Armatures Patents (Class 310/264)
  • Patent number: 11837926
    Abstract: A brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly including a rotor supporting permanent magnets rotatable relative to the stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator comprising a stator core and stator teeth radially extending from the stator core and defining slots therebetween. A first set of stator windings is wound on the stator teeth, and a second set of stator windings is also wound on the stator teeth such that, on each stator tooth, the first and second windings are provided in an electrically parallel configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.
    Inventors: Barak N. Gohn, Colin M. Crosby, Nicholas J. Lowe, James R. Clarke, Daniel F. Heck, Michael P. Sikora, Christian B. Rogerson, Ryan F. Schroeder, Connor T. Mohan, Michael D. Grove
  • Patent number: 11682947
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core having a rotatable shaft and defining at least one rotor post, a winding wound around the post that defines an end turn, and at least one coolant conduit defined in part by an end support and in a thermally conductive relationship with a portion of the winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Anirban Chatterjee, Mamatha Ramakrishnaiah, Samir Dey, Mohammad Khaja Mohiddin Shaik, Balamurugan Sridharan, Rajendra Vishwanath Pawar, Xiaochuan Jia
  • Patent number: 9035530
    Abstract: An energy converting device having an eccentric rotor includes a fixed portion and an eccentric rotor. This fixed portion has a central axis, an outer frame, and several fixed coil portions. The eccentric rotor has a bearing, a rotatory shaft, an eccentric arm, an eccentric shaft portion, a supporting plate, an inner annular magnetic portion, and an outer annular magnetic portion. The inner magnetic portion and the outer magnetic portion are concentric and aligned with the eccentric shaft portion. The eccentric shaft portion is offset from the rotary shaft. When the rotary shaft of the eccentric rotor rotates, these fixed coil portions cut through the inner magnetic portion and the outer magnetic portion repeatedly, so magnetic flux passing through the coils alternates accordingly to generate electromotive force. Conversely, it can be used as an electric motor. In addition, it can be integrated with a cycloidal speed reducer to form a motor with speed reduction and torque augmentation capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
    Inventor: Shang-Teh Wu
  • Patent number: 9024501
    Abstract: Induction motors may have a rotor that includes a shaft and a plurality of rotor laminations. The plurality of rotor laminations may have a central bore sized to receive the shaft, and the shaft may have a laminated portion that extends throughout the central bore. In other embodiments, the plurality of rotor laminations may have a very small or no central bore, and the shaft may include first and second end pieces respectively attached on opposite sides of the plurality of rotor laminations. In some embodiments, the first and second end shaft pieces may be attached to the rotor laminations with a through bolt that passes through the rotor laminations via a central bore sized no larger than needed to receive the through bolt, allowing each of the rotor laminations to have a larger laminated surface area. Methods of assembling a rotor are also provided, as are other aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Lang, Michael A. Graman
  • Patent number: 9000628
    Abstract: Described herein is a ball joints universal rotary motor, a manufacturing method and a working mechanism thereof. The ball joints universal rotary motor comprises a housing, a spherical-cap shaped stator body, and a rotor body configured to be secured within the stator body. The stator body is made from a permanent magnet. The rotor body comprises multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers. The multiple layers of armatures are symmetrically distributed along the axis of the rotor body. A spacer layer is provided between two adjacent layers of armatures. The multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers are securely connected by a bolt. The bolt and the rotor body are axially connected. The rotor body is of a spherical shape. Each layer of the armatures is wound with two layers of coils: a first layer and a second layer. The motor as provided is configured to realize movement in multiple directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Inventor: Kuokwa Ho
  • Patent number: 8922090
