Impregnated Or Coated Patents (Class 310/45)
  • Patent number: 6525437
    Abstract: A stator of a rotating electrical machine has improved heat dissipation of a stator and end portions of a stator winding thereof which are protected from damage due to stress concentration, by inserting a silicone rubber sheet between a stator core having no slots and the stator winding which is accommodated thereinside. The silicone rubber sheet comprises a rubber type material having flexibility so as to be deformable under pressure, which is reinforced by a glass cloth or a polyester mesh cloth. Moreover, this is preferably an insulating and heat dissipating sheet which contains a filler having good thermal conductivity. More preferably, a silicone rubber sheet which contains boron nitride is used. Furthermore, a protective sheet of a resin material is further inserted between the stator core and end portions of the stator winding over the silicone rubber sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Ozawa, Takeo Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20030025406
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide electrical equipment for mounting on vehicles and electrical machines having superior rust-prevention film, which makes it possible to prevent vehicles from generating red rust even if outer surface of magnetic core housing of the vehicle is damaged by bouncing a stone and the like during running, and also to provide manufacturing methods of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Abe, Shigeru Yumiyama, Kazuyuki Mori
  • Publication number: 20030020338
    Abstract: The invention proposes a rotary electrical machine (10), especially a motor vehicle alternator, of the type comprising a stator (12) of generally cylindrical annular form, which is arranged in a casing (14) comprising a rear portion (16) and a front portion (18), of the type in which the outer axial face (24) of the stator (12) and the inner axial face (30) of the casing (14) delimit an annular radial space (32), and of the type in which the stator (12) is suspended elastically within the casing (14), characterized in that at least part of the annular radial space (32) contains thermally conductive resin (50) which is deformable axially and interposed radially between the casing (14) and stator (12), so as to effect radial mechanical decoupling between the stator (12) and casing (14) and so as to dissipate heat energy from the stator (12) to the casing (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Daniel Hirsou, Eric Le Quere, Michel Magnier, Didier Selosse
  • Patent number: 6510603
    Abstract: A production method of a rotor in which a lower layer slot insulator is held at a slot insulator holding portion of a combining jig, a lower layer coil bar is inserted into a coil inserting path of the combining jig and is combined integrally with the lower layer slot insulator by being pushed by a first coil inserting arrow and thereafter, set to inside of a coil integrating path of a coil holding member. The coil holding member is attached to a coil inserting device along with an armature core. The lower layer slot insulator and a lower layer coil trunk are integrally inserted into a slot of the armature core by pushing the lower layer coil bar set to inside of the coil integrating path. The upper layer coil trunk and the lower layer coil trunk may be formed integrally with respective coil arms as a single coil bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Denson Corporation
    Inventors: Jiro Ebihara, Masayuki Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 6501206
    Abstract: A stator of a dynamo-electric machine includes a cylindrical stator iron core having a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction, and a stator winding composed of a plurality of conductor wires installed in the slots, the stator winding being formed by joining end portions of the plurality of conductor wires extending out of different ones of the slots at the end surface conductor sectional area of an end portion over a predetermined extent in a lengthwise direction from a distal end thereof is smaller than a conductor sectional area of a main portion, and an insulating film covers the main portion and a part of the end portion in the vicinity of the main portion, and a plurality of the conductor wires extending out of the different slots are joined with their end portions arranged properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Oohashi, Shoichiro Nishitani, Yoshihiro Harada
  • Patent number: 6498414
    Abstract: A stator of a dynamo-electric machine suppresses short-circuiting attributable to joint portions so as to provide good insulating properties. In a front coil-end group, a turn portion of a first conductor segment and a joint portion of end portions of a second conductor segment are adjacently aligned in a single row in a radial direction, being arrayed in two rows in a circumferential direction. In a rear coil-end group, a joint portion of the end portions of the first conductor segment and the turn portions of the second conductor segment are adjacently arranged in a single row in the radial direction, being arrayed in two rows in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20020175571
