Hollow (e.g., Double Air Gap) Patents (Class 310/266)
  • Patent number: 8358044
    Abstract: An electrical machine apparatus having magnetic gearing embedded therein includes a moveable rotor having a first magnetic field associated therewith, a stator configured with a plurality of stationary stator windings therein, and a magnetic flux modulator interposed between the moveable rotor and the stator windings. The magnetic flux modulator is configured to transmit torque between the first magnetic field associated with said moveable rotor and a second magnetic field excited by the plurality of stationary stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michal-Wolfgang Waszak, Jan Hemmelmann, Ronghai Qu, Patrick Lee Jansen
  • Patent number: 8350442
    Abstract: To provide a power plant which makes it possible to make the power plant more compact in size, reduce manufacturing costs thereof, and improve the degree of freedom in design. The power plant 1 comprises an engine 3, and first and second rotating machines 10 and 20, and drives front wheels 4 by motive power from these. The first rotating machine 10 includes first and second rotors 14 and 15, and a stator 16, and is configured such that a ratio between the number of armature magnetic poles generated in the stator 16, the number of magnetic poles of the first rotor 14, and the number of soft magnetic material cores 15a of the second rotor 15 becomes 1:m:(1+m)/2 (m?1.0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Akutsu, Satoyoshi Oya, Kota Kasaoka, Noriyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 8344567
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a flange provided at one end of a hollow frame in an axial direction; a rotor including a shaft, the shaft being rotatably supported by the flange; and a stator fixed to an inner section of the frame, the stator surrounding the rotor. The rotor includes a first rotor core and a second rotor core arranged in the axial direction and having recesses formed in the axial direction, and a rotor-core space defined by the recesses that are formed in the first rotor core and the second rotor core and that face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventor: Yasuaki Kamiki
  • Patent number: 8339009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic flux conducting unit (10) for electromagnetic apparatus, the electromagnetic apparatus being operative to convert one of mechanical energy and electrical energy into the other of mechanical energy and electrical energy. The magnetic flux conducting unit comprises at least one magnetic flux conducting element (12a, 12b) formed of a magnetically permeable material. Also, the at least one magnetic flux conducting element defines: a coil receiving space (18) for receiving a coil assembly (32) of the electromagnetic apparatus; and at least one material receiving space (16, 30a, 30b), which accommodates a substantially magnetically impermeable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: NGenTec Ltd.
    Inventors: Markus Mueller, Alasdair Stewart McDonald
  • Patent number: 8339010
    Abstract: An electric motor (10) is constructed with an inner circumference side rotor (11) and an outer circumference side rotor (12) which are coaxially arranged; and planetary gear mechanism which rotates at least one of the inner circumference side rotor (11) and the outer circumference side rotor (12) around an rotary shaft O. Long sides of substantially plate-like inner circumference side permanent magnets (11a) of the inner circumference side rotor (11) and those of substantially plate-like outer circumference side permanent magnets (12a) of the outer circumference side rotor (12) are arranged so as to face each other by the rotation of at least one of the inner circumference side rotor (11) and the outer circumference side rotor (12) in a cross section perpendicular to the rotary shaft O with the planetary gear mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hirofumi Atarashi, Shoei Abe, Tamotsu Kawamura, Hiromitsu Sato
  • Patent number: 8334634
    Abstract: A high power rotary device includes a stator comprising a plurality of wire coils each surrounding a non-magnetizable core; a rotor with permanent magnets embedded therein, the rotor being disposed adjacent to the stator, the rotor being mounted on a rotatable drive shaft; a position sensor operably connected to the rotor; and a control circuit operably connected to the position sensor and the wire coils to activate the wire coils. In this motor the control circuit transfers electrical charge from a first coil to a second coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Millennial Research Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Palmer, Denis L. Palmer
  • Patent number: 8299676
    Abstract: A high-output and highly efficient axial gap type rotating machine capable of reducing an eddy current generated in a winding wire and supplying a larger current is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Miyata, Minori Miyata, legal representative, Atsushi Miyata, legal representative, Hideki Kobayashi, Naoki Watanabe, Takehisa Minowa
  • Patent number: 8294322
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, when a stator winding is wound in concentrated winding, an improvement in performance is achieved by reducing a magnetomotive force harmonic without reducing a fundamental wave magnetic flux generated by a stator. A rotating electrical machine (10) includes a rotor (18), and two stators (14, 16) opposed with the rotor (18) being interposed therebetween either on both sides of the rotor (18) in the axial direction or on both sides of the rotor (18) in the radial direction. Stator windings (22) provided in a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction of each stator (14, 16) are wound in concentrated winding. The directions of magnetic fluxes generated by stator windings (22) having the same phase in the stators (14, 16) are in mutually opposite directions with respect to either the axial direction or the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Aiki, Hideo Nakai, Takaji Umeno, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Norimoto Minoshima, Toshihiko Yoshida, Tatsuya Uematsu, Kenji Endo
