Banding Patents (Class 310/271)
  • Patent number: 5900689
    Abstract: In a binding (19) for winding overhangs (20) of rotors (1) of electric machines, essentially comprising a plastic matrix with fibrous material embedded therein, the binding (19) is formed by winding a fiber tape (15) onto the winding overhang (20). The plastic matrix is composed of a thermoplastic. Furthermore, a method is described for applying the fiber tape to the winding overhang of an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Werner Heil, Vishal Mallick, Fran.cedilla.ois Meynard, Karl Parfrey, Herbert Prenner
  • Patent number: 5892313
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a rotor for an electrical machine comprises a first pole piece and a second pole piece together defining an axis of rotation of the rotor, each pole piece comprising a generally disc-shaped body having a circumference. Each pole piece further has a plurality of angularly-spaced pole fingers extending axially from the circumference of the body of the pole piece. The rotor additionally includes a plurality of permanent magnets, each permanent magnet affixed to a body of a pole piece between two pole fingers of the pole piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Richard Kenneth Harris, Michael Timothy York
  • Patent number: 5883456
    Abstract: A method for repairing stress-induced cracks in a generator rotor keyway is disclosed. The method comprises disassembling the retaining ring and ring key from the rotor, and machining away the crack and surrounding rotor metal from the rotor keyway. The machining step may be performed in a lathe or milling machine. This method diminishes the labor cost, equipment cost, and down time required for crack repairs because the slot contents may remain in the slots during the entire repair process. A spacer ring and an enlarged key that may be inserted into the machined, enlarged keyway are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: William Cannon Gardner, Stephen Thomas Soto
  • Patent number: 5861698
    Abstract: A generator rotor that reduces friction force transmitted to rotor teeth by a retaining ring is disclosed. The friction force is caused by end windings pushing longitudinally outward against the retaining ring when the windings heat up during operation of the rotor. A ring key diminishes the friction force transmitted to a rotor teeth region by transmitting more of the friction force to a rotor pole region. The present invention accomplishes this reduction in transmission by either forming a gap between the ring key and the teeth regions, by producing only light contact between the ring key and the teeth regions, by the ring key being formed of a lower stiffness material in the areas in which it contacts the teeth regions, or by a combination of the above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Murphy
  • Patent number: 5801470
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft; a permanent magnet layer; and a retainer comprising a conductive, low magnetic permeability material bound to the rotor shaft. The permanent magnet layer is semi-restricted between the shaft and the retainer. In one embodiment, the magnet layer includes a molded ring magnet. In another embodiment, the magnet layer includes a plurality of magnet segments which can be situated on the rotor in rotor pockets or in a rotor cage. The bond between the retainer and the rotor can be enabled by a cap or by support elements. A high conductivity material can be situated over the retainer with the combination of the retainer and the high conductivity material having a resistivity high enough to minimize space harmonic losses and low enough to minimize time harmonic losses. The high conductivity material can also be applied to induction rotors for excluding high frequency components while permitting penetration of low frequency torque producing fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Roger Neal Johnson, Gerald Burt Kliman, Yuefeng Liao, Wen Liang Soong
  • Patent number: 5798593
    Abstract: An induction motor includes a stator defining stator inner and stator outer diameters extending about a longitudinal axis, the stator includes a plurality of windings extending longitudinally and circumferentially about the longitudinal axis between the stator inner diameter and the stator outer diameter, passing an electric current therethrough to create a magnetic field, a rotor extending along the longitudinal axis having a rotor length and a rotor outer diameter less than the stator inner diameter, the rotor being rotatable about the longitudinal axis relative to the stator in response to the magnetic field, the rotor including a hoop portion disposed adjacent the rotor outer diameter and extending radially inwardly toward the longitudinal axis, the hoop portion being a solid unitary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: SatCon Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard T. Salter, II, James L. Kirtley, Jr., Gita P. Rao, Dariusz A. Bushko, Gary Colello
  • Patent number: 5796190
