Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.

Tomoyuki Ueno

Tatsuya Saito

Hijiri Tsuruta

Asako Watanabe

Yuichi Nakamura

Shinichi Hirono

Tomoyuki Ishimine

Kazunari Shimauchi

Naoto Igarashi

Koji Yamada

Yuka Fukunaga

Tetsuya Hayashi

Masashi Yoshimura

Masato Hasegawa

Yuuichi Nakamura

Kazuya Takizawa

Yuki Adachi

Takao Nishioka

Munehiro Noda

A core piece that is circularly arranged to construct a stator core of an axial gap type rotary electric machine includes: a first member in a column form extending in an axial direction of the stator core; a second member in a plate form disposed on a first end side of the axial direction in the first member; and a third member in a plate form disposed on a second end side of the axial direction in the first member, the first member has a peripheral surface connecting with the second member and the third member, the second member has a protruding portion projecting outwardly from the peripheral surface of the first member, the third member has a protruding portion projecting outwardly from the peripheral surface of the first member, and the first member, the second member, and the third member are configured by an integrally molded green compact.

Core piece, stator core, stator, and rotary electric machine

A core used in an axial-gap rotating electric device includes an annular back yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding in an axial direction that is perpendicular to a first flat surface of the back yoke. The plurality of teeth are provided on the first flat surface at intervals in a circumferential direction. The back yoke and the teeth are constituted of an integrally-molded powder compact. A first curved section that connects a peripheral surface of each tooth and the first flat surface of the back yoke is provided at a corner between the tooth and the back yoke. The first curved section has a curvature radius ranging between 0.2 mm and 1.5 mm inclusive.

Core, stator, and rotating electric device

A method for manufacturing a sintered gear comprising the steps of: preparing a cylindrical green compact; gear-cutting the green compact with a hob; and sintering the gear-hobbed green compact, wherein the hob is such that a ratio of a number of cutting edges thereof per round to a number of starts thereof exceeds 8.

Method for manufacturing sintered gear

A core piece includes a first member in a column form and a second member in a plate form, the first member and the second member being configured by a green compact in which the first member and the second member are integrally formed, the green compact includes a plurality of soft magnetic particles having a flat shape, a first average aspect ratio of the soft magnetic particles is greater than or equal to 1.2 in a first cross section of the first member, a second average aspect ratio of the soft magnetic particles is greater than or equal to 1.2 in a second cross section of the second member, each of the first average aspect ratio and the second average aspect ratio is related to an average of lengths of soft magnetic particles in a direction of the stator core.

Core piece, stator core, stator, rotary electric machine, and method for producing core piece

Provided is an axial gap-type rotary electric machine in which a first stator, a second stator, and a rotor are arranged in a direction of a rotary shaft of the rotor. The first stator includes a first coil and a first core. The second stator includes a second coil and a second core. The first core includes an annular first yoke, a plurality of first teeth, and a first mark indicating a reference position in a circumferential direction of the first yoke. The second core includes an annular second yoke, a plurality of second teeth, and a second mark indicating a reference position in a circumferential direction of the second yoke. When viewed in the direction of the rotary shaft, the first mark and the second mark are symmetrically positioned with respect to the rotary shaft.

Rotary electric machine cores with reference position marks

A method of making a sintered part includes a step of applying a machining process to a compacted part with a tool to make a machined compacted part having a cogwheel shape, and a step of sintering the machined compacted part to make a sintered part, wherein the machining process is such that a surface of the compacted part on a side where the tool exits is supported by a plate member having a tooth pattern with same specifications as a tooth pattern of the cogwheel shape, and the tool is used to machine portions of the compacted part corresponding to tooth spaces of the plate member.

Method of making sintered part

This stator core is a stator core for a rotating electric machine of an axial gap type and includes a body portion formed by a compaction-molded body of soft magnetic powder whose surfaces are coated with insulating films, wherein the body portion is provided with one or a plurality of through holes.

Stator core, rotating electric device, and stator core manufacturing method

This axial gap motor includes: a stator; and a rotor provided so as to be opposed to the stator in an axial direction. The rotor includes an annular rotor yoke, and a plurality of magnets provided to contact one surface of the rotor yoke so as to be arranged at predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction with magnetic poles thereof being different alternately. The one surface includes a plurality of facing areas facing and contacting the plurality of magnets, and a non-facing area not facing the plurality of magnets. The non-facing area includes partial areas each located between a pair of the facing areas adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction among the plurality of facing areas. The partial areas are formed to be recesses recessed in the axial direction relative to the facing areas.

Rotating electric machine

A core used in an axial gap type rotating electrical machine includes an annular yoke having a plurality of through-holes disposed in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of columnar teeth disposed in the circumferential direction of the yoke, each of the plurality of columnar teeth including one end inserted into each of the plurality of through-holes. The yoke and each of the teeth are composed of a powder compact separate from each other, and the one end of each of the teeth is off-center in the through-hole.

Core, stator and rotating electrical machine

A core for use in an axial-gap rotary electric machine is annular and includes a plurality of core pieces into which the core is divided in a circumferential direction. Each core piece includes a yoke portion and a tooth portion that is formed integrally with the yoke portion and that projects from the yoke portion in an axial direction. Each yoke portion includes a plurality of protrusions provided on one side surface connected to the yoke portion of an adjacent one of the core pieces, and a plurality of recesses provided on other side surface connected to the yoke portion of another adjacent one of the core pieces, the recesses corresponding to the protrusions. An interval between the protrusions is 80% or less of a length of the one side surface of the yoke portion, the length being a direct distance between inner and outer peripheries of the yoke portion.

Core, stator, and rotary electric machine

A core that is used in an axial-gap rotary electric machine and that includes a body, and frame-shaped flange portions. The body includes an annular yoke and columnar teeth that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the yoke. The flange portions are fixed to end portions of the respective teeth. The yoke and the teeth are composed of a single powder compact. Each of the flange portions is composed of a powder compact that has a through-hole. The end portion of each of the teeth is inserted in the through-hole, and an end surface of each of the teeth is exposed from the through-hole. A ratio of an area of the end surface of each of the teeth to an area within an outer circumferential edge of each of the flange portions is 7.5% or more in a plan view in an axial direction of the yoke.

A powder magnetic core includes a compact including soft magnetic powder, and an insulating-resin coating that covers a portion of a surface of the compact. A ratio of an area of the insulating-resin coating to a surface area of the compact is lower than or equal to 85%, and a maximum depth of unevenness on a surface of the insulating-resin coating is smaller than or equal to 20 μm.

Powder magnetic core and electromagnetic part

A method of manufacturing a sintered gear includes preparing a green compact having two gear-shaped end surfaces, one on each of two sides in an axial direction of the green compact, and having a plurality of teeth on an outer peripheral surface formed between the two end surfaces; chamfering an edge of the teeth by a brush; and sintering the green compact. The brush is a wheel-type brush including a disk-shaped wheel and a bristle member radially protruding from an outer periphery of the wheel. The chamfering includes disposing the brush with respect to the green compact such that the axial direction of the green compact and an axial direction of the wheel intersect with each other; bringing a tip of the bristle member into contact with a tooth bottom edge; and relatively moving the brush in a circumferential direction of the green compact while rotating the brush.

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Tomoyuki Ueno