Molded Plastic Patents (Class 310/43)
  • Patent number: 7800276
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for a rotor assembly and an electric motor. One embodiment for a rotor assembly includes a first rotor including a first interface surface and a second rotor including a second interface surface corresponding to the first interface surface. Also, the first rotor is positioned with the first interface surface in direct physical contact with the second interface surface of the second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Kurz-Kasch, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen H. Purvines
  • Publication number: 20100225182
    Abstract: A fan casing, webs, and a motor casing are integrally formed of a resin material by injection molding to configure a fan housing. An electrically grounded electromagnetic noise guard and a bearing holder to which an outer race of a ball bearing are electrically connected by an electrically-conducting path member provided in the fan casing by means of insert molding. Thus, the ball bearing may sufficiently be prevented from suffering electric corrosion in an electric fan of which a fan housing is made of an insulating resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Wada, Michinori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100226803
    Abstract: A pump is driven by a compact electric motor in which a coil is disposed in a ring form around and along a stator core which has a plurality of claw magnetic poles that extend alternately from both ends of one member of the stator core toward the end of the other member thereof. A stator core can be made from a compressed powder core by molding with resin, with the molded portion able to serve as a partition separating pump and motor units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio TAJIMA, Masashi Kitamura, Yuji Enomoto, Yuji Nomoto, Kenya Takarai
  • Publication number: 20100225181
    Abstract: An injection-molded stator has a stator core, a coil winding having a head, an end insulating plate having a first groove, and a connector. The end insulating plate is disposed on one end of the stator core, the connector is formed by the head of the coil winding and a power lead electrically connected to each other, and the connector is fixed in the first groove via sealant. The connector is conveniently installed, firmly fixed, orderly distributed and not easily corroded or oxidized, and features simple processing and good sealing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7786632
    Abstract: A terminal device for a vehicle AC generator including a common base terminal group 100A1 having a plurality of terminals and an external connector terminal 200A1 formed by integrating a plurality of individual connector terminals having connecting terminals with respect to the external device at one ends thereof and having connecting terminal portions to be connected to a regulator circuit at the other ends thereof by premolding with respect to each other, in which the external connector terminal is arranged at predetermined positions of the common base terminal group, and the common base terminal group and the external connector terminal are integrally mold-formed with resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Oohashi
  • Patent number: 7786635
    Abstract: A motor that includes a motor frame, an end-bell assembly, a stator assembly, and filling material is described. The stator assembly is placed within the frame such that at least one open area is defined between an inner diameter of the stator assembly and an inner diameter of the motor frame. The at least one end-bell assembly is attached to the motor frame, forming an inside area adjacent the motor frame and the stator assembly. The motor also includes a material configured to fill the at least one open area and the inside area of the at least one end-bell assembly for the purpose of sealing the stator assembly and the inside area associated with the at least one end-bell assembly. The material assists in a bonding and attachment between any two or more of the stator assembly, the motor frame, and the at least one end-bell assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Regal Beloit Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Gasser, Wesley K. Anderson, Steven Stretz, Jason Kreidler
  • Patent number: 7781923
    Abstract: In an AC generator for a vehicle, an end cover has two types of parts, one-type part is away from a rib part in a positive cooling fin, and the other-type part is close to the rib part. The rib part projects toward the end cover side. The one-type part is thinner than the other-type part in the end cover in order to reduce the variation of thermal expansion in each part of the end cover. This configuration increases anti-thermal fatigue of the end cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Koumura, Yoshiki Tan, Akihito Koike
  • Patent number: 7777372
    Abstract: An electric motor designed for electric tools. The motor includes a first molded coil having a first coil covered entirely with a resin that is electrically insulating and highly heat conductive. The motor also includes a second molded coil having a second coil covered entirely with the resin. The first molded coil has a pair of first axial portions, and the second molded coil has a pair of second axial portions in alignment with the first axial portions. A stator core disposed around the molded coils includes a first stator core and a second stator core with first stator core legs and second stator core legs, respectively. Air paths through which fan airflow passes are formed between the axial portions and the opposing stator core legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Shinichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7772741