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine having a shaft, an iron core having slots, an armature winding inserted into the slots, a commutator provided to the shaft and having a plurality of commutator segments that should have same potential. An equalizer connected at one end to a commutator segment among the commutator segments where the commutator segment is in contact with a brush reaches a rear side of the iron core by passing through a slot positioned at a center of a magnetic pole of the rotating electrical machine and returns to the front side by passing through another slot positioned at a center of another magnetic pole so that the equalizer is connected at the other end to a commutator segment where the commutator segment is in contact with a brush of a same polarity as the firstly-mentioned brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Tanaka, Masafumi Okazaki, Yuji Takizawa
  • Patent number: 8786145
    Abstract: Described herein is a ball joints universal rotary motor, a manufacturing method and a working mechanism thereof. The ball joints universal rotary motor comprises a housing, a spherical-cap shaped stator body, and a rotor body configured to be secured within the stator body. The stator body is made from a permanent magnet. The rotor body comprises multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers. The multiple layers of armatures are symmetrically distributed along the axis of the rotor body. A spacer layer is provided between two adjacent layers of armatures. The multiple layers of armatures and multiple spacer layers are securely connected by a bolt. The bolt and the rotor body are axially connected. The rotor body is of a spherical shape. Each layer of the armatures is wound with two layers of coils: a first layer and a second layer. The motor as provided is configured to realize movement in multiple directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Inventor: Kuokwa Ho
  • Publication number: 20140159540
    Abstract: A rotor of a wound rotor synchronous motor is manufactured by forming a rotor core using a plurality of core blocks, and fitting bobbins with a coil wound onto the core blocks. In particular, the core blocks are connected such that tops of the bobbins extend from bobbin bodies and are connected with tops of other bobbins fitted on the adjacent core blocks. Additionally, a molding material may be injected into spaces between the core blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, Sanghoon Moon, Hyoungjun Cho, Jung Shik Kim
  • Publication number: 20140097721
    Abstract: Induction motors may have a rotor that includes a shaft and a plurality of rotor laminations. The plurality of rotor laminations may have a central bore sized to receive the shaft, and the shaft may have a laminated portion that extends throughout the central bore. In other embodiments, the plurality of rotor laminations may have a very small or no central bore, and the shaft may include first and second end pieces respectively attached on opposite sides of the plurality of rotor laminations. In some embodiments, the first and second end shaft pieces may be attached to the rotor laminations with a through bolt that passes through the rotor laminations via a central bore sized no larger than needed to receive the through bolt, allowing each of the rotor laminations to have a larger laminated surface area. Methods of assembling a rotor are also provided, as are other aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Lang, Michael A. Graman
  • Patent number: 8415857
    Abstract: An insert member is placed on one end surface of an armature on one axial side. A rotatable shaft member is integrally molded into one piece from a resin material and includes a shaft portion, a flange portion and a boss portion. The shaft portion axially extends through the armature and the insert member. The flange portion supports the other end surface of the armature on the other axial side. The armature and the insert member are fitted to the boss portion. The urging member is axially placed between a bottom portion of a motor housing and the insert member and axially urges the armature against the flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohisa Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8087158
    Abstract: A method of producing a laminated armature for a fuel injector provides providing a plurality of laminations (10) in plate-shaped strip stock material (12). Each lamination has a base (11) and a plurality of tabs (20, 22) extending from the base. The base and tabs are coplanar. The laminations are cut from the strip material, with the tabs having free ends (25). The tabs are bent so as to be generally transverse with respect to the base. The laminations are then stacked on top of each other and joined together. The free ends of the tabs are cut to define a generally planar impact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc.