    Abstract: Disclosed is an engine-driven welding generator using a plurality of neodymium-iron-boron based rare earth magnets and provided with countermeasures for suppressing a rise in temperature of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Denyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Takeda, Yasumasa Mizuno, Shunichi Tetsui, Hirotaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5736804
    Abstract: A reinforcement ring (10) for rotating bodies, for example commutators, comprises at least one metal ring (12) having a rectangular cross-section and a fiberglass ring (14) having a rectangular cross-section, the metal ring and the fiberglass ring both being connected at their end faces to form a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Comtrade Handelsgesellschaft MBH
    Inventors: Joze Potocnik, Ivan Cerin, Boris Krzisnik
  • Patent number: 5731651
    Abstract: A motor rotor for use in a grinder or other electromotive tool in which a motor winding is prevented from being damaged by collisions with particles. The motor rotor is composed of a core having sixteen teeth extending radially relative to a rotation shaft and slots formed among the teeth, a coil of winding wound around the slots, and wedge members for covering the slots. Felt strip members are wound around the parts of the coil exposed at both ends of the core before the exposed parts are impregnated with varnish. Varnish also permeates the strip members, and the strip members are firmly adhered to the exposed parts of the coil. After the varnish dries, the strip members fix themselves and are provided with a strength equal to that of plastic. The ribs provided by the strip members act as fins blowing away any particles, thereby protecting the coil from damage from the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventor: Kouki Hyodo
  • Patent number: 5726516
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for a reluctance machine is disclosed in which the rotor assembly comprises a stack of rotor laminations having a plurality of rotor poles defining interpole regions. The rotor assembly also comprises a cage including an end plate and support bars, which may be electrically conductive, that are axially aligned within the interpolar regions that lie between adjacent rotor poles. When the support bars are electrically conductive, the support bars can become transient "flux blockers" as the rotor assembly rotates past a stator pole, blocking the flow of flux through the interpole regions and improving the performance of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Switched Reluctance Drives, Ltd.
    Inventor: Steven P. Randall
  • Patent number: 5705875
    Abstract: In an electrodynamic apparatus, a method of securing a coil basket of the type that includes a plurality of top coils and a plurality of bottom coils to a bracing assembly that includes a plurality of support braces includes steps of banding the top coil, the bottom coil and the support brace to each other; positioning a number of inflatable bladders, respectively, between the top coils and the bottom coils in the location of the bandings; and simultaneously inflating the bladders to a predetermined pressure that is sufficient to tension the bandings to a predetermined force, whereby forces that are transmitted to the coil basket from such inflation are imparted evenly throughout the coil basket and at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Joseph Konrad, David Norwood Dorsey, John Barry Sargeant
  • Patent number: 5581870
    Abstract: The apparatus includes a stand for mounting a mandrel against rotation and a winding assembly for disposition within the mandrel. The mandrel has a slot for receiving a flat sheet through a side wall of the mandrel. A clamping mechanism on the winding assembly clamps the leading edge to the winding assembly within the mandrel. By winding the assembly, the flat sheet is drawn into the mandrel and formed into an arcuate configuration. The mandrel with curved sheet is removed from the stand and disposed in an oven for setting the plastic material in the curved configuration whereby the flat sheet is preformed into a radius approximating the radius of the rotational part about which the insulation will be installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Laskey, William P. Dobbins
  • Patent number: 5563463
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotor for an electronically commutated motor (ECM) has a core, a plurality of magnetizable elements spaced around the core, and a thin-walled retaining shell which has been stretched around the core and magnetizable elements to hold the elements in position. The rotor is made by an inventive method which involves axially aligning the core and surrounding magnetizable elements with the retaining shell, and cold-pressing the retaining shell over the core and elements to sandwich the elements between the shell and core. The core and magnetizable elements serve as a mandrel about which the shell is reformed in a cold working operation. Other aspects of the invention include the fixturing apparatus used to align the core and magnetizable elements with the retaining shell, and apparatus which is used to evenly space the magnetizable elements around the core and hold the elements in position during at least a portion of the cold-pressing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: William H. Stark