    Abstract: A wind turbine generator produces alternating current. The generator contains an inner cylindrical stator and an outer cylindrical rotating housing. The stator has a transverse row of molded magnetic flux members mounted on its exterior wall and a metal conductor running through a continuous transverse channel defined by the flux members. The rotating housing has a transverse row of permanent magnets mounted on the interior wall of the outer cylinder. Rotation of the housing causes the permanent magnets to induce magnetic fields in the flux members that induce an alternating current in the metal conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Norman P. Rittenhouse
  • Patent number: 7772733
    Abstract: An electrical generator includes a rotary disk that is made of plastic injection molding in which a plurality of coils each having an exposed contact is embedded. Two stationary disks are arranged on opposite sides of the rotary disk and each has an inside surface that opposes the rotary disk and carries two semi-circular magnets. The rotary disk is fixed to a shaft having opposite ends fit into bearings that are received in central bores defined in the stationary disks. The coils are each formed by winding a wire in at least one turn in the form of a circle or an ellipse, the turns being coincident with each other or partially offset with respect to each other. Or alternatively, the coils are formed concentric with respect to each other and the rotary disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Chuan-Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20100194215
    Abstract: Assembly precision in a motor is improved and greater cost reduction is achieved. A fluid dynamic bearing apparatus 1 comprising a housing 7 and bearing sleeve 8 as fixed-side members 2, a shaft member 9 as a rotational-side member 3 having a portion 3c for mounting a rotor magnet 5, and a disk hub 10, the shaft member 9 being supported by the bearing sleeve 8 in the radial direction in a non-contact manner by the hydrodynamic effect of a lubricating oil produced in a radial bearing gap between the inner circumferential surface 8a of the bearing sleeve 8 and the outer circumferential surface 9a of the shaft member while the shaft member 9 is in rotation, the apparatus 1 comprising a disk hub 10 which is fixed on the shaft member 9 and has a portion 3c for mounting the rotor magnet 5, and the disk hub 10 being a molded resin article formed by insert-molding using the shaft member 9 as an insert piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Fuminori Satoji, Ryouichi Nakajima, Isao Komori, Kazuo Okamura, Masafumi Okuma, Kenichi Mitani
  • Publication number: 20100194214
    Abstract: A stator structure comprises an edgewise coil molded with resin with long ends being exposed, a bus bar connected to both ends of the coil ends, and a pump and injection holes for directly cooling the bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Takaaki Kiyono, Koji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20100187920
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stator unit for an electric motor, in particular an external rotor motor. The stator unit comprises a stator with a stator laminate stack and stator windings and a stator bushing and a stator flange which is formed at one end. A housing flange of a housing for accommodating a motor controller or the like is fastened on the stator flange, and with motor connection contacts, which run from the stator through through-openings in the housing flange, and with fastening means, which run through fastening holes in the housing flange and are fastened in the stator. A sealing disk is arranged between the stator and the housing flange. The sealing disk has sealing regions made from elastic plastic, which are arranged and designed in such a way that direct and/or indirect sealing of the through-openings and/or the fastening holes is provided against the ingress of moisture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Dieter Best, Mathias Maschke
  • Publication number: 20100186687
    Abstract: Provided are a stator for a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor, a BLDC motor having a double-rotor/single-stator structure, and a vehicle cooler using the same, which uses a printed circuit board for an assembly that automatically sets an assembly position of stator core assemblies, to thereby secure waterproof, light-weight, and high power features. The stator includes a holder, a boss which has built-in bearings in order to support a rotational axis, and which enables the rotational axis to be rotated, a number of stator core assemblies which respectively enclose bobbins having inner and outer flanges at the inner and outer sides of a number of division type stator cores and in which coils are wound around the bobbins, and a printed circuit board for an assembly in which each stator core assembly is automatically position-set and then assembled and both end portions of the coil are mutually connected by each phase of U, V and W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Byoung Kyu Kim, Kyu Hyuk Jeong, Jong Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20100187918
    Abstract: A split stator is arranged such that a formed edgewise coil is mounted on a teeth of a split stator core through an insulator, and a resin molded portion is formed excepting long ends of the edgewise coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Takaaki Kiyono, Koji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20100187919
