2194results about "Windings" patented technology

A wind turbine for generating electrical power from wind energy includes a turbine rotor mounted for rotation in wind, and having multiple blades for converting energy in the wind into rotational energy. A generator is coupled with said turbine rotor such that said turbine rotor drives said generator. The generator has a stationary air core armature that is located in a magnetic airgap between two generator rotor portions. The generator rotor portions have circumferential arrays of multiple alternating polarity permanent magnets attached to ferromagnetic back irons such that the permanent magnets drive magnetic flux back and forth between each rotor portion and through the stationary air core armature. The stationary air core armature has multiple phase windings of multiple individually insulated strand conductor wire that is wound with two separate portions including an active length portion and an end turn portion. The end turn portion is located outside the magnetic airgap and traverses predominately circumferentially, and the active length portion is located in the magnetic airgap and traverses predominately non-circumferentially and perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic airgap. The end turn portion has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of said active length portion in the direction of said magnetic airgap. AC voltage is induced in the multiple phase windings as the turbine rotor rotates.

A hybrid-excited rotating machine comprising: a stator winding 12 of a multi-phase Y-connection; a plurality of rotor magnetic poles 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 fixed on a rotor shaft 3 at a predetermined spacing in the circumferential direction and confronting the inner circumference of said stator 1 through a air gap; a plurality of permanent magnets 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58 fixed at substantially central portions of said circumferential direction of said individual rotor magnetic poles and magnetized in the radial direction of said rotor shaft; and a plurality of field windings 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 wound individually on said rotor magnetic poles.

A plurality of coils wound around a stator magnetic-pole core are connected together and connected to output wires by use of a bus bar. The bus bar having a generally cylindrical body portion is disposed at one axial end of the stator magnetic-pole core, around which the coils are wound such that clearances are formed within magnetic-pole core slots, with an axial clearance formed between the bus bar and the coils. The body portion has such a radial dimension that at least a portion of the clearances within the magnetic-pole core slots is left uncovered. Air holes are formed in the motor housing on opposite sides of the stator magnetic-pole core to thereby form cooling air passages extending through the magnetic-pole core slots.

For achieving small-sizing and high efficiency by improving heat radiation of coils, and further for simple-construction to be easily disassembled, thereby being environment-friendly from a view point of recycling, an electric rotating machine comprising: a stator 1a being constructed by inserting coils 10a into slots 11 of a stator core 2a; an outer frame 4 being divided into a plurality thereof, so as to cover periphery of the stator core of said stator; a pair of bearing holder portions 6a and 6b, each having a fitting portion 35a or 35b to be fitted into an inner diameter reference surface 25a at both end portions of said stator and being provided with a bearing 8a or 8b at an axial center portion thereof, and being attached at both sides of said stator core so as to cover coil end portions dropping out at both sides of said stator; a squeezing mechanism (30, 32a, 32b, 6a, 6b) fixing the outer frame at an outer periphery of the stator core, by a wedge function between each of the bearing holder portions and the outer frame due to a squeezing function of attaching the each of said pair of bearing holder portions at both sides of said stator core; and a rotor 3 being formed with an escaping portion for escaping from an outer diameter of a portion opposing to a fitting portion of each of said bearing holder portion, rotatably positioned within said stator core.

A heating and cooling system for a wind turbine is provided and includes a gearbox, gearbox heat exchanger, generator, generator heat exchanger, and a cooling duct. The cooling duct is connected to the gearbox and generator heat exchangers, and is used to transport air across both heat exchangers to cool the gearbox and generator.

Methods and apparatus are provided for an electric vehicle embodying an axial flux traction motor directly coupled to a wheel thereof. The traction motor comprises a stator having coils for producing a magnetic field, an annular rotor magnetically coupled to the stator and mechanically to an output shaft. Permanent magnets of alternating polarity are mounted on the annular rotor. Magnetic shunts bridge a portion of the stator slots above the coils. The magnets are arranged in groups with group-to-group spacing exceeding magnet-to-magnet spacing. Adjacent edges of the magnets diverge. The method comprises, looking up d- and q-axis currents to provide the requested torque and motor speed for the available DC voltage, combining at least one of the d- and q-axis currents with a field weakening correction term, converting the result from synchronous to stationary frame and operating an inverter therewith to provide current to the coils of the motor.

