Circulation Patents (Class 310/58)
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Patent number: 9473002Abstract: A system for cooling a dynamoelectric machine is provided. The system includes a coolant medium inlet, a coolant medium outlet and a fan connected to a rotor of the dynamoelectric machine, The system further includes a flow control device configured to control the amount of the coolant medium passing through the dynamoelectric machine by controlling an opening area of at least one of the coolant medium inlet and the coolant medium outlet. The system further includes a winding temperature measurement system configured to measure the temperature of one or more windings in the dynamoelectric machine, and control the flow control device by adjusting the opening area of at least one of the coolant medium inlet and the coolant medium outlet based on the temperature of the windings in the dynamoelectric machine to at least one of reduce windage loss and control coolant medium pressure within the dynamoelectric machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: GE JENBACHER GMBH & CO. OGInventors: Sadhasivam Vallinayagam, Tobias Bathon, Erich Kruckenhauser
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Patent number: 9461524Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine supplied with air for cooling purposes. The air is heated during operation of the electric machine and is removed in the form of exhaust air. The electric machine is equipped with a fan wheel (70) which is coupled to a rotor of the electric machine. To improve and to simplify the operation of the electric machine, the fan wheel (70) is designed as a precise steel part with a sensor device (71) for detecting a rotational speed of the fan wheel (50; 70) and thereby detecting a rotational speed of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventor: Werner Schiek
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Patent number: 9450468Abstract: An electric machine includes a pair of substantially aligned sheet metal housing sections each including a substantially “L” shaped portion, at least one cooling channel being formed at an axial end between the two sections, and a plurality of power electronics components engaged with at least one of the housing sections adjacent the axial end cooling channel. An embodiment includes a stator, a pair of housing sections enclosing the stator, power electronics components positioned at an axial end of the electric machine for controlling operation of the electric machine, and a coolant flow path that includes a power electronics cooling channel formed at the axial end between the housing sections. A method includes forming an axial end cooling channel between two sheet metal housing sections, and positioning power electronics components at the axial end along the cooling channel, whereby heat from the electronics components is transferred to the cooling channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLCInventors: Bradley D. Chamberlin, David Fulton, James Ramey
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Patent number: 9444309Abstract: A radial blower air guide includes a first end wall substantially circumscribing an end bracket of an electric motor. The air guide includes a second end wall spaced apart from the first end wall and has an inner periphery that circumscribes a periphery of the motor. The air guide includes an outer wall extending from an edge of the first end wall to an edge of the second end wall. The outer wall is formed from a thin curved plate and partially defines a ring-shaped chamber therebetween. The outer wall has an aperture defined therethrough. The air guide includes a baffle plate coupled to the inner periphery of the second end wall. The baffle plate extends a first width toward the first end wall and partially defines the chamber. The baffle plate is configured to deflect air to control the distribution of the airflow from the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Lisa Marie Cemke, Christopher Thomas Ohrmundt
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Patent number: 9438088Abstract: A rotating electrical machine unit includes a rotating electrical machine including a ring-shaped stator and a rotator provided inside of the stator, and a power inverter including a ring-shaped first casing and a power module accommodated in the first casing and integrated with the rotating electrical machine by being stacked in such a manner that a lower surface of the first casing is in contact with an upper surface of the stator. The power inverter has a first coolant path formed to have a ring shape in the first casing. The power module has a heat radiation unit arranged in the first coolant path and exchanging heat with a cooling medium flowing in the first coolant path.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Takeshi Matsuo
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Patent number: 9397541Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core comprised of a plurality of stator core segments, a stator coil mounted on the stator core, and an outer cylinder that is fitted on die radially outer surfaces of the stator core segments so as to fasten the stator core segments together. The stator core has a recess formed in the radially outer surface of one of the stator core segments. The outer cylinder has a slit that radially penetrates the outer cylinder to connect the radially outer and inner surfaces of the outer cylinder and an engaging portion that adjoins the slit. The engaging portion of the outer cylinder is plastically deformed radially inward into the recess of the stator core so as to abut and thereby engage with side walls of the recess which face the engaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Ikuta, Yuusuke Hara, Kuniharu Teshima
