End Turn Supports Patents (Class 310/260)
  • Patent number: 6455977
    Abstract: In a generator with an indirectly gas-cooled, in particular air-cooled, stator winding (21), the end regions of the stator bore (23) are to be designed in such a way that the conductor bars are shielded as effectively as possible by the laminated stator core (20) against magnetic fields inducing eddy currents, but, on the other hand, a specific radial dimension between the rotor retaining ring (12) and the laminated stator core (20) is ensured. According to the invention, for this purpose, the end region of the stator bore is designed with four axial zones having a different diameter profile. A first zone (I) is the interior of the stator with the constant nominal stator bore diameter (DI). Toward the end face of the stator is arranged a second zone (II) with a stator bore diameter (DII) widening toward the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd
    Inventors: René-Louis Leyvraz, Francesco Stallone
  • Patent number: 6448681
    Abstract: An alternator is capable of preventing a short circuit at a coil end, improving an ability of cooling a stator winding assembly, and reducing noises. A multi-phase stator winding of the alternator has: a plurality of joint portions where a distal end extending in an axial direction of a first conductor portion drawn out from a first layer in a slot and a distal end extending in an axial direction of a second conductor portion drawn out from a second layer in a slot located a predetermined number of slots apart in a circumferential direction are connected outside the slot on an end surface side of the stator core; and a coil end where the joint portions are disposed in a plurality of rows in the circumferential direction. The joint portions are set apart by half a slot from a diametrical line in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsunaga, Atsushi Oohashi, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 6441527
    Abstract: Coil ends (19) of a stator coil (18) having a cross sectional shape like a flat rectangular are constructed by first portions extending from an outer layer of a pair of slots apart from predetermined pitches in an axial direction and slanting in a circumferential direction, second portions extending from an inner layer of the other of the pair of the slots in the axial direction and slanting in the circumferential direction, and third portions positioned at ends of the coil ends (19) in the axial directions, elongated in the radial direction and connected to ends of the first and second portions in the axial direction, and in all of the first, second and third portions, long sides (300) of the cross sectional flat rectangular view of the stator coil (18) are arranged to be substantially in parallel with an end surface of the stator whereby the coil ends are lowered; and the coils are arranged without a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoichi Taji, Yoshihito Asao, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 6429552
    Abstract: In an a.c. generator for a vehicle, a resin 25 is disposed on coil ends 16a, 16b of a stator coil 16 to clog gaps in the stator coil 16 at the coil ends 16a, 16b, whereby insulation of the coil ends is improved; durability to vibrations is assured; and a wind noise is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20020089253
    Abstract: A winding support structure for use with a superconducting rotor support structure and method for forming the same comprises a binding ring and a lamination coupled to the binding ring and having a slot formed therein for receiving the winding. At least one tie is arranged around a portion of the lamination and a portion of the binding ring to enable the winding to be held within the slot. The lamination includes a first tooth and a second tooth integral with the lamination for defining the slot therebetween. A felt ring or a tire is arranged around an outer circumference of the binding ring. Alternatively, the winding support structure comprises a binding ring, first and second non-magnetic boards coupled to the binding ring and a lamination coupled to the boards. A slot is defined between the boards and between the binding ring and the lamination to receive the winding. Any clearance space in the slot is filled with an RTV or an epoxy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventor: Henry William Kudlacik
  • Patent number: 6407474
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device of significantly reduced size is provided by the specific designs of the end shields of the device and by the specific designs of insulating end caps of the device that insulate the electrical component parts of the device from contact and possible shorting with mechanical structural parts of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Mahn, Charles P. Ketterer
  • Patent number: 6383581
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reinforced, pressure-resistant flexible tube for mechanical end-winding support for rotating electrical machines. The flexible tube according to the invention in this case comprises a glass fiber bundle which is encased by an inner glass cloth flexible tube. This glass cloth flexible tube is in turn externally coated with a polymer layer and is for its part surrounded by an outer glass cloth flexible tube. A matrix polymer is introduced into the inner glass cloth flexible tube and, after it has cured, the reinforced, pressure-resistant flexible tube can carry out its supporting and spacing function fully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Jörg Oesterheld, Rico Gasparini, Thomas Baumann