  • Patent number: 5525852
    Abstract: A stator core for an electromagnetic pump includes a plurality of circumferentially adjoining groups of flat laminations disposed about a common centerline axis and collectively defining a central bore and a discontinuous outer perimeter, with adjacent groups diverging radially outwardly to form V-shaped gaps. An annular band surrounds the groups and is predeterminedly tensioned to clamp together the laminations, and has a predetermined flexibility in a radial direction to form substantially straight bridge sections between the adjacent groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alan W. Fanning, Aaron A. Gonzales, Mahadeo R. Patel, Eugene E. Olich
  • Patent number: 5504382
    Abstract: An alternator, or the like including a stator assembly and a rotor assembly within the stator assembly, wherein the stator assembly includes a pair of axially spaced core sections with a stationary field coil located therebetween. The field coil is formed of convolutions extending circumferentially about the axis of the device. The rotor assembly has a homopolar core with a pair of axially spaced pole sections in locations corresponding to the respective stator core sections. A central yoke portion extends between the two pole sections and is axially aligned within the field coil. A plurality of permanent magnets are mounted circumferentially on each of the pole sections at symmetrically spaced locations between pole sectors of the respective section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Inventors: Michael J. Douglass, Scot A. Webb
  • Patent number: 5486730
    Abstract: Past methods and apparatus for manufacturing a rotor assembly have been used to provide rotor assemblies for rotating electric machines. Many of these electric machines rotate at low speeds. The present method and apparatus for manufacturing a rotor assembly can be used to make a rotor assembly to be used at high speeds. The rotor assembly includes a shaft having a frustoconical mounting surface defined thereon and having a plurality of magnets attached to the frustoconical mounting surface. A cover having a frustoconical inner surface surrounds the magnets and compressively secures the magnets to the shaft. The compressive forces applied by the cover and the adhesive used to secure the magnets insuring that a positive contact pressure exists between the magnets and the shaft during operation of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: George A. Ludwig, David G. Teraji
  • Patent number: 5485045
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a rotor for permanent magnet-excited electric machines, on the circumferential surface of which permanent magnets are arranged, and fillers made of a nonmagnetic material are arranged between them, wherein the surface of the permanent magnets and fillers on the whole are made slightly conical and are covered by a separately manufactured binding under prestress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Anton Piller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolf-Ruediger Canders, Joachim Heldt, Norbert Zellmann
  • Patent number: 5436520
    Abstract: When mounting the winding ends of a stator winding in a dynamo, at least an outer ring of synthetic resin saturated cord ring is wound in multiple windings on the winding ends in its plastically deformable state. The synthetic resin does not harden until after the cord ring is affixed. The outer ring is adapted to be installed in the cramped winding head space and is especially suitable for retrofitting purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: ABB Management AG
    Inventor: Albert Huber
  • Patent number: 5432391
    Abstract: Conformable distance blocks assemblies (24, 26) are provided for spacing adjacent end windings (20, 22) in a dynamoelectric machine. Each block assembly includes a pair of relatively hard blocks (28, 38) straddling a deformable spacer (32). The blocks and spacer are wrapped with an electrically insulating tape (34, 48) having an adhesive along an interior face for maintaining the blocks and spacer in assembled condition with a tab (36, 50) on the end of the tape. Generally rectilinear blocks (28) are employed for axial distance block assemblies, while the circumferential block assembly is comprised of tapered blocks (38) forming a wedge assembly. In installation, the assemblies are disposed between adjacent end windings, resiliently deforming the spacer, the tab being adhesively secured to the outermost lamination of the end windings. The spacer is also impregnated with a resin such that, upon curing, a rigid distance block assembly is provided to maintain adjacent end windings spaced from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ronald J. Zawoysky
  • Patent number: 5373211