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor with a stator and an external rotor, comprised of a rotor bell and a rotor cover that acts as a fan wheel. The rotor bell has several apertures in its bell floor. The rotor cover has several exhaust ports. The rotor cover is shaped like a plate and consists of a plate base and an annular wall. The exhaust ports are preferably evenly distributed in the annular wall. The inside of the plate base of the rotor cover that faces the rotor bell has several radially extending interior blades that are fixedly connected to it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Dieter Best, Matthias Maschke, Erik Reichert, Martin Kurz
  • Patent number: 7763999
    Abstract: A stator for rotary electric machines is provided, in which a volume occupied by winding portions may be increased and a connecting wire may readily be engaged to prevent from coming off. A plurality of connecting wire engaging hooks 23, with which the connecting wire extending from the winding portion is engaged, are respectively disposed in the vicinity of border portions between a plurality of magnetic pole sections 11 and a yoke 9, corresponding to the magnetic pole sections 11. A mounting location of a connector 29 on a circuit substrate 7 is determined so that all of ends of a plurality of terminal conductors of the connector may be located between adjoining two of the connecting wire engaging hooks 23. With this arrangement, all of the ends 31a of the plurality of terminal conductors 31 may be disposed between adjoining two of a plurality of the winding portions 3, and be spaced from the winding portions 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masaaki Oohashi, Kouji Nakatake, Yasushi Yoda
  • Patent number: 7761976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for mounting magnet elements on the surface of a rotor for use in a permanent magnet motor. The method comprises the steps of : providing a first tube like element, wherein said first tube like element has an inner diameter that corresponds to an outer diameter of said rotor, providing a second tube like element, wherein said second tube like element has an inner diameter that is larger than an outer diameter of said first tube like element, inserting said first tube like element into said second tube like element, in order to create a hollow space between them, inserting a number of magnet elements into said hollow space, and inserting said rotor into said first tube like element, whereupon said magnet elements are in a tight fit arrangement between said first tube like element and said second tube like element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Aronsson, Tomas Bartholf, Jörgen Engström, Tanja Heikkilä
  • Publication number: 20100176666
    Abstract: A rotary actuator including: a housing that rotatably supports thereinside a rotor shaft of an electric motor; an eccentric shaft portion that is provided on a protruding end portion of the rotor shaft that protrudes outside the housing; an external gear that is rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion via a bearing; an internal gear that is fixed to an outer surface of the housing and meshes with the external gear; and a transmitting portion that is provided on the external gear, and transmits rotation force to an external output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidefumi ABE, Hideki SASAKI, Toshiro MAYUMI, Eishin MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 7755228
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a direct drive motor in a washing machine, in which a structure of a driving unit in a washing machine is improved to improve processability, and current flow down to the washing shaft is cut off even if insulation between the winding portion of the stator and the rotor is broken, for preventing accidents caused by negligence of safety from taking place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeok Deok Kim, Yeon Su Jung
  • Patent number: 7755231
    Abstract: In a resolver of a motor, a plurality of wires forming a plurality of coils arranged at a resolver stator portion are arranged at a wiring surface which is arranged at a terminal block of a connector portion and extends between an annular shape surface arranged substantially perpendicularly to a central axis at a core back of an insulator and a plurality of terminal pins, and are connected to a control unit via the terminal pins. Each of the wires of the resolver includes a slackened portion formed at a portion thereof between corresponding terminal pins and corresponding coils. The slackened portion is accommodated in a groove portion arranged at the wiring surface of the connector portion in order to minimize the possibility of damaging the wire improving reliability of the connection between the terminal pin and the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Nakaba Kataoka, Keita Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20100171378
    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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: BYOUNG KYU KIM, JAE YEONG LEE, KYU HYUK JEONG, JONG HOON LEE
  • Publication number: 20100164307
    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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: BYOUNG KYU KIM, JAE YEONG LEE, KYU HYUK JEONG, JONG HOON LEE
  • Publication number: 20100163320
