Molded Plastic Patents (Class 310/43)
  • Publication number: 20140239750
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a rotating electrical machine including a rotating electrical machine main body portion including a stator and a rotor, and a winding switching unit configured to switch windings of the stator. The winding switching unit includes a housing including a flow passage through which a coolant is circulated formed inside, an electronic component mounted on a mounting surface of the housing, and a contact surface disposed on the housing and brought into contact with a wiring related member involving an internal wiring including a wiring connecting the windings and the electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Mitsunori NAGAO, Takeshi INOUE, Toshio NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20140239749
    Abstract: Rotor, in particular permanent magnet rotor, for an electric machine, having a magnet support, a plurality of magnets which are arranged on the magnet support, and a rotor core which is arranged between a shaft and the magnet support, wherein the rotor core comprises plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Wittenstein AG
    Inventor: Daniel Fehn
  • Patent number: 8816550
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bus bar of an EPS motor configured to improve a terminal structure of a bus bar to enable an easy assembly between a stator and the bus bar, whereby assemblage and operational reliability can be enhanced, the bus bar that is connected to a stator coil of the EPS motor, the bus bar including: an insulator made of insulation materials that forms a body of the bus bar; a lower terminal protrusively formed at a lower side of a periphery of the insulator, and connected to the stator coil; and an upper terminal protrusively formed at an upper side of the periphery of the insulator, and connected to the stator coil, whereby the terminals of the bus bar are divided to an upper terminal and a lower terminal to enhance assemblage and operational reliability by further obtaining a broader mutually discrete gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byungyong Kim
  • Patent number: 8816542
    Abstract: A slim type stator includes: a number of division cores; a number of bobbins that partially surrounds the number of the division cores; an electric power terminal block on the outer portion of which a connector is provided in which external electric power is applied through the connector and that has terminal pins that are extended to the inside of the stator from the connector; a wiring box that is integrally formed with each bobbin and that mutually connects a stator coil with the terminal pins per phase; and a stator holder that mutually connects a number of division stator cores around which coils are wound with the outer circumference of the bobbins and supports the number of division stator cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Amotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byoung Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20140232216
    Abstract: The metal conductive plate 60 electrically connecting the bracket 51 on the output side and the bracket 52 on the counter-output side includes: a first abutting portion 61 formed on one end and abutted on a side of the bearing house 520 on the counter-output side, the first abutting portion 61 warping in a direction away from the case 20; a second abutting portion 62 formed on the other end and abutted on an inner side of the bracket 51 on the output side press-fitted on the case 20; and a conductive sleeve 63 connecting the first abutting portion 61 and the second abutting portion 62. The conductive plate 60 and the case 20 include a holding unit for holding a state in which the first abutting portion 61 is abutted on the side of the bearing house 520 on the counter-output side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki Yamada, Masanori Murakami, Tsugiyoshi Ono
  • Publication number: 20140232215
    Abstract: This bus bar module (26) is created by integrally forming at least one coil bus bar with a power line bus bar by means of resin molding, said coil bus bar for connecting conductive coil wires together, and said power line bus bar for connecting the conductive coil wires with a power line. The power line bus bar (32) is supported on a support portion (34) that extends from a bus bar module main body (28). The power line bus bar penetrates through a beam (44) of the support portion. The portion of the power line bus bar embedded inside the beam (44) has characteristically shaped portions (56) extending in the width direction of this bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventor: Akira Takasaki
  • Publication number: 20140232213
    Abstract: A brush holder (100) for an electric motor (12a; 12b), having a brush holder main body (20) which has a passage opening (25) for an armature shaft to pass through, having a first receiving region (37) for fastening a printed circuit board (35), on which electrical or electronic components are mounted, to the brush holder main body (20), wherein the first receiving region (37) extends as far as into a region between an outer boundary (23, 24) of the brush holder main body (20) and the passage opening (25), and wherein the first receiving region (37) for the printed circuit board (35) is designed to arrange the printed circuit board (35) on the brush holder main body (20) at least substantially perpendicularly to the plane of the brush holder main body (20), and having components (26, 33) which are arranged on the brush holder main body (20) and which are mechanically and/or electrically connected at least indirectly to the printed circuit board (35).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Huck, Hanspeter Keller, Peter Bohr, Tarek Mili
