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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7348707 | Electromechanical device having three-dimensional stator laminations In certain embodiments, an electromechanical device includes a rotor having a rotational axis, and a stator disposed about the rotor. The stator may include a circumferentially laminated section comprising a plurality of circumferential segments disposed one after a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342339 | Reluctance machine having a non-uniform air gap A reluctance machine includes a stator having a stator core. The stator core includes a central bore and a plurality of stator poles extending inwardly from the stator core. Each of the stator poles includes a stator pole face. The reluctance machine further include... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336013 | High mechanical strength electrical connection system and method In accordance with one embodiment, the present technique provides a bushing that is configured to electrically and mechanically couple a conductor bar of a rotor assembly to an end ring of the rotor assembly. The exemplary bushing has an interior surface that is con... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329960 | System and method for propelling a large land-based vehicle using a dual function brushless dynamoelectric machine A propulsion system for a relatively large land-based vehicle, such as a locomotive or off-highway vehicle, is provided. The system may include a brushless dynamoelectric machine made up of a main alternator having a main rotor and a main stator, and an auxiliary al... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7151336 | Rotor of reluctance motor A plurality of projections are provided abutted with an outer circumference of a columnar axis inserted to an inner circumference of a rotor. The projections are provided in the direction of a magnetic pole in the rotor. When the rotor is fixed to the columnar axis,... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7095205 | System and method for inductance based position encoding sensorless SRM drives A controller (72) for a switched reluctance machine (20) implements a model of at least one active phase representing dynamic magnetic machine characteristics. The controller (72) determines machine control signals based on rotational position o... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7030587 | Configuration of converter switches and machine coils of a switched reluctance machine A system for controlling a switch reluctance machine is provided. The system includes multiple phases located in the switch reluctance machine, each phase having multiple machine coils. Each machine coil is independently connected to a positive side switch circuit a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023121 | Brushless rotary electric machine having tandem rotary cores A brushless rotary electric machine includes a stator having an annular armature core with first radial teeth at the outer periphery thereof and second radial teeth at the inner periphery thereof and an armature winding wound between the teeth, a rotor having a pair... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6969930 | Half-stepping motor with bifilar winding ratio for smooth motion A half-stepping motor with bifilar coil windings about its stator poles has two layers of stator coils with different numbers of turns per pole for each layer. The ratio between the number turns is selected to provide a desired angular phase shift in the torque prof... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6940238 | Single coil, direct current permanent magnet brushless motor with voltage boost A single coil, direct current permanent magnet brushless motor including a stator including six alternately-wound coils connected into a single coil having first and second ends, the oppositely-wound coils forming stator poles, and six magnets of alternating polarit... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6873075 | Magnetic bearing control device A magnetic bearing control device that can operate a motor with low noise, has a simple system construction and is compact and inexpensive comprises: at least a pair of opposed electromagnets for supporting a suspended unit without contact; a motor M for rotating th... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6828702 | Brushless DC drive In a brushless direct-current drive with a synchronous motor (10), which has a stator (12) that supports a multi-phase stator winding (15) and a rotor (13) equipped with permanent magnet poles (20), and with a switch unit (11 | 12/07/2004 |
| 6734593 | Alternating current generator with unpolarized rotor An alternating current generator, comprising: a disc shaped rotor and first and second ring shaped stationary cores, coaxially located with the rotor, the rotor further comprising a non-magnetic disc attached to a shaft, with a plurality of low permeability magnetic... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6442535 | Method and apparatus for implementing a low cost, intelligent controller for a switched reluctance machine A controller for a switched reluctance machine utilizing a feedforward neural network in combination with either a fuzzy logic controller or a proportional-integral controller to provide output control signals (e.g., turn-ON angle, turn-OFF angle and peak... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6191517 | Brushless synchronous rotary electrical machine A brushless synchronous electrical machine includes a rotor rotating about a rotor axis, and a stator that includes at least one set of magnetically active stator cores projecting radially outward from the axis, and that also includes magnetically interac... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6133663 | Brushless permanent magnet machine A brushless permanent magnet machine that includes a combination of a fractional stator slot/rotor pole and a winding configuration to reduce cogging during operation of the machine. The stator has a series of teeth (preferably eighteen) which are surroun... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6078122 | Reluctance machine with fractional pitch winding and drive therefore A reluctance machine including a plurality of phase windings where each phase winding comprises a plurality of fractional-pitched coils. The reluctance machine may be coupled to a drive that can energize one, two or more of the phase windings to provide o... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6075302 | Brushless heteropolar inductor machine A multiple phase heteropolar inductor electrical machine utilizing relatively movable stators and rotors wherein the rotors include electrical winding for producing electricity. The stators and rotors are spaced as to produce an electrical balancing among... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6066906 | Rotating machine having superconducting windings A superconducting rotating machine includes a direct current field excitation source and an alternating current armature winding mounted on a stationary support member, at least one of which includes a superconducting material, a core member formed of a m... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5998899 | Magnetic bearing system including a control system for a flywheel and method for operating same A bearing system for positioning and supporting a rotor having a vertical shaft (20) coincident with a main rotation axis included in a flywheel (10) used for energy storage and high surge power in vehicular applications. The bearing system includes upper... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5973431 | Reluctance machine with permanent magnet rotor excitations A reluctance machine system including a reluctance machine having a stator including at least one phase winding and a rotor defining rotor poles and inter-pole gaps, where permanent magnet inserts are positioned within the inter-pole gaps to interact with... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5952759 | Brushless synchronous rotary electrical machine A brushless synchronous rotary electrical machine comprises stationary stator and "inner" windings. Only the rotor moves. The inner windings are stationary helical windings, concentric with the rotor shaft and attached to the stator armature. Variation in... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5923142 | Low cost drive for switched reluctance motor with DC-assisted excitation A reluctance machine system including a reluctance machine having a rotor and a stator including at least one phase winding and a full pitch auxiliary field winding where constant currents are established in the auxiliary field winding to assist in the es... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5889347 | Reluctance machine with fractional pitch winding and drive therefore A reluctance machine including a plurality of phase windings where each phase winding comprises a plurality of fractional-pitched coils. The reluctance machine may be coupled to a drive that can energize one, two or more of the phase windings to provide o... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5838087 | Reluctance machine A reluctance machine including a stator defining a plurality of stator poles and a plurality of stator slots, a rotor positioned to rotate with respect to the stator, and a plurality of phase windings, where each phase winding comprises a plurality of coi... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5798594 | Brushless synchronous rotary electrical machine A brushless synchronous rotary electrical machine comprises stationary stator and "rotor" windings. Only the rotor moves. The rotor winding is a stationary helical winding, concentric with the rotor shaft and attached to the stator armature. Variation in ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5682073 | Hybrid excitation type permanent magnet synchronous motor A hybrid excitation type permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided with an armature and a rotor core arranged to be rotated relative to the armature. Permanent magnets are installed on the rotor core and generate magnetic flux which passes through th... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5424593 | Generator rotor cooling Difficulties in cooling the rotor (28) of a dynamoelectric machine carrying a rotating rectifier (54) are avoided by providing a coolant inlet 68 extending to the interior of a rectifier housing 50 through which the coolant may flow to emerge from a port ... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5012148 | AC machine system with induced DC field An AC machine system, in which the machine has an auxiliary rotating magnetic field, in addition to the main rotating field, with different speeds of rotation. The auxiliary field serves to induce AC voltages in the rotor windings, even when the machine i... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4948996 | Direct cooled bore connector Cooling means are provided for directly cooling the bore bus bars which connect a direct current exciter such as a bore pack exciter to the field of an electric power generator. Two bore bus bars are separated by an insulating sheet have a circular cross ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4890028 | Rotor for a turbo-generator Generator rotor for a turbo-generator in which the rotor winding is fed via two feeding conductors, which are each arranged in a bored channel in the rotor body. The two channels diverge in relation to one another and each channel is bored in part in an a... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4868906 | Centrifugally activated switch for a synchronous generating system When operating a synchronous machine as a synchronous generator, a suppression resistor is required across the main generator field. However when operating the synchronous machine as an induction motor, a current is induced in the main generator field whi... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4835431 | Transformer and synchronous machine with stationary field winding A multi-phase electrical transformer includes a rotor-stator structure that provides varying-reluctance magnetic-field paths in which the magnetic fields pass through plural stator cores on which phased primary and secondary windings are mounted and throu... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4764699 | Generator stator retention system An oil-cooled generator (10) is provided having a housing (20) with a gas-filled interior and rotor (46,56) therein. A stator (44,58) associated with the rotor (46,56) is secured to a surrounding sleeve (70',70) by an interference fit and pins (72',72). A... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4733117 | Reluctance synchro/resolver The pole members of each phase of a synchro have quadrifilar windings wherein each conductor is wound over six poles associated with a given phase. A voltage signal from an alternating current source is impressed across one conductor from each phase conne... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4628245 | Multipolar excitation systems A D.C. excited rotor winding arrangement for a dynamoelectric machine comprises at least one closed loop (1,2,3) of three or more series-connected winding sections (10,11,12,13,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23) with at least three current-supply terminals (ABCD) a... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4577126 | Synchronous electric machine with superconductive field windings A synchronous electrical machine including a fixed superconducting field winding to provide D.C. magnetic field when a D.C. current circulates through the winding. A fixed normally conducting armature is provided with a plurality of spaced-apart disks. Ea... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4514652 | Liquid cooled high speed synchronous machine A rotary electric machine such as a brushless generator including a housing, a stator within the housing and a rotor journalled within the housing. A stationary element is affixed to the housing and extends axially into a cavity in the rotor and a barrier... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4496868 | Electrical machine An electrical machine comprising a cylindrical housing accommodating a rotor made in the form of at least two pole systems having pole projections and interconnected through a magnetic circuit, a stator having at least two stacks of laminations, and an ex... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4488069 | Stepping motor In the disclosed motor, a stator and a rotor are movable relative to each other about a common axis. The stator has stator poles with radially directed stator teeth arranged in a circle around the axis and the rotor includes a first axial portion and a se... | 12/11/1984 |