    Abstract: A common mode and differential mode inductance assembly including first and second torridial cores wherein first and second windings are wrapped about first and second segments of the first core and the first core forms a first surface and wherein the second core forms a second surface and is positioned adjacent the first core such that the first and second surfaces oppose each other and a gap is formed between the first and second surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas P. Gilmore, Glenn Ray
  • Patent number: 6486586
    Abstract: An alternator includes a rotor including claw-shaped magnetic poles fitted onto a rotating shaft, and a cooling means disposed on an end surface of the claw-shaped magnetic poles, and a stator including a stator core disposed facing the rotor, the stator core having a plurality of slots, and a stator winding installed in the stator core, the stator being cooled by the cooling means, and a bracket for supporting the rotor and the stator, a passage for an air flow generated by the cooling means being disposed inside the bracket, the stator winding including coil ends extending outwards from end surfaces of the stator core, and a shielding material being disposed so as to cover at least an inner circumferential surface of the coil ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyoko Higashino, Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6483214
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a sealing contacting system for the stator windings of spindle motors, which are provided for installation in the base plate of hard disk drives. The present invention has a peripheral, self-contained sealing surface free from interruptions, which avoids jumps or unevenness in the peripheral sealing region, eliminating previously unavoidable radial capillary gaps, so that hermetic sealing is produced between the region of the hard disks formed from clean space and the external ambient region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Precision Motors Deutsche Minebea GmbH
    Inventor: Jurgen Oelsch
  • Publication number: 20020150486
    Abstract: Dynamo electric machines and stators for use in such machines are provided. The stators comprise plates configured to be substantially flat and a plurality of spaced apart projections or teeth extending away from the plate and, together with the plate defining a plurality of slots therebetween. The stators comprise masses of metal particles. Using stators made from such metal particles provides enhanced machine efficiency, which is believed to be because of reduced eddy current effects in the stator. Motors including rotors having generally flat arrays of permanent magnetic poles and such stators which are spaced apart from and generally facing the permanent magnetic poles and have a plurality of magnetic windings, and pumps powered by such motors are included within the scope of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: Shurflo Pump Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: David J. Cooper, Gary F. McKee, Mike Saveliev, Patrick J. Weaver
  • Patent number: 6454548
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pump including a housing having an interior fluid containing region, a check valve operatively flow in a direction from an inlet toward an outlet and blocking fluid flow in a direction from the outlet to the inlet, an electromagnet carried by the housing located external to the fluid containing region, and a barrier of fluid impervious material for isolating the electromagnet from the fluid. An armature movable in the housing through pumping and return strokes has a pole portion located for magnetic attraction by the electromagnet and has a plunger portion extending from the pole portion. The armature plunger and pole portions have formations crimped together to secure the plunger and pole portions together. The barrier or an end surface of the armature pole portion are shaped to enhance separation of the barrier and armature pole portion at the beginning of the return stroke. The housing is provided with shims for adjustment of the delivered stroke volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Theodore J. Falk, Norbert W. Frenz, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020130563
    Abstract: A stator iron core 21 is formed by laminated iron cores 21a, in which a plurality of slots 24 are shaped with predetermined pitches in a peripheral direction. At least a portion of the laminated iron cores 21a corresponding to an end surface 27 of the stator iron core and inner peripheral walls of the slots 24 are coated with an insulative resin 100 to insulate the stator iron core 21 from a stator winding 22, whereby an insulating capability between the slots and the winding is high, and an a.c. generator for vehicle is easily produced with a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Oohashi, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 6448683
