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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7994676 | Reluctance motor rotor and reluctance motor equipped with the same A rotor is adapted to be used in a reluctance motor configured to generate a magnetic field around the rotor to form magnetic circuits passing through the rotor to produce a driving force corresponding to a torque generated by changes in magnetic reluctance in the m... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7923888 | 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 pr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7915777 | Ring coil motor The invention relates to a ring coil motor (1, 20) with a primary part (3, 21) and a secondary part (2, 22), wherein the primary part (3, 21) has a ring coil (6, 25) and permanent magnets (9, 27). ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7791240 | Stir-welded rotors and methods of making Provided are stir-welded rotors and methods of making these. An exemplary stir-welded rotor may include a stack of laminations that each has spaced-apart slots arrayed on an outer circumference. The slots register with slot bars that each has a first extremity exten... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7723889 | Reluctance electric machine with salient-pole movable piece In a reluctance rotary electric machine, a movable part is arranged opposing part of an alignment of a plurality of stator poles to be movable in a predetermined direction. In the movable part, at least one pair of salient poles is configured to magnetically couple ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7709989 | Brushless, windingless rotor, variable reluctance, electromechanical machines, having wound-field excitation A combination of a unique construction format, involving two sets of rotor and stator embodiments, working in co-operation with each other, in a unique fixed, direct-axis and quadrature-axis orientation, and with unique field-winding, back-EMF cancellation, connecti... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692353 | Permanent-magnet two-phase synchronous electric motor with mechanical start-up for washing machines and similar household appliances, in particular for washing pumps The invention relates to a permanent-magnet two-phase synchronous electric motor (1) with mechanical start-up for washing machines and similar, in particular for washing pumps (2), of the type centrally comprising a permanent magnet axial rotor (4 | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692350 | Horizontal axis washing machine having 4 pole 36 slot motor A horizontal axis washing machine includes a clothing receptacle rotated by a 4 pole rotor. A 36 slot stator having an interior bore with an interior diameter receives the 4 pole rotor in magnetic coupling relation and capable of operating within a flux weakening ra... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7687959 | Brushless a-c motor A brushless a-c motor (BACM) (10) consisting of a non-conductive stator (12) and a rotor (44). The rotor (44) has an outer surface (50), a right surface (34) and a left intermediate surface (16) from where extends a p... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7638916 | Secondary part of an electrical machine A secondary part of an electric machine has a toothed profile, with at least one tooth being unlaminated. The at least one tooth is made of at least two materials, wherein the at least one tooth forms a cavity which is filled with an iron-containing material represe... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7592730 | Hybrid induction motor A hybrid induction motor includes a motor casing; a rotational shaft rotatably coupled with the motor casing; an induction rotor rotated by being integrally coupled with the rotational shaft and having a rotor core and a conductor bar inserted in the rotor core; a s... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7564158 | Three-phase synchronous machine having a permanent magnet rotor with an induction cage The aim of the invention is to achieve a high torque yield in synchronous machines excited by permanent magnets. Said aim is achieved by using subharmonic air gap fields. The rotor comprises an induction cage as well as permanent magnets. The number of winding holes... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7560843 | Vehicle drive system including a rotating electric machine and vehicle incorporating the same A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The tip of a salient pole portion of the rotor is bilaterally asymmetrically provided with a cut. The effect of the cut reduces torque ripple during a regenerative running mode. The regenerative running mode... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7535150 | Centrifugal turbine blower with gas foil bearings Disclosed is a centrifugal turbine gas blower with foil bearings for use with a fast axial flow laser. The blower utilizes variable components in order to operate at different speeds for multiple applications. In addition, a bypass load has been incorporated to avoi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7459822 | Rotating electric machine having switched or variable reluctance with flux transverse to the axis of rotation An electric machine, such as a switched reluctance motor (SRM), having one or more transverse flux axes is described. The rotor and stator of the electric machine have more than one phase, not necessarily of even number. Flux guidance regions within the stator are a... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7439644 | Hybrid induction motor A hybrid induction motor comprises a stator fixedly installed in a casing, an induction rotor rotatably inserted into a center of the stator and having a shaft at a center thereof, a first synchronous rotor installed between the stator and the induction rotor in a c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7425808 | Vehicle drive system and vehicle provided with the same A rotor is provided with slits each of which serves as a flux barrier blocking a magnetic flux. A direction shown by an arrow is a forward direction along which the rotor rotates when a vehicle moves forward. Each of the slits has a width tapering down from a traili... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7385329 | Electric machine for high magnetic reversal frequencies In electric machines, core losses limit, at high fundamental frequency, the permissible full-load power. The aim of the invention is to develop a design which enables a high power density at high magnetic reversal frequencies and which is easy to produce. To this en... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372232 | Apparatus for drive control, power conversion, and start-up control in a PMBDCM or two-phase SRM drive system A power converter for a switched reluctance motor (SRM) or a permanent magnet brushless direct current (do) motor (PMBDCM) may include a front-end boost partial circuit for connecting with a first phase winding of the motor to form a front-end boost circuit and a ba... