Having Particular Frame- Or Core-mating Feature (e.g., Keyed, Projection/recess) Patents (Class 310/402)
  • Patent number: 11685036
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing and an electric motor supported within the housing. The housing includes a main housing portion that defines a rear opening. The electric motor includes an output shaft supporting a rotor assembly for rotation about a motor axis. The electric motor also includes a stator assembly surrounding the rotor assembly, and a rear end cap. The rear end cap supports a rear motor bearing that rotatably supports the output shaft at a rear end. A portion of the rear end cap resides within the rear opening to close the rear opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventor: Glenn L. Benzing
  • Patent number: 11038387
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a first frame, a second frame, and a fastening member. The stator includes a stator core including a plurality of teeth extending radially inward and an armature winding wound around the teeth. The first frame is arranged to cover one axial end surface side of the stator. The second frame is arranged to cover another axial end surface side of the stator. The fastening member fastens the first frame and the second frame to each other with the stator core held by the first frame and the second frame in the axial direction. The circumference of the stator core and the circumference of at least one of the first frame and the second frame each include a circumferential positioning recess. The circumferential positioning recess is arranged at a circumferential reference position and is outwardly open in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Yamashita, Takafumi Yamano
  • Patent number: 10404111
    Abstract: An electric motor can include a stator positioning device. First and second housing bodies can define a motor cavity. The stator can be disposed about the rotor within the motor cavity. The stator positioning device can include a plurality of contact members, and a plurality of cover members. The contact members can cooperate to form an annular contact ring that is coaxial with an output axis and has a first side and a second side. The first side can be in contact with a first end of the stator core. The cover members can cooperate to form an annular cover ring that is coaxial with the axis and coupled to the second side of the contact ring. The cover ring can include a flange that extends radially outward of the contact ring and is axially between the first and second housing bodies to inhibit axial movement of the cover ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Oetjens, Yogesh Mehta, Wei Li, Jeffrey J. Ronning, Lars Y. Hessman
  • Patent number: 10399427
    Abstract: A hybrid module is configured for arrangement in a torque path upstream from a transmission and downstream from an internal combustion engine. The hybrid module includes a drive unit including an electric motor and a housing, a torque converter connected to the electric motor and a baffle fixed to the housing and the stator. The baffle extends axially from the housing radially outside of the electric motor and the torque converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthew Payne, Nicolas Wurst, John Ramsey
  • Patent number: 10367397
    Abstract: A controller-integrated rotary electric machine in which a controller is coupled to a rotary electric machine main unit using a simple coupling structure while ensuring endurance of the coupling is provided. The controller-integrated rotary electric machine includes: a first housing that houses a controller or a rotary electric machine main unit driven according to a command from the controller and that includes a thin-walled portion at an edge on an outer periphery side; and a second housing that is coaxially aligned with the first housing and has a groove in which an abutting face having a linearly inclined cross-sectional shape is formed from the outer periphery side toward a radial direction, wherein the first housing is joined to the second housing by folding the thin-walled portion of the first housing along the abutting face of the second housing and performing swaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Onishi, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 9935517
    Abstract: A first end contact portion of a first frame end contacts one end surface of a stator core. A second end contact portion of a second frame end contacts the other end surface of the stator core and includes an inner tubular part, which contacts the other end surface of the stator core, and a fixing part, which projects radially outward from the inner tubular part and contacts the other end surface. A through-bolt is threaded into the fixing part. An outer diameter of the one end surface is smaller than an outer diameter of an opposing surface of the first end contact portion. An outer diameter of an opposing surface of the inner tubular part is smaller than an outer diameter of the other end surface. A yoke of the stator core includes a relief groove, into which a portion of the through-bolt is fitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Tateishi
  • Patent number: 9496765
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor supported for rotation about a longitudinal axis, a stator including a magnetic core, a first end plate positioned at a first end of the magnetic core, and a second end plate positioned at a second end of the magnetic core. The magnetic core, first end plate, and second end plate cooperate to define a central opening. The motor also includes a plurality of rods each fixedly attached to the first end plate and the second end plate and including a first end that extends along the longitudinal axis beyond the first end plate and a second end that extends along the longitudinal axis beyond the second end plate. A first support disk is coupled to the first end of each of the rods and a second support disk is coupled to the second end of each of the rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventor: Nengan Zheng
  • Patent number: 9306427
    Abstract: An assembly structure, including an end cover and a shell. The end cover includes a rabbet, a side wall, and an end surface. The shell includes an end part. A plurality of clamping grooves is arranged at a bottom of the rabbet and on the side wall of the end cover. Through holes are arranged above the clamping grooves and on the end surface of the end cover and communicate with the clamping grooves. A plurality of notch grooves is arranged at the end part of the shell. Clamping strips are arranged above the notch grooves and at the end part of the shell. The end cover is installed at the end part of the shell. The clamping strips are embedded in the clamping grooves for allowing the shell and the end cover to be connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fang Chen
  • Patent number: 8896190
    Abstract: An electric apparatus with high performance and high rigidity is provided. Annular positioning stepped portions are formed at respective outer peripheral corner portions of both end portions of a stator core to extend entirely circumferentially of the stator core. An annular positioning projecting portion is formed at a first end bracket to be entirely fitted with one of the annular positioning stepped portions of the stator core. An annular positioning projecting portion is formed at a second end bracket to be entirely fitted with the other annular positioning stepped portion of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Miyahara, Masaaki Oohashi, Hong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8760022
