Impregnated Or Coated Patents (Class 310/45)
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140042836
    Abstract: The stator of a vehicle-use electric rotating machine includes a stator core having slots formed along a circumferential direction thereof, segment conductors having a rectangular cross section and wound on the stator core such that each of the slots accommodates at least two of the segment conductors to form a stator winding, a sheet-like electric insulating member disposed in each of the slots so as to surround the segment conductors accommodated in the slot, the electric insulating member being formed with a plurality of projections projecting toward a wall surface of the slot, and a resin filled in each of the slots so as to impregnate into the electric insulating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshimitsu SHIGA, Hiroaki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20140035400
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil mounted on the stator core. The stator core has a plurality of slots that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core. The stator coil is formed of a plurality of substantially U-shaped electric conductor segments to include at least one ?-Y connection. The ?-Y connection is comprised of a ?-connected first three-phase winding and a Y-connected second three-phase winding. The first three-phase winding includes three phase windings that are ?-connected to define three terminals of the first three-phase winding therebetween. The second three-phase winding includes three phase windings that are respectively connected to the three terminals of the first three-phase winding. Further, the number of turns of the first three-phase winding and the number of turns of the second three-phase winding are respectively set to two different odd numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Nobuhiro ASANO
  • Publication number: 20130334907
    Abstract: The rotor for an electric rotating machine includes a rotor core fixed to a rotating shaft and formed with at least one magnet accommodating hole, a magnet accommodated in the magnet accommodating hole, a resin portion filled in the magnet accommodating hole accommodating the magnet, a first end plate fixed to the rotating shaft at one axial side of the rotor core, and a second end plate fixed to the rotating shaft at the other axial side of the rotor core. The axial fixing force of the second end plate against the rotating shaft is smaller than that of the first end plate. At least a part of the resin portion is present in an axial area between the magnet accommodated in the magnet accommodating hole and the first end plate, and the magnet is in direct contact with the second end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroyuki IKUTA, Atsuo ISHIZUKA, Junichi NAKAZONO
  • Publication number: 20130313923
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electric machine that includes providing a core defining a slot, coating a magnet body prior to installation of the magnet body into the slot and installing the magnet body into the slot wherein the coating on the magnet body has a thermal conductivity of at least about 0.3 W·m?1·K?1, advantageously of at least about 0.5 W·m?1·K?1, and even more advantageously of at least about 2 or 3 W·m?1·K?1 and wherein the coating is in a partially cured condition when the magnet body is inserted into the slot. The coating may form a substantially voidless material bridge between the magnet body and the core over at least a portion of the magnet body and thereby thermally couple the magnet body with the core. An electric machine manufactured in accordance with the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Remy Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Hamer, Brad Chamberlin
  • Patent number: 8581452
    Abstract: A high temperature motor has a stator with poles formed by wire windings, and a rotor with magnetic poles on a rotor shaft positioned coaxially within the stator. The stator and rotor are built up from stacks of magnetic-alloy laminations. The stator windings are made of high temperature magnet wire insulated with a vitreous enamel film, and the wire windings are bonded together with ceramic binder. A thin-walled cylinder is positioned coaxially between the rotor and the stator to prevent debris from the stator windings from reaching the rotor. The stator windings are wound on wire spools made of ceramic, thereby avoiding need for mica insulation and epoxy/adhesive. The stator and rotor are encased in a stator housing with rear and front end caps, and rear and front bearings for the rotor shaft are mounted on external sides of the end caps to keep debris from the motor migrating into the bearings' races.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Honeybee Robotics Ltd.
