Short-circuited Coil Circuit Patents (Class 310/225)
  • Patent number: 10992198
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator including a stator core and teeth respectively protruding from the stator core, and coils respectively wound onto the teeth n (n is an integer of 3 or greater) turns. In a cross section in a first direction representing each of directions of protrusion of the teeth from the stator core, a k-th (k is an integer, 1<k<n) turn of each of the coils lies at a center of a range wound with each of the coils onto the teeth in the first direction. The k-th turn of each of the coils is greater in cross-sectional area than each of a first turn and an n-th turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yuichi Yoshikawa, Keiichiro Nukada, Yasushi Kato, Hirokazu Yamauchi, Mitsuoki Hishida
  • Patent number: 10734858
    Abstract: When teeth (12) are allocated in a circumferential direction in sequence of a U phase, a V phase and a W phase, a forward wound coil wound on each of the phases is provided as a coil of the U phase, the V phase and the W phase, and a reverse wound coil wound on each of the phases is provided as the coil of a ?U phase, a ?V phase and a ?W phase, the coils are electrically connected between the neighboring segments in an order of the U phase, the ?W phase, the ?W phase, the V phase, the ?U phase, the ?U phase, the W phase, the ?V phase and the ?V phase, and the wire (14) drawn between the armature core (8) and the commutator (10) is drawn around the rotation shaft in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
  • Patent number: 8963398
    Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a current control brush assembly including a first electrically conductive arcuate housing section retaining a first set of electrically conductive filaments. The first set of electrically conductive filaments extends generally inward along a radial direction. The current control brush assembly also includes a second electrically conductive arcuate housing section retaining a second set of electrically conductive filaments. The second set of electrically conductive filaments extends generally inward along the radial direction. Furthermore, the current control brush assembly includes a hinge configured to facilitate rotation of the second electrically conductive arcuate housing section relative to the first electrically conductive arcuate housing section about an axis substantially perpendicular to a first axial surface of the first electrically conductive arcuate housing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew D. Roman, Jason Richardson, Jeffrey W. Richardson, Adam Willwerth
  • Patent number: 8912696
    Abstract: In a motor driven by a drive circuit such as an inverter, there is a problem that electric current flowing through a bearing causes electric corrosion, which impairs the durability of the bearing. A motor of the invention includes: a stator in which a winding is applied through an insulating part to a stator core formed by laminating a predetermined number of electromagnetic steel plates which have been punched into a predetermined shape; a rotor assembly in which a rotor and bearings and formed by rolling bearings are fitted to a shaft; a printed wiring board which is arranged at an end part of the stator in an axial direction and to which a drive circuit is mounted; a bracket imposed to at least the end part of the stator in the axial direction to which the printed wiring board is arranged; and a conductive sheet provided between the printed wiring board and the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Kawakubo, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiroki Aso, Tomoyuki Hasegawa, Togo Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8188632
    Abstract: A type-A winding represented by a triangle of solid lines is connected to commutator segments such that its one end is connected to an arbitrary commutator segment and its other end is connected to a commutator segment adjacent to the arbitrary commutator segment. A type-B winding represented by a diamond of broken lines is connected to commutator segments such that its one end is connected to a commutator segment located radially opposite to a usual adjacent commutator segment. The type-A windings and the type-B windings are used in combination. One short circuit wire is used for every short circuit connection of radially opposed commutator segments. A total number of the short circuit wires is half (5) the number (10) of commutator segments. Thus, the number of electric wires hooked at every commutator segment can be reduced to two or less. Also, continuous winding by use of one or two wires is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Miyajima
  • Patent number: 7928629
    Abstract: A stator has four or more magnetic poles. A commutator has a plurality of segments arranged in the circumferential direction and a short-circuit conductor for short-circuiting predetermined segments from among these segments. Each segment has an angular width WS, and there is a gap of an angular width WU between the segments. A substantial angular width WB of each of an anode brush and a cathode brush satisfies (n?1)(WS+WU)+WU<WB<n(WS+WU)+WU, where n is an integer no less than two. A plurality of coils are each connected to the corresponding one of the segments in order to form n closed loops. The closed loops each pass through the corresponding segments and are electrically independent of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Aoyama, Yasuhide Ito, Toshio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7888836
    Abstract: A direct current motor including a rotor, a stator, a brush holder, and a brush. The rotor includes a core, a plurality of commutator segments, and a plurality of segment coils. The core has a plurality of teeth arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor. A slot is formed between adjacent ones of the teeth in the circumferential direction. The plurality of commutator segments are arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor inward from the plurality of teeth in the radial direction of the rotor. Each segment coil includes a plurality of segment conductors electrically connected to each other. The plurality of segment conductors in each segment coil extends through the slots along the axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Santo
  • Patent number: 7557484