  • Publication number: 20140232214
    Abstract: A rotor for an outer rotor-type motor is provided. The rotor includes a metallic coupler and a polymeric frame molded over at least part of the metallic coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bailey, Daniel E. Hilton, Philip S. Johnson, Gregory M. Levine
  • Publication number: 20140232212
    Abstract: A motor includes a casing which is a resin molded article produced by using a core-back, a plurality of teeth, an insulator, a coil, a metal terminal, and a protection member as inserts. The protection member includes a cover section through which the metal terminal penetrates in the axial direction. The protection member or the insulator includes a post section arranged to axially extend in a portion of a surrounding of the metal terminal. A connection space within which a connection point of the metal terminal and the lead wire is disposed is provided between the cover section and the insulator and at the side of the metal terminal from the post section. The lead wire is arranged to reach the connection space through an opening arranged in the post section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEC TECHNO MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka MIYAMOTO, Masayuki ISHIKAWA, Akitoshi MAENO, Takenori KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20140225461
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive rotary electric machine that can suppress unnecessary disengagement of a protective cover by increasing supporting strength for the protective cover. The automotive rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a rectifier and a voltage regulator that are disposed outside a first axial end of a casing; and a resin protective cover that is formed so as to have a cup shape that is constituted by a bottom portion and a cylindrical peripheral wall portion, and that is mounted onto a casing so as to cover the rectifier and the voltage regulator. The protective cover is held by a circuit board of the rectifier by coupling by snap-fitting a plurality of projections that are disposed so as to protrude from an inner circumferential wall surface of the peripheral wall portion to a plurality of projection-engaging portions that are formed on an outer peripheral wall surface of the circuit board so as to be separated circumferentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ohashi, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8803375
    Abstract: An electromechanical device includes a rotor having a magnetic back yoke with a cylindrical shape, and at least one rotor magnet arranged along an outer periphery of the magnetic back yoke in a cylindrical manner, a stator having at least one air-core magnetic coil arranged along an outer periphery of the rotor in a cylindrical manner, and a coil back yoke with a cylindrical shape disposed on an outer periphery of the magnetic coil arranged in a cylindrical manner, and a casing adapted to cover the stator and the rotor, wherein at least a part of the casing is formed of carbon fiber reinforced plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8803374
    Abstract: A molded motor includes a stator, a resin casing, a rotor, a pair of bearings, a pair of bearing retainers, a resin bracket cover, and a control board. The rotor includes a shaft. The bearings are arranged to rotatably support the shaft. The bearing retainers are made of an elastic electrically insulating body. The bearing retainers are arranged to cover the bearings at radial outer sides of the bearings and to hold the bearings in place. The bracket cover is arranged to cover the open side of the casing. One of the bearings is attached to the bracket cover through one of the bearing retainers. The other bearing is attached to a bottom wall portion of the casing through the other bearing retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Techno Motor Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Akitoshi Maeno, Junichi Sato, Tatsuya Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140210284
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotation shaft, a stator, and a rotor. The stator includes an armature winding and a stator core including a main core portion with an axial stack of core sheets and a magnetic plate on an end thereof. Each core sheet includes a tooth formation portion around which the armature winding is wound. The magnetic plate includes a stacked portion and an axially extending portion. The stacked portion stacked on the axial end of the main core portion and includes an end located toward the rotor. The axially extending portion extends toward the outer side in the axial direction from the end of the stacked portion located toward the rotor and is opposed to the rotor in a radial direction of the motor. The axially extending portion is shaped to be magnetically skewed in a circumferential direction relative to the tooth formation portion and the stacked portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Tatsunori BANBA, Hiroshi KATAI, Yuusuke TATEISHI, Yuuji YAMASHITA, Takumi SUZUKI, Kenji OBATA, Yoshimasa KINPARA, Takashi NAGAYA
  • Publication number: 20140203671
    Abstract: There are disclosed a motor comprising a stator and a rotor rotary with respect to the stator, the stator comprising a stator core comprising a back yoke and a plurality of teeth projected from the back yoke 311 in a radial direction; an insulator provided in a predetermined portion in a radial direction with respect to the stator core to insulate the stator core from outside; and an insulation film formed from the other portion in the radial direction with respect to the stator core to the plurality of the teeth, to insulate stator core from the coil and the teeth, so as to reduce the manufacture price, with an easy manufacture process and an improved product reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Hyunho Ha, Sungjung Kim, Hyunwoo Jung