  • Patent number: 8288916
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a composite electromechanical machine which can operate as a motor or a generator (including dynamo or alternator). In an aspect, the present composite electromechanical machine includes at least a double-sided magnetic plane (e.g., rotor or stator) wherein the double-sided magnetic plane includes a plurality of magnet protruding from both sides and exerting substantially equal magnetic field to both sides of the double-sided magnetic plane. The magnets can be permanent magnets or electromagnets having windings. Other embodiments can also be included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Eric Stephane Quere
  • Patent number: 8278872
    Abstract: A charging device comprises a rotating unit, an axle unit assembled to the rotating unit and engaging the rotating unit, and two charging units assembled to the axle unit. Each charging unit includes a magnet retainer assembled to the axle unit and engaging the axle unit, a plurality of magnets received in the magnet retainer, and a case rotatably assembled to the axle unit and including a plurality of windings. Rotation of the rotating unit drives the axle unit and the magnet retainers to rotate, the rotating magnet retainers and magnets further rotate relative to the cases due to the inertia of the cases, and the magnets move relative to the windings and generate induction currents in the windings, for charging a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventor: Jian-Hui Li
  • Patent number: 8274191
    Abstract: A stator arrangement of an electric machine, generator, and wind turbine includes a plurality of stator segments forming substantially the stator of the electric machine in a cylindric form around a radially centered shaft. The stator arrangement is radially surrounded by a rotatably mounted rotor arrangement. The stator segments are radially mounted on an outer surface of a support structure. The support structure is fixed via rigid connections to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Akteingesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8264120
    Abstract: A permanent magnet-less synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic revolving field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor is disposed within the magnetic revolving field and spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor pole stacks having an inner periphery biased by single polarity of a north-pole field and a south-pole field, respectively. The outer periphery of each of the rotor pole stacks are biased by an alternating polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventor: John S. Hsu
  • Patent number: 8258782
    Abstract: An angle detecting apparatus includes a rotor fixed to a rotating shaft, a pair of magnetic sensors arranged close to the outer periphery of the rotor so as to have a difference in angle (?/2) with respect to the center of rotation of the rotor, a differential operational circuit performing differential operation on detection signals output by the magnetic sensors to output a differential signal, and the angle calculating circuit calculating the angle of rotation of the rotating shaft based on the differential signal. The planar shape of the rotor is such that the sum of the distances between the center of rotation and the respective two points where two straight lines crossing at the center of rotation at a crossing angle of (?/2) cross the outer periphery of the rotor is constant, and the planar shape is symmetric with respect to a straight line passing through the center of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Kaita, Hirokazu Miyamoto, Toshinao Kido, Junya Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8222792
    Abstract: A generator or motor apparatus having a stator formed of a plurality of pairs of parallel stator segments is provided The pairs of parallel segments are connected together to form a channel in which an annular rotor moves The annular rotor also comprises a plurality of detachable segments connected together to form an annular tram operable to move through said channel Each stator segment comprises a stator winding set and each rotor segment comprises a magnet dimensioned to fit between the parallel spaced apart stator segments The apparatus may include a support structure, the rotor segments being slidably coupled to the support structure and the stator segments being attached to the support structure The apparatus may be a rim generator, wind turbine generator or other electrical machine The stator winding set includes a stator winding, and may include other electrical or electronic components, including possibly a power factor capacitor, direct current filtering capacitor, supercapacitor, and one or more di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Clean Current Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Mihai C. Platon, Virgil F. Young
  • Patent number: 8217616
    Abstract: A power supply for an electric motor includes a converter that can increase and decrease a voltage supplied into an inverter and then into the stator windings of the motor. As a separate feature, the inverter includes a control coil which is positioned within a motor housing such that it may be cooled by a thermal management system for the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignees: HJamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Gregory I. Rozman, Kevin Dooley