    Abstract: In an electric motor having high-speed and low-speed brushes, durability is improved and vibration/noise is reduced. The electric motor has a low-speed brush 21a, a high-speed brush 21b, and a common brush 21c. Formed in the electric motor are a first coil 7A1 which is wound between given slots 11, and a second coil 7A2 which is wound in a direction opposite to a direction of the first coil 7A1 between slots 11 existing at positions point-symmetric to the given slots 11 with respect to a center of a rotation shaft. An armature coil 7 is formed by the first and second coils 7A1 and 7A2. If the armature coil 7 is short-circuited by the high-speed brush 21b, the first coil 7A1 and the second coil 7A2 of the short-circuited armature coil 7 exist at positions symmetric to each other with respect to an axis line extending through the center of the high-speed brush 21b and the center of the rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Shunji Kumagai
  • Patent number: 7274126
    Abstract: An armature for a brush commutated electric motor having a distributed coil winding arrangement for reducing brush arcing and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The winding pattern involves winding a first coil into a first pair of slots of the armature. A second coil having a first subcoil portion is then wound into the same slots as the first coil, while a second subcoil portion of the second coil is wound into a pair of slots that is offset by one slot position from the first pair of slots. The two subcoil portions have the same number of turns, and the total turns of the two subcoil portions equals the number of turns of the first coil. A third coil is then wound in the same slots as the second subcoil portion of the second coil. The third coil has the same number of turns as the first coil. This pattern is repeated around the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Walter, Ren Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 7051420
    Abstract: An armature for a brush commutated electric motor having a distributed coil winding arrangement for reducing brush arcing and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The winding pattern involves segmenting each coil into first and second subcoil portions with differing pluralities of turns. Each subcoil portion is wound around separate pairs of spaced apart slots of a lamination stack. Adjacent coils are wound such that one subcoil portion of each is wound in a common slot to therefore form an overlapping arrangement of each pair of adjacently coils. The winding pattern serves to “shift” the resultant magnetic axes of each coil in such a manner so as to significantly reduce brush arcing and the EMI resulting therefrom. The reduction in EMI is sufficient to eliminate the need for EMI reducing components, such as chokes, which have typically been required to maintain EMI to acceptably low levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Ren Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 7000307
    Abstract: An armature for a brush commutated electric motor having a distributed coil winding arrangement for reducing brush arcing and electro-magnetic interference (EMI). The winding pattern involves segmenting each coil into first and second subcoil portions with differing pluralities of turns. Each subcoil portion is wound around separate pairs of spaced apart slots of a lamination stack. Adjacent coils are wound such that one subcoil portion of each is wound in a common slot to therefore form an overlapping arrangement of each pair of adjacently coils. The winding pattern serves to “shift” the resultant magnetic axes of each coil in such a manner so as to significantly reduce brush arcing and the EMI resulting therefrom. The reduction in EMI is sufficient to eliminate the need for EMI reducing components, such as chokes, which have typically been required to maintain EMI to acceptably low levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Ren Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 6930429
    Abstract: An armature for a brush commutated electric motor having a distributed coil winding arrangement for reducing brush arcing and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The winding pattern involves segmenting each coil into first and second subcoil portions with differing pluralities of turns. Each subcoil portion is wound around separate pairs of spaced apart slots of a lamination stack. Adjacent coils are wound such that one subcoil portion of each is wound in a common slot to therefore form an overlapping arrangement of each pair of adjacently coils. The winding pattern serves to “shift” the resultant magnetic axes of each coil in such a manner so as to significantly reduce brush arcing and the EMI resulting therefrom. The reduction in EMI is sufficient to eliminate the need for EMI reducing components, such as chokes, which have typically been required to maintain EMI to acceptably low levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Ren Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 6756717
    Abstract: A motor includes a commutator, which has twenty-four segments. Each of eight short-circuit members is connected to three of the segments. Each short-circuit member extends in an arcuate form in an angular range corresponding to arranging positions of three segments to be connected to the short-circuit member. The eight short-circuit members are laminated to form a multiple-layer structure in the axial direction of the commutator. The short-circuit members form a substantially cylindrical laminated body. The short-circuit members are formed and arranged such that the number of the layers of the laminated body is less than the number of the short-circuit members. As a result, the axial dimension of the laminated body is reduced and the miniaturization of the motor in the axial direction is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Asmo Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Yamamoto, Masayuki Kuwano, Shinji Santo
  • Patent number: 6724121
    Abstract: An improved flat or cylindrical mechanical electric commutator with neutral segments (4) between the current carrying segments which allow the current carrying carbon brushes (11, 12, 13, 14) in a brush holder (7) to pass from a negative current carrying segment to a positive current carrying segment or the opposite charge current in the base of the commutator without allowing the face or any part of the carbon brush to touch both the negative and positive segments in the base of the commutator at the same time, resulting in the switching of the electric current to an energized coil of an electric motor, electrical generator or electric apparatus or device, at predetermined intervals and times to suit the design requirements of the energized coil, electric motor of the stepper, brushless DC and switched design, electric generator or electric apparatus or device, while the commutator can accommodate single phase electrical circuits, double phase electrical circuits, three phase electrical circuits or any numbe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Inventor: John Patrick Ettridge
