Impregnated Or Coated Patents (Class 310/45)
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Publication number: 20100164308Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting a first joining partner (1) to a second joining partner (2). After provision of the first joining partner (1) and the second joining partner (2), a lacquer layer (11) is applied to the first joining partner (1). Then the first joining partner (1) and the second joining partner (2) are saturated together with an impregnating resin (8). The lacquer layer (11) is produced from a lacquer composition based on an epoxy resin mixture, a curing accelerator, a silane-based, epoxy-functional bonding agent, and a solvent. The epoxy resin mixture has 10 wt.-% to 94 wt.-% of at least one solid epoxy resin with a maximum epoxy count of 2 Eg/kg, 1 wt.-% to 50 wt.-% of at least one solid, multifunctional epoxy resin with an epoxy count >4 Eg/kg, and 5 wt.-% to 40 wt.-% of a phenol and/or kresol novolak with a melting point >30° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Lothar Zapf
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Publication number: 20100090548Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous motor of a draining pump is disclosed. It includes a permanent-magnet rotor for driving an impeller to rotate, a pump body for supporting the permanent-magnet rotor, a stator core and a stator coil. Among which, the stator coil is constructed with an enamelled aluminum wire winding which is coiled by an enamelled aluminum wire and sealed in a container. The invention applies the enamelled aluminum wire to the permanent-magnet synchronous motor of a draining pump. The winding of the stator coil and a welding part of its lead-out wire are sealed with plastic or epoxy resin which effectively isolate them from outside air, especially damp air. Therefore, the invention prevent the enamelled aluminum wire winding of the stator coil and the welding part of its lead-out wire from being oxidized in air and being corroded by the moisture, acid or alkaline matter in damp air.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: SHI Huashan, Yuyang Ma
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Patent number: 7679242Abstract: An electrical motor for an electrical submersible pump wherein the electrical motor has increased heat transfer capabilities. The electrical motor includes a housing and a plurality of stator laminations within the housing. Each stator lamination defines a central orifice and a plurality of lamination slots. A plurality of magnet wires pass through each of the plurality of lamination slots formed by the stacked plurality of stator laminations. Shrink wrap surrounds each of the plurality of magnet wires to secure the magnet wires in bundles. The result is that the wires are effectively bound together in a manner that allows oil to move freely inside the lamination slots surrounding the wire bundles. Since fluid can pass between and around the windings, the overall winding temperature will be normalized, essentially reducing hot spots that occur in prior art designs.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Larry J. Parmeter, John M. Knapp
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Patent number: 7679252Abstract: A magnet embedded motor includes a rotor, a plurality of magnets embedded in the rotor, and a yoke provided with the plurality of magnets for forming a magnetic path. The rotor is formed with the plurality of magnets and the yoke in a single member by means of a resin molding by making the plurality of magnet and the yoke as an insertion body.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shogo Iwase, Motohisa Ishiguro, Mitsuru Terayama, Tadashi Higuchi
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Patent number: 7655868Abstract: A stator bar. The stator bar may include a number of conductors and an insulation layer positioned about the conductors. The insulation layer includes a ceramic component.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey David Sheaffer, Elena Rozier, David John Wardell
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Patent number: 7649294Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, at least one of first and second ends of each conductor segment is at least partially joined to at least one of the first and second ends of a corresponding another one of the conductor segments to provide the stator winding including a plurality of joint portions of the plurality of conductor segments. An insulating film covers each of the conductor segments except for at least the joint portions of the stator winding. At least part of the insulating film of each of the conductor segments located close to a corresponding one of the joint portions contains an evaporatable component. An amount in ppm of the evaporatable component contained in the at least part of the insulating film is adjusted to be equal to or lower than 20000 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Akihito Koike
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Publication number: 20100007226Abstract: A conductor bar for a stator of a generator includes a plurality of internal conductor elements; an insulation wound around the plurality of internal conductor elements so as to externally enclose the plurality of internal conductor elements, the insulation including impregnated glass/mica bands; and at least one interlayer disposed between the insulation and the plurality of internal conductor elements so as to improve a mechanical connection between the plurality of internal conductor elements and the insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventor: Thomas Baumann
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Publication number: 20100007225Abstract: 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 the support structure The apparatus may be a rim generator, wind turbine generator or other electrical machine The stator winding set includes a winding, and may include other electrical or electronic components, including possibly a power factor capacitor, direct current filtering capacitor, supercapacitor, and one or more diodes The sType: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: CLEAN CURRENT POWER SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDInventors: Mihai C. Platon, Virgil F. Young