Various embodiments of linear electric generators and arrangements thereof are disclosed. One such generator includes a permanent magnetic array with magnets that are oriented such that like poles of the magnets are disposed adjacently to concentrate a magnetic field through a coil array. To enhance the magnetic field distribution, the magnets are affixed under a compressive strain due to repulsive forces resulting from proximity of the like poles. According to another aspect, a plurality of vibrational linear electric generators (VLEGs) can be arranged so that magnets of different VLEGs are oriented so that poles of opposite polarity are disposed adjacently to further enhance magnetic field concentration through coil arrays. In addition, a plurality of wave energy converters can be arranged in very close proximity, at most 8 times a height of a buoyant portion of the converters, to act as a seawall and thereby protect various structures from ocean waves.

A brushless motor for a vehicle air conditioner has a motor holder having an accommodation portion, a stator having a center piece fastened to a bottom of the accommodation portion and a core on which a winding is wound, and an exciting circuit disposed below the bottom to supply an exciting current to the winding. A terminal of the exciting circuit is upwardly extended to an upper side of the core through a through hole formed in the bottom and a terminal accommodation hole formed in the center piece to be connected to the winding. Liquid having entered the accommodation portion is restricted from falling through the through hole of the bottom by an O-ring disposed to surround the through hole and is drained through a drain opening formed in the bottom. As a result, a connection portion between the terminal and the winding and the exciting circuit are restricted from making contact with liquid.

A motor includes a stator and a bus bar supported axially above the stator. The bus bar includes a concave portion arranged in a lower surface thereof facing toward coils of the stator. In a gap defined between the coil and the concave portion, a portion of the wire extracted from the coil and wound in the circumferential direction (i.e., a crossover wire portion) is accommodated. The bus bar includes a wire-positioning hole through which the wire is led to a terminal to be connected with the wire.

The invention includes an electric alternator/motor having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, the machine also having and first and second magnetic circuits one of which includes a saturable portion in which saturation may be controlled to permit control of the machine

The present invention is a system and method for utilizing magnetic energy. The basic principles of the present invention may be implemented in a variety of systems and methods. A magnet may be rotated or an electromagnet may be controlled in order to control a magnetic field generated by a set of magnets. As a result, numerous, substantial benefits may be achieved by providing at least one set of multiple magnets. For example, the present invention may be used in systems and methods to perform a variety of functions including, but not limited to: (1) to control, manipulate, hold, and/or release a load; (2) to open and/or close a pathway; (3) to open and/or close a circuit; (4) to apply a magnetic field to a load and/or to remove a magnetic field from a load; (5) to intermittently apply and remove a magnetic field; (6) to increase the magnetic field that may be applied to a load; (7) to induce a load into motion; (8) to create energy; and (9) to improve the energy efficiency of a device or system.

The present invention is an energy storage apparatus having a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a bobbin having a cylindrical shape and open at each end. The bobbin includes at least one fin extending longitudinally on an exterior surface of the bobbin. The bobbin also includes a phase winding longitudinally and circumferentially encircling said bobbin. The winding is separated by at least one fin. The bobbin also includes at least one cooling passage for transporting a cooling medium.

A winding wedge retention system designed to maintain coil form includes a rotor (21) having a plurality of rotor poles (24), a coil (20) wound on one of the rotor poles (24), a V-shaped support wedge (22) positioned between adjacent rotor poles (24, 24) and that is adapted to support the coil (20), and a second wedge (26) that is positioned between and adjacent to the coil (20) and the rotor pole (24) on which the coil (20) is wound. The second wedge (26), in the presence of centrifugal loads, maintains a constant shape of the coil (20) and also maintains a constant position of the coil (20) relative to a position of the support wedge (22). A winding wedge retention system for the entire rotor includes, in addition to the rotor (21) itself and coils (20) wound on each of the rotor poles (24), plural V-shaped support wedges (22) positioned between each adjacent pair of rotor poles (24) and plural dove-tail shaped wedges (26) that are positioned between and adjacent to each of the coils (20) and rotor poles (24). The dove-tail wedges (26) are adapted to move toward the adjacent supports (22) in the presence of centrifugal loads thus maintaining a constant shape and position of the coils (20) relative to the position of the support wedges (22).

A step-by-step motor able to carry out up-and-down motion includes a housing, a connecting base, a top rod, a bearing, a connecting member, a magnet, a right-handed coil, a reverse coil and a bottom cover combined together. The housing has one side bored with an opening and its inner wall bored with a slide groove, and the connecting base has one outer wall formed with a slide rail for combining the connecting base on the outer wall of the housing. The bottom cover is provided with an annular recess for engaging the bottom edge of the housing, and then the bottom cover and the housing are firmly combined together by supersonic welding. By so designing, the step-by-step motor can be assembled conveniently, quickly and stably.

The invention includes an electric alternator/motor having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, the machine also having and first and second magnetic circuits, one of which includes a saturable portion in which saturation may be controlled to permit control of the machine.