    Inventor: Roopnarine
  • Patent number: 8575796
    Abstract: A heavy-duty stator core and coil assembly that can accommodate severe input voltage spiking and harmonics may include a coat of varnish applied to the stator core and coil assembly by steps of dipping the stator core and coil assembly end-first along a longitudinal axis into a first tank of liquid epoxy resin having a relatively low viscosity, baking the coating, inverting the stator core and coil assembly and applying a second coat of varnish in the same manner, then dipping the core and coil assembly into a second tank having a liquid epoxy resin of a relatively high viscosity, then baking the second coat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Dayton-Phoenix Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Zahora, Johnny D. Yu, Bradley S. Bryant
  • Patent number: 8552601
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator including stator steel core (11) around which a coil is wound; a rotor which includes rotating body (30) that holds a plurality of permanent magnets (32) in the circumferential direction to face the stator, and shaft (16) that fastens rotating body (30) so as to penetrate the center of rotating body (30); a bearing (15) for supporting shaft (16); and bracket (17) for fixing bearing (15), wherein dielectric layer (50) is provided between shaft (16) and the outer periphery of rotating body (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130241324
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets which are arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation. At least one of the permanent magnets is attached to the shaft by a material joint or formfit. A flux conducting device for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets has a plurality of separate soft-magnetic flux conducting elements, with each flux conducting element being mounted between two of the permanent magnets and fixed thereto so as to be indirectly held in place on the shaft. At least one of the flux conducting elements has at least one contact area sized to cover an outer edge of one of the permanent magnets in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20130207489
    Abstract: In addition to a bearing holder being provided with an annular groove that opens down in the axial direction, an end cap is provided with an annular projection that extends up in the axial direction, and by way of press-fitting the projection into the groove, the fitted portion of the bearing holder and the end cap is forms an axially convex labyrinthine shape extending along the entire perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Masahiro NISHIDATE
  • Patent number: 8508083
    Abstract: An electrical motor has been developed having an epoxy, which encapsulates a stator winding to protect the stator winding from the humid and damp atmosphere associated with a cooling tower. The electrical motor includes a stator core, a stator winding configured about the stator core, and an epoxy encapsulating at least an end portion of the stator winding, the epoxy enabling the stator winding to be isolated from an atmosphere surrounding a fan within in a cooling tower operated by the electrical motor in which the stator core and the stator winding are positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kent A. Sheeran, Charles J. Roessler, Ralph D. Furmanek, John H. Hussey
  • Patent number: 8509973
    Abstract: Motor systems are disclosed that include: a motor component, at least one motor stator module, and at least one binary controller, wherein the binary controller is coupled to the at least one module. In some embodiments, a contemplated motor system also comprises at least one primary motor controller, wherein the primary motor controller is coupled to a vehicle speed component. Methods of using these motor systems and motorized vehicles comprising contemplated motor system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Inventors: Johnathan Goodwin, Uli Kruger, Neil Young
  • Publication number: 20130193781
    Abstract: An insulated electric motor includes a stator core having a stator cavity. Also included is an adhering material disposed within at least one portion of the stator cavity. Further included is a filling substance disposed within the at least one portion of the stator cavity and adhered to the adhering material, wherein the adhering material and the filling substance substantially fill the stator cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roy D. Rasmussen, Aaron M. Finke
  • Patent number: 8487488
    Abstract: In a dental, dental-medical or dental-technical handpiece, having an elongate grip sleeve there are provided at the rearward end of the grip sleeve coupling elements for the connection of the handpiece to a supply hose to be connected with a dental supply arrangement, and there are provided at the forward end of the grip sleeve a head section with a tool receiver for mounting a tool to be put into rotation. The handpiece further has an electric motor for driving a tool held by the tool receiver, which motor is completely integrated into the grip sleeve such that grip sleeve and motor form a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kaltenbach & Voight GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kuhn, Bernd Gugel
