Powdered Metal Patents (Class 310/44)
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Publication number: 20130264894Abstract: An amorphous magnetic component for use in a high-power, high-speed electric motor, in which amorphous metal materials are powdered, compressed, and molded, to be easily molded into magnetic components of a complex shape, and crystalline metal powder of excellent soft magnetic properties is added to the amorphous alloy powder, to promote improvement of a magnetic permeability and improvement of a packing density at the time of compression molding. A method of manufacturing the amorphous magnetic component; includes the steps of: pulverizing ribbons or strips of amorphous alloys to obtain plate-shaped amorphous alloy powder; classifying the amorphous alloy powder, and mixing the amorphous alloy powder with spherical soft magnetic powder, in order to improve magnetic permeability and packing density, to obtain mixed powder; mixing the mixed powder with a binder, to be molded into a shape of the magnetic components; and sintering the molded magnetic components to implement magnetic properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Byoung Soo KIM
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Publication number: 20130264893Abstract: Disclosed is a stator device adapted to be arranged in an electrical machine, where the electrical machine further includes a moving device, where the stator device is a multi-phase stator device, where the phases are arranged side-by-side in a direction perpendicular to direction of motion of the moving device, and where each phase comprises a first stator core section having a set of teeth, a second stator core section having a set of teeth, and a coil, and where the teeth are arranged to protrude towards the moving device; and wherein at least two neighboring phases share a stator core section, so that the first stator core section of a first phase and a second stator core section of a second phase is formed as a single unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)Inventors: GLYNN JAMES ATKINSON, ALAN G. JACK, BARRIE MECROW
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Publication number: 20130257186Abstract: Magnets and methods of their manufacture are disclosed for use in flywheel assemblies, such that the magnets comprise oriented fibers, such as, for example, axially-oriented fibers in a flexible rotor magnet composition to predictably allow the magnet to expand dimensionally upon rotation only in a predetermined and predictable fashion while maintaining critical contact with a rotor surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Michael P. Kozar, John R. Hull, John A. Mittleider, Mark S. Wilenski
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Publication number: 20130234540Abstract: This DC brushless motor (1) is provided with a stator (2) that has exciting coils (31, 32) and a rotor (4) that is positioned coaxially to the stator (2). The stator (2) has a quasi-E-shaped cross-section in the axial direction at the radius part; a plurality of protrusions (212, 222, 232) serving as magnetic poles are formed on the respective 3 parallel sections (211, 221, 231) of the E in the same number in the circumferential direction; and of the magnetic poles (212, 222, 232) formed at the 3 parallel sections (211, 221, 231) of the E, the top and the bottom magnetic poles (212, 232) are respectively positioned so as to be shifted in the opposite directions in the circumferential direction with respect to the center line of the middle magnetic pole (222). Changes in the magnetic resistance between the stator (2) and the rotor (4), which are caused by the flow of a magnetic flux generated around the exciting coils (31, 32), are utilized as a driving force.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD)Inventors: Akira Tsutsui, Kenichi Inoue, Lyoji Zaitsu
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Publication number: 20130221771Abstract: A hybrid excitation machine comprising a rotor having first and second rotor cores with a gap between in an axial direction, wherein first magnetic poles excited by a permanent magnet and second magnetic poles not excited by the permanent magnet are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction in each rotor core. The first magnetic poles of the first and second rotor cores have different polarities, and the first magnetic poles of one rotor, core face the second magnetic poles of the other rotor core in the axial direction. A stator generating a magnetic field rotating the motor is placed radially outward of the rotor and an exciting coil exciting the second magnetic poles is placed in the gap, wherein the stator has, in the axial direction, first stator cores on both sides and a second stator core having lower magnetic resistance than the first stator core, in a center.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Katsuichi KONO, Junichi YOKOTA, Ken TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20130187488Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine of axial-gap type in which a stator and a rotor are opposed to each other in arrangement and winding axis is parallel with a rotating shaft direction, the stator has an “m” protruding in the rotating shaft direction are distributed along a circumferential direction thereof, in which the winding pole is formed of a magnetic member having a plurality of teeth in a circular-arc shape in a diameter direction, and wherein the rotor is formed of a magnetic member having a plurality of teeth in a circular-arc shape in a diameter direction, and the number of the teeth of the stator and the rotor are arranged in a manner opposite to each other through air gap so as to be engaged with each other. The stator and the rotor are opposed on both sides of the rotor and the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.Inventor: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD
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Publication number: 20130187485Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine of radial-gap type, a radial core, having number of winding slots of “m”, is constructed as an integral compacting type by compacted powder or as a split compacting type with compacted powder. The radial core has a thickness in an axial direction of winding thereof so as to become thinner toward outward from a central portion thereof, in which the “m” is integer number in a range of 4 to 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.Inventor: NIPPON PISTON RING CO., LTD.
