End Turn Supports Patents (Class 310/260)
  • Patent number: 9543807
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a motor housing (1) and a further housing (6), in which electrical and/or electronic components (7) are arranged. A fluid-leading channel circuit is provided for cooling these components (7) and conductively connects the inside of the motor hosing (1) to the inside of the further housing (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GRUNDFOS MANAGEMENT A/S
    Inventors: Niels Erik Linnemann Nielsen, John B. Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 9537365
    Abstract: A magnet-type generator 1 has a stator 20 having a stator core 21 and a coil 60, and fixed on an engine cover. The stator core has an annular base portion 26 and salient pole portions 27 extended in a radial direction from the annular base portion. The coil is wound around winding frame portions formed on the salient pole portions. Lead wires 64A, 64B, 64C are inserted into through holes 35A, 35B, 35C passing through the stator core and connected with outgoing wires of the coil at one side of the stator core. The stator core has an extension portion 33, which is partly enlarged outwards in a radial direction from an outer periphery of the annular base portion and fills a part of a gap 32 between neighboring salient pole portions. The through holes are provided on an area including the extension portion of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Denso Trim Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiko Hikita
  • Patent number: 9537375
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a stator core positioned within the housing, a wire wound about the stator core to form a plurality of end-turns that extend from an end of the stator core, and a thermal conductor positioned between the plurality of end-turns and the housing. The thermal conductor includes a substrate and a thermally conductive coating formed on a surface of the substrate. The thermally conductive coating includes a thermally conductive, dielectric material configured to transfer heat from the plurality of end-turns to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Xiaomei Fang
  • Patent number: 9496766
    Abstract: This bowl (10) for an induction motor intended to be housed in the hollow body of a substantially longitudinal actuator for winding/unwinding sheets, screens, blinds or roller shutters, comprises an outer skirt (12) and an inner skirt (13), the outer skirt (12) and the inner skirt (13) defining, between them, a space (14) intended to receive a lead-out of a stator of the induction motor. Moreover, the inner skirt (13) is capable of being deformed in such a way as to restrict the space (14) between the inner skirt (13) and the outer skirt (12) in order to allow the insertion into the inner skirt (13) of means of supporting a rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SOMFY SAS
    Inventor: Adrien Brondex
  • Patent number: 9469956
    Abstract: Systems and methods for drainage management, including a pipe that is cut along a longitudinal section thereof; and a pipe block having a curved section corresponding to a diameter of the cut pipe and including supporting legs. The curved section of the pipe block is configured to support the cut pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Inventor: Robert H. Koerner
  • Patent number: 9225218
    Abstract: The winding overhang of the rotor of an electrical machine is subject to strong centrifugal forces during operation, especially when the machines run at high speed. The winding overhang support prevents the production of relative movements between the winding overhang and the rotor base. These movements result in strong mechanical stresses on the winding bars. The winding overhang support includes an inner ring and an outer ring between which the winding bars are arranged in the region of the winding overhang, the outer ring being shrunk on the inner ring and both the outer ring and the inner ring being interspaced from the lamination stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Andritz Hydro GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Lexer, Stefan Helmlinger
  • Patent number: 9154010
    Abstract: An armature includes an insulator mounted on a tooth portion around which a conducting wire is wound. A pair of a first member and a second member, which are combined so as to abut each other, is provided. The first member includes a first end wall which covers an upper side end in the axial direction of the tooth portion and a pair of first side walls which partially cover both side portions of the tooth portion. A first overlap portion is provided on a tip portion of the first side wall. A plurality of ribs extending so as to be parallel or substantially parallel to the winding direction of the conducting wire is disposed on an outer surface of the first overlap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Yokogawa
  • Patent number: 9118233
    Abstract: The electric machine has a stator with windings connected to phase connections. An insulating cap protects the reciprocally connected portions of the phase connections and windings. The insulating cap has a box-shaped body with an opening for the introduction of a winding within it. The body defines a seat housing the phase connection. The seat is formed in one piece with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Francesco Stallone, Grzegorz Kunka, Daniel Hediger
  • Patent number: 9041262