    Abstract: In rotors for electric motors, it is usual to fix the commutator on the rotor shaft by means of a press fit. In the present invention, the rotor shaft, with the rotor core fixed thereon, is electronically coated with an epoxy layer on opposite portions of the rotor shaft and in the winding slots, and is then heated on the plasticizing and curing temperature of the epoxy. After that, with the help of a sliding temperature, the commutator, whose inner bore has a clearance fit relative to the rotor shaft, is slipped onto the rotor shaft in a terminal position, in the process the still-viscous epoxy is pushed backward and is deposited radially on a connecting end face, forming a bead, and penetrates the annular gap between the inner bore and the rotor shaft. Once the epoxy layer has cooled, the commutator is fixed against rotation and displacement on the rotor shaft. The rotor is suitable for electric motors of various types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Wiesler, Klaus Maldener, Martin Kiefer, Lothar Fauth, Hans Kobschaetzky, Dieter Kern
  • Patent number: 6433448
    Abstract: An electrically operated throttle valve assembly 110, 210 having a throttle shaft 18, 218 with a portion extending exteriorly of the throttle body 12. Rotor 166, 266 is mounted on the extending portion of shaft 18, 218. A housing 80 concentrically surrounds the rotor 166, 266 and includes a rear wall 86, 286 to which stator 134, 234 is attached. The stator 134, 234 having a plurality of circumferentially spaced pole segments each with a coil is mounted to the rear wall 86, 286 and is concentrically disposed within the rotor 166, 266. The hollow cylindrical rotor 166, 266 with plural magnets 72, 74, 272, 274 disposed about the inner periphery has a radial web flange 168, 268 which is drivingly attached to one end of the extending portion of shaft 18, 218 with the rotor 166, 266 nested over the stator pole segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce M. Hatton
  • Patent number: 6429552
    Abstract: In an a.c. generator for a vehicle, a resin 25 is disposed on coil ends 16a, 16b of a stator coil 16 to clog gaps in the stator coil 16 at the coil ends 16a, 16b, whereby insulation of the coil ends is improved; durability to vibrations is assured; and a wind noise is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6420813
    Abstract: A high efficiency electric motor has a generally polyhedrally shaped bulk amorphous metal magnetic component in which a plurality of layers of amorphous metal strips are laminated together to form a generally three-dimensional part having the shape of a polyhedron. 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 between approximately 60 Hz and 20,000 Hz and exhibits (i) a core-loss of less than or approximately equal to 1 watt-per-kilogram of amorphous metal material when operated at a frequency of approximately 60 Hz and at a flux density of approximately 1.4 Tesla (T); (ii) a core-loss of less than or approximately equal to 20 watts-per-kilogram of amorphous metal material when operated at a frequency of approximately 1000 Hz and at a flux density of approximately 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas John DeCristofaro, Peter Joseph Stamatis
  • Patent number: 6420812
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high voltage generator stator coil for power generation systems for preventing partial discharge. The high voltage generator stator coil preferably includes a plurality of metal strands that form a high voltage conductor, conductive resin-rich filler material positioned to make electrical contact with the plurality of metal strands, a conductive inner corona protector positioned to electrically contact and overlie the conductive resin-rich filler material, groundwall insulation positioned to overlie and surround the conductive inner corona protector, and a conductive outer corona protector positioned to overlie and surround the groundwall insulation. The present invention also provides a method for forming a high voltage generator stator coil. The method preferably includes abuttingly contacting a plurality of metal strands in a stacked configuration to thereby form a high voltage conductor having at least a substantially straight portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventor: Franklin T. Emery
  • Publication number: 20020089240
    Abstract: An electric motor having an armature which includes a coating of thermally conductive plastic applied in a conventional injection molding process. The armature also includes a fan which is integrally formed from the thermally conductive plastic applied to the armature. The process of molding thermally conductive plastic around the armature and integrally forming a fan at one end of the armature completely eliminates the need to apply one or more coatings of a trickle resin to the armature. It also eliminates the need to separately form a fan and to secure the separately formed fan by a suitable adhesive to the armature, which together significantly simplify and reduce the manufacturing cost of the armature. The thermally conductive molded plastic coating also better fills the spaces between the magnet wires wound around the armature, thus promoting even more efficient cooling of the armature during use and better holding of the magnet wires stationary relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventor: Hung T. Du
