Supports Patents (Class 310/91)
  • Patent number: 8587172
    Abstract: A sensor fastening method and a sensor fastening frame for use therewith are provided. The sensor fastening frame is coupled to a motor stator of a brushless motor having distributed coils and extends over the distributed coils to allow the sensor fastening frame to rotate about the axle of a motor rotor, without interference with the distributed coils. At least a sensor is fastened in position to the sensor fastening frame proximate to one end of the axle of the motor stator for positioning the sensor to detect magnetic field variations of the motor rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: System General Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Jen Yang, Hung-Sen Tu, I-Hsing Chen, Chen-Chia Yang, Chung-En Chen
  • Patent number: 8587173
    Abstract: Provided is an intermediate member which is arranged between a motor housing (4) and a transmission case (2) and which has multiple motor housing supporting point positions (A) and transmission case supporting point positions (B). The intermediate member is coupled to the motor housing (4) at the motor housing supporting point positions (A). The transmission case supporting point positions (B) are each arranged in an angular region formed between a motor housing supporting line (C) and a motor housing supporting center line (D) which is the center between the motor housing supporting line (C) and another motor housing supporting line (C) adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Kurosawa, Kazuhiko Arai
  • Patent number: 8585375
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pumping system (ESP) having a stator lamination stack that is anchored to prevent the stack from spinning. The ESP includes a motor section having a housing with an axial bore. A groove circumscribes an inner surface of the housing and a snap ring is set in the groove. A portion of the snap ring projects into the bore and exerts an axial compression force onto the lamination stack The snap ring includes a gap that aligns with a bead of material that is set in the groove; engagement between the bead and gap prevents the snap ring from spinning in the groove. The bead, that in an embodiment is a weld, can extend across all or a portion of the groove and can also provide coupling between the lamination stack and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Van J. McVicker, Nisarg Z. Patel, Larry J. Parmeter
  • Publication number: 20130300238
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine flange having: a base section having a substantially open circumferential shape, the base section including: a radially facing inner surface; a radially facing outer surface; and at least one slot extending axially through a portion of the base section; and a neck portion extending axially from the base section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Vinodh Kumar Bandaru, Venkata Subramanya Sarma Devarakonda, Rebinth Jose Robin, Samir Armando Salamah
  • Publication number: 20130300239
    Abstract: An apparatus (structure) is provided to support a superconductor winding (61) of an electromotive machine. An assembly (110), such as a cradle, may define a recess to receive the superconductor winding. An elongated loop (74) provides radial support to the winding. Loop 74 may be made of a material resistant to heat flow, such as a fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) material. Assembly (110) may be arranged to support elongated loop (74) at a distal end (78) of the loop. A base assembly (130) may be arranged to anchor the elongated loop at a proximate end (76) of the loop. A support structure 120 may be arranged to provide tangential load support to the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Raul Ricardo Rico, Robert L. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20130285495
    Abstract: A motor includes a base, a stator, and a rotor. The base includes a shaft tube having an open end and receiving an inner assembly. The stator is mounted to an outer periphery of the shaft tube. The rotor is rotatably coupled to the inner assembly. The stator includes an insulating bobbin unit having an extension extending in a radial direction to the open end of the shaft tube. The extension includes an engagement hole. The shaft tube includes a positioning member having an engaging section engaged in the engagement hole. The insulating bobbin unit is fixed by an end of the engaging section. The engagement stability of the stator is enhanced by engagement of the positioning member of the base and the insulating bobbin unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ko-Chien Wang
  • Patent number: 8564165
    Abstract: A generator support system for a centerline mounted generator includes a generator support member configured and disposed to support a generator upon a support surface. The generator support member includes at least one lifting element having a lifting surface that faces the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ronald Joseph Rinaolo, Jayan Kaadaapuram George, Donald Michael Ronca, John Russell Yagielski