    Abstract: A molded motor includes a ring-shaped stator and a rotor disposed inside the stator. The stator has teeth, insulators surrounding the teeth, coils wound around the insulators, and a molded part molding the teeth, insulators and coils. The insulators are partially exposed from the molded part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAGARA, Kenji Taguchi, Tetsuji Ueta, Takeshi Nagao, Takashi Uchino
  • Publication number: 20100156203
    Abstract: A side wall of a motor casing is formed into a polygonal shape such that flat side portions and corner portions located at respective corners between the side portions are continuously joined together. A field magnet, which has an outer circumferential shape approximately coinciding with the inner circumferential shape of the motor casing, has magnet side portions and magnet corner portions, and has a rib provided on outer circumferential surfaces of the magnet side portions. The magnet is disposed, through press-fitting, within the motor casing such that at least the rib comes into contact with the inner circumferential surface of the motor casing, wherein the magnet side portions, excluding the rib, are formed such that small clearances are formed between the magnet side portions and the side portions of the motor casing, or at least such that no pressing force acts on the magnet side portions, excluding the rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nemoto, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100148597
    Abstract: A direct current drive motor with a stator core, an end insulator, and a coil winding forming a stator, and a housing, a magnetic yoke shell, and multiple magnetic tiles, forming a rotor. The magnetic yoke shell and the magnetic tiles are disposed on the housing. Multiple teeth protrude from a side wall of the stator core. A slot is formed between two adjacent teeth. The coil winding is disposed in the slot and wraps around the tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20100148596
    Abstract: An electric motor in which the cost of parts and the cost of processing are reduced by installing a fan cover, a capacitor installation box, and a foot plate on a molded stator without addition of installation parts. In the electric motor (200), the stator (100) is molded using a thermosetting resin. The stator (11) atter the molding has a foot plate installation section (13) to which the foot plate (19) is installed, and prepared holes for screws for fixing the foot plate (19) are exposed on the foot plate installation section (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Asou, Mamoru Kawakubo, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Tougo Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100141058
    Abstract: Provided are a stator for an aspiration motor, an aspiration motor and an in-car sensor using the same, in which a bobbin is integrally formed with a stator, to thus use an inexpensive insulation wire and enhance a productivity and lower an inferiority using an insert-molding technology. The stator for the aspiration motor includes a stator support plate, a support boss which is vertically extended from the central portion of the stator support plate, a bobbin which is bent and formed on the lateral surface of the support boss, and which is separated from the upper side surface of the stator support plate, to thereby provide a space, and a stator coil which is formed by making a wire wound in the space provided by the bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Byoung Kyu Kim, Byoung Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20100133928
    Abstract: A motor may include a motor base plate, a bearing holder provided with a through hole whose both ends hold bearings and vertically disposed with respect to the motor base plate, a stator provided with a center hole and fixed to an outer peripheral face of the bearing holder, and a rotor having a shaft supported by the bearings, a rotor case fixed to the shaft, and a magnet fixed on an inner peripheral face of the rotor case. The bearing holder may be provided with a stepped part, protruded toward a radial direction. The stator may be provided with a first resin block structured so that an end face on a motor base plate side of the stator core is molded with resin to cover a coil wound around the stator core, and inner peripheral faces of the stator core and the first resin block structure the center hole, and the center hole of the stator is press-fitted and fixed to the bearing holder until an end face of the first resin block is abutted with the stepped part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaji HARATA, Makoto FUJISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20100133927
    Abstract: An external rotor for a direct current drive motor with a side wall, an end cover, a cavity, an opening, a base, a magnetic tile, a center hole, and a magnetic yoke shell. A method for producing an external rotor for a direct current drive motor by integrally forming by injection molding a magnetic yoke shell and multiple magnetic tiles; forming a side wall on said magnetic yoke shell and an end cover at the bottom of said side wall; forming a base at the center of said end cover; and integrally forming by injection molding said base and a rotating spline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7728464
    Abstract: A rotor for a pneumatic tool having electricity-generating capabilities comprises a shaft and an integral rotor body. The rotor body includes recesses dimensioned to receive an insulated subassembly comprising a magnet received within a nonmagnetic insulator. The nonmagnetic insulator acts to allow flux to be concentrated against stator windings. The improved rotor can be fitted with the insulated subassemblies in order to cooperate with a stator in the tool to generate electricity upon rotation of the rotor when pressurized fluid is applied to the vanes. A ring stator is supportable by a nonmagnetic end plate of the pneumatic tool, is disposed between the rotor and the rotor bearing and is preferably formed of Silicon Core Iron “B-FM” and magnet wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Volt Aire Corporation