  • Publication number: 20020089242
    Abstract: An electric machine in accordance with the invention includes a stator core having first and second ends and having windings therein with end turns of the windings protruding from the first and second ends of the stator core. A rotor is rotatably positioned within the stator core. First and second laminated aluminum ring assemblies are positioned against the first and second ends, respectively, of the stator core in contact with the housing. Thermally conductive potting material is positioned between the end turns and the respective first and second ring assembly at the first and second ends of the stator core, thereby creating heat dissipation paths from the end turns, through the potting material and the ring assemblies to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Feng Liang, John Michael Miller
  • Patent number: 6407472
    Abstract: The motor structure, which has a laminated structure of plural plates 1 and also has a stator pole assembly 10 formed with a component mounting portion, comprises a synthetic resin layer 6 which encloses and covers the plural plates 1 while holding the plates in a closely contacted state, overhang portions (8, 9) integral with the synthetic resin layer 6 and which serve to not only hold but also position motor components, and an insulating film 7′ which covers portions not coated with the synthetic resin. While the synthetic resin layer is formed on the surface of the lamination stack, pressure is applied to the laminated plates as constituents of the stator pole assembly from both upper and lower surfaces of the laminate. This application of pressure is performed using plate pressing projections formed in the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichi Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 6400057
    Abstract: A slip-ring configuration for electric motors and generators is provided, in which brushes made of carbon materials and slip rings of a slip-ring body are electrically conductively connected to each other. The slip rings include metallic rings of standard construction as a slip-ring base and an electrically conductive sliding layer made of a graphite material. The sliding layer has a thickness which amounts to a maximum of 11% of a radius of the slip ring and is electrically conductively fastened to the periphery of the metallic slip-ring base by gluing. A method for retooling slip-ring bodies having metallic slip rings includes machining the metallic slip rings and gluing on a sliding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignees: SGL Carbon AG, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Vesper, Klaus Stadie, Ingolf Hahn, Aloysius Meyer
  • Patent number: 6388348
    Abstract: A drive system for a motor vehicle includes a drive shaft with a flywheel mass arrangement provided thereon, an electric machine for driving the drive shaft and/or obtaining electric energy from the rotating drive shaft. The electric machine has a stator arrangement and a rotor arrangement which can be rotated by the drive shaft. The rotor arrangement is connected via the flywheel mass arrangement to the drive shaft. Furthermore, the rotor arrangement is connected to the flywheel mass arrangement via a connecting region having a higher resistance to thermal conduction than at least one of the regions that adjoins the connecting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Marcus van Heyden, Alfred Tareilus, Jürgen Weimer, Dieter Bauch-Panetzky
  • Publication number: 20020050746
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes an outer casing, a shaft rotatably supported by the outer casing, and a motor main body disposed inside the outer casing, the motor main body having a stator and a rotor, the stator having coils each constructed by winding a conducting wire onto a bobbin, the coils being embedded in an outer molding, and cores being disposed so as to cover the outer molding, and the rotor being secured to the shaft, wherein the conducting wire of the coils is constructed by coating onto a copper wire an electrically-insulating layer composed of denatured polyimide resin which is a material resistant to permeation by sulfur compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Hashimoto, Teruo Miyaoku, Shiro Hasegawa, Chiaki Sugano, Hiromasa Ozawa, Hirohisa Ohta
  • Publication number: 20020050745
    Abstract: An electromotive device includes an outer casing, a shaft supported by the outer casing, a bobbin disposed inside the outer casing so as to be disposed around the shaft on a common axis with the shaft, and a coil embedded in an outer molding, the coil being constructed by winding a conducting wire onto the bobbin, the bobbin and the outer molding being composed of an epoxy resin, which is an electrically-insulating material resistant to permeation by sulfur compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Hashimoto, Teruo Miyaoku, Shiro Hasegawa, Chiaki Sugano, Hiromasa Ozawa, Hirohisa Ohta