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Publication number: 20130181551Abstract: A permanent magnet machine is provided including a stator and a rotor, the rotor being adapted to rotate relative to the stator, the rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets separated in the circumferential direction from each other by radially extending rotor pole pieces for concentrating the magnetic flux from the permanent magnets, the stator having a structure that defines radial limits of an air gap between the stator and the rotor for communicating magnetic flux between the stator and the rotor, wherein at least some of the permanent magnets extend radially outside the radial limits of the air gap as defined by the stator structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)Inventor: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)
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Publication number: 20130162064Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laminated core used for a motor such as an electric motor, including: a unit laminate laminated in at least one layer and formed of a soft magnetic composite, wherein each powder particle forming the soft magnetic composite is insulation-coated. The preferred embodiments of the present invention can improve the mechanical strength of the core of the soft magnetic composite by manufacturing the core using the laminating method of the soft magnetic composite and reduce core loss by performing insulation coating on powder particles forming the soft magnetic composite.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Changsung Sean Kim, Guen Hong Lee, Han Kyung Bae, Chang Hwan Choi, Ji Hye Shim
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Publication number: 20130147288Abstract: An electrical, rotary machine may include a first stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a second stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a coil arranged between the first and second circular stator core sections, and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets. The first stator core section, the second stator core section, the coil and the rotor are encircling a common geometric axis, and the plurality of teeth of the first stator core section and the second stator core section are arranged to protrude towards the rotor. Additionally the teeth of the second stator core section are circumferentially displaced in relation to the teeth of the first stator core section, and the permanent magnets in the rotor are separated in the circumferential direction from each other by axially extending pole sections made from soft magnetic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)Inventor: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)
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Publication number: 20130147287Abstract: A core formed from powder, such as a stator core for use in a motor for a vehicle, wherein the core is formed from metallic powder and includes an outer part disposed at an outside of the motor, an inner part disposed at an inside of the motor, and a winding part which connects the outer part and the inner part and on which a wire is wound, and to a motor for a vehicle using the same. The winding part is formed to have rounded corners and a height lower than the height of the inner part, and a connection part is obliquely formed between the winding part and the inner part so that the winding part and the inner part are naturally connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Jae Ryung Lee, Seong Jin Kim, Shin Gyu Kim, Kun Min Park
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Patent number: 8400031Abstract: The invention provides an electrical connection for an electric motor having a casing which houses a drive device, embodied especially a stator in a casing interior. The drive device is contacted via a conductor, embodied especially in the form of a pin. The conductor is guided from the exterior into the interior of the casing via a casing opening. A cylindrical sealing element is provided on the casing opening in the casing interior to seal the conductor from the casing opening. The sealing element is provided with a continuous collar and a through-opening through which the conductor extends and in which the conductor is sealed in the through-opening via at least one radial sealing lip that is formed in the through-opening on the sealing element and that rests on a surface of the conductor. The conductor is then sealed towards the housing via at least one axial sealing lip that is formed on the collar and that rests on an inside of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Harold Bitzer
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Patent number: 8378545Abstract: An electrical rotary machine is provided comprising a first stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a second stator core section being substantially circular and including a plurality of teeth, a coil arranged between the first and second circular stator core sections, and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets. The first stator core section, the second stator core section, the coil and the rotor are encircling a common geometric axis, and the plurality of teeth of the first stator core section and the second stator core section are arranged to protrude towards the rotor. Additionally, the teeth of the second stator core section are circumferentially displaced in relation to the teeth of the first stator core section, and the permanent magnets in the rotor are separated in the circumferential direction from each other by axially extending pole sections made from soft magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Hoganas AB (Publ)Inventors: Alan Jack, Edwin Pinguey, Göran Nord