  • Publication number: 20020047479
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor disposed in the stator, a coil and an insulating apparatus. The coil has a main-resistance coil that is wound around an outer portion of an iron core of the stator and a sub-resistance coil that is wound around an inner portion of the iron core. The insulating apparatus prevents withstand voltage by insulating the rotor from the coil, which can expand and contact the rotor as a result of an increase in temperature during operation of the motor. The insulating apparatus includes an insulator disposed between the rotor and the coil and a yam for securing the insulator to the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Jong-Hyun Choi
  • Publication number: 20020047480
    Abstract: A stator for an electric drive, includes a stator housing configured in the form of a stack of laminations and having a stator bore. The housing is surrounded by a cooling jacket and has opposite winding end portions. Tubular insulators abut the bore-confronting inner surface of the winding end portions, whereby the tubular insulators bound respective cavities in concert with end faces of the stator housing and the cooling jacket for receiving the winding end portions, with the cavities being filled with insulating casting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Bruno Heim
  • Patent number: 6373165
    Abstract: A clamping apparatus clamps opposing pairs of stator coil windings of a turbine generator and includes a retaining platform positioned adjacent one side and across a pair of coil windings having a space therebetween. A bore extends therethrough and is aligned with the space between the pair of coil windings. A connecting insert member is carried within the bore of the retaining platform and has a threaded through-hole aligned with the space between the pair of coil windings. A threaded rod extends through the space between the pair of coil windings and through the threaded through-hole of the connecting insert member. The threaded rod mates with the threaded through-hole such that the tension created in the threaded rod during tightening biases the retaining platform against the pair of coil windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: Charles M. Rowe
  • Patent number: 6366000
    Abstract: An alternator includes a rotor for forming north-seeking (N) and south-seeking (S) poles about a rotational circumference, a stator including a stator core disposed facing the rotor, and a stator winding installed in the stator core, a bracket supporting the rotor and the stator, and a cooling means for cooling the stator winding by moving together with the rotor and generating a flow of cooling air inside the bracket, wherein the stator core includes a laminated core formed with a number of slots extending axially at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction, the stator winding includes a number of winding sub-portions in each of which a long strand of wire is wound so as to alternately occupy an inner layer and an outer layer in a slot depth direction within the slots at intervals of a predetermined number of slots, the strand of wire folding back outside the slots at first and second axial end surfaces of the stator core to form turn portions, the turn portions align in a circumferential directi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyoko Higashino, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6271608
    Abstract: An AC generator comprises a rotor 25 within a stator 24. The rotor carries a fan 27 at one end of the stator. The fan 27 is within a casing 30 which forms volume discharge passages 32. The fan 27 has blades 31 which project from the hub 28 at an angle which is oblique to the radial whereby those blades 31 trail the radial. The stator windings 23 form terminal leads 34 which are led from the end of the stator 24 remote from the fan 27. A circumferential array of cleats 35 which each have the form of a comb, support and guide the terminal leads 34 circumferentially, spaced from one another, to a certain location at the top from which the leads are taken and connected to terminals above. Those terminals are formed by the lower ends of busbars (56 to 58, 61 to 69) which extend through and which are supported by a structural panel of insulating material which forms an insulating barrier between the ends of those busbars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Newage International Limited
    Inventors: Lawerence Haydock, Peter John Wyles, John Ernst Clive Bean
  • Patent number: 6252318
    Abstract: A cooling gas ventilation circuit is provided for an endwinding of a rotary machine having a rotor and a plurality of coils seated in radial slots provided in the rotor. The coils each comprise a plurality of radially stacked turns, the coils extending beyond a pole face of the rotor to form an endwinding with longitudinal cavities between the coils. A substantially cylindrical baffle ring covers the radially innermost turns of the plurality of coils in the endwinding, and has a plurality of holes therein aligned with at least one of the longitudinal cavities between the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventor: Edmund E. Kazmierczak
