Heat-exchange Structure Patents (Class 310/64)
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Patent number: 7612992Abstract: A cooling device for memory chip includes a first part and a second part which is pivotably connected to the first part at a top thereof. Each of the first and second parts includes an elongate plate and fins extend from each of the elongate plates. Ventilation holes are defined through each the elongate plates and located between the fins. The memory chip is sandwiched between the first and second elongate plates of the first and second parts, and the fins of the two parts are arranged alternatively.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: CompTake Technology Inc.Inventor: Wei-Hau Chen
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Patent number: 7592723Abstract: A vehicular electric rotary machine of a heat pipe cooling type is disclosed including heat pipe means 14, 14A, 15, 15B, associated with a cooling fin 51, 52 and a rear end wall 122 of a rear frame 12, which have regions exposed to an exhaust passage 19 to be cooled by a cooling wind Wa for thereby radiating heat of a rectifier.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takuzou Mukai, Shin Kusase
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Patent number: 7586222Abstract: A voltage controller has a control circuit and a heat radiating member attached to the circuit. The circuit controls a voltage of electric power generated in an alternator of a vehicle while generating heat. The member has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface of the member is formed in a smooth shape having no protrusions or hollows. A cooling wind flows on the second surface. The member receives the heat from the control circuit through the first surface and radiates the heat from the second surface to the wind.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Keiji Takahashi
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Patent number: 7586219Abstract: The present invention provides a drive guide apparatus capable of ensuring an increased lifetime by preventing heat generated from a primary side of a linear motor from being transferred to a rail or a moving member of a guide mechanism to which the primary side of the linear motor is connected, thereby preventing variation of rolling resistance or sliding resistance of the guide mechanism. The drive guide apparatus has a linear motor and a guide mechanism that has a rail and a moving member provided to be movable relative to the rail. A primary side of the linear motor is connected to the rail. Thermal insulators for blocking heat generated from the primary side of the linear motor are provided between the primary side and the rail of the guide mechanism to which the primary side is connected directly or indirectly.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taro Miyamoto, Toshiyuki Aso, Shuhei Yamanaka, Wataru Nakayama
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Publication number: 20090200878Abstract: An improved power tool system includes a power tool and an external power supply connected via a cable to provide utility and safety in a hazardous operation such as loading ammunition into a weapon in an environment of flammable materials and extreme environmental exposure. The power tool includes a sparkless motor, a sparkless controller and sparkless switches, in a sealed enclosure with improved heat transfer means. The power tool has improved torque controlling means to mitigate reaction torque to the operator and equipment when starting or stopping highly inertial loads. A sealed enclosure is provided to prevent liquids from entering the motor and controller cavity and includes a thermally conductive path to conduct heat from the motor and controller through the enclosure to cooling fins and a coolant path formed between the fins and an entrapment wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventor: Richard Thomas Walter
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Publication number: 20090195093Abstract: An electric motor radiator (34), a feeding mechanism (30), and a cooling oil circulation path (32) constitute a cooling mechanism that cools the electric motor (6) via an electric motor cooling oil that is a cooling medium. The electric motor radiator (34) forms a circulation path between the electric motor (6), and cooling of the electric motor (6) is performed via the electric motor cooling oil. A PCU radiator (44), a feeding mechanism (40) and a cooling water circulation path (42) constitute a cooling mechanism that cools a PCU (8) via a PCU cooling water that is a cooling medium. The PCU radiator (44) forms a circulation path between the PCU (8), and cooling of the PCU (8) is performed via the PCU cooling water. Further, the feeding mechanism (30, 40) operate by power received from a power storage portion (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Bandai, Tomonari Taguchi, Hideto Minekawa
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Patent number: 7569957Abstract: A heat generating member cooling structure in which a coolant space is formed between a heat releasing surface that is thermally connected to a heat generating member and an opposing surface that is positioned opposite the heat releasing surface, includes a plurality of heat releasing fins that are provided within the coolant space so as to be parallel to one another and stand from the heat releasing surface toward the opposing surface, and an inter-fin passage, through which a coolant flows, formed between every two of the plurality of heat releasing fins that are positioned adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Aisini Aw Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata
