Heat-exchange Structure Patents (Class 310/64)
  • Publication number: 20110031803
    Abstract: An outer rotor-type motor of the present invention comprises a stator block, a stator, a main cooling part, an outer rotor and an outer housing. The stator block is formed in the shape of a cylinder with a rear end closed. The stator block is installed on a shaft passing through a central portion of the rear end thereof. The stator is fixedly installed on an outer circumferential surface of the stator block. The main cooling portion is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the stator block to lower temperature of a corresponding portion. The outer rotor rotatably installed at an outside of the stator and the outer housing has a circumferential portion fixed to a front circumferential portion of the outer rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Gwang-Ju Park, Byung-Gill Ha, Byung-Ju Kang, Do-Hyung Kim, Qyu-Bok Baek, Sung-Min Park, Ki-Yong Ue
  • Publication number: 20110031826
    Abstract: A permanent magnet machine is disclosed. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator, and a rotor comprising a rotor core and disposed outside and concentric with the stator, wherein the rotor core comprises a contiguous volume disposed around a plurality of permanent magnets, wherein the contiguous volume simultaneously supports a magnetic flux generated by the permanent magnets and provides mechanical support and containment for the permanent magnets, during operation of the permanent magnet machine. A rotor for a permanent magnet electric machine is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: James William Bray, Manoj Ramprasad Shah, Jeremy Daniel VanDam
  • Publication number: 20110025147
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a housing, a revolving shaft revolvably mounted in the housing, a magnet mounting portion surrounding and rotatable with the revolving shaft, a magnet disposed on the magnet mounting portion, a magnetically inducible core having a plurality of stator poles spaced apart from rotor magnetic poles of the magnet, and a plurality of stator windings wound on the stator poles, respectively. The stator windings are spaced apart from end walls of the housing by axial intervals. A thermally conductive bridging member is disposed to span the axial intervals to conduct heat emanating from the stator windings to the end walls so as to dissipate heat out of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: Joy Ride Tech. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong-Jong Owng, Chia-Wen Ruan, Yi-Tang Wei, Ming-Chen Liao
  • Patent number: 7881058
    Abstract: A cooling system for a rotary tablet press with which a rotor is driven by an electrical drive motor and the rotor and drive motor are arranged in a closed housing, and a control cabinet for the drive motor and further units in the housing, wherein arranged within the housing is a cooling machine whose evaporator is part of a first heat exchanger, whose other part is arranged in a coolant circuit for the drive motor, a fan is arranged in a channel in the housing closed relative to the housing interior, where the fan draws cool air in via an air inlet of the housing and gives it off via an air outlet of the housing, wherein the cool air is engaged in heat exchange with a condenser of the cooling machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Römer, Ingo Schmidt, Werner Seifert, Peter Lüneburg
  • Patent number: 7880348
    Abstract: A method comprises providing a motor with a stator comprising a plurality of laminations stacked side to side to form a contiguous stator core with each of the laminations having a plurality of radial fins projecting outward from a periphery of the lamination, and a rotor with permanent magnets spaced about the rotor configured to synchronously magnetically couple with a rotating magnetic field in the stator. The method further comprises providing a cooling tower with a fan disposed therein having a shaft extending from a center of the fan for rotating the fan. The motor is installed in the cooling tower such that the rotor of the motor is coupled directly to the fan shaft and rotates the fan when the motor is energized during normal operation of the cooling tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Baldor Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert McElveen, William E. Martin, Stephen T. Evon
  • Publication number: 20110018374
    Abstract: An electronic circuit including semiconductor modules and capacitors is positioned in the axial direction of a motor. Each semiconductor module is longitudinally positioned in contact with a heat sink. More specifically, a line perpendicular to the surface of a semiconductor chip included in the semiconductor module is perpendicular to the axis line of the motor. Consequently, each capacitor is positioned so that at least a part of the positional range of the capacitor in the axial direction of the motor coincides with the positional ranges of the semiconductor module and the heat sink in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Yamasaki, Hideki Kabune, Atsushi Furumoto
  • Patent number: 7876007