    Abstract: A motor mounting plate, composed of a metallic plate, includes: a disc-shaped plate body having a mounting portion to which a motor is mounted, and at least three flanges formed at a circumferential edge of the plate body, the flanges mounted at predetermined locations, an angle between adjacent flanges around the center of the plate body is 140° to 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Takahashi, Yuzuru Suzuki, Masaki Ogushi
  • Patent number: 8754553
    Abstract: An exemplary voice coil motor includes a base, a stationary magnetic field generator, a moveable magnetic field generator, and a case. The base includes a first surface defining a number of cavities. The stationary magnetic field generator is mounted on the first surface, and includes a supporting frame defining a first receiving space. The moveable magnetic field generator is moveably received in the first receiving space, and includes a core member. The core includes a lower surface. A number of flanges extend downwards from the lower surface, and received in a respective one of the cavities. Each of the flanges includes an end surface that is away from the lower surface. The end surface defines two symmetrical sloped surfaces respectively extending slantingly downward from the middle of the end surface to two opposite sides of the flange. The case receives the stationary magnetic field generator, the moveable magnetic field generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Hung Liao
  • Patent number: 8648518
    Abstract: A power driven component inside a compressor is disposed with a stator and rotors. The stator has an iron core in a circular ring and stator coils in a tightly wound manner. A vertical interval is formed between adjacent stator coils. A cover body is formed on the stator and a shield member that is formed with an upper portion along each stator coil and bending curve portions at two sides of the upper portion. Each bending curve portion is extended toward the interval from the upper portion. A sealed cover portion is connected between the bending curve portions of the upper portion and correspondingly seals each interval to reduce noise of the compressor and oil circulation rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Rechi Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Ho Yu, Fu-Rong Chen, Hung-Ming Liao, Chih-Chung Chen
  • Publication number: 20130026887
    Abstract: An electric apparatus with high performance and high rigidity is provided. Annular positioning stepped portions are formed at respective outer peripheral corner portions of both end portions of a stator core to extend entirely circumferentially of the stator core. An annular positioning projecting portion is formed at a first end bracket to be entirely fitted with one of the annular positioning stepped portions of the stator core. An annular positioning projecting portion is formed at a second end bracket to be entirely fitted with the other annular positioning stepped portion of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Miyahara, Masaaki Oohashi, Hong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8299690
    Abstract: The invention provides a rotating electrical machine provided with stable rotation characteristics for enabling each core to be reliably fixed in arranging a plurality of cores annularly around the rotor even when the dimensional error occurs in manufacturing accuracy of each core, causing each division core itself to enhance the cooling property, and resolving instability of magnetic reluctance between division cores, where the rotating electrical machine has a plurality of stator cores obtained by laminating electromagnetic steel plates, winding coils wound around the stator cores via insulators, a pair of first and second bracket members that hold the plurality of stator cores from the front and back in the rotary shaft direction of the magnet rotor, and a fastening member that couples the first and second bracket members, in the first bracket member is formed a first contact surface for striking one end face of each of the stator cores to regulate so as to arrange the plurality of stator cores annularly,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiko Hayakawa, Tokuro Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 8278803
    Abstract: A motor is provided with a set of end cap guides on the ends of a stator winding assembly to pilot the placement of end caps into the correct placement relative to the stator winding assembly so that the rotor assembly is maintained concentric with the stator. The end cap guides may be rings fitting within the winding insulators on the ends of the stator stack or may be integrated as guide segments with the winding insulators to outline an interrupted cylindrical inner surface coinciding with the inner diameter of the stator winding assembly. The guides allow proper positioning of the rotor assembly without increasing the stator stack length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Lin Engineering
    Inventors: Ted T. Lin, Richard L. Badgerow
  • Publication number: 20110037352
    Abstract: A motor is provided with a set of end cap guides on the ends of a stator winding assembly to plot the placement of end caps into the correct placement relative to the stator winding assembly so that the rotor assembly is maintained concentric with the stator. The end cap guides may be rings fitting within the winding insulators on the ends of the stator stack or may be integrated as guide segments with the winding insulators to outline an interrupted cylindrical inner surface coinciding with the inner diameter of the stator winding assembly. The guides allow proper positioning of the rotor assembly without increasing the stator stack length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: LIN ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Ted T. Lin, Richard L. Badgerow
  • Patent number: 7839038
    Abstract: A cooling module 67 includes a motor assembly 42 having a motor case 24 having at least one open end and including mounting brackets 30 integral therewith. Each bracket has only a bottom portion 32 connected with the motor case. An armature assembly is disposed in the motor case and includes a rotatable shaft 46. A brush card assembly 56 is associated with the armature assembly, and an end cap 60 is disposed over the brush card assembly and partially covers the open end of the motor case and thereby defining a non end cap covered motor portion 63. A fan 64 is coupled to an end of the shaft and has a hub substantially covering one end of the motor assembly. A shroud 74 has a motor cover 76. Fastening structure 78 is associated with the shroud and engaged with the brackets thereby mounting the motor assembly to the shroud, with the motor cover substantially covering the end cap and the non end cap covered motor portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Attila Simofi-Ilyes, Stefan Zenon Smorowski, Andrew Lakerdas, Paul Stephen McLennan, Ovidius Turcanu
  • Publication number: 20100019588
    Abstract: In the rotating electric machine of the present invention, a groove, in which a load side coil end is inserted, is formed on a load side bracket; a ceramic coat is formed on the inner surface of the groove; and one or more surfaces including at least the end surface of the load side coil end among the inner circumferential surface, outer circumferential surface, and end surface of the load side coil end adhere closely to the inner surface of the groove, in which the coat is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Shogo MAKINO, Tuyoshi NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20090302701
    Abstract: A rolled pole housing for an electric motor includes a sealed enclosure formed by a frame body, a flange and an end cap. Therefore, the rolled pole housing may be used in both sealed and unsealed applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Irfan A. Bhatti, Mark K. Besenti