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Patent number: 7569955Abstract: An electric motor including a motor portion, a cooling portion and a plurality of heat pipes is provided. The motor portion includes a stator and a rotor that when energized with electric current causes the rotor to rotate. The motor portion comprises a motor frame that encloses the rotor and stator from exterior elements. The cooling portion is adjacent the motor portion and exterior of the motor portion. In various embodiments it defines a fluid chamber containing a quantity of fluid that is prevented from contacting interior of the motor portion. The plurality of heat pipes within the motor portion extend from the motor portion to the cooling portion such that the fluid contacts the heat pipe within the cooling portion in order to remove heat from the heat pipe.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Thermal Motor Innovations, LLCInventors: Timothy Hassett, Mark Hodowanec
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Patent number: 7570488Abstract: An automotive alternator rectifier including a terminal connection portion configured by connecting a terminal leading out of first unidirectional conducting element bodies disposed on a surface of a first heat sink so as to be spaced apart or a terminal leading out of second unidirectional conducting element bodies disposed on a surface of a second heat sink so as to be spaced apart with a circuit board terminal is disposed between a rotor and a circuit board. For this reason, temperature increases in the first unidirectional conducting element bodies and the second unidirectional conducting element bodies can be suppressed and workability when connecting the terminal connection portion is improved.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Oohashi, Masaki Katoh
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Patent number: 7567053Abstract: The power switches of an inverter are mechanically integrated with an electric motor of a vehicle and are mounted on the end plate of the motor and employ short connections between the motor a-c terminals and the inverter a-c output terminals. Bond wireless modules are employed. The electronic controls for the inverter are mounted on a main control board which is positioned remotely from the inverter and is not subject to the heat and EMI produced by the inverter.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: International Rectifier CorporationInventor: Henning Hauenstein
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Patent number: 7567000Abstract: A motor includes a heat dissipating structure. The motor may be used for a fan and includes on an upper surface of a circuit board a heat dissipating layer. The heat dissipating layer has a high thermal conductivity. The fan also includes a coil provided on the teeth of a stator core. The heat dissipating layer and the coil axially face each other, and thermal conductive members are arranged therebetween. An outer dimension of the circuit board is greater than that of an impeller cup so that a radially outward portion of the circuit board protrudes radially outwardly from the impeller cup. The heat generated by the coil is transferred to the heat dissipating layer via the thermal conductive members. Therefore, the heat is dissipated from a wide area, which efficiently dissipates heat from the fan. In addition, since the circuit board and the heat dissipating layer protrude radially into an air-flow generated by an impeller, the heat transferred to the heat dissipating layer is actively dissipated.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Tomotsugu Sugiyama, Shinji Takemoto, Tsuyoshi Yasumura
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Publication number: 20090184594Abstract: A flux screen is provided for shielding a generator stator core from the magnetic field generated by end windings of the stator, wherein the flux screen comprises a frontside to be at least indirectly facing the end windings of the generator and a backside to be at least indirectly facing the stator core of the generator, and wherein the backside is provided with channels and/or grooves and/or pits.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Pascal Chay, Michael Jean-Marie Berlamont, Janusz Bialik, Johann Haldemann, Lennart Diestel-Feddersen
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Patent number: 7560838Abstract: A generator housing (1) of an engine generator is connected to a gearbox casing (17) via a cover plate (23) that bears the rotor shaft (5). The cover plate has a two-piece design and includes a bearing retainer ring (13) for a rotor shaft bearing (11) made of a rigid material and fastened only to the gearbox casing, and a heat-conducting ring (21) connected with both the gearbox casing and the generator housing. A centering cylinder (18) molded to the bearing retainer ring centers the generator housing and thus the stator (3) and rotor (4) while a spacer ring (20) and/or an adjustable spacer ring (10) ensure the exact axial positioning of the rotor or bearing retainer ring. The generator of this design is safe to operate and has a long service life.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventor: Matthijs van der Woude
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Patent number: 7554227Abstract: A motor includes a base having a fixing seat, an axial tube mounted to the fixing seat, a rotor mounted to the axial tube, and a circuit board mounted to the base and including a stator and at least one heat-generating component. The base includes at least one slot. At least one fixed plate is located adjacent to the slot. The fixed plate is at a different height from the base. The fixed plate is smaller than the slot. The heat-generating component is fixed to the fixed plate. The fixed plate assists in dissipation of heat generated by the heat-generating component.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Alex Horng, Tso-Kuo Yin
