Interfitting Or Claw Tooth Rotors Patents (Class 310/263)
  • Patent number: 5130590
    Abstract: A generator includes a permanent magnet rotor (1) rotatably mounted within a casing, a Randell (claw-tooth) rotor (1A) mounted for rotation in unison with the permanent magnet rotor, an armature coil (5) associated with the permanent magnet rotor and the Randell rotor, and a field coil (16) associated with the Randell rotor. The output power generated by the permanent magnet rotor and the Randell rotor is obtained from the common armature coil. The generator may be suitably applied to aerospace equipment, unmanned flying objects or to unmanned marine cruising objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuneo Sugiura
  • Patent number: 5122705
    Abstract: There is provided an alternating current generator comprising: a rotatably supported field rotor having a pair of opposed rotor pole cores, each being provided with P/2 claw poles wherein P is an even number, and a field winding wound on the rotor pole cores; an armature core located around the outer periphery of the field rotor and having axially extending 3nP slots wherein n is an integer more than one; n independent sets of three-phase windings, each being wound on the armature core by being inserted in the slots so that the n sets of three-phase windings are shifted from each other by electrical angle of .pi./(3n) radians; and three-phase rectifiers connected with the n sets of three-phase windings to rectify output voltages generated by the three-phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sin Kusase, Keiichiro Banzai, Seiji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5097169
    Abstract: A brushless alternator for a vehicle comprising a field coil holding device formed by mounting a field coil winding spool directly on a field core using a bonding agent thus eliminating the need for a metallic cylindrical spool holder which requires precise machining in order to engage with the field core for welding. With this arrangement, a simple and inexpensive field coil holding device eliminates former precise machining. In addition, a field coil can be wound around the field coil winding spool in advance, before bonding to the field core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
    Inventor: Sumio Fukushima
  • Patent number: 5081383
    Abstract: A rotor for a vehicle dynamo includes a field coil bobbin (6) provided with ventilation slots (6a) and a heat conductive material (7) provided between the bobbin and the field cores, whereby the heat radiation from the field coil is increased. The bobbin is provided with a cylindrical portion and a pair of opposed flange portions which include at least one ventilation opening extending from the cylindrical portion into the flange portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kusumoto, Hideki Morikaku
  • Patent number: 5038066
    Abstract: An actuator has a permanent magnet ring with a plurality of radially magnetized poles rotatably positioned between a pair of toothed pole pieces with interdigitated teeth, an electromagnetic coil and pole elements coupling the coil flux to the pole pieces. The pole pieces may themselves be rotatable or stationary. The permanent magnet circuit attempts to move the magnet ring to a first position relative to the pole pieces, and the electromagnetic circuit, depending on the direction of current in the coil, torques the magnet in one direction or another toward stable positions on either side of the first position. The device is used as a two or three position actuator or as an actuator operating against an external force and seeking a position as a function of current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Andrzej M. Pawlak, David W. Graber, Jeffery A. Zuraski
  • Patent number: 5021696
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan for ventilated rotating machinery is provided having tapered fan blades to reduce sound pressure levels generated by fan operation over a wide speed range. The tapering of the fan blades keeps the cross-sectional area of each flow channel substantially constant as the air flows radially through the fan, resulting in a less turbulent flow. Each fan blade may include a height profile having a tapered segment in which blade height decreases in proportion to increasing radial distance from the central axis of the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: David A. Nelson
  • Patent number: 4980595
