Abstract: In a generator which is operated according to the induced-draft-cooling principle and in which a main fan (11), attached to the rotor shaft (12) of the generator, draws cooling medium, which is heated by the heat-generating elements of the generator, out of the generator and transports it essentially perpendicularly to the axis of this rotor shaft (12) to a cooling arrangement (23), the drawn-in cooling medium, which is expelled with a swirl at high velocity by the main fan (11), being received by a cooling-duct casing (33), which directs the cooling medium to the cooling arrangement (23) via at least one fluidic constriction (41), the directing of the cooling medium, while efficiently avoiding vortices and pressure drops, is achieved in that the cooling-duct casing (33) has at least one overflow duct (66), which receives the cooling medium, expelled into the cooling-duct casing (33) by the main fan (11), via an inflow zone (58) upstream of the constriction (41), diverts the cooling medium around the constric

Abstract: An AC generator for vehicles includes a field rotor, a stator disposed around said field rotor and a frame for supporting the rotor and the stator. The stator has a laminated core having a plurality of slots, aluminum conductors housed in the slots, and an electric insulator. The aluminum conductor is constituted by in-slot portion and a crossover portion for connecting an in-slot portion in one slot to another in-slot portion in a different slot to provide a winding as a whole. The frame is provided with a plurality of windows substantially in a whole periphery thereof at portions encircling the crossover portions and substantially in an outer diametrical direction opposite to the crossover portions.

Abstract: A portable gasoline generator, constructed with an engine and a generator, provides a lightweight and compact size for easy storage and carrying by minimizing its weight and size of the alternator (generator) thereof. The generator includes a generator case which houses a stator and a rotor unit that is coaxially coupled with a driving end of the crankshaft. The rotor unit includes a rotor cap and a plurality of arc-shaped rotor magnets made of rare-earth metal circularly attached to an inner circumferential surface of a surrounding ring of the rotor cap. The rotor cap is constructed to function as an exhausting fan by puncturing a plurality of fan wings aligned radially and forming a plurality of fan vents thereon. The stator is coaxially affixed to a generator cup of the generator case, wherein the stator is coaxially positioned within the rotor cap that the rotor magnets are arranged to coaxially surround the stator.

Abstract: Disclosed is a motor and pump which operate completely submerged in the pump fluid which uses surrounding fluid to cool the heat generated within the motor. The motor is also built with the intention that it can run in non-submerged applications by placing a cooling jacket around the stator portion of the motor and passing a cooling fluid through the jacket to absorb the motor heat. The cooling system disclosed is such that it can be filled with a fluid circulated within the system but not in direct contact with the fluid being pumped within the pump. Preferably the cooling system includes a flow control tube for use in controlling the flow rate of the cooling liquid and an expansion tank for use in limiting the pressure of the cooling fluid in the cooling system.

Abstract: In a turbo-generator (10) having a rotor (11) and a stator (12) concentrically surrounding the rotor (11) and separated from the rotor (11) by an air gap (14), and also having a cooling arrangement in which a main fan (33) draws in a gaseous cooling medium flowing through corresponding cooling passages in the rotor (11) and in the stator (12) and forces it through a cooler (22, 23, 24) back into the cooling passages, the cooling medium flowing through the rotor (11) in the axial direction, issuing in a heated state into the air gap (14) and being returned from the air gap (14) to the main fan (33), improved rotor cooling is achieved in that the cooling medium heated by the rotor (11) is directed radially outward from the air gap (14) through outflow passages (15) in the stator (12) and is returned to the main fan (33) outside the stator (12) via a cooling-air return (21).

Abstract: A motor shaft assembly method for easily and inexpensively assembling a motor shaft with components and a motor housing eliminates the need for a snap ring or a threaded nut to retain the components on the shaft.

Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a compact high-power alternator for a vehicle. An alternator (1) for a vehicle includes a stator (2) and a rotor (3). The stator (2) serves as an armature. The rotor (3) operates to generate magnetic field. A front cooling fan (12) and a rear cooling fan (13) are fixed to two axial-direction ends of the rotor (3) respectively. The outside diameter (R0) of the cooling fans (12, 13) is equal to the outside diameter (R1) of the rotor (3) which is multiplied by a value of 0.90 to 0.96. The stator (2) includes a stator iron core (32), a stator winding, and an insulator (34) for providing insulation between the stator iron core (32) and the stator winding. Coil end groups (31a, 31b) extend from axial-direction end surfaces of the stator iron core (32) respectively. In the coil end groups (31a, 31b), gaps are formed between portions of the stator winding.

Abstract: A bushing for combining a fan and heat sink avoids a rack usually required in a conventional combination of fan and heat sink for CPU cooling, and thereby minimizes assembly height and forms a super-thin heat dispersion mechanism. A honeycomb heat sink is designed to increase heat dispersion area for a better heat dispersion efficacy, and a fan body can be fixed at the heat sink directly in virtue of the bushing construction.

Abstract: A motor cooling and sound absorbing system includes a housing (10) forming a chamber (13) around a motor (11). The shaft (12) of the motor (11) carries a fan (40) positioned in a chamber (38) formed by a recess (36) cut in a foam block (35). The fan (40) draws air into the chamber (13) through inlet apertures (33) in the housing (10) and this air is directed past the motor (11) to cool it. The air exits the fan (40) generally radially against an angled surface (37) of the recess (36) of the foam block (35). The air is then received in a diffuser passageway (41) defined by the angled surface (37) and an angled surface (42) of a choke plate (19) positioned above the foam block (35). The diffuser passageway (41) reduces the velocity of the air to assist the foam block (35) in absorbing the noise generated thereby, while at the same time reducing the pressure at the exit of the fan (40) to increase the cooling air flow past the motor (11).

Abstract: A claw pole generator has a drive shaft, two pole wheel halves arranged on the drive shaft and each having a disk-shaped plate and claw shaped magnet poles spaced from one another in a peripheral direction and having magnet pole tips, the magnet poles of one pole wheel half being inserted in intermediate spaces of the magnet poles of the other of the pole wheel halves, permanent magnet parts provided for a dissipation flux compensation and arranged in intermediate spaces of the plate, the magnet poles extending in a predetermined direction, and a mounting device connecting the magnet pole tips with a neighboring one of the plates, the magnet poles extending toward an outer edge of a neighboring one of the plates, the mounting device having vanes operating as an ventilation element.

Abstract: In an electric motor which includes an electronic control device and an armature within a closed motor casing, the electronic control device is arranged within the casing, in a position offset axially from but close to the armature. The motor includes a thermal screen which is interposed axially between the armature and the control device, and the screen includes means for dissipating heat outside the casing.

Abstract: An anti-electrostatic property between an impeller and a lead wire is improved particularly in a case of a miniature axial flow fan motor. In an axial flow fan motor, an impeller (6) integral with a motor yoke (12) is provided on a shaft (5) rotatably supported by bearings (2,3). An end face of the motor yoke (12) confronted with a PC board (8) mounting a drive circuit and its component parts thereon is covered by resin (P). Resin covering this portion suppresses the generation of the electrostatic current at this portion.

Abstract: In an alternating current generator and fans thereof in accordance with the invention, the cooling efficiency of the alternating current is improved by fans fixed to a rotor. When the fans are formed during a press working operation, the blades are formed directly from the fans by cut-raising the fans toward a bracket side to form blades and simultaneously cut-raising protruding portions toward a rotor side to form protrusions. This design allows for both improvement in cooling efficiency of the alternating current generator and ease of manufacture of the fans.

Abstract: An improved design for a switched reluctance motor is disclosed that keeps the motor cool during operation and thereby improves the performance and reliability of the motor. The improved design employs three centrifugal fans mounted to the motor shaft, which are used to create two independent airflow paths, one of which cools the electronic components of the motor. The improved design also divides the functions performed by a single printed circuit board into two circuit boards, an upper circuit board and a lower circuit board. Another feature of the improved design includes locating the position/speed sensing encoder immediately below one of the centrifugal cooling fans. The disclosed construction provides for increased dissipation of heat that is generated by the motor and its electronic components. In this configuration, the printed circuit boards and other electronic components are located in such a manner that air can be circulated in a path to remove heat from these components.

