Asymmetrically Shaped Patents (Class 310/216.096)
  • Patent number: 11532961
    Abstract: A number of illustrative variations may include a rotor core for an electric motor comprising permanent magnets wherein the rotor core comprises lobes of the core material that magnets may be attached to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Sommer
  • Patent number: 11519288
    Abstract: Sealing arrangements and rotor assemblies are provided. A sealing arrangement includes a stationary component, a rotating component spaced apart from the stationary component. A clearance is defined between the stationary component and the rotating component. The sealing arrangement further includes a plurality of magnets embedded within the rotating component. The sealing arrangement further includes a brush seal having a frame and a plurality of magnetically responsive filaments. The plurality of magnetically responsive filaments each extending from the frame to a free end. The plurality of magnetically responsive filaments are attracted to the rotating component by the plurality of magnets. The plurality of magnetically responsive filaments at least partially covering the clearance, such that a flow of fluid across the clearance is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jonathan Dwight Berry
  • Patent number: 10630120
    Abstract: An axial-air-gap motor integrally configured by resin molding, a plurality of stator cores being arranged in an annular configuration, wherein the resin is spread in an efficient manner. An axial-air-gap motor, provided with: a plurality of stator cores, a stator, and one or more rotors. The stator cores are provided with a teeth iron core having the shape of an approximate trapezoidal cylinder, a bobbin covering at least the vicinity of both end parts of the outer periphery of the teeth iron core, flange parts provided in the vicinity of the portions of the bobbin that cover the both end parts of the outer periphery of the teeth iron core so as to extend for a predetermined length in a direction perpendicular to the outer periphery of the teeth iron core, and at least one protrusion further extending from the tip of the flange part in the direction of extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sakai, Katsuyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10277099
    Abstract: A synchronous motor includes a stator that includes nine teeth that are divided into three phases, each of which includes three adjacent teeth, windings being concentratedly wound around the teeth. The circumferential width of a tip portion of a central tooth among three teeth forming each phase is made smaller than the circumferential widths of tip portions of both-side teeth, and the tooth thickness of the tip portion of the central tooth is made smaller than the tooth thicknesses of the tip portions of the both-side teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuoka, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 9249803
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an apparatus and system are described for a crossflow blower motor. An apparatus may comprise one or more motors operative to control a crossflow blower. The one or more motors may comprise one or more stator assemblies having a stator coil and a bent stator. The one or more motors may be configured to control a crossflow blower arranged to generate a flow of air in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the crossflow blower. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ben M. Broili, Tod A. Byquist, Michael S. Brazel, Joseph A. Cervantes
  • Publication number: 20150054379
    Abstract: An electric motor may have a rotor and a stator. An external part and an internal part may be arranged concentrically to a rotation axis and may be adjustable rotationally relative to each other about the rotation axis. The electric motor may be one of an external rotor motor and an internal rotor motor. The external part may have at least two permanent magnets. The internal part may have at least two pole arms and at least one electric coil. The rotor may be formed symmetrically and the stator may be formed asymmetrically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Helmis, Michael Krappel
  • Publication number: 20150054372
    Abstract: There is provided an electric machine, which is configured such that magnetic poles provided on a stator and a mover or rotor of the electric machine have an asymmetric shape, thus being capable of reducing a torque ripple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shi Uk CHUNG, Byung Chul WOO, Ji Young LEE, Yon Do CHUN, Do Kwan HONG
  • Patent number: 8847460
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a permanent magnet rotor, a stator surrounding the rotor having a plurality of teeth radially inwardly oriented toward a longitudinal axis of the stator wherein each tooth has a tooth length and a tooth tip surface geometry. An asymmetric air gap is defined by variations in the tooth lengths and tooth tip surface geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sinisa Jurkovic, Xinyu Zhou, Qiang Niu, Khwaja M. Rahman, John C. Morgante, Xu Han, Edward L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 8841813
    Abstract: A brushless synchronous motor includes a rotor having a number n of embedded permanent magnets and being rotatable relative to a stator having a number of stator teeth provided with a three-phase stator winding, while forming an air gap. An angle between two adjacent permanent magnets is 360°/n where n>8, an angle between two adjacent stator teeth is 360°/n+2, and an inner contour of the stator facing the rotor has a curved structure with curvature valleys provided at ends of the stator teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Jacek Junak, Grzegorz Ombach
  • Patent number: 8836194
    Abstract: A motor including a rotor and a stator that supports and rotates the rotor is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the motor includes a magnetic member, which is installed in the rotor such that the magnetic member faces the stator, and a stator magnetic body, which is a part of the stator and has a part corresponding to the magnetic member formed asymmetrically therein. In this way, the motor can prevent a whirling effect by installing the magnetic member, which forms a preload, even the motor is thinner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Ho-Jun Yoo
  • 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: 8766503
    Abstract: An accommodating recess (21A, 21B) has a magnet accommodating portion (19A, 19B) for accommodating a permanent magnet (17A, 17B) and a cavity (20A, 20B), which is located at the q-axis side of the magnet accommodating portion. The cavity opens through a rotor outer circumferential surface (162). A starting point (Pa1, Pb1) of an outer cavity forming surface (201A, 201B) is located on the rotor outer circumferential surface. The outer cavity forming surface intersects either a magnetic pole surface or an imaginary extended plane (23A, 23B) of a magnetic pole facing surface (191A, 191B). The rotor outer circumferential surface (162) includes portions of an imaginary annular line (E). A starting point (Pa1, Pb1) of the outer cavity forming surface (201A, 201B) is located between the d-axis and an intersection point (Qa, Qb) between the imaginary annular line and the imaginary extended plan of the magnetic pole facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Masanao Kagami, Ryo Umeyama, Yoshiyuki Nakane