    Abstract: A support assembly for the end windings of a turbine generator includes a plurality of braces which are spaced apart around the circumference of the winding basket and which are mechanically connected to support rings disposed around the stator coils. The support assembly is decoupled from the stator core such that the end windings and end winding support structure float freely of the stator core during normal generator operating conditions. During abnormal short circuit operating conditions, the support assembly contacts brackets on the stator core such that the end windings are slidably engaged upon and supported by the stator core. Radial clamps tightly secure the top and bottom coils to the end winding support assembly to apply radial compressive load to the coils to prevent radial displacement of the coils and to maintain the end winding-end winding support structure as a monolithic structure capable of withstanding abnormal operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Lorenzo E. Ramirez-Coronel, Charles M. Rowe, Charles L. Senic, James J. Krizek, Felix M. Detinko
  • Patent number: 5371426
    Abstract: A rotor (31) of a brushless motor includes a rotary shaft (32), a main yoke (33) fitted over the rotary shaft, two magnetic pole heads (34a, 34b) radially projecting from the main yoke, two permanent magnets (36a, 36b) provided on the yoke between the magnetic pole heads such that the magnetic poles of identical polarity face each other across the rotary shaft, two auxiliary yokes (38a, 38b) mounted on the permanent magnets, and a cylindrical sleeve (40) made of a non-magnetic material provided on the outer circumferential surface of the magnetic pole heads and the auxiliary yokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nagate, Kenichi Endo, Yoshikazu Koike, Takeshi Seto, Yoshihiko Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 5355046
    Abstract: A stator end-winding system is proposed in which the bars of the winding are bent outwards and describe a hollow cone. The supporting proceeds by a wedge-like braced inside ring, a segmented outside ring and supports which also have a wedging effect. The bracing of the inside ring and outside ring is made by tie rods, the outside ring is azimuthally tensionable. Therefore, it can be placed over mentioned cone described by the bars without the necessity of disassembling the stator end-winding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Inventor: Klaus Weigelt
  • Patent number: 5352948
    Abstract: The armature (1) for high-speed electric motors force-ventilated in air containing abrasive dust, in particular in electric tools including right angle grinders, has windings which are laid in slots (7) of an armature laminate stack (5), and are held down in the slots (7) by elongated, elastic slot seals (15), and forth winding overhangs (9, 11) on the end faces of the armature. To increase the strength of the armature winding, the resistance to cooling air containing abrasive dust, and to improve the cooling, the slot seals (15) project over the slots (7), follow the contour of the winding overhangs (9, 11), in particular along surface lines, in the armature longitudinal direction, extend up to the end faces of the armature (1), and their ends are secured there by a ring (19) or cord winding (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Kirn, Werner Grammer, Gerhard Kraemer, Meinhard Eule
  • Patent number: 5300845
    Abstract: A stator core for an electromagnetic pump includes a plurality of circumferentially adjoining groups of flat laminations disposed about a common centerline axis and collectively defining a central bore and a discontinuous outer perimeter, with adjacent groups diverging radially outwardly to form V-shaped gaps. An annular band surrounds the groups and is predeterminedly tensioned to clamp together the laminations, and has a predetermined flexibility in a radial direction to form substantially straight bridge sections between the adjacent groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alan W. Fanning, Aaron A. Gonzales, Mahadeo R. Patel, Eugene E. Olich
  • Patent number: 5298824
    Abstract: A covering for electrical machines has at least one film which is placed around a pole housing and around parts attached to the pole housing and which is permanently shrunk onto the pole housing and the parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Franz
  • Patent number: 5216309
    Abstract: Dynamoelectric machines are disclosed that are characterized by lengthened ground potential leakage current paths, desirable mechanical conformations, mechanical integrity when subjected to expected centrifugal forces, and ease of manufacture. One process involves establishing an extended or elongated path for commutator leakage currents with a path extending structure, establishing a cantilevered insulation skirt about the in-board or armature coil end of a commutator, and securely fastening such skirt to the commutator. The material utilized in making the skirt is one: that has electrical properties that permit it to withstand leakage currents without tracking; that for practical purposes is non-burnable, so as to resist flashovers or sparking; and that has the ability to withstand elevated temperatures that are encountered within dynamoelectric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Roy L. Balke, Joseph E. Jack