Abstract: In a rotor of a rotary machine having a plurality of claw poles extending in the axial direction of the rotor alternately from opposite ends and a plurality of auxiliary permanent magnets held between adjacent two of said claw poles, each of the claw poles has trapezoidal outer and inner peripheries with the sides thereof forming parallelopiped rectangular spaces between adjacent claw poles. The permanent magnet members are fitted to the spaces so that the side walls of the magnet members extend to the inside of the claw poles to function as an axial flow fan.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator assembly having an annular stator core with an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The inner diameter is formed with a plurality of winding slots extending from a first end of the stator core to a second end of the stator core. A plurality of windings are disposed within the winding slots beginning with a first slots. The windings are coupled into at least one winding group associated with at least a first phase, and each winding has a first winding end and a second winding end extending from the first end and the second end, respectively, of the stator core. At least one thermal fuse is disposed in thermal contact with the first winding end and substantially adjacent to the first winding portion.

Abstract: The hydraulic components of a cooling circuit for a dynamoelectric machine are eliminated in a totally air cooled dynamoelectric machine which includes a rotor (12) rotatable about an axis (14) and including a central stack (20) of ferrous laminations (22) defining a plurality of radially outwardly directed circumferentially spaced poles (132), spaced shaft ends (24,26) on the axis (14) and extending from opposite sides of the stack (20) and a first air passage (46) in the stack (20). Magnetic journal bearings (54,56) and a magnetic thrust bearing (58,60) are provided for the shaft segments (24,26) and impellers (62) are located on opposite sides of the stack (20). A stator (16) surrounds the rotor (12) and includes windings (76) connected by end turns (94) located exteriorally of the stator (16).

Abstract: A motor-driven tool is provided with a grip on which a switch is placed, and the grip is coupled to the middle of a cylindrical housing which houses a motor in its rear end and a motor output decelerator in front of the motor in its front end. A deceleration rotation output shaft is provided in the front of the housing. The motor houses an axial flow fan for air intake in the rear and a centrifugal fan for exhaust in the front and has intake air openings in the rear side and an exhaust air opening in a front side surface. The cylindrical housing also has an intake opening that connects to the intake air opening in the rear side of the motor and an exhaust opening that connects to the motor exhaust air opening at the position where the front of the motor is located.

Abstract: The DC motor according to the present invention includes one radial ball bearing and a thrust bearing constituted by a shaft receiving member provided on a housing to be abutted by one end of a rotating shaft. Further, a magnetic and/or a spring bias force is applied to the rotating shaft to supplement thrust load bearing force of the thrust bearing. Compared with conventional DC motors in which a rotor is supported by a shaft through a pair of ball bearings which are axially spaced apart from each other, the present invention enables reduction of the overall motor height without harming the rotational stability while simultaneously achieving low production cost.

Abstract: An electrical machine has a stator, and a rotor defining an axis of rotation, the stator including laminations located along that axis, the laminations having protrusions, the protrusions on each lamination being circularly spaced apart about the axis to define cooling air flow passages, and a fan mounted on the rotor to effect flow of cooling air into and through such passages as the rotor rotates.

Abstract: A vehicle alternator is provided with a metal plate 133a to allow a resin fan 133 to be secured to an end surface of a polar core by welding. The metal plate may comprise an flat annular plate insertion molded into the resin fan, or disks disposed in a circle concentric to the resin fan, which is insertion molded into the resin fan an annular flange portion 343b which clamps the resin fan to the polar core and a cylindrical portion 343a may be provided, or a flange portion 443b and a cylindrical portion 443a may be provided. An annular flange portion 543b which clamps the resin fan to the polar core and a hollow cylindrical portion 543a and a flat annular plate portion 543d which extends radially inwards therefrom may be provided.

Abstract: A drain structure for a fan motor prevents water from entering a discharge hole in the casing of the fan motor. A guiding passage is in opposed relation to the discharge hole and includes a front end portion covered by a fan boss section and an outer rib to prevent water from entering through the discharge hole into the casing. The guiding passage receives water discharged from the discharge hole. The discharge hole is formed in a lower portion of a casing cylindrical section. The casing cylindrical section is mounted on a fitting bracket for securement to a radiator.

