Ingersoll-dresser Pump Company

Kaman Electromagnetics Corp.

Vestas Wind Systems A/s

Northern Power Systems, Inc.

Northern Power Systems Utility Scale, Inc.

Mark S Piercey

Peter Mongeau

Frederic W Buse

Jonathan A Lynch

Donald P Sloteman

Paul A Smith

Thomas D Kohler

William R Wink

An apparatus and method for the installation and removal of permanent magnets in a permanent magnet electromechanical machine, for example a wind turbine power unit generator. A magnet holder is mounted on a magnet carrying structure such as a rotor. Permanent magnets may be inserted into and removed from the magnet holder after the electromechanical machine is assembled. The magnet holders define passages for airflow between the inside top and magnet surface. In this manner, permanent magnets may be installed on the magnet carrying structure and provided with additional cooling via said passages. Further, the holders may be configured to secure the magnets by an interference fit, without using bolts or adhesives, to facilitate both assembly and removal for maintenance and repair.

Method and apparatus for permanent magnet attachment in an electromechanical machine

An apparatus and method for the installation and removal of permanent magnets in a permanent magnet electromechanical machine, for example a wind turbine power unit generator. A magnet holder is mounted on a magnet carrying structure such as a rotor. Permanent magnets may be inserted into and removed from the magnet holder after the electromechanical machine is assembled. In this manner, permanent magnets may be installed on the magnet carrying structure by an interference fit, without using bolts or adhesives, to facilitate both assembly and removal for maintenance and repair.

Attachments are removably coupled to the magnetic core of a rotating electric machine, the magnetic core being shaped to include a plurality of coil-receiving slots that are separated by radial teeth. Each attachment is constructed as a unitary member and includes a base and a stem, the stem being dimensioned for fitted insertion within a recess formed in the distal end of a corresponding tooth. The base includes a convex bottom wall, a flattened top wall and a pair of non-planar sidewalls. The stem is integrally formed on the top wall of the base and includes a front end, a rear end, a flattened top wall and a pair of opposing sidewalls. A longitudinal groove is formed into each of the pair of opposing sidewalls of the stem. An outwardly protruding shoulder designed for engagement by a retention plate is formed into the front and rear ends of the stem.

Pole tip attachment for a magnetic structure

An integral axial-field motor pump, includes a housing assembly having a working fluid inlet, a working fluid discharge, and a stationary shaft mounted therein. A motor stator is mounted in the housing assembly radially surrounding the stationary shaft and having a seal to prevent exposure to the working fluid; and a motor rotor is axially spaced from the stator and fixed to an impeller having a hub and journaled, by a bearing fixed in the hub, on the stationary shaft within the housing assembly. The rotor also has a seal to prevent exposure to the working fluid. The stationary shaft has an axial passageway formed within it; and there is a provision for conducting working fluid from the working fluid discharge, along sealed surfaces of the rotor and the stator, through the axial passageway within the stationary shaft, to the working fluid inlet to extract heat from the rotor and the stator and to cool the bearing. The threaded engagement of the stationary shaft in the blind hole of the pump case provides for jacking action on the rotor to overcome magnetic forces between the rotor and stator encountered during installation and removal of a permanent magnet equipped motor rotor. Cooling is provided for the working fluid extracted from the fluid discharge prior to introducing it to the cooling channels, when pumping hot fluids.

Centrifugal pump with an axial-field integral motor cooled by working

A diaphragm system is provided for isolating a motor stator from pumped fluid in a seal-less integral-motor pump, the pump having a non-rotating shaft fixed to a motor housing containing the motor stator, the shaft extending into a pump casing within which an impeller is integrated with a motor rotor. The diaphragm system includes a non-metallic diaphragm having a periphery, which conforms to and is clamped between mating surfaces of the housing and the pump casing, and a central circular hole, which surrounds the shaft and is clamped thereby against the housing. Clamping pressure on the diaphragm is limited, and static and dynamic bearing forces are passed directly from the shaft to the housing to minimize creep distortion of the diaphragm which could cause early failure of the pump.

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Mark S Piercey