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Publication number: 20130026863Abstract: A method of manufacturing anisotropic bonded magnets includes four steps. The first step fills a compressing metal mold with a compound chiefly made of flaky anisotropic magnetic particles. The second step forms a compression molded substance by molding the compound in the metal mold within an orientation magnetic field. The third step couples the compressing metal mold to a molding metal mold together. The fourth step moves the compression molded substance from the compressing metal mold to the molding metal mold, and then deforms and molds the compression molded substance into a given shape. This method allows controlling the anisotropy of the anisotropic bonded magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Asai
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Publication number: 20130020887Abstract: There is provided a spindle motor capable of having improved coupling strength between components by adhering the components to each other using an adhesive containing a metal powder. The spindle motor includes: a shaft; and a rotor case fixedly mounted to the shaft to thereby rotate together therewith, wherein an adhesive containing a metal powder is interposed in a portion at which the rotor case is fixedly mounted to the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jin San Kim
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Patent number: 8310125Abstract: In a motor comprising a stator and a rotor disposed in an inner circumference of the stator, the stator comprises a substantially cylindrical stator core and coils made up of wound conductors, and the stator core comprises an outer circumferential portion which constitutes an outer circumferential wall of the stator and an inner circumferential portion round which the conductors are wound. The outer circumferential portion is formed of a first sintered metal made of a powder magnetic material, while the inner circumferential portion is formed of a second sintered metal made of a powder magnetic material, and the first sintered metal is a sintered metal having a higher mechanical strength than the second sintered metal. Additionally, the stator core is formed by diffusion bonding the outer circumferential portion and the inner circumferential portion being bonded together.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Yukitake
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Patent number: 8298469Abstract: A method for manufacturing sintered magnet poles is described. The mold is filled with a vitrifiable base material powder and closed with a plate. A magnetic field aligns the powder and a plate pressed onto the powder establishes a compact that holds the alignment in place. The compact is sintered to form a sintered magnet pole. The mold forms a protective cover of the sintered magnet pole and the plate forms a base plate of a magnet pole piece. Furthermore, a magnet pole piece is provided which has a magnet pole and a base plate which is fixed to a protective cover so that the base plate and the protective cover surround the magnet pole. The base plate and/or the protective cover of the magnet pole piece has at least one element that provides a geometrical locking of the magnet pole to the base plate and/or the protective cover.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2012Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erik Groendahl, Henrik Stiesdal
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Publication number: 20120248901Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor and a production method thereof, the rotor having conductors with sufficient strength. In the invention, conductor particles are sprayed onto a core and/or conductive bars in a solid-state. As a result, in the coating material, the enlargement of the crystal grain of the conductors is significantly restricted, whereby conductive end rings are connected to the core and/or the conductive bars. Since conductor particles do not melt, a gap formed by thermal contraction when the conductor melts between different kinds of members is prevented from being formed. Therefore, the deterioration of the conductor may be limited, and the conductor may have sufficient strength. The reliability of the rotor is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi MAEDA, Masamoto FUKUDA, Takafumi KAJIYA
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Patent number: 8258668Abstract: A stator in which coil conductors of three phases are disposed in a plurality of slots provided in a stator core, wherein the coil conductors are formed by connecting a plurality of slot conductor portions disposed in the slot, a plurality of coil end conductor portions extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core on an outer side of an axial end surface of the stator core, and a plurality of upstanding conductor portions, each of which connects the coil end conductor portion and the slot conductor portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toru Kuroyanagi
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Publication number: 20120200177Abstract: Disclosed is a stator device adapted to be arranged in an electrical machine, where the electrical machine further comprises a moving device, where the stator device is a multi-phase stator device, where the phases are arranged side-by-side in a direction perpendicular to direction of motion of the moving device, and where each phase comprises a first stator core section having a set of teeth, a second stator core section having a set of teeth, and a coil, and where the teeth are arranged to protrude towards the moving device; and wherein at least two neighbouring phases share a stator core section, so that the first stator core section of a first phase and a second stator core section of a second phase is formed as a single unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: HÖGANÄS AB (Publ)Inventors: Glynn James Atkinson, Alan G. Jack, Barrie Mecrow
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Patent number: 8222785Abstract: A magnet comprising grains of a ferromagnetic material whose main component is iron and a fluorine compound layer or an oxy-fluorine compound layer of fluoride compound particles of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements, present on the surface of the ferromagnetic material grains, wherein an amount of iron atoms in the fluorine compound particles is 1 to 50 atomic %.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