  • Patent number: 6225726
    Abstract: An apparatus useful in clamping stator coil windings of a turbine generator includes a retaining platform for extending across a pair of the coil windings positioned in a spaced relation. The retaining platform includes a bore extending therethrough. A connecting insert member is slidably carried within the bore and has a through-hole with separable mating segments for admitting a rod into the through-hole. An elongated rod passes through the throughhole of the connecting insert member, which rod includes a bulbous shaped end dimensioned for passing through the bore of the retaining platform but cannot pass through the through-hole of the connecting insert member. Thus providing tension in the elongated rod biases the platform against the pair of coil windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Charles M. Rowe, Alex Christodoulou, Thorsten Weltzien
  • Patent number: 6218759
    Abstract: A generator core end support ring is applied to a generator core support at each of its opposite ends. The ring has circumferentially spaced, radially outwardly opening recesses for receiving ends of wedge sub-assemblies each comprising an end wedge having a tapered underside, a tapered slide, a ripple spring, and one or more of a filler strip. The opposite end of each wedge sub-assembly is received in a dovetail stator core slot. Upon application of the sub-assembly to the armature windings spanning between the tapered end core laminations and the end core support, the ripple spring is compressed such that the sub-assembly applies a radial outward force to structurally support the armature windings spanning between the stator core end supports and the location where wedge-supporting dovetails in the stator core begin inboard of the core end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Blakelock, Thomas R. Butman, Jr., Alan M. Iversen
  • Patent number: 6211587
    Abstract: For achieving small-sizing and high efficiency by improving heat radiation of coils, and further for simple-construction to be easily disassembled, thereby being environment-friendly from a view point of recycling, an electric rotating machine comprising: a stator 1a being constructed by inserting coils 10a into slots 11 of a stator core 2a; an outer frame 4 being divided into a plurality thereof, so as to cover periphery of the stator core of said stator; a pair of bearing holder portions 6a and 6b, each having a fitting portion 35a or 35b to be fitted into an inner diameter reference surface 25a at both end portions of said stator and being provided with a bearing 8a or 8b at an axial center portion thereof, and being attached at both sides of said stator core so as to cover coil end portions dropping out at both sides of said stator; a squeezing mechanism (30, 32a, 32b, 6a, 6b) fixing the outer frame at an outer periphery of the stator core, by a wedge function between each of the bearing holder portions a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Yukinori Taneda, Noriaki Yamamoto, Suetaro Shibukawa, Masaharu Senoh, Fumio Tajima
  • Patent number: 6211586
    Abstract: In a gas-cooled electrical machine, the conductor bars (3, 4) in the winding overhang are cooled directly by a flow element of the cooling gas flow which is passed through cooling channels (8) located within the eyes (5a, 5b) of the bar ends. To this end, the bar levels of the winding bars, which are designed as a two-level bar, are spaced apart from one another in the eye region, and thus form a radial cooling channel (8). These radial cooling channels (8) are coupled to the discharge eyes (5b) by pipe connections (10) which are connected electrically, and in terms of the flow, to round connections (20). The cooling channels (9) in the round connections (20) are connected by insulating tubes (31) or insulating hoses to an induction area (32) of the machine fan, which is separated from the winding overhang area (30) by a bulkhead wall (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Daniel Hediger, Francesco Stallone
  • Patent number: 6204586
    Abstract: A stator of a vehicle AC generator includes a stator core having a plurality of slots and a plurality of phase-windings formed of a plurality of conductor members inserted in said plurality of slots. The stator winding has first and second coil-end groups formed of portions of the conductor members respectively extending from the slots to opposite ends of the stator core. Each of the phase-windings has a lead-end which partially covered with an insulation member and extends along the first coil-end group to be connected to one another. The insulation member is bonded to the first coil-end group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Umeda, Tsutomu Shiga, Shin Kusase
  • Patent number: 6181042
    Abstract: An end winding (10) of a high voltage air-cooled ac generator or motor is made more resistant to surface deterioration by corona activity by using a paint whose binder contains at least 20% by weight silicone. An end winding, including its insulated conductors and separator and support structures, are coated with the paint whose composition includes a solvent or thinner, optional pigments, and the binder containing at least 20% by weight silicone. The balance (if any) of the binder can be, for example, an alkyd, acrylic, phenolic or epoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: James Jonathan Grant, Mark Markovitz