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365508 | Motor, actuator and controller thereof A motor comprises: coil on/off switching devices for switching between an on-state wherein current is supplied to the coils, and a first off-state wherein the coil terminals are open-circuited or a second off-state wherein the coil terminals are short-circuited; and... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362018 | Encoder alternator An encoder alternator for an internal combustion engine has a rotor with a plurality of circumferential magnetic rotor poles in a periodic pattern except for at least one magnetic irregularity. A sensor coil is wound around a stator pole and outputs a crankshaft pos... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358698 | Field-winding type of synchronous machine 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 corres... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355312 | Brushless Motor Small brushless motor having high output and small torque ripple. The brushless motor includes induction voltage adjusting means. With this, induction voltage of each phase of the stator is adjusted into a flatly spread waveform having no abrupt variation where odd-... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352100 | Direct-current motor A stator of a direct current motor includes six magnetic poles. An armature of the direct current motor includes an armature core having eight slots, a plurality of windings wound around the armature core as concentrated windings, and a commutator having twenty-four... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348703 | Monopole field electric motor-generator with switchable coil configuration A pair of stators produce a magnetic field within a space between them a ferromagnetic toroidal rotor is rotationally mounted within the magnetic field. A plurality of windings are wound radially on the rotor and each winding provides a plurality of coils. Each of c... | 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 |
| 7319652 | Controlling optical pickup of optical disk drive by detecting change of sampling signals taken from a motor drive signal A drive current or a drive voltage is controlled corresponding to change of load by sampling the drive current or drive voltage of a motor to move an optical pickup and then detecting change of the sampling signal as change of the optical pickup when it is moved. Mo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7301310 | Excitation controlled synchronous permanent magnet machine The present invention provides an apparatus and methods for providing constant voltage from a permanent magnet generator at varying prime mover speeds or under varying loads. A constant voltage permanent magnet generator includes a housing, a magnetized rotor, a pri... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296409 | Electric motor assisted turbocharger A turbocharger comprises a turbine wheel and a compressor wheel mounted to a turbocharger shaft. An electric induction motor is provided for assisting rotation of the compressor wheel in predetermined circumstances. The motor comprises a fixed stator having motor fi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294949 | Single-phase induction motor A single-phase induction motor comprises a stator having a stator coil; an induction cage rotor rotatably inserted into a receiving groove of the stator, having a rotation shaft at a center thereof, having a plurality of first conductor bars at an outer peripheral p... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7288870 | Stator core A stator core 2 comprises laminations (9) of low loss stator iron forming a body of magnetic nature and lamination components (11) of high thermal conductivity material regularly arranged within that body. The high thermal conductivity component... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287264 | Objective lens drive apparatus with objective lens portion movable along support member axial direction An objective lens drive apparatus includes a stationary member, a movable portion having an objective lens, an objective-lens holding member, and driving coils, and a plurality of rod-like elastic support members each having an axial direction parallel to a third di... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282829 | Rotor for line-start reluctance motor A rotor for a line-start reluctance motor is provided to improve core area efficiency to make flux flow in one direction. The rotor for the line-start reluctance motor includes a core having an axis coupling hole in a coupling direction of a shaft, a plurality of ba... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276830 | Flux impulse motor A motor (1) has a stator (2) and a rotor (10) mounted for rotation in the stator. A commutating salient pole (11) of the stator as a winding (7), and a field-producing salient pole (12) has a winding (8). The rotor ha... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276831 | Split-pole field-match motor An electric motor having a plurality of rotor and stator poles, the poles of one element being alternately polarized and neutralized due to the use of direct current and alternating current windings on each pole. The poles of like current are connected in series, an... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273365 | Granulator for producing a granulate made of molten plastic The invention relates to a granulator for producing granulate from molten plastic with a cutter head displaceable over an adjustment range, said cutter head cooperating with a die plate dispensing the plastic strands, said cutter head being connected to a drive shaf... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271564 | Method, apparatus, and system for drive control, power conversion, and start-up control in an SRM or PMBDCM drive system A power converter for a switched reluctance motor or a permanent magnet brushless direct current (dc) motor may include first and second partial circuits for forming multiple conduction circuits in cooperation with first and second phase windings of the motor. The c... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270203 | Electric machine for hybrid motor vehicle A power system for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric machine is disclosed. The electric machine has a stator, a permanent magnet rotor, an uncluttered rotor spaced from the permanent magnet rotor, and at least one secondary core as... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268450 | Permanent magnet type generator A permanent magnet type generator includes a rotor having 4n (n is a positive integer) permanent magnet poles disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor to have circumferential gap between adjoining poles and a stator that has 3n teeth and co... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7250701 | Apparatus for detecting a rotor angle of reluctance motor An end surface of a rotor core is offset from an end surface of a stator core by a predetermined amount in an axial direction going away from Hall ICs. In an operating condition of the motor, magnetomotive forces generating from the stator core induce a thrust force... | 07/31/2007 |