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Patent number: 7554230Abstract: A control circuit device for a motor is provided with a circuit board which has an electrically-conductive terminal for electrically connecting the motor with an exterior connector, a heat radiating unit which is connected with the circuit board to radiate heat generated by the circuit board. The heat radiating unit has a convex member at a surface thereof of the side where the electrically conductive terminal is arranged. The electrically conductive terminal is integrally formed with a concave member for being engaged with the convex member. The convex member is engaged with the concave member. Thus, a heat sink can be readily mounted without increasing the cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takayuki Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20090160272Abstract: The invention relates to a heat pipe device (6) for cooling a voltage regulator (2) of a rotating electric machine, comprising an evaporating part (7) which is connected to the voltage regulator (2) of the machine. The invention is suitable for an alternator or an alternator-starter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2006Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Michel Fakes, Claudiu Vasilescu, Daniel Richard
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Patent number: 7548000Abstract: A power generation system including: a generator including a rotor including a superconductive rotor coil coupled to a rotatable shaft; a first prime mover drivingly coupled to the rotatable shaft; and a thermal radiation shield, partially surrounding the rotor coil, including at least a first sheet and a second sheet spaced apart from the first sheet by centripetal force produced by the rotatable shaft. A thermal radiation shield for a generator including a rotor including a super-conductive rotor coil including: a first sheet having at least one surface formed from a low emissivity material; and at least one additional sheet having at least one surface formed from a low emissivity material spaced apart from the first sheet by centripetal force produced by the rotatable shaft, wherein each successive sheet is an incrementally greater circumferential arc length and wherein the centripetal force shapes the sheets into a substantially catenary shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Arthur Urbahn, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris
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Patent number: 7546782Abstract: Cooling apparatus for transferring heat from and cooling one or more heat generating components that support or drive a flywheel or other spinning member. The apparatus may include a first heat transfer element attached to and spinning with the spinning member, a second heat transfer element stationary with respect to the spinning member, wherein the first and second heat transfer elements move relative to one another, and wherein the first and second heat transfer elements are shaped and positioned in close proximity to one another so that substantial heat is transferred from the first heat transfer element to the second heat transfer element.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2006Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Seakeeper, Inc.Inventors: John D. Adams, Shepard W. McKenney
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Publication number: 20090146513Abstract: The invention relates to a design for and a method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine stator assembly. There is a need for improved cooling in rotary electric machines, such as motors and generators. A stator assembly is provided for a rotary electric machine having a rotor which rotates within a stator which is enclosed within a cooling jacket. The stator has a plurality of grooves separated by a plurality of stator teeth. A stator coil is wrapped around each corresponding tooth. The stator assembly also includes a plurality of heat conducting plates which conduct heat from a coil to the stator. In one embodiment, adjacent pairs of coils are separated by one of a plurality of radially and axially extending slots, and the plates are received within the slots. In another embodiment, the plates are positioned between the stator coil and each side of the corresponding tooth around which the coil is wrapped.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventor: Ronald Dean Bremner
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Publication number: 20090145621Abstract: A power tool having a cooling system, comprises: a motor housing 11 having a main chamber 14 accommodating a tool motor 12; a handle 15 for holding the power tool and having a cooling passage 16 for the transfer of cooling fluid, at least one inlet 18 leading to the cooling passage and at least one outlet 13 leading away from the cooling passage 18, and a power tool component 21 which generates heat disposed in thermal contact with the cooling passage 16 between the inlet 18 and the outlet 13.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: James Ching Sik LAU, Yuen Tung Louie
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Patent number: 7545642Abstract: A large number of ventilating apertures that have a circular cross section are disposed through the heatsink so as to extend from an air intake apertured surface to an air discharge apertured surface so as to have aperture directions that are parallel to each other and parallel to an element mount surface, and the heatsink is disposed such that the air intake apertured surface faces an air intake aperture and the aperture directions of the ventilating apertures are aligned in a direction of flow of a cooling airflow.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuaki Uehara, Tetsuro Ogushi, Yoshihito Asao, Hitoshi Isoda