Abstract: An interior cooling air flow is moved by an interior fan through an inside ventilation passage provided on an inside surface of a stator frame of a totally-enclosed type motor. An exterior cooling air produced by an exterior fan is passed through an outside surface of ventilation passage provided on an outside the stator frame. An inner heat radiation rib is provided in the axial direction on an inner face the inside ventilation passage so that the temperature rise of the motor can be reduced by an improvement in the cooling characteristic. In this way, a compact size totally-enclosed type motor having an improved cooling characteristic is obtained.

Abstract: An arrangement for the transfer of electric current, a liquid medium and a gaseous medium between fixed and rotatable sections. A protective casing surrounds sliding brushes pressing against sliding surfaces. A passage for each medium is parallel with rotation and arranged at a boundary surface between the fixed and rotating sections. Passage transfer pipes in both sections communicate with the passages. A collector chamber arranged in the fixed section and an outlet pipe lead the gaseous medium out of the tubular rotating section. The arrangement for the transfer of a liquid medium is coaxially arranged inside the arrangement for the transfer of electric current. The protective casing provides a collector chamber for the gaseous medium.

Abstract: An electronic component cooling apparatus capable of permitting a sufficient amount of air to be fed to an electronic component to be cooled. An impeller which includes a plurality of blades for sucking air from one side in an axial direction of a revolving shaft of a motor is fixed on a rotor of the motor. A casing having a cylindrical cavity defined therein in which the motor and impeller are received is constructed of a peripheral wall arranged so as to surround the impeller and a closing wall for closing an end of the cavity on the other side in the axial direction. The peripheral wall is formed at a portion thereof in proximity to an end thereof on the one side with a lateral discharge port through which air suckedly introduced into the cavity is discharged so that a surrounding portion for surrounding a whole circumference of the impeller is left at a portion of the peripheral wall in proximity to an end on the other side.

Abstract: An electric motor comprises a flange at one end, the corner portions of the flange projecting over the outline of the stator. A ventilator is provided at the opposite end, having outlets which are in alignment with the corner portions. The ventilator does not project over the borderline of the flange.

Abstract: In an air-cooled electrical machine having reverse cooling in a closed cooling circuit, a two-stage blade cascade for the optimum incident flow of cooling air to the rotor (4) and the rotor winding (29) is provided between a rotor cap plate (22) and a rotor shaft (28). The first blade cascade stage (30b) in the direction of flow is a deceleration cascade having essentially pressure-generating properties, and the following blade cascade stage (30a) in the direction of flow is a deceleration cascade having essentially deflecting properties. The flow cascade is provided radially on the inside with a sealing shroud band (32).

Abstract: Ceiling fan motors which include forced air ventilation and heat dissipation systems to provide significantly reduced motor operating temperatures, improved motor component tolerances, lower manufacturing costs, and ease of assembly. The ceiling fan motor is of the inside-out type and includes an impeller mechanism associated with at least one of the upper or lower portions of the motor casing for drawing substantial volumes of air into the casing, across the stator, and through the opposite portion of the motor casing. The motor casing components may be formed from cast aluminum. Alternatively, the entire casing and rotor is of unitary integrally cast aluminum. One of the end faces of the motor casing may include integrally cast blade ramps.

Abstract: An air fan capable of increasing the amount of air fed in a radial direction thereof. An impeller which includes a plurality of blades for sucking air from one side in an axial direction of a revolving shaft of a motor and guiding sucked air mainly toward the other side in the axial direction is mounted on a rotor of the motor. A casing includes a peripheral wall arranged so as to define a cavity therein in which the motor and impeller are received. A cavity is closed at each of both ends in the axial direction with a closing wall. The peripheral wall is provided at a portion thereof in proximity to an end thereof on the one side with a lateral suction port which permits air to be suckedly introduced therethrough into the cavity in a radial direction of the revolving shaft.

