial direction (A) of the yoke, on the outer cladding of said body a plurality of coil holders being formed, wherein a finely-distributed coil is installed on each coil holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Huth, Jiawei He, Jens Krotsch, Roland Erneker, Otmar Hügel, Walter Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10666108
    Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core having an annular portion and a plurality of teeth that is radially protruded outward from an outer periphery of the annular portion; a molded coil that has an air-core portion into which the teeth of the stator core are inserted and that is stored in a slot formed between the teeth of the stator core; and a yoke that covers a circumference of the molded coil stored in the slot of the stator core. The molded coil has an arc-shaped cross-section, and the molded coil includes a resin-molded portion and an exposed portion exposed at the molded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Masashi Suzuki, Manabu Horiuchi, Masaki Musha
  • Patent number: 9899884
    Abstract: A motor armature includes a core including a stack of electromagnetic steel sheets, a tooth portion extending in a radial direction of the motor, and a conductive wire that is wound around the tooth portion in a circumferential direction. First recessed portions extending in the radial direction are located in a surface of the tooth portion of each of the electromagnetic steel sheets of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeharu Sumi
  • Patent number: 9515530
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a stator module and a magnetic field generating structure which includes a magnetizer and an electrically conducting pipe. The electrically conducting pipe is wound around the magnetizer and has a passage inside. The passage has an outlet and an inlet opposite to each other. The electrically conducting pipe has a current input portion and a current output portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Se-Kang Ho, Kuo-Lin Chiu, Chia-Min Ting, Cheng-Min Chang, Chen-Chih Lin, Hsien-Chang Huang, Yu-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 9197106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a permanent magnet rotor arrangement for a rotating electrical machine including a rotor body having an outer rim. A circumferential array of magnet carriers is mounted to the rotor body by fixing members and support members and is spaced apart from the rotor body in the radial direction to define a series of axially gaps or spaces which can optionally be used as passages for cooling air. At least one pole piece made of permanent magnet material is located adjacent to a surface of each magnet carrier. The magnet carriers and pole pieces preferably have a laminated or divided construction to virtually eliminate eddy currents that may be particularly problematic in certain types and construction of electrical machine. The flux path between adjacent pole pieces flows in the circumferential direction within the magnet carriers and does not use the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited
    Inventor: Paul Eaton Clark
  • Patent number: 8987971
    Abstract: A rotor core is provided for an electric machine. The rotor core includes a body extending a length along, and being configured to rotate about, a central longitudinal axis. The body includes spokes arranged radially about the central longitudinal axis and conductor openings arranged radially about the central longitudinal axis. The radial arrangement of the spokes and conductor openings about the central longitudinal axis includes an alternating pattern of spokes and conductor openings. The spokes include slots extending therethrough along the central longitudinal axis. The slots are positioned radially about the central longitudinal axis between adjacent conductor openings. The rotor core also includes conductors extending within the conductor openings of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patel Bhageerath Reddy, Manoj Shah
  • Patent number: 8952590
    Abstract: Electrical machines, for example transverse flux machines and/or commutated flux machines, may be configured to achieve increased efficiency, increased output torque, and/or reduced operating losses via use of laminated materials in connection with powdered metal materials. For example, stacks of laminated materials may be coupled to powdered metal teeth to form portions of a stator in an electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Electric Torque Machines Inc
    Inventors: David G. Calley, Daniel S. Cole, John M. Dyer, Thomas F. Janecek, Tyler K. Williams
  • Patent number: 8766508
    Abstract: A rotor for a motor is provided including: a rotor core including at least one a first coupling portion on an outer circumference thereof, wherein the first coupling portion includes a first coupling groove or a first coupling projection; at least one division core spaced apart from the rotor core and including a second coupling portion on an outer circumference thereof, the second coupling portion including a second coupling groove or a second coupling projection; and a connecting pin including a third coupling portion and a fourth coupling portion, the third coupling portion to be coupled to the first coupling portion and the fourth coupling portion to be coupling to the second coupling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Hyuk Park
  • Publication number: 20140152127
    Abstract: A stator for a brushless external-rotor motor. The stator includes a stator core; a winding; and an end insulator. The stator core includes a yoke part and a tooth part which are separated. The tooth part includes a clamping part. The tooth part is formed by overlapping a plurality of silicon-steel sheets. The end insulator is sleeved on the tooth part. The winding is wound on the end insulator. The yoke part is formed by molding permeability magnetic material and includes a mounting hole in a center. A plurality of lug bosses protrudes at intervals on an outer side of the yoke par. A clamping groove is formed between two connected lug bosses. The clamping part of the tooth part is nested in the clamping groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Songfa TANG, Jianwei JIN