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Publication number: 20090302694Abstract: A motor stator includes a plurality of stator cores constituted of divided cores and cassette coils which are conductive coils. One of the divided core and the cassette coil is integrally formed with an insulator of a thermosetting resin by insert molding. A stator assembly including the plurality of cassette coils is covered with a thermosetting resin by molding to produce the state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventor: Masataka Asai
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Patent number: 7626306Abstract: The laminated core structure of a motor includes a stator iron core formed by laminating a plurality of stator iron core thin sheets in which a plurality of magnetic poles are provided at fixed intervals along the circumferential direction on the inner peripheral side so as to project toward the center direction, and a rotor iron core arranged on the axis line of the stator iron core concentrically with the stator iron core and formed by laminating a plurality of disc-shaped rotor iron core thin sheets, the stator iron core and the rotor iron core each being fastened by caulking the plurality of thin sheets to each other. The core loss produced by caulking is decreased by particular placement of the center of a caulking uneven part of the stator iron core thin sheet and the center of a caulking uneven part of the rotor iron core thin sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuo Sato
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Publication number: 20090289510Abstract: A device for connecting an electric motor intended for use in a fuel tank, in particular of a motor vehicle, with connection contacts carbon brushes sliding over an armature of a rotor, and electrical leads arranged between the connection contacts and the carbon brushes. The electrical leads have a sheath made of polytetrafluoroethylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2007Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Ralf Muehlhausen, Wolfgang Warnke
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Patent number: 7608954Abstract: A gap surface (225) on which a circuit board (5) for driving control is mounted is provided between a first inner surface (222) and a second inner surface (223), a tip end of a terminal pin (6) is projected in a part of the gap surface (225), and further a first concave portion (228) formed by recessing surroundings of the terminal pin (6) in an axis line direction of the terminal pin is provided in the gap surface (225). Thus, an electric motor can be assembled in a short period of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Fujitsu General LimitedInventors: Tomonori Kojima, Hirokazu Matsuzaki, Masaki Yamada
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Publication number: 20090256431Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
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Patent number: 7587807Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator of an electrical rotating machine that is configured to have a rotor mounted inside the stator. The stator has a laminated magnetic circuit having a stack of magnetic metal sheets disposed substantially parallel to a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the rotor of the machine. The magnetic circuit has teeth that delimit longitudinally oriented slots. The method includes the step of installing electrically conductive wires in the slots and forming winding heads at the two axial ends of the magnetic circuit and installing this assembly on a vertical axis. The assembly is trapped between an outer sheath, forming part of the final motor, and a removable inner core substantially occupying a volume reserved for the rotor. The conductive wires in the slots are impregnated under vacuum with a slot-impregnating composition including a heat-setting resin and a filler, and the composition is polymerized.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Conception Et Developpement MichelinInventors: Gérald Bourqui, Jean-Louis Linda, Roger Meuwly, Marcel Tornare
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Patent number: 7582999Abstract: An electric machine which includes a magnetically inducible core (60), at least three elongated first, second and third current carrying conductors (64-66) passing through a respective aperture (68) through the core, a first end (15, 69) of the first conductor and a first end of the second conductor are electrically connected by a first bridging member (8) located on a first side of the core, a second end of the second conductor and a second end of the third conductor are electrically connected by a second bridging member (8) located on a second side of the core (FIGS. 4, 5).Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Intelligent Electric Motor Solutions Pty LtdInventor: Donald Alfred Atkinson
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Patent number: 7574790Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a stator of an electrical rotating machine. The method includes: impregnating a first winding head with a first composition that includes a heat-setting resin and a filler of a first particle size; impregnating conductive wires in a slot region with a slot-impregnating composition that includes a heat-setting resin and another filler of a second particle size smaller than the first particle size of the filler of the first composition; and impregnating a second winding head with a composition that includes a heat-setting resin and a filler of a particle size larger than the second particle size.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Conception Et Developpement MichelinInventors: Gerald Bourqui, Jean-Louis Linda, Roger Meuwly, Marcel Tornare