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Patent number: 9369023Abstract: A motor unit for a vehicle is provided with a cooling channel cooling channel formed within a motor housing of the motor unit, and forming a flow channel that allows coolant to flow through the flow channel. The cooling channel includes: a supply channel portion having an inlet; an exhaust channel portion having an outlet; and a flow channel changing portion connecting the supply channel portion and the exhaust channel portion to allow a coolant supplied through the inlet of the supply channel portion to be discharged through the outlet of the exhaust channel portion, where at least one of inner protrusion portions and outer protrusion portions are formed on an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface, respectively, of the supply channel portion or the exhaust channel portion, protruding toward the motor shaft, and extending in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dongyeon Han, Young Jin Seo, Hyoungjun Cho, Myeong Kyu Jung
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Patent number: 9287741Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core comprised of a plurality of stator core segments and an outer cylinder fitted on the radially outer surface of the stator core. The stator core has a recess formed in the radially outer surface and the recess has an engaging wall surface that extends in both the axial and radial directions of the stator core. The outer cylinder has a fastening portion for fastening the outer cylinder to the stator core. The fastening portion is formed to be partially surrounded by a plurality of first slits and a second slit. The fastening portion is bent radially inward to have a second slit-side end part thereof received in the recess of the stator core. Further, the second slit-side end part of the fastening portion has a distal end engaging with the engaging wall surface of the recess of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Nobata, Toshiaki Oohara, Youzou Matsui, Yoshiyasu Kozaki, Hiroyuki Ikuta
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Patent number: 9243643Abstract: A cabin air compressor housing for a cabin air compressor assembly includes a compressor volute configured to direct a compressed flow to a compressor outlet. The cabin air compressor housing also includes a journal bearing support having a journal bearing bore. The cabin air compressor housing further includes an interior portion between the compressor volute and the journal bearing support. The interior portion includes a plurality of cooling airflow holes having a ratio of a diameter of the journal bearing bore to a diameter of one of the cooling airflow holes between 3.64 and 4.52.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Craig M. Beers, Seth E. Rosen
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Patent number: 9209661Abstract: An electric machine housing includes a housing body having an outer surface provided with a plurality of materially integrally formed ribs defining a plurality of coolant channels. Each of the plurality of materially integrally formed ribs has an outer surface portion. A sleeve is provided on the housing body extending about the outer surface. The sleeve has an inner surface section that is matingly engaged with the outer surface portion of each of the materially integrally formed ribs.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: REMY TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.Inventors: Andrew Dragon, Colin Hamer
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Patent number: 9190887Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, an inverter for changing rotational speed of the motor, a cooling fan coupled to a rotational shaft of the motor, a guide cover for guiding a gas flow generated by rotation of the cooling fan to the inverter, and at least two support members coupling the inverter to a side surface of the motor. The support members are located on both sides of a center line connecting a central axis of the motor to a center of the inverter as viewed from an axial direction of the motor. A space serving as a passage of the gas flow from the cooling fan is formed between the support members.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: EBARA CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Ito, So Kuroiwa, Masakazu Komai, Masaki Watanabe
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Patent number: 9160209Abstract: A blower for a downdraft cooktop that includes a blower housing, having a top portion and a bottom portion, which includes an inlet that can be fluidly coupled to a downdraft cooktop and an outlet for removing air from the blower housing, a fan located between the input and the outlet of the blower housing, a motor having a rotor with a shaft, having a top portion and a bottom portion, and a stator, wherein the bottom portion of the rotor is operatively attached to the fan, a rotatable member operatively attached to the top portion of the rotor, and a motor housing enclosing the motor, having a top portion, a bottom portion, at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening, wherein air for cooling the motor is drawn through the motor housing without utilizing the air located within the blower housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventor: Mark Anthony Feld
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Patent number: 9130421Abstract: An embodiment of an electric machine includes inner and outer housing sections attached to one another to form, at an axial end of the electric machine, a cooling channel therebetween. Such electric machine also includes a bearing carrier coupled to the housing sections and radially registered to the inside diameter of the inner housing section. An embodiment of an electric machine includes annular, L-shaped inner and outer sheet metal housing sections enclosing a cooling channel at an axial end of the electric machine and otherwise being substantially parallel and contiguous, and includes a first bearing assembly coupled to the inner housing section.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLCInventors: Bradley D. Chamberlin, James Ramey