  • Patent number: 8482172
    Abstract: A terminal module includes a ring-shaped rail having a groove extending in a circumferential direction, a bus bar fitted into the groove, and a connector portion having a connector terminal connecting the bus bar with an external wire. The rail has a phase determining hole for determining a phase of rotation of the rail about an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Sasaki, Yasumasa Goto, Norihiko Akao
  • Publication number: 20130162065
    Abstract: Disclose herein is a spindle motor, including: a shaft including a top thrust plate disposed at a top portion thereof and a bottom thrust plate disposed at a bottom portion thereof; a sleeve formed in a hollow cylindrical shape so as to be rotatably supported by the shaft and including a ring shaped convex part formed along an outer peripheral surface thereof; a base including a cylindrical support part formed at the center thereof and supporting the sleeve using a hollow part formed at the center of the support part; and a hub having a cylindrical part fixed to an upper end portion of the sleeve, a disk part extended from the cylindrical part in an outward direction, and a skirt part extended from an edge of the disk part in a vertical downward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8468681
    Abstract: A method for establishing a wind turbine generator with one or more Permanent Magnet (PM) rotors. The method comprises the steps of: manufacturing a generator prepared for taking one or more PM rotors, manufacturing one or more rotors comprising a plurality of holding means prepared for retaining PM material, mounting substantially non-magnetized PM material prepared for magnetization in said holding means before or after said one or more rotors are mounted in said generator, connecting a magnetization system for magnetizing said PM material in the generator, and magnetizing said PM material with said magnetization system. The invention also relates to a wind turbine nacelle, a wind turbine comprising said wind turbine nacelle and use of a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Lars Helle, Philip Richard Jacobsen Carne Kjaer, Morten Lindholm, Flemming Buus Bendixen, Ion Boldea
  • Patent number: 8466598
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine includes a multi-phase stator coil that is wound on a stator core in a distributed winding manner. Each of phase windings of the stator coil is formed of an electric wire bundle which includes a plurality of insulation-coated electric wires that are electrically connected to one another. Each of the electric wire bundles forming the phase windings has in-slot portions, which are respectively received in corresponding slots of the stator core, and turn portions that are located outside the slots of the stator core to connect adjacent pairs of the in-slot portions. Each of the electric wire bundles further includes a plurality of insulating layers that are respectively formed at predetermined positions, at which the turn portions of the electric wire bundle overlap those of the other electric wire bundles, so as to surround the electric wires of the electric wire bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Osada, Takuzou Mukai
  • Patent number: 8427017
    Abstract: A split stator is manufactured in such a manner that an adhesive is applied on a teeth part of a split core to form an adhesive layer, the split core is inserted in a lower die, a molten insulator material containing fibrous fillers is injected in the die, and an upper die is moved to form an insulator. In the insulator, the fibrous fillers are oriented in random directions, providing increased thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Nakanishi, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8418350
    Abstract: A method for forming a secondary for a motor, for instance a linear drive motor, includes providing a sheet of highly magnetic permeable material with a plurality of slots extending through the sheet spaced along a length of the sheet. The slots define a plurality of teeth in the sheet and enable the sheet to be conformable to a mounting surface when forming the secondary of the motor. The top surface of the sheet has a plurality of pockets formed adjacent the plurality of slots. The pockets extend parallel to the width and are spaced along the length of the sheet. The pockets form a sensor operatively connected to a control of the motor. The sensor may be an encoder, and/or operatively connected to a control for controlling commutation of the motor, and/or setting positional limits, absolute positional information, and/or providing information about the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Baldor Electric Company
    Inventors: Glenn S. Trammell, Rui Qiao
  • Publication number: 20130082547
    Abstract: There are provided a sealing resin composition for a hard disk drive (HDD) motor and a HDD motor fabricated by using the same. The sealing resin composition includes 40 to 80 parts by weight of epichlorohydrin-4,4-isopropylidene diphenol resin; 5 to 20 parts by weight of acrylated ester; and 5 to 15 parts by weight of acrylated epoxy. The sealing resin composition containing a UV curable epoxy resin is used as a sealing material of the adhering part of the FPC of the HDD motor, whereby generation of outgas in the adhering part may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Kun Kim, Myung Hwa Choi, Sang Hyun Kwon, Hyung Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8410655