    Abstract: This device is an Improved Automotive Rectifier Bridge Assembly device for use in the automotive components re-manufacturing and original equipment alternator products. Particularly this device improves the electrical connections, prevents failures related to poor connections and heat variations, and improves and facilitates the assembly and disassembly processes in the remanufacturing of automotive alternators. This device may also be featured as an original equipment rectifier bridge in the automotive applications to improve the quality and durability of the alternator. The preferred embodiment of the device is comprised essentially of an improved “top hat” connection method to the positive heat sink, a fully threaded B+ battery terminal, and a hexagon configured spacer/fastener that has full internal threads to enable easy assembly and secure fastening of the spacer and/or fastener to the B+ stud terminal of the rectifier bridge assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Justin B. Lybbert
  • Publication number: 20110012449
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamoelectric machine that enables heat that is generated in a permanent magnet to be transmitted to a fan and be radiated from the fan effectively, that suppresses occurrences of damage to the fan that result from centrifugal forces that act on the permanent magnet, and that also enables the fan to be prepared easily and inexpensively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura, Masaya Inoue, Masao Morita, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Shinji Nishimura, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7872382
    Abstract: A regulator unit, in particular for varying an exciter current, preferably for generators of motor vehicles, is proposed, having a housing (13), in which the housing (13) has a wiper contact mounting region (16) with a guide (19) and wiper contacts (22) seated therein, having a regulator housing portion (25), in which an electronic controller unit and a regulator heat sink (28) are received, having a plug element (31) for electrically connecting the regulator unit (10) to external contact elements, and in which the regulator unit (10) has a first through opening (34) and a second through opening (37), by means of which openings the regulator unit (10) can be fastened to a housing (40) by means of two bolt elements (34). It is provided that the regulator heat sink (28) is located between the wiper contact mounting region (16) and the plug element (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Miller, Andreas Doeffinger, Uwe Knappenberger
  • Patent number: 7872385
    Abstract: An electric motor power connection assembly diverts heat from an electrical conductor that carries electrical current between a power source and an electric motor. The electrical conductor is characterized by an effective cross-sectional area perpendicular to the direction of current flow and a length in the direction of current flow that is greater than the radius of a circle having the effective cross-sectional area. The “effective cross-sectional area” is the area perpendicular to the direction of current flow over which current is carried and thus depends on the cross-sectional shape and number of conductive components of the electrical conductor, which could be one or more wires. A heat diverting mechanism is positioned in thermal contact along the length of the electrical conductor to divert heat from the electrical conductor. The electric motor power connection assembly is suitable for use in a hybrid electro-mechanical transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Alan G. Holmes
  • Publication number: 20110006621
    Abstract: A power tool has a casing and a motor assembly installed in the casing. The motor assembly comprises a motor and a heat dissipation device. The motor comprises a housing and magnets or windings disposed at an inner surface of the housing. The heat dissipation device is arranged at an outer surface of the housing and a window is formed in the casing to expose the heat dissipation device. Preferably, the heat dissipation device comprises an annular heat absorbing section fitted to a radially outer surface of the motor housing and a plurality of fins extending from the heat absorbing section and into the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventor: James Ching Sik LAU
  • Publication number: 20110001368
    Abstract: A power tool has a casing and a motor assembly installed within the casing. The motor assembly comprises a motor, a heat dissipation device, a fan and a guiding member. The motor has a stator and a rotor. The heat dissipation device has an annular heat absorbing section which is fitted to a housing of the stator and a plurality of fins extending from the heat absorbing section for dissipating heat. Air flow generated by the fan is guided to the fins of the heat dissipation device by the guiding member to cool the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventor: James Ching Sik LAU
  • Publication number: 20110001320
    Abstract: Direct driven wind turbine includes a tower, a nacelle, a rotor blade, a radial flux generator with a stator and a rotor, wherein the lamination package of the generator is essential for the transfer of the torque in axial direction. By introducing this additional function to the lamination package, the generator can be provided without additional torque transferring housing. Preferably, the lamination package obtains this additional function by pressing together the laminations between the front plate and end plate by tensile bolts. This gives sufficient strength to transport the torque in axial direction through the laminations to the mounting points of the generator. Preferably, the laminations include cooling fins. Due to these measures the cooling of the generator improves and active cooling may become superfluous or the power can be increased. The housing of the laminations is an expensive, heavy and labour intensive part which is no longer required due to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: LAGERWEY WIND BV