  • Publication number: 20140197700
    Abstract: A rotor includes an axle, a back iron unit, a magnet unit and an adhesive layer. The back iron unit includes annular inner and outer components, and a plurality of plastic components. The inner component is made from a non-metal material and is sleeved on the axle. The outer component is made from a magnetically permeable metal material and surrounds the inner component. The plastic components protrude from an outer surface of the outer component. The magnet unit has a cavity for receiving the back iron unit. The plastic components abut against a cavity-defining surface of the magnet unit that defines the cavity. The adhesive layer is formed in a space between the back iron unit and the magnet unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Chao-Pi CHANG, Jia-Yuan LIANG
  • Patent number: 8779638
    Abstract: A retaining sleeve for retaining magnets inserted therein so that the magnets may be overmolded with a polymer pursuant to the manufacture of a rotor for an electric motor. The retaining sleeve comprising a generally cylindrical portion having an inner peripheral surface concentric about a central axis and a plurality of retaining partitions extending inward from the inner peripheral surface of the generally cylindrical portion, wherein the retaining partitions are configured to at least substantially limit movement of the magnets toward the central axis upon the magnets being inserted in the retaining sleeve at their respective locations inward of the inner peripheral surface of the retaining sleeve and between retaining partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Burton, Brian Klein
  • Patent number: 8779642
    Abstract: An electric power distribution member for stator is a member for connecting a plurality of coils to one another, each having coil opposing end portions located on an inner circumferential side and on an outer circumferential side in a radial direction of a stator, and it includes a plurality of conductor pieces and a plurality of insulating holding portions. The conductor piece has a first connection end portion in a flat plate shape connected to an inner circumferential side end portion of a coil and a second connection end portion in a flat plate shape connected to an outer circumferential side end portion of another coil. In addition, the insulating holding portion integrally holds adjacent conductor pieces at a distance from each other at a portion other than the opposing connection end portions of each conductor piece. The insulating holding portions are arranged in a manner discrete from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Matsuyama, Yutaka Komatsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Masao Okumura, Takahiro Kayano
  • Patent number: 8772988
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator stack of laminations, pierced with a cylindrical passage for housing a rotatable rotor therein. The stator includes a magnetic circuit of laminations stacked between first and second terminal faces crossed by the passage and by a series of slots housing conductors, which are folded over to form coils. An electrically insulating reinforcing wedge piece is interposed between an internal wall of a first tubular end and a corresponding portion of a block of resin surrounding a region of winding heads of the conductors, which follow a looped path in the block of resin. A wedging unit wedges the insulating reinforcing piece in position to prevent the insulating reinforcing piece from protruding axially internally on the internal wall with respect to the region so as to leave a determined annular sector of the internal wall in direct adhering contact with the block of resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Bertrand Vedy, Frederic Progin
  • Publication number: 20140183983
    Abstract: A plastic-package motor, including: a rotating shaft, a rotor assembly, a plastic-package stator, a front end cover, a rear end cover, an injection-molding end plate, and a conducting strip. The rotating shaft and the rotor assembly are installed and connected together. The plastic-package stator is sleeved outside the rotor assembly. The front end cover is injection-molded on the injection-molding end plate at the bottom of the plastic-package stator. The injection-molding end plate is covered outside the front end cover. The rear end cover is installed at the other end of the plastic-package stator, and two ends of the rotating shaft are supported on a bearing of the front end cover and a bearing of the rear end cover, respectively. One end of the conducting strip is electrically connected with the front end cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20140183984
    Abstract: In a motor that is molded with resin in part or as a whole, thermal expansion caused by temperature rise due to reduction in size and increase in output causes application of stress equal to or greater than fracture stress to the resin, thus generating cracks. Therefore, according to the invention, in a resin-molded rotating machine, a part or the whole of a gap between plural mold resins molded in different places from each other is made of a material with a higher thermal conductivity and a lower Young's modulus than the mold resins, and these mold resins are bonded together mechanically or with an adhesive material, or are fastened by both these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Kinya Kobayashi, Hironori Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20140175911
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stator including: a plurality of stator cores; a coil wound around each of the plurality of stator cores; and an injection part injection-molded between the plurality of stator cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Tai Jung, Sang Ho Seo
