Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Atsushi Ishikawa

Masahiro Nigo

Kazuhiko Baba

Kazuchika Tsuchida

Takanori Watanabe

Koji Yabe

Tomoaki Oikawa

Hideaki Kimura

Atsushi Matsuoka

Masayuki Arai

Hiromi Ishii

Jun Aoki

A rotor includes an electromagnetic steel sheet, a first permanent magnet, and a second permanent magnet. The electromagnetic steel sheet includes a first magnet insertion hole and a second magnet insertion hole that are arranged in a V shape, and also includes a center rib between the first magnet insertion hole and the second magnet insertion hole. The rotor satisfies T≤W1≤2×T≤W2, where T is a thickness of the electromagnetic steel sheet, W1 is a minimum width of the center rib, and W2 is a maximum width of the center rib.

Rotor, motor, compressor, and refrigeration and air-conditioning device

A magnetization ring is disposed between a rotor and a core portion surrounding the rotor, the rotor having permanent magnets and inter-pole portions which are arranged in a circumferential direction about an axis. The magnetization ring has a magnetic portion facing the center of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction, and a nonmagnetic portion facing the inter-pole portion of the rotor.

Magnetization ring, magnetization method, magnetization apparatus, rotor, motor, compressor, and air conditioner

A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a stator surrounding the rotor so as to form an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The rotor has a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a rare earth magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole. The rotor core has a plurality of slits on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in a radial direction about the rotation axis. Each of the plurality of slits has a length in the radial direction which is longer than a length in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis. The plurality of slits have a uniform minimum distance to the magnet insertion hole. When the minimum distance is expressed as T and the air gap is expressed as G, 2.75≤T/G≤5.25 is satisfied.

Motor, compressor, and air conditioner

A rotor core has first and second core parts in an axial direction. The first and second core parts have first and second magnet insertion holes in which rare earth magnets are disposed. A width of the first magnet insertion hole is wider than the second magnet insertion hole. The first core part has one or more slits elongated in the radial direction, the number of which is N1 (&#x2265;1), on a radially outer side of the first magnet insertion hole. The second core part has no, one or more slits elongated in the radial direction, the number of which is N2 (&#x2265;0), on a radially outer side of the second magnet insertion hole. N1&#x3e;N2 is satisfied. A ratio of a length of the second core part in the axial direction to that of the rotor core is greater than or equal to 70% and less than 100%.

Rotor, motor, compressor, and air conditioner

An outdoor unit includes a heat exchanger, a fan having a motor having coils to blow air to the heat exchanger, a connection switching unit to switch a connection state of the coils between a first connection state and a second connection state in which a line voltage is lower than a line voltage in the first connection state, and a temperature sensor to detect a temperature. When the motor is not driven, the connection switching unit sets the connection state of the coils to the second connection state. When the motor rotates, the connection switching unit sets the connection state of the coils to the first connection state if a detected temperature by the temperature sensor is higher than or equal to a threshold, and the connection switching unit sets the connection state of the coils to the second connection state if the detected temperature is lower than the threshold.

Outdoor unit, air conditioner, and operation control method for air conditioner

A motor is used in a compressor. The motor includes a stator including a stator core having a yoke part that extends in a circumferential direction about an axis and a plurality of teeth that extend from the yoke part toward the axis and are arranged in the circumferential direction, and a winding wound around the plurality of teeth of the stator core in wave winding, and a rotor whose number of poles is P and which is disposed on an inner side of the stator in a radial direction about the axis. When a number of the plurality of teeth is represented by S, S/P&#x2265;6 is satisfied. The yoke part has a refrigerant passage through which refrigerant passes in a direction of the axis.

A reluctance motor is used in a compressor. The reluctance motor includes a rotor having a rotor core that has an annular outer circumference about an axis, having a plurality of magnetic poles along the outer circumference, and having no permanent magnet, and a stator including a stator core that surrounds the rotor from an outer side in a radial direction about the axis and a winding wound around the stator core in wave winding. Each of the plurality of magnetic poles has a first slit formed in the rotor core and a second slit formed on an inner side of the first slit in the radial direction. The stator core has a refrigerant passage through which refrigerant passes in a direction of the axis.