  • Patent number: 8384265
    Abstract: An inner-rotor-type motor includes a casing, a shaft and a claw-pole member. The shaft is rotatably coupled to the casing, and coupled to a permanent magnet having a magnetism-inducing surface. The claw-pole member is coupled within the casing and has an annular portion and a plurality of salient-poles. The annular portion has an inner circumferential wall. Each salient-pole is disposed between the annular portion and a respective pole plate. Each pole plate has a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side oppose each other. A magnetic pole surface is formed between the first side and the second side and faces the magnetism-inducing surface of the permanent magnet. An air gap is formed between the magnetic pole surface and the magnetism-inducing surface. Each pole plate has an extension portion and a shrinking portion. The coil unit is coupled to the plurality of salient-poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Tso-Kuo Yin, Chin-Chia Huang
  • Patent number: 8274182
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a stator having field poles arranged linearly with opposing polarities arranged in an alternating manner; and a rotor having an armature core with teeth that faces a pole face of the field poles with a gap, and coils wound around the teeth. The stator and the rotor are supported in a slidable manner, a direction perpendicular to a sliding direction of the rotor and in parallel with the pole face is defined as a stacking direction. A head of each of the teeth has an extended portion extended in the sliding direction. At least heads of the teeth arranged at both ends of the armature core along the sliding direction is divided into a plurality of areas along the stacking direction. At least one of extended portions arranged on adjacent areas is extended by a different length along the sliding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Misa Nakayama, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Koki Naka, Kazumasa Ito, Toshinori Tanaka
  • 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: 8084913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor having a stator with a magnetized rotor rotatably positioned in the stator. The stator and the rotor each have at least two magnetic poles. At least one of the stator poles has a different area confronting the poles of the rotor than the other stator poles. An air gap is positioned between each of the at least two stator poles and at least two rotor poles. The distance of the air gap between each stator pole and each rotor pole is different. A coil is wound upon a bobbin which is placed about at least one of the stator poles. Altering the confronting area of the stator poles allows a larger bobbin and coil to be placed about the stator pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Telep, Robert D. Keefover
  • Patent number: 8022589
    Abstract: Teeth of a stator core are arranged one after another in the circumferential direction at alternating first and second pitches. Each corresponding adjacent two of the teeth, which are spaced from each other by the first pitch, are wound with corresponding two, respectively, of stator coils, which form a corresponding common phase. Each corresponding adjacent two of the teeth, which are spaced from each other by the second pitch, are wound with corresponding two, respectively, of the stator coils, which form corresponding different phases, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8004142
    Abstract: A stator assembly is provided with detachable teeth that are made of magnetic powder material. The teeth are so configured and sized as to be interconnected to a core body of the stator with pre-formed coils that are positioned between adjacent teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: TM4 Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Poulin, Ruisheng Shi, Sebastien Bigras, Gabriel Rakotonirina, Steve Fleming, Martin Houle
  • Publication number: 20110193445
    Abstract: An inner-rotor-type motor comprises a casing, a shaft and a claw-pole member. The shaft is rotatably coupled to the casing, and coupled to a permanent magnet having a magnetism-inducing surface. The claw-pole member is coupled within the casing and has an annual portion and a plurality of salient-poles. The annual portion has an inner circumferential wall. Each salient-pole is disposed between the annual portion and a respective pole plate. Each pole plate has a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side are opposing to each other. A magnetic pole surface is formed between the first side and the second side and faces the magnetism-inducing surface of the permanent magnet. An air gap is formed between the magnetic pole surface and the magnetism-inducing surface. Each pole plate has an extension portion and a shrinking portion. The coil unit is coupled to the plurality of salient-poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Tso-Kuo Yin, Chin-Chia Huang
  • Publication number: 20110175482
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator assembly concentrically located about the rotor. The stator assembly includes a stator stack and a plurality of spaced apart stator teeth extending radially from the stator stack. The plurality of stator teeth defines a plurality of stator slots. Each stator tooth defines a stator tooth tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Peter J. Savagian, Edward L. Kaiser, Khwaja M. Rahman
  • Patent number: 7911090
    Abstract: A stator of an electrical machine has a cross section, a longitudinal extension, a jacket surface, a plurality of winding holders configured for receiving field windings, the winding holders being distributed inhomogenously around an inner circumference of the cross section, such that a density of the field windings in at least one first region formed around a stator circumference is smaller than in an adjacent second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Schoen, Florian Esenwein
  • Publication number: 20110031843
    Abstract: An internal permanent magnet machine has multiple rotor sections, each section having multiple rotor laminations. Permanent magnets are placed asymmetrically in lamination openings to attenuate oscillations in torque caused by harmonic components of magnetic flux. Asymmetry is achieved by placing adjacent permanent magnets or magnet sets on the rotor periphery with different rotor magnetic pole arc angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Wei Wu, Michael W. Degner, Franco Leonardi
  • Publication number: 20100225196
    Abstract: An electric machine that includes a permanent-magnet rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of poles, each pole having a leading edge and a trailing edge relative to the direction of rotation of the rotor. The leading edge of each pole is thicker than the trailing edge in a direction normal to the rotational axis of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Stephen GREETHAM, Andrew Charlton Clothier