  • Publication number: 20140175912
    Abstract: A BLDC motor for driving a cross flow fan in an air-conditioning application has an external rotor and an internal stator. The stator is a salient pole stator with insulated pole teeth and conductor coils. The inner diameter of the stator supports a single bearing. An electronic PCBA for control of the BLDC motor is optionally attached to the stator, all of which is encapsulated in a thermoset resin. The rotor comprises permanent magnet component(s) and a rotor frame. The rotor frame includes a stub axle that engages with the bearing element and features to provide torsional or rotational compliance between the rotor magnets and the fan. A level of compliance is provided between the bearing element and the stator to allow for angular misalignment between the rotational axis of the fan and the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Scott Germann, Gerald David Duncan, Gregory Paul Hill
  • Patent number: 8756794
    Abstract: A rotor that includes a rotor core assembly secured to a shaft. The rotor core assembly includes a magnet and an end cap secured to an end of the magnet. Each of the magnet and the end cap has a bore into which the shaft extends. The end cap forms an interference fit with the shaft. The magnet forms a clearance fit with the shaft and an adhesive is located in the clearance between the magnet and the shaft. Additionally, a method of manufacturing the rotor. The method includes inserting the shaft into the bore of the end cap. An adhesive is then introduced into the bore of the magnet and the shaft is inserted into the bore of the magnet so as to cause adhesive to be drawn into the clearance defined between the magnet and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: David Ions, David Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 8760018
    Abstract: A motor stator with heat dissipation structure for fan includes a silicon steel plate assembly having a plurality of magnetic-pole columns, on each of which at least one winding is wound, and a space is defined between any two adjacent magnetic-pole columns; a covering being a heat-conducting plastic material filled in the spaces while covering the silicon steel plate assembly and the windings; and a plurality of heat pipes being extended into or through the covering filled in the spaces, so that heat produced by the silicon steel plate assembly and the windings during operation thereof can be transferred to the covering, and the heat pipes can absorb the heat from the covering and dissipate the absorbed heat into ambient air. Therefore, the silicon steel plate assembly and the windings can have lowered temperature and the cooling fan can have upgraded heat dissipation characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Hao Liu, Chu-Hsien Chou
  • Publication number: 20140167531
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor, in particular for synchronous motors of wet-running pumps, with a rotor core on the periphery of which a number of magnets are arranged, the rotor core and the magnets being surrounded by a plastics material casing. The magnets each have a receiving groove on a peripheral face remote from the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Werner Hangmann
  • Publication number: 20140159517
    Abstract: An axial gap-type power generator has: a rotor fixed to a crankshaft of an engine; a stator fixed to a crankcase of the engine and opposing the rotor across a spacing in an axial direction; and a housing to house the rotor and the stator and to fix the stator. The stator is configured by arraying, in a peripheral direction, a plurality of coils C each configured through winding of a winding about a stator core. The housing is formed of a resin-based material. Winding ends of the coils are wired using connector fittings each of which is formed of a metal plate, is held on the housing, and has a clamp into which the winding end is inserted and clamped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20140159516
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor assembly, wherein a lower balancing part, which becomes a target to be cut for balancing, includes a lower balancing part body installed on a lower surface of a rotor part and an encoder protruding on a lower surface of the lower balancing part body. In the present invention, the encoder, which is a portion of a balancing part, becomes a target to be cut, thereby making it possible to more effectively perform balancing even with a smaller amount of cutting as compared with the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Jin Su Seok, Jin Wook Baek, Hyun Taek Ahn, Young Bok Yoon
  • Publication number: 20140152127
    Abstract: A stator for a brushless external-rotor motor. The stator includes a stator core; a winding; and an end insulator. The stator core includes a yoke part and a tooth part which are separated. The tooth part includes a clamping part. The tooth part is formed by overlapping a plurality of silicon-steel sheets. The end insulator is sleeved on the tooth part. The winding is wound on the end insulator. The yoke part is formed by molding permeability magnetic material and includes a mounting hole in a center. A plurality of lug bosses protrudes at intervals on an outer side of the yoke par. A clamping groove is formed between two connected lug bosses. The clamping part of the tooth part is nested in the clamping groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Songfa TANG, Jianwei JIN
  • Publication number: 20140152128