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Patent number: 9106109Abstract: A generator includes a stationary stator and a rotor disposed rotatably about an axis of rotation. The stator has a fan drawing air from the ambient air around the generator, wherein the inlet channel is disposed such that air drawn in by the fan is distributed at the core of the stator by the channel over the length of the core in the direction of the axis of rotation. Cooling channels running in the circumferential direction of the core and distributed over the length of the core are disposed on the core, wherein the stator comprises an outlet channel disposed offset in the circumferential direction of the core with respect to the inlet channel. The inlet channel is connected to the outlet channel by the cooling channels, such that air from the inlet channel flows through the cooling channels into the outlet channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Frank Seibicke, Joachim Mucha, Jörg Waschek
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Patent number: 9065312Abstract: In a frame having integrated cooling for an electric drive, coolant flows through a width of the frame in an inverse manner. The frame has roughly the form of a cylinder sleeve having a diameter and an axial width, whose outer surface is provided with cooling ducts. A first bundle of cooling ducts, connected in parallel, guides the coolant from a coolant intake around substantially the entire circumference of the frame. A second bundle of cooling ducts, connected in parallel, guides the coolant around substantially the entire circumference of the frame, back to a coolant outlet (8).Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: ETEL S.A.Inventor: Jose Manuel Fernandes Goncalves
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Patent number: 9057390Abstract: An electro hydrostatic actuator includes an actuator body, a hydraulic pump driven to supply operation oil to the actuator body, and an electric motor configured to drive the hydraulic pump. Each of the hydraulic pump and the electric motor is placed so as to surround the outer periphery of the actuator body, and the hydraulic pump and the electric motor are arranged in a direction along a center axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaaki Onishi, Taku Kondo, Yasuto Onomichi, Shogo Hagihara, Ryo Takaki
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Patent number: 9041260Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module including an electric machine which can include a stator assembly. The stator assembly can include stator end turns. Some embodiments can provide a housing at least partially enclosing the electric machine and the housing can at least partially define a machine cavity. Further, at least one baffle can be coupled to the housing at a region near the stator end turns, so that the at least one baffle surrounds a portion of a perimeter of the stator end turns.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLCInventor: James J. Ramey
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Patent number: 9041261Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor which has a rotor core formed by stacking magnetic plates having an annular plate shape in an axial direction, a permanent magnet is inserted into a magnet insertion hole formed in the rotor core, and a rotor shaft is inserted into a shaft insertion hole surrounded by an inner peripheral surface of the rotor core; and a stator. A radial communication passage is formed by a communication penetration hole group that is formed by sequentially communicating a plurality of the penetration holes from a shaft insertion hole to a magnetic resistance hole in the radial direction. The plurality of the penetration holes are divided into at least two specific magnetic plates and formed such that the radial positions of the penetration holes are different from each other and the penetration holes partially overlap each other when viewed in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Shinichi Otake, Takamasa Takeuchi, Masatoshi Sugimoto, Satoshi Murakami
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Patent number: 9030062Abstract: A cooling structure of a rotating electric machine includes a rotor core formed of a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates and a resin molding portion molding the rotor core with resin. The rotor core is provided with a through hole passing therethrough in the axial direction of the central axis that is a rotation axis. The rotor core is provided inside the through hole with an oil passage through which oil circulates. The resin molding portion has a cover portion covering the outer peripheral side of the oil passage. This configuration can provide the cooling structure of the rotating electric machine that achieves efficient cooling while suppressing occurrence of energy loss.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Katsunari Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9018806Abstract: The present invention proposes a generator for arrangement on a shaft of an accessory gearbox of an engine with a stator and with a rotor which can be coupled to a shaft of the accessory gearbox of the engine and which is rotatably mounted relative to the stator, where a stator area receiving the stator can be separated from a rotor area receiving the rotor. The rotor can be supplied with cooling medium in the rotor area. It furthermore proposes an accessory gearbox of an engine with a drive shaft operatively connectable to a main shaft of the engine and with at least one generator arranged on a shaft of the accessory gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Juergen Beier, Soeren Braun
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Patent number: 9006943Abstract: An electro-dynamic machine is provided and includes stator assembly end turns and a coolant chargeable bladder disposable to contact the end turns.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.Inventors: Bradley D. Chamberlin, Colin Hamer