    Abstract: A stator coil includes first to fourth in-slot portions and first and second turn portions. Both the first and third in-slot portions are received in one slot of a stator core, while both the second and fourth in-slot portions are received in another slot. The first and second turn portions both protrude from an axial end face of the stator core and respectively connect the pair of the first and second in-slot portions and the pair of the third and fourth in-slot portions. The second turn portion is located inside the first turn portion. When viewed along an axial direction of the stator core, the first and second turn portions extend so as to cross each other with a reference line C interposed therebetween; the reference line C is defined to extend along a circumferential direction of the stator core through an intersection between the first and second turn portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okamura, Norio Kamegawa
  • Patent number: 9018822
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes: a stator core in a cylindrical shape with plural slots formed at an inner circumferential surface; plural coil segments inserted in the slots from one end surface side of the stator core; and plural coil end plates electrically connected with the coil segments on another end surface side of the stator core, wherein the coil segments respectively include: one leg portion; another leg portion; and a curved portion that is continuously formed between the one leg portion and the other leg portion, wherein the coil end plates respectively include: a plate portion in a flat plate shape; and a pair of extended portions, and wherein end portions of the leg portions of the coil segments are connected to the extended portions. It is possible to improve assembility and attain downsizing by reducing the volume of coil end portions for the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeomi Okimitsu, Koichi Oku
  • Patent number: 9000630
    Abstract: Provided is a motor including a rotor, a stator having a stator core and a coil, a stator frame, an end cover, first and second bearings, and a heat radiating resin in the stator frame. The coil includes first and second end portions projecting oppositely and axially. The stator frame includes a peripheral wall and an end wall, whose respective central parts form first and second boss portions holding the first and second bearings respectively. The heat radiating resin includes a first resin part covering the first end portion and closely contacting an inner surface of the stator frame, and a second resin part covering the second end portion and separating from an outer peripheral surface of the second boss portion. The first resin part has a portion between the first end portion and the first boss portion, the portion having a greater thickness than that of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Tsutsui, Seiji Saiki, Kazushige Koiwai, Akira Nakazumi
  • Patent number: 8981606
    Abstract: A connector assembly that mechanically and electrically connects respective ends of first and second stator coil sections includes first and second clip assemblies, first and second connector bar assemblies, and first and second coupling structures. The first clip assembly includes first and second clip members and the second clip includes third and fourth clip members. The first and second connector bar assemblies are coupled to the first and third clip members and to the second and fourth clip members, respectively, to structurally couple the first stator coil section to the second stator coil section. The first clip member, the first connector bar assembly, and the third clip member create a first path for electric current between the stator coil sections, and the second clip member, the second connector bar assembly, and the fourth clip member create a second path for electric current between the stator coil sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis J. Vitello, Mukesh Kumar Jaluthariya
  • Patent number: 8963399
    Abstract: An induction machine short circuit stop is interposed between a brace and a machine component, such as a generator building bolt, in order to limit component motion during a short circuit event. The stop is a block of resilient non-conductive material that is oriented proximal the machine component at a desired spaced gap. Gap dimensions may be modified by use of different height stop blocks and/or shims. The stop is affixed to the brace by straps, cordage or fasteners, such as threaded studs. The stop is suitable for retrofitting existing induction machines in the field or in refurbishing service centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Avinash M. Tekawade, David F. Yurko, Domingo J. Fumero, Sean Woosley
  • Patent number: 8946963
    Abstract: A polyphase stator for an internally ventilated rotating electrical machine comprises a body (14) provided with slots and carrying a coil (12) having at least one winding per phase. A plurality of pairs of lateral branches are mounted in a slot of the body (14). A plurality of connecting heads (50 to 55) extend outside the body (14) so as to form a first lead-out (42) and interconnect each pair of lateral branches. A plurality of coupling feet (150 to 155) are offset circumferentially with respect to the plurality of connecting heads and extend outside the body (14) so as to form a second lead-out (43) and interconnect each pair of lateral branches. One of the pluralities has a generally pointed shape and has an axial length of between 15 and 20 mm. The stator is used with an alternator or alternator-stator for a motor vehicle. An internally ventilated electrical machine is equipped with the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Equipments Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Xavier Dunesme, Jerome Fournier, Nicolas Langlard, Pierre Faverolle
  • Publication number: 20150008787
