Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Delco Remy International, Inc.

Ronald A Martin

Kaushik Rajashekara

Chahee P Cho

Ralph H Johnston

Ahmed Mostafa El-Antably

Eric Duane Schneider

Richard D Watson

Bimal K Bose

William E Boys

Steven R McMullen

Moshen M Erfanfar

David Ross Crecelius

Charles R Ashton

Wayne J Loynes

Marcelo Godoy Simoes

A powdered magnetic material stator core with embedded stator windings and a method for its manufacture. Embedding the windings within a radially compacted powdered magnetic material stator core enables equivalent or better electromagnetic performance in a significantly reduced size. Radial compaction of the powdered magnetic material minimizes the distortion of the stator windings during compaction.

Electromagnetic device with embedded windings and method for its manufacture

A rotor assembly for a synchronous reluctance machine has a plurality of steel punched star-shaped supports secured along a shaft at spaced locations for retaining a plurality of laminated rotor sections. The star-shaped supports have four equiangularly spaced arms having arcuate valleys disposed therebetween that define a plurality of channels for receiving the rotor sections. The rotor sections are secured to the star-shaped core by a plurality of bands fastened circumferentially around the rotor. A plurality of grooves disposed circumferentially around the rotor receive and retain the bands in place. A rotor bar and arcuate spring may be disposed within a concave cavity defined by the rotor sections to reduce audible noise produced as the rotor rotates at a high rate of speed and provide added compression on the rotor sections to the core. The rotor sections also include a dimpled separator of predetermined thickness disposed between the laminate sheets to optimize the machine. The separator is a steel sheet having a plurality of dimples that define the thickness of the separator. This results in a high speed axially-laminated synchronous reluctance rotor running at high speeds without any bolts or end caps in the rotor.

Rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine

A speed sensorless hybrid vector control starts from zero speed by using indirect vector control with stator frequency equal to slip frequency. As soon as the rotor begins to rotate, the drive is converted to direct vector control for normal operation. The direct vector control uses several low pass filters. The first is a harmonic reducing filter for the sensed motor phase current and voltage signals. The others comprise integration apparatus used in the calculation of motor flux quantities from the motor phase current and voltage signals. One of these other filters has a phase lag which is variable in response to stator frequency to compensate for phase lag introduced by the harmonic reducing filter; and the apparatus is thus able to produce a phase compensated set of unit vectors for vector rotation of the commanded stator voltage components from the synchronous to the stationary reference frame as well as a set of non-phase compensated unit vectors for inverse vector rotation of the estimated stator current components from the stationary to the synchronous reference frame. This allows the motor to operate at any point in the torque speed range, down to zero speed if a braking load torque is applied against a smaller input commanded torque, with the resulting torque current flow allowing the drive to remain in direct vector control.

Speed sensorless hybrid vector controlled induction motor with zero

An electric motive power unit including a multiple phase AC electric machine and heat dissipative electronic components therefor, the improvement wherein the machine is disposed in a thermally conductive housing having cooling fluid passages formed therein, and the heat dissipative electronic components are individually mounted on an exterior periphery of said housing and distributed in a fashion wherein circulation of the fluid through said fluid passages for the cooling of said machine also serves to cool said heat dissipative electronic components.

Integrated AC machine

A field assembly for a dynamoelectric machine, particularly for electric engine cranking motors. The field assembly is comprised of a one piece field frame member formed of a high density compacted atomized iron powder. The one piece frame has a generally tubular configuration and has radially inwardly extending pole portions and outer axially extending grooves radially aligned with the pole portions. The frame carries a plurality of field coils which respectively circumscribe the pole portions of the frame. A pole face plate engages each end of a respective pole portion of the frame and a part of each field coil is located between a face plate and an inner wall of the frame. The pole plates are fixed to the frame by parts extending therefrom which pass through openings formed in the frame that extend between the interior of the frame and the outer frame grooves. These parts are headed over in the area of the grooves to secure the pole plates to the frame. The frame, with assembled field coils and pole plates, is press fitted to a tubular outer motor frame and end frames are secured to the main frame by through bolts that extend through the outer grooves of the field frame.

Dynamoelectric machine field assembly

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