  • Patent number: 8212445
    Abstract: A polyphasic multi-coil generator includes a drive shaft, at least first and second rotors rigidly mounted on the drive shaft so as to simultaneously synchronously rotate with rotation of the drive shaft, and at least one stator sandwiched between the first and second rotors. A stator array on the stator has an array of electrically conductive coils mounted to the stator in a first angular orientation about the drive shaft. The rotors each have an array of magnets which are circumferentially equally spaced around the rotor and located at the same radially spacing with respect to the centre of the rotor and the drive shaft at a first angular orientation relative to the drive shaft. The arrays of magnets on adjacent rotors are off-set by an angular offset relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Exro Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Gale Ritchey
  • Patent number: 8207648
    Abstract: A dual-rotor motor in which inner slot angle ?i is larger than outer slot angle ?o. An inner notched portion is provided on both circumferential ends of an inner head. This inner notched portion provides a broader space between the inner head and an inner rotor toward both utmost ends of the inner head. An outer notched portion is provided on both circumferential ends of an outer head. This outer notched portion provides a broader space between the outer head and the outer rotor toward both utmost ends of the outer head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 8207644
    Abstract: A hybrid cascading lubrication and cooling system (200, 400) for an electrical machine (102) with nested stages is provided. The electrical machine (102) includes an inner nested stage (444) nested with respect to an outer nested stage (446). An oil pump (222) is coupled to an oil pump inlet tube (226) to draw oil from an oil sump (224), and a cooling core (230) to distribute pumped oil within the electrical machine (102). A rotor member (212) is coupled to the inner nested stage (444) and the outer nested stage (446). The rotor member (212) centrifugally pumps oil from the cooling core (230) through inner radial holes (424) and outer radial holes (436) in the rotor member (212) upon rotation about a central axis (216) of the electrical machine (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Richard A. Himmelmann
  • Patent number: 8188633
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a composite electromechanical machine which can operate as a motor or a generator (including dynamo or alternator). In an aspect, the present composite electromechanical machine comprises at least double-sided magnetic planes (e.g., rotor or stator) disposed on both sides of a central frames. Other embodiments can also be included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Inventor: Eric Stephane Quere
  • Patent number: 8169109
    Abstract: A switched reluctance machine has an array of poles attached to a stationary holding member to form a stator. The stator has no back-iron. The machine has two arrays of rotor poles, positioned on either side of the stator poles, and circumferentially aligned with each other. When a pair of rotor poles is aligned with a stator pole, a small airgap is formed at each end of the stator pole, across which flux can be driven to produce torque in a rotary arrangement or force in a linear arrangement. When the poles are in the unaligned position, the phase inductance is very low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec SR Drives Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Sykes, Phillip George Dickinson
  • Patent number: 8159104
    Abstract: A motor-generator apparatus has a stator and a rotor in a cylindrical arrangement about a central longitudinal axis. The stator has a static circular magnetic surface spaced apart from, a static circular electromagnetic surface. The rotor has a cylindrical arrangement of radially oriented laminations positioned proximal to, and between the static circular magnetic, and the static circular electromagnetic surfaces. The rotor is supported for rotation relative to the stator. A circular arrangement of electromagnets are electrically interconnected for carrying an electrical current for energizing the circular electromagnetic surface which is discontinuous with a plurality of portions gapped apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Clearwater Holdings, Ltd
    Inventor: Dumitru Bojiuc
  • Patent number: 8154146
    Abstract: An apparatus for wind energy conversion includes a nacelle having a main frame, the main frame having a lower part and an upper part joined to the lower part, the upper part having a first strap extending across the lower part; a stator disposed within the nacelle; a rotor disposed within the nacelle; a mounting surface attached to the main frame and defining a rotor space, the mounting surface having a first side-face that exposes the rotor space; and a flange rotatably supported on the main frame and including a first end connected to the rotor. The rotor is cantilevered from the flange into the rotor space from the first side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: AMSC Windtec GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Anton Wolf, Michael Schwarz
  • Patent number: 8138650
    Abstract: A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine formed by stacking a plurality of blanks blanked from a steel sheet, the blank having a yoke, a magnetic pole portion confronting the yoke, and a magnet insertion hole positioned between the yoke and the magnetic pole portion, the magnetic pole portion having a projection projecting circumferentially at two circumferential sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: Toshiba Ha Products Co., Ltd., Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation, Mitsui High-Tec Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shiga, Noboru Shibata