  • Patent number: 6157109
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine such as a motor or generator has an end winding ring of ferromagnetic material in an area of the end winding portions of the stator and/or rotor winding. The end winding ring improves the overall power density of the motor by reducing the stator and/or rotor flux leakage (the magnetic flux that is produced by the windings that is not utilized to produce torque in the rotor). By operatively coupling end winding portions of the stator winding with ferromagnetic material, the end winding portion is employed to produce torque in the rotor. The end winding ring may be a ring of ferromagnetic material attached to the stator core or the frame or the rotor, or may be a coating of ferromagnetic material applied indirectly to the end winding portions. The end winding ring also may support the end winding portions to reduce movement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rich F. Schiferl, Boris A. Shoykhet
  • Patent number: 6147432
    Abstract: In an alternator for a vehicle, a stator winding is composed of a plurality of U-shaped conductor segments and an annular member. The conductor segments have connection edges connected to one another to form ring-connected coil-ends, and the annular member covers the ring-connected coil-ends at the connection edges and portions of the conductor segments adjacent the connection edges. The annular member has a prescribed thickness that provides the ring-connected coil-ends with a prescribed stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Kusase, Atsushi Umeda, Tsutomu Shiga
  • Patent number: 6127761
    Abstract: A seal for a generator stator end winding seals the gap between the annular air shield and a radially inner surface of the stator end winding. The seal includes a first flat piece layer formed of a flexible rubber material and having an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side. A plurality of first radial slits are formed across the outer diameter side. A second flat piece layer is disposed in a layered configuration with the first flat piece layer. The second flat piece layer is formed of the same flexible rubber material. A plurality of second radial slits are formed across the outer diameter side of the second flat piece layer and are offset from the first radial slits in the layered configuration. The seal is secured in a radial groove formed in an end of the air shield by a locking dowel and/or glue. With this arrangement, a reliable seal is configured that is inexpensive to manufacture and easy to install.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Liping Shen, James J. Grant, Steven C. Walko
  • Patent number: 6124661
    Abstract: An electrical generator having a keyway for a retaining ring key formed in only the pole portion of the rotor and not in the tooth region of the rotor, and a method of repairing an electrical generator by forming such a keyway. The present invention lengthens the operating life of the rotor by eliminating a stress-concentrating discontinuity and by reducing the loads in the highly stressed tooth region of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: William Cannon Gardner
  • Patent number: 6121707
    Abstract: A technique for forming stator coils for an electric motor is disclosed. The technique includes forming D-shaped or generally trapezoidal coils having a closed loop defining a long side and a short side joined by end portions. The coils are installed in a stator core having a plurality of slots formed around its inner periphery. The long sides of the coils are disposed in a predetermined position within these slots, such as in a lower position, while the short sides are disposed in opposite positions, such as in upper positions. The long sides extend beyond the short sides at end regions of the stator core. The end portions of each coil wrap around the ends of the stator core and incline from the long side of the respective coil to the short side thereof. Crossing points are established between the long side of each coil and end portions of adjacent coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sidney Bell, Jerry L. Martin, Grayson W. Lambert, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6069431
    Abstract: A synchronous generator which is driven by an engine whose rotation variation is large and which can easily incorporate an output voltage stabilization circuit. In this synchronous generator, magnetism shorting paths for a magnetic field produced by the armature coil is formed without changing the armature specifications. Magnetic fluxes produced by currents flowing in the armature coils can easily pass through the magnetism shorting paths, thereby increasing the equivalent inductance value and improving the frequency characteristic of the inductance. This in turn improves the voltage step-up chopper characteristic during generation to stabilize the generated voltage of the synchronous generator driven by, for example, an automobile engine that widely varies in revolution speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Isuzu Ceramics Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Satoh, Hideo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6066905