    Abstract: Separate multiple flux paths for an electrical generator or motor are provided in a single rotor machine by axially mounting a plurality of pole structures on the rotor shaft. Each pole structure includes a pair of interleaved claw-type pole pieces forming each separate path, with an excitation source sandwiched between the pole pieces. The excitation source in at least one of the pole structures comprises a non-magnetic sleeve mounted on a shaft of the rotor between the pole pieces and an annular permanent magnet mounted on the sleeve. The excitation source in at least one other of the pole structures comprises a permeable core mounted on the rotor shaft between the pole pieces and a conductive coil encircling the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Ram S. Arora
  • Patent number: 4972114
    Abstract: An alternating current generator comprising a stator, and a claw pole rotor coaxially arranged in a stator hole and including a plurality of claw pole pairs uniformly distributed on a circumference thereof and having outer surfaces forming an annular gap with a stator surface defining the stator hole, each outer surface having, in a direction of claw pole rotor rotation, a front area and a rear edge and a plurality of surface portions extending between the front area and the rear edge transverse to the rotational plane of the claw pole rotor, with a surface portion located closer to the rear edge forming with a tangent extending to the outer surface at a point where the air gap is smallest, a first angle which is greater than a second angle formed with the tangent by a surface portion located farther away from the rear edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Frister
  • Patent number: 4959577
    Abstract: An alternating current generator for supplying the electrical loads on a motor vehicle. The generator has a stator core that carries a three-phase stator or output winding. The rotor of the generator has two claw pole members that are magnetically connected by a core. A field coil is disposed about the core. The pole fingers of the claw pole members are interleaved and a plurality of permanent magnets are secured to side surfaces of the pole fingers such that there is a permanent magnet between each pair of adjacent pole fingers. The generator is arranged such that flux developed by the permanent magnets can flow through a closed magnetic path that bypasses the air gap between the rotor and stator and such that energization of the field coil with unidirectional current cause permanent magnet flux to traverse the air gap between the rotor and stator and thereby provide a useful flux for generating voltage in the stator winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas A. Radomski
  • Patent number: 4958095
    Abstract: A starter-alternator of a vehicle of the type being disposed between a vehicle engine and a transmission case having a field pole member coupled to an engine crankshaft of the vehicle engine. Crow-poles are interspaced to form alternating N and S poles. A field winding is stationarily placed radially inside the crow-poles. A three phase stator winding is stationarily placed to surround the crow-poles, and a housing accommodates the stator-alternator elements therein and connects the vehicle engine and the transmission case. The housing is provided with an air passage for introducing fresh air into the housing so as to blow it toward the three phase stator winding in order to cool it, and an air outlet pipe discharges air inside the housing. In association with either one or both of the windings, a water pipe in communication with a water jacket of the vehicle engine is provided to circulate cold water therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Uchida, Kazuhiko Ueda, Hiroyuki Oda
  • Patent number: 4902922
    Abstract: The rotor comprises a shaft from which two facing pole plates extend radially, each having a plurality of radial pole fingers whose ends are bent towards the other pole plate and each of which extends between two adjacent fingers of the other pole plate. An excitation winding is situated between the plates coaxial with the shaft. At least one axial ventilation duct is formed in the shaft from which branch radial ducts in correspondence with the pole plates, the ducts communicating with the corresponding ventilation passages provided in each pole plate, which open into recesses defined between pairs of adjacent pole fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Industrie Magneti Marelli S.r.l.
