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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5794326 | Removal of end play in electric motors A system for removing end play in electric motors. A ball is placed near an end face of a shaft having end play. Pressurized fluid is applied to the ball, driving it into contact with the end face. The fluid solidifies, forming a solid body which supports... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5789832 | Alternator rotor shaft An improved rotor shaft for an alternator reduces the number of corresponding parts thereof. The rotor shaft includes a reinforced insert embedded within a shaft for preventing buckling, the shaft being molded using an engineering plastic; a threaded port... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5783888 | Rotary electric machine A cylindrical bearing box 2 is integrally provided at the axial center of an annular disk 1 on which a flange 1a is formed. A shaft 3 is attached to a pair of bearings 2a, 2b engaged with the bearing box 2. A rotary disk 4 attached the shaft 3 on a side o... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5783879 | Micromotor in a ceramic substrate A micromotor in a ceramic substrate, including a unitary ceramic body providing a micromotor substrate which has been formed with a first internal cavity and a plurality of second internal cavities and a recess, a ferromagnetic stator formed in the first ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5773906 | Brush and slip ring arrangement of an AC generator A slip ring is made of a carbonaceous material and a brush is made of a metal. A metal connection bar has an insert member held in the carbonaceous slip ring to make a mechanical and electrical connection without the necessity of an additional member. The... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5770907 | Windshield wiper motor for use in a vehicle and method for manufacturing A system and method for manufacturing and/or molding a plurality of parts, such as a sleeve bearing and a roller bearing, into a predetermined position in the housing wiper motor comprising a component such as a housing. The wiper motor comprises a motor ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5770900 | Stepper motor It is intended to provide a stepper motor having windings which are easy to wind. Increase in size of the motor itself can be circumvented. First and second coil blocks 20 and 21, respectively, are formed by first and second annular bobbins 27 and 34, respecti... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5767606 | Synchronous electric motor, particularly for submersible pumps, and pump including the motor A synchronous electric motor includes a stator lamination pack (2) provided with at least one electric winding (6, 6') and a rotor (3) wade of a material with high magnetic retentivity. The laminations (4) of the pack (2) are arranged parallel to the axis... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5760514 | Assembly for one-way clutch, with outer ring and stator shaped so as to reduce effects of thermal shrinkage The present invention is intended to provide a one-way clutch capable of preventing the inner circumferential surface of the outer ring of the one-way clutch from being deformed even when the outer ring of the one-way clutch for a stator constituting a to... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5751085 | Axial gap type electric motor with dynamic pressure air bearing An axial gap type electric motor includes a stator assembly having a plurality of stator coils fixed to a circuit board and a rotor assembly having a rotor magnet supported via a dynamic pressure gas bearing on the stator assembly. The stator coils are en... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5747903 | Motor-gear drive unit, particularly for an automobile window lifter drive or the like, in which a motor-gear shaft is mounted To reduce the outlay in terms of manufacture and assembly, a motor-gear drive unit is provided, which includes a motor housing and adjoining gear case, and in which: a) a motor-gear shaft (3) is mounted in the motor housing (1) in a first bearing, prefera... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5739615 | Rotor for reluctance machine A rotor for a reluctance machine comprises a rotor made up of a stack of laminations defining a cross-sectionally integral rotor profile consisting of rotor poles arranged about a rotor core. A non-magnetic insert is arranged axially along the stack of la... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5734214 | Molded through-flow motor assembly A molded through-flow motor assembly has a motor housing, including a cup portion and a flange portion. The flange portion includes a plurality of ramp surfaces extending outwardly therefrom. The cup portion has a field retaining wall and guide rib extend... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5731649 | Electric motor or generator A device such as an electric motor, an electric generator, or a regenerative electric motor includes a rotor arrangement and a stator arrangement. The stator arrangement has a dielectric electromagnet housing and at least one energizable electromagnet ass... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5731646 | Heat-protected motor housing with metal casing and plastic plate A metal heat dissipation element is made an integral part of a metal houses of a motor, then a bearing plate of plastic material is injection-molded onto the housing. Preferred embodiments relate to the increased strength of the housing for which purpose ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5731651 | Rotor for an electromotive tool motor A motor rotor for use in a grinder or other electromotive tool in which a motor winding is prevented from being damaged by collisions with particles. The motor rotor is composed of a core having sixteen teeth extending radially relative to a rotation shaf... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5727307 | Method for manufacturing an armature for an electric motor An armature for an electric motor with a shaft, a stack of laminations arranged on the shaft, a commutator likewise arranged on the shaft and comprising several commutator segments and a plastic filling, and a wire winding wound around the stack of lamina... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5729070 | Commutator assembly for small motor, method for producing the same, and commutator piece joint body for the small motor A commutator assembly includes a plurality of commutator pieces for supplying an electric current from a brush fixed at a motor housing to a coil rotating together with a rotor shaft of a small motor, and a commutator holder of a plastic material fixed to... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5705865 | Rotary electric machine with increased cooling capacity A rotary electric machine that controls fluid pressure and loss of cooling air, increases the cooling air flow rate, and is able to favorably cool the end of a coil with little regard to the positional relationship between the centrifugal blades and the e... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5674340 | Insulating tape for the winding of an electric machine An insulating tape for the winding of an electric machine, in particular a rotary machine, may include an electric breakdown-resistant material, such as mica, of a support material, such as glass silk, and a thermoplastic adhesive for holding together the... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5668422 | Sealed connecting device between two housing end faces A sealed connecting device for sealing a motor-pump aggregate includes a brush-holder plate disposed in the sealing plane between the motor housing and the pump housing. A U-shaped sealing ring member is stretched over the outer rim of the brush-holder pl... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5668428 | Electric motor commutator The invention is a commutator for a high speed, high power DC traction motor having a rotor with a plurality of copper commutator bars having a V-shaped groove an axial end thereof, an electrically conductive retaining ring engaging the V-shaped grooves o... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5648692 | Stator yoke and method of producing same There is provided a stator yoke capable of improving magnetic characteristics and a rust-proofing effect of a stator yoke produced by using a Fe-Cr type alloy. When a stator yoke is produced by using a Fe-Cr type alloy, its magnetic characteristics can be... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5648881 | Disk driving motor and chucking mechanism for disk drive apparatus A disk drive apparatus includes a spindle for engagement with a central hole of a disk hub of a magnetic disk, a rotary member fixed to the spindle, a chucking magnet provided on the rotary member for attracting the disk hub, and a chucking lever pivotall... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644178 | Wet rotor gap tube motor for pumps An apparatus for pumps, especially circulation pumps, has a stator including a winding cast in a housing by hardenable sealing compound or filler to form a composite body. On its B-side opposite the meter pump, the housing has an unblocking device, as wel... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5639044 | Methods and apparatus for producing dynamo-electric machine armatures with improved balance Armatures for dynamo-electric machines are balanced during manufacture by measuring the unbalance of the armature assembly prior to winding the coils on the armature. The numbers of turns of wire in at least some of the coils subsequently wound on the arm... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5634258 | Method for forming coils of motor rotors In a method for forming the coils passed through the core slots of a motor rotor so as to keep the coils fully received in the core slots, a motor rotor, in which coils are wound around the core thereof, is received in a metallic mold die which has a die ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5629574 | Control interface device for an electric motor A control interface device for an electric motor, particularly an electric motor for operating servomechanisms on a vehicle, which includes a conductor frame, an active integrated component mounted on the conductor frame, and a plurality of electric conne... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5619087 | Axial-gap rotary-electric machine An axial-gap rotary-electric machine which can rotate at a very high speed and can generate a large output and in which a gap is formed extending in the axial direction of the shaft. The rotary-electric machine comprises a rotor (12) and a stator (11). Th... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5612584 | Slip ring assembly with reinforcement ring The present invention is a slip ring assembly for an automotive alternator, or other appropriate rotary electric machine, which includes at least one slip ring, a plastic body mounting the slip ring, at least one electrical terminal connected to the slip ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5598046 | Stepping motor with different sized or missing teeth A width of polar teeth is made smaller at a region close to a gate portion 20 than a width of the polar teeth at the other region or a part of the polar teeth is eliminated at the region close to the gate portion 20 and the gap between the polar teeth is ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5587619 | Rotary armature and method of forming armature coil A central conductor portion of a coil is formed with a potbelly-shaped cross-sectional form and a flat-shaped face of an insulated coating film of the potbelly-shaped cross-sectional form coil is made thinner than an arc-shaped face of the insulated coati... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5574324 | Rotor structure of alternating current generator for use in vehicle Plural thin plate projecting portions are integrally and projectingly provided on an outer peripheral portion of a side plate member of a bobbin. Each of the thin plate projecting portions comprises a circumferential rib, a slit portion and a reinforcemen... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5567998 | Electric motor with rotor support means An electric motor includes a rotor having at one end a plastic journal bearing which is rotatably supported in an annular portion of a metallic bearing member secured in an integrally-molded bearing support part of a stator. This part is molded to provide... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5528095 | Permanent magnet rotor A permanent magnet rotor for an electric motor has a shaft, a coupler mounted on the shaft, a flux ring fitted to the coupler and located within a ring magnet. The flux ring is a split ring having a nominal outside diameter greater than the inside diamete... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5519270 | Spindle motor and disk drive having the same A spindle motor includes a permanent magnet multipolarized in a circular direction of the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet generates magnetic fluxes in a radial direction of the spindle motor. A core assembly has core pieces, the core pieces respect... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5508578 | Stator unit of flat motor During the assembly of a small motor, insulation is installed on the outer surface of a magnetic pole. An armature coil is wound so that the wire does not touch the corners of the magnetic pole. The wound coil does not loosen and sufficient insulation for... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5502341 | Electric motor and method of producing the same A stator according to the present invention comprises a circular nonmagnetic material having a bore into which a rotor is rotatably inserted, a plurality of teeth radially fitted to the material at equal intervals, stator wires wound around the teeth, and... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5500994 | Method of manufacturing a rotor A miniature electric motor has a stator mounted within a casing and a rotor provided so as to face the stator. The rotor includes a rotary shaft rotatably supported to the casing, a rotor body into which the rotary shaft is inserted, the rotor body being ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5498919 | Flat core-less direct-current motor The purpose of this invention is to supply people with a flat core-less direct-current motor of high output torque, high speed and high power efficiency. It is also a 3 phase flat core-less direct-current motor comprising a fan-shaped flat armature coils ... | 03/12/1996 |