  • Publication number: 20020047332
    Abstract: A brushless generator is composed of a front bracket, a rear bracket, a stator, a rotary shaft, a core, poles, a ring, a field core, a field winding bobbin, and a field winding. Air gaps are defined by facing surfaces between the field core and the core, between the poles and the stator, between one side of a pole and the field core, and between the core and another side pole. Magnetic coating made of magnetic particles and a binding material is applied to the surfaces which face the air gaps. A tensile strength of the magnetic coating is set smaller than a bonding strength of the same. Thus, in case that the surfaces to which the magnetic coating is applied is damaged by an external force, the magnetic coating does not peel but rather the breaking of the base material occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tooru Ooiwa
  • Publication number: 20020047331
    Abstract: The motor structure, which has a laminated structure of plural plates 1 and also has a stator pole assembly 10 formed with a component mounting portion, comprises a synthetic resin layer 6 which encloses and covers the plural plates 1 while holding the plates in a closely contacted state, overhang portions (8, 9) integral with the synthetic resin layer 6 and which serve to not only hold but also position motor components, and an insulating film 7′ which covers portions not coated with the synthetic resin. While the synthetic resin layer is formed on the surface of the lamination stack, pressure is applied to the laminated plates as constituents of the stator pole assembly from both upper and lower surfaces of the laminate. This application of pressure is performed using plate pressing projections formed in the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: SHINICHI TAKAYANAGI
  • Patent number: 6373166
    Abstract: A ratio (L2/L1) between an axial length L1 of disk portions and a length L2 of a stator core over lapping the disk portions in a radial direction is 0.3 or more, and a ratio (R2/R1) between an outside radius R1 of claw-shaped magnetic poles and an outside radius R2 of a cylindrical portion is within a range of 0.50 to 0.54.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6366000
    Abstract: An alternator includes a rotor for forming north-seeking (N) and south-seeking (S) poles about a rotational circumference, a stator including a stator core disposed facing the rotor, and a stator winding installed in the stator core, a bracket supporting the rotor and the stator, and a cooling means for cooling the stator winding by moving together with the rotor and generating a flow of cooling air inside the bracket, wherein the stator core includes a laminated core formed with a number of slots extending axially at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction, the stator winding includes a number of winding sub-portions in each of which a long strand of wire is wound so as to alternately occupy an inner layer and an outer layer in a slot depth direction within the slots at intervals of a predetermined number of slots, the strand of wire folding back outside the slots at first and second axial end surfaces of the stator core to form turn portions, the turn portions align in a circumferential directi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyoko Higashino, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6362544
    Abstract: A powdered magnetic material stator core with embedded stator windings and a method for its manufacture. Embedding the windings within a radially compacted powdered magnetic material stator core enables equivalent or better electromagnetic performance in a significantly reduced size. Radial compaction of the powdered magnetic material minimizes the distortion of the stator windings during compaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Delco Remy International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Johnston, Chahee Peter Cho, Ronald A. Martin
  • Patent number: 6351042
    Abstract: A stator pole assembly for a motor comprising a plurality of laminated plates, a synthetic resin layer that encloses and covers the plates while holding the plates in a closely contacted state, portions formed integrally with the synthetic resin layer for holding and positioning motor components and an insulating film that covers portions not coated with the synthetic resin. While the synthetic resin layer is formed on the surface of the lamination stack, pressure is applied to the laminated plates of the stator pole assembly from both upper and lower surfaces of the laminate. This application of pressure is performed using plate pressing projections formed in the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichi Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 6347929