    Inventor: Dean Leigh Spiers
  • Publication number: 20110221299
    Abstract: An insert member is placed on one end surface of an armature on one axial side. A rotatable shaft member is integrally molded into one piece from a resin material and includes a shaft portion, a flange portion and a boss portion. The shaft portion axially extends through the armature and the insert member. The flange portion supports the other end surface of the armature on the other axial side. The armature and the insert member are fitted to the boss portion. The urging member is axially placed between a bottom portion of a motor housing and the insert member and axially urges the armature against the flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohisa OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7859165
    Abstract: A fuel pump includes a pump portion for pumping fuel. The fuel pump further includes a magnet having magnetic poles circumferentially alternate with each other. The fuel pump further includes an armature on a radially inside of the magnet. The armature includes a rotor core provided with a coil formed of a wire. The armature is rotatable for driving the pump portion. A commutator, which is in a substantially disc shape, is provided to an axial end of the armature for rectifying electricity supplying to the coil. The rotor core has an axial end having an outer circumferential periphery defining a commutator-side collar portion extending toward the commutator. The coil is formed by winding the wire between an outer circumferential periphery of the commutator and the commutator-side collar portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyonori Moroto, Akira Kuroyanagi, Tadashi Hazama
  • Patent number: 7839048
    Abstract: A machine useful for ship propulsion purposes includes a ship propulsion motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a rotor with an inner rotor core and an outer rotor core; and a double-sided stator with an inner stator side and an outer stator side. The double-sided stator is concentrically disposed between the inner rotor core and the outer rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Jansen, James Michael Fogarty, Ralph James Carl, Jr., James Patrick Francis Lyons, Ronghai Qu
  • Patent number: 7650682
    Abstract: In a state in which a first divisional core and a second divisional core are arranged in a state spaced from each other and adjacent to each other, a first coil and a second coil are each wound around a tooth. The first coil and the second coil are in the same phase. In a state in which a plurality of divisional cores are arranged annularly so that their teeth are oriented in a radially inward direction, the first divisional core and the second divisional core are not adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A plurality of connection wires are shaped to converge at an end surface of a stator core. This facilitates the winding of the coils around the divisional cores. Further, the connection wires can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kazushi Sugishima, Akihiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7569969
    Abstract: An insulator is mounted in an armature core. Coils are wound around teeth of the armature core by way of concentrated winding. A power feeding member, which supplies a current to the coils, includes a connecting portion. A separating portion, which is provided in the insulator, is located in the teeth. The separating portion separates each of the coils to a first portion and a second portion. The connecting portion is electrically connected to the first portion. Accordingly, while preventing damage to the coils, the coils are easily connected to the power feeding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nakano, Akihiko Seki, Yoshitaka Tao, Ryohei Kageyama, Kazushi Sugishima, Yasuhide Ito, Masayuki Kuwano, Toshio Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Izumi
  • Patent number: 7550893
    Abstract: Coils are provided on a plurality of tooth sections of a core. The coils are formed by successively winding a conductor on the tooth sections with at least one tooth section between each successive windings, such that each portion of the conductor extending between two tooth sections located with at least one tooth section therebetween forms a jumper wire extending in the circumferential direction of the core. A commutator has a plurality of claw portions projecting to the outside of the commutator. Each of the claw portions electrically connects one of a plurality of segments to one of the jumper wires. When the core and the commutator are attached to a rotary shaft, each claw portion is arranged at a position corresponding to one of the jumper wires as viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Aoyama, Yasuhide Ito, Yoshiki Nakano
  • Patent number: 7520148
    Abstract: In one aspect, a drum type washing machine includes, among other things, a tub supporter of metal between a wall of a tub and a stator, where the stator includes an annular helical type core having multiple layers formed by winding a steel plate having Ts and a base portion in a helix starting from a bottom layer to a top layer, an insulator insert molded with the helical type core to cover an outside surface of the helical type core for electrical insulation of the helical type core, and three fastening portions formed, as a unit with the insulator projected from an inside circumferential surface of the helical type core toward a center of the stator, for fastening the stator to the tub supporter, wherein the fastening portion has a fastening hole at a center for fastening the stator to the wall of the tub with screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soung Bong Choi