  • Patent number: 8115361
    Abstract: The torque characteristic is improved using a magnetic flux efficiently, and an eddy-current loss generated in a coil is reduced. Moreover, a loss is suppressed even if a metal member having a high thermal conductivity is closely disposed or closely contacted to a coil surface exposed by a variable magnetic field to improve the heat transfer property, thereby improving the cooling capability. A coil assembly for a rotational electric apparatus has first and second coil plates having wiring patterns formed in such a way that conductive coil segments adjoin with each other via slits, magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots formed in the slits and having a wider width than such slits, a coil constituted by the stacked coil plates so that the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots overlap with each other, and a magnetic flux transfer member inserted into the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Iki, Hisashi Murakami, Masaru Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8115364
    Abstract: A permanent magnet power generator which, when used at an electric power generating facility such as a wind power plant, etc., would not be bulky and would not impede wind capture by a wind turbine; instead, it can raise the generated voltage without impeding wind capture has a generator shaft; at least three rotors, which are secured with the generator shaft, constituted by a plurality of plate-shaped structures having a permanent magnet attached thereto, and each disposed in the longitudinal direction of the generator shaft; and a stator, which is plate-shaped with a stator coil disposed in at least two gaps formed by the rotors, evenly-spaced apart from the generator shaft. The rotors and stators are disposed alternately in the longitudinal direction of the generator shaft, with a total of at least five stages. Also a wind power generator with a propeller on the shaft of this permanent magnet generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehisa Minowa, Hideki Kobayashi, Koji Miyata
  • Patent number: 8110961
    Abstract: A permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic rotating field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor disposed within the magnetic rotating field is spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. A stationary excitation core spaced apart from the uncluttered rotor by an axial air gap and a radial air gap substantially encloses the stationary excitation core. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include stator core gaps to reduce axial flux flow. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include an uncluttered rotor coupled to outer laminations. The quadrature-axis inductance may be increased in some synchronous systems. Some synchronous systems convert energy such as mechanical energy into electrical energy (e.g., a generator); other synchronous systems may convert any form of energy into mechanical energy (e.g., a motor).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventor: John S. Hsu
  • Patent number: 8106563
    Abstract: A polyphasic multi-coil generator includes a driveshaft, at least first and second rotors rigidly mounted on the driveshaft so as to simultaneously synchronously rotate with rotation of the driveshaft, and at least one stator sandwiched between the first and second rotors. The stator has an aperture through which the driveshaft is rotatably journalled. A stator array on the stator has an equally circumferentially spaced-apart array of electrically conductive coils mounted to the stator in a first angular orientation about the driveshaft. The rotors and the stator lie in substantially parallel planes. The first and second rotors have, respectively, first and second rotor arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Exro Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Ritchey
  • Patent number: 8089175
    Abstract: The invention concerns a direct drive or directly driven generator for a wind turbine comprising a stator having at least one stator element for power generation and a rotor pivotable around a centre axis of the generator having at least one rotor element for power generation, the generator having an air gap between the stator element and rotor element, wherein the stator comprises a front and a rear ring-shaped supporting element and stator segments being attached to the front and rear ring-shaped supporting elements of the stator, wherein junctions between the front and rear ring-shaped supporting elements of the stator and stator segments are located substantially at a radius in relation to the centre axis of the generator which is smaller than the radius of the air gap between the stator element and rotor element. Furthermore the invention concerns a wind turbine comprising such a direct drive generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8084879
    Abstract: The invention concerns a wind turbine comprising a retaining arrangement, a main shaft and a direct drive generator comprising a rotor having a first and a second supporting element and a stator having a first and a second supporting element, wherein the main shaft is pivoted relatively to the retaining arrangement by a first and a second bearing, the first supporting element of the rotor and the main shaft are connected with each other, the first supporting element of the stator is supported on the main shaft and/or on the first supporting element of the rotor by a third bearing, the second supporting element of the stator and the retaining arrangement are connected with each other and the second supporting element of the rotor is supported on the retaining arrangement and/or on the second supporting element of the stator by a fourth bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8074922