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Publication number: 20090179506Abstract: An encapsulated stator assembly comprising a stator core of laminated electromagnetic steel sheets and containing wire wound coils; an insulator covering the stator core positioned between the stator core and the wire wound coils; wherein an encapsulating polymer composition substantially encapsulates the stator core and the wire wound coils and the insulator and an adhesive component is interfaced between the stator core and the encapsulating polymer composition and wherein the encapsulating polymer composition comprises a thermally conductive polymer composition having a thermal conductivity of at least about 0.6 W/mK. A method for making the encapsulated stator assembly is also part of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Inventors: Yuji Saga, Masahiro Matsuzaki, Yoko Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20090174279Abstract: A stator bar. The stator bar may include a conductor, a layer of insulation positioned about the conductor, and a high thermal conductivity varnish to bond the layer of insulation to the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jeffrey David Sheaffer, Elena Rozier, David John Wardell
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Patent number: 7557481Abstract: A rotor 10 for an electrical machine comprising a rotor body 12, at least one magnet 18 coupled to the rotor body 12 and a retainer 22 for retaining the at least one magnet 18 to the rotor body 12, the retainer 22 comprising at least one elongate fibre in a metal matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Rolls-Royce, PLLCInventors: John J A Cullen, Phillip J Doorbar, Bradley S Payne, Stephen W Hill
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Publication number: 20090167101Abstract: A stator assembly and a method for making a stator assembly wherein the stator assembly is over-molded with thermally conductive and electrically insulating polymer composition. The stator core of the stator assembly is coated with adhesive component to provide higher heat transfer at the interface of stator core and over-molded insulator and coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Yuji Saga, Masahiro Matsuzaki, Yoko Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20090152491Abstract: Thermally conductive polymer resin compositions comprising polymer, spherical or granular shape thermally conductive filler, and platy thermally conductive filler, and optionally a polymeric toughening agent. The compositions are particularly useful for metal/polymer hybrid parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventor: Yuji Saga
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Patent number: 7545066Abstract: The jacketed active magnetic bearing is applied to a rotary machine having a rotor in contact with a process gas and placed in a leaktight enclosure. The magnetic stator is protected by a first jacket of magnetic anti-corrosion material that constitutes a portion of the leaktight enclosure and that is secured to the bearing stator, and the detector stator is protected by a second jacket of non-magnetic anti-corrosion material that constitutes a portion of the leaktight enclosure and that is secured to the detector stator. The bearing armature and the detector armature can be made of a laminated magnetic identical to that of the first jacket.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Societe de Mecanique MagnetiqueInventors: Luc Baudelocque, Armand Lapierre, Maurice Brunet, Michel Lacour
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Publication number: 20090134719Abstract: An electric motor comprises a first member having one or more magnetic, electric or electro-magnetic components, a second member having one or more magnetic, electric or electro-magnetic components, and a fluid containing ferromagnetic particles located in between the first member and the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2007Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: CIIIS, LLCInventor: Richard R. Tomsic
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Publication number: 20090127943Abstract: Brushless motor (1) which is an electric motor, is provided with a stator unit (3) inserted in and engaged with case (2). A part of the coating material (21) for coating the coil (17) of the stator unit (3) enters the receiving part (13) formed in the bottom part (2B) of the case (2); and the bottom part (2B) of the case (2) and the coil (17) are linked by this coating material (21). While coating, the coating material (21) is dripped from the opening side of the case (2) with the stator unit (3) in the inserted condition in the case (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Machida, Takeshi Yamazaki, Hirotatsu Ikeno
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Patent number: 7498713Abstract: A stator includes: an annular stator core in which a plurality of slots opening radially inward are formed circumferentially; and a stator winding installed in the stator core. A sheet-shaped varnish supporting member is disposed so as to be placed in close contact with a radially-outermost surface of a coil end group of the stator winding around an entire circumference, and a varnish is applied to the coil end group from radially inside.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyoko Higashino, Wakaki Miyaji
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Patent number: 7488369Abstract: A magnetostriction device is made such that an impregnated composition material, such as phenol resin, a resin in which an inorganic material such as silica is dispersed into a phenol resin, an epoxy based resin, or an acrylic resin is impregnated and caked into holes of a magnetostrictive sintered material manufactured by a powder metallurgy method. This magnetostriction device has improved mechanical strength against external force.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshio Ohashi, Masaru Uryu