  • Patent number: 5174011
    Abstract: A method of repairing the rotor showing tooth top cracking of a turbogenerator, wherein after removal of the rotor from the stator and of the existing retaining rings, the winding is protected with suitable cover materials, including sealing the whole with parafine, the entire shrink fit area is dry machined to an optimized geometry, the machined area is deburred, and after removal of the burrs and the covering and sealing material new retaining rings are fitted. The main advantage is the possibility to carry out the method on site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Inventor: Klaus Weigelt
  • Patent number: 5170085
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary machine with permanent magnets includes an iron core member, permanent magnets, each having an arcuate cross section and arranged on an outer periphery of the iron core member, and a non-magnetic metallic pipe applied, under pressure, over outer peripheries of arcuate magnets. Each of the arcuate magnets is formed with chamfering on one end portion on its outer circumferential face in an axial direction, and the chamfering is small at its central portion, and becomes larger towards opposite sides in a widthwise direction of the arcuate magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Shinto
  • Patent number: 5162685
    Abstract: A revolving-flux type motor is provided with a stator including a coil wound around an iron core and a rotor including permanent magnets fixed to an iron core. The permanent magnets of the rotor have peripheries which form a circle as a whole when fixed to the iron core and bottoms of which configurations are determined to form a flux density distribution of a sinusoidal waveform at a gap between the stator and the rotor. The iron core of the rotor has an outer peripheral configuration which allows face-contact with the bottoms of the permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamaguchi, Yutaka Hotta
  • Patent number: 5159220
    Abstract: A rotor assembly for an internal permanent magnet rotor comprises a plurality of interior laminations stacked to form a substantially continuous internal core and a plurality of external laminations stacked to form a substantially continuous external core. A plurality of permanent magnets are positioned between the internal and external cores and folded in the radial plane so as to form a substantially W-shaped arrangement. The magnets may be placed in slots formed through the stacked laminations between the internal and external core sections or the internal and external core sections may be formed as two separate units with the magnets sandwiched therebetween. The core laminations may be strengthened by using nonmagnetic inserts in selected positions which can be welded to the magnetic portions of the laminations. The outer core portion, when separate from the inner core portion, may be held against the inner core portion by bolts through the outer core portion or by a sleeve around the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Gerald B. Kliman
  • Patent number: 5128575
    Abstract: An electric machine (2) comprising a first functional part (4) with a permanently magnetic excitation system (12) and a second functional part (6) with a conductor system (10), the first functional part (4) and the second functional part (6) being movable relative to each other along the active area (24) of an air gap. The first functional part (4) comprises--as seen progressively in the direction of relative movement (32)--an alternating sequence of permanent magnets (12) magnetized in the direction of relative movement (32), and of magnetically conductive material portions (14). The magnetically conductive material portions (14) each have--facing the active area (24)--a magnetic flux outlet area (22) which is smaller than the sum of the magnetic flux cross-sectional areas (21) of the two adjacent permanent magnets (12), so that the magnetic flux of the permanent magnets (12) is concentrated for the active area (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Heidelberg Motor Gesellschaft fur Energiekonverter mbH
    Inventors: Gotz Heidelberg, Peter Ehrhart, Andreas Grundl
  • Patent number: 5122704
    Abstract: Leakage of a coolant into the air gap (16) of a dynamoelectric machine so as to cause undesirable windage losses may be avoided through the use of a composite rotor sleeve (44) including a continuous film (46) of polyimide material on its radially inner surface and surrounding the machine rotor (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Blakeley, Clarence F. Dolan, Walter Iseman
  • Patent number: 5083052