  • Patent number: 8716913
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electromagnetic machine includes a rotor element configured for movement relative to a stator. The rotor element includes a support member, a backing member, and a magnetic pole assembly. The support member includes a first coupling portion. The backing member is formed, at least in part, from a ferromagnetic material and the magnetic pole assembly is configured to be coupled to the backing member. The magnetic pole assembly and/or the backing member include a second coupling portion configured to removably couple the backing member and the magnetic pole assembly collectively to the first coupling portion of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Boulder Wind Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Kvam, Brian J. Sullivan, James David Duford, James D. Jore, Matthew B. Jore, David Samsel, James S. Smith
  • Publication number: 20130106214
    Abstract: A three-phase motor structure includes a sectional stator, a winding set, a circuit board and an inner rotor. The sectional stator includes a detachable pole set which has a plurality of pole teeth. Before assembled, the winding set is wound on the pole pins of the detachable pole set. The circuit board is mounted on the sectional stator and electrically connects with the winding set. The inner rotor extends through the sectional stator when assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Nai-Hsin Chang
  • Patent number: 8334632
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator-core having slots and teeth, and a back-yoke having convex and concave portions. The convex portions are partially inserted into the slots, and the concave portions receive the teeth. The teeth include tip portions whose circumferential widths become larger along a radial direction from the inside to the outside of the stator. The back-yoke includes convex portions whose circumferential widths become larger along the radial direction from the outside to the inside of the stator. The tip portions and the convex portions have substantially the same shape. The length of a joint portion between the tip portion and the convex portion, the circumferential width of the tooth corresponding to a tip surface of the convex portion, the width of a root portion of the tooth, and the circumferential width of the convex portion corresponding to a bottom face of the concave portion are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Kondou, Makoto Taniguchi, Takeo Maekawa, Akira Fukushima, Akito Akimoto, Shin Kusase, Yuya Mizuma
  • Publication number: 20120275942
    Abstract: Systems and methods for constructing electric motors in which a stator core includes inner and outer portions that enable slots for magnet windings to be open during construction and closed in the completed motor. One embodiment comprises a method in which an inner stator core having a plurality of slots is formed by stacking a set of laminations. The slots are open radially outward from an axis of the inner stator core and which are configured to accommodate turns of magnet wire. After the magnet wire is positioned in the open slots, an outer stator core comprising stacked laminations is positioned around the inner stator core, enclosing the slots. The inner and outer stator cores are then positioned within a housing and assembled into a downhole motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: John M. Knapp, Sean A. Cain, Sergio A. Pesek, Thien Q. Tran, Larry J. Parmeter
  • Patent number: 8294326
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor has a laminated stator core 10 formed from a plurality of stacked laminations, and a stator winding formed from a plurality of coils 20 wound on bobbins 30. The stator core 10 has a plurality of teeth 40 which extend radially and alternately spaced between and connected to circumferentially extending yokes 50. The yokes and the teeth are separately formed with each yoke 50 being a stack of yoke laminations 12 and each tooth 40 being a stack of tooth laminations 14. The teeth 40 are inserted through the bobbins 30 and arranged in a cylindrical form with each tooth 40 extending radially. Yokes 50 are then fixed between radially outer ends 144 of adjacent teeth to complete the radially outer portion of the stator core. Each tooth 40 has a radial location surface 144b which contacts an inner surface of the adjacent yokes 50. The yokes 50 and teeth 40 are fixed together by welding the yokes 50 to the outer ends 144 of the teeth 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Ji Dong Chai, Bao Ting Liu, Wen Liang Li, Zhi Duan Shao
  • Publication number: 20120112600
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a multi-phase stator coil distributedly wound on the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of teeth and a yoke having a plurality of grooves. Each of the teeth has a press-fit portion, which is press-fitted in a corresponding one of the grooves of the yoke, and a main body portion extending from the press-fit portion in a direction away from the corresponding groove. The press-fit portion has a pair of contact surfaces which are both in contact with a bottom surface of the corresponding groove and away from each other in a width direction of the tooth. Further, (a+b)?e/2, where a and b respectively represent widths of the contact surfaces of the press-fit portion, and e represents a width of the main body portion at a press-fit portion-side end of the main body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji KONDOU, Makoto TANIGUCHI, Takeo MAEKAWA
  • Patent number: 8138654
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a stator mounting kit that includes multiple radial adjustment shims having different thicknesses from one another. The stator mounting kit also includes multiple stator alignment adapters having different circumferential alignments between a keybar mount and a spring bar mount. The stator mounting kit is configured to enable radial and circumferential alignment between each spring bar and respective keybar in a stator framework via selection of one of the stator alignment adapters and selection of one or more of the radial adjustment shims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: William Hunter Boardman, IV