Abstract: This invention concerns a suction unit for hoods, ovens and similar appliances having a double auger casing consisting of two sectional half-shells, namely a top and a bottom shell which ensure easy assembly and automatic centring on a fan-motor unit entirely housed in the casing.

Abstract: An air cooler for an enclosed frame motor wherein two air-to-air heat exchangers are located in an enclosure mounted above an opening in the frame. The heat exchangers are disposed so that the heat exchanger coolant tubes extend transversely to the longitudinal axis of the motor drive shaft. The heat exchangers are positioned at opposed ends of the motor and inclined toward one another in an A-shaped configuration. The enclosure forms an enclosed region with the frame, isolating motor air inside the region from ambient air outside the region. An intake plenum is coupled with the enclosure on one side to direct ambient air into the interior of the heat exchanger coolant tubes at one end, whereby the ambient air exits from the tubes at the other end. Motor air surrounding the motor is heated during operation and circulated by an internal fan among the heat exchangers.

Abstract: A synchronous type of linear motor using a permanent magnet comprising a primary magnetic pole member (a three-phase coil) and a secondary magnetic pole member (a permanent magnet) each for generating a repulsive force making use of mutual repulsion between a movable element and a fixed board.

Abstract: A rotor end cap for use with a rotor of a dynamoelectric machine to induce cooling air circulation, facilitate rotor balancing and enable rotor rotational position and speed sensing. The rotor end cap includes a base for attachment to a rotor of the dynamoelectric machine so that the base turns with the rotor. Further, the end cap includes a plurality of blades extending from the base in axial and radial directions with respect to the rotor for moving air to enhance cooling air circulation within the machine as the rotor turns. Still further, the end cap includes a balancing device extending from the base for altering a weight distribution around the base to balance the rotor. Yet still further, the end cap includes at least one shutter extending partially around the base for intermittently blocking passage of light as the rotor turns to enable rotational position and speed sensing of the rotor.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing ventilating air into a housing for an electric machine is disclosed. The apparatus includes a hub mounted to the housing with a raised center portion and a generally circular outer portion. The center portion is displaced upwardly from the outer portion to form an outer surface. The apparatus features a first plurality of main blades extending upwardly from the hub, a second plurality of auxilliary blades extending downwardly from the hub. Ventilating air is communicated through an axial aperture in the hub, the main blades guiding air at least partially into the central aperture and the auxilliary blades transmitting air through the housing. An apparatus including a blower wheel for providing ventilating air into a housing of an electric machine is also featured. The blower wheel features a generally dome-shaped hub. The blower wheel may feature a third plurality of impeller blades extending downwardly from the hub to transmit air into the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fan unit for generating gas streams, in particular for vacuum cleaners, which unit comprises an impeller wheel (1) and a motor (4), which is a radial induction motor comprising an external stator (2) and an internal rotor (3), the stator (2) comprising a laminated core (2a) with coils (2b) arranged in slots, the rotor (3) comprising two concentric cylinders (3a, 3b), of which the outer cylinder (3b) is made of an electrically highly conductive material and the inner cylinder (3a) is made of a magnetically highly conductive material, one of the two axial end faces (3c) of at least one of the two rotor cylinders (3a, 3b) being in planar contact with the impeller wheel (1), the motor (4) being energised by means of a frequency changer (29 to 37) and the speed setting being derived from process-dependent nominal values and adjustable set-point values.

Abstract: An air-cooled type electric motor (20) includes a rotor, a stator includes a stator core (28), and a front support member (32) and a rear support member (34) arranged at both axial ends of the stator core (28). A plurality of air passages (42), extending continuously in an axial direction, are provided in the stator core (28), the front support member (32), and the rear support member (34). A centrifugal blower unit (50) is placed at further rear side of the rear support member (34). Because the centrifugal blower unit (50) has a large pressure rise, air, surrounding the motor and sufficient to cause an effective cooling, can be made to flow into the air passages (42) with a smaller diameter. A drive section (56) of the blower unit (50) is fixed directly to the rear support member (34) by bolts (72). Consequently, an electric wire (74) for the drive section (56) extends through the interior space of the motor (20), and is connected to a terminal box (48).

