Interfitting Or Claw-tooth Stators Patents (Class 310/257)
  • Patent number: 12113411
    Abstract: A claw pole rotor for an electrical machine is provided, the claw pole rotor comprising a first claw pole component having a first yoke-shaft component to which at least two first claw pole fingers are connected, and a second claw pole component having a second yoke-shaft component to which at least two second claw pole fingers are connected, wherein the first claw pole fingers extend from a first side of the claw pole rotor towards a second side of the claw pole rotor, the second claw pole fingers extend from the second side towards the first side, and a magnet is arranged between the first yoke-shaft component of the first claw pole component and the second yoke-shaft component of the second claw pole component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FEAAM GmbH
    Inventor: Gurakuq Dajaku
  • Patent number: 11990805
    Abstract: A transverse flux electric motor includes a stator including coils configured to carry current and a rotor arranged to interact with the stator. The rotor is configured to produce a torque for driving rotation of the rotor. The transverse flux electric motor has an active parts mass, mact, equal to a cumulated mass of components of the transverse flux electric motor that contribute to the production of the torque. The transverse flux electric motor has an active parts torque density, ?act, defined as a peak rated torque, ?peak, divided by the active parts mass, mact. The transverse flux electric motor has a power factor equal to cos(?), wherein ? is a steady-state phase difference between a stator coil current and a stator coil voltage, and wherein the transverse flux electric motor has a machine parameter ? that is greater than or equal to 65 Nmkg?1, where ? equals ?act/cos(?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Ellis F H Chong, Andreas Reeh, Johannes Gabriel Bauer, Anton Rudenko
  • Patent number: 11843297
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration actuator including: a movable body including a coil and a core around which the coil is wound; a fixing body including a magnet; and a shaft part turnably supporting the movable body with respect to the fixing body on a side of the one end part of the core. The movable body reciprocatingly and rotationally vibrates around the shaft part with respect to the fixing body by cooperation between the coil to be energized and the magnet. The magnet is disposed to face the other end part of the core in an extending direction of the core when energization is not performed. The magnet includes two magnetic poles having different polarities and arranged in a reciprocating and rotational vibration direction. A weight part is disposed in a notch on a side of the other end part of the core or in the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Gomi, Takanori Kato, Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11742714
    Abstract: A motor and a driving member are provided. The motor has a rotor centered on and rotatable along a central axis and having a shaft and a bearing holding the shaft to be rotatable; a stator radially opposite to the rotor; a coil winding around the stator; a bearing holder; a bus bar holder on one or the other side of the bearing holder in an axial direction; a substantially cylindrical housing having an opening on a top side in the axial direction. The rotor, the stator, the bearing holder, and the bus bar holder are in the housing. A power bus bar and a signal bus bar are integrally formed on the bus bar holder which axially pushes against and is fixed to the bearing holder; a circuit board and a sensor are between the holders. This structure reduces an axial dimension of the motor and miniaturizes the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sambuichi, Ting Huang, Honglu Che
  • Patent number: 11658521
    Abstract: A stator includes a first sleeve extending in an axial direction and a first stator core on an outer periphery of the first sleeve. The first stator core includes a lower core and an upper core on a side of the lower core opposed to a first end of the axial direction. The lower core includes a lower annular portion with an annular shape and lower pole teeth protruding radially outward from a radially outer end surface of the lower annular portion and extending to a second end of the axial direction. The upper core includes an upper annular portion with an annular shape arranged on the lower annular portion opposed to the first end of the axial direction to overlap the lower annular portion, and upper pole teeth protruding radially outward from a radially outer end surface of the upper annular portion and extending to the second end of the axial direction. Each of the lower pole teeth and each of the upper pole teeth are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoki Uchibori
  • Patent number: 11444510
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a controller and a motor assembly comprising same, the controller comprising: a controller housing; a controller cover disposed at an opening of the controller housing; a DM filter unit disposed over the controller cover; a CM filter unit disposed over the DM filter unit; a power module unit disposed under the controller cover; a substrate disposed under the power module unit; and a first connector and a second connector which penetrate the controller cover and have one side thereof disposed at the substrate. Accordingly, a heat generation problem can be resolved while miniaturization and weight lightening are realized, and some parts of the controller can be shared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chan Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 11201519