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine having a wire retaining device constructed to frictionally retain the quadrature winding to allow automated winding of the quadrature winding. The wire retaining device includes stator end caps having integrally formed wire retention elements at the radially inner end of the stator tooth. The wire retaining device frictionally holds the wire in place as the quadrature winding is automatically wound about the stator. In addition, the stator end caps electrically insulate the quadrature winding from the stator and the main winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kamron M. Wright, David T. Molnar
  • Patent number: 6059969
    Abstract: In an ac generator having a claw-pole type rotor, a stator winding has a plurality of front and rear coil ends. Each of the rear coil ends has an inside bent portion extending radially outward from the inner periphery of the rear end of the stator core and an inside main portion extending axially from the bent portion to form a backwardly expanding space around the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Mizutani
  • Patent number: 6057625
    Abstract: A pole cap insulator is used in a field assembly of a motor having a cylindrical motor frame where the field assembly includes a winding having a central opening therein, and a pole member having a base portion with side surfaces and top and bottom surfaces. The pole cap insulator includes a generally rectangular body portion having a back edge disposed proximal the motor frame, and side boundaries disposed opposite each other. The body portion has a radially inwardly facing edge disposed opposite the back edge and tapered tip portions outwardly extending from opposite side boundaries cooperating with the radially inwardly facing edge to form a curved edge corresponding to a curved contour of the pole member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael L. Stockman, Michael A. Marks, Richard J. Rohan
  • Patent number: 6054792
    Abstract: An apparatus useful in clamping stator coil windings of a turbine generator includes a retaining platform for extending across a pair of the coil windings positioned in a spaced relation. The retaining platform includes a bore extending therethrough. A connecting insert member is slidably carried within the bore and has a through-hole with separable mating segments for admitting a rod into the through-hole. An elongated rod passes through the through-hole of the connecting insert member, which rod includes a bulbous shaped end dimensioned for passing through the bore of the retaining platform but cannot pass through the through-hole of the connecting insert member. Thus providing tension in the elongated rod biases the platform against the pair of coil windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Power Corporation
    Inventors: Charles M. Rowe, Alex Christodoulou, Thorsten Weltzien
  • Patent number: 6043584
    Abstract: An end turn phase insulator for a stator assembly including a stator core having a plurality of slots and a stator winding composed of at least two different phase coils wound on the stator core through the slots. The phase coils form radially disposed end turns extending from ends of the stator core. The end turn phase insulator includes an elongated body formed of a flexible insulation material and is inserted between the radially disposed end turns. The elongated body has an elongated tab member which bends in a hook-shaped configuration about a lower portion of one of the end turns. A method of inserting and securing the insulator to the stator assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Industrial Company
    Inventor: Hobart DeHart
  • Patent number: 6028383
    Abstract: In a stator structure of a resolver, an extended insulating portion (10) formed integrally with an insulation member (4) is provided with pins (11), stator windings (5) are connected to the pins (11) and a lead wire (7) or a connector (6) is connected to the pins (11). The above arrangement permits the automatic assembly, cost reduction and improvement of productivity of the stator structure as well as the prevention of deterioration of the output characteristics of the resolver which has been conventionally occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromi Ohshita
  • Patent number: 6020670
    Abstract: A connector support block has a recess defined in part by an arcuate surface for limiting deflection of a main lead connector coupled between the main lead terminal and the innermost turn of end coils on a generator. The recess is spanned by a pin displaceable in elliptical openings in flanges defining the recess and about which pin the main lead connector makes a 180.degree. bend. By limiting the deflection of the main lead connector, stresses introduced into the main lead connector at the 180.degree. bend, a 90.degree. bend and the joint between the main lead connector and innermost turn are reduced under cyclic loading whereby increased fatigue life of the main lead connector is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Steven William Jones, Marcus Edward Harrington, James F. Hopeck, Patrick Brian Douglass, Steven Lester Adams, Klaus Sommerlatte, Kena Kimi Yokoyama, Apostolos Karafillis