    Inventors: Hendrik Lambertus LAGERWEIJ, André Heinz PUBANZ, Aart VAN DER POL, Albert WAAIJENBERG
  • Patent number: 7863783
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20100327678
    Abstract: A drive apparatus has a motor device having a tubular motor case. A stator is arranged radially inside the motor case. A rotor is arranged radially inside the stator. A shaft is rotatable with the rotor. An electronic circuit is arranged in the central axis direction of the shaft relative to the motor case. A choke coil has a hole in a central part thereof, in which the shaft is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi YAMASAKI, Hideki Kabune, Atsushi Furumoto
  • Publication number: 20100327674
    Abstract: A wheel motor can include a stator adapted to be coupled to a vehicle. The stator can include a body portion and a core extending radially outward from the body portion. A rotor can be disposed about the stator and can have a portion positioned radially outboard of and around the stator core. The rotor can include a plurality of magnets aligned with the stator core, and can be adapted to be coupled to a rotatable vehicle component. At least one winding element can be disposed circumferentially around the stator core, and a controller can be positioned in a pocket integrally formed in the stator body portion. The controller can be coupled to the at least one winding element and can be arranged to selectively provide a current supply to the at least one winding element to generate a magnetic flux to rotate the rotor relative to the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Marsh, Herbert L. Adams, Charles D. Syverson
  • Publication number: 20100328901
    Abstract: A linked semiconductor module unit links a plurality of semiconductor modules by a first bus bar and a second bus bar, which are embedded in resin parts. The linked semiconductor module unit is disposed in a place other than on a printed circuit board. The semiconductor module linking structure is implemented readily by molding the bus bars together with semiconductor chips and lands to form the resin parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki MINATO, Hideki Kabune, Atsushi Furumoto
  • Publication number: 20100327677
    Abstract: A special terminal may project from an encapsulation body of a semiconductor module and may be engaged with an engaging portion of a motor case to limit a positional deviation of the semiconductor module relative to the motor case. Additionally or alternatively, a module side engaging portion may be formed in the encapsulation body and may be engaged with a case side engaging portion to position the semiconductor module relative to the motor case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayako IWAI, Masashi Yamasaki, Hideki Kabune, Atsushi Furumoto, Yoshimasa Kinpara
  • Patent number: 7859146
    Abstract: A rotary cooling system is provided that includes a stator having at least one tooth and a plurality of wires coiled around the tooth and a passage extending between the plurality of wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Fronz Robinson, Juha Saari
  • Patent number: 7855483
    Abstract: A turbomachine such as an aircraft turbojet including an electrical generator/starter that can be mounted and dismounted by axial translation in an upstream enclosure of the turbomachine between the low-pressure compressor and the high-pressure compressor, and couple to electrical cables which extend inside the structural arms of the intermediate casing of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignees: Snecma, Hispano-Suiza
    Inventors: Philippe Pierre Vincent Bouiller, Anthony Lorand, Stephane Rousselin
  • Publication number: 20100301690
    Abstract: An electric machine (1) comprises; a casing; a stator (3) fixed to the casing and including at least one electrical winding (5); a rotor (4) housed in the casing and rotatably connected to the latter; an electronic circuit (8) for powering the winding (5) at least partly housed in the casing; a cover (2a) for closing the casing to form with the latter a sealed enclosure; a terminal strip (9), accessible from outside the sealed enclosure, for controlling and powering the electronic circuit (8); a heat sink, embodied by the cover (2a), for absorbing the heat produced, in particular, by the electronic circuit (8). The machine (1) also comprises elastic elements (12) operating between the stator (3) and the electronic circuit (8) in such a way as to press the electronic circuit (8) against the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: SPAL AUTOMOTIVE S.R.L
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 7843096
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for accommodating an electric motor (30), particularly a blower motor for a heating or air-conditioning system, comprising an essentially pot-shaped accommodating housing (12) serving as a motor housing and having an accommodating opening (32) in which the pole casing (46) of an electric motor (30) can be inserted while at least partially projecting inside. The inventive device also comprises a retaining flange (14) mounted on the accommodating housing (12) and serving to fasten the motor housing (12) to a supporting element, and comprises a control and regulating unit (20) mounted on the retaining flange (14) and serving to operate the electric motor (30). The invention provides that the accommodating housing (12) has, in the peripheral direction, at least one flattened area (36,40), which differs from a circular shape while corresponds with at least one flattening (54) of an outer contour of the control and regulating unit (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Winkler, Josef Foerstera, Markus Heidrich