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Patent number: 8217550Abstract: An alternator includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core having a first core portion and a second core portion. The rotor core is processed by cementation, so that the first core portion has carbon content that gradually decreases from the outer surface toward the central line of the rotor core till reaching a predetermined carbon content. The second core portion has carbon content lower than that of the first core portion. With these arrangements, the alternator can reduce turn-on speed and increase outputs. A method of manufacturing the non-homogenous rotor core of the alternator is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Unipoint Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd.Inventor: Cheng-Feng Lin
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Publication number: 20120146435Abstract: The invention relates to a stator (1) of an electrical machine (10), the electrical machine (10) itself, and a manufacturing method. The stator (1) has a meandering cooling channel (18), wherein the meandering cooling channel (18) is embedded in an element (22), wherein the element (22) comprises a material which is influenced thermally so as to form a shape of the element (22), wherein an iron-containing body (3), for guiding a magnetic field of the stator, is embedded in the element (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erich Bott, Hubertus Bähr, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 8188624Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that it does not require specific fastening tools, which causes breakage or defects, or bonding work, because a brushless DC motor includes an insulator that is inserted in a stator to insulate a coil wound with led magnet wires and has at least one or more locking portions with locking grooves stepped on the inner side along the circumference and an outlet connector that has hooks fitted in the locking protrusions when being assembled with the insulator such that the insulator and the outlet connector are assembled in fitting and locking ways in assembling.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignees: Donghee Industrial Co., Ltd., DH Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jongsang Noh, Jonggeun Cha, Jongman Lee
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Publication number: 20120126637Abstract: A rotor for an electrical motor includes a spindle, a plurality of sintered permanent magnets arranged around the spindle, a compacted powdered soft magnetic material at least partially surrounding the plurality of sintered permanent magnets, and a plurality of discrete regions of compacted powdered non-magnetic material at least partially surrounding the plurality of sintered permanent magnets. The discrete regions of non-magnetic material are at least partially embedded in the soft magnetic material and the soft magnetic material and the non-magnetic material couple the plurality of sintered permanent magnets with the spindle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Scott Michael Ankeney, Kenji Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120119599Abstract: Electrical machines, for example transverse flux machines and/or commutated flux machines, may be configured to achieve increased efficiency, increased output torque, and/or reduced operating losses via use of laminated materials in connection with powdered metal materials. For example, stacks of laminated materials may be coupled to powdered metal teeth to form portions of a stator in an electrical machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: MOTOR EXCELLENCE, LLCInventors: David G. Calley, Daniel S. Cole, John M. Dyer, Thomas F. Janecek, Tyler K. Williams
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Publication number: 20120104880Abstract: An axial motor includes a rotor arranged between a pair of stators with coils. In the rotor, a plurality of permanent magnets sandwiched between pairs of first magnetic materials and a plurality of second magnetic materials are alternately arranged in a rotation direction while gaps are provided therebetween. Since the permanent magnets are sandwiched by the first magnetic materials in the thus constructed axial motor, a field-weakening control can be performed. Since the second magnetic materials are provided, a reluctance torque can be generated. Further, since the gaps are provided, more magnetic fluxes generated from the permanent magnets can be caused to flow toward the coils. Therefore, the thus constructed axial motor can achieve a higher output, higher torque, higher efficiency, and miniaturization.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO, NATIL. UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITYInventors: Masatsugu Takemoto, Hiroyuki Mitani, Hirofumi Hojo, Koji Inoue, Osamu Ozaki
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Publication number: 20120091832Abstract: A magnetic field interactive material being part of a machine component or mechanism utilizing magnetic or electro-magnetic field forces in said components operation and comprising specifically located magnetic particles incorporated into a non homogeneous amalgamation within the matrix or structural matrix of primarily a metal material differing from that of the magnetic particles therein forming an integrated component possessing magnetic field interactive capabilities, allowing such magnetic field interactive components to have a wide array of uses one of which is associated with Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventor: Rod F. Soderberg