  • Patent number: 6011340
    Abstract: A dynamo-electric core which has a lamination stack defining an axial bore therethrough is wrapped by a wire coil having a coil lead. A mounting member is axially movable within said axial bore between a first position and a second position. A coil lead anchoring structure is positioned adjacent an end portion of said mounting member and is axially movable with said mounting member. When the mounting member is in the first position, there is adequate space for winding apparatus and fusing apparatus for placing and securing the coil lead to the coil lead anchoring structure. When the mounting member is in the second position, the axial length of the dynamo-electric core is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Axis USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Walter Bonura
  • Patent number: 6011332
    Abstract: An alternator for a vehicle includes a stator, a rotor and a pair of cooling fans fixed on opposite sides of the rotor. The stator winding is composed of a conductor group disposed in the stator core and a pair of annular coil-end groups extending from the conductor group to be disposed on opposite sides of said stator core. Each of the coil-end groups has a plurality of coil ends which has a pair of inclined portion, and each one of the inclined portion disposed at the outermost circumference of the coil-end groups inclines to guide the cooling air spirally in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Umeda, Tsutomu Shiga, Shin Kusase
  • Patent number: 6008555
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator assembly having an annular stator core with an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The inner diameter is formed with a plurality of winding slots extending from a first end of the stator core to a second end of the stator core. A plurality of windings are disposed within the winding slots beginning with a first slots. The windings are coupled into at least one winding group associated with at least a first phase, and each winding has a first winding end and a second winding end extending from the first end and the second end, respectively, of the stator core. At least one thermal fuse is disposed in thermal contact with the first winding end and substantially adjacent to the first winding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Inventors: Keith E. Garr, Larry J. Kintz, Jr., Denise L. LoFasto, Alida I. Santana, Wilfredo E. Colon, Ricardo Jusino
  • Patent number: 6002189
    Abstract: A stator core has 3N salient poles arranged circularly where N is a natural number of four or more but except a multiple of three. Coils are formed around the salient poles where winding directions of the coils is the same for the salient poles. A first, a second and a third crossover are formed between a first and an (N+1)-th salient pole, between the (N+1)-th and a (2N+1)-th salient pole and between the (2N+1)-th and the first salient pole, respectively, to forming a triangle before cutting within the salient poles arranged circularly. An end portion of each crossover is connected to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Oishi, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Muramatsu, Hidetoshi Kajiwara
  • Patent number: 5986380
    Abstract: An end turn arrangement for turns in a rotor where individual windings are stacked in tapered radial slots in the rotor, with successive turns having a smaller width in a radial inward direction, the end turns of the individual turns of each stack being vertically aligned along a common edge. The end turns are separated by blocking separators, each including a first anchor component having a first planar exterior surface and a second planar interior engagement surface; and a second slide component having a first non-planar exterior surface and a second planar interior engagement surface; the anchor and slide components having mating guide elements permitting the anchor and slide components to move relative to each other along a straight assembly path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Steven Charles Walko, Robert Francis Lloyd
  • Patent number: 5979087
    Abstract: An electromechanical machine includes a stator fixed with respect to a housing structure and a rotor fixed with respect to a driven shaft. The stator includes a magnetically permeable core having a plurality of parallel winding slots containing conductive windings. Coilheads are located at opposite axial ends of the magnetically permeable core where the windings turn to extend down a parallel winding slot. The motor is equipped with electrostatic shield arrangements in the winding slots and coilheads to reduce capacitive coupling between the stator and rotor during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Industrial Company
    Inventors: Sidney Bell, Michael J. Melfi, Stanley E. Wallace
  • Patent number: 5955810