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and coils. The stator core is provided with a plurality of slots extending in an axial direction and being spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction. The coils are wound around through the slots. The coils include coil end portions which protrude outward in the axial direction from an end surface of the stator core. The stator includes a restricting member situated on an inner side of the coil end portions in the radial direction. The restricting member serves to prevent deformation of the coil end portions inward in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Takano, Yohei Arimatsu
  • Publication number: 20140139053
    Abstract: A ring element includes a convex, in particular rounded, surface element for arrangement on at least one axial end region of a winding section of an electric motor rotor. The surface element provides a minimum radius curvature for supporting an inner layer of a rotor winding on the winding head. An insulating lamination element for an electric motor rotor onto which a rotor winding is intended to be wound includes the ring element. An electric motor, in particular a universal motor, includes a rotor with a rotor winding having the ring element. An electric machine tool, in particular a handheld electric machine tool such as an angle grinder, a drill, a saw or the like, includes the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Effler, Christoph Wagner, Joachim Schadow, Juergen Hein, Joerg Goehner
  • Patent number: 8729760
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a rotor of an electric motor including a rotor core, a plurality of magnets spaced apart from each other on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, and a cylindrical protective pipe surrounding the magnets is provided. The protective pipe has an inner diameter smaller than a diameter of a circumscribed circle passing through tops of outer surfaces of the magnets. A space defined by an inner surface of the protective pipe, the outer surfaces of the magnets and the outer surface of the rotor core is filled with resin, and the protective pipe is held so as to have a diameter larger than that of the circumscribed circle, due to injection pressure of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 8729769
    Abstract: An electromechanical device includes: a center shaft; a rotor having a rotor magnet disposed around an outer periphery of the center shaft; and a stator disposed on an outer periphery of the rotor, wherein the center shaft is formed of a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic, and when projection is performed in a radial direction from the center shaft toward the rotor magnet, an angle between a direction of carbon fiber in the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic and a direction of the center shaft is 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kesatoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8729748
    Abstract: Disclosed are a split stator and a manufacturing method thereof with which insulation reliability can be improved by preventing deformation or cracking of the insulator by eliminating slippage of the insulator at the coil end face. A slip prevention mechanism that prevents slippage of the insulator is provided at the coil end face, and using insert molding, the insulator is integrally molded to a split stator core provided with the slip prevention mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ueno, Joji Yoshimura, Koji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8729756
    Abstract: A canned motor pump, wherein a motor stator is housed in a stator chamber that is a space between a tubular stator can for housing a motor rotor and a tubular stator band disposed coaxially with the stator can. The stator chamber is closed by annular end plates at the cylindrical ends between the stator can and the stator band. The stator chamber is filled with a filler. The filler is produced from spherical inorganic material particles filled into the stator chamber and resin for causing the particles to stick to each other. Consequently, the heat release performance of the stator of the canned motor pump is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Eguchi
  • Patent number: 8721306
    Abstract: A pump unit includes an electric motor, located in a stator housing (6), a terminal box being arranged on an axial face of the stator housing (6). The terminal box (12) includes a tubular housing element (44) having a first axial face to which the axial face of the stator housing (6) is connected. An opposite second axial face (46) of the tubular housing element (44) is closed by at least one cover element (40) into which operating and/or display elements (38) are integrated. An electrical connecting element (42) is arranged on the outer periphery of the tubular housing element (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Grundfos Management a/s
    Inventors: Lars Kannegaard Andersen, Steen Mikkelsen, Brian Lundsted Poulsen
  • Publication number: 20140117789
    Abstract: A rotor (10) of a motor includes a rotor core (11) and a plurality of magnets (14a, 14b) which are arranged at a circumferential surface of the rotor core or at the inside of the rotor core, the length of a magnet of the plurality of magnets in the axial direction of the rotor core determined in accordance with the residual magnetic flux density of the magnet. The axial direction length of the magnet is preferably determined by multiplying a reference axial direction length of the magnet with the residual magnetic flux density of the magnet and dividing this by a reference residual magnetic flux density of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Uematsu, Takeshi Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20140110227