  • Patent number: 8564163
    Abstract: A mounting bracket for an electrical motor having two mounting interfaces at different distances from the bottom surface to be used in combination with two stator frames of different sizes. A method for obtaining equal shaft heights for electrical motors having stator frames of different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Ake Andersson, Gustav Borg
  • Patent number: 8552605
    Abstract: Engaging protrusions of a lower end housing are axially snap-fitted into through holes, respectively, of a yoke housing to couple therebetween. Each of spacers is circumferentially placed between and is press-fitted between corresponding adjacent two of permanent magnets fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the yoke housing. Each spacer axially contacts a corresponding contact part of the end housing. A lower ball bearing and an upper ball bearing are supported by the lower end housing and an upper end housing, respectively, to rotatably support a shaft. A wave washer is axially positioned between the lower ball bearing and the lower end housing to exert an urging force between the lower end housing and the upper end housing through the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Sahara, Masakatsu Uchida
  • Publication number: 20130257207
    Abstract: An in-vehicle rotating electrical machine 100 includes a stator 1 having a stator core 4 wound by a stator coil 6, a rotor 2 disposed with a rotation gap on an inner peripheral side of the stator core 4, and a flange 5a being a mounting member for mounting the stator 1 on a vehicle 300. The flange 5a is formed such that an axial position of a mounting position with the vehicle 300 is matched with an axial position of a magnetic center of the stator 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD
    Inventors: Kanako Nemoto, Hideaki Mori, Kenichiro Matsubara, Yutaka Matsunobu
  • Publication number: 20130241369
    Abstract: A winding assembly includes: slot-housed portions housed inside each of the slots of the stator core so as to form pairs that line up in an inner layer and an outer layer relative to a slot depth direction; first return portions at a first axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside the slots that are (N?M) slots away; and second return portions at a second axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside the slots that are (N+M) slots away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Imazawa, Kazunori Tanaka, Kazuya Hasegawa, Norihiro Murata, Hiroshi Hosokawa, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8536744
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a traction motor includes a stator core, a rotor core, a first bearing, a second bearing, a rotor shaft, a first ventilation passage made at an outer circumference portion of the stator core, a first fan, and a second ventilation passage to introduce external air. And, in the motor, a first minute gap is provided between an end portion of a first fan main plate and an inner circumference portion of the first bracket, cooling wind is discharged to the motor outside via the second ventilation passage, an outer circumference portion of the first fan, a ventilation portion in the first bracket and the first ventilation passage, and the second ventilation passage is made so that the cooling wind entered from the first air intake port flows around the rotor shaft portion between the first ventilation fan and the first bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Nagayama, Shigetomo Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 8536750
    Abstract: A mechanical structure (16) for enabling a rotor (28) in a permanent magnet electric motor A to be moved axially relative to a stator (14) under an actuating force, without experiencing frictional sliding during such a movement. As the rotor (28) is moved away from the stator (14), the motor magnetic field is weakened, enabling the motor A to operate efficiently at elevated speeds, extending speed coverage under constant power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: The Timken Company
    Inventors: Xiaolan Ai, Richard Knepper, Don Remboski, Chris Van Dress, Brad Mularcik
  • Patent number: 8536751
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device has a stator and a rotor rotating between facing surfaces of the stator and bearing a plurality of magnets distributed at regular intervals along its periphery. The magnets are so arranged that they form a sequence of alternately opposite poles on the surfaces of the rotor directed towards the stator, and the stator comprises two sets of independently supported magnetic yokes located at both sides of the rotor in front of the magnets. The magnetic yokes have two axially oriented arms, the end surfaces of which, in static conditions of the rotor, at least partly face a pair of successive magnets on a same surface of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: AVIO S.p.A.