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for electrically contact-connecting a winding (40) of an electrical machine (1) to a printed circuit board (92), wherein the electrical machine (1) has an armature (10) with a large number of teeth (20), wherein at least one winding (40), which is formed by an electrical conductor (42), is formed on one of the teeth (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Devermann, Asli Arslan-Huerst, Harald Merz, Ilya Kuperberg, Michael Soellner, Peter Beck, Ralf Lehmann, Wolfgang Glueck
  • Patent number: 11146142
    Abstract: Noise caused by a gap between a rotor and a plate can be suppressed even when there are dimensional variations in members or assembly states. In a configuration of a stepping motor including front side and end side stator assemblies (200, 300), a rotor (400) provided with a rotor member (402) and a shaft (403) that are accommodated in the stator assemblies (200, 300), and a front plate (210) and an end plate (310) that are arranged on both sides of the stator assemblies (200, 300) in an axial direction, and are configured to couple the stator assemblies (200, 300), a projection (700) in an annular shape is provided on a surface of the front plate (210) facing the rotor member (402) to protrude toward the rotor member (402), a coil spring (800) that is interposed between the front plate (210) and the rotor member (402) is accommodated in the inner side of the projection (700), and the rotor (400) is urged toward the end plate (310) by the coil spring to be elastically pressed against the end plate (310).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Suguru Okura, Nobuyuki Sueyoshi, Kazuo Muramatsu, Shoji Yoshitomi, Hiroaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 10862380
    Abstract: A rotor with four axially stacked rotor cores, and a plurality of field magnets interposed between them. Each rotor core includes a rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole. Each rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles are respectively extending from and formed on each rotor core at equal angle intervals. Tip end surfaces of the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole abut against or are closely opposed to each other axially. Tip end surfaces of the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles abut against or are closely opposed to each other in the axial direction. The plurality of field magnets are magnetized in the axial direction such that the field magnets causes the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and cause the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yusuke Morimoto, Masashi Matsuda, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10826339
    Abstract: This motor includes a two-layer rotor, a two-layer stator and a control unit. An A-phase rotor includes a pair of rotor cores and a field magnet. A B-phase rotor includes a pair of rotor cores and a field magnet. An A-phase stator includes a pair of stator cores and an A-phase winding. A B-phase stator includes a pair of stator cores and a B-phase winding. The control unit controls an A-phase input voltage applied to the A-phase winding, and a B-phase input voltage applied to the B-phase winding. The relative arrangement angle of the A-phase stator and the A-phase rotor relative to the B-phase stator and the B-phase rotor is set to an electrical angle of 90 degrees. The control unit applies a leading phase angle to the basic voltage waveforms of the A-phase input voltage and the B-phase input voltage, to set the energization width to at most 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Tateishi, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Masashi Matsuda, Hironari Suzuki, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato, Kazunori Shimada, Takahiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10811916
    Abstract: A motor housing includes a core and a shell having an annular body. The annular body is configured to secure a stator of a motor therein. The annular body includes first and second ends defining first and second openings, respectively. The annular body defines a slot extending along a length of the annular body. The slot is coterminous with the first opening. The core is configured to be in registration with the shell. The core is configured to rotatably support a rotating assembly of the motor including an output shaft. The core includes a base portion, an annular ring, and a guide arm interconnecting the base portion and the annular ring. The core is in registration with the shell when the guide arm is received in the slot of the annular body of the shell to form an interlocking structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Loon LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Anderson, Nathan Winder
  • Patent number: 10782051
    Abstract: A magneto-caloric thermal diode assembly includes a magneto-caloric regenerator with a plurality of magneto-caloric stages. Each of the plurality of magneto-caloric stages has a respective Curie temperature. Each of the plurality of magneto-caloric stages also has a stack of magneto-caloric material blocks and metal foil layers distributed sequentially along an axial direction in the order of magneto-caloric material block then metal foil layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Goodman Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10714991