    Abstract: A belt conveyor having an electromagnetic drive comprising a rotor and a stator sealed in separate nonmagnetic and nonconductive housings. The rotor is mounted to a drive shaft. A drive drum or drive sprockets supported on the shaft have peripheral drive surfaces that engage a conveyor belt. The rotor is coaxial with the peripheral drive surface—either sealed within the drum or sprockets or housed on the shaft axially spaced from the drive surface. The rotor may include conductive rotor bars or permanent magnets. The stator is spaced apart from the rotor across a narrow gap and produces a traveling magnetic flux wave across the gap that causes the rotor and the peripheral drive surface to rotate and drive the conveyor belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Kevin W. Guernsey, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140111037
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotating shaft having an axis extending in an axial direction; a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft; a stator provided with a plurality of stator coils; a wire connection part provided at one side of the stator coils in the axial direction, the wire connection part connecting end portions of the stator coils in a specified wire connection pattern; and a resin molded part arranged to cover the wire connection part and the stator coils. The wire connection part includes a plurality of conductive members connected to the end portions of the stator coils and an insulating member arranged to at least partially cover surfaces of the conductive members. The insulating member has projection portions protruding toward the resin molded part existing at the one side of the stator coils in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Kenji FUNAKOSHI, Hideyuki ONDA, Kanta YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140111036
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle AC generator which enables the common use of components and the use of the same molding die for molded bodies to enable a significant reduction in fabrication cost. The vehicle AC generator includes a molded body (45). On one surface side of the molded body, a capacitor body (43) including a capacitor element built therein is electrically connected to an insert conductor. On another surface side of the molded body, a resistor (44) is electrically connected to the insert conductor only when a device main body is provided outside of the AC generator, and the device main body is electrically connected to the insert conductor only when the device main body is provided in the AC generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Kazunori TANAKA, Toshiyuki OONISHI, Kyoko HIGASHINO
  • Publication number: 20140097710
    Abstract: A spacer for mechanically stabilizing and electrically insulating an end winding in an electric motor includes an elastic nose having a free end. A planar, electrically insulating sheet is integrally formed at an end of the nose located opposite the free end. Such spacers are used in an electric motor having an iron core, whose teeth are surrounded by coils whose end windings laterally project from the iron core. The spacers are press-fitted inside openings formed by the end windings and the teeth, so that the end windings are covered by the sheet of the press-fitted spacer in the direction of an air gap of the electric motor in each case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Guillaume Mougin, Christophe Dehouck, David Panet
  • Patent number: 8692427
    Abstract: The circuit board includes: a first resin-molded body; a second resin-molded body; and a plurality of terminals each including: a positive electrode terminal portion to which is connected a lead of the positive-side rectifying element to be connected thereto; a negative electrode terminal portion to which is connected a lead of the negative-side rectifying element to be connected thereto; and a trunk portion that links the positive electrode terminal portion and the negative electrode terminal portion. The plurality of terminals are each held between the first resin-molded body and the second resin-molded body so as to be separated from each other such that the trunk portion is disposed between mating surfaces of the first resin-molded body and the second resin-molded body, the positive electrode terminal portion is inserted through the second resin-molded body, and the negative electrode terminal portion is inserted through the first resin-molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Kazunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8692430
    Abstract: A motor assembling method provides a base with a shaft tube. The shaft tube has a thermoplastic positioning portion on an opening end thereof, and a shaft tube assembly is disposed into the shaft tube via the opening end. The motor assembling method further heats the thermoplastic positioning portion by a heating fixture to melt and deform the thermoplastic positioning portion until the opening end of the shaft tube has shrunk. The shaft tube assembly is held in position in the shaft tube after the thermoplastic positioning portion has cooled down and solidified. The motor assembling method further couples a stator unit with an outer circumferential wall of the shaft tube, and couples a rotor with the shaft tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Alex Horng
  • Patent number: 8692424
    Abstract: A stator comprises a cavity formed into the insulator of the windings. The non-wound wire sections that extend from the windings and the electrical conductors attached thereto are housed within the cavity. A cap locks onto the stator insulator and prevents the non-wound sections of wire from migrating out of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Bohrer, Daniel E. Bailey, Michael W. Major, Daniel E. Hilton, Gregory M. Levine, Barry M. Newberg, James R. Gore, Mark D. Piatt
  • Publication number: 20140084711