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, which has a plurality of stacked electromagnetic steel sheets, caulking portions configured to fix the plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets to each other, and a plurality of slot portions open toward an inner circumference side and arrayed along a circumferential direction. A number Q (an integer of 1 or greater) of the caulking portions, a number S of the slot portions and a number P of the poles satisfy Q?S and Q=P×n/2 (where n is an integer of 1 or greater). The stator is preferably part of a motor for a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kojima, Kazuo Ida, Yoshihiro Kataoka, Azusa Ujihara
  • Publication number: 20130043744
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine having a stator or a rotor with a core that includes a plurality of tapered pole pieces is a low loss electrical machine that results in improvements such as higher output power, higher torque and higher efficiency than a machine that does not have tapered pole pieces. The stator or the rotor with tapered pole pieces may be applied to a power train in automobiles, power tools, and various appliances. A method of constructing the core includes winding an iron-based amorphous magnetic alloy ribbon to form a cylinder-shaped core, then heating, impregnating with resin, and machining the cylinder-shaped core to form a plurality of tapered pole pieces being separated in an alternating manner by a plurality of slots. The cores having an outside diameter in a range of 50 mm-1200 mm, a tapered angle in a range of 10°-45°, and a slot depth in a range of 10 mm-210 mm are advantageous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: GLASSY METAL TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: John Andrew GAYLER, Stephen Robert Kloeden, Nesimi Ertugrul, Ryusuke Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8378536
    Abstract: A mill drive system with a transmission arranged beneath a milling table and with at least one planetary and/or spur gear stage as well as a vertical shaft position is provided. In addition, an electric motor is integrated in a housing of the transmission and is connected to a lubricant supply circuit of the transmission. A rotor and a stator of the electric motor have vertically extending axes. Cooling of the motor is performed by a lubricant circulating through the transmission. Furthermore, a lubricating-oil-proof sheath for rotor and/or stator windings of the electric motor for sealing with respect to the lubricant is provided. In addition, the mill drive system includes a converter with a regulation device for backlash-free speed regulation of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedhelm Pötter, Joachim Ridder
  • Patent number: 8365391
    Abstract: A method for establishing a wind turbine generator with one or more Permanent Magnet (PM) rotors. The method comprises the steps of: manufacturing a generator prepared for taking one or more PM rotors, manufacturing one or more rotors comprising a plurality of holding means prepared for retaining PM material, mounting substantially non-magnetized PM material prepared for magnetization in said holding means before or after said one or more rotors are mounted in said generator, connecting a magnetization system for magnetizing said PM material in the generator, and magnetizing said PM material with said magnetization system. The invention also relates to a wind turbine nacelle, a wind turbine comprising said wind turbine nacelle and use of a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Lars Helle, Philip Richard Jacobsen Carne Kjaer, Morten Lindholm, Flemming Buus Bendixen, Ion Boldea
  • Patent number: 8358045
    Abstract: Presented is a winding arrangement for an electric machine that includes a laminated core that includes a yoke that includes a plurality of teeth each having flanks that form first wedge surfaces and a winding support area that has a trapezoidal cross-section. The arrangement further includes a coil winding, and a winding body configured to arrange the coil winding on one of the plurality of teeth. The coil winding has an inner area arranged opposite the first wedge surfaces and represents second wedge surfaces. The arrangement further includes a stop means disposed on the winding body and/or one of the plurality of teeth. The stop means is configured to limit movement of the winding body in a direction toward the yoke. The arrangement further includes a centering means configured to center the winding body on one of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Marcus van Heyden, Alexander Gehring, Ralf Rönnebeck, Florian Leberfinger, Frank Kewes
  • Patent number: 8350427