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Publication number: 20080246354Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, RYODEN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihito ASAO, Hiroki KATAYAMA, Hitoshi TOKUYAMA, Tomotaka MAKINO
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Publication number: 20080218008Abstract: Rotor and stator assemblies that utilize magnetic bearings for supporting the rotor shall during operation can be suitably used in corrosive environments, such as sour gas. The rotor and stator assemblies include NACE compliant magnetic bearing arrangements for sour gas applications. One embodiment includes the use of barrier layers disposed on selected exposed surfaces of the rotor shaft assembly and/or stator assembly. Also disclosed are processes for forming encapsulated stators that exhibit improved corrosion resistance, as well as corrosion resistant materials for backup bearing races and landing sleeves.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Farshad Ghasripoor, Mohamed Ahmed Ali, Bruce William Brisson, Mohammad Ehteshami, William Dwight Gerstler, Patricia Chapman Irwin, Vasanth Srinivasa Kothnur, Ramgopal Thodla, Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Konrad Roman Weeber
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Patent number: 7417341Abstract: A method of sealing a generator stator bar and a stator bar end fitting receiving the end including the steps of: brazing the fitting to the end of the stator bar with a braze material; applying a powder coating material to the end of the stator bar in the fitting; and curing the powder coating material to form a barrier coating on the end of the stator bar and the adjoining interior surfaces of the fitting.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Waheed Tony Mall, Roderick Mark Lusted, Yu Wang
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Publication number: 20080121833Abstract: An idle air control valve (11) for a vehicle includes a stator assembly (12) and a rotor assembly (26) operatively associated with the stator assembly and mounted for rotation with respect to the stator assembly. A shaft (36) is restricted from rotation and is associated with the rotor assembly such that rotation of the rotor assembly causes linear movement of the shaft. A pintle (38) is associated with a distal end of the shaft for linear movement therewith. A journal (28) is associated with the rotor assembly and is constructed and arranged to support and permit rotation of the rotor assembly relative to the stator assembly. Lubricant (30) is provided between a surface of the journal and a surface of the rotor assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Siemens VDO Automotive Canada Inc.Inventors: Craig Andrew Weldon, Dian Hong, Jian Tong
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Publication number: 20080122302Abstract: A pneumatic tool includes a nonmagnetic tool housing; a cylindrical rotor inside the tool housing and rotatable in response to a flow of pressurized fluid through the tool housing; magnets mounted in the rotor; and a stator external to the tool housing. The stator is dimensioned to cooperate with the magnets to, upon rotation of the rotor, generate electrical current for supply to a load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventor: Jon J. Leininger
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Publication number: 20080122300Abstract: A motor adapted to rotate an element of an appliance, for example, a drum of a washing machine, is disclosed. The motor includes a rotating shaft which is rotatably mounted to a motor mounting member of an appliance, a rotor which includes magnets circumferentially arranged at a position radially spaced apart from a center of the rotating shaft by a predetermined distance such that N and S poles are alternately arranged, and a stator which includes a core made of metal, an insulator enclosing the core while allowing a surface of the core facing the magnets of the rotor to be outwardly exposed, the insulator being made of an insulating resin material, coils wound on the insulator, and a circular molded member formed in accordance with an insert molding method to enclose the insulator and the coils while allowing the surface of the core outwardly exposed through the insulator to be outwardly exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Hung Myong Cho, Seong Hai Jeong, Yeong Soo Kim
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Patent number: 7375452Abstract: A commutator for an electrical machine, in particular for an electric motor for actuating drives in motor vehicles, has a commutator body that supports commutator laminations. To reduce the electromagnetic radiation, emitted into the environment as interfering radiation, that is engendered by spark development in the commutation operation, the commutator body is embodied as a hollow cylinder, and the commutator laminations are disposed on the inner jacket face of the commutator body.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2004Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Tobias Kuechen, Claus Schmiederer
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Publication number: 20080106157Abstract: When a rotating electrical machine winding is inserted into a slot with a protective insulation intervening between them, a semiconductive insulating layer is lap-wound between an interlayer insulating layer of the rotating electrical machine winding and the protective insulation, the semiconductive insulating layer being formed by center-folding a continuous semiconductive sheet in the longitudinal direction. A thermal stress relaxation layer is provided inside the center-folded continuous semiconductive sheet so that thermal stress exerted in thickness direction of the insulating layers is absorbed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Yutaka Higashimura, Yoshimi Kurahara, Hiroshi Miyao, Keiji Suzuki, Mitsuru Onoda, Nobuaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 7358639Abstract: A device such as an electric motor, an electric generator, and a regenerative electric motor includes at least one independent energizable electromagnetic assembly. Each independent electromagnetic assembly has an associated one-piece magnetic core. Each independent electromagnetic assembly defines two stator poles. Each one-piece magnetic core provides the entire magnetic return path for the two magnetic stator poles associated with each independent electromagnetic assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Inventor: Ramon A. Caamano