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to electromagnetic devices and, more particularly, to the compression of stator core laminations using wire rope members and to stator cores and electromagnetic devices employing such wire rope members. In one embodiment, the invention includes: affixing a first end of a wire rope member to a first flange plate disposed adjacent a first end of a plurality of stator laminations; affixing a second end of the wire rope member to a second flange plate disposed adjacent a second end of the plurality of stator laminations; tensioning at least one of the first end or the second end of the wire rope member against at least one of the first flange plate and the second flange plate to exert a compressive force against the first flange plate, the second flange plate, and the plurality of stator laminations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Anand Shankar Tanavde, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Lakshminarayana Kanakamedala
  • Patent number: 8922088
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor for a dynamoelectric machine. The rotor includes winding elements arranged in axially extending grooves of a rotor body, a winding head arranged axially adjacent to the rotor body, and a winding head carrier, connected to the winding head by means of tension bolts, all arranged in such a way that reliable securing of the winding head against radial expansion due to centrifugal forces is ensured, while resulting in a compact and cost-effective configuration as well as sufficient cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Henning, Philipp Eilebrecht, Stefan Veser, Thomas Hildinger
  • Patent number: 8912705
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for insulating induction machine conductive connectors by sliding a closed-end insulating sheath over the connector. The sheath is circumferentially secured to the conductive connector with a biasing element, such as an elastomeric stretchable fabric, stretch tape or heat shrink material. Additional insulative materials as well as resin curing catalysts or accelerants may be added to the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas G. Lang
  • Patent number: 8907539
    Abstract: A retaining ring configuration system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a set of adjustment apparatuses configured to contact a portion of a generator rotor, each of the set of adjustment apparatuses including: a base member for contacting the portion of the generator rotor; an adjustment member for adjusting a position of the generator retaining ring relative to the generator rotor; and an actuation member coupled to the base member and operably attached to the adjustment member, the actuation member for actuating movement of the adjustment member to adjust the position of the generator retaining ring relative to the generator rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Jordan Christopher Baker, John Matthew Sassatelli, John Thomas Sterle
  • Patent number: 8884484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DC motor 1 comprising a cylindrical coil carrier 7; 17 comprising wire guide element 9; 10, 12 for guiding a first winding wire 80; 180 and a second winding wire 81; 181 of an air-gap winding on both side end sections, wherein the first winding wire 80; 180 and the second winding wire 81; 181 each comprise rectangular winding segments 20; 120, wherein the rectangular winding segments 20; 120 of the second winding wire 81; 181 are disposed overlapping on the cylindrical coil carrier 7; 17 and the wire guide elements 9; 10, 12 are designed for guiding the first winding wire 80; 180 and the second winding wire 81; 181 past each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Krauth, Tilo Koenig
  • Publication number: 20140319962
    Abstract: An insulated cover (10) for insulating at least two electrically-connected stator bar winding ends (18, 20) in a dynamoelectric machine. The cover (10) comprises a first member (12) for mating with a second member (14), a first interlocking structure (52) on a surface of the first member (12) and a second interlocking structure (50) on a surface of the second member (14). When the cover (10) is installed to insulate the bar winding ends (18, 20) by placing the first (12) and second (14) members in contact, the first (52) and second (50) interlocking structures positively lock to prevent relative displacement of the first (12) and second (14) members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: David Thomas Allen, Travis John Vitello
  • Patent number: 8872404
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor body, an annular winding head which is arranged axially next to the rotor body and coaxially in relation thereto, a support ring which is arranged radially inside the winding head and coaxially in relation thereto, the winding head and the support ring are torsion-proof with the rotor body, the winding head and the support ring are clamped together in the radial direction by tension rods which are guided through radial boreholes in the winding heads and in the support ring, where radially inner ends of the tension rods engage on the support ring and radially outer ends of the tension rods engage on bearing blocks which rest on the winding head, and the radially inner ends of the tension rods and the radially outer ends of the tension rods are mounted by the bearing blocks having a spherical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Henning, Philipp Eilebrecht, Stefan Veser, Thomas Hildinger
  • Patent number: 8853913