    Abstract: An automotive single-phase electrical motor of a claw pole type includes a rotating motor rotor which rotates around a rotating axis, a stator defined by a pair of annular stator bodies, and a stator coil arrangement which magnetizes the stator bodies. The stator bodies includes a first stator body having a radial arm and at least two magnetic claws, and a second stator body having a radial arm and at least two magnetic claws. The at least two magnetic claws of the first stator body mesh with the at least two magnetic claws of the second stator body so that the stator bodies mate with each other. The stator coil arrangement is provided as a satellite of the stator bodies. The radial arm of the first stator body and the radial arm of the second stator body are magnetically connected to each other at the stator coil arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Enrico Lindner, Mathias Zill, Toni Henke
  • Patent number: 10693329
    Abstract: A stator of a polyphase claw pole motor includes: a compressed-powder member including a compression molded product of magnetic powder; and a metal member. At least claws of the claw pole of the stator are constituted by the compressed-powder member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Isamu Nitta, Hiroshi Araya, Nobuo Ukai
  • Patent number: 10411528
    Abstract: A motor is formed by stacking a plurality of stator elements and does not need an insulator between the stator elements. A stator includes the plurality of stator elements. The stator element includes a plurality of claw poles formed along a circumferential direction of the stator element and a coil wound in the circumferential direction. The coils of mutually adjacent stator elements are wound in different directions. In the mutually adjacent stator elements, the claw poles of one of the stator elements and the claw poles of the other of the stator elements are opposite to each other and are arranged to have the same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Mukai, Toshiki Tatsuya
  • Patent number: 10267692
    Abstract: A torque sensing apparatus comprises: a first casing comprising a first opening; a second casing comprising a second opening; a stator comprising a stator holder that is placed in the interior of the first casing and the second casing and at least one stator tooth that is secured to the stator holder; and a rotor that is rotatably disposed in the stator, wherein the stator comprises a protrusion facing the inner peripheral surface of the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho Chan Son
  • Patent number: 10250112
    Abstract: The invention implements a variation of the electrical transverse flux machine (motor or generator) that employs ferromagnetic excitation elements mostly located on the stator rather on the rotor. The excitation elements are employed in nearly-complete magnetic circuits that are periodically completed by the movement of the rotor. The varying flux that is thus generated is used to cause an EMF in windings, for the case of generators, or for the case of motors, appropriate EMF is used to cause varying flux that in turn causes rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: EKORAD LTD.
    Inventor: Alexander Radovsky
  • Patent number: 10247827
    Abstract: Optical apparatus (64) includes a stator assembly (47), which includes a core (78, 90, 91) containing an air gap and one or more coils (80, 92, 94, 116, 120) including conductive wire wound on the core so as to cause the core to form a magnetic circuit through the air gap in response to an electrical current flowing in the conductive wire. A scanning mirror assembly (45, 83, 85, 130) includes a support structure (68), a base (72), which is mounted to rotate about a first axis relative to the support structure, and a mirror (46), which is mounted to rotate about a second axis relative to the base. At least one rotor (76, 132) includes one or more permanent magnets, which are fixed to the scanning mirror assembly and which are positioned in the air gap so as to move in response to the magnetic circuit. A driver (82) is coupled to generate the electrical current in the one or more coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Sromin, Naftali Chayat, Raviv Erlich, Yuval Gerson, Alexander Shpunt, Raviv Weber
  • Patent number: 9985510
    Abstract: A PM stepping motor includes a two-phase stator which includes first and stator stators, and a rotor which is rotatably supported inside the two-phase stator. Each of the first and second stators includes an outer yoke, an inner yoke and a coil. Each of the first and second stators is formed with a convex portion and a concave portion. The convex portion formed on the inner yoke of the first stator is engaged with the concave portion formed on the inner yoke of the second stator. The inner yoke is formed with two protrusions engaged with a cutout of the outer yoke. The convex portion and the concave portion are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a center line passing through a center point of the inner yoke and a center position between the two protrusions, and an angle ? between each position and the center line ranges 30°<?<90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kebukawa, Yan Zhong
  • Patent number: 9819251
    Abstract: Provided is a resin sealing method of a motor core having a rotor core and a stator core formed in such a way that a plurality of iron core pieces is laminated. The resin sealing method includes pressing the rotor core and the stator core from a direction of lamination by using a set of an upper die and a lower die, then extruding a resin stored in a resin reservoir pot provided in one or both of the upper die and the lower die by using a plunger and allowing a magnet-insert hole formed in the direction of lamination of the rotor core and a connection hole formed in the direction of lamination of the stator core to be filled with the resin and harden the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Mabu