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Publication number: 20090127946Abstract: An electric motor/generator cooling mechanism is presented. The cooling mechanism includes a hollow cooling jacket having an inner and outer coaxial surface, where the inner surface defines a generally cylindric cavity for receiving a stator in heat transference contact with the inner surface, and the outer surface has a cast spiral groove section with jogged cooling passages. The disclosure includes an outer case having one or more inlet ports, an outlet port, and a vent for purging air, cooling fluid flowingly encased between the cooling jacket and the outer case, flowing through the jogged cooling passages, and a flanged end surface on an end of the outer case for boltingly connecting the cooling jacket to the outer case.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2009Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: David Fee, Jonathan Baumann
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Patent number: 7531924Abstract: Disclosed is a cooling and supporting apparatus for current leads of a superconducting rotating machine. The cooling and supporting apparatus is installed on the current leads, and includes an inner tube provided with a spiral-shaped groove formed in the outer surface thereof and an outer tube provided with a spiral-shaped groove formed in the inner surface thereof, thus preventing heat transferred through the current leads from being directly transferred to a superconducting coil for preventing the deformation of the superconducting coil, and allowing the outer tube from fixedly surrounding the whole current leads for preventing the breakage of the current leads due to centrifugal force of a rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woon-sik Kwon, Yeong-Chun Kim, Tae-sun Moon, Heui-joo Park
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Patent number: 7525224Abstract: A drive unit comprises an electric motor, a drive unit casing 2 accommodating therein the electric motor, an inverter 3 that controls the electric motor, and a flow passage of a refrigerant that cools the inverter. The inverter defines a space R between it and a heat sink 5 integral with a substrate of the inverter, and is mounted to the drive unit casing, the space being communicated to the flow passage of the refrigerant. The heat sink comprises fins 56 that cross the space R, and abuts against the drive unit casing in a state of low thermal conduction. Thereby, the heat sink is effectively cooled by heat exchange with a cooling refrigerant in wide areas. Also, the fins contact with the drive unit casing in a state of low thermal conduction via a heat insulation material, etc., whereby direct heat conduction is avoided and efficient cooling is enabled while temperature gradient conformed to heat-resistant temperatures of the inverter and the electric motor is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Takenaka, Naruhiko Kutsuna, Kozo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7525223Abstract: The magnetic flux generated by stator electrical winding can flow inside motor stator structure, so it is unnecessary to put the stator electrical winding and the rotor in the same medium. The stator and rotor can be separated by repositioning the dome of a hermetic (or semi hermetic) refrigeration (or air condition) system inside the motor. The rotor and compressor are sealed inside the dome and the stator electrical winding is outside of the dome or shell. The compressor powered by this induction motor design can be much safer and more reliable to operate even in more critical environment (like pumping and compressing poison, dangerous gas). It will also be easier to fix a motor with a detachable stator design.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Inventor: Yue Chung Chen
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Publication number: 20090096300Abstract: A motor housing and cooling fin assembly for an electric motor comprises a stator support having a longitudinal base and a series of fin plates protruding radially from the base, the fin plates for directing fluid coolant through the motor, a cylindrical support sleeve comprising a thin wall, the thin wall containing a series of slots for receiving distal ends of the fin plates; and a motor housing having a cylindrical inner wall, the support sleeve positioned between the stator support and the motor housing in an interference fit. By reducing the thickness of the motor housing by more than the thickness of the added cylindrical support sleeve, the motor housing is lighter. Instead of machining slots directly into the motor housing, they are machined the cylindrical support sleeve, which is of simple geometry, thereby reducing the difficulty and cost of manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: SHIOPING P. OYOUNG, Wei-Shing Chaing
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Patent number: 7514827Abstract: A self-cooled rotor for an electrical machine being internally provided with a cooling channel to carrying cooling fluid. The machine includes a further channel for carrying cooling fluid in proximity to a magnetic field generating means for cooling it, the two passages being connected to each other within the machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Turbo Power Systems LimitedInventor: Justin Arthur Hall
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Patent number: 7505273Abstract: A heat sink, in particular for a rectifier unit of an electrical machine has at least one diode opening, and disposed around the at least one diode opening at least partially ring-shaped cooling air openings and at least one mass-increasing raised area, wherein the mass-increasing raised area extends between two of the cooling air openings associated with the diode opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Horst Braun, Holger Scholzen, Hardy Haegele