Reluctance motor, compressor, and air conditioner

A motor includes a stator and a rotor provided inside the stator. The stator includes a stator core, and a coil made of aluminum and wound around the stator core in distributed winding. The rotor includes a rotor core, and a first number of permanent magnets mounted in the rotor core. The coil of the stator is covered with varnish. The first number is greater than or equal to 6, and is less than or equal to 10. Each of the first number of permanent magnets of the rotor contains neodymium, iron, boron and dysprosium, and has a dysprosium content of 0% to 4% by weight.

Motor, fan, compressor, and air conditioning apparatus

A stator includes a stator core and a winding wound around the stator core in wave winding. The winding includes an assembly of a plurality of covered wires, and an outer cover film that surrounds and covers the assembly and contains thermosetting resin. Each of the covered wires includes a conductor and an insulating film surrounding and covering the conductor. Each of the covered wires has a wire width of 1.5 mm or less.

Stator, motor, compressor, and air conditioner

A rotor includes a rotor core having a cylindrical outer circumferential surface around an axis line, the rotor core further having a first end and a second end that are both ends in a direction of the axis line, a first permanent magnet disposed in a region of the rotor core having the first end, and a second permanent magnet disposed in another region of the rotor core having the second end. The first permanent magnet is inclined so that a distance from the axis line to the first permanent magnet increases in a direction along the axis line toward the first end. The second permanent magnet is inclined so that a distance from the axis line to the second permanent magnet increases in a direction along the axis line toward the second end.

Rotor, motor, fan, compressor, and air conditioning apparatus

A motor is provided in a shell. The motor includes a stator having an outer peripheral surface facing an inner peripheral surface of the shell, a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator, and a nonmagnetic film disposed between the outer peripheral surface of the stator and the inner peripheral surface of the shell.

Motor, compressor, refrigerating and air conditioning apparatus, and method for manufacturing motor

In an electric motor, a first magnet and a second magnet are accommodated in magnet accommodating apertures of a rotor core. On outer circumferential core portions that exist on a radially outer side of the magnet accommodating apertures, two slits as a pair of first slits, and two slits that are respectively adjacent to each of the first slits are disposed circumferentially outside the pair of first slits as a pair of second slits. The outer circumferential core portions include: a first magnetic portion that exists between the pair of first slits; and a pair of second magnetic portions that respectively exist between the first slits and the second slits. An inter-magnet space portion that exists between the first magnet and the second magnet is positioned within a range of the first magnetic portion in the circumferential direction of the rotor.

Electric motor, compressor, and refrigeration and air conditioning apparatus

Provided is an interior permanent magnet motor, including: a stator; and a rotor, in which an outline of each of magnet insertion holes includes a radially inner-side line, a radially outer-side line, a pair of side lines, a pair of first round portions, and a pair of second round portions, in which a thin portion is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and each of the side lines, in which each of the first round portions is provided between a corresponding end of the corresponding radially outer-side line and a corresponding end of the corresponding side line, and in which each of the second round portions is provided between a corresponding end of the corresponding radially inner-side line and a corresponding end of the corresponding side line.

Interior permanent magnet electric motor, compressor, and refrigerating and air-conditioning device

A rotor of a permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes an annular rotor core having a plurality of magnet insertion holes formed in a circumferential direction, and permanent magnets inserted into the magnet insertion holes, respectively. The rotor core is formed by alternately stacking a first core block and a second core block in an axial direction of the rotor core, the first core block not having slits between each of the magnet insertion holes and a circumferential surface of the rotor core, and the second core block having the slits between each of the magnet insertion holes and the circumferential surface of the rotor core. One of the slits and one end of the permanent magnet are arrayed in a radial direction, and the other slit and the other end of the permanent magnet are arrayed in the radial direction.

Permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor and compressor

A rotor includes an iron core that assumes a cylindrical or columnar shape, and a plurality of magnets embedded in the iron core and equiangularly arranged with respect to an axis of the iron core. The iron core includes a first end surface portion, a second end surface portion, and a central portion disposed between the first end surface portion and the second end surface portion. Each of the first end surface portion, the second end surface portion, and the central portion has one or more gaps formed at positions thereof remoter from the axis of the iron core than the magnets. A third cross-sectional planar dimension of the central portion is greater than a first cross-sectional planar dimension of the first end surface portion and a second cross-sectional planar dimension of the second end surface portion.

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Atsushi Ishikawa