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Patent number: 8153047Abstract: A method for manufacturing sintered magnet poles is described. A vitrifiable base material powder is filled into a mold, the mold is closed with a plate, the mold with the powder is placed in a magnetic field for aligning the powder, the plate is pressed such onto the powder as to establish a compact that holds the alignment in place, and the compact is sintered so as to form a sintered magnet pole. The mold ultimately forms a protective cover of the sintered magnet pole and the plate ultimately forms a base plate of a magnet pole piece. Furthermore, a magnet pole piece is provided which has a magnet pole and a base plate which is fixed to a protective cover so that the base plate and the protective cover surround the magnet pole. The base plate and/or the protective cover of the magnet pole piece has at least one element that provides a geometrical locking of the magnet pole to the base plate and/or the protective cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erik Groendahl, Henrik Stiesdal
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Publication number: 20120049663Abstract: A method of forming a rotor of an electromagnetic device includes substantially filling a channel defined by a lamination stack and having a curvilinear cross-section with a slurry including a polymer and a plurality of permanent magnetic particles each having a magnetic moment, applying a magnetic field having a plurality of magnetic field lines arranged in a predetermined geometry to the slurry in situ within the channel to thereby align the magnetic moment of each permanent magnetic particle along the field, and curing the polymer to permanently align the magnetic moment of each permanent magnetic particle along the field and thereby dispose a permanent magnet within the channel to form the rotor, wherein the permanent magnet abuts the stack and substantially fills the channel whereby the channel is substantially free from an air gap between the stack and the permanent magnet. A rotor formed by the method is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Raja K. Mishra, Thomas A. Perry, Anil K. Sachdev
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Patent number: 8120215Abstract: A motor and a control unit therefor comprise: salient rotor poles and salient stator poles, which are arranged along circumferences of phases A, B and C with an even interval therebetween; magnetic paths for passing magnetic fluxes, the paths permitting the magnetic fluxes passing through the salient rotor and stator poles of each phase to return to the rotor side; and substantially looped windings arranged between the salient stator poles of individual phases and the magnetic paths for passing magnetic fluxes, wherein currents are supplied to the windings in synchronization with the rotational position of the rotor to thereby output torque. Since the structures of the stator, the rotor and the windings are simple, productivity is enhanced, whereby high quality, small size and low cost can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Masayuki Nashiki
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Publication number: 20110309694Abstract: An electric machine (10; 100) comprises a rotor (14) having permanent magnets (24) and a stator (12) having coils (22) wound on stator bars (16) for interaction with the magnets across an air gap (26a, b) defined between them. The rotor has two stages (14a, b) arranged one at either end of the bars. The bars have a shoe (18a, 8) at each end of each bar that links magnetic flux through the bars with said magnets on each stage. Adjacent shoes facing the same stage of the rotor have a high-reluctance shoe gap (27) between them; adjacent magnets on each stage of the rotor have a high-reluctance magnet gap (25) between them; and the shoe and magnet gaps (25, 27) are angled with respect to each other such that they engage progressively as the rotor rotates. Alternatively, the shoes facing each stage are in a ring of connected shoes such that the magnets experience a continuous reluctance that is at least 90% constant as a function of rotor position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: ISIS INNOVATION LTDInventor: Tim Woolmer
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Publication number: 20110278966Abstract: A permanent magnet electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator housing with at least a North pole and a South pole. Each pole includes at least two permanent magnets arranged on an inner surface of the stator housing near the pole tips and an overmold of magnetic material molded around the permanent magnets and over the inner surface of the stator between the permanent magnets. Alternatively, an overmold of magnetic material may be provided over an inner surface of the stator, where the thickness of the overmold layer is greater near tips of each pole than in the middle portion of each pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Stephen Osborne, Colin Crosby, Sankarshan Murthy, Hung T. Du, Earl M. Ortt
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Publication number: 20110278965Abstract: There is provided a stator core including a core back having an opening such that the core back is fixed to a stationary member by being pressed and fitted thereto; and a plurality of teeth portions being protruded from the core back in a radial direction, each teeth portion including a winding recess around which a coil is wound, wherein the core back and the teeth portions are formed by a sintering process. Since the coil is wound around the winding recess, the height of the wound coil can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae Lyun Kang, Dong Yeon Shin
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Publication number: 20110273033Abstract: A rotary electric machine having a stator whose dismantled structure can be reintegrated at reduced cost. The stator eliminates difficulties in separation and reuse at the time of disposal incident to use of molding such as resin molding. Also, it has no adverse environmental impacts. A plurality of stator cores having a plurality of magnetic poles arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction are laminated in the axial direction with use of a heat-shrinkable tube having an appropriate compression retention force. The outer circumferences of these stator cores are covered collectively with another heat-shrinkable tube. The heat-shrinkable tubes are heated so that the plurality of stator cores are integrated into a single-piece structure by the heat-shrunk tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2008Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Hideaki Nagashima, Shuichi Ishizawa, Yuji Enomoto