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Publication number: 20150084454Abstract: A pole unit for a stator assembly of a wind turbine generator, the pole unit including (a) a laminated body structure having a base portion, an intermediate portion, and a top portion, and (b) a coil wound around the intermediate portion, wherein (c) the intermediate portion extends from at least a part of an upper surface of the base portion, and wherein (d) the top portion extends from the end of the intermediate portion that is opposite to the base portion and has an increasing cross-section in the direction away from the intermediate portion is provided. A stator assembly including a plurality of pole units, a method of manufacturing a pole unit, and a method of assembling a stator assembly are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventor: BJARNE NOER
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Publication number: 20150076941Abstract: An electric machine includes a motor having a motor chassis having a first and second end, a stator assembly, and a rotor assembly. The electric machine includes a motor control assembly having a circuit board. The motor control assembly is attached to the stator assembly of the motor. A first end shield is attached to the first end of the motor chassis. The first end shield includes a first opening that is configured to enable a cooling air stream to pass therethrough to cool the motor and the motor control assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Wei Song, David M. Pierre, Kamron Wright, Paul Nathanael Selking, Donn Edward Steffen
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Publication number: 20150076940Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes: a stator that includes: a stator core; and a stator coil; a ring member that accommodates the stator so as to hold the stator core in an internally fitted state; a housing case formed into a floored cylindrical shape with an opening at a first end portion, and that accommodates the ring member and the stator; and a cover mounted onto the first end portion of the housing case so as to cover the opening of the housing case, wherein a first end portion of each of the ring member and the housing case is fixed by fastening to the cover such that a fastening direction of each is oriented in an axial direction, and a second end portion of the ring member is fitted into and held by the housing case by means of an interfitting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoki Ohashi, Masaya Inoue, Koichi Ojima, Kazuyuki Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20150069866Abstract: A cooling device mounted in a flow path formed by an internal space of a cooling fluid duct being mounted on the periphery of a frame of a rotating electric machine is configured in such a manner that at least one of the end-face portions between a first end-face portion through which a cooling fluid flows into the cooling device and a second end-face portion from which the cooling fluid flows out thereof is placed tilting with respect to at least one of a first orthogonal surface perpendicular to an inflow direction of the cooling fluid and a second orthogonal surface perpendicular to an outflow direction of the cooling fluid, or with respect to a flow-path-width's direction perpendicular to a direction in which an axis line of a stator extends.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kiyonori Koga, Masao Akiyoshi
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Patent number: 8975795Abstract: Electric generator is disclosed having a stator and a rotor. The rotor being rotatable around a center axis and relatively to the stator and the stator includes a number of stator windings extending in freely exposed end windings. The stator and/or the rotor is provided with at least one barrier means which barrier means axially extends to such a manner that at least the end windings of the stator are at least partially covered.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Henrik Stiesdal
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Publication number: 20150061426Abstract: A rotating electrical machine is provided with: a plurality of bus bars that provide an electrical relay between an external power line, which is positioned on the outside of a housing, and a multiphase coil; an insulation cover that is mounted on the plurality of bus bars with a prescribed gap between each, and covers at least part of the bottom surface of each bus bar; and a coolant supply means that supplies a cooling fluid, which cools a stator, inside the housing. A through-hole, which vertically penetrates a bottom surface, is formed on the bottom surface of the insulation cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshiyuki Nagumo
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Patent number: 8970076Abstract: A first cooling air passage is formed to let first cooling air generated by a cooling fan in from a radially outside of an inverter apparatus to cool a heat sink and out through exhaust holes provided on an outer peripheral side of a rear bracket by passing an inner periphery of the rear bracket. Also, a second cooling air passage is formed to let second cooling air generated by the cooling fan into a hollow portion of the inverter apparatus from an axially rear of a rotation shaft to cool a brush holder and a magnetic pole position detection sensor and out through the exhaust holes by passing the inner periphery of the rear bracket. Hence, cooling performance for the magnetic pole position detection sensor and the brush holder may be enhanced and an axial dimension may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Yoshinobu Utsumi, Masahiko Fujita