    Inventor: Lorella Annovazzi
  • Patent number: 4882515
    Abstract: An alternating current generator for supplying the electrical loads on a motor vehicle. The generator has a stator core that carries a three-phase stator or output winding. The rotor of the generator has two claw pole members that are so oriented that the fingers of the pole members are aligned. Disposed between the two pole members is a third pole member having projections disposed between the aligned fingers of the claw pole members. The rotor has two field coils which are so arranged and energized that the magnetic polarity of the two claw pole members is the same and opposite the magnetic polarity of the third pole member. One of the field coils can be replaced by a permanent magnet and when this is done the generator is provided with a magnetic circuit that can divert permanent magnet flux away from the stator core. Flux diversion is controlled by supplying unidirectional current to the field winding under the control of a voltage regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas A. Radomski
  • Patent number: 4780637
    Abstract: An eddy current coupling for a dynamo-electric machine. A flux path between a rotating drive shaft and a rotatable driven shaft includes an inductor drum connected to the drive shaft and a pole assembly coupled to the driven shaft. A coil assembly partially surrounded by the pole assembly controls the degree of electromagnetic coupling. A series of interdigitated pole fingers are spaced between the inductor drum and the field coil assembly to facilitate air flow that dissipates heat caused by relative rotation between the inductor drum and the pole assembly. The coil assembly includes an annular coil support co-axial with the driven shaft to support an annular field coil in a gap defined by the pole assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: John H. Wolcott
  • Patent number: 4686399
    Abstract: A rotary electrical machine is disclosed in which a cylindrical portion is provided at the outer surface of at least one of a pair of claw-shaped poles, and a cooling blade is positioned and fitted to the cylindrical portion through an opening formed in the cooling blade, concentrically with respect to the cylindrical portion, and fixed to the claw-shaped pole by caulking and welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Imori, Toshiyuki Takahara
  • Patent number: 4617485
    Abstract: An improved construction of Randel-type rotor of a vehicle-mounted alternator, capable of reducing the windage noise which is produced as a result of interference between the rotor and the stator of the alternator. The rotor has a pair of pole cores provided with a plurality of mutually meshing claws, and an exciting coil disposed at the inner side of the pole cores. Spacers in the form of an integral ring or discrete wedges are fitted in the spaces between adjacent pole core claws so as to provide a substantially smooth cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the rotor portion facing the radial teeth on the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Nakamura, Takayasu Nimura, Toshiaki Hotta
  • Patent number: 4614889
    Abstract: A charging dynamoelectric machine having a reduced electromagnetically induced noise component, particularly, at the mechanical resonant frequency of the rotor thereof. In accordance with the invention, a pair of magnetic poles, each having a plurality of magnetic pole members extending from a respective yoke, are press fitted onto a rotary shaft with a field winding frame positioned between the yokes. A preload is applied between the yokes and the field winding frame on an exterior and peripheral portion thereof. The preload may be applied by tapering the base walls of the yoke or field winding frame, or by providing projections on the interior surfaces of the base portions of the yokes or on the outer opposed surfaces of the field winding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Ikegami, Masakazu Mori
  • Patent number: 4611139
    Abstract: A brushless alternator is disclosed having a stationary field coil and core surrounded by a stationary stator coil and core with a cylindrical air gap being defined therebetween. A rotor assembly is fixed to a rotatable shaft and has interweaved separate magnetic finger assemblies joined together by a non-magnetic ring wherein these fingers are rotated in the cylindrical gap. The stator and field cores are radially disposed with respect to the rotatable shaft. The field core axially extends beyond the effective axial length of the field coil and provides at an axial position beyond the effective axial length of the field coil, at least one low reluctance axial flux gap between the field core and the magnetic fingers. This flux gap conducts a substantial portion of the flux created by the field coil. The field core also serves as a shaft bearing retainer and has a bearing grease reservoir comprising a cylindrical recess adjacent the shaft bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Godkin, Kevin S. Moran
  • Patent number: 4588911