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Publication number: 20110273034Abstract: A magnet pole portion 31 is made up of an integral magnet 44 into which are integrated a main permanent magnet piece 41 which is magnetized in the direction of a rotational axis, a pair of auxiliary permanent magnet pieces 42, 42 which are disposed at circumferential sides on one side of the main permanent magnet piece 41 with respect to the direction of the rotational axis, which are each magnetized in the direction of the rotational axis and a direction which is at right angles to a radial direction and on which magnetic poles face each other which are the same as a magnetic pole on the one side of the main permanent magnet piece 41 with respect to the direction of the rotational axis, and a pair of auxiliary magnet pieces 43, 43 which are disposed at circumferential sides on the other side of the main permanent magnet piece 41 with respect to the direction of the rotational axis, which are each magnetized in the direction of the rotational axis and a direction which is at right angles to a radial directionType: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8049376Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor is resistant to degradation in alternative fuels and has desirable magnetic properties. A stator for a brushless DC motor includes coils wound both clockwise and counterclockwise around teeth of a back iron. Pairs of the coils are electrically connected in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David M. Dokas, Brian J. Cardwell, Harold L. Castle
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Patent number: 8039998Abstract: A surface magnet type rotor and an inner magnet type rotor having good motor characteristics in which bonding strength is high between a magnet section and a soft magnetic yoke section, and structural reliability is high even in high speed use, and its producing method. The rotor comprises an anisotropic bond magnet section and a soft magnetic section wherein the anisotropic bond magnet section is preformed in magnetic field and then formed to be integrated with the soft magnetic section in nonmagnetic field. Subsequently, it is heat hardened to produce a surface magnet type rotor. Magnet units, each having a magnetic pole composed by bonding a pair of permanent magnets such that the directions of magnetization become symmetric with respect to the bonding surface, are linked such that magnetic poles of different polarities appear alternately on the magnetic action surface thus forming an anisotropic magnet body.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Masuzawa, Masahiro Mita, Keiko Kikuti
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Patent number: 8035270Abstract: A wheel motor can include a stator adapted to be coupled to a vehicle. The stator can include a body portion and a core extending radially outward from the body portion. A rotor can be disposed about the stator and can have a portion positioned radially outboard of and around the stator core. The rotor can include a plurality of magnets aligned with the stator core, and can be adapted to be coupled to a rotatable vehicle component. At least one winding element can be disposed circumferentially around the stator core, and a controller can be positioned in a pocket integrally formed in the stator body portion. The controller can be coupled to the at least one winding element and can be arranged to selectively provide a current supply to the at least one winding element to generate a magnetic flux to rotate the rotor relative to the stator.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Marsh, Herbert L. Adams, Charles D. Syverson
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Publication number: 20110241455Abstract: In an electric rotating machine, for reducing losses that occur in clamping plates and their shield, the electric rotating machine includes a rotor formed with field winding wound around a rotor core, a stator placed opposite to the rotor at a predetermined space and formed with stator winding wound around a stator core formed by stacking multiple magnetic steel sheets in the axial direction, clamping plates clamping and retaining the stator core from both axial end parts thereof in the stacking direction of the magnetic steel sheets, and a magnetic shield placed around the clamping plates to shield flux leakage flowing into the clamping plates, and the magnetic shield is formed of a cylinder of stacked steel sheets stacked in a form of a cylinder about the rotor shaft and powder magnetic core segments and powder magnetic core segments having portions which are stuck to the cylinder of stacked steel sheets on the stacking cross section, and arranged to cover side surfaces and an inner surface of radial directType: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura
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Patent number: 8004142Abstract: A stator assembly is provided with detachable teeth that are made of magnetic powder material. The teeth are so configured and sized as to be interconnected to a core body of the stator with pre-formed coils that are positioned between adjacent teeth.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: TM4 Inc.Inventors: Stephane Poulin, Ruisheng Shi, Sebastien Bigras, Gabriel Rakotonirina, Steve Fleming, Martin Houle
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Publication number: 20110176240Abstract: A disk drive device comprises a hub on which a magnetic recording disk is to be mounted; a base rotatably supporting the hub through a bearing unit; a sintered core fixed to the base, the sintered core having a ring portion and nine teeth that extend radially from the ring portion; coils wound around nine teeth; and a cylindrical magnet fixed to the hub. The sintered core is formed by heat-treating an iron powder. At least one of (a) the surfaces of particles of the iron powder and (b) the surfaces of the sintered core is insulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki TASHIRO