  • Publication number: 20090026851
    Abstract: A motor armature includes radially projecting laminations having T-shaped electrical steel strips including recesses on a front surface of its short part, and projections on a rear surface of the short part aligned with the recesses wherein each of the two outermost electrical steel strips further has an arcuate first through hole proximate either side; and a plurality of front and rear interconnection groups comprising first, second, and third interconnections wherein each of the first and the second interconnections includes two cavities on a front surface and two protrusions on a rear surface aligned with the cavities, and the third interconnection includes two second through holes, two arcuate left and right grooves on a front surface and two protuberances on a rear surface aligned with the grooves. A method of manufacturing the motor armature is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: DEAN-RANG LIOU
  • Patent number: 7476999
    Abstract: Device (100) for producing torque, the device including an armature (102) made of a printed circuit board, at least one winding (124) formed on the armature in a substantially rectangular spiral path, at least one magnetic field inducer (108) and a counteractive-torque producing element (116) coupled with the armature, the armature being rotatable about a rotation axis, each of the magnetic field inducers being located in the vicinity of a respective corner of the substantially rectangular spiral path, each of the magnetic field inducers producing a magnetic field along a magnetic axis in a selected direction, the selected direction being opposite to another selected direction respective of an adjacent magnetic field inducer, each of the magnetic axes being substantially normal to the substantially rectangular spiral path, the windings and the magnetic field inducers applying the torque on the armature, when electric power is applied to the windings, the torque being at a torque level respective of a selected
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Elop Electro-Optics Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Igor Friedland
  • Publication number: 20080280469
    Abstract: The number of conductor members in a first conductor member group and the number of conductor members in a second conductor member group are equal to each other. An inner terminal of each conductor member is displaced from an outer terminal of the same conductor member with respect to the circumferential direction of the corresponding conductor member group. Each outer terminal of the first conductor member group is displaced from a corresponding one of the outer terminals of the second conductor member with respect to the circumferential direction of the first conductor member group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Kageyama, Toshio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7449810
    Abstract: In a circular saw, an end plate provided on an end of a rotor core has a cylindrical shaft insulator and a plate extending radially from the shaft insulator. The plate is disposed at a position separated from the end of the rotor core. The plate includes slot parts, and air holes that penetrate the plate in the axial direction of the rotor shaft at areas adjacent to the rotor shaft. Protruding parts are provided on the shaft insulator on both sides of each air hole, extending in the axial direction of the rotor shaft and protruding radially outward with respect to the rotor shaft. The shaft insulator has an outer diameter D1 that is smaller than a diameter D2 of the plate in the slot parts adjacent to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Teruo Imai, Satoru Gunji
  • Patent number: 7418843
    Abstract: A washing machine has a tub that may be made of plastic. A drum is rotatably installed in the tub. A shaft may pass through the tub and connect to the drum for transmission of a driving power from a motor to the drum. The washing machine has a bearing supporting part and a stator fastening part extended in a radial direction from the bearing supporting part, where the tub has an inner surface and an outer surface, and the bearing supporting part and the stator fastening part are disposed between the inner surface and the outer surface of the tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gon Kim, Chi Wan Hur, Yu Beom Kang, Sang Man Je, Kang Mo Choi, Jae Kyum Kim, Ho Cheol Kwon
  • Patent number: 7388313
    Abstract: An armature for a direct current motor, in particular for a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor, has an armature body, with armature teeth joined in one piece together via a short-circuit ring and offset by equal circumferential angles, each with a tooth neck for receiving an armature winding and with a tooth head that protrudes past the tooth neck in the circumferential direction. For an axial lengthening of the armature body that is simple and economical to produce, one preferably stacked flux-conducting element each, whose profile corresponds to the tooth head profile, is placed on the axially pointing end faces of the tooth heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Werner Grosch, Harold Bitzer, Guenter Kastinger, Wilhelm Braun, Gabriele Pfeiffer, Jochen Oser, Markus Rauschning