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Patent number: 8970077Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator having coils wound to surround the rotor, a cylindrical ring member fixedly mounted on the stator by shrinkage fitting, and a frame disposed on the outside of the ring member with a gap created in between. The distance of the gap varies as a result of thermal expansion of the stator and the ring member. An outer surface of the ring member goes into contact with the frame when the stator and the ring member thermally expand, whereby the stator and the ring member are efficiently cooled.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tadashi Murakami, Kouichi Ojima, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 8970073Abstract: A cooling structure for a rotary electric machine uses coolant to cool coil end portions that protrude outward, one from each end surface of a stator core, in a stator that includes a stator core and coils that are wound in a circumferential direction of the stator core. This cooling structure includes a lead side cover member that covers a lead side coil end portion to which a lead wire that supplies electricity to the coils is connected, and forms a first coolant chamber within which coolant is stored; and a non-lead side cover member that covers a non-lead side coil end portion positioned opposite the lead side coil end portion in the axial direction, and forms a second coolant chamber within which coolant is stored. A coolant communicating path is provided that communicates the first and second coolant chambers in a manner that enables coolant to flow therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Miyamoto, Tetsuo Wakita
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Publication number: 20150054362Abstract: A blade wheel for a rotary electric machine may include a hollow cylindrical main body having an outer surface extending around an axis of rotation in a circumferential direction of the main body; a first end region and a second end region of the main body, each peripherally extending around the main body in the circumferential direction, the first and second end regions lying opposite each other in the direction of the axis of rotation; a recess extending along the outer surface and between the first end region and the second end region of the main body in the circumferential direction; and at least one web-shaped vortexing element extending within the recess and between the first and second end regions. The at least one vortexing element is designed to generate a movement of air away from the outer surface when the blade wheel rotates about the axis of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Michael Bulatow, Knut Welke, Dirk Wesche
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Patent number: 8963384Abstract: An electric motor assembly including a stator having a stator core and windings around the stator core is disclosed. The stator core has opposing ends and an outer surface extending between the opposing ends. The electric motor assembly also includes a housing having an inner surface enclosing at least a portion of the stator, and at least one fluid passage between the outer surface of the stator core and the inner surface of the housing. The fluid passage permits a coolant in the fluid passage to contact one or more portions of the outer surface of the stator core to remove heat from the stator core during operation of the electric motor assembly. Additional motor assemblies including stator and/or rotor cooling features are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Thomas E. Kirkley, Jr., Lawrence J. Wittman, Andrew F. Poag, Steven P. Randall
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Publication number: 20150042187Abstract: An electric machine including a rotor and a stator operably coupled with the rotor, electronic components, and a drive shaft disposed along a central axis of the machine. A bearing support supportively surrounds the drive shaft, and a frame end is connected to the stator and has a backface portion to which the electronic components are mounted. The backface portion defines a frame airflow space through which cooling air can flow. The backface portion is sloped relative to the central axis and defines a frame air inlet through which cooling air is received into the frame airflow space, and the frame air inlet is located between the bearing support and the backface portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventor: Michael D. Bradfield
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Patent number: 8941281Abstract: According to an embodiment, radially extending inner spacers are provided in a stator core at a distance from each other in the circumferential direction at intervals between a prescribed number of stacked magnetic steel plates, and ventilation ducts for cooling gas flow are formed in the radial direction. The perimeter of each ventilation duct is defined by the inner spacers and a magnetic steel plate separated by the inner spacers. The cooling gas, which flows in the rotation direction, is split laterally to both sides of a rotor coil and directed toward the outer circumference. Portions of the shoulder parts of a wedge are cut off such that the width of the shoulder parts of the wedge at positions corresponding to the ventilation ducts matches the slot width.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuo Kabata, Masafumi Fujita, Koji Matsuyama, Yuuichiro Gunji
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Patent number: 8937414Abstract: Disclosed are an electric motor and an electric vehicle having the same. The electric motor includes a stator including a stator core and a stator coil wound around the stator core, a rotor disposed to be rotatable with respect to the stator, and a cooling unit configured to allow a cooling fluid to flow therein and disposed to be in contact with the stator to cool the stator, wherein an outer surface of the stator core includes grooves in which the cooling unit is inserted. Cooling performance can be enhanced by shortening a heat transmission path, and the cooling unit can be easily fabricated and coupled.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyeokjin Song, Kwangwook Chun, Jacho Kim, Jiseong Park, Seungdo Han