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Patent number: 7981359Abstract: A rotor comprising bonded magnet portions mainly composed of magnet powder and a binder, which are embedded in a soft magnetic portion mainly composed of soft magnetic powder and a binder, the rotor being produced by a compression-molding method, and the magnetic pole surfaces of the bonded magnet portions being embedded in the soft magnetic portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Masuzawa, Shigeho Tanigawa, Masahiro Mita, Keiko Kikuchi
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Patent number: 7972450Abstract: A magnet comprising grains of a ferromagnetic material whose main component is iron and a fluorine compound layer or an oxy-fluorine compound layer of fluoride compound particles of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements, present on the surface of the ferromagnetic material grains, wherein an amount of iron atoms in the fluorine compound particles is 1 to 50 atomic %.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
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Publication number: 20110148224Abstract: A stator and a rotor are oppositely arranged having a gap between the stator and the rotor in a direction parallel to a rotary shaft. The rotor has permanent magnets forming field magnetic poles and soft magnetic material segments to cover at least stator-facing surfaces of the respective permanent magnets. Each of the soft magnetic materials forms a composite part together with the permanent magnet. The rotor further has a disc-shaped nonmagnetic molded frame molded so as to cover the periphery of the composite part including the permanent magnet and the soft magnetic material segment while leaving a stator-facing surface of the soft magnetic material segment as an exposed surface. The composite part (including the permanent magnet and the soft magnetic material) and the nonmagnetic molded frame are integrated by molding of the molded material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Hirooki TOKOI, Yuji Enomoto
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Publication number: 20110095628Abstract: The present invention provides a low-iron-loss (high-efficiency) and low-cost axial gap motor that includes a high-quality soft magnetic material placed at an appropriate position, reduces torque pulsation, keeps induced voltage in the shape of a sine wave, and increases the degree of freedom in design. The axial gap motor includes a stator having stator teeth; and a rotor being opposed to the stator with a gap in an axial direction of the stator. Each of the stator teeth includes a stator tooth body, a stator tooth end joined to at least one axial-direction end of the stator tooth body, and a stator coil disposed around the stator tooth body. The stator tooth body includes a wound core comprised of a multi-layered amorphous foil strip winding. The stator tooth end is formed by a compact made of a powder magnetic core, and includes an opposed surface to the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventors: Yuji ENOMOTO, Zhuonan Wang, Ryoso Masaki, Hiromitsu Itabashi, Kazumasa Ide
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Publication number: 20110089774Abstract: A transverse flux, switched reluctance motor includes a stator, a rotor mounted for rotation relative to the stator about an axis, and a plurality of phased coils. The stator and rotor are spaced apart from each other by a gap and a first phased coil is positioned to extend at least partially across the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventor: Dennis A. Kramer
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Patent number: 7928822Abstract: A bobbin includes a spool portion having a hollow circular cylinder shape and adapted to have a wire wound thereon in multilayer alignment; a flange integrally disposed at one end of the spool portion; and a terminal block integrally disposed at the flange and adapted to terminate the wire, wherein a formula: D×N?D/2?L<D×N+D/2 is established where L is the effective length of the spool portion, D is the diameter of the wire, and N is the number of turns of the wire for the first layer of the multilayer alignment.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Yuuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20110074231Abstract: A magnetic field interactive material being part of a machine component or mechanism utilizing magnetic or electro-magnetic field forces in said components operation and comprising specifically located magnetic particles incorporated into a non homogeneous amalgamation within the matrix or structural matrix of primarily a metal material differing from that of the magnetic particles therein forming an integrated component possessing magnetic field interactive capabilities, allowing such magnetic field interactive components to have a wide array of uses one of which is associated with Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventor: Rod. F. Soderberg
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Patent number: 7911107Abstract: A motor is provided, which includes: a rotor having rotor pole groups, in which N-poles and S-poles are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction; an N number (N is a positive integer) of stator pole groups, in which a plurality of stator poles are arranged for individual phases along or in the vicinity of the respective circumferences so as to be positioned at substantially the same rotational phase position in terms of electrical angle; and an (N?1) number of loop windings axially arranged between the stator pole groups, with the same phase being arranged at axial ends, wherein each of the loop windings is arranged radially inner than the outer diameter of each rotor pole group. This simplified winding structure can enhance productivity, reduce size, enhance efficiency and reduce cost.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Masayuki Nashiki