    Abstract: A mounting structure for slot paper in a motor stator. The slot paper is embedded in stator slots and includes a paper bottom, a paper side, and a paper front. A lug boss is protruded between two adjacent tooth block segments and protrudes from the inner wall of an outer ring. Two ends of the slot paper extend out of each stator slot. Two ends of the paper bottom are locked between the lug bosses respectively arranged on the upper end insulator and the lower end insulator. One end of each tooth block segment is provided with a clip slot and the paper front near the opening is embedded therein. The structure is simple, has a precise slot paper positioning function, does not occupy space of the stator slot, maximizes the slot filling ratio of the slots, and thus improves the overall performance of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Songfa Tang
  • Patent number: 8847459
    Abstract: An axial self-supported coil for a slotless rotating electric motor. The axial self-supported coil includes one coil body formed by winded electrical conductors, with a head at each end, the electrical conductors in the coil body being substantially coplanar with the motor rotation axis, each coil head having an axial thickness, the axial self-supported coil having a conductor filling factor, characterized in that at least one of the electrical conductors is a multi-stranded conductor, in that a deformation arrangement of the multi-stranded conductor increases the conductor filling factor and in that a bending arrangement of the multi-stranded conductor reduces the axial thickness of each coil head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Portescap SA
    Inventors: Julien Baudey, Cyril Baud, Alexis Montagnat-Rentier
  • Publication number: 20140246946
    Abstract: An electrical machine is provided. The electrical machine includes a stator having at least one winding, and a mechanical assembly acting on the winding for providing a radial force at the winding for controlling a stiffness of the winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Mukesh Kumar Jaluthariya, Neelima Tailor
  • Patent number: 8786146
    Abstract: An electrical machine including a casing (1), an oil inlet hole (7), an oil passage (2), oil outlet holes (3), a stator retainer (8), a casing end cover (10), a stator iron core (5), winding coils (6), slot insulations (12) and oil-guides (4). The oil passage (2) is located inside the casing (1) and links with the oil inlet hole (7) of the casing (1) and the oil outlet holes (3) of the stator retainer (8). The oil outlet holes (3) are located above the winding coils (6) and the oil-guides (4) are located between the oil outlet holes (3) and the winding coils (6). Oil entering from the oil inlet hole (7) pours onto the winding coils (6) by the guidance of the oil-guides (4) after flowing through the oil passage (2) and flowing out of the oil outlet holes (3). The winding coils of the electrical machine can be effectively cooled and the electrical machine can achieve higher thermal durability. An oil cooling method for the electrical machine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Jing-Jin Electric Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Cai, Yi Zheng, Xinglian Yuan
  • Publication number: 20140152128
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and coils. The stator core is provided with a plurality of slots extending in an axial direction and being spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction. The coils are wound around through the slots. The coils include coil end portions which protrude outward in the axial direction from an end surface of the stator core. The stator includes a restricting member situated on an inner side of the coil end portions in the radial direction. The restricting member serves to prevent deformation of the coil end portions inward in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Takano, Yohei Arimatsu
  • Publication number: 20140097710
    Abstract: A spacer for mechanically stabilizing and electrically insulating an end winding in an electric motor includes an elastic nose having a free end. A planar, electrically insulating sheet is integrally formed at an end of the nose located opposite the free end. Such spacers are used in an electric motor having an iron core, whose teeth are surrounded by coils whose end windings laterally project from the iron core. The spacers are press-fitted inside openings formed by the end windings and the teeth, so that the end windings are covered by the sheet of the press-fitted spacer in the direction of an air gap of the electric motor in each case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Guillaume Mougin, Christophe Dehouck, David Panet
  • Patent number: 8664813
    Abstract: The phase ring assembly includes a support ring carrying a plurality of phase rings provided with connection arms that are bent to the phase rings. The connection arms are placed between the phase rings and the support ring. The support ring has recessed seats housing the connection arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Jean Charles Ast, Marc Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8659204
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, slots, coils, an interphase insulation sheet, and wedges. The interphase insulation sheet is provided between coil ends of adjacent coils having different phases among the coils. The interphase insulation sheet includes a first sheet body portion, a second sheet body portion, and a first bridge portion. The first and second sheet body portions respectively have first and second retaining pieces. The first retaining piece projects from the first sheet body portion toward the second sheet body portion in the developed state of the interphase insulation sheet. The second retaining piece projects from the second sheet body portion toward the first sheet body portion in the developed state of the interphase insulation sheet. The first and second retaining pieces are retained by projecting portions of the wedges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Shoji, Takuo Nozawa