    Inventor: Jon J. Leininger
  • Patent number: 7714475
    Abstract: In a multiple phase claw pole type motor which includes: a plurality of claw poles including a claw portion extending in an axial direction and having a magnetic pole surface facing a rotor in a state of being separated from the rotor by a small gap, a radial yoke portion extending radially outwardly from this claw portion, and an outer peripheral yoke extending from this radial yoke portion in the same direction as the direction of extension of the claw portion; a stator core formed by alternately placing the claw poles in a circumferential direction so that a distal end of each claw portion faces the outer peripheral yoke of an adjacent one of the claw poles; and a stator constructed by sandwiching an annular coil with the adjacent claw poles of this stator core, a multiple phase claw pole type motor characterized in that the claw poles are formed by compacting a magnetic powder and are formed of a magnetic compact having a DC magnetizing property of its flux density becoming 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd., Japan Servo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Motoya Ito, Kenji Miyata, Chio Ishihara, Ryoso Masaki, Yasuaki Motegi, Kouki Isozaki, Tadashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100111730
    Abstract: A rotary pump with a plastic pump housing, that can be processed by injection molding, with a first housing part defining a pump space, which is connected to a second intermediate housing part accommodating an electric motor with a wound core stator. The rotary pump includes a plastic split core, the wound claw pole stator being mounted on the split core and a permanent magnetic rotor being mounted to rotate within the split core. A plastic motor housing part defines a motor space, wherein at least three axial and parallel split core ribs are provided between the split core and the claw pole stator, the ribs being distributed about the periphery of the split core at predetermined angles relative to each other. A return ring has first and second end sections, the return ring being connected to the wound claw pole stator, so that the first and second end sections are welded to each other. The stator is press-fit onto the split core via the ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Peterreins, Achim Brunner, Bernd Frühwald, Armin Suttner-Reimann, Ramona Kiesel, Gerd Pecher, Christian Schatz, Ingrid Spath
  • Patent number: 7709991
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a shaft that is rotatable about an axis and defines a first diameter normal to the axis. A first core portion defines a first aperture having a first aperture diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The first core portion is positioned adjacent the shaft to define a first space. A second core portion defines a second aperture having a second aperture diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The second core portion is positioned adjacent the shaft to define a second space. A damping member is positioned in the first space and the second space. The damping member at least partially interconnects the shaft, the first core portion, and the second core portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: A. O. Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Dan M. Ionel, Stephen J. Dellinger, Robert J. Heideman, Alan E. Lesak
  • Publication number: 20100090547
    Abstract: A brushless motor is smaller, flatter, and lighter but is easy to assemble and has reduced motor vibration. An attachment base is integrally molded by two-color extrusion molding using a first resin material that forms a base main portion and a second resin material that forms a support portion and is softer than the first resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Tadashi YANO, Akihito FUKUZAWA
  • Patent number: 7692355
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor having a permanent magnetic rotor supported in a rotatable fashion around a central axis, a wound stator with a cylindrical stator winding, claw poles, perpendicular in reference to the disc-shaped stator plates and arranged around the central axis, and a tubular return ring connected to the stator plates free from play. The object of the invention is to provide an electric motor, in which the stator is composed from as few parts as possible, with its assembly being simple, its construction being robust, and being provided with an optimum effectiveness, allowing a great freedom of design and space used and thus an economical structure. This object is attained according to the invention in the disc-shaped stator plates being in one piece with the claw poles and being calked to the return ring with the disc-shaped stator plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Buehler Motor GmbH
    Inventors: Olai Ihle, Thomas Peterreins, Christian Zimmerer, Paul Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20100079014
