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| 20080203831 | Magnetic Drive Apparatus - A primary disc and the secondary discs are each fitted with magnetic means, typically in the form of permanent magnets of the same polarity, located along a radial line from the centre point of the discs, and arranged generally transverse to the axis of rotation of the respective disc. As shown in the drawings, these magnets are also located at or adjacent to the periphery of the disc(s). The magnets are embedded into each of the primary and secondary discs such that the faces of the magnets are flush with the exterior faces of the primary and secondary discs. In the embodiment, each of the magnets embedded in the primary disc has a North pole which is aligned with a North pole of a magnet embedded in the secondary disc. Each of the South pole of those magnets embedded in the primary disc has a South pole which is aligned with a South pole of a magnet embedded in the other secondary disc. In some embodiments, the magnets on the primary and secondary discs are arranged so as to be parallel, with their respective elongate, straight side edges aligned. In use, such an arrangement can result in less slippage between the discs which hold the magnets, and can assist in handling some misalignment which may occur between these discs during use, thus allowing smoother operation. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080224550 | Magnetic Motor - There is provided a magnetic motor which comprises a rotation assembly having a rotation axis and a plurality of rotating bodies fixedly installed at an interval along the rotation axis and magnetized to have multipole; one or more electromagnets, installed in a region influenced by a magnetic field derived from the adjacent rotating bodies, whereby the rotating assembly is driven by magnetic repulsive and attractive forces between the rotating bodies and the one or more electromagnets; and a controller for sequentially controlling magnetization of the electromagnets. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080231124 | Electro-magnetic circular engine - An electro-magnetic circular engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. The electro-magnetic circular engine comprises a hub assembly, first and second electro-magnetic wheels, electro-magnetic means, and electrical means. The electro-magnetic circular engine includes the rotation of the hub assembly in a predetermined direction continuously after the initial activation of the hub assembly by assembly of applying a short period of the external force, such as from a starter. At least three alternators are connected to the rotating shaft and work at a minimum of 35 amps to over 600 amps each and recharge batteries. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090009010 | Low-Noise, High-Speed, High Precision and High-Thrust Flux Reversal Motor for Linear or Rotary Motion System - Disclosed herein is to a flux reversal motor. The flux reversal motor includes a mover, and a plurality of permanent magnets. The mover moves linearly relative to a stator. A plurality of permanent magnets, having identical polarities, is provided in the end of each mover tooth. The permanent magnets are arranged on the left and right sides of a protrusion of the end of the mover tooth. Thus low noise/low vibration, high speeds, high precision, and high thrust motion can be realized. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090021089 | Motor and control unit thereof - A motor and a control unit therefor comprise: salient rotor poles and salient stator poles, which are arranged along circumferences of phases A, B and C with an even interval therebetween; magnetic paths for passing magnetic fluxes, the paths permitting the magnetic fluxes passing through the salient rotor and stator poles of each phase to return to the rotor side; and substantially looped windings arranged between the salient stator poles of individual phases and the magnetic paths for passing magnetic fluxes, wherein currents are supplied to the windings in synchronization with the rotational position of the rotor to thereby output torque. Since the structures of the stator, the rotor and the windings are simple, productivity is enhanced, whereby high quality, small size and low cost can be realized. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090039717 | TOOTHED MODULE FOR PRIMARY PARTS OF PERMANENT-MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS - The invention relates to a module ( | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090066172 | MAGNETIC MOTOR - A magnetic motor that comprises two assemblies, a rotor assembly (built up arrangement of rotor discs populated with permanent magnets) spaced in circular fashion on or about the disc and a stator assembly (built up arrangement of stator discs or planes populated with groups of permanent magnets spaced apart in circular fashion) so that the magnets on the rotor disc can move between the stator magnet groups in the same plane during rotation of the rotor assembly. The rotor (rotor discs) are connected to a common shaft (drive shaft) mounted on bearings to the mainframe to allow relative motion (rotation between the rotor and the stator). | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090091198 | FLUX-SWITCHING MACHINE - A flux-switching machine stator comprising two or more C-cores, each C-core having two legs and a back portion joining the legs, and a permanent magnet arranged between legs of adjacent C-cores. Each leg has a main portion and a tip portion further from the back portion characterized in that the tip portion of each leg is angled relative to the main portion of the respective leg. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090115264 | Rotating electric machine apparatus and method of assembly - A rotating electric machine apparatus includes at least one end plate associated with an inner assembly unit that operates to prevent contact between the inner assembly unit and an outer assembly unit. The end plate is peripherally sized to allow the slidable assembly of the inner assembly unit into the outer assembly unit while preventing undesirable contact of the inner assembly unit with the outer assembly unit. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090115265 | MOTOR FOR AN AERONAUTICAL FAN - This motor of the type comprising a magnet-less rotor with studs, centred on an axis, and a stator which comprises a casing for conducting magnetic flux, at least two windings which are arranged on the casing and on the circumference of a circle which surrounds the rotor and which is centred on the axis, and at least two magnets, each being arranged on the circumference of the circle between two successive windings of the stator, wherein each magnet has in cross-section a width which increases progressively from the axis of the motor to the outer side of the motor. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090146511 | PERMANENT-MAGNET-LESS SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE SYSTEM - A permanent magnet-less synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic revolving field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor is disposed within the magnetic revolving field and spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor pole stacks having an inner periphery biased by single polarity of a north-pole field and a south-pole field, respectively. The outer periphery of each of the rotor pole stacks are biased by an alternating polarity. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090200876 | SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR - In a synchronous reluctance motor composed of a stator core and a rotor core, convex grooves are formed along q-axis in an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core. A rotor coil is wound in the convex grooves. Applying a direct current to the rotor coil generates a torque of a current magnetic flux Φi in addition to a reluctance torque. Each convex groove formed at the q-axis prevents decreasing the reluctance torque. The rotor coil has a cross sectional shape in a diametrical direction of the rotor coil so that the rotor coil has a maximum diametrical width at the q-axis position, and the diametrical width of the rotor coil is gradually decreased according to the distance from the q-axis position. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090218895 | PERMANENT-MAGNET-LESS MACHINE HAVING AN ENCLOSED AIR GAP - A permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic rotating field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor disposed within the magnetic rotating field is spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. A stationary excitation core spaced apart from the uncluttered rotor by an axial air gap and a radial air gap substantially encloses the stationary excitation core. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include stator core gaps to reduce axial flux flow. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include an uncluttered rotor coupled to outer laminations. The quadrature-axis inductance may be increased in some synchronous systems. Some synchronous systems convert energy such as mechanical energy into electrical energy (e.g., a generator); other synchronous systems may convert any form of energy into mechanical energy (e.g., a motor). | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090256432 | Motor - A motor is disclosed, which includes: a rotor, to an inside of which a magnet is coupled, and from a center portion of which a tube-shaped cylindrical portion protrudes out; a shaft, which has one end coupled to the cylindrical portion, where the outer diameter of the one end of the shaft is greater than that of the other side; a holder, which supports the other end of the shaft, and which has a portion inserted in the cylindrical portion; a bearing, which is positioned between the holder and the other end of the shaft, and which rotatably supports the other end of the shaft; a stator, which is adjacent to the magnet, and which has a coil wound around a portion; and a base, which supports the holder. This motor may be utilized to better maintain verticality in the shaft of the motor and prevent wobbling in the disk. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090295237 | Electric Machine - An electrical machine comprises a moving part and a stationary part. The moving part is in the form of an inner rotor without windings, and the rotor comprises at least two magnetic conductors, which are separated from one another axially such that impeller wheels are formed. The stationary part has a number of magnetically acting webs in the circumferential direction of the machine. The webs are operatively connected to the magnetic conductors of the rotor. The stationary part has at least one first winding structure which is likewise operatively connected to the axially separated magnetic conductors of the rotor. In addition, a second winding structure is included on the webs wherein either the first winding structure acts as an armature winding and the second winding structure acts as a field winding, or vice versa. The impeller wheels are radially innerly magnetically effectively connected by means of a further magnetic conductor. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100033033 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE HAVING REPLACEABLE AND INTERCHANGEABLE CHUCK ASSEMBLIES - An electric machine, such as a switched reluctance motor (SRM), having a stator housing that allows for stator chuck assemblies to be removed and replaced independently of other stator chuck assemblies is described. The stator housing of the electric machine has a plurality of slots for receiving the stator chuck assemblies and for supporting the chuck assemblies in fixed positions relative to a rotor assembly of the electric machine. In preferred embodiments, the slots are disposed on the exterior surface of the stator housing. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100038978 | FLUX-SWITCHING DUAL EXCITATION ELECTRICAL MACHINE - Flux-switching electrical machines. In particular, a flux-switching electrical machine having a stator and a rotor. The stator has permanent magnets, armature windings and excitation windings, and the rotor has no winding or permanent magnet but includes a plurality of flux-switching teeth. The stator is generally formed by a succession of elementary cells, each cell being intended to interact with only a single tooth of the rotor at a time. Each cell includes one of the permanent magnets; a first slot for at least partly housing one of the excitation windings at least; and second slots for housing one of the armature windings. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100045121 | MOTOR FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS - A motor for high temperature applications has a stator that carries windings and a rotor that carries magnets. The rotor and the stator are built up from a stack of laminations made of a high temperature rare-earth permanent magnetic alloy. The stator windings are made of a high temperature magnet wire insulated with a vitreous enamel film bonded to the magnet wire. The stator windings are bonded together with an electrically resistant adhesive made of a ceramic binder. Preferably, the stator and rotor laminations are made of an iron-cobalt-vanadium permanent magnetic alloy selected to have high magnetic saturation, high D.C. maximum permeability, low D.C. coercive force, and low A.C. core loss. In a preferred embodiment, these components are integrated in a switched reluctance motor (SRM) that can operate at at least 460° C. for long durations. The same materials and construction can be used to make a resolver that will perform at the same high temperature as the SRM and with the addition of high temperature compatible magnets, a brushless DC and other permanent magnet motor types can also be realized. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100052438 | ACCESSORY DRIVE SYSTEM - An accessory drive system which is capable of preventing the driving efficiency thereof from being lowered and achieving simplified construction, and reduction of the size and manufacturing costs. The system has a rotating machine including a first rotor, a second rotor, and a stator. The first rotor is formed by magnetic poles circumferentially arranged, with each two adjacent ones having different polarities. The stator has an armature row for generating a rotating magnetic pole that circumferentially rotates, between the armature and magnetic pole rows. The second rotor is formed by soft magnetic material elements circumferentially arranged with space, and disposed between the magnetic pole and armature rows. A ratio between the number of the armature magnetic poles, that of the magnetic poles, and that of the soft magnetic material elements is set to 1:m:(1+m)/2(m≠1.0). | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100109451 | ENERGY ACCUMULATOR COMPRISING A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE - The energy storage device has an electrical machine ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100109452 | TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEM ROTOR CONCEPTS - Disclosed are transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Certain rotors for use in transverse and commutated flux machines may be formed to facilitate a “many to many” flux switch configuration between flux concentrating stator portions having opposite polarities. Other rotors may be formed from a first material, and contain flux switches formed from a second material. Yet other rotors may be machined, pressed, stamped, folded, and/or otherwise mechanically formed. Via use of such rotors, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100109453 | POLYPHASE TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEMS - Disclosed are single- and poly-phase transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may variously be configured with an interior rotor and/or an interior stator. Other exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may be configured in a slim, stacked, and/or nested configuration. Via use of such polyphase configurations, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100141060 | AXIAL MOTOR - An axial motor includes an armature side stator ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100141061 | Switched Reluctance Machines with Minimum Stator Core - A two-phase switched reluctance machine is provided using discontinuous core structures as the stator for low-cost, high-performance drives. This discontinuous stator core structure contains short flux paths and maximum overlap between the rotor poles and stator poles in the stator discontinuous core structures, regardless of the rotor position. Example configurations of such core structure include E-core, L-core and I-core configurations. Using less steel and magnet wire than in conventional SRM designs results in cost savings of stator material and winding material. Efficiency of this novel SRM is improved because of shorter flux paths resulting in reduction of core losses and decreased phase resistance resulting in reduction of copper losses. Two-phase simultaneous excitation of the novel SRM can reduce torque ripple during commutation as compared with existing two-phase SRMs. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100148598 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed is a switched reluctance motor which can reduce noise and prevent overheating in rotation of a rotor. The switched reluctance motor includes: a stator core having a plurality of inwardly protruded poles at predetermined intervals; coils wound around the protruded poles of the stator core; and a rotor core being rotatably housed inside the stator core with a predetermined gap, and having a plurality of outwardly protruded poles along the radial direction, and round units protruded from the front ends of each protruded pole of the rotor core starting to meet each protruded pole of the stator core, so that gaps between the protruded poles of the stator core and the protruded poles of the rotor core can be gradually reduced. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100148599 | Magnet window - A magnet shield that has openings to expose or hide magnets from each other. An actuator or indexing motor that moves the magnet shield at a desired event. An assembly combining a magnet shield and an actuator. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100156205 | MULTISTAGE VARIABLE RELUCTANCE MOTOR/GENERATOR - A compact, rugged, variable reluctance, variable speed, electric motor capable of producing high torque at high electrical energy conversion efficiencies is provided. The present invention provides for a multi-stage motor design having a number of discreet rotor and stator elements on a common shaft. This configuration provides for the simplest of magnetic structures and produces a powerful magnetic flux modelling design technique that is used to further optimize the motor design and subsequent control logic. Thermal mapping of the magnetic mass provides for advanced cooling techniques that are used to ensure long in-service life in the most extreme of industrial applications. The electric motor inherently provides low vibration thereby greatly reducing noise; low turn to turn voltage potentials thereby eliminating costly phase to phase shorting potential; efficient motor operation through the reduction in switching and copper losses in both the machine and its control system. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100213774 | Machines of imbalanced and gravitating magnetic bases - The present invention makes it practical and easy to build machines of imbalanced and gravitating magnetic bases by using sets of magnetic bases with On/Off switches, which are adapted to revolve with horizontal spindle on a vertical plane as they achieve the intended imbalance through the lifting of weights when the magnetism of the magnetic bases are switched to “ON” and “OFF” at the vertical line zone and cause the magnetic bases to rotate. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100231062 | Electrical Machine with Dual Radial Airgaps - A switched reluctance machine has an array of poles attached to a stationary holding member to form a stator. The stator has no back-iron. The machine has two arrays of rotor poles, positioned on either side of the stator poles, and circumferentially aligned with each other. When a pair of rotor poles is aligned with a stator pole, a small airgap is formed at each end of the stator pole, across which flux can be driven to produce torque in a rotary arrangement or force in a linear arrangement. When the poles are in the unaligned position, the phase inductance is very low. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100295389 | AXIAL FLUX SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE - An axial flux switched reluctance motor utilizes one or more rotor discs spaced along a rotor shaft, each rotor disc having a plurality of rotor poles spaced along the periphery thereof. Stator elements are distributed circumferentially about the rotor discs and form pairs of radially extending stator poles for axially straddling the rotor discs. Stator coils as switched on to energize pairs of stator poles for forming an axial and radially inward flux path for rotating the rotor poles for minimizing the flux path before switching off the stator coil. Two or more rotor discs can be rotationally indexed for providing two or more motor phases. In manufacture, rotor discs and circumferentially extending stator coils about the periphery of each rotor disc are fit to a stator housing. Each stator element is then fit radially through the stator housing and secured thereto for straddling the rotor discs. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110074232 | PULSED MULTI-ROTOR CONSTANT AIR GAP SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - An electric motor with two or more stator sections, each possessing at least two salient pole projections having power windings, and two or more armature sections on a common shaft. The armature sections are at an angle to each other: e.g. 90 degrees for two armatures, 120 degrees for three armatures. Each armature has a lamination stack or ferrite core. The armature sections form a constant air gap with the field poles, and have an elliptical profile with respect to the output shaft. The armature sections have no electrical windings, or conductors and require no slip rings, rotor coils or permanent magnets. The power windings are energized by pulses of electric current. Said pulses are automatically supplied to the salient pole nearest the longest rotor flux path available, as determined by a shaft position sensor. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110089775 | Parallel Magnetic Circuit Motor - A parallel magnetic circuit motor includes a rotor without magnets and a stator with magnets. The rotor, stator and windings are configured to produce unidirectional current and torque with electrically independent phases. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110148225 | TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEM ROTOR CONCEPTS - Disclosed are transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Certain rotors for use in transverse and commutated flux machines may be formed to facilitate a “many to many” flux switch configuration between flux concentrating stator portions having opposite polarities. Other rotors may be formed from a first material, and contain flux switches formed from a second material. Yet other rotors may be machined, pressed, stamped, folded, and/or otherwise mechanically formed. Via use of such rotors, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110156505 | MAGNETIC ENCODER AND ACTUATOR - First to fourth magnetic detection units ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110163618 | Rotating Electrical Machine - This rotating electrical machine includes a stator, a rotor having a plurality of convex portions on its surface that opposes the stator and extending along its direction of rotation, a magnet, and a frame made from magnetic material. The number of poles of the stator is the same as the number of magnetic convex poles of the rotor. The rotor is made from a plurality of plates of magnetic material, superimposed and skewed along the axial direction. A magnetic circuit is set up in the frame so that the magnetic flux of the magnet flows therein from the central portion of the rotor. And the magnet is a permanent magnet shaped as a cylinder, is single-pole magnetized along the radial direction, and is provided between the outer circumferential surface of the stator in the circumferential direction and the inner circumferential surface of the frame in the circumferential direction. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110169350 | ACTIVE ELEMENT FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETIC MACHINE, A METHOD OF FABRICATING SUCH AN ACTIVE ELEMENT, AND AN ELECTROMAGNETIC MACHINE INCLUDING SUCH AN ACTIVE ELEMENT - The invention provides an active element ( | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110210626 | TRANSVERSE FLUX MOTOR AS AN EXTERNAL ROTOR MOTOR AND DRIVE METHOD - The invention relates to a transverse flux motor comprising at least one stator and at least one rotor. Magnetically active elements of the stator are formed in an annular manner and with a U-shaped inner contour on the stator and the rotor is in the form of a disk or a ring. The rotor comprises magnetically active sections consisting of a soft-magnetic or permanent-magnetic material, that are radially oriented in an annular manner towards at least one front surface of the rotor. The invention also relates to a drive method according to the transverse flux principle, whereby magnetically active sections of at least one disk-type or annular rotor, that are radially oriented in an annular manner towards at least one front surface of the rotor, interact with magnetically active elements having a U-shaped inner contour in an annular manner on at least one stator, in order to rotate the rotor | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110234027 | HIGH DENSITY WINDINGS FOR A CONCENTRIC WOUND ELECTRICAL MACHINE STATOR - A switched reluctance motor includes at least four stator poles and an electrically conductive material around each of the stator poles. The geometric outline, on one side of the stator pole, of at least one of the conductive materials is not rectangular, as viewed from a cross-section of the switched reluctance motor showing each of the stator poles. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110248581 | MAGNETIC ACTUATION METHOD AND DEVICE - The present invention relates to a magnetic actuation method according to which a magnetised mobile ( | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110254389 | HIGH FORCE ROTARY ACTUATOR - An actuator includes an upper stator with four upper poles and a lower stator with four lower poles aligned with the four upper poles. A permanent magnet is attached to the upper stator and the lower stator. Four moving armatures are positioned at terminal ends of the four upper poles and the four lower poles. Coils are wrapped around the upper stator and the lower stator. A controller selectively applies current to the coils to migrate flux created by the permanent magnet through selective poles of the upper stator and the lower stator and thereby alter the size of air gaps associated with the four moving armatures. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110266893 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE - A switched reluctance machine is provided. The switched reluctance machine has a rotor including a rotor core, where the rotor core includes multiple laminated sheets, each of the laminated sheets including multiple ferromagnetic regions and multiple non-ferromagnetic regions formed of a single material. The ferromagnetic and the non-ferromagnetic regions are alternately arranged such that the ferromagnetic regions form multiple rotor teeth and the non-ferromagnetic regions define multiple non-ferromagnetic gaps between the rotor teeth. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110273035 | TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEM STATOR CONCEPTS - Disclosed are transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Certain exemplary stators for use in transverse and commutated flux machines may be configured with gaps therebetween, for example in order to counteract tolerance stackup. Other exemplary stators may be configured as partial stators having a limited number of magnets and/or flux concentrators thereon. Partial stators may facilitate ease of assembly and/or use with various rotors. Additionally, exemplary floating stators can allow a transverse and/or commutated flux machine to utilize an air gap independent of the diameter of a rotor. Via use of such exemplary stators, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110298312 | Electric Motors - Electric motors are disclosed with coils which induce a magnetic flux field which by its relationship with ferromagnetic poles provide the motoring force without use of an auxiliary magnetic field. The motors may be employed with fixed or pivotably mounted brushes. Pivotable brushes for electric motor brushes are disclosed. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110304224 | COMPACT STARTER-GENERATOR WITH COMMON CORE FOR MAIN AND EXCITER WINDING - A power system for a vehicle may comprise an electric machine attached to an engine of the vehicle. The electric machine may comprise only one stator core; a stator main winding wound on the one stator core; a stator exciter winding wound on the one stator core. The stator main winding and the stator exciter winding may be magnetically independent from one another even though magnetic-field-isolation material is not interposed between the stator main winding and the stator exciter winding. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110309695 | INTERNALLY COOLED SERVO MOTOR WITH DRY ROTOR - A cooling system for an electric motor is equipped with cooling tubes for transporting a cooling fluid, the tubes are installed within the slots along with the motor winding. The cooling tubes make direct contact with the windings of the motor through a thermal conductive coating that is also electrically insulating. In one embodiment of the invention the cooling tubes are made from a hollow copper tube that is coated with Kapton® (polyimide). | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110316366 | DOUBLE STATOR SWITCHED RELUCTANCE APPARATUS - A switched reluctance apparatus and method of operating the same. The apparatus has an inner stator having a plurality of poles, a rotor disposed radially outward of the inner stator and having a plurality of segments serving as poles, and an outer stator disposed radially outward of the rotor and having a plurality of poles. A respective winding is disposed between every pair of adjacent poles of either stator. The apparatus operates with a plurality of separately excitable phases, a given phase being excited by energizing the windings corresponding to the given phase. Excitation of a given phase causes induction of magnetic fluxes traversing a region substantially confined to the region of the stators and rotor segments corresponding to the given phase, and causes a substantial amount of flux to enter rotor segments not in the radial direction but perpendicular to the radial direction. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120001501 | TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEM ROTOR CONCEPTS - Disclosed are transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Certain rotors for use in transverse and commutated flux machines may be formed to facilitate a “many to many” flux switch configuration between flux concentrating stator portions having opposite polarities. Other rotors may be formed from a first material, and contain flux switches formed from a second material. Yet other rotors may be machined, pressed, stamped, folded, and/or otherwise mechanically formed. Via use of such rotors, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120025636 | MOTOR FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS - A high temperature motor has a stator with poles formed by wire windings, and a rotor with magnetic poles on a rotor shaft positioned coaxially within the stator. The stator and rotor are built up from stacks of magnetic-alloy laminations. The stator windings are made of high temperature magnet wire insulated with a vitreous enamel film, and the wire windings are bonded together with ceramic binder. A thin-walled cylinder is positioned coaxially between the rotor and the stator to prevent debris from the stator windings from reaching the rotor. The stator windings are wound on wire spools made of ceramic, thereby avoiding need for mica insulation and epoxy/adhesive. The stator and rotor are encased in a stator housing with rear and front end caps, and rear and front bearings for the rotor shaft are mounted on external sides of the end caps to keep debris from the motor migrating into the bearings' races. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025637 | TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEMS CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE REDUCED FLUX LEAKAGE, HYSTERESIS LOSS REDUCTION, AND PHASE MATCHING - Electrical machines, for example transverse flux machines and/or commutated flux machines, may be configured to achieve increased efficiency, increased output torque, and/or reduced operating losses via use of extended magnets, overhung rotors, and/or stator tooth overlap. Extended magnets may reduce flux leakage between adjacent flux concentrators. Overhung rotors may reduce flux leakage, and may also facilitate voltage balancing in polyphase devices. Stator tooth overlap may reduce hysteresis losses, for example losses in flux concentrating portions of an electrical machine. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120062053 | ROTOR FOR A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE - A rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine wherein a torque ripple behaviour of the machine is optimized by altering the geometry of insulating barriers of the rotor. A q-axis pitch angle is used as a design variable instead of setting its value equal to the rest of the rotor slot pitches or binding its value to the stator slot pitch. The resulting rotor has a non-regular slot pitch across the q-axis and substantially regular slot pitch otherwise. Synchronous reluctance machines that employ rotor discs and rotor assemblies in accordance with the present invention may exhibit low torque ripple without sacrificing high torque values. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120068558 | HYBRID POLE BEARINGLESS SRM - Disclosed is a hybrid pole bearingless switched reluctance motor (BLSRM). The BLSRM includes a stator provided with windings, a rotor rotating about an axis when current is conducted to the windings. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor poles extending radially outward, and the stator includes a plurality of stator poles extending radially inward. The windings include suspending windings to generate radial force for the rotor and torque windings to generate torque. The suspending windings are mutually separated from the torque windings. Through the use of the hybrid pole BLSRM, a stator pole generating the radial force can be controlled independently from the stator pole generating the torque by separately arranging the stator pole generating the radial force and the stator pole generating torque based on the analysis of radial force and torque characteristics according to the position of the stator poles. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120086288 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - An electric rotating machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a plurality of magnetic shields. The stator includes a stator core and a stator coil wound on the stator core. The stator core has a plurality of stator teeth arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator core. The rotor includes a rotor core that has a plurality of magnetic salient poles formed therein. The magnetic salient poles face the stator teeth through an air gap formed therebetween. Each of the magnetic shields is provided, either on the forward side of a corresponding one of the stator teeth or on the backward side of a corresponding one of the magnetic salient poles with respect to the rotational direction of the rotor, to create a magnetic flux which suppresses generation of a negative electromagnetic force that hinders rotation of the rotor. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086289 | ROTOR OF A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE AND THE METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE ROTOR OF A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE - A rotor is disclosed for a synchronous reluctance machine which includes an axis, which is supported by bearings to rotate inside a stator, and to which axis a rotor frame has been attached. The frame can be made of magnetically non-conductive material, having arranged magnetically conductive bar-shaped objects which extend through the rotor frame from the outer surface of the magnetic pole of the rotor to the outer surface of the pole. The whole length of each bar-shaped object inside the rotor frame can be surrounded by non-magnetic material. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120161551 | RELUCTANCE MOTOR - A reluctance motor according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a stator and a mover. One of the stator and the mover includes a plurality of magnetic poles on which coils are wound. The other of the stator and the mover includes a magnetic segment that includes a directivity member of which the magnetization direction is regulated in a predetermined direction and that is embedded into a non-magnetic holder. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120175975 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed is herein a switched reluctance motor including: a rotor; commutators connected to both ends of the rotor; brushes mechanically contacting to the commutators by rotation of the rotor; a stator having the brushes fixed thereto and having stator poles having coils wound therearound, wherein the brushes are moved and mounted by an advance angle from a connection axis of stator poles opposite to each other, wherein the advance angle is a region between application of a voltage and rise of an inductance and a dwell angle, a voltage application period is controlled by arc angles of the commutator and the brush. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120223600 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core, a stator, a field yoke, and a field winding. The rotor core is fixed to a rotary shaft, which includes a magnetic body for forming a magnetic path, and magnetic salient poles. The stator has teeth and a stator winding wound around the teeth by concentrated winding. A slot is formed between adjacent ones of the teeth in a circumferential direction. The field yoke magnetically connects the stator and the magnetic body. The field winding is located in proximity to at least one of the winding ends of the stator winding in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. The field winding generates a magnetic pole on the magnetic salient poles when energized. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120235519 | TRANSVERSE AND/OR COMMUTATED FLUX SYSTEMS HAVING LAMINATED AND POWDERED METAL PORTIONS - An electrical machine comprising a rotor, a coil and a stator comprising a lamination stack coupled to a tooth, wherein the electrical machine is at least one of a transversal flux machine is described. The electrical machine may be a transversal flux machine such as a transverse or commutated flux machine. A lamination ring is described comprising a plurality of lamination stacks. A lamination stack may comprise a plurality of trenches configured to retain a plurality of teeth. The tooth may comprise a portion of the switching surface, and a portion of a lamination stack may extend to the surface of the tooth to make up a portion of the switching surface. The electrical machine may be configured with a constant air gap, wherein no more than 15% variability in the distance between the stator switching surface and the rotor switching surface. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120306296 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor in which an outer rotor provided with a plurality of salient poles protruded at equidistance along an inner peripheral surface thereof; and a stator provided in the outer rotor, provided with a plurality of stator cores including main salient poles protruded toward the salient poles of the outer rotor and including coils wound therearound and auxiliary salient poles positioned at both sides of the main salient poles, and having phase windings in which the coils are wound around the main salient poles are provided, a magnetic flux is bisected in the main salient pole and flows into the auxiliary salient poles of adjacent phase windings, such that a short magnetic flux route is implemented, thereby making it possible to reduce core loss, and a magnet is also provided, thereby making it possible to improve torque characteristics. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306297 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor, including: a rotor provided with a plurality of salient poles protruded along an outer peripheral surface thereof; and a stator including a plurality of stator cores in a pi (π) shape that have the rotor rotatably accommodated therein, are opposite to the plurality of salient poles, and have coils wound therearound, wherein a magnetic flux path is formed along the stator cores in the pi shape and the salient pole opposite thereto. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120306298 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor comprising: an outer rotor provided with a plurality of salient poles protruded at equidistance along an inner peripheral surface thereof; and a stator provided in the outer rotor, including a plurality of stator cores including a pair of stator salient poles protruded toward the salient pole of the outer rotor and a stator yoke connecting and supporting stator salient poles to each other, and having phase windings in which coils are wound around the stator salient poles, wherein a magnetic flux generated by applying a current to the phase winding flows through the pair of stator salient poles and the salient pole of the outer rotor. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120326539 | ELECTRICAL MACHINE WITH CONTRA-ROTATING ROTORS - An electrical machine comprising: a first stator member ( | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130002061 | COGGING TORQUE REDUCTION DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINES - Electrical machines, for example transverse flux machines and/or commutated flux machines, may be “balanced” to achieve reduced overall cogging torque via utilization of one or more cogging torque reduction devices. Cogging torque reduction devices may be configured and/or otherwise customized in order to reduce and/or minimize cogging torque in an electrical machine, by generating a counteracting cogging torque waveform that at least partially counteracts and/or cancels the initial cogging torque waveform of the electrical machine. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130026864 | TRAVERSAL SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a transversal switched reluctance motor including: a rotor assembly formed by arranging a plurality of rotors including a rotor pole mounting part having a shaft coupled to an inner portion thereof and a plurality of rotor poles coupled to the rotor pole mounting part along an outer peripheral surface thereof in a direction of the shaft; and a stator assembly including a plurality of stators each including a coil enclosing an outer peripheral surface of the rotor assembly so that the rotor assembly is rotatably received in an inner portion thereof and a plurality of stator cores fitted with the coil from one side direction thereof along an outer peripheral surface thereof to thereby face the plurality of rotor poles, wherein the stator core has a C shaped cross section with respect to the direction of the shaft around which the rotor assembly rotates. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130038147 | Three Dimensional Magnetic Field Manipulation in Electromagnetic Devices - Electromagnetic devices and near field plates for three-dimensional magnetic field manipulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electromagnetic device includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic field focusing device. The rotor may include a rotor body and a plurality of radially extending rotor poles. The stator may include a plurality of stator poles radially extending inwardly from a stator body toward the rotor body. Each stator pole may have a magnetic flux generating device and a stator pole tip, wherein an air gap may be located between each stator pole tip and each corresponding rotor pole. The magnetic field focusing device is coupled to at least one stator pole tip and produces a magnetic field profile having at least one concentrated magnetic flux region proximate the stator pole tip. The magnetic field focusing device twists the magnetic field profile by an angle α. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130049494 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor including: a salient pole type stator that includes a plurality of teeth having a coil wound therearound and a magnet mounted between the teeth; and a salient pole type rotor that is inserted into a central portion of the stator and rotates, wherein the magnet is mounted between the teeth having the coil wound therearound. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130057091 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor having a double rotor structure. An out stator salient pole corresponding to an out rotor salient pole is formed to have an “E” shape by sequentially disposing a main salient pole, a first auxiliary salient pole, and a second auxiliary salient pole and an in stator salient pole corresponding to an in rotor salient pole is formed to have a pi (π) shape by sequentially disposing a first salient pole and a second salient pole, such that a magnetic flux path is reduced, thereby making it possible to prevent the loss of magnetic force. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130069453 | MECHANICALLY COMMUTATED SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor including: a salient pole type rotor; and a stator including a stator body, a plurality of phase windings, permanent magnets, and magnetic flux transform coils wound to enclose the permanent magnets, wherein magnetic fluxes generated by excitation of the phase windings interact with magnetic force generated from the permanent magnets, such that a magnetic flux amount may increase and torque density may be improved, an intersection line is not generated in the magnetic fluxes generated by the excitation of the phase windings, and the magnetic fluxes are reduced by the magnetic flux transform coil. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130099607 | SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE USING ROTOR FLUX BARRIERS AS COOLING CHANNELS - A synchronous reluctance machine includes a rotor having a plurality of rotor disks with longitudinal flux barriers. When the rotor disks are stacked together to form a rotor core, the flux barriers define channels extending in an axial direction of the rotor core. Air is forced to flow through these channels in order to improve a temperature distribution within the machine. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130119789 | MULTIPLE-GAP ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - The multiple-gap electric rotating machine includes a rotor cantilever-supported at a first axial end thereof by a rotor arm coupled to a rotating shaft. The rotor includes a laminated core of core sheets made of soft magnetic material and an end-surface core disposed on a surface of the laminated core on a second axial end of the rotor. The laminated core includes segments joined in a ring and each formed with a salient pole structure at each of radially inner and outer peripheries thereof. The end-surface core includes soft magnetic sections made of steel and non-magnetic sections made of stainless steel, which are joined together in a ring. The laminated core is held between the rotor arm and the end-surface core, and fixed to the rotor arm by rivets penetrating through the rotor arm, laminated core and the end -surface core. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130127268 | ELECTRICITY GENERATOR - Embodiments of the invention relate to an electricity generator system. The system comprises: a conductor; a magnet; and conversion means. The magnet is configured such that motion of the conductor relative to the magnet induces a current in the conductor and the induced current in the conductor causes motion of the magnet. The conversion means are configured to convert motion of the magnet to electricity. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130134805 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor including: a salient pole type rotor provided with a plurality of salient poles; and a stator including a stator body provided with a plurality of salient poles facing the rotor, a plurality of phase windings formed by winding coils around the salient poles, and permanent magnets mounted between the phase windings, wherein the permanent magnets are disposed to generate magnetic force in a direction corresponding to a direction in which magnetic fluxes are generated from the phase windings. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130162066 | Electrical Machine for a Wind Energy Installation - An electrical machine includes a stationary secondary part which is self-excited or externally excited, a stationary primary part with a primary winding element, and a rotatably mounted magnetic modulator, which modulates a magnetic flux density. The magnetic modulator is arranged between the secondary part and the primary part or the primary part is arranged between the secondary part and the magnetic modulator. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130175890 | Magnetic Energy Cone - An apparatus for converting magnetic force into electricity is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a base component housing a generator capable of producing enough electricity to power an electric motor. The rotational component is driven by oppositely charged magnets which rotate a shaft connected to the generator to produce electricity. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130193782 | DOUBLE DRIVE SHAFT MOTOR OF MAGNETIC FLUX MODULATION TYPE - In a double drive shaft motor, a stator and a field rotor are arranged at a radially outer side of a magnetic modulation rotor. The stator and the field rotor are arranged in series in an axial direction of the motor. This structure increases an amount of a winding coil of the stator and magnets in the field rotor, and an output torque of the motor. When a field magnetic flux passes through soft magnetic material members in the magnetic modulation rotor, because the generation and the reception of the magnetic flux can occur at a radially same side of the magnetic modulation rotor, this structure cancels an eddy current generated in the soft magnetic members and supporting members made of non-magnetic metal which tightly support the soft magnetic member. This structure provides a reduced axial size of the motor with high performance. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130214623 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor including: a salient pole type rotor provided with a plurality of salient poles; and a stator including a stator body provided with a plurality of salient poles facing the rotor and a plurality of auxiliary slots disposed between the salient poles, a plurality of phase windings formed by winding coils around the salient poles, and a plurality of electromagnets formed by winding coils in the auxiliary slots, wherein magnetic fluxes generated due to excitation of the phase windings interact with magnetic force generated from the electromagnets, such that a magnetic flux amount may increase and torque density may be improved, and an intersection line is not generated in the magnetic fluxes generated due to the excitation of the phase windings. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130257187 | Brushless DC Electrical Generator - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for the generation of a unidirectional electrical signal. The apparatus may include at least one magnet defining a magnetic field, a rotor disc of substantially no magnetic permeability comprising at least one magnetic field interrupter of magnetically permeable material positioned at a first radial distance from a center axis of the rotor disc, the rotor positioned so as to, upon rotation of the rotor disc, cause the at least one interruptor to pass through the magnetic field, and an electrical conductor extending across the magnetic field, whereby as the at least one interrupter passes through the magnetic field, the magnetic field is distorted by the interrupter thereby inducing a unidirectional electric signal in the conductor. The at least one magnet may be an electromagnet or a permanent magnet. The at least one magnetic field interrupter may be made of soft iron. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130257188 | FLUX-SWITCHING ELECTRIC MACHINE - A flux-switching electric machine includes a rotor having a rotor core that is configured to rotate about a central longitudinal axis. The rotor core has a circumference that includes an approximately constant radius of curvature along an arc length of the rotor core. The rotor core includes magnetic and non-magnetic segments that are arranged in an alternating pattern of magnetic segments and non-magnetic segments along the arc length of the rotor core. The flux-switching electric machine also includes a stator having a stator core that extends a length along the central longitudinal axis. The stator core includes a stator base and stator teeth that extend radially from the stator base relative to the central longitudinal axis. The stator includes a direct current (DC) field coil wound around at least one corresponding stator tooth. The stator includes an alternating current (AC) armature coil wound around at least one corresponding stator tooth. The DC field coil overlaps the AC armature coil along an arc length of the stator core. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130264895 | SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - The synchronous motor includes a rotor including a rotor core constituted of segment poles disposed in a ring and a stator including a stator core disposed radially outward or inward of the rotor with a gap therebetween and a multiple-phase stator winding wound on the stator core. Each of the segment poles has a magnetic salient pole characteristic. The rotor is rotated in synchronization with a rotating magnetic field generated when the multiple-phase stator winding is applied with a multiple-phase AC voltage. The lamination thickness as an axial length of the stator core is shorter than the lamination thickness as an axial length of the rotor core. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130328420 | RELUCTANCE MOTOR - A reluctance motor having a rotor and a stator that has a wound core, around which a stator coil is wound and which is open on one side and has legs, said legs being arranged around the periphery and forming spaced-apart pairs of legs. Multiple rotor teeth which are distributed around the periphery and periodically establish a magnetic flux between the legs radially engage between the legs. In order to positively change the characteristic curve of the magnetic flux of the legs and teeth, the teeth continuously form an area overlap with the legs in the direction of rotation of the rotor in accordance with the angle of rotation. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140021809 | RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Some exemplary reluctance motors disclosed herein comprise a rotor having a plurality of radially outwardly projecting rotor poles and a plurality of generally U-shaped stator units positioned circumferentially around the rotor. Each stator unit is spaced circumferentially apart and magnetically isolated from adjacent stator units. Each stator unit comprises a circumferentially extending yoke and two stator poles extending radially inwardly from the yoke, such that the stator poles are positioned adjacent to the rotor poles. The motor further comprises a plurality of coils of electrical conductors, wherein each of the coils is coiled around a respective one of the yokes of the stator units. In some embodiments, non-magnetic stator supports are positioned between the stator units and configured to engage circumferential sides of the stator units to hold the stator units in radial and circumferential alignment with the rotor. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140035401 | WINDMILL COMPRISING A TRANSVERSE FLUX ELECTRICAL MACHINE - The invention concerns a windmill including a rotatable transverse flux electrical machine (TFEM) comprising a stator portion; and a rotor portion rotatably located in respect with the stator portion, the rotor portion including an alternate sequence of magnets and concentrators radially disposed about a rotation axis thereof; the stator portion including at least one phase, the at least one phase including a plurality of cores cooperating with a coil disposed about the rotation axis, each core including a skewed pair of poles to progressively electromagnetically engage an electromagnetic field of respective cooperating concentrators. The invention is also concerned with a plurality of elements located in desired positions in the TFEM. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140035402 | Electric Generator - An electric energy generator includes a driving shaft designed to be coupled to an external energy source having a predetermined torque, a synchronous reluctance rotating electric machine having a stator and a transverse-laminated rotor, and a driven shaft operatively coupled to the drive shaft for generating electric energy with a predetermined torque ripple amplitude, an electric connection for injecting the electric energy so generated into the net, a control system designed to adjusting electrical and dynamic parameters of the electric machine. The stator has an even number of longitudinal grooves for each pair of poles and the rotor has a plurality of adjacent slots defining an even number of magnetically equivalent slots. The number of grooves is different from the number of equivalent slots multiplied by an integer, the difference between the number of grooves and the number of equivalent slots being different form zero, +2 and −2. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140049124 | DOUBLE-ROTOR FLUX-SWITCHING MACHINE - Advantageous machines, such as flux-switching machines (FSMs) are provided. An FSM can be yokeless and can have two rotors, which can be displaced from one another (e.g., by half a pole pitch). An FSM can be a flux-switching permanent magnet machine (FSPMM), and all magnets can be magnetized in the same circumferential direction. FSMs of the subject invention are cost-effective, have high torque density, and can operate well even under fault conditions. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140077629 | Robot Drive With Passive Rotor - A substrate transport apparatus including a drive section and a first movable arm assembly. The drive section includes a first motor. The first motor includes a stator and a passive rotor. The first movable arm assembly is connected to the first motor. The substrate transport apparatus is configured for the first movable arm assembly to be positionable in a vacuum chamber with the passive rotor being in communication with an environment inside the vacuum chamber. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140084714 | HOMOPOLAR MOTOR-GENERATOR - A motor-generator utilizes a multi-part rotor encircling a stator, the rotor including a plurality of rotor segments. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140084715 | Switched Reluctance Motor - A switched reluctance motor (SRM) with a rotor shaft defining a rotational axis, a rotor disc extending radially from the rotor shaft, the rotor disc has rotor poles spaced equally circumferentially. The SRM also has a stator arrangement with member stators spaced equally circumferentially and aligned in a common plane perpendicular to the rotational axis and axially spaced from the rotor disc for forming an axial air gap. Every second member stator of the plurality of member stators forms a respective group, so that each member stator of a first group is surrounded by two members of a second group on each side. The stator coils in the first group are connected to a half-wave rectifier arrangement in a forward direction and the stator coils in the second group are connected to the half-wave rectifier arrangement in the reverse direction. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140084716 | ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE WITH SO-CALLED DOUBLE HOMOPOLAR STRUCTURE - Homopolar electric machine, characterized in that its structure is double, its rotor and its stator being simultaneously homopolar, and in that it includes a stack of pairs of simple homopolar stators, forming monophasing elementary machines, or in a reverse version, the elementary machines being powered with AC current; the rotor is common to all these stators, and is passive, that is to say composed completely or partially of ferromagnetic materials. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140103752 | Hybrid Motor - A multi-phase motor including a rotor and a stator including at least one core. The stator includes a plurality of phase sections. Each phase section is configured to provide a phase of the multi-phase motor. Each phase section includes at least one of the core(s), at least two ring magnets having polarity facing in a substantially same direction, and a winding between the at least two ring magnets. The winding is configured to be energized to direct flux through the at least one core at a first portion associated with a first one of the ring magnets, and to be differently energized to direct flux through the at least one core at a second portion associated with a second one of the ring magnets. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140111038 | DOUBLE-ROTOR SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE - Various embodiments are described herein for a double-rotor switched reluctance machine. In one example embodiment, the double-rotor switched reluctance machine comprises an interior rotor, an exterior rotor spaced from the interior rotor and coaxially and concentrically disposed outside the interior rotor, and at least one stator disposed concentrically with the interior rotor and the exterior rotor. The interior rotor, the exterior rotor and the at least one stator are disposed within one machine set to provide an interior switched reluctance machine and an exterior switched reluctance machine. The interior switched reluctance machine and the exterior switched reluctance machine can operate as two motors, two generators, or a motor and a generator simultaneously. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140125155 | TOROIDAL MOTOR DESIGN HAVING BACK EMF REDUCTION - Some embodiments of the disclosed invention provide a toroidal DC motor that reduces Back EMF and, therefore, minimizes the degradation of source potential. In addition, embodiments of the disclosed invention provide a motor that provides constant torque at constant current irrespective of the speed of the rotor. Likewise, some embodiments of the disclosed inventions provide output horsepower that increases with the rotational speed of the rotor. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140125156 | WOUND FIELD FLUX SWITCHING MACHINE WITH SINUSOIDAL BACK ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE - A wound field flux switching machine with a sinusoidal back electromotive force features a rotor with teeth and a stator with groups of teeth wherein each group has a field winding and each tooth has a phase winding. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140145523 | PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR - The present invention is directed to the method of utilizing magnetic materials in permanent magnets and permanent magnet discs and surfaces, as a source of magnetic fields for producing rotational means, to produce a permanent magnet motor and utilizing this method to produce a powered means for use in remote pumping stations, geologic sensing stations both undersea and mountain top, remote electrical generating stations for inhabited areas of the planet off the power grid, power units for space stations, repair robots, planetary and lunar land rovers, astronomical research stations, electric generators, stabilization gyros and generators for autonomous robots, power units for motorized vehicles, and single person aircraft. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140167533 | ROTOR ASSEMBLY APPARATUS AND METHODS - Rotors assemblies usable in energy storage devices and power systems include a plurality of laminations oriented in vertical alignment, a first plate contacting a first side of the laminations, a second plate contacting a second side of the laminations, and at least one fastener engaged with the plates to compressively retain the laminations and limit relative movement of the laminations. Fasteners can engage the plates via an interference fit and pass through a clearance in the laminations sized to limit contact between the fasteners and the laminations during rotation of the rotor assembly. The laminations can be arranged with a thicker region of a first lamination above a thinner region of a second to form a stacked pair, and multiple stacked pairs can be rotationally offset from one another. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140210285 | SINGLE PHASE SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE WITH SHORT FLUX PATH - A reluctance machine includes a stator having N stator poles and a rotor having N rotor poles. Each stator pole has a stator winding, and the windings of the N stator poles are configured for excitation in a single phase. The current flow in the windings is controlled to support a constrained flux path across two air gaps provided by circumferentially adjacent rotor/stator pole pairs. The rotor may further be structurally configured to support that constrained flux path and preclude diagonal flux across the rotor. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140265652 | DIPOLAR TRANSVERSE FLUX ELECTRIC MACHINE - The present invention relates to an improved electric machine which, when operating in motor mode, produces rotational torque without using alternating magnetic polarity, but rather magnetic axial flux that utilizes coils arranged in a dipolar manner around an axial plane. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the use of energy is significantly enhanced therein by injecting the energy harvested from the collapsing fields of electromagnetic drive components, and then directing said energy from said primary-drive coils of the machine into an isolated circuit which is thereafter introduced as a transient secondary process to power secondary-drive coils of the machine in order to increase the overall efficiency of the machine. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140346904 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor comprising: a rotor having a shaft disposed at a central portion thereof and having salient poles formed at an outer circumference thereof; a stator having the rotor rotatably installed therein while forming a gap and having salient poles facing the salient poles of the rotor; and an extraction pressure decreasing unit separating the rotor and the stator from a mold, wherein the rotor and the stator are made of a soft magnet composite (SMC). | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150022033 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A ROTOR OF A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR, A ROTOR OF A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR, AND A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR - The present disclosure relates to rotating electric machines which may be used for industrial applications, to a method for manufacturing a rotor of a synchronous reluctance motor, a rotor of a synchronous reluctance motor, and a synchronous reluctance motor. A rotor of a synchronous reluctance motor according to the present disclosure has a cylindrical rotor body part casted from a superparamagnetic material, and ferromagnetic flux guides arranged inside the casted cylindrical rotor body part. The flux guides are arranged to go through from one side of the outer circumference of the cylindrical rotor part to the other side of the outer circumference of the cylindrical rotor part in the direction of the direct axis of the synchronous reluctance motor. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150035389 | SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR AND STATOR THEREOF - A stator of a switched reluctance motor includes a stator core part, stator coiling parts, stator salient parts, and pairs of permanent magnets. The stator coiling parts protrude inwardly from the stator core part and have coils wound on an external side thereof. The stator salient parts protrude inwardly from the stator core part and are disposed between the stator coiling parts. Each pair of the permanent magnets is inserted into each of the stator coiling parts and magnetized in the same direction as a direction of a magnetic field generated by the excitation of the coils. This stator has an electromagnetic structure designed to prevent the reversal of a magnetic field generated by the excited coils. The output of the motor is enhanced by inserting the permanent magnets so as to be magnetized in the same direction as a direction of a magnetic field generated by the excited coils. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150035390 | ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A rotating electrical machine has a rotor composed of laminations which are mounted on a shaft in an embodiment. The portion of the laminations adjacent the shaft has one or more slots, so designed as to increase the contact force between the lamination and the shaft as the speed of the rotor rises. This allows the laminations to be assembled to the shaft with a smaller interference fit yet retain a contact force at high speeds. The laminations may be assembled to the shaft with a suitable adhesive. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150042182 | Electrical Machines - An electrical machine comprising: a first component having a first surface; a second component having a second surface, the first and second components being mounted such that the first surface is constrained to be movable in a cyclical path relative to the second surface; and a coil arranged to induce a magnetic field in one of the surfaces so as to, in at least some configurations of the machine, form a magnetic circuit through that surface; the machine being configured so that: a) the first component and the second component can magnetically interact with each other by virtue of magnetic flux through the first and second surfaces; and b) during at least part of the cyclical path the reluctance of the magnetic circuit is changed by relative motion of the first and second surfaces, that change in reluctance being predominantly due to a component of relative motion of the first and second surfaces in a direction parallel to the shortest distance between the first and second surfaces. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150048697 | ROTOR OF A DYNAMOELECTRIC ROTARY MACHINE - A reluctance rotor of a dynamoelectric rotary machine has an even number of poles constructed of a material having structural magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic anisotropy of the material is characterized by a first magnetic resistance, a magnetic permeability of μr>20 and a saturation polarization of >1T in a first spatial direction, and by a second magnetic resistance which is greater than the first magnetic resistance with a magnetic permeability of μr<1.6 in spatial directions perpendicular to the first spatial direction. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150069863 | INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINE HAVING OFFSET ROTOR SECTIONS - A motor rotor assembly that includes multiple motor rotor sections and a rotor bar that extends through the motor rotor sections, such that the rotor bar and the motor rotor sections are configured such that the rotor sections are step-skewed, or continuously skewed, from each other. The assembly may be used in an IPM or Synchronous Reluctance motor; and, the motor rotor sections may be of solid core or laminations. Various assembly components, IPM and Synchronous Reluctance motors, and methods of construction/assembly are also disclosed. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150084450 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - This rotating electric machine has a rotor, stator core, field windings for multiple poles, and armature windings for the multiple poles. The rotor is rotatably supported about a shaft. Convex-shaped multiple salient pole sections are formed on the outer circumference of the rotor while arranged in the circumferential direction. The stator core is provided along the outer circumference of the rotor with an air gap from the rotor. Convex-shaped multiple teeth are formed on the inner circumference of the stator core while arranged in the circumferential direction. The field windings for the multiple poles are wound around each of the multiple teeth while insulated from the field windings. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150108855 | Coil and Stator Assembly of a Rotary Electric Machine - A rotary electric machine includes a stator having an open slot configuration and a plurality of stator poles with a coil positioned about each stator pole. Each coil has a plurality of electrically conductive wires defining a group of wires and the group of wires is wrapped generally around a stator pole to define a plurality of turns. At least a portion of the group of wires is twisted, and the portion of the group of wires has between approximately 1 and 5 twists per turn. A method of fabricating a stator assembly is also disclosed. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150115749 | DUAL PHASE MAGNETIC MATERIAL COMPONENT AND METHOD OF FORMING - A magnetic component having intermixed first and second regions, and a method of preparing that magnetic component are disclosed. The first region includes a magnetic phase and the second region includes a non-magnetic phase. The method includes mechanically masking pre-selected sections of a surface portion of the component by using a nitrogen stop-off material and heat-treating the component in a nitrogen-rich atmosphere at a temperature greater than about 900° C. Both the first and second regions are substantially free of carbon, or contain only limited amounts of carbon; and the second region includes greater than about 0.1 weight % of nitrogen. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150311771 | POSITION SENSING SYSTEM - A position sensing system for a switched reluctance machine, such as that of an Integrated Starter Generator, Turbogenerator or electric Supercharger wherein the system comprises a pair magnets, a magnet carrier, and a sensor element, wherein the sensor element is mounted upon an end of a rotatable shaft of the SR machine, and wherein the sensor element is mounted on a circuit board, and sits in a well formed by the magnets which are arranged such that the magnetic flux follows a path similar to that of a horseshoe magnet, and whereby magnetic flux produced by the magnets is concentrated within the well of the magnet carrier in a direction normal to the axial direction of the shaft of the SR machine. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150357883 | HIGH-SPEED HIGH-POWER SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE - A switched reluctance machine designed for high-speed high-power operation. The switched reluctance machine has a rotor having a plurality of radially extending rotor poles, an interpolar filler positioned between the rotor poles, a stator having a plurality of stator poles extending radially inwardly from the inner surface of a machine frame, a stator winding positioned about each stator pole, wherein the stator wire has a rectangular cross-sectional profile, an axial cooling system, an end turn cooling system, and a cooling jacket positioned radially about the machine frame, and a power source configured to selectively supply electrical power to the one or more stator windings to induce rotation of the rotor. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150364979 | MAGNETIC ELECTRICITY GENERATOR - An electricity generator using a six-segment rotating flux switch, a 2×2 switching sequence with four magnetic flux switch sites, and a unique magnetic circuit design, all of which together alternate the magnetic flux from a stationary permanent magnet through a stationary magnetic segment around which is wound a pickup coil thereby inducing electricity in the pickup coil. Both the vector direction and the scalar value of the magnetic flux are alternated within the stationary magnetic segment resulting in a high power output of AC electricity. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150372543 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF ELECTRIC MACHINE ROTOR POSITION DETECTION - An electric machine includes a stator assembly defining a longitudinal axis. The stator assembly includes a substantially cylindrical stator core that is concentric with and extends longitudinally along the longitudinal axis. The stator core includes a stator pole having an inner surface spaced radially outward from the longitudinal axis. The stator pole includes a first aperture extending radially outward from the inner surface of the stator pole. The electric machine also includes a rotor assembly rotatable about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly includes a rotatable shaft and a rotor core. The rotor core is concentric with and extends longitudinally along the longitudinal axis. The rotor core also includes a rotor pole including an outer surface spaced radially outward from the longitudinal axis. The outer surface is spaced radially inward from the stator pole inner surface. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372553 | A STATOR ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRIC SUPERCHARGER - An electric supercharger comprises a motor, for example a switched reluctance motor. The motor includes a stator assembly ( | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160049833 | ELECTRIC MOTOR HAVING A LOW SHORT-CIRCUIT TORQUE, DRIVE DEVICE WITH A PLURALITY OF MOTORS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A MOTOR - A magnet motor has a stator formed from a laminated core provided with windings to form phases and a rotor provided with magnets distributed angularly around at least one section of the rotor and pivotably received in the housing of the stator. The stator has a length greater than a length of said section of the rotor and the rotor is provided with at least one ring made from magnetic material that adjoins said section and is received in the housing of the stator. A drive device having a plurality of motors and a method for producing such a motor are also provided. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160049835 | SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR AND ROTOR FOR SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR - A synchronous reluctance motor includes: a rotor shaft; a rotor core fixed to the rotor shaft and on which a plurality of flux barriers are formed; a stator core on which a plurality of protruding stator teeth are formed; and multiphase armature windings of a plurality of poles wound around the plurality of stator teeth. The flux barriers include a plurality of first flux barriers formed to be spaced out in the circumferential direction from each other and extend in a radial direction, and a plurality of second flux barriers formed in each of circumferential angular regions sandwiched between the first flux barriers to form a curved surface convex toward the center of the rotation-axis and to spread and be spaced out in the circumferential direction from each other. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160049853 | DUAL STATOR, FLUX SWITCHING PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINE - An electric machine includes a rotor, a first stator, and a second stator. The rotor includes a rotor core and a first and a second plurality of poles mounted to extend radially from the rotor core. The first stator and the second stator each include a stator core, a plurality of teeth mounted to extend from the stator core, and a plurality of permanent magnets mounted as first spokes within the plurality of teeth. The stators are mounted radially relative to a first side of the rotor and separated by a first air gap between the plurality of poles and the plurality of teeth. At least four windings are connected in series and wound about the plurality of teeth. A first flux linkage in a first pair of series connected windings is a mirror image of a second flux linkage in a second pair of series connected windings. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160056673 | RELUCTANCE MOTOR AND ASSOCIATED ROTOR - A rotor for a reluctance motor having a laminate stack of layers is disclosed. Each layer has at least one magnetically-conductive rotor lamination, and in each layer a plurality of flux-conducting sections are formed by the at least one rotor lamination, which flux-conducting sections are separated from one another by a nonmagnetic region. The invention addresses the problem of enabling a high torque and a high speed. For this purpose, an insert disk is arranged between at least two of the layers, connected in each case to at least two flux-conducting sections of one of the layers or both of the layers between which said insert disk is arranged and, as a result, connects said flux-conducting sections to one another beyond the nonmagnetic region located there between. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160056674 | RELUCTANCE ROTOR WITH RUNUP AID - A rotor for a reluctance motor includes a laminate stack having layers. Each layer has a plurality of flux-conducting sections formed in each case by a magnetically conductive rotor lamination and extending transversely to a corresponding q axis. The flux-conducting sections are separated from one another by nonmagnetic flux barrier regions. An electrically conductive and non-ferromagnetic filler material is arranged in a plurality or all of the flux barrier regions of the layers to electrically connect the flux barrier regions of adjacent layers to one another so that cage bars of a rotor cage of the rotor which extend axially parallel or skewed with respect to the axis of rotation are formed by the filler material in the flux barrier regions. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160099618 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE - In an electric rotating machine, a stator has an armature coil wound around an armature core segments with M pairs of poles, and N pairs of field sources (field coil and field magnetic field), a rotor has K soft magnetic members including a plurality of protrusions on a side facing the stator, and the armature coil, the field sources, and the soft magnetic members satisfy a relational expression of |M±N|=K. With this configuration, rotors are rotated based on the magnetic modulation principle, so that field poles can have alternating electromagnetic action on the armature coil, and the performance of the electric rotating machine can be improved with a brushless structure. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160105064 | SENSORLESS ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotor component that comprises a rotor circuit configured for use with either an interior permanent magnet (IPM) machine or a synchronous reluctance machine (SRM) that includes a pole circuit made of a conductive, non-magnetic material and has a midpoint that substantially aligns with a d-axis of the IPM or SRM. An electric machine with a similar rotor component therein or having a loop or ring of a conductive, non-magnetic material that is substantially concentric about a d-axis of the electric machine. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160141923 | Rotor for a reluctance motor, in particular a synchronous reluctance motor, method for producing such a rotor, and reluctance motor comprising such a rotor - The rotor comprises rotor segments consisting of a magnetically conductive material, which segments are distributed across the circumference of a rotor housing. Rotor housing portions of low magnetic conductivity are located between the rotor segments. The rotor segments are embedded in a main body in such a way that the outside or inside of the main body forms a closed housing. To produce the rotor a star-shaped blank is punched out of a metal sheet, the arms of said blank being bent out in relation to a central part connecting said arms, in order to form the rotor segments. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160181899 | SEPARATELY EXCITED ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH AT LEAST ONE PRIMARY MAGNETIC CIRCUIT AND AT LEAST TWO SECONDARY MAGNETIC CIRCUITS | 06-23-2016 |
