Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.

Kazuo Nishihama

Tetsuo Fujigaki

Kazumasa Ide

Akeshi Takahashi

Hiroyuki Mikami

Masanori Sawahata

Shuji Mizutani

Takeshi Nakayama

Atsushi Abe

Kenichi Sugimoto

Noriyuki Maekawa

Mamoru Kimura

Katsuhiro Hoshino

Shinji Sugimoto

Motonobu Iizuka

Takayuki Koyama

Tadahiro Shimozono

Keiichiro Kaihatsu

Shuuji Mizutani

Daisuke Kori

Yasushi Takano

Ryuichiro Iwano

Makoto Imura

Kazuo Shima

Genzo Iwaki

Yuuichirou Yoshitake

Kengo Ueda

Kanako Nemoto

Katsuya Hirata

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a rotating machine drive system comprising a winding switching device, wherein the rotating machine drive system has a relatively simple configuration, allows wear of electrical contacts during switching and sliding to be minimized, and is highly reliable. The present invention is characterized in comprising a rotating machine having a plurality of windings, an inverter device for operating the rotating machine at variable speed, and a winding switching device for switching connection of the plurality of windings; the winding switching device having winding terminals, a semi-moving element having a short-circuit part that faces the winding terminals and also having a sliding part provided with first protrusions on the surface thereof opposite from the surface having the short-circuit part, and a moving element facing the sliding part of the semi-moving element and having a sliding part provided with second protrusions on the surface facing the sliding part of the semi-moving element; the moving element being made to slide relative to the semi-moving element, whereby the connection between the winding terminals and the short-circuit part is changed and the connection of the plurality of windings is switched.

Rotating machine drive system and vehicle

A winding switching device switches parallel and series connections of windings of a rotating electric machine, and includes a plurality of electrodes that are connected to the windings and a power source, a movable portion in contact with the plurality of electrodes and includes a plurality of conductor portions, and an actuator that drives the movable portion. According to a contact state between the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of conductor portions, the windings are connected in parallel at a first position of the movable portion, and are connected in series at a second position of the movable portion. The electrodes include a first electrode connected to a first phase winding of the rotating electric machine in the plurality of windings, and a second electrode connected to a second phase winding. The first electrode and the second electrode are adjacent to each other, and form a neutral point.

Winding switching device of rotating electric machine, rotating electric machine drive system, and electric device

An object of the present invention is to provide a winding switching device capable of enhancing the reliability of electrical contact between a movable unit and a fixed unit, and a rotating electrical machine drive system including such a winding switching device. A winding switching device switches a connection state of a plurality of windings, and includes a plurality of electrodes to which the plurality of windings are connected; a movable unit that includes a plurality of conductor portions in contact with the plurality of electrodes, and that is driven in a predetermined direction in which the plurality of electrodes are arranged; and a fixed unit including a regulating portion that regulates movement of the movable unit in the predetermined direction; where the connection states of the plurality of windings are switched according to the position of the movable unit; and when the movable unit moves in the predetermined direction, the plurality of conductors are displaced in a direction of moving away from the plurality of electrodes by the regulating portion.

Winding switching device and rotating electrical machine drive system using the same

A rotary machine driving system includes: a rotary machine including a plurality of coils; an inverter device configured to operate the rotary machine at a variable speed, including a control device for controlling power conversion by an inverter circuit, and a coil switching device for switching a connection of the coils according to the control device. The control device commands the coil switching device to switch the connection of the coils when rotation of the rotary machine transitions between a low-speed rotation range and a high-speed rotation range due to acceleration and deceleration. A starting end and a terminal end of at least one set of coils per phase of the rotary machine are drawn out in a freely connectable state. The coil switching device includes at least one movable portion driven by one actuator.

Rotary machine driving system and vehicle

Provided is a rotary electric machine that achieves high motor efficiency with little loss. This rotary electric machine is equipped with: a stator core arranged opposing the circumferential surface of a rotor, and in which multiple slots, wherein openings opening toward the rotor are formed, are formed in the circumferential direction; and coils inserted into the slots. A mixture of a soft magnetic powder and a resin material is formed in the openings of the slots, and the relative permeability of the mixture is 5-35.

Rotary electric machine and manufacturing method for rotary electric machine

There is provided a rotary electric machine that ensures improving a maximum torque and a rated power factor while reducing an increase in a starting current. In view of this, the rotary electric machine includes a shaft, a rotor, and a stator. The rotor is fixed to an outer periphery of the shaft. The stator is located so as to surround an outer periphery of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor iron core including a plurality of rotor slots located at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and rotor bars inserted into the rotor slots. Rotor slits communicate with outer peripheral sides of the rotor slots. The rotor slits have a width ws in a circumferential direction. The width ws is smaller than a height hs in a radial direction of the rotor slit, and when a rated current is denoted as I, a turn ratio (primary/secondary) is denoted as Tr, and a magnetic permeability in a vacuum is denoted as &#x3bc;, a relationship of ws&#x3e;&#x3bc;&#xd7;I&#xd7;Tr/0.6 is met.