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine for vehicle, at least one of a rectifier device, a voltage regulator, and a brush holder includes an external terminal connection portion provided with an insert terminal inserted into resin and an insert nut inserted into the resin and superimposed on the insert terminal. The insert terminal includes a contact portion on a surface on a side opposing the insert nut and the insert terminal and the insert nut are superimposed via the contact portion and inserted into the resin. It thus becomes possible to provide a rotating electrical machine for vehicle provided with constituent components that are free from an inconvenience caused by a variance over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventor: Kazunori TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20140084712
    Abstract: A phase module of a transverse flux electrical machine (TFEM) includes a pair of halves adapted to receive therein a plurality of cores and a coil therein. The cores are discretely located in the phase with radially angularly distributed core-receiving spaces. The plurality of cores and the coil are secured in the halves with resin. The proximal radial portion of the phase module is bored to define the interior diameter of the phase module. A method of assembling a phase module and a kit thereof are encompassed by the present application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: EOCYCLE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Raphael NADEAU, Daniel MASSICOTTE, Eric ADAMS, Simon COTE, Patrice FORTIN, Jean-Francois BERNIER-SYNNOTT
  • Patent number: 8680727
    Abstract: A brushless rotary actuator comprises a housing including a motor housing defining a cavity for a motor assembly and a cover defining a cavity for a gear assembly. The motor assembly includes a rotor and a stator with a plurality of bobbins. A clip in the form of a ring plate is seated against the bobbins for retaining the bobbins on the stator. Fingers formed on the ring plate are fitted into respective slots defined by respective bobbin terminals. A circuit board is seated in the housing against an interior shoulder of the motor housing. A plate is seated in the housing against a peripheral rim of the motor housing in a spaced relationship above the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: CTS Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Edward Cors, Patrick B. Blakesley, Ryan P. Garver, Derek L. Crites
  • Patent number: 8674569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor including: a housing formed in such a manner as to locate a stator assembly inside a mold and to perform an insert injection molding, the housing having a hollow portion formed at the inside thereof and power terminal pins exposed above the hollow portion; a printed circuit board adapted to mount an integrated circuit device thereon and having a shaft insertion hole formed at the center thereof and power terminal pin holes formed at the corresponding positions to the power terminal pins; and an end cover adapted to be coupled to the housing in such a manner as to be located on the top of the printed circuit board and having a motor shaft coupling portion formed at the center thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: New Motech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Cheol Jang, Wang Gyu Jeong, Jae Hyun Han
  • Publication number: 20140062226
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor assembly including: a shaft forming the center of rotation of a motor; a rotor part rotatably coupled to the shaft; a balancing member including the rotor part and formed so as to enclose the shaft; a sensor magnet coupled to a lower end portion of the balancing member in an axial direction; and a printed circuit board having a hall sensor attached thereto so as to face the sensor magnet at a lower portion of the sensor magnet in the axial direction. According to the present invention, the coupling precision of the sensor magnet for sensing the position of the rotor part forming the rotor of the switched reluctance motor assembly may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Wan Cho, Sang Ho Seo, Myung Geun Oh, Sung Tai Jung, Jung Kyu Yim
  • Patent number: 8664825
    Abstract: Provided is a molded motor that hardly causes electric corrosion in bearings and produces less noise and vibration. Electrical continuity between a bracket 51 on an output side and a bracket 52 on a counter output side is secured by a conductive plate 60 having elasticity. Therefore, since the conductive plate 60 is unlikely to be cut off by an external force and does not change significantly with time, the electrical continuity between the bracket 51 on the output side and the bracket 52 on the counter output side is hardly interrupted. Accordingly, since a difference in potential between the bracket 51 on the output side and the bracket 52 on the counter output side hardly occurs, electric corrosion is hardly caused in a bearing 41 on the output side and a bearing 42 on the counter output side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventors: Tsugiyoshi Ono, Kazuyoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140054985
    Abstract: A module for a rotor of an electric machine, said rotor being excited by means of permanent magnets and rotating in a liquid medium, wherein the module contains a cylindrical, active part having a plurality of circular, magnetically soft laminations which form a laminated stack and have a central opening for receiving a rotor shaft; wherein at least two permanent magnets protected against the liquid medium are arranged in at least two corresponding cutouts in the laminated stack, the cutouts being formed under a cylindrical circumferential surface of the laminated stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: ANDRITZ RITZ GMBH
    Inventor: Johann Neiszer