    Abstract: An alternator for a vehicle which maintains or improves the cooling performance and which reduces the fan noise caused by the interference between the cooling winds and the stator windings. An armature coil provided on a stator of the alternator includes an X-phase coil group, a Y-phase coil group, and a Z-phase coil group. Coil end groups are sets of coil ends forming bridge wires between slots. The coil end groups have stationary blade shapes which form passages for the cooling winds directed from a cooling fan on a rotor toward outlets in a frame. The sound of the interference between the cooling winds and the coil end groups is reduced while the cooling performance is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Umeda, Tsutomu Shiga, Shin Kusase
  • Patent number: 5942827
    Abstract: The present invention refers to an electric motor comprising a stator with an internal permanent magnet and a tubular magnetic return sleeve surrounding said permanent magnet whereby an annular air gap is formed therebetween, said magnetic return sleeve being held at its axial and radial positions relative to said permanent magnet by a frame of plastic material injected around these two components and being connected to said permanent magnet by said plastic frame. The present invention aims at improving the manner in which the two structural components are attached to and positioned on one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Interelectric AG
    Inventors: Frank Neumann, Joachim Steffan, Jurgen Mayer
  • Patent number: 5939814
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine comprising a stator core with slots therein and top and bottom coils contained in each of the slots and extend from the end of the stator core is provided. A radial clamp for securing a pair of adjacent top coils together with a pair of bottom coils is provided. The radial clamp comprises a support block radially outside the pair of top coils. The support block has an aperture that is substantially radially lined in relation to the axis of the machine. A retaining platform is coupled proximate the bottom coils. The retaining platform defines a bore. A connecting insert member that is adapted to be adjustably mounted within the retaining platform bore is provided. The connecting insert member further defines an aperture. A traverse pin is mounted proximate the support block. A radially extending banding material having a first end and a second end which has a head portion is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Charles M. Rowe, Alex Christodoulou, Thorsten Weltzien
  • Patent number: 5926939
    Abstract: In an electrodynamic apparatus, a method of securing a coil basket of the type that includes a plurality of top coils and a plurality of bottom coils to a bracing assembly that includes a plurality of support braces includes steps of banding the top coil, the bottom coil and the support brace to each other; positioning a number of inflatable bladders, respectively, between the top coils and the bottom coils in the location of the bandings; and simultaneously inflating the bladders to a predetermined pressure that is sufficient to tension the bandings to a predetermined force, whereby forces that are transmitted to the coil basket from such inflation are imparted evenly throughout the coil basket and at the same time. An improved end winding region support system is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Joseph Konrad, David Norwood Dorsey, John Barry Sargeant
  • Patent number: 5929545
    Abstract: An end shield for mounting on a stack of laminations forming the stator of an electric motor. The end shield has an inner face facing the stack, mounting openings alignable with holes extending into the stack, and a spacer on the inner face adjacent at least one of the openings to space the inner face from the stack so that a threaded fastener extending through the mounting opening and into a hole in the stack can more readily pull material surrounding the hole upwardly to form a protuberance on the stack to engage and resist movement of the end shield relative to the stack. The motor incorporates at least one end shield of this construction. According to the method of this invention, at least one end shield is installed on the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: Vincent P. Fargo
  • Patent number: 5906331
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus for providing a stator plate with windings where the stator plate has several stator slots distributed in a circumferential direction which are formed between poles and a stator core and end face disks formed of an electrically insulating material mounted on both faces, the end face disk having a winding wire receiver space lying radially and axially outside of the stator slots and running in the circumferential direction and arranged in such a manner that a directly adjacent stator slot is kept at least partially clear when the slot is skipped during winding of the winding pattern having a winding pitch of greater than 1 and the end face disk also having a radially projecting retaining finger between every two adjacent stator slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Ruoss Spezialmaschinen
    Inventor: Gerhard Ruoss
  • Patent number: 5900687