  • Publication number: 20100295391
    Abstract: An electric motor which has a separate end cap heat exchanger, through which a liquid coolant is passed, is disclosed. In one example embodiment, the electric motor is a traction motor or motor-generator in a hybrid electric vehicle having an internal combustion engine. Additionally, in one embodiment, the heat exchanger has a low-temperature coolant loop configured to extract energy from the motor coolant. The electric motor may be installed in a variety of vehicles or other applications having greatly differing cooling requirements. By placing the heat exchanger and control componentry in the end cap, the cooling capability of the electric motor can be changed by selecting an end cap with the appropriate heat transfer characteristics and control componentry to provide the desired cooling. Consequently, a single electric motor, with a variety of end cap choices, can be used in a variety of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: William Paul Perkins
  • Patent number: 7837126
    Abstract: A control method and associated component configuration provide cooling for components within a wind turbine structure, such as a tower or nacelle. A recirculating airstream of internal air is established in the structure. For a defined set of operational conditions of the wind turbine that affect a required cooling capacity within the structure, the recirculating airstream is controllably augmented with external air to increase cooling capacity of the recirculating airstream. The amount of external air introduced into the structure is balanced with the amount of relatively hotter internal air within the structure so as to achieve a desired balance of temperature and relative humidity within the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Meng Gao
  • Patent number: 7839031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Parker Intangibles LLC
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, George J. Wos, Ryan J. Baddeley
  • Publication number: 20100289352
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine that prevents heat generated from a stator winding from being transmitted to an inverter circuit. A rotor having a field winding, and a stator having a stator winding arranged so as to surround the rotor are provided. One end of a rear bracket is connected to the stator, and arranged inside the rear bracket is a heat sink assembly including a heat sink having switching elements for controlling the field winding and the stator winding mounted thereto. The heat sink assembly is fixed to protruding portions protruding from an end surface of the rear bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi TAKECHI, Masao KIKUCHI, Hitoshi ISODA, Masaki KATO, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100289353
    Abstract: A motor driven assembly includes a motor having a motor inlet and a motor outlet, a shaft, and a rotor spaced radially outwards from the shaft. A cooling flow passage is located between the shaft and the rotor. The cooling flow passage fluidly connects the motor inlet and the motor outlet. A compressor is in fluid communication with the motor outlet. The compressor includes a compressor outlet that is in fluid communication with the motor inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Debabrata Pal, Laurence D. Vanek, Daniel M. Saban
  • Publication number: 20100289350
    Abstract: A stator has a mechanism for effectively dissipating internally generated heat, and is for use in a high power axial gap type rotating machine. The stator comprises a coil holding member and a coil secured to the coil holding member, in which the coil holding member comprises a material having a thermal conductivity of not less than 5 W/mK that is measured compliant with the ASTM E1530 and having an electrical conductivity of not more than 1×105 S/m that is measured compliant with the ASTM E345. This stator preferably comprises a radiation fin, having a thermal conductivity of not less than 150 W/mK, and having a bumpy surface so as to increase the surface area thereof threefold or more, at the circumference of the coil holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Koji Miyata, Minori Miyata, Atsushi Miyata
  • Publication number: 20100289351
    Abstract: The electric rotating machine is provided with an intermediate plate having a power circuit connection portion that is connected with an outgoing lead drawn out from a power circuit unit and an armature winding connection portion that is connected with the power circuit connection portion and an outgoing lead drawn out from an armature winding. The power circuit connection portion and the armature winding connection portion are arranged at desired positions and outgoing leads from the armature winding of the stator are drawn out in such a way as to fall within a given space, so that intermediate connection lines for connecting windings can be shortened. Accordingly, not only the breakage of an intermediate connection line caused by a vibration can be prevented, but also the switching elements can separately be arranged so as to reduce thermal interference between the switching elements; therefore, the switching elements can effectively be cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohide MAEDA, Masahiko Fujita, Masaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20100289348