    Inventor: Marco Cipriani
  • Patent number: 8531066
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a rotor including a rotary shaft and magnets, a stator including a bearing, which supports the rotary shaft, and an armature corresponding to the magnets. The rotor is caused to rotate by an electromagnetic force generated by the magnets and the armature. The stator includes a plate having a stepped portion in a portion thereof, which faces the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Sun Yoo, Yun Yeong Park, Ho Jun Yoo
  • Publication number: 20130221786
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for receiving an electric motor (1) which extends along a longitudinal axis (2) and can be housed inside a motor support of a ventilation installation for a vehicle, said receiving device being connected to said motor support by a decoupling means and comprising a collar (18) on which a first blocking means (30) is formed, and a ring (13) comprising a second blocking means (22), characterised in that the collar (18) and the ring (13) are separate and connected to each other by at least one fixing means (23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Franck Truillet, Eric Droulez, Ronan Cozic
  • Patent number: 8519586
    Abstract: To prevent electrolytic corrosion from occurring by reliably establishing an electrical conduction between a motor output shaft and brackets. A first bracket 51 attached to one end part and a second bracket 52 attached to the other end part are electrically connected to each other via a conductive member 8 embedded in a molding resin part 21 of a stator 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventors: Hidetaka Terakubo, Toshihiko Yamada, Takaoki Mori
  • Patent number: 8513847
    Abstract: An improvement for a turbine generator or pump having main bearings separated by a span of shaft and a thrust equalizing mechanism adjacent one of said main bearings, the improvement comprising a stationary length compensator interposed between the thrust equalizing mechanism and its adjacent main bearing to reduce the span between said main bearings. Preferably the length compensator is composed of material that shrinks less than the shaft of the generator, and the height of the length compensator, i.e., the compensating dimension, is selected according to desired thrust equalizing mechanism operating parameters over a temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Ebara International Corporation
    Inventor: Joel V. Madison
  • Patent number: 8502491
    Abstract: A rotation direction control method of a cooling fan is disclosed. The rotation direction control method includes a detection step, a determination step and a driving step. The detection step receives a temperature control signal from a temperature detection unit by a rotation direction control unit when a predetermined dust-expelling time period begins. The determination step determines whether a detected temperature is higher than a predetermined value based on the temperature control signal by the rotation direction control unit. The driving step controls the rotation direction control unit to keep outputting a cooling signal so as to drive a motor of the cooling fan for a cooling operation when the determination of the determination step is positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ching-Sheng Hung
  • Patent number: 8497610
    Abstract: A ceiling fan motor has a stator with several coil arms disposed at intervals for the winding of magnetizing coils. Between two adjacent coil arms are formed with a magnetic pole spacer. A supporting base is provided in a predetermined magnetic pole spacer for the disposition of a sensor to detect the position of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Inventors: Chao-Chin Yao, Kuo Tsun Lin
  • Publication number: 20130187500
    Abstract: Mounting structure is provided for support of a motor within a machine. More particularly, the mounting structure is configured for the support of a stator within the machine, with the mounting structure preventing axial and rotational movement of the stator relative thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEC MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bailey, Philip S. Johnson, Daniel E. Hilton
  • Patent number: 8484669
    Abstract: A motor in which a coupling structure between a sleeve holder and a base plate is improved. The motor may include a base plate including at least one protrusion supporting part formed therein; and a sleeve holder including a cylindrical shaped body part to which a sleeve is fastened in an inside of the sleeve holder, an extension part protruded such that an outer diameter is extended along an outer circumferential surface of the body part, and a flange part vertically protruded in an outer diameter direction from a lower end portion of the extension part so as to make surface contact with an upper surface of the base plate, where the sleeve holder is fastened to the base plate while an outer circumferential surface of the protrusion supporting part is brought into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the extension part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Kyung Su Park, Jae Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 8482173
    Abstract: An explosion proof motor including a stationary assembly and a rotatable assembly is described. The stationary assembly includes a stator that defines a stator bore. The rotatable assembly includes a rotor and a rotor shaft extending substantially axially through the stator bore. The explosion proof motor includes a frame configured to at least partially surround the stator. The frame defines an interior and an exterior of the motor. The explosion proof motor also includes at least one end shield positioned at an end of the frame and a bearing cap positioned proximate to the interior side of the end shield. The explosion proof motor also includes a flame path gap defined between the end shield and the bearing cap. The flame path gap includes at least one section that extends substantially parallel to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Wright, Christopher T. Ohrmundt, Wesley K. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20130162085