  • Patent number: 7380424
    Abstract: Drum type washing machine including a tub of plastic having a wall for holding washing water therein and mounting a driving part thereon, a drum rotatably arranged inside of the tub, a shaft passed through the tub and connected to the drum for transmission of a driving power from a motor to the drum, at least one bearing for supporting the shaft, a bearing housing having a sleeve form of bearing supporting part, and a stator fastening part extended in a radial direction from the bearing supporting part, wherein both of the bearing supporting part and the stator fastening part are inserted in a tub rear wall, while stator fastening holes in the stator fastening part are exposed, a rotor engaged to a rear end part of the shaft to form the motor together with the stator, and the stator mounted on the stator fastening part of the bearing housing with fastening members on an inner side of the rotor to form the motor together with the rotor, wherein the stator includes an annular helical type core having multiple l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gon Kim, Chi Wan Hur, Yu Beom Kang, Sang Man Je, Kang Mo Choi, Jae Kyum Kim, Ho Cheol Kwon
  • Publication number: 20080116760
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine has a stator generating a magnetic flux and a rotor with a columnar armature core and an armature coil wound on the core. The flux passes through the rotor. The rotor is rotatable around its center axis. The core has slots aligned along its circumferential direction. Each slot extends along an axial direction of the core. The coil has upper layer coil parts and lower layer coil parts alternately connected with one another. Each pair of upper and lower layer coil parts is received in one slot so as to place the lower layer coil part nearer to the center axis of the core than the upper layer coil part. A sectional area of the upper layer coil part received in each slot is larger than a sectional area of the lower layer coil part received in the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Hosoya, Tadahiro Kurasawa, Kazuhiro Andoh
  • Publication number: 20070262673
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the present invention a bell-armature coil for an electric motor is provided. The bell-armature coil comprises a hollow-cylindrical coil winding which forms a coil opening at one end and is wound from a winding wire. The bell-armature coil further comprises a coil former plate. The coil former plate includes a printed circuit board. Into the coil opening the coil former plate is inserted. The coil winding has conductor ends which are connected to the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Bertolini, Roland Keller, Roland Brugger, Roland Kirchner, Hubert Renner, Helmut Wagner
  • Patent number: 7188403
    Abstract: The armature of a motor comprises a core constituted by assembling a plurality of split core members. Each split core member has at least two teeth. The method for manufacturing the armature comprises the steps of: winding a conductive wire on each tooth of each split core member to form a first coil on the teeth; spanning the conductive wire extending from a winding finishing end of the first coil from each tooth to the other tooth; winding the conductive wire on the tooth to which the conductive wire is spanned to form a second coil on the first coil; joining a winding starting end of the first coil and a winding finishing end of the second coil in each tooth to form a single coil; and mutually assembling the plurality of split core members each comprising the coils. As a result, productivity is improved, while reducing size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Yamamoto, Masayuki Kuwano, Yasuhide Ito, Yoshiki Nakano
  • Patent number: 6979928
    Abstract: A magnetic shield assembly for confining rotor windings in a generator includes a substantially cylindrical tubular shield of two or more part-annular segments adapted to enclose the rotor windings; a plurality of axially spaced rings located on the tubular shield; and a plurality of annular spacers radially between the tubular shield and the plurality of rings and axially between adjacent rings to thereby present physical barriers to axial migration of the plurality of rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ronald Ralph Cairo
  • Patent number: 6965186
    Abstract: An electric motor for a hybrid vehicle includes a rotor disposed and coupled between an internal combustion engine and a transmission, the rotor being coupled, at one end thereof in a direction of a rotation axis, to a crank shaft of the internal combustion engine and, at the other end, to the transmission via a drive plate; a through hole provided to extend in the direction of the rotation axis through the rotor; a fastening hole provided respectively in an end face of the crank shaft and in the drive plate to face, and be in communication with, the through hole; and a fastening member mounted in the through hole and in each of the fastening holes such that the rotor is fixed between the crank shaft and the drive plate. A desired performance is secured easily while preventing an excess increase in the cost for producing rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Fukuda, Kenji Fukuda, Noritaka Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6921999