Rotary electric machine and drive system using same

The invention provides a rotating electrical machine system in which an air volume of a refrigerant is increased near the center of a rotating electrical machine in the axial direction is improved. The rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, in which the stator core, laminated electromagnetic steel sheets formed by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in the axial direction are divided into a plurality of sets of packet cores, and between one of the packet cores of the plurality of sets and another packet core adjacent to it, there is formed a duct providing a flow channel of the stator, and in a duct situated at the center side from both ends in the axial direction among the duct, there is a portion of two packet cores facing each other across the duct, a diameter direction length of the two packet cores becoming long.

Rotating electrical machine with rotor and stator, with a stator core including packet cores

An object of the present invention is to provide a squirrel-cage induction motor with high efficiency. In a squirrel-cage induction motor including a stator in which stator windings are wound in a number of stator slots arranged at intervals in the vicinity of the inner periphery of a stator core and a rotor in which rotor conductors are embedded in a number of rotor slots arranged at intervals in the vicinity of the outer periphery of a rotor core and end rings are provided at both ends of the rotor core, the rotor core is formed of a plurality of blocks, an annular short-circuit ring is provided between respective blocks of the rotor core to short-circuit the rotor conductors, and laminated thickness of the rotor core is made larger than laminated thickness of the stator core.

Squirrel-cage induction motor

A squirrel cage induction motor includes: a stator core (); a plurality of stator slots () radially disposed in a circumferential direction of the stator core () with predetermined intervals; a plurality of stator windings () housed in the stator slots respectively; a rotor core (); a plurality of rotor slots () radially disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core () with predetermined intervals; a plurality of rotor conductors () housed in the rotor slots () respectively. The stator windings () and the rotor conductors () includes electrically conductive materials mainly composed of copper. An area ratio of a total area of the stator slots () to a total area of the rotor slots () is not smaller than 2.7 and not greater than 8.0 to provide compatibility between the starting characteristic (starting torque) and the steady characteristic (for a high efficiency) can be provided.

Squirrel cage induction motor and squirrel cage induction motor driving system

A synchronous generatorincluding a rotor having a field winding placed in the slots thereof and a stator having an armature winding placed in the slots thereof, wherein the value of the number of slots per two poles in stator minus the number of slots per two poles in rotor is equal to or greater than +9, or equal to or smaller than &#x2212;9.

Synchronous generator and synchronous generator system for reducing distortion of current waveform

An electric rotation machine for windmill power generation equipped with a stator slot structure having distributed windings and a rotor pole structure having permanent magnets, wherein the number of slots per pole per phase (Nspp) is undividable by 3 times P (where P is the number of poles), and pole width rate Pw obtained by dividing pole piece width Tp by pole pitch Tr at the outermost diameters of the adjoining poles of the rotor is satisfied any of Pw&#x2266;0.6, 0.67&#x2266;Pw&#x2266;0.71, and 0.78&#x2266;Pw. The distortion factors of induced voltages in a permanent magnet type electrical rotation machine, particularly for windmill power generation, can be reduced.

Electrical rotation machine and a wind turbine system

Provided is a rotating electric machine which can restrain vibration and noise induced by a radial electromagnetic force of the rotating electric machine, and in which a rotor is divided into first to fourth four rotating pieces having axial lengths of 0.29L, 0.71L, 0.71L and 0.29L where 2L is an axial length of a rotor or stator core, and secondary conductors defining effective magnetic pole opening angles, are arranged being shifted by a value which is equal to a phase difference of electric angle between axial sections of the rotor pieces in order to define skews so that phase differences of electric angles are continuous between axial sections of the first and second rotor pieces, the skews being continuous between the third and fourth rotor pieces but being not continuous between the second and third rotor pieces arranged being shifted by a value which is equal to a phase difference of electric angle between axial sections of the rotor.

Rotating electric machine

A rotor conductor upper portion positioned near to an outer periphery of a rotor has a trapezoidal, cross sectional shape, a rotor conductor lower portion positioned nearer to a center of the rotor than the rotor conductor upper portion has a rectangular, cross sectional shape, and the rotor conductor upper portion has a height h=27 mm or more in the case where rotor conductors are made of brass, and a height h=7 mm or more in the case where the rotor conductors are made of copper.

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