    Abstract: Dynamo electric machines and stators for use in such machines are provided. The stators comprise plates configured to be substantially flat and a plurality of spaced apart projections or teeth extending away from the plate and, together with the plate defining a plurality of slots therebetween. The stators comprise masses of metal particles. Using stators made from such metal particles provides enhanced machine efficiency, which is believed to be because of reduced eddy current effects in the stator. Motors including rotors having generally flat arrays of permanent magnetic poles and such stators which are spaced apart from and generally facing the permanent magnetic poles and have a plurality of magnetic windings, and pumps powered by such motors are included within the scope of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Inventors: David J. Cooper, Gary F. McKee, Mike Saveliev, Patrick J. Weaver
  • Publication number: 20020011753
    Abstract: In a stator for an alternator includes electric conductors which include a plurality of winding sub-portions in each of which one long strand of wire is bent back outside the slots at end surfaces of the stator core and wound into a wave winding so as to alternately occupy an inner layer and an outer layer in a slot depth direction within the slots a predetermined number of slots apart, and the turned portions of the strands of wire bent back outside the slots at both the end surfaces of the stator core are disposed in a circumferential direction so as to constitute a joint-side coil end and a turn-side coil end and the plurality of windings sub-portions are connected to each other on the joint-side coil end at a first end of the stator core, the average amount of application per unit area of any one of the varnish, with which the joint-side coil end is impregnated and the varnish, with which the counter-joint-side coil end is impregnated, is larger than the average amount of application per unit area of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6333573
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine has a stator winding which forms a coil end group on an axial end of a stator. A plurality of conductors are regularly arranged in a row in the coil end group, and an insulating resin is soaked into there between. The insulating resin forms a number of grooves on a radial outside of the coil end group and forms a smooth surface on a radial inside of the coil end group. Therefore, it is possible to decrease an amount of the insulating 10 resin, to provide a high rigidity to the coil end group and to provide a surface area on the outside to radiate heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20010045782
    Abstract: A spindle motor comprises a baseplate. a shaft supported by said baseplate, a stator assembly having windings, the stator being rigidly attached to said baseplate, injection molded thermoplastic material encapsulating said windings, and a hub supported on said shaft, said hub having a magnet connected thereto in operable proximity to the stator assembly. In one embodiment, the stator is cordless. In other embodiments, the stator has a core and the core is substantially encapsulated by the thermoplastic material. In preferred embodiments, the thermoplastic material secures the stator to the baseplate or forms the baseplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: Dennis K. Lieu, Griffith D. Neal
  • Publication number: 20010040415
    Abstract: In an a.c. generator for vehicle, a resin 25 is disposed on coil ends 16a, 16b of a stator coil 16 to clog gaps in the stator coil 16 at the coil ends 16a, 16b, whereby insulation of the coil ends is improved; durability to vibrations is assured; and a wind noise is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Katsumi Adachi
  • Patent number: 6310418
    Abstract: In a large rotating electrical machine having a rotor comprising conductor bars of copper located in slots in a rotor core and connected together at their ends to form a winding, the conductor bars are electrically insulated from the rotor core by a coating on the conductors of a ceramic-based material. The coating serves to prevent sparking occurring between the conductor bars and the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Alstom UK Limited
    Inventors: Paul Eaton Clark, Roger Henry Regan
  • Patent number: 6288341
    Abstract: In order to provide windings for electrical rotating machines having an insulating film superior in electrical characteristics, a high heat conductive insulating film 11 is formed at outer periphery of wound conductor 10 using a high heat conductive insulating tape, which includes a mica layer 3, a reinforcement layer 5, and a high heat conductive filler layer 7, wherein the resin content in each layer of the mica layer 3 and the high heat conductive filler layer 7 is specified in the range of 10-25% by weight based on the whole weight of the material. 1-80% by weight of said filler is spherical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Tsunoda, Keiichi Morikawa, Mitsuru Onoda, Shigeo Amagi, Tatsuo Honda
  • Patent number: 6278206