    Abstract: A rotor for an alternating current generator in which the rotor shaft carries a pair of pole members and a core member. A spool that is formed of electrical insulating material is carried by the core member and has ribs that fit within slots formed in the core member. The spool supports a field coil, the inner turns of which engage the ribs and portions of the core disposed between the ribs. The rotor shaft supports a cooling fan that is formed of electrical insulating material. The fan is connected to a plurality of posts that extend axially from the spool. The fan supports a pair of lead wires that connect the field coil to the slip rings of a slip ring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Lowell C. Gold
  • Patent number: 4588915
    Abstract: A rotor for an alternating current generator that includes a steel rotor core that carries a field coil supporting spool. The core has axially extending circumferentially spaced slots on its outer periphery that receive axially extending and circumferentially spaced ribs of the spool. The spool ribs are connected to spool end flanges. A field coil is wound on the spool and core. The inner turns of the field coil contact outer surfaces of the spool ribs and outer surfaces of the core located between the spool ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Lowell C. Gold, Mark H. Hanshew
  • Patent number: 4584496
    Abstract: To counteract the effects of centrifugal force on internal blades or vanes positioned in gaps (31) between adjacent claws (22, 23) of a claw-pole rotor (R) of a claw-pole alternator, a plastic sleeve (33) is fitted over the field winding (20) and has cooling fins or vanes or blades (32) projecting radially therefrom, at an inclination with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotor, and located between the inclined faces of the claw poles. The end portions (36, 37) projecting beyond the sleeve may be straight (FIG. 4) or the end portions (38, 39) may be curved (FIG. 5). Preferably, a curable casting compound is cast within the sleeve and secures the winding (20) in position, the sleeve being fitted in form of a circular bandage over the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Frister
  • Patent number: 4565936
    Abstract: A rotor for rotary machines of a type having a fan on a side surface of a magnetic field core in which there are provided recessed portions for holding lead wires at portions of the fan so that the fan can be fixed to the rotary shaft of the machine after making the connection between the lead wire of the magnetic field core and a slip ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Ikegami, Masakazu Mori
  • Patent number: 4513216
    Abstract: A rotor for small motors, or generators, having circumferentially arranged segmental poles which extend over the entire axial length of the rotor can be fabricated by molding a pair of elements from particulate magnetic material of high coercivity with a binder in the shape of identical crown gears; the rotor being completed by arranging the elements on a shaft with the toothed portions facing each other in interfitting engagement. Other modifications are disclosed in which the pole pieces may be formed separately from, or integrally with, a radial pole carrier, and the pole carrier may be in the shape of a spool with the segmental pole pieces assembled thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Magnetfabrik Bonn GmbH, vorm. Gewerkschaft Windhorst
    Inventor: Werner Muller
  • Patent number: 4506180
    Abstract: In a fixed field inductor-type generator having an annular stator core on which an armature coil is wound and a field coil which is disposed stationary in said stator core, the field coil is located in space defined by a pair of rotatable pawl-like magnetic poles that are opposed to each other and are supported by a rotary shaft. The field coil is held by a holding member made of a nonmagnetic metal, and is secured to the stator core. The field coil-holding member has fixed collars, which fastened to the inner peripheral surface of the stator core via a plastically deformable metallic coupling member. The field coil is wound on a curved spring steel plate and receives the expanding force at all times from the inner peripheral side thereof. The field coil is contained in the field coil-holding member and is firmly supported by an adhesive that is charged thereinto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Shizuka, Nobuhiko Ogasawara, Hisanobu Kanamaru, Kazuhiro Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 4488075
    Abstract: An alternator is provided with a rotor which optimizes magnetic flux both at the periphery as well as at the opposed axial surfaces of the rotor, and the magnetic flux is coupled to the stator armature coils either by disposing armature coils proximate to some of the rotor surfaces and coupling to these coils from the other surfaces by use of magnetic extensions which bridge the distance between the other surfaces and the armature coils. The alternator, therefore, maximizes the usable magnetic flux established by the rotor at both its peripheral and opposed axial surfaces and the stator armature structure is configured to optimize coupling to this now increased rotating flux field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Inventor: Dominic DeCesare