  • Publication number: 20110187222
    Abstract: A dual-rotor motor provided with a stator having a stator core including a yoke, a plurality of teeth and a coil wound around the stator core, an inner rotor and an outer rotor, wherein the stator core includes an annular yoke component forming the yoke, and a plurality of tooth components forming the teeth. The stator core is made by fitting the tooth components individually into the annular yoke component in a manner that one ends of the tooth components protrude from the inner peripheral side of the annular yoke component and the other ends protrude from the outer peripheral side of the annular yoke component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hideaki Matsuo, Yuichiro Tashiro, Koichi Mitamura, Hideto Inoue, Reiji Tajima, Eiji Hataya
  • Publication number: 20110101816
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator-core having slots and teeth, and a back-yoke having convex and concave portions. The convex portions are partially inserted into the slots, and the concave portions receive the teeth. The teeth include tip portions whose circumferential widths become larger along a radial direction from the inside to the outside of the stator. The back-yoke includes convex portions whose circumferential widths become larger along the radial direction from the outside to the inside of the stator. The tip portions and the convex portions have substantially the same shape. The length of a joint portion between the tip portion and the convex portion, the circumferential width of the tooth corresponding to a tip surface of the convex portion, the width of a root portion of the tooth, and the circumferential width of the convex portion corresponding to a bottom face of the concave portion are substantially the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji KONDOU, Makoto Taniguchi, Takeo Maekawa, Akira Fukushima, Akito Akimoto, Shin Kusase, Yuya Mizuma
  • Patent number: 7808149
    Abstract: A segmented electric generator/motor, such as for a wind powered generator, in which the rotor and/or stator is subdivided in the circumferential direction into segments disposed adjacent to one another. Additionally, the stator segments are accessible via and the rotor segments can be installed and removed in the axial direction in rotor segment mounts provided in the rotor ring. Each rotor segment preferably includes a base shaped to prevent radial and circumferential or tangential motion of the rotor segment while permitting axial motion in the rotor segment's respective mount. The rotor ring segment mounts are preferably sized to allow removal of stator segments through the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Wilic S.AR.L.
    Inventors: Otto Pabst, Michael Kleinlercher
  • Patent number: 7732969
    Abstract: A brushless motor according to the present invention is provided with: a tubular stator case; a stator core; and a rotor. The stator core includes a tubular yoke portion and a plurality of split cores. A plurality of dovetail grooves are formed in an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion; each split core has a coil bobbin which has a mounting hole so as to penetrate in a radial direction, and a split teeth which is mounted into the mounting hole of the coil bobbin. The coil bobbin has a winding portion, and flange portions, and a clearance portion into which a winding starting end of the coil is strayed from the winding portion is formed on the inside of the one of the flange portions by reducing the thickness of the flange portion such that.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ishizeki, Tohru Yumoto, Hisashi Ishida, Susumu Miyazaki, Kazushi Hamaya
  • Patent number: 7701107
    Abstract: Included are a rotor, and a stator having a yoke section and a teeth section including multiple teeth. The teeth section and the yoke section are made of mutually independent configuration members, and connected to each other. At least one of the teeth section and the yoke section is formed by connecting each neighboring two of its multiple segments arranged one after another in a direction in which the rotor rotates. At least some neighboring teeth out of the multiple teeth are unified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sagara, Yukifumi Yamaguchi, Takashi Uchino, Kazuhiro Tomoshige, Keiji Kishimoto, Tetsuji Ueta, Kenji Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20100019613
    Abstract: A stator core for a stator of an electrical machine includes an elongate stator yoke having an interior surface that defines an axial central opening through the stator yoke. The interior surface further defines a plurality of axial channels about a perimeter of the central opening. A plurality of stator teeth are retained in the plurality of axial channels and spaced apart from one another to define to define axial channels to receive windings of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: DIRECT DRIVE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Saban, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
  • Publication number: 20090195112
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor has a laminated stator core 10 formed from a plurality of stacked laminations, and a stator winding formed from a plurality of coils 20 wound on bobbins 30. The stator core 10 has a plurality of teeth 40 which extend radially and alternately spaced between and connected to circumferentially extending yokes 50. The yokes and the teeth are separately formed with each yoke 50 being a stack of yoke laminations 12 and each tooth 40 being a stack of tooth laminations 14. The teeth 40 are inserted through the bobbins 30 and arranged in a cylindrical form with each tooth 40 extending radially. Yokes 50 are then fixed between radially outer ends 144 of adjacent teeth to complete the radially outer portion of the stator core. Each tooth 40 has a radial location surface 144b which contacts an inner surface of the adjacent yokes 50. The yokes 50 and teeth 40 are fixed together by welding the yokes 50 to the outer ends 144 of the teeth 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Ji Dong CHAI, Bao Ting Liu, Wen Liang Li, Zhi Duan Shao