    Abstract: An electric generator assembly includes an electric generator, a generator support, and two shock-absorbing units. The electric generator includes a generator housing, and a rotor disposed in the generator housing and defining a central axis. The generator support has two sloped flat surfaces that are inclined to a vertical plane, on which the central axis lies. The sloped flat surfaces are disposed at two opposite sides of the vertical plane and face each other in a transverse direction relative to the vertical plane. Each of the shock-absorbing units is secured to a respective one of the sloped flat surfaces and the generator housing so as to provide a shock-absorbing effect to the electric generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KWANG YANG MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: KWANG YANG MOTOR CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130162112
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a motor/transmission unit for a bicycle which is directly fastened or flange-mounted to a bottom bracket housing, in particular a standard bottom bracket housing. The standard bottom bracket housing is arranged between the motor/transmission unit and a chain ring. A part—in particular casing—of the motor/transmission unit which is integrally connected to the frame may be fastened or flange-mounted to the standard bottom bracket housing in accordance with the International Standard Chain Guide Mount (ISCG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: B-LABS AG
    Inventors: Florian Loefel, Andreas Felsl
  • Publication number: 20130163113
    Abstract: There are provided a base for a motor and a hard disk drive including the same. The base for a motor includes a base body having a disk disposed thereon; and a fixing part formed on the base body and slidably fitted in a female rail mounted on at least one side of a connector part mounted on a substrate to fix the base body to the substrate to which power is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Il Geun JEON
  • Patent number: 8471430
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatably installed in the stator. The stator has a stator core and windings. The stator core has a yoke and a plurality of teeth extending inwardly from the yoke. The stator includes two end caps disposed at opposite axial ends thereof and a plurality of locking members securing the end caps to the stator core. The windings are wound on the respective teeth, and the locking members extend between the end caps through gaps formed between adjacent teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: James Ching Sik Lau, Xiao Jun Yang, Chun Kei Yu
  • Publication number: 20130154410
    Abstract: In this hybrid automobile, a stationary field rotary electric machine is disposed between an engine unit and a transmission unit such that a rotor is linked directly to a crankshaft of the engine unit. A static yoke portion is disposed inside the rotor from a side near the transmission unit such that a field winding is positioned radially inside first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, and a static yoke portion mounting pedestal holds an end portion of a large diameter portion of the static yoke portion near the transmission unit. A radial width of the field winding is narrower than a radial width of a small diameter portion of the static yoke portion onto which the field winding is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Morita, Masaya Inoue, Yoichi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20130154422
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor holder for receiving an electric machine, in particular for receiving the bearing of an electric machine, comprising a surrounding outer wall, an intermediate floor joined to the surrounding outer wall, a floor for receiving a bearing, which floor is moulded in the intermediate floor and is joined to the intermediate floor by a transitional region, the transitional region having an encircling first annular wall and at least one encircling second annular wall which form an annular storage space provided in the transitional region. The invention relates to an electric machine having a motor holder of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Komanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Stohling, Hannelore Diller, Burkard Rochner
  • Publication number: 20130134814
    Abstract: A motor support structure of a lens barrel in which a support member of the lens barrel supports a motor having a rotary shaft, includes a radial position limiter which limits a radial position of the motor with respect to the support member in radial directions orthogonal to the rotary shaft; an axial-position limiter which limits an axial position of the motor with respect to the support member in an axial direction of the rotary shaft when the motor is turned to a predetermined position about the rotary shaft with the radial position of the motor limited by the radial position limiter; and a rotation limiter which limits the turning of the motor about the rotary shaft at the predetermined position, at which the axial position of the motor is limited by the axial-position limiter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hoya Corporation
  • Patent number: 8450896
    Abstract: An actuator that includes a housing and an electric motor arranged in the housing. The housing has an insertion opening with a cylindrical motor receiving compartment through which the electric motor is axially inserted. The electric motor axially rests on a bottom of the motor receiving compartment on a first side and axially projects from the insertion opening on an opposite side. The electric motor rests axially on a cover that is screwed to the housing for closing the insertion opening. The housing is at least partially threaded in an axial insertion section of the insertion opening. The cover has a threaded section complementary to the thread of the housing. The cover has a cup-shaped section with a cylindrical wall and a bottom on which the electric motor rests axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Weber
  • Publication number: 20130119832
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a frame including a first housing portion for housing an electronic component and a second housing portion formed integrally with the first housing portion for housing a rotator and a stator; and a bracket including a first communicating hole communicating with the first housing portion and a second communicating hole communicating with the second housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
  • Publication number: 20130119803