  • Patent number: 4446392
    Abstract: An electromagnetic coupling device includes an input member, an output member rotatable relative to the input member, and a pole assembly associated with one of the input and output members. The pole assembly includes a pair of annular, oppositely disposed pole members and an annular core member disposed between the pole members and defining an annular cavity therebetween. An electrically energizable field coil element is disposed in said cavity for electromagnetically coupling said input and output members. The pole members each including a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radially extending pole slot means disposed for communicating the exterior of the pole assembly with the core member to provide substantially uninterrupted access thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Ralph L. Jaeschke
  • Patent number: 4421998
    Abstract: To reduce the axial length of an alternator, so that it can be attached, for example, to the end wall (10) of an automotive engine having a stub shaft (11) projecting therefrom, a transmission housing, clutch housing, or the like, a support structure (22, 122) has ring-shaped axially extending portions (23, 45, 145) the outer ones of which retain the armature (12, 13) typically three phase, and the inner one retains the outer races of ball bearings (35, 36; 76a, 135, 136), the inner races of which are secured to axially inwardly extending portions (31, 131) of a claw pole rotor having claw poles rotating within the gap formed by a field structure (20, 120) and the stationary windings so that the ring-shaped axial inner projection (45, 145) of the support structure interengages and overlaps the axially extending inner projection (31, 131) of the claw pole structure, and the ball bearings are placed in essential alignment with the stator core and the field core, and positioned within two parallel planes (37, 38
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Ahner, Helmut Harer, Siegfried Schustek
  • Patent number: 4418295
    Abstract: An AC generator for vehicles has a cooling fan secured to one end face of a rotor core and being operative to produce radial and axial flows of cooling air. The radial air flow passes across a stator coil and outwardly through air outlet openings formed in a peripheral wall portion of a housing. The axial air flow passes through spaces between respective fingers of rotor core and also through air gap between the rotor and stator whereby the rotor and stator coils are reliably cooled by the cooling fan. In an embodiment of the invention, an additional radial-flow fan is provided and mounted on the rotor in face-to-face contacting relationship with the other end face of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Shiga
  • Patent number: 4390804
    Abstract: A magneto generator includes a magnet wheel 11 which carries a magnetic system. The magnetic system consists of a plurality of claw shaped pole pieces (12,13) which form extensions of two pole plates (14,15). A plate shaped permanent magnet 16 is positioned between the pole plates in a direction perpendicular to the pole wheel axis. The pole pieces arranged along the periphery of the magnet wheel are extensions of two pole plates each of which abuts one of the pole faces of the plate shaped permanent magnet. At least one of the pole plates has an extension which compensates for the unbalance of weight caused by the pole piece extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Orova, Herbert Roderer, Hans D. Schmid, Horst-G. Steffen
  • Patent number: 4388545
    Abstract: A rotor for a self-starting permanent magnet AC motor is comprised of a permanent magnet disk mounted on a shaft of non-magnetic material. The magnet has a direction of magnetization parallel to the axis of the shaft resulting in two poles, one on each face of the magnet. Two disks of current carrying material are mounted on the shaft on either side of the magnet to act as starting coils. Pole pieces are mounted on the shaft and surround the starting disks. Claw-like projections spaced about and extending from the periphery of the pole pieces extend inwardly over the periphery of the magnet and starting disks. The claw-like projections from each pole piece are interlaced forming rotor poles of alternating polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Vernon B. Honsinger, Russell E. Tompkins
  • Patent number: 4387335
    Abstract: A dynamo with a stationary armature and with two rotors, with the frequency of the armature current the same as the frequency of the field excitation and independent of the speed of rotation of the rotors. The rotors have opposite instantaneous magnetic polarities, are magnetically connected and rotate in opposite directions on concentric shafts. Field excitation may be dc or single-phase ac. Disk or tubular rotor and stator structures may be used. Dynamos according to the invention may function as a d-c generator, an a-c generator, an amplifier, as a-c or d-c rotary transformers, and as a-c or d-c motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1983
    Inventors: Charles B. Fisher, Sidney T. Fisher
  • Patent number: 4307309