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary actuator is driven by a single-phase voltage. Permanent magnets on a rotor interact over a part-cylindrical small airgap with a soft-iron stator having pole teeth that carry at least one winding for rotating the rotor within a limited angular range, the airgap having a high flux density. The windings are applied around those of the pole teeth that are centrally located. The permanent magnets and stator poles have the same angular pitch. The actuator is compact having a low total length and has a high output power/loss ratio and allows a fast response. It can be built with a low thermal resistance to an enclosure or casing by having the coils being in direct mechanical contact therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Stridsberg Innovation AB
    Inventor: Lennart Stridsberg
  • Patent number: 6900571
    Abstract: The present invention aims to strengthen the durability against the centrifugal force acted on a rotor of a synchronous induction motor to increase reliability of the motor. The rotor for the synchronous induction motor of the invention includes: at least one pair of slits forming salient poles in a direction of a d axis in which the magnetic flux can flow easily and in a direction of a q axis in which the magnetic flux can hardly flow; and plural slots located at an outer circumference side of the slits and connected to at least one end of the slits in the direction of the d axis to generate induction torque. Conductive material is filled in at least the slots among the slits and the slots. The rotor is provided with a rotor cover made of a non-magnetic body as a reinforcing member to strengthen the rotor against the centrifugal force acted at the outer side of the direction of a diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hayato Yoshino, Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Yoshio Takita
  • Patent number: 6806613
    Abstract: A commutator-integrated armature of a rotary electric machine is comprised of a rotary shaft, an armature core composed of a plurality of laminated sheets, an armature coil composed of a plurality of conductor segments. The conductor segments have in-slot portions respectively inserted into a plurality of slots of the armature core and end portions forming a flat commutator. The armature core has an anchoring portion for anchoring a part of each of the in-slot portions to the armature core more strongly than the rest thereof. The surface of the flat commutator is maintained flat even if the conductor segments repeat thermal expansion and contraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Jiro Ebihara, Kenichi Shibayama, Masami Niimi, Osamu Ina
  • Patent number: 6774529
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor body, especially for the rotor of the starter or the starter-generator of an internal combustion engine. Said rotor body is provided with a hub (4) that extends coaxially with respect to the axis of rotor rotation (A). The inventive rotor body comprises a rotation-symmetric base body (5) that forms the hub (4) and one or more blades (1, 2, 3) that all have the same thickness in the direction of the rotor rational axis (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Siegbert Wessels
  • Patent number: 6741010
    Abstract: A rotor disc (14), for use in an electrical machine (10), has at least one circumferential rotor rim (16) mounted thereon. The rotor rim (16) comprises at least one row of alternate magnets (20) and laminated pole pieces (18). The laminations in each pole piece (18) are mounted concentrically on a bolt (22) that extends through the rotor disc (14). A clearance (23) is provided between the laminations in each pole piece (18) and the bolt (22). The clearance (23) insulates the bolt (22) from the laminated pole pieces (18), which are made from a ferromagnetic material such as silicon-iron alloy, to minimize power losses due to eddy currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Rolls Royce PLC
    Inventor: Geoffrey A Wilkin
  • Publication number: 20040080236
    Abstract: A starter for an internal combustion engine is provided which includes a pair of angular contact ball bearings used to support an armature shaft. The bearings are disposed close to opposed ends of a core of an armature. The core has disposed thereon coils which define a commutator on one of the ends of the core. One of the bearings is disposed within an inner periphery of the commutator. This structure results in a decreased interval between the bearings, thus ensuring stability in supporting the armature shaft during rotation, which results in decreased mechanical vibrations, magnetic noises, and wear of the bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Shiga, Masami Niimi
  • Patent number: 6720687