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Patent number: 8937415Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to embodiments includes a tubular motor frame, a tubular motor cover, and a cooling fan. The motor frame includes therein a stator and a rotor. The motor cover houses the motor frame and includes a suction hole for cooling air at its counter-load side and an exhaust hole at its load side. Herein, the exhaust hole turns the exhaust direction of the cooling air to the counter-load side. The cooling fan sucks the cooling air from the suction hole into the motor cover and exhausts the cooling air from the exhaust hole to the outside of the motor cover.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventor: Hirofumi Shimono
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Patent number: 8937413Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes a shield that extends about a sector of the winding head to be disposed axially outboard of the outer axial end of the winding head and radially inboard of the inner diameter portion of the winding head. The shield defines a reservoir in which the sector of the winding head is received. The reservoir is operable to receive the coolant for cooling the winding head. Additionally, the motor assembly includes at least one sealing member that substantially seals at least one of the slots formed in an inner diameter portion of the stator core. The sealing member is operable to contain the coolant within the corresponding longitudinal opening and the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Chrysler Group LLCInventors: Dumitru Puiu, Richard Ondrejko, Dale E Martin
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Publication number: 20150015124Abstract: An axial gap electrical machine employs unique architecture to (1) overcome critical limits in the air gap at high speeds, while maintaining high torque performance at low speeds, while synergistically providing a geometry that withstands meets critical force concentration within these machines, (2) provides arrangements for cooling said machines using either a Pelletier effect or air fins, (3) “windings” that are produced as ribbon or stampings or laminates, that may be in some cases be arranged to optimize conductor and magnetic core density within the machine. Arrangements are also proposed for mounting the machines as wheels of a vehicle, to provide ease of removing and installing said motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventor: Arjuna Indraeswaran Rajasingham
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Patent number: 8928195Abstract: On an inner circumference side of a stator fixed in an inner housing, a rotor is arranged. The rotor rotates through a bearing with respect to a center shaft that is a stationary shaft fixed to outer housings. Oil introduced into a rotor oil inlet path in the center shaft flows through a communication path and a clearance on an outer circumference of the center shaft into an oil path in the rotor. The oil flowing through the oil path cools a permanent magnet, lubricates the bearing, and is discharged from a rotor oil discharge port to the outside of the inner housing. The oil in the clearance is sealed with a thread seal, i.e., an inner thread formed in an inner face of an end ring and is prevented from flowing toward the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Satoru Ohashi, Norihisa Handa, Shusaku Yamasaki, Masahiro Tanida, Koushi Ishimoto, Motoaki Shito
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Publication number: 20140375155Abstract: A motor generator for a vehicle includes a housing having a through hole along a central axis thereof, with a protrusion protruding outwards along a circumference of the through hole. A rotating shaft is disposed in the housing in such a way that a first end thereof is exposed outside through the through hole. A pulley is disposed outside the housing in such a way that the first end of the rotating shaft is inserted into and coupled to a central portion of the pulley. A rim of the pulley is surrounded by the protrusion and a central portion of the pulley passes through the through hole, so that a watertight flange having a larger diameter than the through hole is disposed in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Hyun KIM, Jae Hyuk SUH, Sam Gyun KIM, Seung Woo HA
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Patent number: 8912694Abstract: A rotating electrical machine according to an embodiment includes a rotor rotatable around a rotation axis, a stator arranged to face the rotor, and a frame which accommodates the rotor and the stator and in which a refrigerant flow path is formed in a sidewall. The frame includes a through hole that penetrates from the refrigerant flow path to an outer periphery of the sidewall and is covered by a lid member.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Kazuo Miura, Yuuto Fukuma, Mitsunori Nagao
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Patent number: 8912695Abstract: A totally enclosed fan cooled (TEFC) induction motor or other type of induction motor auxiliary cooling system has a buffet thermal shroud that is oriented in opposed spaced relationship over existing motor housing cooling fins. An airflow channel is defined between the motor cooling fins and the shroud, for direction and passage of a cooling airflow. Tabs are oriented in the airflow channel between opposed cooling fins where they are in thermal and fluid communication with the cooling air flow. In some embodiments the tabs are shroud fingers that project inwardly from the shroud. The tabs or shroud fingers create turbulence in the cooling air flow that increases convective heat transfer efficiency and contact time between the cooling air and motor cooling fins. Tabs or shroud fingers also absorb heat from the cooling air flow. Shroud fingers also transfer that absorbed heat conductively to the shroud.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.Inventor: Emam Hashish