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electrical machine includes a core unit configured by a plurality of core assemblies, around which wires are respectively wound to form the coils, including low voltage side terminals, which connect first ends of the coils, and a bus ring attached to the core unit so as to connect second ends of the coils to electricity supply wires by high voltage side terminals. Each terminal accommodating portion is individually formed relative to each of the core assemblies at an external side of the coils. Each of the terminal accommodating portions is filled with an insulating resin material in a state where at least one of a connecting portion of the first end and each of the low voltage side terminals and a connecting portion of the second end and each of the high voltage side terminals is accommodated within each of the terminal accommodating portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Jun Abiko, Yasutoshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Nagata
  • Patent number: 8314342
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to provide an insulation coil with high insulation reliability using a dry mica tape, an integral impregnation coil and a mica tape for the electrical rotating machines using these coils, said mica tape having a long shelf life and capable of preventing run-off of the impregnating epoxy resin composition during curing, with the cured product of said epoxy resin composition being high in heat resistance. It is also envisaged to provide a single insulation coil using a mica tape containing epoxy adduct imidazole as an epoxy resin curing catalyst or a mica tape containing a mixture of epoxy adduct imidazole and zinc naphthenate. An integral impregnation coil made by using said insulation coil and an epoxy resin composition, and the electrical rotating machines using such coils are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Ikeda, Hisashi Morooka, Keiji Suzuki, Mitsuru Onoda, Nobuaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8304955
    Abstract: A PM stepping motor includes: a stator assembly composed of two stator units which are axially coupled to each other with a molding resin material, and each of which includes: inner and outer yokes each having a plurality of pole teeth; a bobbin including inner and outer flanges; and a coil wound around the bobbin, thus providing two such inner yokes, outer yokes, bobbins and coils in total; a rotor assembly which includes a shaft and a magnet, and which is rotatably disposed in the hollow of the stator assembly; and two bearings to rotatably support the shaft of the rotor assembly, wherein the two bobbins are formed of the molding resin material to be consolidated with the two inner yokes, and wherein a plurality of protrusions are formed of the molding resin material to extend integrally from the outer flange of each of the two bobbins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Takayuki Yamawaki, Hiroyuki Furusaki, Masaki Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20120223599
    Abstract: A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a stator core which has a plurality of slots and a stator winding which is provided at the stator core. The stator winding has a plurality of conductor segments each of which includes an inner conducting body accommodated in the slot of the stator core and coil ends exposed from the slot, and weld portions which are connected with each other by welding the conductor segments at at least one of the coil ends. The weld portions are annularly disposed with an interval therebetween. The weld portions are coated with an insulating resin material. The resin material is formed of a plurality of layered insulating films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenobu NAKAMURA, Akira Takasaki
  • Publication number: 20120223598
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for an electric rotating machine is provided. According to the method, resin is applied and impregnated to a surface of a winding through windows of a wavy clearance between pawl parts opposed to each other of a pair of pole cores. Uncured resin having fluidity is dropped to at least one part area of the outer surface of the winding. The uncured resin, immediately after dropping, is spread on the outer surface of the winding, and the uncured resin adheres to the outer surface of the winding other than the part area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki MATSUHISA
  • Patent number: 8222792
    Abstract: A generator or motor apparatus having a stator formed of a plurality of pairs of parallel stator segments is provided The pairs of parallel segments are connected together to form a channel in which an annular rotor moves The annular rotor also comprises a plurality of detachable segments connected together to form an annular tram operable to move through said channel Each stator segment comprises a stator winding set and each rotor segment comprises a magnet dimensioned to fit between the parallel spaced apart stator segments The apparatus may include a support structure, the rotor segments being slidably coupled to the support structure and the stator segments being attached to the support structure The apparatus may be a rim generator, wind turbine generator or other electrical machine The stator winding set includes a stator winding, and may include other electrical or electronic components, including possibly a power factor capacitor, direct current filtering capacitor, supercapacitor, and one or more di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Clean Current Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Mihai C. Platon, Virgil F. Young
  • Patent number: 8159093