    Abstract: A gas cooled dynamoelectric machine is provided that is comprised of a rotor, a rotor winding comprising axially extending coils and concentric endwindings, and a plurality of spaceblocks located between adjacent endwindings thereby to define a plurality of cavities, each bounded by adjacent spaceblocks and adjacent endwindings. To enhance the heat transfer rate from the copper end turns of the field endwinding region, at least one spaceblock has a trailing edge or downstream wall contoured to reduce generated wake. In a preferred embodiment, the trailing edge has an aerodynamic contour to reduce the extent and strength of the generated wake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Samir Armando Salamah, Todd Garrett Wetzel, Christian Lee Vandervort, Emil Donald Jarczynski, Wayne Nigel Owen Turnbull
  • Patent number: 6713930
    Abstract: A power generator that operates at a reduced temperature level includes a flux shunt that reduces the amount of fringing magnetic flux axially impinging upon a stator, flange, and multiple keybars during operation of the generator. By reducing the amount of axially impinging flux, the flux shunt reduces an operating temperature of the stator and flange and reduces a voltage differential between keybar voltages induced by the flux in the multiple keybars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Sameh Ramadan Salem, Ronald Irving Longwell
  • Patent number: 6707206
    Abstract: A magnetic material fixing structure of motor rotor including multiple overlapping silicon steel plates. An outer circumference of each silicon steel plate is recessed to form multiple receptacles at equal intervals. A magnetic material is disposed in each receptacle. The receptacle has two lateral faces, a bottom face and an opening opposite to the bottom face. Each of adjoining sections of the two lateral faces and the bottom face is formed with a dented section dividing the lateral faces and bottom face of each receptacle into multiple resilient plates. When inlaying the magnetic material into the receptacle, the resilient plates are deformed to resiliently tightly clamp the magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Energy Saving Tech. Corp.
    Inventor: Chio Sung Chang
  • Patent number: 6703733
    Abstract: A multi-pole electric machine rotor assembly includes a rotor forging including a rotor body having poles 13 with pole faces and a winding module including a plurality of field windings positioned adjacent the pole faces and winding insulators disposed between each successive pair of the field windings, respectively. A winding block, disposed in engagement with the winding module, is shaped to be shifted to a final position relative to the winding module when the rotor assembly rotates at about its rated speed to thereby compress the winding module. Either the winding block or the winding module can be displaced by centrifugal forces during rotation. In the final position, the winding block is locked by friction in a position to maintain compression in the winding module. The winding block serves to provide a pre-stress in the field windings to keep the field windings tight over the design range of spin speeds, thereby controlling winding position and reducing alternating radial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Robert John Nygard, James Pelligrino Alexander
  • Publication number: 20030201690
    Abstract: A small brush motor able to use a three-electrode varistor and able to suppress disconnection or short-circuits of crossover wires of coils, wherein each phase coil of the three-phase coil of an armature uses three risers and two salient poles, each phase coil has a zigzag part formed by alternately bending and connecting successively to the front side, back side, and back side the three salient poles in the interval from the knotting part of the first riser in the forward rotation direction to the knotting part of the second riser, a first coil part formed by winding from the knotting part of the second riser in the reverse rotation direction and wrapping at the adjoining first salient pole, and a second coil part comprised by winding from the first coil part in the forward rotation direction and wrapping at the adjoining second salient pole and connects to a knotting part of the adjoining opposite phase first riser extending from the second coil part in the forward rotation direction, the winding directions
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ze Di Mori
  • Patent number: 6614142
    Abstract: A rotor is provided for use at high speed. The rotor comprises a stack of laminations held under compression between opposed flanges. The laminations have a plurality of teeth. Some of the laminations have lugs having passages formed therein through which the bolts that hold the stack in compression pass. The laminations serve to hold bolts against radial deformation at high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Goodrich Control Systems Limited
    Inventors: David Bonnieman, Dennise R Hayward
  • Publication number: 20030155839
    Abstract: An actuator of the prior art has an iron circuit comprising three parts. Moreover, an armature stroke with a magnetic force that remains constant over wide strokes can be achieved only at very great effort and expense.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Christian Lorenz, Matthias Brendle