Abstract: A rectifying unit is disposed axially adjacent to a rear cooling fan. The rectifying unit has a plus-pole heat dissipating fin and a minus-pole heat dissipating fin integrally connected by a terminal plate. The plus-pole heat dissipating fin has an elongation extending axially around the rear cooling fan to have direct cooling air from the fan. The minus-pole heat dissipating fin is fixed to the housing directly or via a heat conductive material to be electrically grounded. Slits are formed on the elongations of the plus-pole heat dissipating fin to have discharging cooling air therethrough. Further, elongations are formed on the both dissipating fins at their inner periphery proximate to an intake window of the housing. Thus, cooling capacity of the rectifying unit is enhanced.

Abstract: An integrated motor drive system includes a variable speed electric motor, a fan connected to the electric motor to generate an air flow as the motor rotates, and a motor drive connected to the electric motor, the drive including a heat sink disposed between the motor and the drive and having a plurality of asymmetrically spaced apart heat transfer fins transferring heat generated by power components in the drive to the air flow. The fan is connected to a one of either the rotor of the variable speed motor or to an auxiliary fan motor controlled independently of the variable speed motor. A fan shroud on one end of the motor acts as an air duct member adapted for dividing and directing the flow of air from the fan to sets of heat transfer fins on the heat sink. A method of operating the drive integrated type motor system includes generating motor speed command signals in the drive based on inputs from an operator through an operator interaface unit on the drive.

Abstract: An alternator has front and rear cooling fans to effectively cool the stator windings and field coil of the alternator. The front cooling fan has a first number (e.g. six) of diagonal-flow type blades for cooling mainly the field coil and a second number (e.g. five) of centrifugal-flow-type blade for cooling the stator windings which are disposed between the diagonal-flow-type blades. The combination of the first and second numbers is designed to suppress noise level caused by the cooling fan.

Abstract: In a small starter motor which has a substantially closed space therein, it is necessary to blow out brush dust particles therefrom. On a coil end surface or both coil end surfaces of an armature, a fan generating an air circulation is formed utilizing gaps formed between individual coil ends on the surface without adding any other parts. Also, a side wall is disposed next to the coil end surface in parallel thereto which closes an axial end of a yoke in which the armature is coaxially disposed. In the space formed between the side wall and the coil end surface, an air circulation is generated when the armature rotates. The side wall has an air inlet hole and the yoke has an air outlet hole. Air coming into the space from the air inlet hole is blown out from the air outlet hole by the circulation generated by the fan made on the coil end surface. The brush dust particles are blown out by the circulated air, and the coil ends are cooled off at the same time.

Abstract: A method of improving the airflow through a low to medium speed salient pole dynamoelectric machine DEM is disclosed. The rotor rim on which the salient poles are mounted is shortened in comparison to prior art structures so that the ends of the salient poles (and the rotor windings) protrude a substantial distance beyond the edge of the rim. A stationary or rotating shield is placed in juxtaposed relationship with the rotating ends of the salient poles to provide an enclosure so that the protruding ends of the salient poles can function as a crude radial fan.

Abstract: An alternator for use with a motor vehicle including a housing. A separator plate is positioned within said housing to define front and rear air control volumes. A plurality of fans draw air through the respective front and rear air control volumes to cool the alternator during operation.

Abstract: In an alternator, a brush holder holds a pair of brushes which abut slip rings perpendicularly. The brush holder is disposed within an inner periphery of a cooling fan so that the brush holder overlaps with the cooling fan in the axial direction by approximately a width of a brush. The brush holder is secured to the rear housing and disposed to face an air intake window. As a result, the axial length of the alternator is reduced without sacrificing cooling capacity for the brushes.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a covering member for covering the outer periphery of a stator core, to improve the cooling efficiency of an air-cooling system of the motor. The covering member is fixed to a stator while defining a cavity therebetween in fluidic communication with air passages formed directly in the stator core. When an blower unit mounted on the motor operates, an ambient air surrounding the motor is introduced into the cavity, and then flows from the cavity into the air passages, so as to actively absorb heat generated in the stator from the outer peripheral surface of the stator core and the tubular wall surfaces of the air passages. Thereafter, the air is discharged from the air passages out of the motor.