  • Patent number: 9771902
    Abstract: An EGR device includes a housing having an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The inner pipe is accommodated in the outer pipe to define an annular passage externally with the outer pipe. The inner pipe defines an inner passage internally. The inner pipe has pipe through holes. A rotary valve is accommodated in the inner pipe. The rotary valve has valve through holes. The rotary valve is rotatable to communicate the annular passage with the inner passage through the valve through holes and the pipe through holes. The rotary valve is rotatable to block the inner passage from the annular passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Polcyn, Jonathan Logan, Dallas Smolarek
  • Patent number: 9705391
    Abstract: A stepping motor includes a rotor having a rotor magnet fixed to a rotating shaft, a plurality of coil bobbins where coils are wound, a stator yoke group having a plurality of stator yokes each of which surrounds each of the plurality of coil bobbins in an axial direction and a radial direction of the rotating shaft, and the plurality of stator yokes each having pole teeth alternately arranged in a circumferential direction around the rotating shaft so as to be opposed to a side surface of the rotor magnet, and a magnetic attractive force generating member configured to attract the rotor magnet to the axial direction of the rotating shaft by a magnetic attractive force, and a magnetic center of the rotor magnet and a magnetic center of the stator yoke group coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kota Asano
  • Patent number: 9698633
    Abstract: A transducer contains a rotor, on which permanent magnets are arranged in a concentrically radiant manner, and two stators are provided at both sides of the rotor. The stators are produced from a soft-magnetic material. Each stator contains a first stator section with radially outer supporting bars for first magnetic active faces of the stator being opposite the rotor and a second stator section with radial inner supporting bars for second magnetic active faces of the stators being opposite the rotor. An annular winding groove for receiving a winding is provided between the stator sections. Supporting bars are each arranged in an annular manner and each extend parallel to the rotor axis in the direction of the rotor. The magnetic active faces of the stators are end faces of projections which are uniformly spaced to one another and which protrude from the supporting bars in the direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Leantec Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Lenz, Torsten Keller, Sven Schmidt, Thomas Bartsch, Philip Hennig, Erik Braune, Maik Hohmuth
  • Patent number: 9644704
    Abstract: An actuator (10) has a casing (12) and an output (16). An electric motor (20) is disposed in a compartment (18) of the casing (12). The output (16) is driven by the motor (20) through a gear train disposed within the casing (12). The gear train includes a worm (30) on a shaft (22) of the motor (20) and a worm wheel (32) meshed with the worm (30). A mounting clip (40) is arranged to resiliently press the motor (20) into the compartment 18). The mounting clip (40) has fingers (44) which engage axial ends of the motor (20) to support the motor (20) against axial movement and separation due to axial loading and/or external vibrations acting on the actuator (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Rolf Weber, Michael Watzek, Bruno Neuhaus, Yvan Bourqui
  • Patent number: 9559558
    Abstract: A modular stator portion adapted to be used in a transverse flux electrical machine (TFEM) includes a plurality of phase modules adapted to be axially secured together with a plurality of securing members. The phase modules of at least en embodiment thereof are substantially identical and interchangeable. Each pair of axially adjacent phase modules are adapted to be angularly located in respect with each other to set a phase shift. A phase module and a kit of phase modules sized and designed to assemble a modular stator are also encompassed by the present application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: EOCYCLE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Raphael Nadeau, Daniel Massicotte, Eric Adams, Simon Cote, Patrice Fortin, Jean-Francois Bernier-Synnott
  • Patent number: 9337710
    Abstract: A homopolar motor phase (d4) which consists of a wafer (a0), the leg (a3) of each tooth meeting the leg of the next tooth before touching the cylinder head (a4), the leg (a3) at least partially filling the space (a6) between the teeth. The inner diameter (a11) is reduced by the presence of a discontinuity in the area (a7) at the tip of the tooth (a5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SINTERTECH
    Inventors: François Bernot, Alix Bernot
  • Patent number: 9331529
    Abstract: An actuator includes: a coil; a permanent magnet rotor secured to and rotatably supported by an output shaft inside the coil; a bobbin made of a non-magnetic material and around which the coil is wound; a first stator inserted into and secured to the bobbin in one direction, and including an inner magnetic pole portion and an outer magnetic pole portion extending inside and outside the coil in an axial direction of the rotor, respectively; and a second stator inserted into and secured to the bobbin in a direction opposite to the one direction, and including an inner magnetic pole portion and an outer magnetic pole portion extending inside and outside the coil in the axial direction of the rotor, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO PRECISION INC.