    Abstract: A flying craft has an aerodynamic aircraft fuselage structure preferably disc shaped. A pair of coaxial electrokinetic motor-generators are mounted concentrically, and preferably centered within the disc shaped structure of the craft. Each of the motors is toroidal in configuration, providing a ring-shaped stator and rotor portions. The rotor portions of the motors drive counter rotating fans which are electro-magnetically levitated. The structure is open to the fans so that air may be drawn into the structure and expelled downward providing vertical lift to the aircraft. By use of auxiliary air braking flaps and electrokinetic thrusters, the craft may be tilted so as to develop a desired horizontal thrust. By impulse breaking one of the fans through tracking solenoids at different points around the stator, the aircraft may be made to rotate about its own vertical axis for changing direction. By a series of sudden braking of the motors the craft may be made to move by inertial reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Dumitru Bojiuc
  • Patent number: 8058763
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor arrangement that is particularly suitable for low-speed large-diameter electrical generators includes a rotor 2 having a radially outer rim 4. A circumferential array of magnet carriers 12 is non-releasably affixed to the outer rim 4 of the rotor and have a radially outer surface. An inverted U-shaped pole piece retainer 18 made of non-magnetic material such as stainless steel is affixed to each magnet carrier 12 and is formed with an axially extending channel. At least one pole piece 16 made of a magnetic material such as steel is located adjacent to the radially outer surface of each magnet carrier 12 and in the channel formed in its associated pole piece retainer 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Converteam UK Ltd
    Inventors: Paul Eaton Clark, Andrew James Bullock, Allan David Crane
  • Patent number: 8053946
    Abstract: A coreless and brushless direct-current motor includes an armature coil wound without core and formed in the shape of a saddle; an outside rotor magnet formed by a permanent magnet, the outside rotor magnet being provided at an outside of the armature coil in the shape of a cylinder so as to face the armature coil, the outside rotor magnet being rotated by the magnetic field; an inside rotor magnet formed by a permanent magnet, the inside rotor magnet being provided in the shape of a cylinder at an inside of the armature coil so that the inside rotor magnet has a pole opposite to the outside rotor magnet and a rotational shaft is independently provided; an output shaft connected to the inside rotor magnet; and a sealing part of a barrier structure which sealing part partitions the armature coil and the outside rotor magnet to an outside of the inside rotor magnet and seals the armature coil and the outside rotor magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Koizumi, Tomohiro Koyama, Teruo Takahashi, Makoto Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8035273
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine having a number of poles includes a shaft that extends along a portion of an axis and defines an outer surface. A first core portion is formed as a single inseparable component and includes a first portion that extends from the outer surface to a first outside diameter to define a first thickness, and a second portion spaced axially from the first portion that includes a reduced back portion that extends from an inside diameter to the first outside diameter to define a second thickness that is less than the first thickness. A second core portion is connected to the first core portion and includes a second outside diameter that is substantially the same as the first outside diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: A.O. Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Dan M. Ionel, Stephen J. Dellinger, Robert J. Heideman, Alan E. Lesak
  • Patent number: 8022580
    Abstract: A plastics injection-molding machine is to be equipped with a more compact drive that undergoes less wear. For this purpose, it is envisaged to integrate the direct rotational drive into the direct linear drive. Accordingly, the electric linear motor has a pot-shaped external rotor (13), in the inner space of which the main part of a hollow-cylindrical stator (16) of the linear motor is arranged and which is firmly connected to the output shaft (10). The rotary drive has a stator (18), which is mounted on the inner wall of the hollow-cylindrical stator (16) of the linear motor, and a rotor, which is firmly coupled to the output shaft (10) within the stator (18) of the rotary electric motor. This direct drive produces a very compact type of construction and it is possible to dispense with easily wearing threaded spindles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Budde, Mykhaylo Toldonov
  • Patent number: 7990019
    Abstract: An electric motor is provided which includes a stator, in which field magnets are fixedly and radially installed on a circular panel-shaped base. A coaxial cylindrical rotor is coupled to a shaft and is configured to allow the stator to be located at an inside thereof, the rotor being configured such that magnets, having different polarities to form each pair, are attached on an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder of the rotor and are arranged opposite each other. A rotary magnet plate is coupled to the shaft on a top of the cover, and is provided with a number of magnets corresponding to a number of pairs of the rotor magnets. The respective pairs of rotor magnets are arranged on the outer and inner cylinders while being spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Inventor: Sam Kyung Sung