  • Patent number: 8629596
    Abstract: The invention relates to an end turn arrangement in a stator of a dynamoelectric machine. In order to reduce, in a simple fashion, the volume required for the end turns of the form-wound coils, the stator is formed of segments (1) that have a substantially circular arc-shaped cross-section and can be combined into a stator by adding one or more other segments (1) having the same design. Each segment (1) has recesses (6, 7), within which at least one first form-wound coil (3), which is bent outward in the radial direction of the stator in the region of the end turns, and at least one second form-wound coil (4), which is bent inward in the radial direction of the stator in the region of the end turns, are arranged in the form of a tiered winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Germishuizen, Arne Grüning, Martin Junge
  • Patent number: 8608462
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a motor stator includes a substantially cylindrical stator iron core and insulators. The stator iron core includes a yoke, teeth, and U-shaped grooves. The U-shaped grooves are formed on the circumference of the yoke in the axial direction. The insulators each include an outer circumference wall, hoisting drums, inner guards, and at least three engagement claws. The engagement claws are located spaced apart in the circumferential direction on the outside of the outer circumference wall and fitted in axial-direction ends of the U-shaped grooves, respectively. One of the engagement claws is arranged such that a first circumferential-direction side portion of the engagement claw is in contact with a first side wall of one U-shaped groove. Another is arranged such that a second circumferential-direction side portion of the engagement claw is in contact with a second side wall of another U-shaped groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Taema
  • Patent number: 8604656
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) motor includes a polymer or ceramic component made by curing a thermosetting polymer in situ in the ESP motor, wherein the thermosetting polymer is selected from the group consisting of cyanate ester, bismaleimide, polyimide, benzoxazine, a preceramic polymer, and a mixture thereof, or the thermosetting polymer is a hybrid polymer having less than 50% by weight of an epoxy component and a second component selected from the group consisting of cyanate ester, bismaleimide, polyimide, benzoxazine, a preceramic polymer, and a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: William Goertzen, Gregory H. Manke, Aider Matarrita, Melissa Ver Meer
  • Patent number: 8581460
    Abstract: An armature for a rotating electrical machine, including an armature core and a coil wound around the armature core. The segment conductor includes a joint extension portion that extends in the axial direction relative to the armature core from at least one end portion of a conductor edge portion. The coil has an n-layer winding structure and includes an inter-layer joint portion on an axial direction outer side of the armature core. The inter-layer joint portion joining a first and second layer side joint extension portions. At least one of the first and second layer side joint extension portions forming a pair to be joined by the inter-layer joint portion includes an offset bend portion, and the first layer side joint extension portion and the second layer side joint extension portion are joined such that respective joint surfaces thereof oppose each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Shinohara, Takuma Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 8575816
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor has a compressor housing in which a cylinder housing and an electric motor are fastened to one another. The electric motor includes a stator provided with a stator bore, the coil core of which is provided with receiving grooves for accommodating a stator winding having any given number of windings, coil groups, and poles. The coil core is preferably composed of interconnected stator segments and the stator winding in the region of the end faces of the coil core has winding heads which are each situated outside the receiving grooves. The winding heads of the stator winding are pressed against an insulating element which is situated between the coil core and the winding heads and which has an arbitrary number of projecting additional insulating sections in a peripheral edge region opposite the stator bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: ACC Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Zeinlinger, Hans Peter Schoegler
  • Patent number: 8575795
    Abstract: A stator includes an annular substrate, an outer-diameter portion of the substrate provided at a tip end of an outer-diameter leg of a bobbin, the substrate having a smaller inner diameter than an inner diameter of the stator core. When stator resin provides sealing, the outer-diameter portion of the substrate can be supported by the tip end of the outer-diameter leg of the bobbin, and an inner-diameter portion of the substrate can be supported by a mold. Accordingly, even when the moment of inertia of a molded motor is increased, the substrate can be prevented from being deformed by a molding pressure with the stator resin, without the area of the substrate being decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Kenichi Aoki, Fumihiko Kitani, Tomonori Hirose
  • Patent number: 8552611
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coil end structure of a rotating electric machine which is able to miniaturize the coil end structure without having an insulation coating of a flat wire being affected. A coil segment 4 is composed of a plurality of flat wires. A surface of each flat wire confronting another in a slot 2a (legs 41 and 41) is identical to the surface confronting the other at a coil end (head 42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Matsuoka, Kazuhito Hiraga