A motor includes a stator including a core back having a circular or substantially circular shape, a plurality of tooth portions extending radially inwardly from the core back, a plurality of insulators covering the tooth portions, a plurality of coils formed by winding wires around the tooth portions via the insulators. The motor also includes a bus bar arranged axially above the stator. The bus bar supports a first conductor plate having a plurality of first terminals to which first end portions of the wires from each phases of the coils are connected. The insulators include a guiding groove and support therein the second conductor plate to which second end portions of the wires are connected. Through the second conductor plate, the second end portions of the wires are connected to the neutral point.

A brushless generator with permanent-magnet multi-pole rotor disks and stator winding disks in their axial magnetic field includes integral electronics to efficiently generate regulated DC current and voltage from mechanical input power over a broad speed range. All power for the electronics is provided by rectifier diodes from its stator windings. Differential amplifiers provide stator voltage feedback signals. Its power rating is scalable, depending on the number of its disks. Having no iron cores and no gears, it incurs no cogging torque, and no gear friction. Integral power control electronics includes high-frequency pulse-width-modulated boost regulation, which provides regulated current at requisite voltage over its broad speed range. A main wind-powered embodiment to produce DC power for a constant voltage DC load over a broad speed range includes signal processing so output power varies according to the third power of speed. Combined boost-regulation, zero cogging torque, and no gearing, enable a wide speed range, for better power quality and higher wind energy yields.

A synchronous AC motor has a stator with stator poles arranged as a plurality of circumferentially extending stator pole groups, with each stator pole group having a pair of corresponding circumferentially extending loop-configuration stator windings disposed adjacent on either side or a single such winding disposed adjacent at one side, adjacent stator pole groups being mutually circumferentially displaced by a fixed amount corresponding to a specific electrical phase angle. A rotating magnetic field is produced by applying respective polyphase AC voltages to the windings, such that currents of mutually opposite direction flow in each pair.

A dynamoelectric machine comprises: a stator that comprises a plurality of stator poles arranged around a stator surface of revolution with a stator axis for the stator surface of revolution; at least one rotor that comprises a plurality of permanent rotor magnets arranged around a rotor surface of revolution with a rotor axis for the rotor surface of revolution that is coincident with the stator axis and with the rotor surface of revolution adjacent the stator surface of revolution; a drive shaft with a drive shaft axis of rotation that is substantially coincident with the stator axis coupled to the rotor for rotating the rotor relative to the stator about the drive shaft axis of rotation; and a at least one actuator for axially displacing the rotor surface of revolution along the drive shaft relative to the stator surface of revolution to change magnetic flux interaction between the stator poles and the rotor magnets; wherein at least one of the surfaces of revolution tilts with respect to the drive shaft axis of rotation.

An Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion (EMEC) device and a method of electro-magnetically converting electrical energy to mechanical energy and electrical energy. The EMEC device comprises a stator; a rotor; a direct current power source; a commutator, and flourescent lamps acting as a non-linear, capacitive, voltage-limiting load. Four armature coils of a first magnetic polarity are concentrically mounted on a first side of the outer surface of a non-magnetic cylindrical stator casing, and four armature coils of an opposite polarity are concentrically mounted on an opposite side of the stator casing. Each coil is wound with an average of 6,650 turns of 34 AWG gauge teflon-coated wire. The rotor is constructed of non-magnetic material, and is rotationally mounted in the stator casing. A plurality of neodymium iron-boron permanent magnets are circumferentially mounted on the rotor. The magnets on a first side of the rotor are mounted with a first outward polarity, and the magnets on an opposite side of the rotor are mounted with an opposite outward polarity. The power source is connected to the coils and produces an output of 0-5,000 volts at 30 to 40 milliamperes maximum. The flourescent lamps are connected to the coils for rapidly dumping magnetic energy from the coils when the polarity is reversed. The commutator reverses the polarity of the first and second coils every 180 DEG of rotor rotation, and guides the magnetic energy from the coils to the load.

An electric machine includes a stator having slots of substantially rectangular cross section. The slots are subdivided into pairs of slots, with each pair of slots configured with parallel flanks, wherein teeth are formed between the slots and have alternating rectangular and triangular cross sections. Positioned on the teeth of rectangular cross section are tooth coils.

In a magnet-exciting rotating electric machine system, a rotor surface has magnetic salient poles and island-shaped magnetic poles alternately in circumferential direction, and the island-shaped magnetic poles are constituted so that magnetic flux coming from an external source does not flow through. A magnetic excitation part magnetizes the island-shaped magnetic poles and the magnetic salient poles collectively in the same direction, and then control a flux amount flowing through an armature. The armature has armature coils that face the magnetic salient pole and the island-shaped magnetic pole simultaneously so that driving torque fluctuation or power generation voltage waveform distortion is controlled. The magnetic excitation part changes magnetization state of a field magnet irreversibly, or changes an excitation current to an excitation coil to control a flux crossing the armature.