  • Patent number: 6608419
    Abstract: A power generator that operates at a reduced temperature level includes a flux shunt that reduces the amount of fringing magnetic flux axially impinging upon a stator, flange, and multiple keybars during operation of the generator. By reducing the amount of axially impinging flux, the flux shunt reduces an operating temperature of the stator and flange and reduces a voltage differential between keybar voltages induced by the flux in the multiple keybars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Sameh Ramadan Salem, Ronald Irving Longwell
  • Publication number: 20030020362
    Abstract: In a press fit of a component on a shaft of the prior art, stresses that can damage the component remain in the mounted component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Bruno Droll, Martin Karl, Martin Goedecke
  • Patent number: 6495943
    Abstract: A gas cooled dynamoelectric machine is provided that is comprised of a rotor, a rotor winding comprising axially extending coils and concentric endwindings, and a plurality of spaceblocks located between adjacent endwindings thereby to define a plurality of cavities, each bounded by adjacent spaceblocks and adjacent endwindings. To enhance the heat transfer rate from the copper end turns of the field endwinding region, at least one scoop structure is provided adjacent the radially inner end of a cavity facing surface of at least one spaceblock for intercepting and redirecting coolant flow into the respective cavity. The spaceblock itself may have curved upstream and/or downstream surfaces for facilitating circulating coolant flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Todd Garrett Wetzel, Emil Donald Jarczynski, Christian Lee Vandervort, Samir Armando Salamah, Wayne Nigel Owen Turnbull
  • Patent number: 6495942
    Abstract: A non-metallic structural enclosure for a generator rotor replaces conventional containment components including rotor wedges, rotor teeth and retaining rings. The enclosure includes a non-metallic tube formed of a plurality of spaced rings or of a continuous tube including ventilation holes or slots. The simplified rotor assembly serves to restrain the winding against centrifugal forces with a more highly optimized use of space and materials. The arrangement allows more space for copper and ventilation, thereby benefiting both efficiency and the performance of the machine. The use of individual rings has the additional benefit of providing restraint against centrifugal forces without reducing the effectiveness of cross slots in the rotor body from correcting peripheral dissymmetries in rotor stiffness. The rings also provide openings for ventilation without introducing stress concentrations in the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher A. Kaminski, Richard J. Keck, Yu Wang
  • Publication number: 20020130583
    Abstract: In a DC motor, a plurality of bobbins is respectively mounted on teeth of an armature core. The armature core is comprised of an internal core unit and an external core unit that is coaxially disposed outside the internal core unit. A plurality of armature coils is respectively wound around the bobbins. A case has a plurality of first terminal members that are respectively connected to commutator segments. Each of the armature coils is connected to each other via the first terminal members. Each of the bobbins includes a second terminal member that is coupled to one of the first terminal members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Kiyonori Moroto, Eiji Iwanari, Motoya Ito
  • Patent number: 6437476
    Abstract: A generator rotor includes a rotor body having defined pole regions with pole faces and parallel sides adjacent the pole faces. A winding module is fitted over the parallel sides of the rotor body, and a pair of spindles are secured to respective ends of the rotor body. The spindles secure opposite sides of the winding module to the rotor body. The spindles preferably include a notch that is shaped to receive one side, respectively, of the winding module. With this construction, flat windings can be used for the winding module, eliminating the need for a curved module to fit over the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert John Nygard, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 6433453
    Abstract: A revolving speed increasing apparatus in which the repulsion of the magnets acts effectively only in the rotational direction to increase the revolving speed by the magnets. A rotary plate, fixed to a rotary shaft so as to integrally rotate, and a fixed plate, fixed to a stationary portion, are opposed to each other. A plurality of radially arranged elongated magnets provided at equal intervals, magnets for demagnetization fixed to the elongated magnets on one side thereof so as to protrude from the tips of the elongated magnets, and plate magnets arranged between the adjacent elongated magnets are provided on the opposed surfaces of the rotary plate and fixed plate. The rotary plate and the fixed plate are arranged with a rotational gap between the tip surfaces of the magnets for demagnetization. The poles at the opposed tips of the elongated magnets on the rotary plate and those on the fixed plate are of the same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Inventor: Yohei Kitayoshi