    Inventors: Masami Yamamoto, Kenichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 9124152
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor has a rotor and a stator. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core and commutator fixed to the shaft, and rotor windings wound about poles of the rotor core and electrically connected to the commutator. The stator has an axially extending round housing, a ring magnet member fixed to an inner surface of the round housing, an endcap, and at least one pair of brushes in sliding contact with the commutator. A chamber is formed by the housing and the endcap. The commutator is disposed in the chamber. A window lift device incorporating the motor is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Mao Xiong Jiang, Yue Li, Jian Zhao, Hong Min Wei, Ke Lin Zhou, Xing Zhang
  • Patent number: 9075369
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an image formation unit including a photosensitive drum and a motor for driving the image formation unit. The apparatus acquires a frequency generator signal, which is phase information output from the motor as the motor rotates. In addition, the apparatus corrects unevenness of the density that may occur due to the rotation of the motor according to the acquired phase information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Fukutani, Yuuji Takayama, Tomoyuki Saiki, Tae Matsumoto, Yuichi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20150048708
    Abstract: A stator for an electric machine, the stator including a stator core and a winding. The stator core including an annular stator core back component providing a magnetic flux path in a circumferential direction and in an axial direction of the annular stator core back component; and a plurality of stator pole components each including a mounting part mounted to the stator core back component, an interface part defining an interface surface facing an active air gap between the stator and a rotor of the electrical machine; and a radially oriented tooth part extending radially from the annular stator core component and connecting the interface part with the mounting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Göran Nord, Jamie Washington
  • Publication number: 20150015092
    Abstract: An electric machine, especially a transversal flux machine, the stator being composed of a stack of phase segments, each phase segment having at least one stator segment and one stator winding, especially a single winding, each stator segment having an annular stator bridge, on which pole shoes are premolded, which in particular extend radially inward, and/or which extend in the direction of the rotor and/or which are situated between the rotor and the annular stator bridge, the pole shoes having the same shape, in particular, the axial width of the pole shoe decreasing with increasing radial clearance, the associated profile being disposed between a first and a second profile, the first profile being a linear function of the radial clearance, the pole back associated with the first profile being a planar area, in particular, the second profile being a circular function, in particular a circular segment function, the pole back associated with the second profile being a cylindrical section area, in particular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Florian Dreher
  • Publication number: 20140191612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric machine (1) that includes a stator (10) and a rotor (20), with the said stator (10) being equipped with at least one annular exciter unit (11) that includes a coil (12) and at least two annular yokes (13a, 13b), with the said rotor being equipped with a structure (21) and at least one annular receiver unit (22). Each receiver unit (22) includes at least two rows (24) of magnets (23). Two sides (131, 132) of each yoke (13) include teeth (14) distributed angularly in a regular manner, and the said teeth (14) of the two adjacent yokes (13) fit onto a face (121) of the said exciter unit (11), alternately forming north poles and south poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicants: EUROCOPTER, MBDA FRANCE, SINTERTECH
    Inventor: Damien Mariotto
  • Publication number: 20140191613
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric machine (1) consisting of a stator (10) that is provided with at least one exciter unit (11) consisting of a coil (12), at least two annular yokes (13a,13b) and at least one row of intermediate pieces (15), and a rotor (20) having a structure (21) and at least one receiver unit (22) consisting of at least two series (25) of at least two rows (24) of magnets (23). Two sides (131,132) of each yoke (13) consist of the first teeth (14), fitting with the said intermediate pieces (15) on a face (121) of the said exciter unit (11) and alternatingly forming the second north poles and the second south poles. Each series (23) is positioned opposite one face (121), forming an air gap (30) with the said exciter unit (11), with the electric machine (1) thus including at least two air gaps (30), with a flux F thus circulating inside the said electric machine (1), dividing and regrouping itself in the vicinity of the said magnets (23) and of the said yokes (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicants: EUROCOPTER, MBDA FRANCE, SINTERTECH