    Abstract: In an electrical axial flow machine, comprising a stator and a rotor, wherein either the stator comprises a coil arrangement and the rotor is provided with permanent magnet elements, or wherein the rotor comprises a coil arrangement and the stator is provided with permanent magnet elements, the stator is arranged spaced from the rotor under the formation of an air gap, each of the magnetic flux yokes has several neighbouring magnetic flux poles, the coil arrangement has at least one hollow cylindrical winding which is at least partially encompassed by magnetic flux yokes, the magnetic flux poles each have an outside which is oriented to the permanent magnet elements beyond the air gap, neighbouring permanent magnet elements in the circumferential direction have an alternating magnetic orientation towards the air gap, at least several of the magnetic flux poles are in certain positions of the rotor relative to the stator at least partially oriented in alignment with the permanent magnet elements, the magnetic
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Compact Dynamics GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Gruendl, Bernhard Hoffmann, Reinhard Rasch
  • Patent number: 7834492
    Abstract: An electric machine for a power system is disclosed. The electric machine has a housing with a first end cap and a second end cap. The first end cap has a first fluid passageway, and the second end cap has a second fluid passageway. The electric machine also has a stator fixedly disposed within the housing, and a rotor rotationally disposed radially inward from the stator. The rotor has an axial passageway fluidly communicating the first fluid passageway with the second fluid passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Trevor N. Iund, Roy Wookey, Jonathan Matthew Baumann, Matthew Dames
  • Publication number: 20100283337
    Abstract: A drive device for a vehicle includes a motor generator generating drive force, and a power control unit provided integrally with the motor generator for controlling the motor generator. The includes a low-voltage circuit section to which a relatively low voltage is applied, a high-voltage circuit section which is located at a rear side of the vehicle relative to the low-voltage circuit section and to which a relatively high voltage is applied, and a cooling plate located between the low-voltage circuit section and the high-voltage circuit section in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle for cooling the high-voltage circuit section. With such configuration, the drive device for a vehicle allows the power control unit to be protected appropriately against an externally imposed shock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Omiya, Masaki Yoshino, Yutaka Hotta
  • Publication number: 20100264762
    Abstract: A fan-motor unit comprises a fan driven by an electric motor, both mounted on a support, at least one inlet (I) and one outlet (S) for a forced air flow, an electronic circuit board for controlling the motor, and a radiator at least partially immersed in the forced air flow. The radiator has a curved peripheral edge determining a convex face and a concave face of the said radiator, the electronic circuit board being in contact with the said radiator on the concave face side and a substantially cylindrical bearing surface on the convex face side of the said radiator. A radial gasket that forms a skirt comprises a first end secured to the support, a free second end, and a substantially cylindrical interior face between the first and second ends, and the interior face of the radial gasket bears against the bearing surface so as to isolate the electronic circuit board from the air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Pascal Dautel, Stephane Foulonneau
  • Patent number: 7816825
    Abstract: A cooling gas ventilation chimney is provided for enhancing the heat transfer of an end region of a dynamoelectric machine. The dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor having a plurality of radial slots. A plurality of coils are seated in the radial slots, and the coils form a plurality of radially stacked turns. The ventilation chimney includes one or more chimney slots defined in at least a portion of the radially stacked turns. The chimney slots extend in a substantially radial direction to the rotor, and some of the chimney slots have an axial or circumferential length different from other chimney slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Emil D. Jarczynski, Norman J. Suguitan, William D. Gerstler, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Hendrik P. J. de Bock
  • Patent number: 7812482
    Abstract: By reviewing a material of a forcer housing and an assembly structure of a coil member with respect to the forcer housing, a thrust force is increased, an optimum shape can be easily given to the forcer housing depending on a purpose of use, and a linear motor can be manufactured at low cost. The linear motor includes a magnet rod composed of a large number of magnetic poles arranged with predetermined pitches along an axial direction and a forcer having a through-hole into which the magnet rod is loosely inserted and reciprocatable relatively to the magnet rod according to an applied electric signal. The forcer is composed of a forcer housing in which the through-hole is defined and a coil member which is arranged on an inner peripheral surface of the through-hole of the forcer housing and to which the electric signal is applied. The forcer housing is formed by mold forming with an insulating nonmetal inorganic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Aso, Taro Miyamoto, Shuhei Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 7812487