Abstract: A rotary fan includes a rotatable base plate, a plurality of fan blades mounted rotatably on the base plate at a peripheral portion thereof by means of supporting studs, and a blade angle adjusting mechanism mounted in association with each of the fan blades for allowing the fan blade to rotate pivotally about the supporting stud under a centrifugal force acting on the fan blade such that the rate of increase of the air quantity produced by the fan blade decreases as a rotation number of the rotatable base plate increases within a predetermined high-speed rotation range of the rotatable base plate, while in other rotation speed range outside of the high-speed rotation range, the blade angle adjusting mechanism acts to suppress the rotation of the fan blade around the supporting stud. Noise generated by the rotary fan can significantly be reduced while ensuring a sufficient quantity of air flow.

Abstract: A molded through-flow motor assembly has a motor housing, including a cup portion and a flange portion. The flange portion includes a plurality of ramp surfaces extending outwardly therefrom. The cup portion has a field retaining wall and guide rib extending inwardly therefrom on opposite sides of the housing. A diffuser plate is provided having a plurality of scalloped ramp surfaces on a first side thereof adjacent to a plurality of air inlet apertures which open into air chambers on the second side thereof. The field and armature portions of a motor assembly are mounted in the motor housing and the diffuser plate is fitted to the flange portion of the housing such that the ramp surfaces abut one another to form a continuous ramp surface from each air inlet aperture into the air chambers. A rotating fan member is mounted to the armature shaft and is housed within a shroud cover fitted to the motor housing.

Abstract: In a squirrel-cage rotor for an asynchronous machine, having a laminated core (2) which is mounted on the shaft (1), held together at both ends by press rings and is intended for accommodating the cage bars (3), the latter are respectively permanently connected to a short-circuiting ring (4) outside the laminated core (2). Each short-circuiting ring (4) is supported in the radial direction by a support ring (6) fixed on the shaft. In order to couple the cage head to the rotor body over the entire speed range of the machine for the purpose of suppressing natural vibrations, the two press rings are axially spaced from the laminated core (2) and simultaneously form the support ring (6) for the short-circuiting ring (4). In order to ensure the ventilation of the winding overhang, there are provided between the end face of the laminated core (2) and the support ring (6) spacer webs (7) which are preferably constructed in one piece with the support ring (6).

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a housing formed into a bottomed hollow tubular shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor facing the permanent magnet and comprising an armature iron core having a coil wound thereon and a commutator, an end plate fitted to an open end of the housing and having brushes coming in sliding contact with the commutator and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, and a cooling fan provided between the armature iron core of the rotor and the commutator; the rotor being rotatably supported by bearings provided on the bottom of the housing and the end plate, in which an integral cooling fan is formed by providing a plurality of fins at circumferentially equal intervals between first and second fan rings fitted to the ends of the commutator and the armature iron core, respectively, and a plurality of bosses are provided on the end face of the second fan ring.

Abstract: A support for the rotor shaft of a centrifugal pump with permanent-magnet electric motor. The motor is of the type which comprises a laminate-pack stator with a coil-like winding and a rotor placed in a cylindrical chamber which is separate from the stator, the rotor being rotatable about the shaft which is fixed axially therein. The support is characterized in that it comprises a tubular shank which extends from the bottom of the chamber and in which one end of the shaft is force-fitted. The bottom has a through hole at the shank.

Abstract: Cooling wind is introduced into an electric-parts-chamber through openings formed at the bottom of a cover, then taken into the intake side of a cooling fan through the air intakes formed in the wall end of a housing from the electric-parts-chamber. The cooling wind is accelerated by the fan to be driven off from the outlets formed in the peripheral wall of the housing. The cylindrical portion of the positive side cooling fins of the rectifier is extended to the space between the outer periphery of the fan and the outlets. The inner diameter of the cylindrical portion is longer than that of the rear coil end. Thus, the coil end and the cylindrical portion of the positive side cooling fin are cooled sufficiently by the cooling wind blowing thereon at high speed, so that the rectifier can endure large thermal load with reduced wind noise even if the size of the alternator is small.