    Abstract: An electrical machine such as an alternator (10) has a first housing (14) and a second housing (16) with a stator core assembly (18) therein. The stator core assembly has a plurality of windings (44) that are positioned within laminations (46). The windings have a first set of end turns (48), a second set of end turns (50), and winding ends 52. A respective first end cap (54) and a second end cap (56) are placed over respective end turns (48) (50). Potting material (58) is placed between the first end cap (54) and the first set of end turns (48) and the second end cap (56) and the second set of end turns (50). A stud assembly (60) having a stud housing (62) and a plurality of studs (64) is coupled to the first end cap. A bushing (68) is coupled to the studs (64) so that winding ends (52) may be coupled to a flat surface (70) thereof. The bushings (68) are also used to from an electrical connection between the rectifier bridge (36) and the stator core (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Yockey, Richard Harris, Jayeson Fougner
  • Patent number: 6274962
    Abstract: A seal-less pump and electric motor assembly includes a motor rotor fixed to a driving shaft connected to an impeller in the pump assembly. The rotor and impeller are enclosed in a common housing such that the rotor rotates within any fluid being pumped by the impeller. The portion of the housing circumscribing the rotor includes a plurality of axially extending, circumferentially spaced strips of magnetic material penetrating through plastic material of the housing. Each of the strips coincide with corresponding ones of the pole teeth of a motor stator circumscribing the outer portion of the housing such that the strips in the housing act as extensions of the pole teeth. In one embodiment, the strips of magnetic material in the housing are formed by molding powdered iron in a plastic binder material. The strips are then placed in a mold in which the housing is formed by injecting plastic. The plastic binder in the strips melds with the injected plastic to form a continuous housing for enclosing the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Gerald Burt Kliman
  • Publication number: 20010009339
    Abstract: In rotors for electric motors, it is usual to fix the commutator on the rotor shaft by means of a press fit. In the process, damage undesirably occurs to the surface of the rotor shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Publication date: July 26, 2001
    Inventors: Martin Wiesler, Klaus Maldener, Martin Kiefer, Lothar Fauth, Hans Kobschaetzky, Dieter Kern
  • Patent number: 6256971
    Abstract: In an individual-spindle-drive type multiple twister that directly employs separate motors to drive the spindle shafts of each twisting unit, when a spindle is inserted into the housing during motor assembly, a rotor and a stator may attract each other and adhere to each other, and this attraction may prevent the spindle shaft from being correctly inserted into a target bearing, thus making it difficult to assemble the motor. A spindle shaft 4 is rotatably supported by bearings 27a and 28a mounted onto upper and lower supporting members 27 and 28. The distance A between the lower end of the rotor magnet 32 of the drive motor 10 fixed to the spindle shaft 4 and the lower end of the spindle shaft 4 is longer than the distance B between the upper end of the stator coil 31, which is fixed to the housing 34 of the drive motor 10, and the bearing 28a of the lower supporting member 28. In addition, the tip 4 of the spindle shaft 4c is tapered to facilitate insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuo Kimura, Toshinari Umeoka
  • Patent number: 6249957
    Abstract: In rotors for electric motors, it is usual to fix the commutator on the rotor shaft by a press fit. In the present invention, the rotor shaft, with the rotor core fixed thereon, is electrostatically coated with an epoxy layer on opposite portions of the rotor shaft and in the winding slots, and is then heated to the plasticizing and curing temperature of the epoxy. After that, by a sliding tool, the commutator, whose inner bore has a clearance fit relative to the rotor shaft, is slipped onto the rotor shaft in a terminal position, in the process the still-viscous epoxy is pushed backward and is deposited radially on a connecting end face, forming a bead, and penetrates the annular gap between the inner bore and the rotor shaft. Once the epoxy layer has cooled, the commutator is fixed against rotation and displacement on the rotor shaft. The rotor is suitable for electric motors of various types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Wiesler, Klaus Maldener, Martin Kiefer, Lothar Fauth, Hans Kobschaetzky, Dieter Kern
  • Patent number: 6242840
    Abstract: A flux collector for an electrical machine includes a continuous strand of ferromagnetic material; and an electrical insulator covering the strand. The strand forms a tight cylindrical coil including a plurality of turns that are stacked axially. The insulator provides turn-to-turn insulation. The insulated wire is covered with a binder and cured. The strand can be a high permeability wire made of soft iron, silicon steel or cobalt steel. In the alternative, the strand can be a strip of METGLAS® amorphous alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Denk, Carol Oximberg
  • Patent number: 6242825