A motor/generator having its stationary portion, i.e., the stator, positioned concentrically within its rotatable element, i.e., the rotor, along its axis of rotation. The rotor includes a Halbach array. The stator windings are switched or commutated to provide a DC motor/generator much the same as in a conventional DC motor/generator. The voltage and power are automatically regulated by using centrifugal force to change the diameter of the rotor, and thereby vary the radial gap in between the stator and the rotating Halbach array, as a function of the angular velocity of the rotor.

A dynamoelectric device that is highly adaptable to a broad range of applications while providing robust output and energy conversion. The magnetic pole faces of the rotor lie in an ellipsoid. With or without a rotor shaft, the device allows options of either physical connection or contact-less, magnetic coupling. Surrounding the rotor is a brush-less stator having a bobbin-type, axial-centered coil conductor that provides a total capture of magnetic flux emanating from a rotor having an entire surface area of uniform flux density. Devices without a rotor shaft, and those having an air gap filled with ferrofluid, provide a two part generator with remarkable efficiency that is easily waterproofed and mechanically stable.

A connecting wire extends from a first tooth to a second tooth so as to connect a plurality of coils. An extension portion is provided to an insulator so as to extend in the axial direction. The extension portion has a distal end in the axial direction, a proximal end, notches which extend from the distal end to the proximal end, and a radially outer surface. The connecting wire extends from the first tooth and is positioned by the bottom surface and the side surfaces of a notch. The connecting wire is led out from the notch in the radial direction of the extension portion, and arranged along the radially outer surface so as to run toward the second tooth. Accordingly, the connecting wire can be arranged with ease.

The segmented permanent-magnet rotor for high-speed synchronous machines reduces eddy-current losses by axially segmenting the containment sleeve and the permanent magnets. The axial segmentation of the containment sleeve includes forming grooves circumferentially around the outer surface of the containment sleeve. The circumferential grooves disrupt the generation of eddy currents on the outer surface of the containment sleeve and therefore reduce eddy-current losses in the containment sleeve. Axial segmentation of the permanent magnets also disrupts eddy current formation, thereby reducing eddy current losses in the permanent magnets. In addition, the presence of an electrically insulating layer between the containment sleeve and the permanent magnets reduces eddy current migration from the containment sleeve to the permanent magnets, and therefore provides additional reduction of eddy-current losses.

A field-winding type of synchronous machine comprises a stator with an armature winding wound phase by phase, a rotor having a rotor core with a field winding wound, and a circuit enabling an armature current to pass the armature winding, the armature current corresponding to a synchronous current producing a rotation field rotating at an electrical-angle rotation speed agreeing to a rotation speed of the rotor. The synchronous machine further comprises a current suppressor and a current supplier. The current suppressor is connected to the field winging and suppresses, into a unidirectional current, an induced alternating current induced through the field winding in response to the armature current passing the armature winding. The current supplier supplies, phase by phase, to the armature winding a rotor exciting current whose waveform is different from the synchronous current only during a predetermined period of time shorter than one cycle of the synchronous current.

A stator according to the related art comprises preassembled coils that are slid onto stator pole teeth and secured to the respective stator pole tooth by means of a single part. This has the disadvantage, however, that a magnetic flux in the winding head of the exciting coil cannot be directed in defined fashion. A stator according to the invention comprises at least one pole shoe (15) that secures a coil (11) on a stator pole tooth (7).

There is provided an axial air-gap electronic motor in which work for assembling a stator can be performed efficiently. A locking protrusion 26 is provided on a flange portion 24 of core members 21a to 21i which are divided for each teeth 21 and are arranged in a ring form with the rotating shaft axis line being the center, and a connecting member 8 is fitted on the locking protrusion 26, by which the core members 21a to 21i are connected to each other in a ring form.

A rotary electrical machine such as a motor vehicle alternator comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator has at least one armature winding in at least one pair of stator slots. The rotor includes means for selectively establishing closed magnetic circuits which pass around the turns of the armature winding or windings. The means for setting up closed magnetic circuits comprise at least two permanent excitation magnets which set up two magnetic fluxes having components in opposite directions according to the direction of displacement of the rotor; and, between each pair of successive magnets, at least one excitation winding having two wires and being arranged to produce in an adjustably way two flux components which are such as to oppose the fluxes set up in the magnets of the pair. The wires of the excitation windings are located in rotor slots, each of which lies between two successive rotor poles.