  • Patent number: 7986069
    Abstract: A first member (40a) has a magnet assembly (20) that includes a plurality of permanent magnets (10) held with their homopoles contacting one another. A second member (50a) includes magnet coils (30), and is designed to be changeable in position relative to the first member. The magnet assembly (20) generates the strongest magnetic field in a magnetic field direction lying in the homopolar contact plane at which the homopoles contact one another, the magnetic field direction being oriented outward from the magnet assembly (20) along the magnetic field direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7960893
    Abstract: Provided are a radial core type brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor and a method of making the same, having an excellent assembly capability of division type stator cores in a double rotor structure BLDC motor. The BLDC motor includes a rotational shaft, an integrated double rotor including an inner rotor and an outer rotor, and a rotor supporter wherein a trench type space is formed between the inner rotor and the outer rotor, and an end extended from the inner rotor is connected with the outer circumferential surface of a bushing combined with the rotational shaft, and an integrated stator wherein one end of the stator is disposed in the trench type space and an extension axially extended from the other end of the integrated stator is fixed to the housing of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Amotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung Kyu Kim, Jae Yeong Lee, Kyu Hyuk Jeong, Jong Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7944112
    Abstract: Provided are a radial core type brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor and a method of making the same, having an excellent assembly capability of division type stator cores in a double rotor structure BLDC motor. The BLDC motor includes a rotational shaft, an integrated double rotor including an inner rotor and an outer rotor, and a rotor supporter wherein a trench type space is formed between the inner rotor and the outer rotor, and an end extended from the inner rotor is connected with the outer circumferential surface of a bushing combined with the rotational shaft, and an integrated stator wherein one end of the stator is disposed in the trench type space and an extension axially extended from the other end of the integrated stator is fixed to the housing of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Amotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung Kyu Kim, Jae Yeong Lee, Kyu Hyuk Jeong, Jong Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7944107
    Abstract: A synchronous permanent magnet machine for at least two rotation speeds has a single stator and at least two rotors. For each rotation speed there is provided a separate rotor with a different numbers of poles. The armature windings on the stator extend across all of the rotors and the windings are subjected to a rotating field with the same frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Thoms
  • Patent number: 7939983
    Abstract: There is provided a generator which produces electromotive forces in the same direction on all windings to prevent occurrence of leakage magnetic fields of the windings and lowering of the rotational forces of rotor plates due to the leakage magnetic fields from the windings and offers high efficiency without accompanying any circuit loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Inventor: Tetsuo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7911110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to motors, and more particularly, to a double rotor type motor applicable to a washing machine or the like. The double rotor type motor includes an outer rotor having first base, and a first extension extended from a circumference of the first base substantially perpendicular thereto, the first extension having outer magnets mounted on an inside circumferential surface, an inner rotor having a second base mounted on an upper surface of the first base concentric to the first base, and a second extension extended from a circumference of the second base so as to be opposite to the first extension with a predetermined gap toward an inner side of the first extension, the second extension having inner magnets mounted on an outside circumferential surface, and a bushing at a center of the first base and the second base, for transmission of rotation force both from the outer rotor and the inner rotor to a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soung Bong Choi, Seong Hai Jeong, Yeong Soo Kim, Hung Myong Cho, In Geun Ahn
  • Patent number: 7906885
    Abstract: A brushless electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. Each of the twin poles of the stator electromagnetic members corresponds to one of the two magnetic poles of the rotor magnetic assembles. Two radial component air-gaps are arranged between the stator and the rotor to separate the stator and the rotor. Axial component air-gaps axially corresponding are arranged between the stator poles and the corresponding rotor poles to separate the stator poles and the rotor poles. The stator wheel-shaped ring is partly surrounded by the rotor wheel-shaped ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignees: Union Plastic (Hangzhou) Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Weiting Lu
  • Patent number: 7888839