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Patent number: 8907534Abstract: A generator motor cooling structure for cooling a generator motor, which includes a housing storing an input/output shaft to which a rotor is attached and a stator disposed at an outer periphery portion of the rotor, by a cooling medium, includes: a protrusion portion that protrudes toward a coil of the stator from an inner surface of the housing of one end side in a direction of a central rotation axis of the input/output shaft to form a passage of the cooling medium between the coil and the protrusion portion, and is disposed around the central rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Norihiko Satou, Yukihiko Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8901789Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module including an electric machine positioned with a housing. The brushless electric machine includes a center axis of rotation and a support member coupled to the housing. The module also includes a cooling system, which includes an inlet disposed through a portion of the housing, a first channel positioned within the support member that fluidly connects a second channel with the inlet. The housing also includes a drain aperture and a drain guide disposed substantially adjacent to the drain aperture.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLCInventor: Chad Zook
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Patent number: 8896165Abstract: A generator is provided. The generator has a stator with teeth and slots for windings, a rotor rotatable around the stator, a plurality of permanent magnets, and a cooling pipe arranged beneath the slots. Further, a wind turbine with such a generator is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Mohammad Kimiabeigi, Jean Le Besnerais
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Patent number: 8884479Abstract: An oil cooled generator may have stator windings with first portions in contact with a stator core and second non-contact portions. One or more nozzles may be configured to provide a spray pattern of oil which impinges on the non-contact portions even though the nozzles may have orifices oriented so that the lines projected in alignment with longitudinal axes of the orifices do not intersect the non-contact portions of the stator windings.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Dwayne E. Burnett, Arturo Maceda
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Patent number: 8878404Abstract: In an arrangement for cooling an electrical machine, the electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator located at the end of an air gap from the rotor. The rotor includes at least one axial cooling channel originating from the first end of the rotor that is connected to at least two axially successive cooling channels that are substantially radial within the rotor. The stator is made of sheets using axially successive core modules. The stator includes a radial cooling channel between two core modules. Gaseous cooling agent is led to the cooling channels of the rotor and stator from the end of the rotor. The outer surface of the stator core module includes a cooling jacket by the length (L) of the stator core module at maximum, and liquid cooling agent is led to the cooling jacket.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Petri Mäki-Ontto, Yrjö Tyllinen, Pekka Kanninen
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Patent number: 8878413Abstract: An alternating-current generator, in particular a three-phase generator, for a motor vehicle, having a rotor including north and south poles, particularly having claw-pole fingers extending in the axial direction and alternating as north and south poles at the rotor's periphery, a stator having a magnetic core, especially laminated core, having slots and a stator winding disposed in the magnetic core's slots, the stator winding having winding overhangs that are coolable by an approximately radial air flow produced by at least one fan mounted at the rotor, the stator being situated opposite the rotor, and the stator and the rotor having defined positions relative to each other, the multiphase stator winding being made up of winding elements, at least one winding element having more than two sections inserted in slots, and at least one winding element having more than one reversal section which brings about a change in the radial position.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2008Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gert Wolf, Thomas Berger, Eberhard Rau, Alexander Shendi, Helmut Kreuzer, Christoph Schwarzkopf
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Patent number: 8872400Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cooling and lubrication of high power density electric machines with an enhanced fluid injection system. Multiple fluid flow passages are within the electric machine, which include a bearing fluid flow pathway and a rotor fluid flow pathway. The bearing fluid flow pathway comprises a passage which directs fluid to contact a bearing for lubrication and cooling. The rotor fluid flow pathway comprises a passage which directs fluid along the rotatable shaft toward the rotor and stator for cooling. A fluid flow passage may lead to a junction, and may split between the bearing fluid flow pathway and the rotor fluid flow pathway. Additionally, a fluid flow metering device at the junction between the bearing fluid flow pathway and the rotor fluid flow pathway, may determine the relative amount of fluid that flows to the bearing and that flows toward the rotor and stator.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Clean Wave Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ruldolph Garriga, Mike Kubic
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Patent number: 8872399Abstract: An electrical device includes a plurality of stacked laminates that form a tubular stator portion, a cooling passage partially defined by orifices formed in the plurality of stacked laminates, a housing including a cavity further defining the cooling passage, the cooling passage defining a fluid flow path parallel to a rotational axis of the stator portion, a sump portion communicative with the cooling passage, the sump portion including a cavity defined by the stator portion and the housing member.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.Inventors: Brad Chamberlin, Larry Kubes, Alex Creviston