    Abstract: Taught herein is a controller for a DC brushless motor comprising a control board (3) and a housing (4); wherein the control board (3) is disposed in the housing (4), and the housing (4) is made of metal materials with good thermal conductivity; a plurality of heat sinks (5) are disposed at the bottom of the housing (4), thereby heat generated by the control board (3) will be dissipated fast, and the operating temperature and failure rates are reduced; an integrated power module chip (7) disposed at the bottom of the control board (3) transfers heat to the housing (4) via an insulating heat sink (8), and in doing so prevents electric leakage; the purpose of a plurality of gaps (9) disposed at the top of the housing (4) is to provide ventilation, and to dissipate heat fast; all of these design characteristics make the invention simple in structure, and convenient for mass assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ronghua Bi, Maosen Zeng, Jianwei Jin, Songfa Tang
  • Publication number: 20100253160
    Abstract: A brushless, liquid or air cooled, direct current motor formed from a three stack stator and three section rotor assembly using an integrated water cooled or air cooled housing and over-molding techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Robert M. Jones, Joseph M. Lisiecki
  • Publication number: 20100244596
    Abstract: A superconducting electrical machine comprises a rotor and a stator. The stator comprises a stator having a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially extending teeth and a plurality of superconducting electric coils. Each superconducting electric coil is positioned around a respective one of the teeth. A thermally conducting member surrounds and contacts the stator. A cooler is arranged to cool the thermally conducting member. A vacuum enclosure encloses the thermally conducting member, the stator and the superconducting electric coils and a pump is arranged to evacuate the vacuum enclosure. The superconducting electrical coils comprise magnesium diboride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Stephen M. Husband, Alexander C. Smith, Stephen Williamson
  • Publication number: 20100239441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor system (1), particularly for conveying gases or gas/oil mixtures in the offshore area, with a seawater-tight housing (2) with at least one access opening (3) for gases or gas/oil mixtures which are to be compressed, and with at least one outlet opening (4) for the compressed gases or gas/oil mixtures. In the housing (2), a compressor (8) is disposed, which is connected at the inlet side to the access opening (3) and, at the outlet side, to the outlet opening (4). An electric motor (7), which has a stator assembly (71) and a rotor assembly (72) for driving the compressor (8), is disposed in the housing (2). According to the invention, the stator assembly (71) can be cooled over an inner side (GI) of the housing (2) of the compressor system (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maria Bade, Joachim Mucha, Axel Möhle
  • Publication number: 20100237727
    Abstract: An exemplary arrangement is disclosed for cooling an electrical machine having an external rotor rotating around its rotation axis and a stator having sheet packs, located inside the rotor at the end of an air gap. In the arrangement, a first part of a coolant flow is conducted from both ends of the stator through axial cooling channels into the stator sheet pack. A second part of the coolant flow is conducted from both ends of the stator into the air gap and from the air gap through at least one radial cooling channel into the stator sheet pack. Both parts of the coolant flow are conductable into at least one heat exchanger placed radially inside and at a distance from the stator sheet pack. At least one fan is placed radially inside the heat exchanger to send the first and the second part of the coolant flow to the ends of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: ABB Oy
    Inventor: Juhani MANTERE
  • Publication number: 20100237726
    Abstract: The invention provides a rotating electrical machine provided with stable rotation characteristics for enabling each core to be reliably fixed in arranging a plurality of cores annularly around the rotor even when the dimensional error occurs in manufacturing accuracy of each core, causing each division core itself to enhance the cooling property, and resolving instability of magnetic reluctance between division cores, where the rotating electrical machine has a plurality of stator cores obtained by laminating electromagnetic steel plates, winding coils wound around the stator cores via insulators, a pair of first and second bracket members that hold the plurality of stator cores from the front and back in the rotary shaft direction of the magnet rotor, and a fastening member that couples the first and second bracket members, in the first bracket member is formed a first contact surface for striking one end face of each of the stator cores to regulate so as to arrange the plurality of stator cores annularly,
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiko Hayakawa, Tokuro Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 7800257