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine such as a motor has a rotor having a plurality of poles, a stator having a plurality of poles confronting the poles of the rotor in a radial direction, and a casing, for the rotor, having a cylindrical portion which extends in an axial direction. A permanent magnet composed of a mixed material of magnetic powder and a binder being a thermosetting resin constitutes the poles of the rotor. The permanent magnet, which is ring-shaped, is mounted in the casing along an inner circumference of the cylindrical portion of the casing in a circumferential direction. A yoke member is mounted around an outer circumference of the cylindrical portion of the casing, and a plurality of openings penetrate the cylindrical portion and the yoke member at the same time. The permanent magnet has a plurality of projections monolithically formed on its outer circumference. The projections are fitted in the respective openings in the yoke member and cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Joji Ochi
  • Patent number: 4930201
    Abstract: In an electric motor having a plurality of magnets bonded to a rotor hub, a composite sleeve is disposed over the rotor hub and magnets. The composite sleeve may be wound directly upon the rotor hub, or the composite sleeve may be wound upon a mandrel and slid over the rotor hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Kollmorgen Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald W. Brown
  • Patent number: 4912354
    Abstract: A retaining ring system for a rotating electrical device such as a generator, motor, or condenser, including an auxiliary ring adapted to be removably mounted around the end portion of the rotor of the rotating electrical device bridging the rotor winding slots, and a retaining ring removably mounted around the first ring. The retaining ring supports the amortisseur and the field end windings of the rotating electrical device. An external first taper defined by the auxiliary ring and an internal second taper defined by the retaining ring provide mating, continuous first and second tapered surfaces. The assembly process is begun by sliding or jacking the auxiliary ring onto the rotor. A high pressure feed fluid line defined in the auxiliary ring includes an inlet port and an outlet port opening at a circumferential groove between the mating first and second tapered surfaces between O-ring seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Joseph J. Frank
  • Patent number: 4879485
    Abstract: It comprises a cylinder (2) forming the rotor body, extended on each side by the shaft (1), and eight curved permanent magnets (3A to 3H) disposed on the cylindrical surface of the rotor body (2). The magnets (3A to 3H) are secured by adhesive bonding to the rotor (2) and because of their shape leave between them, in the axial direction, V-shaped interstices (a to h). A thread (5) of carbon fibers passes in succession in each of the interstices (a to h) a plurality of times, applying compression forces to the inclined faces of the magnets (3A to 3H), which are thus firmly held against the rotor. The interstices are then filled with a resin to obtain a continuous cylindrical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: Mavilor Systemes S.A.
    Inventor: Giampiero Tassinario
  • Patent number: 4855630
    Abstract: A rotor structure for a dynamoelectric machine including a magnetic core having a cylindrical outer surface. Equicircumferentially spaced permanent magnets are secured to the face of the core with gaps therebetween on diametrically opposite locations of the core. The outer surfaces of the magnets define a cylindrical surface. A retention band encircles the magnets. The band has a width substantially less than the width of the magnets including opposite ends overlapped and aligned with a securement gap. The core has a first hole aligned with the securement gap. A securement unit has a seat engaging the overlapping ends and a stem in the core hole to lock the band in holding engagement. The head is located within the cylindrical surface. A second hole is diametrically spaced from the first hole and aligned with a second gap. The second hole is formed to balance the rotor and may also receive a second securement unit to establish the band tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: A. O. Smith Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Cole
  • Patent number: 4833354
    Abstract: An oil-filled, high temperature, submergible electric pump motor comprises an unvarnished stator structure having stator windings formed of conductors coated with hydrolytically stable, oil-resistant, and abrasion-resistant insulation exposed to the oil of the motor, and preferably selected from the group consisting PEEK, PEK, and PBI. The stator windings have end turns mounted on rigid, hydrolytically stable, oil-resistant electrically insulating blocks that support the weight of the stator windings and immobilize the end turns. The end turns are attached to the blocks by hydrolytically stable, oil-resistant electrically insulating tape. Other components of the insulation system are selected for their hydrolytic stability and oil resistance, and in some instances for their non-abrasive properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventor: Cynthia S. Miller