    Inventor: Damien Mariotto
  • Patent number: 8760029
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine having a stator whose dismantled structure can be reintegrated at reduced cost. The stator eliminates difficulties in separation and reuse at the time of disposal incident to use of molding such as resin molding. Also, it has no adverse environmental impacts. A plurality of stator cores having a plurality of magnetic poles arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction are laminated in the axial direction with use of a heat-shrinkable tube having an appropriate compression retention force. The outer circumferences of these stator cores are covered collectively with another heat-shrinkable tube. The heat-shrinkable tubes are heated so that the plurality of stator cores are integrated into a single-piece structure by the heat-shrunk tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nagashima, Shuichi Ishizawa, Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 8674649
    Abstract: A high acceleration rotary actuator motor assembly is provided comprising a plurality of phase motor elements provided in tandem on a shaft, each phase element including a rotor carrying magnets which alternate exposed poles, the rotor being connected to the shaft and surrounded by a stator formed of a plurality of interconnected segmented stator elements having a contiguous winding to form four magnetic poles, the stator being in electrical communication with a phase electric drive unit, wherein each of the poles exert a magnetic force upon the magnets carried by the rotor when the poles are electrically charged by the phase electric drive unit. The rotors and magnets of each phase motor element are offset about the shaft from one another. In addition, the phase motor elements are electrically isolated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventor: Gerald K. Langreck
  • Publication number: 20140028134
    Abstract: An actuator includes: a coil; a permanent magnet rotor secured to and rotatably supported by an output shaft inside the coil; a bobbin made of a non-magnetic material and around which the coil is wound; a first stator inserted into and secured to the bobbin in one direction, and including an inner magnetic pole portion and an outer magnetic pole portion extending inside and outside the coil in an axial direction of the rotor, respectively; and a second stator inserted into and secured to the bobbin in a direction opposite to the one direction, and including an inner magnetic pole portion and an outer magnetic pole portion extending inside and outside the coil in the axial direction of the rotor, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Precision Inc.
    Inventors: Masami YAMAMOTO, Kenichi KUDO
  • Patent number: 8624458
    Abstract: An electrical, rotary machine may include a first stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a second stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a coil arranged between the first and second circular stator core sections, and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets. The first stator core section, the second stator core section, the coil and the rotor are encircling a common geometric axis, and the plurality of teeth of the first stator core section and the second stator core section are arranged to protrude towards the rotor. Additionally the teeth of the second stator core section are circumferentially displaced in relation to the teeth of the first stator core section, and the permanent magnets in the rotor are separated in the circumferential direction from each other by axially extending pole sections made from soft magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hoganas AB (Publ)
    Inventors: Alan Jack, Edwin Pinguey, Goran Nord
  • Publication number: 20130320802
    Abstract: A claw-pole motor for driving a centrifugal pump; consisting of stator laminations in the form of annular discs with claw poles adjoining said stator laminations, which claw poles are arranged opposite permanent-magnet poles of a rotor, a ring-shaped winding and an insulating body, which is arranged between the stator laminations and the winding, and a magnetic return path ring, which is arranged radially around the winding and the stator laminations and bears fixedly against the stator laminations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Klaus Weiske
  • Publication number: 20130270928
    Abstract: A stator core section for a stator of a modulated pole machine, the modulated pole machine including the stator, a moving device, and an active gap between respective interface surfaces of the moving device and the stator for communicating magnetic flux between the stator and the moving device, the moving device being adapted to move relative to the stator in a direction of motion, wherein the stator core section includes a stator core back from which a plurality of teeth extend, each tooth extending in a respective first direction defining a direction towards the rotor, the teeth being arranged along a second direction defining the direction of motion, each tooth having at least one side wall facing a neighbouring tooth and an interface surface facing the active gap, the interface surface and the side wall forming an edge connecting the interface surface and the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: HÕGANÃS AB (PUBL)