    Abstract: A motor apparatus includes a movable portion including a coil and a tooth-like salient pole and a platen opposed to the movable portion. The movable portion and the platen move relative to each other by using a magnetic field generated by supplying a current to the coil. The platen includes a base material having a surface on which convex portions and first concave portions are periodically arranged, a first thermally sprayed layer formed on the surface of the base material by thermal spraying such that second concave portions are formed inside the first concave portions, and a resin filled in the second concave portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Iwatani, Yoshikazu Miyajima
  • Patent number: 8120227
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine comprising a rotor shaft, a stack of laminations, which is coaxial to the rotor shaft and which comprises at least two radially-projecting poles, a field coil which is wound around each pole, such that the ends of the coil project out axially in relation to each external axial end radial face of the lamination stack and two plates for supporting the lamination stack, which are disposed axially on either side of the stack, housings being provided in the internal radial face of each plate for receiving the coil ends. At least one of the housings comprises a contact surface with the external radial face of the associated coil end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Virginie Leroy, Marc Tunzini
  • Publication number: 20110285216
    Abstract: A permanent magnet module for a rotor of a permanent magnet electrical machine is presented. The permanent magnet module comprises: a stack of ferromagnetic steel sheets (104) having a groove in the direction perpendicular to the ferromagnetic steel sheets, and a permanent magnet (105) located in the groove and arranged to produce magnetic flux that penetrates a surface (106) of the stack of ferromagnetic steel sheets. The surface has a shape suitable for forming a desired magnetic flux density distribution into an air-gap of the permanent magnet electrical machine. The permanent magnet module further comprises a base-plate (102) made of solid ferromagnetic steel. The base plate is located at an opening (116) of the groove and constitutes together with the groove an aperture in which the permanent magnet is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Panu Kurronen
  • Patent number: 8049376
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Dokas, Brian J. Cardwell, Harold L. Castle
  • Patent number: 8040015
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive is introduced into the gap for fastening the ring member to the rotor core stack. Molded articles that are used as spacers are admixed to the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 8030818
    Abstract: A stator coil includes a plurality of copper strands and a layer of high thermal conductivity polymer disposed adjacent at least one of the copper strands. The high thermal conductivity polymer includes a host polymer and a high thermal conductivity filler. The high thermal conductivity polymer improves heat transfer from the plurality copper strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas I. Nelson, John W. Wood, Lon W. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 8022581
    Abstract: A stator arrangement of a generator for a wind turbine includes a plurality of stator segments substantially forming the stator of the generator. Each stator segment has at least one stator winding and/or a laminate stack of sheets wherein each stator segment is moulded or casted into a material with an electrical insulating property and/or with a non-corroding quality and/or with a heat conductive property. The direct drive generator is also provided having such a stator arrangement and a wind turbine is provided having such a direct drive generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 7972450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Takao Imagawa
  • Patent number: 7898123
    Abstract: The permanent magnet type rotary machine is capable of reducing cogging torque caused by variation of amounts of magnetic flux in magnetic circuits. The permanent magnet type rotary machine comprises: a stator constituted by stator units, which are coaxially stacked and in each of which a coil is sandwiched between stator yokes; and a rotor including a permanent magnet having magnetic poles, which respectively face magnetic pole teeth of the stator yokes, the rotor being rotatably supported by an output shaft. The stator units in one phase is divided into n (n is an integer one or more), and magnetic centers of at least one pair of the magnetic pole teeth of the adjacent stator yokes, which are vertically arranged, are shifted with a prescribed phase difference so as to mutually cancel their cogging torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Usui
  • Patent number: 7876012
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine comprising a stator having a plurality of slots and teeth, armature windings wound around the teeth, and a rotor disposed inside the stator, wherein an alloy member is disposed in the inner periphery of the stator and the magnetic compensator has its surface or inside thereof a high resistance layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matahiro Komuro, Yuichi Satsu, Noriaki Hino