    Abstract: A molded motor is provided that allows for ready installation of a heat-conducting member therein and is capable of improving dissipation of heat generated from the stator. The heat-conducting member is integrally formed with a load-side end bracket. The heat-conducting member includes a stopper surface that contacts an end surface of a stator core in the axial direction of a shaft, and an extended portion extending from the stopper surface toward a non-load-side end bracket to contact an outer peripheral surface of the stator core. The heat-conducting member is embedded in a molded portion with the stopper surface contacting the end surface of the stator core and the extended portion contacting the outer peripheral surface of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihito Miyashita, Hiroshi Hioki, Masakazu Chikyu
  • Patent number: 7687959
    Abstract: A brushless a-c motor (BACM) (10) consisting of a non-conductive stator (12) and a rotor (44). The rotor (44) has an outer surface (50), a right surface (34) and a left intermediate surface (16) from where extends a protrusion (20) having a cavity (26) into which is inserted a motor support rod (38). The stator (12) includes a multiplicity of longitudinally extending wiring notches (36) and on the left intermediate surface (16) and the right surface (34) are wire attachment structures (18). Around and between the structures (18) and the notches (36) is wound a multiplicity of insulated wires (32) that terminate at an a-c power source (180). The rotor (44) has an inner surface (48) that has longitudinally attached a multiplicity of magnets (56) and is attached to a bearing (80) that is attached to the central protrusion (20). To operate the BACM (10), one end of a circular belt (98) is placed around the rotor (44) and the opposite end is inserted over a work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Inventor: S. Peter Lee
  • Patent number: 7685697
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power tool includes forming an armature by placing an electrically insulative sleeve on an armature shaft, securing a lamination stack having slots therein on the armature shaft with the insulative sleeve disposed therebetween, securing a commutator on one end of the armature shaft with the insulative sleeve disposed therebetween, winding magnet wires in the slots in the lamination stack and securing ends of the magnet wires to the commutator, and molding thermally conductive plastic to at least partially encase the magnet wires in plastic. The armature is then disposed in a stator to form an electric motor and the electric motor is disposed in a power tool. In an aspect, electrically insulative plastic is molded in the slots of the lamination stack to form slot liners and around the ends of the lamination stack to form end spiders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Joshua F. West, Richard T. Walter
  • Publication number: 20100066183
    Abstract: A molded motor includes an annular stator formed by molding coils in resin, a rotor disposed in an internal space which is formed radially inside the stator, a cover covering the internal space, and an elastic member sandwiched between the cover and the stator and located at a more inner side in the radial direction of the stator from the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroaki SAGARA, Kenji TAGUCHI, Tetsuji UETA, Takeshi NAGAO, Takashi UCHINO
  • Patent number: 7679252
    Abstract: A magnet embedded motor includes a rotor, a plurality of magnets embedded in the rotor, and a yoke provided with the plurality of magnets for forming a magnetic path. The rotor is formed with the plurality of magnets and the yoke in a single member by means of a resin molding by making the plurality of magnet and the yoke as an insertion body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Iwase, Motohisa Ishiguro, Mitsuru Terayama, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 7679251
    Abstract: A stepping motor is disclosed which is capable of obtaining desired driving torque without sacrificing magnetic properties of a magnet with respect to a stator, reducing inertia mass of a rotor by decreasing a use amount of a magnet material, and thereby, can enhance driving performance including control responsiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials C.M.I. Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Ohkawa, Takashi Ida, Osamu Kodaira
  • Patent number: 7679230
    Abstract: A stator core 35 includes a core back 352 of a substantially annular shape. At a radially outer end portion of the core back 352 four teeth 351 are arranged radially. At the teeth 351, a coil 371 is formed by winding a magnet wire 37 via an insulator 36. A first insulator 361 configuring a lower half of the insulator 36 includes a first core back insulating portion 3611, 1 first teeth insulating portion 3612, and a first cylindrical portion 3613. A hook portion 4 is formed at the first core back insulating portion 3611 at radially outer side, and between the teeth 351. The magnet wire 37 extracted from the coil 371 is hooked on the hook portion 4. The magnet wire 37 hooked on the hook portion 4 is lead the magnet wire 37 around the hook portion 4 as a base, and is soldered to a land 381 formed above a circuit board 38.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Yamada, Takashi Nagamitsu, Yoshihisa Kato
  • Publication number: 20100050702
    Abstract: Provided is a driving device for a full automatic washing machine in which a clutch unit can stop rotation of a dehydration axis without having a particular brake unit, since the clutch unit is closely adhered to a first dehydration axis and a bushing when the rotation of the dehydration axis is controlled according to a wash or dehydration stroke in a full automatic washing machine. In addition, since a clutch coupler of the clutch unit moves at a wash or dehydration stroke in a driving device of a washing machine to thus be attached to and detached from a clutch gear which controls rotation of the first dehydration axis, and to thereby control a rotational force which is transferred to an inner tub, the washing machine is embodied to have a simple clutch coupling structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Byoung Kyu Kim, Kyu Hyuk Jeong, Jong Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7667359