  • Patent number: 4800314
    Abstract: A coil support arrangement for use in connection with a dynamoelectric machine equipped with a stator having top and bottom winding coil end portions arranged in phase groups and extending outwardly from the stator at each end thereof. The support arrangement consists of a support ring encircling the bottom winding coil end portions, blocking means providing lateral support for the coil end portions to restrain vibrational movement of the latter during machine operation and a series of bands for holding the coil end portions of the phase group, the related blocking means and the support ring together, with the blocking means disposed in axial alignment with the ring to thereby present a single blocked and banded, elongated phase group structure which extends circumferentially around the inside of the ring. The blocking means consists of a plurality of individual block elements which extend the full radial depth of the phase group structure to provide deep beam strength characteristics to the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Robert T. Ward, John M. Butler
  • Patent number: 4746827
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor including an iron core having collar portions at both end portions thereof, and a magnet placed on the outer periphery of said iron core. The magnet is held at both end portions thereof between the collar portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Izumi Ochiai, Hideo Hashida, Yoshio Asahino, Nobuhiko Yokota
  • Patent number: 4729160
    Abstract: In an electric motor having a plurality of magnets bonded to a rotor hub, a composite sleeve is disposed over the rotor hub and magnets. The composite sleeve may be wound directly upon the rotor hub, or the composite sleeve may be wound upon a mandrel and slid over the rotor hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Kollmorgen Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald W. Brown
  • Patent number: 4661183
    Abstract: A method for forming annular bands to be used on rotors of electrodynamic machines for retaining windings on the rotors against centrifugal forces generated by rotation comprises winding a continuous single strand, ideally a single filament, of resinated reinforcing material onto a mandrel to form at least one, substantially continuous layer of the resinated reinforcing material along the mandrel, which layer of reinforcing material is cured to form a solidified cylindrical body, removed from the mandrel and circumferentially cut to form the annular bands. The annular bands are then pressed onto the rotor of an electrodynamic machine, with the resulting banded portions of the rotor preferably being resinated and cured to secure the bands to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: Vernay Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis J. Beard
  • Patent number: 4629920
    Abstract: In an alternating current synchronous servomotor, a disk-shaped rotor (20) is arranged between two stator halves having each a coil with leads extending in the radial direction. The rotor (20) comprises an even number of flat permanent magnets (57) forming an annular series around a hub (55) and of which the flat sides form the north and south poles (N,S) alternating in the series. The circonference of the hub (55) presents planar surfaces (55A) separated by edges (55B). A planar delimitation surface (57A) of one of the permanent magnets (57) bears on each of said peripheral surfaces (55A). A bandage (66) surrounding the delimitation surfaces (57B) of all the permanent magnets (57), which are radially directed to the outside, secures the latter to the hub (55) and connects them by means of the planar surfaces (55A, 57A), mechanically to the hub against rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Mavilor Systeme SA
    Inventor: Jaun Hermann
  • Patent number: 4433261
    Abstract: This invention concerns an improvement for the structure of a rotor attachment in a permanent magnet type synchronous motor. This invention can effectively prevent axial displacement or peeling off of the magnets which might otherwise be caused by insufficient adhesion or deterioration of adhesives by the unique structure of attaching magnets to the rotor shaft as side plates having grooves are fixed to both sides of magnets adhered to a shaft to engage with at least one end face of magnets and the outer peripheries of the side plates and the magnets are wound with non-magnetic fibers for securing, thereby greatly enhancing the reliability of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Okuma Tekkosho
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Yoshio Hamada
  • Patent number: 4380713
    Abstract: The winding bars (12) are fixed to the body (20) of teeth (14, 16) whose feet (18) form a dovetail engaged in the stator magnetic circuit (2), the mechanical strength of these teeth being due to the fact that they are constituted by layers of sheathing fabric coated with resin completely wrapped about the foot, body and head of the core of each of the teeth and forming a casing (46). Wedges (28) are driven in radially on the side walls of the teeth whose thickness is substantially constant around a core (40) whose form defines that of the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignees: Alsthom-Atlantique, Electricite de France