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Patent number: 7501727Abstract: An alternator includes: a rotor fixed to a shaft so as to rotate with the shaft; a stator disposed so as to surround the rotor, an alternating current being generated in the stator by a rotating magnetic field from the rotor; and a voltage control apparatus for adjusting magnitude of an output voltage of the alternating current generated in the stator, wherein: the voltage control apparatus includes: a grounded, electrically-conductive heat sink; and a control main body fixed to the heat sink, the control main body including an integrated circuit chip on which a circuit for controlling the output voltage is formed. As a result, parts are reduced in number, reducing manufacturing costs.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Wakaki Miyaji, Akinori Nishizawa, Kyoko Higashino
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Publication number: 20090058206Abstract: The invention relates to a motor winding assembly. There is a need for a motor winding assembly which rapidly conducts heat from motor coils to a cooling housing. An electric motor stator assembly has a plurality of winding assemblies enclosed by a heat conducting housing. Each winding assembly has a heat conducting lamination member, a pair of end cap insulator members next to the lamination member, and an insulating liner and an electrical winding wound around the lamination member and the end cap insulator members. Each end cap insulator member has a head, a foot, and a bar which extends between the head and the foot. The end cap insulator members are formed of a heat conducting material. Each head has a radially outer end which engages the heat conducting housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventor: Ronald Dean Bremner
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Publication number: 20090051233Abstract: A permanent magnet electric generator includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly has axially disposed annular outer and inner rings concentric with an axis of rotation. The inner ring has a radius less than the radius of the outer ring. The inner ring is disposed inside the outer ring. A rotor frame is attached to the inner ring and the outer ring. The rotor frame defines a radial gap between the inner and the outer rings. A rotor hub is concentric with the axis of rotation and is disposed inside the inner ring. The rotor hub is coupled to the inner ring by a hub frame that is mounted on the rotor hub. The rotor hub is adapted to be rotationally coupled to a shaft for rotating the rotor assembly. A plurality of magnets is disposed on the outer ring, each magnet having a north pole and a south pole. The permanent magnets are aligned with the axis of rotation, and adjacent magnets have alternating polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Terry D. Scott, Johnny L. Scott, Lawrence A. Hash
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Patent number: 7482719Abstract: In a vehicle AC generator having a housing that covers a voltage regulator equipped with external cooling fins, and a cooling fan which rotates with the generator rotor to draw external air through the interior of the housing, an aperture is formed in the housing at a position corresponding to the voltage regulator, and outer end portions of the cooling fins protrude through the aperture to positions beyond the outer circumference of the housing, to dissipate heat from the vehicle-mounted regulator during low-speed operation of the generator, when the rate of air flow through the aperture is low.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Motoki Itoh
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Patent number: 7479719Abstract: An alternator for a vehicle has a regulator disposed in a casing so as to be exposed from a window of the casing, an input harness and an output harness disposed outside the casing, and an insulating bush disposed between an output terminal and the casing. The regulator controls generation of electric power in response to a control signal sent through the input harness and a connector disposed on the casing. The generated power is output from the alternator through the output terminal and the output harness. The alternator further has a shield cover connected with the insulating bush so as to be unified with the insulating bush. An exhaust pipe heated at a high temperature is disposed over the casing. The shield cover extends between the casing and the exhaust pipe so as to shield the regulator and the harnesses from the exhaust pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Kouichi Misaki
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Patent number: 7474024Abstract: An electronic control unit 10 may comprise a case 12, a board 23 accommodated inside the case 12, and electronic components (25, 29, 31) mounted on the board 23. An opening 13 may be formed on one face of the case 12 opposite one of the faces of the board 23. The case 12 may be filled with potting material 41, and the board 23 and the electronic components (25, 29, 31) may be embedded in the potting material 41. The distance between the electrodes of the respective electronic components (25, 29) mounted on the non-opening side face of the board 23 may be greater than that of any of the electronic components 31 mounted on the opening-side face of the board 23.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20080315694Abstract: A brushless alternating current generator for vehicles comprises a stator, rotor, field winding, rectifier, housing, cover, and extension member. The rectifier has plural rectifying elements to rectify a voltage from the stator winding and output the rectified voltage and a radiating fin to which the rectifying elements are attached. The housing has a side wall and houses both the stator and the rotor and has an end face to which electric parts including the rectifier are attached. The side wall Is along the axial direction. The end face is along the radial direction. Both the side wall and the radiating fin are mutually adjacent to provide a gap in the radial direction. The cover encloses the end face of the housing and has plural air inlets that takes in cooling air. The extension member is secured to the cover and extends into the gap in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi Hamada