    Abstract: A stator structure includes a first cover, a stator assembly and a filler. The first cover has an accommodation space for accommodating the stator assembly therein. The filler is applied between the first cover and the stator assembly to surround the stator assembly. A manufacturing method of the stator structure is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Ming Lee, Deng-Chu Fu, Ying-Chi Chen, Wen-Shi Huang
  • Publication number: 20100019586
    Abstract: An external rotor motor, composed of at least a stator with a stator core, coil winding, and insulating housing; a rotor; a plurality of bearings; and a rotating shaft. The rotor is disposed outside the stator and connected to the rotating shaft. The rotating shaft is disposed on the stator via the bearing. The coil winding is wrapped on the stator core. The stator core and the coil winding are disposed in the insulating housing. The external rotor motor of the invention is waterproof and dustproof; does not oxidize easily; features good insulation performance and integrity, light weight, and low cost; and is easy to manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuping LU
  • Patent number: 7652406
    Abstract: A radial core type double rotor brushless direct-current motor is provided in which a double rotor structure is employed with inner and outer rotors which are doubly disposed and thus a stator core is completely divided. The motor includes a rotational shaft which is rotatably mounted on a housing of an apparatus, cylindrical inner and outer yokes which are rotatably mounted on the center of the housing, inner and outer rotors including a number of magnets which are mounted with the opposing polarities on the outer surface of the inner yoke and the inner surface of the outer yoke, and a number of cores assemblies which are installed between the inner and outer rotors in which a number of coils are wound around a number of division type cores, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Amotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pyung Kyu Kim, Kyu Hyuk Jeong, Hyung Geun Song, Sang Han Lee
  • Publication number: 20100013336
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electric motor has a stator and a rotor The stator has a stator housing with opposed axial ends and features skived in the stator housing to extend radially inwardly from an inner surface of the stator housing proximate to at least one of the axial ends of the stator housing. An overmolding of material is molded around the features. In an aspect, the overmolding of material is a magnetic composite material and is molded to form magnets. In an aspect, magnets are placed on the inner surface of the stator housing and the overmolding of material is a plastic that is over molded around the magnets and the features. In an aspect, the features hold the magnets in place during the molding of the overmolding around the magnets. In an aspect, the magnets have essentially the same inner radius and outer radius and the overmolding of material is thicker at edges of each magnet than at the center of each magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Earl M. Ortt, David J. Smith, Eric E. Hatfield
  • Patent number: 7649298
    Abstract: A claw teeth type electric rotary machine comprises a stator including an annular core with claws formed from a powder core and an annular coil installed inside the annular core, and a rotor rotatably positioned inside the stator. An inner edge of the annular core is provided with plural claw poles which are protruded at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction and extended in an axial direction of the annular core so as to alternately meshes with each other. The stator comprises the annular core with claws, the annular coil, and a molded nonmagnetic potting material filled between the annular core with claws and annular coil, so that the annular core with claws and annular coil are integrated with the molded potting non-magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Hitachi Powered Metals Co., Ltd., Japan Servo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Motoya Ito, Masashi Kitamura, Ryoso Masaki, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Shoji Ohiwa, Yasuaki Motegi, Kazuo Asaka, Chio Ishihara
  • Patent number: RE41627
    Abstract: A submersible motor unit is used to drive a pump and is submerged with the pump in liquid (water). The motor unit includes a tubular housing member and a tubular inner member which is enclosed by and disposed in a coaxial relationship with the tubular housing member. A stator is disposed in a stator chamber formed between the tubular inner member and the tubular housing member. A rotor is disposed in a rotor chamber disposed within the inner member. End walls close opposite ends of the tubular housing member and the tubular inner member. An annular capacitor is disposed in the stator chamber in an axially spaced apart relationship with the stator. The capacitor extends around the rotor chamber. A body of potting compound is disposed in the stator chamber and at least partially encloses the stator and the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Sta-Rite Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Jack T. Bevington