    Abstract: A generator motor includes a flange, stationary-side members, rotor-side members, and latching members. The flange is removably mounted on a first end side in an axial direction. The stationary-side members are fixed on a second end side that is on an opposite side from the first end side in the axial direction. The rotor-side members are configured to move toward the first end side in the axial direction with respect to the stationary-side members in a state in which the flange has been removed. The latching members are configured to restrict relative movement of the flange in the axial direction with respect to the rotor-side members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sugimoto, Teiichirou Chiba, Takashi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8441166
    Abstract: A device (10) for connecting together end winding parts (1) of stator bars (2) of an electric generator includes a first and a second element (11, 12) having sloped facing surfaces (13) defining two trapezoidal seats each housing a trapezoidal cursor (14), and one or two screws (15), axially fixed and rotatably movable with respect to the first and second element (11, 12) and having a threaded portion inserted in a threaded through hole (17) of the cursor (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Hossein Safari Zadeh, Damir Novosel
  • Publication number: 20130106250
    Abstract: A stator of a rotating machine includes a stator core, a plurality of winding wires wound on the stator core, a first bus ring, a second bus ring, and a holder device. The first bus rings each has a first radial dimension and selectively connects electrically with each of the wires. The second bus ring has a second radial dimension different from the first radial dimension and selectively connects electrically with each of the wires. The holder device holds the first and the second bus rings. The holder device includes a first and a second support portion. The first support portion supports a plurality of the first bus rings aligned along an axial direction of the stator core. The second support portion supports the second bus ring on a radially outward or inward side of the first bus rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuma Kanada, Wataru Ito
  • Publication number: 20130099631
    Abstract: Hobby servo mounts are provided. In certain circumstances, a servo mount includes a top panel, a bottom panel, and a side panel. The top panel is configured to secure a hobby servo motor to the hobby servo mount. The bottom flange is configured to secure the hobby servo motor and the hobby servo mount to an operational environment. The side panel extends between and connects the top panel and the bottom flange. The top and bottom panels may be approximately parallel to each other, and the side panel may intersect the top and bottom panels perpendicularly or at an angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: ROBOTZONE, LLC
    Inventor: Brian T. Pettey
  • Patent number: 8421290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved assembly of driving device for brushless motor of air-conditioner, which is a design providing a unitary and simple assembly of driving device of brushless motor, including a brushless motor body and a support rack. The support rack is made in the form of a U-shape having opposite ends forming end plates that extend high upwards. Besides providing a recess for positioning, assembling, and fixing the motor body, the U-shaped support rack forms a space that exactly accommodates the driving device therein, whereby the structure of the motor is reduced in volume and the purposes of use of simplified structure and practical convenience are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Headline Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Hui Lin, Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 8421319
    Abstract: A bearing holder mounting structure which allows a motor to be manufactured with a small number of parts without needing complex processing, and such motor are provided. A rotor 1 having a pair of bearings 5A and 5B and a washer 28 mounted thereon is inserted into an opening portion 23a of a motor housing 7 such that a rotor member 11 of the rotor 1 is received in a receiving concave portion 23. A bearing holder 9 is disposed on a bottom wall portion 29a of a fitting recessed portion 29 such that a flange portion 37 of the bearing holder 9 abuts on the bottom wall portion 29a of the fitting recessed portion 29. A retaining fitting 33 is then pressed into the fitting recessed portion 29 such that six engaging pieces 41 are located at positions slightly deviated from positions of six lead-out groove portions 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miura, Mitsuaki Shioiri
  • Patent number: 8421289
    Abstract: A holder of a surface mount motor includes a holder body that is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a motor casing and that is mounted on a circuit board, an extending portion that extends rearward from a rear end of the holder body in a direction of a rotational axis of a shaft, and a stopper that extends in a width direction of the extending portion at a rear end of the extending portion and that is press-fitted into a recess provided in a bracket fixed to the motor casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Hara
  • Patent number: 8415846
    Abstract: A stator unit for an electric motor, in particular an external rotor motor, includes a stator with a stator laminate stack and stator windings and a stator bushing and a stator flange which is formed at one end. A housing flange of a housing for accommodating a motor controller or the like is fastened on the stator flange, and with motor connection contacts, which run from the stator through through-openings in the housing flange, and with fastening means, which run through fastening holes in the housing flange and are fastened in the stator. A sealing disk is arranged between the stator and the housing flange. The sealing disk has sealing regions made from elastic plastic, which are arranged and designed in such a way that direct and/or indirect sealing of the through-openings and/or the fastening holes is provided against the ingress of moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: EBM-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Best, Matthias Maschke
  • Patent number: 8410646