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Patent number: 7466045Abstract: An in-shaft cryogenic cooler mounts entirely within the shaft of a dynamoelectric machine that has a rotor comprising a high temperature superconductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: Michael J. Andres
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Patent number: 7462966Abstract: Synchronous electric motor (3) for washing-machines (1) and similar household appliances with rotary drum (2), of the type comprising an inner stator (5) having relative stator windings (9) mounted fixed on a central axis (10), an electronic control board (18) electrically connected to the stator, and a heat sink element (20) associated with the electronic board (18). The heat sink element (20) is mounted on the stator (5) in an axial extension thereof and spaced therefrom. The electronic control board (18) is supported by the heat sink (20) on a side facing the stator (5).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Askoll Holding S.r.L.Inventor: Elio Marioni
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Patent number: 7462965Abstract: A brushless motor has a stator, a rotor and a circuit board for controlling rotation of the rotor. The stator has iron cores and coils wound around the iron cores. Switching elements for turning on and off electric power to be supplied to the coils for the stator are mounted to the circuit board. A heat-radiating member is fixed to the iron cores.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2004Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Natsuhara, Hidenori Shimizu, Mitsumasa Mizuno, Hiroki Inoue
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Publication number: 20080290662Abstract: A climatisation system for wind turbines which comprise: a first heat exchanger (10) in the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with an element of the nacelle for which the temperature needs to be controlled; a second heat exchanger (20) outside the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with a first exchange unit (21); a first section (12) of a climatisation circuit for: connecting the first heat exchanger (10) with the second heat exchanger (20); circulating a liquid coolant between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20); impulsion units (100) for circulating the liquid coolant on the first section (12) of the climatisation circuit; a shut off valve (200); and expansion tank (400); an expansion valve (300) between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Alvaro Matesanz Gil, Juan Jose Bonilla Andrino
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Publication number: 20080284267Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for a rotor assembly and an electric motor. One embodiment for a rotor assembly includes a first rotor including a first interface surface and a second rotor including a second interface surface corresponding to the first interface surface. Also, the first rotor is positioned with the first interface surface in direct physical contact with the second interface surface of the second rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventor: Stephen H. Purvines
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Publication number: 20080265700Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamoelectric machine having improved heat dissipation capabilities. The dynamoelectric machine includes a three-phase stator winding with a rectifier assembly electrically connected to the stator winding. The rectifier assembly includes an end frame having at least one negative diode contained therein and a positive heat sink which has at least one positive diode disposed therein. Connecting the negative diodes and positive diodes is a terminal assembly. The terminal assembly includes one or more electrically conductive and heat dissipative straps. The straps electrically connect one or more negative diodes and one or more positive diodes. Also disclosed is a method for dissipating heat from a rectifier of a dynamoelectric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Michael D. Bradfield, Brad L. Auler, Samuel R. Edrington
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Patent number: 7443064Abstract: A permanent-magnet generator includes a flywheel having a ringlike portion and a bottom portion which closes off one end of the ringlike portion and a plurality of protrusions bulging inward from the bottom portion of the flywheel. An irregular surface portion is formed in each of the protrusions for producing turbulence when the flywheel rotates, the irregular surface portion being irregularly shaped in section along a circumferential direction of the flywheel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuhiro Kihara, Kaoru Imaizumi
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Patent number: 7443066Abstract: A wind turbine generator includes a stator having a core and a plurality of stator windings circumferentially spaced about a generator longitudinal axis. A rotor is rotatable about the generator longitudinal axis, and the rotor includes a plurality of magnetic elements coupled to the rotor and cooperating with the stator windings. The magnetic elements are configured to generate a magnetic field and the stator windings are configured to interact with the magnetic field to generate a voltage in the stator windings. A heat pipe assembly thermally engaging one of the stator and the rotor to dissipate heat generated in the stator or rotor.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Samir A. Salamah, Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre, Jivtesh Garg, Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli, Patrick Lee Jansen, Ralph James Carl, Jr.