  • Patent number: 8508088
    Abstract: A wiring component for a motor coil includes: a wire coil configured by a plurality of wire segments arranged in a circumferential direction so as to form a ring shape, each of the wire segments including an arc-shaped main-body portion made of a conductive wire rod bent in an arc shape, protruding portions formed at both end portions of the main-body portion and upright portions respectively formed at end portions of the protruding portions; an inner clip formed with a plurality of first holding portions at an outer circumferential surface of the inner clip; and an outer clip formed with a plurality of second holding portions at an inner circumferential surface of the outer clip. The inner clip and the outer clip are connected to each other so as to hold the wire coil between the first holding portions and the second holding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Jun Abiko, Yasutoshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Nagata
  • Patent number: 8466598
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine includes a multi-phase stator coil that is wound on a stator core in a distributed winding manner. Each of phase windings of the stator coil is formed of an electric wire bundle which includes a plurality of insulation-coated electric wires that are electrically connected to one another. Each of the electric wire bundles forming the phase windings has in-slot portions, which are respectively received in corresponding slots of the stator core, and turn portions that are located outside the slots of the stator core to connect adjacent pairs of the in-slot portions. Each of the electric wire bundles further includes a plurality of insulating layers that are respectively formed at predetermined positions, at which the turn portions of the electric wire bundle overlap those of the other electric wire bundles, so as to surround the electric wires of the electric wire bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Osada, Takuzou Mukai
  • Patent number: 8461741
    Abstract: A support system is provided for a dynamoelectric machine having a stator and stator bars connected to a connection ring assembly. The support system includes at least one stator bar support bracket and one or more support rings connected to the stator bars. A connection ring support bracket supports the connection ring assembly. A mount is connected to the connection ring support bracket. The mount permits axial movement of the stator bars, the stator bar support bracket, the support rings, and the connection ring assembly due to thermal expansion experienced during operation of the dynamoelectric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: David Norwood Dorsey
  • Patent number: 8461742
    Abstract: A connection ring assembly and connection ring support system for a dynamoelectric machine is provided. The connection ring assembly includes a plurality of connection rings, and a clamp element disposed around a portion of the connection rings. The clamp element provides axial and tangential support to the plurality of connection rings. The connection ring support system includes one or more primary spring bars connected to the connection ring assembly. The primary spring bars permit radial and tangential movement of the connection ring assembly. One or more secondary spring bars are connected to the primary spring bars, and permit axial movement of the connection ring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jayashankar KN, Sanjeev Kumar Jha, Shravan Kumar Bhagavatula, Santhosh Kumar Kompally
  • Patent number: 8441166
    Abstract: A device (10) for connecting together end winding parts (1) of stator bars (2) of an electric generator includes a first and a second element (11, 12) having sloped facing surfaces (13) defining two trapezoidal seats each housing a trapezoidal cursor (14), and one or two screws (15), axially fixed and rotatably movable with respect to the first and second element (11, 12) and having a threaded portion inserted in a threaded through hole (17) of the cursor (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Hossein Safari Zadeh, Damir Novosel
  • Patent number: 8436506
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes a stator coil including a wire pair with respective ends that are joined with a ring. The ring is positioned around the wire pair and joined to the wire pair by a metal joining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Pei-Chung Wang, John S. Agapiou, John Patrick Spicer
  • Publication number: 20130106238
    Abstract: Provided is a motor including a motor shaft, a rotor; a stator including a stator core and a stator coil, the stator coil being wound around the stator core so that coil ends on respective sides of the stator coil serving as turned back parts project axially outwardly beyond respective axial direction end surfaces of the stator core, a casing accommodating the rotor and the stator, and a sealing body charged into the casing to seal the entire stator or a part of the stator including the coil ends on the respective sides. A side surface on a radially inner side of a specific coil end of the coil ends on the respective sides is inclined so as to displace outwardly in a radial direction with close to a tip of the specific coin end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8421302