    Abstract: A brushless alternator or like dynamoelectric machine, particularly adapted for use in a vehicle, comprising a field coil mounted on the center leg of a stationary core, a rotor shaft extending through the center leg of the core, a first, disc-shaped rotor member mounted on the shaft and facing the center leg of the core across a first large-area axial air gap and having a first set of radially projecting rotor poles, and a second, annular rotor member mounted on the first rotor member, facing an outer flange portion of the core across a second large-area axial air gap and having a second set of axially projecting rotor poles interleaved one-for-one with the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Inventor: Edward L. Barrett
  • Patent number: 4307314
    Abstract: A rotor for use in an induction type a.c. generator and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The rotor comprises pole pieces having pointed ends at their peripheries, the pointed ends of one pole piece and the pointed ends of the other pole piece alternating in position and serving as, alternately, north and south magnetic poles; a core or yoke disposed between the pole pieces to magnetically coupling the pole pieces; an insulating bobbin disposed on the core or yoke and between the pole pieces; and an exciting coil wound on the bobbin cylindrically. The core or yoke is in the shape of a barrel and the insulating bobbin is forcibly mounted on the barrel-shaped core by the application of pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Yamada, Akira Tokairin
  • Patent number: 4263526
    Abstract: An AC generator for a vehicle comprises a rotor having a pair of finger magnetic poles and an armature iron core. By deviating pole pieces of the finger magnetic poles by predetermined angles relative to each of opposed tooth portions of the armature iron core, torque variation applied to each of the pole pieces during rotation is cancelled, and magnetic sound can be greatly decreased without reducing the output of the AC generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Taguchi, Mitsuo Inagaki
  • Patent number: 4228377
    Abstract: To reliably place a winding on a cylindrical pole core of a claw pole rotor structure for an alternator subjected to extremes in shock, vibration and oscillatory loadings, for example for use with motorcycle alternators, the pole core is deformed by knurling, grooving, rifling, or the like, preferably extending in cross direction, and a layer of mesh or net structure insulating fabric material, preferably a linen mesh, is placed over the pole core, the woven fabric mesh structure mechanically interlocking with the deformations and projections on the surface of the rotor; preferably, a plurality of wraps of the layer are provided, the field winding being wound directly over the uppermost wrap of the fabric layer in the form of a toroidal winding and, after assembly with the claw poles, the entire structure is impregnated with a suitable insulating compound, for example by vacuum impregnation, in accordance with standard dynamo electric machine construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 4214533
    Abstract: An annular alternator for use with a fuze ogive having an annular rotor w alternating magnetic poles and an annular stator coil enclosed by a highly magnetically permeable toroid having spaced interdigitating poles on the surface adjacent the magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Fine, Clinton J. Sewell
  • Patent number: 4201930
    Abstract: A polyphase AC generator of a type designed for installation in automobiles, has a so-called Lundell type rotor in which an exciting coil is enclosed by a plurality of pairs of finger type magnetic poles and which is rotated by a vehicle-mounted engine. The shape of the finger magnetic poles is modified to an irregular trapezoidal shape having a side opposite to a base displaced with respect to said base in the direction of rotation of the rotor, thus changing the waveform of magnetic flux flowing through the rotor and an armature core and thereby reducing magnetic noise of the generator under load operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Inagaki, Yoshiyuki Hattori, Masahiro Taguchi
  • Patent number: 4169235
    Abstract: This invention concerns a rotary electric machine, for example, a synchronous machine having salient rotary magnetic poles, which is equipped with a built-up type rotor. The built-up type rotor consists of a plurality of rotary members, which are coupled in the axial direction into an integral form.In such a built-up type rotor, the rotary members are sometimes displaced with respect to one another in the radial direction by centrifugal forces to which they are subjected during operation (rotation). As a result, the rotational balance of the rotor is lost, which tends to cause oscillations. Therefore, by skillfully exploiting the centrifugal forces which the rotary members undergo during operation (rotation), the radial displacements of the rotary members to one another are suppressed, thereby also serving to suppress the generation of oscillations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Higuchi, Tsutomu Iwasaki, Koji Sato, Akira Ishida, Norimasa Chiba