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a rational connection configuration for an inner rotor type stator comprising coil windings provided for each pole blade. Accordingly, the connection configuration of the invention comprises three types of electric conductors corresponding to U-, V- and W-phases, respectively, and shaped like a ring. Each electric conductor has a projection extended in four directions corresponding to four groups of coil windings each of a same phase, and a lead representing each phase and extending outward of an outer diameter of the stator. The electric conductors and a common electric conductor are arranged on an end plate concentrically. Connections between the coil windings and the projections respectively of the same phase are radially arranged at places outward of the grooves of the end plate as to effect connection therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kondo, Seiji Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Tsuboi, Toshihiro Takahata
  • Patent number: 5886444
    Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that a rotary machine attempts to lower the resistance of each coil and realize improvement of efficiency and miniaturization of a motor by shortening the end portion of a coil to be inserted into a stator, and the constitution thereof is that the coil end portion of a stator coil has a shape that a conductor raised and looped back from a slot provided in the core on the rotor side is closer to the end face of the aforementioned core than a conductor raised and looped back in the aforementioned slot on the opposite side of the rotor, and the aforementioned constitution has a stator coil having a loopback shape passing a location other than above the adjacent slot surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yukinori Taneda, Hiromichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 5869913
    Abstract: In an electric motor comprising a plurality of permanent magnets (46) surrounding a motor armature (52) for supplying field flux to the armature, a cylindrical magnet cover (47) is fitted into an inner circumferential surface defined by the permanent magnets to protect the permanent magnets against chipping and other damages. The magnet cover is further provided with a radial flange (47b) having guide holes (47c) formed therein so that set bolts (48) passed axially inside the motor casings may be favorably guided as they are inserted from one axial end of the motor casing to the other. Preferably, to better guide the bolts, the guide holes may be each provided with a cylindrical guide boss (50, 51) which may be formed either by burring or cutting and lifting a part of the material of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Ohya, Koji Nara, Yoshikazu Sato, Michio Okada, Shinichi Nagashima, Eiichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 5866960
    Abstract: In a gas-cooled electrical machine, the conductor bars (3, 4) in the winding overhang are cooled directly by a flow element of the cooling gas flow which is passed through cooling channels (8) located within the eyes (5a, 5b) of the bar ends. To this end, the bar levels of the winding bars, which are designed as a two-level bar, are spaced apart from one another in the eye region, and thus form a radial cooling channel (8). These radial cooling channels (8) are coupled to the discharge eyes (5b) by pipe connections (10) which are connected electrically, and in terms of the flow, to round connections (20). The cooling channels (9) in the round connections (20) are connected by means of insulating tubes (31) or insulating hoses to an induction area (32) of the machine fan, which is separated from the winding overhang area (30) by a bulkhead wall (33). The invention allows the bar ends and the round connections (20) connected to them in the winding overhang to be cooled optimally, since the cooling is direct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Walter Meier, Francesco Stallone, Jens von Wolfersdorf, Hans Zimmermann, deceased
  • Patent number: 5866966
    Abstract: An electrical machine such as a switched reluctance motor includes a stator including a stator body, a plurality of poles each having an energizing coil, and a rotor. Portions of the coils are retained in channels between adjacent poles and by a wedge tied at each end to projections extending from the stator body. The manner of retaining the wedge avoids disturbance of the flux linkage in the stator poles and allows improved locating and retaining of the coils in the channels between stator poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Switched Reluctance Drives Limited
    Inventor: Norman Neilson Fulton
  • Patent number: 5834875
    Abstract: Known conductor lanes which can be set into the grooves of linear motors or disk armatures, do not sufficiently occupy the space available in the grooves and winding overhang in multiphase machines, and thus increase the volume and weight of the machines. For high power and force densities, the conductor lanes should allow the available space to be fully occupied. The number of the different conductor lane designs should be minimized in order to reduce production costs. According to the invention, the conductor lanes (13-16) which are prefabricated in a single piece are being led past each other in the overlapping zones in the direction of the groove depth, so that the conductor cross-section is variably adapted to the available space. By using pairs of conductor lanes (13, 14) without loops and mutually offset by one pole pitch in a groove, a high utilization of the space available in the winding overhangs and short conductor lengths are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hill