Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryuichi Ikeda

Toshinori Tanaka

Akihiro Daikoku

Kyouhei Yamamoto

Katsumi Adachi

Yuji Nakahara

Shigekazu Sakabe

Akihiko Imagi

Kyoko Kurusu

Yoshio Yoshikuwa

Akira Morishita

Kazuhisa Takashima

Nobuaki Miyake

Hideki Morikaku

A vehicular AC generator comprising a pair of cores included in a rotor and supported by a rotating shaft, a plurality of trapezoidal-shaped claws as magnetic poles protruding on the outer periphery edges of the pair of cores, and a pair of fans attached to the front side and the rear side of the cores, at least one of the fans having an outer diameter in the range between 85% and 96% of the outer diameter of each of the cores, each of the claws having a tapered portion for gradually decreasing the outer diameter of a shoulder portion of the claw in the direction toward the end surface of the core so that the outer diameter of at least one of the cores faced to the at least one of the fans becomes substantially the same as the outer diameter of the at least one of the fans, whereby the sound caused by cutting wind by the rotation of the centrifugal fans can be reduced without deteriorating the cooling efficiency of the coil ends of the stator.

Vehicular AC generator

A motor for an electric power steering assembly includes a yoke, a multi-polar magnetic field portion composed of at least four poles secured to the inner wall of the yoke, a shaft disposed within the yoke so as to be able to rotate freely, an armature secured to the shaft having a winding constructed by winding wiring into an even number of slots formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core so as to extend in the axial direction thereof, a commutator including a plurality of segments secured to an end portion of the shaft; and a plurality of brushes contacting the surface of the commutator.

Motor for an electric power steering assembly

A motor for an electric power steering assembly includes a yoke, a multipolar magnetic field portion composed of at least four poles secured to the inner wall of the yoke, a shaft disposed within the yoke so as to be able to rotate freely, an armature secured to the shaft having a winding constructed by winding wiring into an even number of slots formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core so as to extend in the axial direction thereof, a commutator comprising a plurality of segments secured to an end portion of the shaft; and a plurality of brushes contacting the surface of the commutator.

A dynamo-electric machine comprises a shaft, a core secured to the shaft having slots formed therein extending in the axial direction, a winding composed of a wiring wound by a lap winding method through the slots, a commutator having commutator segments disposed at one end of the core and secured to the shaft, and equalizing connectors electrically connecting commutator segments which should have the same electric potential to each other, wherein the equalizing connectors are disposed in close contact with an end surface of the commutator.

Dynamo-electric machine and method of manufacture therefor

A commutator assembly for an electric motor includes a commutator having commutator segments arranged circumferentially, brushes contacting the commutator segments, and an equalizer connecting commutator segments so they have the same electric potential, the equalizer including printed circuit boards with insulating substrates and a connecting plate having an electrically conducting film on the insulating substrate, electrically connected to the commutator segments.

Dynamo-electric machine with commutator assembly

A commutator for a dynamo-electric machine according to the present invention comprises a cylindrical commutator main body provided with a plurality of commutator segments disposed around the circumference thereof, an equalizer assembly disposed inside the commutator main body provided with equalizer segments electrically connecting commutator segments which are to have the same electric potential, and an insulating resin portion disposed within the space inside the commutator main body integrating the commutator main body and the equalizer assembly.

Commutator for a dynamo-electric machine and method of manufacture

A dynamo-electric machine comprises an armature having a winding composed of a wire or wires wound by a lap winding method through slots extending in the axial direction formed on the outer circumferential surface of a core secured to a shaft, a commutator having commutator segments secured to the shaft, and an equalize disposed adjacent to the commutator in the direction of the axis of the commutator having terminals stacked in the axial direction which electrically connect commutator segments which should have the same electric potential.

Dynamo-electric machine having a hook shaped commutator and equalizer

To perform the change-over smoothly between a uniform velocity mode and an acceleration mode and to relieve a shock at the time of changing-over the velocity, there are provided, in an auxiliary machine driving apparatus, a plurality of planet gears (2) rotatably supported on a carrier (21) connected to an input shaft (6), an internal gear (3) which meshes with the outer circumferences of the respective planet gears (2) and rotatably supported on a stationary portion, an electromagnetic powder brake (50) for connecting/disconnecting the internal gear (3) to/from the stationary portion, an output shaft (4) having a sun gear (41) which meshes with the inner circumferences of the respective planet gears (2) so as to be rotatably supported thereby, and a one-way clutch (8) provided between the carrier (21) and the output shaft (41).

Auxiliary machine driving apparatus

A voltage regulating circuit is provided in a single mold package, which is attached to the case directly or by a heat conductive material such that it is sandwiched between the case of a voltage regulator and a heat sink, conductors which serve as internal wirings and form terminals are insert-molded with the case of the voltage regulator and the brush holder to be superimposed upon the case of the voltage regulator, out of the terminals formed in the conductors, specific terminals on respective sides are aligned, and the brush holder is installed in the case of the voltage regulator in such a manner that they are superimposed upon each other so that electrical connection of these elements is effected.

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Hyogo, Japan

Ryuichi Ikeda