Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Mohammad Faizul Momen

Alireza Fatemi

Khwaja M Rahman

Yilun Luo

Thomas W Nehl

Derek F Lahr

Shawn Harold Swales

Sanjeev Manubhai Naik

Edward L Kaiser

Muhammad Hussain Alvi

John A Diemer

Patrick S Portell

Sinisa Jurkovic

Junghoon Kim

Jack M Gayney

Azadeh Narimissa

An electric motor including a motor casing, a shaft having an axis of rotation, a first end and a second end, a first main bearing for rotatably supporting the shaft at the first end within the motor casing, a second main bearing for rotatably supporting the shaft at the second end within the motor casing, and a grounding bearing for conducting a bearing current between the shaft and the motor casing.

Electric motor shaft grounding apparatus

An electric motor configuration includes a dual output multilevel inverter. The inverter includes a first and second set of alternating current (AC) phase outputs. The first set of AC phase outputs provide a current, each phase output of the first set of AC phase outputs corresponds to a phase output of the second set of AC phase outputs, and each phase output of the first set of AC phase outputs is offset from the corresponding phase output of the second set of phase outputs by 180 degrees. An electric motor includes a first and second set of antiparallel motor windings. The first set of motor windings is connected to the first set of AC phase outputs and the second set of motor windings are connected to the second set of AC phase outputs. The electric motor includes a mechanical rotation output.

Common mode noise cancelling electric motor system

Presented are electric machines with optimized stator tooth geometries and multi-gauge stator conductors, methods for making/using such electric machines, and motor vehicles equipped with such electric machines. An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor assembly rotatably attached to the housing, and a stator assembly coaxial with and separated by an airgap from the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes one or more magnets mounted to a rotor core. The stator assembly includes a stator core with multiple axially elongated, circumferentially spaced stator slots, multiple radially aligned stator teeth interleaved between and separating the slots, and multiple electromagnetic windings wound through the slots. Each stator tooth has an elongated tooth body with a tooth head at a radial end of a tooth root, which attaches to a cylindrical hub of the stator core. The tooth head has an axial cross-section with a trapezoidal crown integral with a rectangular tip.

Stator tooth and winding conductor designs for electric machines

An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor rotatably mounted to the housing, and a stator mounted to the housing about the rotor. The stator includes a stator body formed from a plurality of laminations. The plurality of laminations include an outer annular surface defining a radius, an inner annular surface spaced from the rotor, and a plurality of radially inwardly extending stator teeth spaced one from another by plurality of gaps. Each of the plurality of gaps extend along the radius and include an opening exposed at the inner annular surface. The opening has a first side portion and a second side portion each extending at an angle relative to the radius.

Electric machine including a stator having a tooth profile that reduces parasitic voltage

A synchronous machine having a hybrid rotor excitation. The synchronous machine includes a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and electromagnets embedded within a rotor body. The permanent magnets produces a constant magnet field having a magnetic axis along a direct axis (D-axis). The electromagnets produces a variable magnetic field along a magnetic axis offset from the D-axis, preferable substantially orthogonal to the D-axis. The plurality of permanent magnets are separated from the electromagnets by a rotor air-gap. The plurality of permanent magnets includes inner pairs and outer pairs of permanent magnets nested in a V-shaped configuration. In another embodiment, the outer pairs of permanent magnets are replaced with outer radius electromagnets.

Synchronous machine having hybrid rotor excitation

A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator has windings and teeth extending radially from a stator core. Each tooth is separated from an adjacent tooth by a stator slot that opens to a radial stator-rotor airgap via a slot opening. The windings are positioned within each slot. Each stator tooth has a tooth tip with a surface profile configured to guide rotor flux away from areas of the windings proximate the respective slot opening. The tip surface profile may be a concave region, e.g., a dent/chamfer, and/or a convex region, e.g., a bump/bulge, and is formed in a distal end surface of the tip proximate the opening. The stator-rotor airgap is smaller at the convex region and larger at the concave region than elsewhere along the distal end surface. An electrical system includes the machine, a battery, and a power inverter module.

Electric machine with stator tooth tip profile for reducing winding-based power losses

An interior permanent magnet machine includes a rotor having a central axis and a plurality of axial segments. The axial segments include a first axial segment and a second axial segment positioned adjacent to each other in an axial direction. Each of the axially-spaced segments includes at least one pole defining a respective angular configuration characterized by respective first, second and third angles. The first axial segment defines a first set of angular configurations and the second axial segment defines a second set of angular configurations. The rotor is configured to have an axially asymmetric configuration such that the first set of angular configurations is different from the second set of angular configurations.

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Mohammad Faizul Momen