  • Patent number: 6703751
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamo-electric machine that suppresses vibrations caused by imbalance due to electromagnetic forces and that also suppresses imbalance in magnetic attraction forces generated owing to the difference in the number of coil portions among electric circuit portions. This dynamo-electric machine comprises an armature having a winding consisting of a plurality of coil portions each formed by lap-winding a conductor between a corresponding pair of slots formed in an outer circumferential surface portion of a core fixed to a shaft in such a way as to extend in an axial direction thereof, a commutator fixed to an end portion of the shaft and having a plurality of segments to which both end sections of said coil portions are electrically connected, brushes made to respectively abut against the surfaces of the segments of the commutator, and equalizers for connecting said segments, which are to be at equal electric potential, to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanaka, Akihiro Daikoku, Kyouhei Yamamoto, Kei Yonemori
  • Patent number: 6566782
    Abstract: An armature for a brush commutated electric motor having a distributed coil winding arrangement for reducing brush arcing and electro-magnetic interference (EMI). The winding pattern involves segmenting each coil into first and second subcoil portions with differing pluralities of turns. Each subcoil portion is wound around separate pairs of spaced apart slots of a lamination stack. Adjacent coils are wound such that one subcoil portion of each is wound in a common slot to therefore form an overlapping arrangement of each pair of adjacently coils. The winding pattern serves to “shift” the resultant magnetic axes of each coil in such a manner so as to significantly reduce brush arcing and the EMI resulting therefrom. The reduction in EMI is sufficient to eliminate the need for EMI reducing components, such as chokes, which have typically been required to maintain EMI to acceptably low levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Ren Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 6043581
    Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine comprises: a shaft; a core secured to the shaft having slots formed therein extending in the axial direction; a winding composed of a wire or wires wound by a lap winding method through the slots; a commutator having commutator segments being disposed at one end of the core and secured to the shaft; and equalizing connectors electrically connecting commutator segments which should have the same electric potential; wherein one end portion of each of the equalizing connectors is connected to one of the commutator segments and the other end portion of each of the equalizing connectors passes through the slots and is connected to the other of the commutator segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Tanaka, Harumi Inoue, Mitsuyuki Tsumura, Akihiro Daikoku, Kazuhisa Takashima, Kyouhei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5530310
    Abstract: For a squirrel-cage rotor of an electric machine, having a cage that passes through the stack axially and is made of electrically well-conductive short-circuit rods that are connected by short-circuit rings at the ends projecting from the stack, oscillation problems that result during operation with frequency converters are intended to be solved. In addition, higher natural torsion frequencies are intended to be achieved on the rotor, that is, the construction is to be made less sensitive by simple modifications to the squirrel cage in order to prevent the resonance effects. This object is attained in that respectively two, three or more short-circuit rods are guided together to rod assemblies at their ends, and these are connected to the short-circuit rings with material-to-material bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignees: AEG Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Sauer, Heinz Boehm, Egbert Scharstein
  • Patent number: 4689508
    Abstract: A shaded pole induction motor includes a plurality of series-connected running windings and a plurality of series-connected shaded pole coils (windings). A normally closed, centrifugal-force-responsive switch is provided in series with the shaded pole coils to effect an interruption in current therethrough when the motor reaches a predetermined speed. As a replacement to the normally closed switch, a switch constituted by a relay winding and normally open relay contacts may be provided, the contacts being in series with the shaded pole coils, these normally open contacts being closed in response to high initial starting current in the running windings flowing through a relay winding and being opened again when the motor gets up to a predetermined speed; less current flows in the relay winding and in the running windings under this condition. A heat-responsive circuit breaker may be placed in series with the normally open contacts or centrifugal-force responsive switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Patent number: 4386291
    Abstract: A single air gap motor is provided with inner and outer coil wires in armature slots. Inner and outer coils with the same number of turns are symmetrically distributed around the armature and are connected in series with inner and outer coils alternating in the connection to balance out back E.M.F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: John A. Herr
  • Patent number: 3949254
    Abstract: A winding is provided for dynamoelectric machines having a plurality of pole groups disposed to form a poly-phase winding. Each pole group consists of a number of multi-turn coils divided into two subgroups with the coils of one subgroup having one more turn than the coils of the other subgroup. Field strengths can thus be obtained equivalent to what could be produced by coils having fractional numbers of turns intermediate between the actual numbers of turns of the coils of the two subgroups, the effective number of turns being determined by the relative number of coils in the two subgroups of each pole group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Richard F. Woll, Clifford P. Willby