  • Patent number: 4117793
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pole claw member for a dynamo electric machine comprises in a first embodiment forming a serrated longitudinal edge in a ferrous strip and bending the serrated strip to form a cylinder with the serrations extending axially. The ends of the strip are then secured together by welding, rivetting or by a tang and aperture connection to produce a coronet form. The coronet form is then deformed in one or more, preferably three, die forming steps to produce the desired shape of claw and to define an annular base at the end of the cylinder.In an alternative embodiment, the coronet form is produced by punching out portions of a previously formed tube and is then deformed as in the first embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Preece, Walter Graham Cheary
  • Patent number: 4114056
    Abstract: A rotor of an alternating current generator has a field excitation assembly supported on a rotor shaft including a pair of rotor segments forming a cavity therein, a bobbin made of an insulating resin disposed in the cavity and a field excitation coil wound on the bobbin. The bobbin has a cylindrical portion and a pair of flanged portions at both ends thereof for forming room for the field excitation coil. On one of the flanged portion, a pair of projections are integrally formed therewith extending axially and outwardly, which are press-fitted into a pair of through holes formed on one of the rotor segments. Each of the projections is formed with not only an axially extending groove for receiving a field coil terminal, but a radially and axially extending slit communicating the outside of the projection with the groove for guiding and receiving a coil starting or terminating end of the field coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayasu Nimura
  • Patent number: 4110642
    Abstract: To reduce the noise level of operation and particularly cyclically recurring attractive forces between the rotor and the stator, the stator stack package is interrupted centrally by a sheet or strip of material different from electrical lamination sheet steel, for example a soft iron insert, or an insert of non-magnetic material such as a strip of bronze, brass, or insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hubertus Thiele
  • Patent number: 4105907
    Abstract: A support carrier of electrically conductive material is secured to the shaft of the machine. A plurality of slip rings are secured to the support carrier, one of the slip rings being fixed thereto directly so that the support carrier will form one terminal of the electrical connection for the slip rings, and an insulating layer is placed over the support carrier over which the other slip ring is located. Preferably, the support carrier is formed with a flange which is notched, one of the notches serving to form an electrical connection for the wire of the field of the machine for connection to the slip ring which is directly secured to the support carrier, the other notch in the flange being wider and gripping around the insulation of the other wire of the field, the wire of the field then being connected to the slip ring which is carried on the insulation. That slip ring, preferably, is also formed with an external flange to which its connecting wire can be secured, for example by soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1978
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Hagenlocher, Karl-Heinz Neumann, Martin Muller, Karl Kleebaur, Gunter Sokol, Jurgen Molt
  • Patent number: 4087713
    Abstract: To prevent connecting difficulties in the manufacture of automotive-type alternators of the claw pole generator type, resilient spring compression terminals, or contacts are formed, respectively, on a terminal board or on a voltage regulator terminal for engagement with a spring terminal element connected to the fieldwinding so that mere placement of the terminal board or a voltage regulator, respectively, against the springy terminal connections will effect electrical connection and not requiring any internal connecting steps within the alternator and especially at locations of impaired accessibility since they are hidden behind the terminal board, or voltage regulator, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Georg Binder
  • Patent number: 4087736
    Abstract: A generator comprises an output winding connected to input terminals of a full-wave rectifier and a field winding. A resistor and diodes are also connected to the input terminals for supplying voltage to a voltage regulator. The generator, the rectifier and the voltage regulator are assembled together within a generator housing, so that a single conducting wire is sufficient for connecting the generator and a battery. The pole cores of the generator are made of low carbon steel the residual magnetism of which has been increased by a cementation process or by insertion of high carbon steel elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Mori, Toshio Morishima, Katsumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 4075519