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a rotating electrical machine including a core, a coil extending from the core, and an electromagnetic shield which is provided outside the core, and has a plurality of shoulders projecting toward the coil. The coil includes an insulator covering outside of a conductor, a resistance layer formed on a surface of the insulator and contacting the core, and at least one potential grading layer formed on a surface of the insulator adjacent to the resistance layer. A boundary between the resistance layer and potential grading layer is provided at a position farther from the core than a point on a surface of the coil, where a distance between the coil and a shoulder of the electromagnetic shield closest to the core is the shortest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Harakawa, Tetsushi Okamoto, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Tooru Ootaka, Hiroshi Hatano, Mikio Kakiuchi, Toshihiko Shinoda, Makoto Kawahara, Masashi Kobayashi, Wataru Nakamura, Ken Nagakura, Masamitsu Sakuma
  • Patent number: 8390159
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator coil formed of electric wires which include a joined pair of first and second electric wires. The first electric wire has a lead portion led out from the radially inner periphery of a first slot of a stator core and including a crossover part. The crossover part crosses over an axial end face of an end part of the stator coil from the radially inside to the radially outside of the axial end face; the end part protrudes from an axial end face of the stator core. The second electric wire has a lead portion led out from the radially outer periphery of a second slot of the stator core. The lead portions of the electric wires are joined together with a joint formed therebetween. The joint is positioned closer to the axial end face of the stator core than the crossover part is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Koike, Mitsuru Katoh, Masashi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8384258
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator coil that is formed of a plurality of electric wires each being comprised of an electric conductor having a substantially rectangular cross section and an insulating coat covering the electric conductor. The electric wires include a pair of first and second electric wires each having an end portion where the electric conductor is not covered by the insulating coat. Each of the end portions of the two electric wires includes a joined part at a distal end thereof; the joined parts of the end portions are joined together. At least one of the first and second electric wires has a bent part that is bent only once and adjoins the joined part of the end portion of the electric wire. The end portion of the at least one of the first and second electric wires includes at least part of the bent part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Koike, Mitsuru Katoh, Masashi Yoshida, Akira Takasaki
  • Patent number: 8378550
    Abstract: An electric machine including a housing, and a stator mounted relative to the housing. The stator includes a body including a first end portion that extends to a second end portion and a plurality of stator windings that extend between the first and second end portions. A sleeve member is mounted to the stator and covers a portion of the stator windings at one of the first and second end portions. The sleeve member is configured and disposed to guide a coolant over the portion of the stator windings to remove heat from the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Michael D. Bradfield
  • Publication number: 20130022163
    Abstract: An electromagnet comprises a plurality of nested freestanding electrically insulating former layers, and electrically conductive wire wrapped around the outsides of the freestanding electrically insulating former layers to define a multilayer electrical coil in which adjacent layers of the multilayer electrical coil are spaced apart by intervening freestanding electrically insulating former layers. Electrically energizing the multilayer electrical coil generates a magnetic field inside the multilayer electrical coil. In some embodiments the electrically conductive wire is bare wire not having electrical insulation. In some embodiments the former layers comprise a ceramic material. In some such embodiments the electromagnet further comprises a ferromagnetic core disposed inside the multilayer electrical coil. An electric motor employing such an electromagnet as a stator pole is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Brett T. Goodyear, Robert W. Emond, William H. Yeadon
  • Patent number: 8339002
    Abstract: An end winding is described for a stator of an electrical machine. The end winding includes at least two round connectors via which the current is passed out from the winding bars of the stator, as well as a plurality of supporting brackets, via which the end winding is attached to the stator. The end winding has at least two round connectors having a radial section at whose end a phase connection block is in each case arranged. At least two phase connection blocks of one phase are arranged alongside one another in the circumferential direction. The adjacent phase connection blocks are connected via at least one pin element and is mounted at least partially integrally in recesses in the mutually facing side surfaces of the phase connection blocks. A method for fitting an end winding such as this is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Matthias Banziger, Daniel Hediger
  • Patent number: 8304940
    Abstract: A stator that includes a cylindrical stator core, which has a plurality of slots that are provided at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and open toward an inner peripheral surface of the stator core; and a coil, which has a coil end portion protruding from an axial end of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Takamasa Takeuchi