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Patent number: 7342334Abstract: A stator for an electric machine includes stator teeth with powder coat insulation covering a portion of each tooth. An end cap with a routing element is positioned on one side of the stator. Wire extends around and contacts the powder coat insulation on the stator teeth and is routed via the routing element.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Daniel E Hilton, Kent A Sheeran, Gary E Horst
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Publication number: 20070252449Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventors: Kenji Ikeda, Hisashi Morooka, Keiji Suzuki, Mitsuru Onoda, Nobuaki Tanaka
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Patent number: 7288870Abstract: A stator core 2 comprises laminations (9) of low loss stator iron forming a body of magnetic nature and lamination components (11) of high thermal conductivity material regularly arranged within that body. The high thermal conductivity components (11) increasing the effective radial thermal conductivity rate of the core 2 whereby temperature gradients are reduced in comparison with previous stator cores. Thus, there is a reduction in operational temperature of the electrical insulation on the stator windings.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Rolls-Royce plcInventors: Alan J Mitcham, Anthony G Razzell
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Patent number: 7284312Abstract: A method for varnish application to a dynamoelectric stator is disclosed. The method includes a varnish treatment process and application by preheating the stator; adjusting a viscosity of the varnish; dripping the varnish onto a coil end of the stator from radially outside the stator while rotating the preheated stator around a central axis; and hardening the varnish dripped onto the coil end by heating the stator. The varnish viscosity is adjusted so that said varnish dripped onto said coil end passes through the coil end from radially outside to radially inside, and the varnish is dripped onto said coil end along a direction which is perpendicular to the central axis of the collective coils.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Oohashi, Masayuki Fujii
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Patent number: 7262527Abstract: A plurality of stator segments 20 are linked together by a phase change material 22 enabling simplified winding and higher slot fill. Once wound this continuous structure can be formed into a toroidal core 17 for a stator assembly 40 used to make a motor 100. In a preferred embodiment, a monolithic body 42 of phase change material substantially encapsulates the conductors and holds the stator segments 20 in contact with each other in the toroidal core 17. Hard disc drives using the motor 100, and methods of constructing the motor 100 are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Encap Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Griffith D. Neal
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Patent number: 7242126Abstract: An armature assembly that may be encapsulated and a corresponding method to encapsulate a motor assembly are disclosed. The armature assembly includes a core having slots in which one or more windings are disposed. An outer covering, such as a thermally conductive thermoplastic material, encapsulates at least a substantial portion of the armature assembly. Some of the encapsulating material extends within the slots so as to facilitate its attachment to the assembly and/or to inhibit movement of the windings relative to their associated slots.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Anorad CorporationInventors: Gerald L Swift, Frederick A Sommerhalter, Jr., Robert A Syskowski
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Patent number: 7235910Abstract: A selective etching process cuts shapes from amorphous metal strip feedstock. The etching process comprises depositing a chemically resistant material to one side of the strip in a pattern that defines the requisite shape, mating the metal strip with a carrier strip, exposing at least one side of the metal strip to an etching agent to selectively etch the desired shape, and separating the shape from the strip feedstock. A plurality of layers of the shapes is assembled by adhesive lamination to form a generally polyhedrally shaped bulk amorphous metal magnetic component useful in high efficiency electric motors and inductive devices. The bulk amorphous metal magnetic component may include an arcuate surface, and preferably includes two arcuate surfaces that are disposed opposite to each other. The magnetic component is operable at frequencies ranging from about 50 Hz to about 20,000 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Metglas, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas J. Decristofaro, Gordon E. Fish, Scott M. Lindquist, Carl E. Kroger
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Patent number: 7224096Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Walter L. Meacham, Mambailykalathil N. Menon