  • Patent number: 7851951
    Abstract: The invention relates to a secondary part (2, 3) of a linear electrical machine (5), wherein the secondary part (2, 3) has permanent magnets (11) and a mount (13). The secondary part (2, 3) has spacer elements (9), wherein an installation height of the secondary part (2, 3) is also determined by means of the spacer elements (9). Tolerances of the installation height can be maintained more easily by means of the spacer elements. In a method for manufacturing a secondary part (2, 3) of a linear electrical machine (5), the spacer elements (9) are cast together with the mount (13) on which the permanent magnets (9) are arranged such that the permanent magnets (9) are embedded in the casting compound (15) and the casting compound (15) forms the surface of the secondary part (2, 3) in the region of the permanent magnets (11), wherein the spacer elements (9) protrude out of the casting compound (15) such that part of the surface of the secondary part (2, 3) is also formed by the spacer elements (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Hoppe, Markus Jakobi, Hermann Sailer
  • Patent number: 7843092
    Abstract: Disclosed is a highly heat-resistant core which has a dust core as a base body. A dust core obtained by press-molding magnetic powder particles each of which are covered with an insulating film is used as the base body. An inorganic heat-resistant insulating film is formed on at least a part of a surface of the dust core which faces a winding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tatematsu, Ryoji Mizutani, Yasuhiro Endo
  • Patent number: 7816821
    Abstract: A varnish impregnation state determination method for determining a varnish impregnation state of a core assembly that is formed by disposing a coil inside a slot of a motor core and impregnating the coil and an interior of the slot with a varnish, including applying an alternating current voltage between the motor core and the coil to determine tan ? that serves as a dielectric dissipation factor; and determining that the varnish impregnation state of the core assembly is normal when a value of the tan ? is equal to or smaller than a predetermined non-defective article reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Shingo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7816820
    Abstract: A compacted magnetic core with a high resistance, which comprises compacted magnetic powder of an iron powder or an alloy powder containing iron as a main ingredient and a layer of a rare earth metal fluoride or an alkaline earth metal fluoride on the surface of the powder, wherein the rare earth metal fluoride or the alkaline earth metal fluoride contains fluorine-depleted crystal lattice at a rate of 10% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Imagawa, Yuichi Satsu, Matahiro Komuro
  • Patent number: 7795773
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electric actuator is provided comprising windings constructed from a conductive core of high magnetic permeability material surrounded by an electrical insulator. The conductive core simultaneously carries an electric current and a magnetic field, resulting in an actuator that can develop a high force or torque for its size compared to conventional electric actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Brian Wittig
  • Patent number: 7788792
    Abstract: A rotor assembly or other rotating device having a stack of laminations or laminates that are chemically bonded together. Chemical bond of the laminates may have a strength that approaches the strength of the material of metal laminates. Chemical bonds may be effective in holding the laminates at temperatures when subject to rigorous mechanical operations such as high rotation speed and vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Walter L. Meacham, Mambailykalathil N. Menon
  • Patent number: 7777380
    Abstract: An electric motor has a wound rotor having a shaft, a rotor core, a commutator and windings wound about the rotor core and connected to the commutator. The motor has a stator confronting the rotor; brush gear electrically connecting the commutator to motor terminals; first and second bearings for rotatably supporting the rotor, and an oil collector fitted to the shaft between the commutator and the first bearing for preventing oil migrating along the shaft from the first bearing reaching the commutator. The oil collector is of high temperature material, preferably a metal such as brass, aluminum and steel. The oil collector returns the collected oil to the first bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: Dieter Rögelein
  • Patent number: 7768162
    Abstract: A stator coil 24 is installed in a stator core 11, and an insulating resin is impregnated into slot portions 22 and hardened. The stator coil 24 is constituted by enameled wires in which a polyamideimide resin layer has been applied radially outside a copper wire and hardened, and the insulating resin contains as a major component a THEIC-modified polyester resin that has been modified by a fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Ryodin Kasei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Hiroki Katayama, Hitoshi Tokuyama, Tomotaka Makino