    Inventor: Göran Nord
  • Patent number: 8497647
    Abstract: A control system and method for a multi-phase motor substantially reduces or eliminates jitter resulting from. drive mismatch by replacing a conventional trapezoidal drive profile with a drive profile that causes the voltage applied across active phases of the motor to match the back-EMF across those phases. In an ideal motor, the back-EMF is substantially sinusoidal, and although the drive profile applied to each phase is not truly substantially sinusoidal, the drive voltage across the active phases is substantially sinusoidal. In a non-ideal motor, the back-EMF is not truly sinusoidal and the drive profiles applied to each phase are calculated to cause the drive voltage across the active phases to match the back-EMF across those phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Ravishanker Krishnamoorthy, Foo Leng Leong
  • Patent number: 8482243
    Abstract: A high acceleration rotary actuator motor assembly is provided comprising a plurality of phase motor elements provided in tandem on a shaft, each phase element including a rotor carrying magnets which alternate exposed poles, the rotor being connected to the shaft and surrounded by a stator formed of a plurality of interconnected segmented stator elements having a contiguous winding to form four magnetic poles, the stator being in electrical communication with a phase electric drive unit, wherein each of the poles exert a magnetic force upon the magnets carried by the rotor when the poles are electrically charged by the phase electric drive unit. The rotors and magnets of each phase motor element are offset about the shaft from one another. In addition, the phase motor elements are electrically isolated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventor: Gerald K. Langreck
  • Patent number: 8471423
    Abstract: A rotary machine including two coaxial parts, the first part including an intermediate part, an energizing coil, and fingers distributed around the circumference of the intermediate part with a constant finger pitch and directed alternately in opposite directions. The fingers are positioned so as to interlace over part of the coil. The second part includes a permanent magnet and two lateral parts mounted substantially coaxially, the lateral parts being secured to the permanent magnetic part so as to have opposite polarities, the lateral parts including protrusions distributed around the circumference of the lateral parts and arranged in alternation on one and the other of the lateral parts with a protrusion pitch substantially equal to the finger pitch. A control device can be equipped with such a rotary machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Cartier Millon, Benoit Froidurot
  • Patent number: 8461733
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine main body that includes: a housing that is constituted by a rear bracket and a front bracket; a rotor; a stator; and a fan, and a power supply unit that is mounted integrally onto the dynamoelectric machine main body are included, the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the rear bracket has: air discharge ports that are formed on portions that are positioned radially outside the fan; and air suction ports that have openings nearer to a bottom portion than the power supply unit, and includes a partitioning member for configuring a ventilation channel that extends from the air suction ports to the air discharge ports that is disposed between the power supply unit and the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Takechi, Dai Nakajima, Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8446063
    Abstract: A claw-pole-type stepping motor includes a stator annularly disposed therein and having a coil, a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator and having a multiply magnetized permanent magnet and a shaft, an outer yoke provided in the stator and having a cup shape opening toward an axially outside direction an outer circumferential portion provided in the outer yoke and having a cylindrical shape and an inner circumferential portion including first pole teeth, an inner yoke provided in the stator and having second pole teeth provided in an inner circumference thereof and an outer circumferential portion fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the outer circumferential portion of the outer yoke, in which the first pole teeth and the second pole teeth are engaging with each other via a gap in an axial direction and are disposed with respect to the permanent magnet of the rotor via a gap, a fixed portion of the inner yoke and the outer yoke is positioned at the axial inside of an opening end of the cup shape
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Kinpara, Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiya Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8398384