    Abstract: A heat dissipater within a linear motor system comprising a core, the core having a base and a projecting portion projecting from the base; the heat dissipater in thermal contact with the core; and a coil wrapped around both the core and the heat dissipater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Sean Lu
  • Patent number: 7795765
    Abstract: A circuit board heatsink 60 for cooling a regulator circuit board has a flat base portion 61. Fifteen fins 62 are respectively disposed so as to project vertically from a first surface of the base portion and are arranged so as to be parallel to each other. The regulator circuit board is fixed to a second surface of the base portion 61 of the circuit board heatsink 60, and is housed and held inside a regulator circuit board housing portion of a regulator assembly such that the fins 62 face the rear bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Oohashi, Shinichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20100213778
    Abstract: An electromechanical device or magnetic motor includes a plurality of rotor magnet assemblies, a plurality of drive magnet assemblies that are laterally moveable with respect to the rotor magnet assemblies, a timing assembly for generating power pulses selectively supplied to the drive magnet assemblies, and electromagnetic coils associated with the drive magnet assemblies to receive the power pulses from the timing assembly to momentarily disrupt the magnetic field of such assemblies at selected times. The magnetic assemblies of the rotor mechanically rotate a shaft and interact with alternator windings to generate electrical power. The magnetic motor is self-contained with start/stop, rotational speed, diagnostics, global positioning, CPU and interface capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Roger C. Knutson
  • Patent number: 7781923
    Abstract: In an AC generator for a vehicle, an end cover has two types of parts, one-type part is away from a rib part in a positive cooling fin, and the other-type part is close to the rib part. The rib part projects toward the end cover side. The one-type part is thinner than the other-type part in the end cover in order to reduce the variation of thermal expansion in each part of the end cover. This configuration increases anti-thermal fatigue of the end cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Koumura, Yoshiki Tan, Akihito Koike
  • Publication number: 20100207465
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine, the stator including a jacket and a stack of stator laminations placed inside the jacket, subassemblies of laminations of the stack having extensions with flow channels for passing a cooling fluid therethrough, the subassemblies being disposed in such a manner that fluid flowing along the stack is subjected to a succession of passes within the channels and of passes through wide zones extending between the channels, the stack laminations being arranged in such a manner that for at least one extension, and better for the majority, or even all of the extensions of a subassembly, the flow section made available to the flow of cooling fluid within the extension is greater than the flow section defined by the space extending radially between the extensions and the jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Alexis Dutau, Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Patent number: 7777373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling device (1,2) pertaining to an electrical machine (10), said cooling device (1,2) comprising at least one rod-shaped heat-conducting means (3,4) for heat-conductive connection to the electrical machine (10). The invention also relates to an electrical machine (10) comprising a housing (18) and/or a stator (14), said housing (18) and/or stator (14) being applied to a cooling device (1,2) comprising a rod-shaped heat-conducting means (3,4) extending axially in relation to the electrical machine. Said heat-conducting means (3,4) is to be received by the stator (14) and/or the housing (18) or arranged on the stator (14) and/or the housing (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Bott, Detlef Potoradi, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 7777374
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ekkehard Ressel
  • Patent number: 7768164
    Abstract: A heat pipe device (6) for cooling a voltage regulator (2) of a rotating electric machine. The heat pipe device (6) comprises an evaporating part (7) situated respectively in a hot zone and connected to the voltage regulator (2) of the machine, and condensation part situated in a cold zone. The heat pipe device (6) is suitable for an alternator or an alternator-starter. The heat pipe is provided to discharge the heat from the hot zone to the cold zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Fakes Michel, Claudiu Vasilescu, Daniel Richard
  • Patent number: 7763997
    Abstract: A dissipator for discharging heat from electronic components, the electronic components being intended for the functioning of a rotary electrical machine, the rotary electrical machine comprising a rear bearing, the dissipator comprising a top face and a bottom face integrating fins, wherein the dissipator is disposed between the rear bearing of the rotary electric machine and the electronic components, the bottom face integrating the fins coming opposite the rear bearing when the dissipator is disposed between the rear bearing of the rotary electrical machine and the electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Cyril Dubuc, Laurent Thery