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Patent number: 7221068Abstract: A motor core coated with a multi-layer insulating film. The insulating film preferably includes in order: an electrodeposited coating film applied upon an outer surface of the motor core; a first spray coated insulating film applied upon an outer surface of the electrodeposited coating film the first film having a pencil hardness of between about 2H and 4H; and a second spray-coated insulating film applied upon an outer surface of the first spray-coated insulating film, the second film having a pencil hardness of between about 3H and 6H. The invention is additionally directed to a variety of methods for forming such insulation-coated cores.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshimura, Kesao Suzuki
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Patent number: 7208856Abstract: Claw-shaped magnetic poles are alternately disposed along the rotation plane of a rotor of an electric rotating machine, and a permanent magnet is disposed between the claw-shaped magnetic poles. Surface of the permanent magnet is coated with a coating layer. The coating layer is composed of a anticorrosive material performing sacrificial anticorrosion (metal flake in a coating film rusts prior to a matrix resulting in protection of the matrix) such as inorganic material containing zinc and a film of the anticorrosive material is formed by spraying. Ionization tendency of zinc is larger than that of iron composing the permanent magnet, and the permanent magnet is difficult to be rusted owing to the sacrificial anticorrosion. Consequently, anticorrosion of the permanent magnet disposed between the claw-shaped magnetic poles is improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daisuke Imai, Yoshihito Asao, Masahiko Fujita
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Patent number: 7199499Abstract: The wear life of flexible copper fiber brushes when used at a positive pole in a direct current motor or generator is improved by the provision of an effective amount of zinc as a sacrificial anode material. Flame-sprayed zinc is applied as a coating to the exterior surface of such a copper fiber pack to bond the fibers with a surrounding metal wire reinforcing wrap, of cross wound copper wire or fine mesh, woven copper wire screen material, and create an improved brush.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: General AtomicsInventors: Alan R. Langhorn, Zbigniew S. Piec
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Patent number: 7199500Abstract: A claw-pole electric generator has a circumferentially arranged permanent magnet, a ring-shaped coil, a yoke and a cover member. The yoke surrounds an external periphery of the coil. The yoke has a stator yoke portion and a core yoke portion. The stator yoke portion is disposed between the coil and the permanent magnet. The core yoke portion is magnetically linked to the stator yoke portion. The core yoke is disposed on the external periphery of the coil. The coil and the yoke are rotatably disposed in relation to the permanent magnet. The stator yoke portion includes a plurality of first and second yoke sections having a plurality of plate-shaped pieces in a stacked arrangement on opposite sides of the coil in an axial direction. The cover member covers at least part of an external peripheral surface of the yoke section.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventor: Fuminori Yoshida
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Patent number: 7144468Abstract: A unitary amorphous metal magnetic component for an axial flux electric machine such as a motor or generator is formed from a spirally wound annular cylinder of ferromagnetic amorphous metal strips. The cylinder is adhesively bonded and provided with a plurality of slots formed in one of the annular faces of the cylinder and extending from the inner diameter to the outer diameter of the cylinder. The component is preferably employed in constructing a high efficiency, axial flux electric motor. When operated at an excitation frequency “f” to a peak induction level Bmax the unitary amorphous metal magnetic component has a core-loss less than “L” wherein L is given by the formula L=0.0074f(Bmax)1.3+0.000282f1.5(Bmax)2.4, the core loss, excitation frequency and peak induction level being measured in watts per kilogram, hertz, and teslas, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Metglas, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas J. Decristofaro, Scott M. Lindquist, Sastry S. Renduchintala, Carl E. Kroger
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Patent number: 7122934Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises: a stator including a stator iron core having a plurality of slots and a stator winding incorporated in the plurality of slots; and a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator via a clearance; wherein a mold (i.e., a slot insulator) made of an insulating resin is brought into close contact with the surface of a projection (i.e., a tooth core) of the stator iron core, formed between the adjacent slots, the thickness of the mold at a portion of the projection wound with the stator winding being smaller than that of the mold at other portions. Thus, it is possible to provide the rotating electric machine in which thermal resistance generated between the stator winding and the stator iron core can be reduced, thermal transmittance of heat generated in the stator winding to the stator iron core can be enhanced, and the cooling efficiency of the stator winding can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Noriaki Yamamoto, Fumio Tajima, Osamu Koizumi
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Patent number: 7095145Abstract: The rotating electric machine has a stator coil wound around a stator, a magnetic pole and a signal rotor fixed to a rotor, and a detection stator, disposed opposite to the signal rotor, for detecting the rotational position of the rotor, characterized by further comprising an adjuster for adjusting the position of the signal rotor or the detection stator by supplying a direct current to a predetermined phase of the stator coil and then a direct current to a different phase from the predetermined phase to rotate the rotor by a predetermined angle or more and constrain the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinobu Utsumi, Shinji Nishimura, Yoshihito Asao