    Abstract: A motor damping structure for an actuator device includes a motor housing and a casing. The motor housing includes a drive motor therein. The casing includes an upper actuator case and a lower actuator case to accommodate the motor housing therebetween, the casing including a motor support section formed integrally in at least one of the upper actuator case and the lower actuator case to support the drive motor by contacting an outside surface of the motor housing. The motor support section has an elastic contacting member protruding from the at least one of the upper actuator case and the lower actuator case to contact one of an upper slanted surface and a lower slanted surface of the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Mori, Hideyuki Takahashi, Kaoru Tanaka, Tomohiro Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8410643
    Abstract: An electric motor assembly including a stator assembly and a rotor assembly extending through the stator assembly. A first end cap is located adjacent to a first end of the stator assembly and includes a bearing insert supporting a first end bearing for receiving an end of a rotor shaft. A second end cap is located adjacent to a second end of the stator assembly. An endbell is formed separately from the second end cap and is positioned within the second end cap. The endbell supports a bearing for a second end of the rotor shaft. An overmold material extends through the stator assembly. The overmold material may form the first end cap, supporting the bearing insert therein, and extends within and substantially fills an annular space within the second end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Globe Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Kottmyer, Robert J. Marks
  • Patent number: 8410648
    Abstract: There is provided a motor including a sleeve supporting a shaft; a sleeve holder allowing the sleeve to be fixed to an inner circumferential surface thereof and having a coupling rack protruding downwardly from a bottom surface in an axial direction; and a base plate having a sleeve holder insertion hole provided therein such that the sleeve holder insertion hole has a curvature defined by an inner circumferential surface thereof, in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the coupling rack of the sleeve holder, and a bottom surface thereof, in contact with a coupling portion of the coupling rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Sun Yoo, Ho Jun Yoo, Yeol Choi
  • Publication number: 20130076181
    Abstract: There are provided a base assembly for a motor having improved noise and vibrations generating prevention characteristics by reducing a cogging torque generated by a stator core, and a motor including the same. The base assembly includes: a base member having a shaft system of the motor, disposed therein; a stator core mounted on the base member, provided to correspond to a magnet provided in a rotating member of the motor, and having a coil wound therearound, the coil generating electromagnetic force; and a dummy core coupled to the base member so as to be positioned on a lower portion of the stator core to thereby reduce cogging torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ta Kyoung LEE, Sang Jin PARK
  • Patent number: 8405259
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a step motor, including a lead screw, a rotor fixed to an outer surface of the lead screw, a fixture containing a stator disposed to face the rotor and a housing whose one side end part is open to insert the stator and wrap the stator, and a bracket having a bracket body of a plate shape on which the housing is disposed and a bending part bent towards the one side end part of the housing from the bracket body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jungbum Park
  • Patent number: 8405268
    Abstract: A stator comprises a ferromagnetic core having teeth. The stator also comprises first and second insulator members. The first and second insulating members collectively encircle each of the teeth of the core. The first insulating member comprising a plurality of mounting bosses spaced circumferentially from each other about the axis. Each of the mounting bosses has first and second retaining surfaces. The first and second retaining surfaces face axially opposite directions from each other and are exposed and are unobstructed by the second insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Bailey, Daniel E. Hilton, Gary E. Horst
  • Publication number: 20130062975
    Abstract: A wind turbine rotary electric machine having a tubular body, in turn having a cylindrical wall; and a plurality of clips formed integrally with the cylindrical wall and configured so that each pair of facing clips defines a seat for housing an active sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: WILIC S.AR.L.
    Inventors: Otto Pabst, Matteo Casazza
  • Patent number: 8387258
    Abstract: Insulation assemblies that are useful with bearing assemblies that fit in openings in bearing brackets of rotating machines, such as large synchronous motors or generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company
    Inventors: Ping Zhong, Gabriel Damon Rupertus
  • Publication number: 20130033140
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bracket for a stepping motor. The bracket includes a plate-shaped welding section, through which a shaft passes, and a welding zone formed on one side of the welding section and having a smaller thickness than the welding section. The bracket has improved welding strength with respect to a housing of the stepping motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Moatech Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae-Young SUNG
  • Patent number: 8354764
    Abstract: A holder of a surface mount motor includes a bottom-raising piece formed so as to extend integrally from the bottom portion and bent at a predetermined bending angle with respect to the bottom portion. When the holder is attached to a motor body, there is a risk that a mounting surface of the bottom portion of the holder will not be in the same plane as a mounting surface of a terminal. In such a case, a fine adjustment may be performed simply by slightly raising or lowering the bottom-raising piece. Thus, an adjustment between the heights of the mounting surface of the bottom portion of the holder and the mounting surface of the terminal can be easily performed. A gap between the bottom portion of the holder and the motor casing can be easily changed simply by changing the bending angle of the bottom-raising piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Hara