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Publication number: 20080252157Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine (6) comprising a rotor and a stator, the rotor having a shaft (7) and the longitudinal extension of the electric machine (6) being defined by the shaft axis. The electric machine (6) can be cooled by means of a cooling circuit, the latter comprising at least one cooling pipe (3), which extends essentially in the longitudinal direction of the electric machine (6). The cooling circuit comprises a first circular distribution pipe (1) that forms almost a complete circle, which stretches over one plane, the axis of the longitudinal extension of the electric machine (6) being essentially perpendicular to said plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Jorg Muller, Thomas Then
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Publication number: 20080238224Abstract: The invention relates to an electric appliance (1) which comprises a machine module (2) provided with an electric machine (3) comprising a stator (4) and a rotor. A machine housing (7) of the machine module (2) receives the electric machine (3). A cooling module (19) comprises a cooling housing (21), which is fluidically connected to the machine housing (7) by means of a first cooling fluid connection area (20) in a housing wall (17) of the machine housing (7) and to at least one second cooling fluid connection area (23) in the housing wall (17) of the machine housing (7). The inside of the machine housing (7) can be fluidically connected to the inside of the cooling housing (21) in one section of the housing wall (17), which is oriented towards the cooling housing (21), by means of at least one third cooling fluid connection area (25) comprising at least one cooling fluid through-opening (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2005Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Ekkehard Ressel
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Publication number: 20080231126Abstract: At least one cooling duct is provided for a motor that includes a frame. The cooling duct has a wall supported by the frame that, in turn, comprises an arcuate surface portion and a non-arcuate surface portion that together define a bore. A method of increasing the transfer of heat away from a motor is also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Rajendra Narayan Telore, Madhava Prasad Tunuguntla, Matthew Doctor
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Publication number: 20080205001Abstract: A blower includes a casing for defining an air passage through which air is blown into a compartment, a fan located in the casing to generate an air flow in the casing, a motor for driving the fan, a motor control device for controlling a rotation speed of the motor, and a heat sink located to radiate heat of the motor control device to air flowing in the air passage. The heat sink having a radiation fin is exposed into the air passage, and at least one of the motor control device and the heat sink is thermally connected to the yoke of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: DENSO CorporationInventors: Miyuki Saito, Naoki Uruma, Kota Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7405505Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a frame; a stator whose stator-slot number Ns is 12; a rotor whose rotor-pole number Np is 8, the rotor being disposed inside the stator. The frame has a frame thickness T(?) at mechanical angle ?, with respect to a reference line that connects the inner circumferential center of the frame with an arbitrary point, other than the center, around the center that is circularly expanded in a Fourier series. The difference between the stator-slot number Ns and the rotor-pole number Np is k (=|Ns?Np|).Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Yamaguchi, Haruyuki Kometani, Chiyo Fujino, Tomohiro Kikuchi, Takashi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 7397154Abstract: A spray cooled motor system with a motor housing with an interior and an exterior, a stator mounted within the interior of the motor housing, a rotor mounted within the interior of the motor housing, a coil winding mounted within the interior of the motor housing, a plurality of atomizers configured to spray a coolant on at least one of the stator and the rotor, a coolant pump in fluid communication with the plurality of atomizers; and an output shaft extending through an output shaft aperture from the interior to the exterior of the motor housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, George J. Wos, Ryan J. Baddeley
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Publication number: 20080150375Abstract: An electric power tool includes a tool body having a rotor, an inner cylindrical body and outer cylindrical body. The rotor is provided with a ventilation space therearound, a body part and a brush contact part, and housed in the inner cylindrical body. The inner cylindrical body is inserted in the outer cylindrical body which has a plurality of groove-like ventilation spaces on its inner face. The rotation of a fan fitted on the rotor circulates air within the tool body through the ventilation spaces so as to cool down the body part and the brush contact part of the rotor. The electric power tool has the rotor with which not only the body part but also other heated parts are fully cooled down. The electric power tool enhances heat dissipation efficiency from a motor case, enables efficient cooling of heated parts and has a long durability.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2006Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Jefcom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kensuke Shima