    Abstract: A rotary pump with a plastic pump housing, that can be processed by injection molding, with a first housing part defining a pump space, which is connected to a second intermediate housing part accommodating an electric motor with a wound core stator. The rotary pump includes a plastic split core, the wound claw pole stator being mounted on the split core and a permanent magnetic rotor being mounted to rotate within the split core. A plastic motor housing part defines a motor space, wherein at least three axial and parallel split core ribs are provided between the split core and the claw pole stator, the ribs being distributed about the periphery of the split core at predetermined angles relative to each other. A return ring has first and second end sections, the return ring being connected to the wound claw pole stator, so that the first and second end sections are welded to each other. The stator is press-fit onto the split core via the ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Bühler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Peterreins, Achim Brunner, Bernd Frühwald, Armin Suttner-Reimann, Ramona Kiesel, Gerd Pecher, Christian Schatz, Ingrid Späth
  • Patent number: 8390168
    Abstract: A permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic rotating field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor disposed within the magnetic rotating field is spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. A stationary excitation core spaced apart from the uncluttered rotor by an axial air gap and a radial air gap substantially encloses the stationary excitation core. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include stator core gaps to reduce axial flux flow. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include an uncluttered rotor coupled to outer laminations. The quadrature-axis inductance may be increased in some synchronous systems. Some synchronous systems convert energy such as mechanical energy into electrical energy (e.g., a generator); other synchronous systems may convert any form of energy into mechanical energy (e.g., a motor).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventor: John S. Hsu
  • Patent number: 8378545
    Abstract: An electrical rotary machine is provided comprising a first stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a second stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a coil arranged between the first and second circular stator core sections, and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets. The first stator core section, the second stator core section, the coil and the rotor are encircling a common geometric axis, and the plurality of teeth of the first stator core section and the second stator core section are arranged to protrude towards the rotor. Additionally, the teeth of the second stator core section are circumferentially displaced in relation to the teeth of the first stator core section, and the permanent magnets in the rotor are separated in the circumferential direction from each other by axially extending pole sections made from soft magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hoganas AB (Publ)
    Inventors: Alan Jack, Edwin Pinguey, Göran Nord
  • Patent number: 8354767
    Abstract: A permanent magnet machine is provided comprising a stator and a rotor, the rotor being adapted to rotate relative to the stator, the rotor comprising a plurality of permanent magnets separated in the circumferential direction from each other by axially extending rotor pole pieces for concentrating the magnetic flux from the permanent magnets, the stator having a structure that defines axial limits of an air gap between the stator and the rotor for communicating magnetic flux between the stator and the rotor, wherein that at least some of the permanent magnets extend axially outside the axial limits of the air gap as defined by the stator structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hoganas AB (Publ.)
    Inventors: Lars-Olov Pennander, Alan G. Jack, Glynn James Atkinson
  • Patent number: 8319392
    Abstract: A motor may include a stator provided with a yoke having a plurality of pole teeth and an exciting coil and a rotor disposed in a circular space surrounded by the pole teeth. A portion where a difference between an inner side area of the pole tooth facing the rotor and an outer side area of the pole tooth facing the exciting coil is larger than a difference between the inner side area and the outer side area of the pole tooth where both circumferential direction faces of the pole tooth are formed in faces coincided with normal lines may be provided on a root part of the pole tooth. Further, circumferential direction faces of at least a root part of the pole tooth are formed so as to face the rotor in an inclined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Sankyo Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 8314581
    Abstract: A control system and method for a multi-phase motor substantially reduces or eliminates jitter resulting from drive mismatch by replacing a conventional trapezoidal drive profile with a drive profile that causes the voltage applied across active phases of the motor to match the back-EMF across those phases. In an ideal motor, the back-EMF is substantially sinusoidal, and although the drive profile applied to each phase is not truly substantially sinusoidal, the drive voltage across the active phases is substantially sinusoidal. In a non-ideal motor, the back-EMF is not truly sinusoidal and the drive profiles applied to each phase are calculated to cause the drive voltage across the active phases to match the back-EMF across those phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Ravishanker Krishnamoorthy, Foo Leng Leong