    Abstract: An the electric rotating machine which is compact and of reduced cost by improving the thermal conductivity of the main insulation in the thickness direction while maintaining the insulation breakdown voltage of the main insulation high. The initial breakdown voltage V in the thickness direction of the main insulator 30 of the stator winding 3 is higher than 20 kV/mm, and the thermal conductivity &lgr; in the thickness direction is within a range of 0.35 to 1 W/m·K, and the product V&lgr; of the initial breakdown voltage V and the thermal conductivity &lgr; satisfies a relationship of 7≦V&lgr;≦20 (MWA/m2·K). The amount of resin is within a range of 20 to 50 weight % of the main insulation material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Mori, Shigeo Amagi, Saburo Usami, Tadashi Sonobe, Yasuomi Yagi, Tomoya Tsunoda, Mitsuru Onoda
  • Patent number: 6242833
    Abstract: A wound cover arrangement for an electric motor rotor, said rotor including a core (20), magnets (30) surrounding said core and a cover (10), which is wound around the core, in order to retain said magnets (30) on said core, said arrangement comprising a pair of mold end elements (40), each mounted to an end face portion of the rotor core (20) and to the adjacent end face of at least one of the parts defined by the cover (10) and magnets (30), and which has a peripheral edge portion (41) provided with at least one recess (43) extending towards the rotor axis, the distance between said rotor and the bottom of said recess (43) defining the smallest winding end radius of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S.A.-Embraco
    Inventors: Marcos Romeu Möbius, Rivio Arturo Ramirez
  • Patent number: 6242831
    Abstract: A reduced stiction hydrodynamic spindle motor is provided for reducing the starting torque or power of disc drive motors. The reduced stiction motor includes a low surface energy coating having a surface energy less than the surface tension of the motor lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Seagate Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Raquib U. Khan
  • Patent number: 6232681
    Abstract: A powdered magnetic material stator core with embedded stator windings and a method for its manufacture. Embedding the windings within a radially compacted powdered magnetic material stator core enables equivalent or better electromagnetic performance in a significantly reduced size. Radial compaction of the powdered magnetic material minimizes the distortion of the stator windings during compaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Delco Remy International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Johnston, Ronald A. Martin, Chahee Peter Cho
  • Patent number: 6211584
    Abstract: A motor component covered with a novel electrocoating that fails to detrimentally affects magnetic memory medium provided in a hard disc or other is provided. With enhanced edge covering ratio, an improved insulation coating is easily formed on the motor component. An insulation coating is electrodeposited on an Nd—Fe—B system plastic magnet, a stacked core of silicon steel, a die-cast motor base of aluminum or other motor component through cationic electrodeposition. The electrodeposition paint for use includes 12 ppm or less of tin content in the aqueous solution, 0.5% or less by weight of carbon black content in the aqueous solution, and, instead, has titanium dioxide and/or silicon dioxide added to pigment. The electrodeposited insulation coating, which has a specified thickness, is heated to temperatures ranging between 40° C. and 90° C. After such preliminary curing, temperatures are again heated to between 150° C. and 190° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Daido Tokushuko
    Inventors: Manabu Kurosawa, Takeshi Anbo, Tatsumasa Yamada
  • Patent number: 6202285
    Abstract: An electromechanical machine includes a stator fixed with respect to a housing structure and a rotor fixed with respect to a driven shaft. The stator includes a magnetically permeable core having a plurality of parallel winding slots containing conductive windings. Coilheads are located at opposite axial ends of the magnetically permeable core where the windings turn to extend down a parallel winding slot. The motor is equipped with an electrostatic shield arrangement to reduce capacitive coupling between the stator and rotor during operation. The shield arrangement comprises a grounded conductive layer separated from the conductive windings of the stator by an insulative layer of cured resin material. Preferably, the conductive layer may be formed of a conductive paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Sidney Bell
  • Patent number: 6191508
    Abstract: In an insulation structure of a rotary electric machine, a stator winding has connection portions covered with reliable insulation resin coating. The modulus of elasticity of the insulation resin is less than a value which may not cause the insulation resin coating to peel off. The modulus of elasticity changes with the thickness of the insulation resin coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Shinichi Matsubara, Mitsuru Kato, Kazuhide Sato