    Abstract: A motor-generator includes a rotor that rotates about an axis of rotation, and a stator that is stationary and magnetically interacts with the rotor. The rotor is constructed of two spaced apart rotor portions having magnetic poles that drive magnetic flux across an armature airgap formed therebetween. An armature, located in the armature airgap, has a substantially nonmagnetic and low electrical conductivity form onto which wire windings are wound. The form has a free end that extends inside the rotor, and a support end that attaches to the stationary portion of the motor-generator. The form is constructed with a thin backing portion and thicker raised portions extending from the backing portion in the direction of the magnetic flux. The wire windings have multiple individually insulated conductor wire. The conductors of a single wire are electrically connected together in parallel and electrically insulated between each other along their length inside the armature airgap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Revolution Electric Motor Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Gabrys, Timothy S. Rodgers
  • Patent number: 7884563
    Abstract: Provided is a motor having a magnetic polar unit in which a permanent magnetic polar array having arranged therein alternately a plurality of permanent magnetic polar elements in alternate opposite poles is made to face a plurality of electromagnetic coil arrays alternately excited at opposite poles, and the permanent magnetic polar array is made to move thereby; wherein the motor further comprises a sensor for detecting the periodical magnetic change accompanying the movement of the permanent magnetic polar array, the output of the sensor is directly returned as a direct drive waveform to the electromagnetic coils, and this drive circuit forms the excitation signal based on the return signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7876019
    Abstract: A device for generating electrical or mechanical output, comprising a stator coil, a stator assembly, a rotor coil, a rotor assembly rotational about an axis, the rotor assembly at least partially surrounding the rotor coil, rotator extensions capable of induced magnetization and extending from the rotator, each rotator extension having a rotor extension surface, wherein magnetic flux leakage between the rotator extension surfaces is prevented or reduced via permanent magnet elements located at the rotator extension surfaces. Stator and rotor may be reversed in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Motor Excellence, LLC
    Inventor: David Gregory Calley
  • Patent number: 7872380
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating rotary oscillation with two shafts pivotable relative to each other. An end section of a first shaft is accommodated in an end section of a second shaft so as to form an air gap. One of the two shafts has a magnetic field generator of substantially constant field strength, and the other shaft has conductors which generate a magnetic field and to which current has been variably applied to pivot the shafts relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Kristl, Seibt & Co. Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Wilfried Rossegger, Karl Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 7863784
    Abstract: An electromechanical machine having a stator and a rotor, the stator including at least one stator module of N toroid shaped electromagnets, the electromagnets arranged along an arc a predetermined distance apart defining a stator arc length. Each of the electromagnets has at least one gap. The rotor includes a disc adapted to pass through the at least one gap. The disc includes a plurality of permanent magnets spaced side by side about a periphery thereof and arranged so as to have alternating north-south polarities. The permanent magnets are sized and spaced such that within the stator arc length the ratio of permanent magnets to electromagnets is N+1 to N, where N is the number of electrical excitation phases applied to the electromagnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Apex Drive Laboratories, Inc
    Inventors: Edward Failing Ritz, Jr., John E. Bales, Tommy Long, J. Lynn Saunders, Ray Nelke, Mohamed Sabri
  • 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: 7839047
    Abstract: An axial gap electrical machine employs unique architecture to (1) overcome critical limits in the air gap at high speeds, while maintaining high torque performance at low speeds, while synergistically providing a geometry that withstands meets critical force concentration within these machines, (2) provides arrangements for cooling said machines using either a Pelletier effect or air fins, (3) “windings” that are produced as ribbon or stampings or laminates, that may be in some cases be arranged to optimize conductor and magnetic core density within the machine. Arrangements are also proposed for mounting the machines as wheels of a vehicle, to provide ease of removing and installing said motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventor: Arjuna Indraeswaran Rajasingham
  • Patent number: RE42583
    Abstract: Brushless motor in a washing machine including a stator having a coil coupled to an upper frame, and a rotor having a lower frame entirely formed of a metal to cover an outer circumference and a bottom of the stator, a plurality of magnets fitted to an inside wall of the lower frame at fixed intervals opposite to the coil of the stator, and a support member formed as one unit with, and at a central portion of the lower frame coupled to a washing water shaft for transmission of a rotating force of the lower frame to the washing water shaft, thereby permitting smooth heat dissipation and drainage from the motor, and shortening a fabrication process and time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: In Geun Ahn, Dong Beom Lee, Jong Chul Bang