    Inventors: Gillet Roger, Nithart Henri
  • Patent number: 4379243
    Abstract: An end turn support structure is disclosed which permits it to be constructed with varying, preselected coefficients of expansion along its length. This characteristic allows it to expand in a similar manner to the end turns which it supports. This structure also comprises conformable members and external support apparatus that provide a means for firmly attaching the end turns to the support structure and the support structure to the stator frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: George F. Dailey, Charles R. Ruffing, Leonard B. Simmonds
  • Patent number: 4377764
    Abstract: An improved end winding support system for "P" bars is disclosed wherein each "P" bar extends axially from one end of a stator slot of the stator core of a dynamoelectric machine which has an integral excitation system. The support system includes means for affixing each of the "P" bars to stator bars at three different locations in the end winding region and especially in such a manner that the inner section close to the stator core includes a slip plane capable of accommodating relatively small differential thermal expansion displacements in the axial direction between the "P" bar and the stator bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas R. Butman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4331897
    Abstract: A commutator apparatus for rotary electric machines comprises a plurality of commutator segments mounted side by side on a rotary shaft through an insulating ring along the periphery thereof, an armature winding wound on a rotor core and including a plurality of coil ends projected axially from the rotor core, and a plurality of risers made of a conductor, one end of each thereof being connected to one axial end of the corresponding commutator segments, the other end of the riser being securely connected to one end of the corresponding armature coil. Each pair of adjacent risers are bound by an insulating binder to reduce the space therebetween, thus forming a substantially delta-shaped space defined by the adjacent risers on each side of said binder. The vibrations of the risers are thus absorbed and the vibratory stress of the risers is reduced, thus improving the mechanical strength and reliability of the commutator apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sonobe, Mitsuhiro Nitobe, Shinzi Saruwatari, Sueo Kawai, Toshio Hattori
  • Patent number: 4297606
    Abstract: Method of bracing winding end turns of an electric machine includes wrapping a first binding tape transversely around a pair of winding bars forming the end turns and disposed spaced from and substantially parallel to one another, wrapping a second binding tape transversely about the wrapped first binding tape in the space between the pair of winding bars so that the wrapped first and second binding tapes and the mutually opposing surfaces of the parallel winding bars define an inner space within, and injecting a flowable, cold hardenable cement mass into the inner space, and introducing into the space between the winding bars at the location of the inner space subsequently defined by the wrapped first and second binding tapes and the winding bars, and before injecting the cement mass into the inner space, a spacer member defining and predetermining the spacing between the pair of winding bars and having a shape that affords penetration of the cement mass from a given point of injection to all of the spaces a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Arnold Wichmann
  • Patent number: 4237398
    Abstract: According to the invention, the stator of an electrical machine comprises a slotted core and a multilayer bar winding partially received in the core slots and partially accommodated in the air gap of the electrical machine. Interposed between the bars of the multilayer bar winding are spacers whose slots accommodate brace members enveloping each of the bars of the multilayer bar winding on its opposite sides. Each of the brace members is attched to two rollers, one of which is secured in a spring clip received in an axial slot of the stator core, and the other of which is accommodated in a threaded pin received, in turn, in a hole provided in an insulating wedge member. The invention improves the maintainability of the electrical machine, making it as easy to maintain as any conventional slotted machine. The invention also improves the space factor of the electrical machine's air gap and accounts for a better fastening of the multilayer bar winding of the machine's stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Inventors: Alexandr A. Chigirinsky, Vladimir G. Danko, Nikolai G. Grinchenko, Ivan Y. Cheremisov, Roman I. Tretevich, Galina V. Penkina