    Abstract: An electrical machine, especially an alternator, has a housing axially split into two generally symmetrical halves in which a rotor shaft is journaled. Held between the two housing halves are parts of stator teeth which coact with two relatively offset sets of rotor poles mounted on the shaft, the teeth being interconnected inside or outside the rotor by an annular magnetic yoke. A stationary excitation coil, surrounding a split inner hub of the rotor body, is carried within the rotor by the yoke or by a tooth-supported ring to generate a flux magnetizing the poles. The teeth have wings closely spaced from the orbital paths of the poles and also have webs, about half as wide as their wing span, enveloped by armature windings in which the output voltage of the alternator is induced upon a turning of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Inventor: Ivan Mrcun
  • Patent number: 4041340
    Abstract: An electrical machine, especially an alternator, has a housing axially split into two generally symmetrical halves in which a rotor shaft is journaled. Held between the two housing halves are radial extensions of stator teeth which are bracketed by two relatively offset sets of rotor poles mounted on the shaft, the teeth being interconnected within the rotor by an annular magnetic yoke. A stationary excitation coil, surrounding a split inner hub of the rotor body, is carried by the yoke to generate a flux magnetizing the poles. The teeth have wings closely spaced from the orbital paths of the poles and also have webs, about half as wide as their wing span, enveloped by armature windings in which the output voltage of the alternator is induced upon a turning of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Inventor: Ivan Mrcun
  • Patent number: 4028573
    Abstract: The rotor core of an armature or coil-carrying rotary member of a generator comprises a stack of notched magnetically permeable plates held between a pair of flanges, one rigid with the shaft of the machine and the other held elastically thereon. Each of the flanges is provided with an annular array of angularly equispaced hollow lugs which alternate in length between long and short and extend into the notches of the stacked plates. The long lugs or bosses of one flange lie opposite the short bosses of another and the aligned bosses in the notches of the stack receive the conductors of the rotor windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Societe Anonyme des Equipements S.E.I.M.
    Inventor: Andre Terrone
  • Patent number: 4028568
    Abstract: An ac generator for a vehicle in which a stator frame having a stator core fixed thereto and supporting a rotary shaft therein is composed of a pair of end covers of steel plate and a cylindrical casing of steel plate, and the end covers, cylindrical casing and stator core are integrally connected together by welding so as to ensure a high mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Tatsumi, Yasushi Ohuchi
  • Patent number: 4024628
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a two-pole solid rotor comprises the steps of pre-forming non-magnetic material to produce a basic rotor with magnetic pole cavities, machining the rotor ends and press-fitting end caps of magnetic material thereon, filling the magnetic pole cavities by inserting magnetic material between the end caps either by fill-welding or by furnace brazing a pre-formed insert, and machining the rotor to finished size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Inventor: Donald M. Crites
  • Patent number: 3973153
    Abstract: A rotor for a micromotor with electronic control comprising an axle on which are mounted two plates of ferro-magnetic material at least one of which carries permanent magnets, all the permanent magnets mounted on the same plate being of the same polarity. Poles of ferro-magnetic material are interposed between these magnets and each plate is separately magnetized after mounting of the magnets, in a unidirectional magnetic field before assembling the two plates on the axle. The magnets can be mounted on a intermediate element of non-ferro-magnetic material which itself is fixed on the plate by adhesives, riveting, or swaging. The two plates are mounted on the axle such that the magnets of one face the poles of ferro-magnetic material of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Berney
  • Patent number: RE31950
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrical alternator or motor is described. The rotor has a number of disc shaped, axially magnetized, permanent magnets separated by steel discs, and elongated pole shoes parallel to the rotor axis making up the rotor periphery. The pole shoes are fixed to appropriate steel discs to give pole-shoe polarities which alternate around the rotor periphery. In order to .[.allow starting as a motor.]. .Iadd.stabilize the machine.Iaddend., alternate pole shoes are divided near one end and fixed to the same steel discs as transversely adjacent pole shoes .[.to give a solid metal rotor section which gives starting by induction motor action, and forms a toothed wheel which runs at synchronous speed by reluctance motor action.]..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: National Research Development Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Binns