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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary E. Horst, Manchester, MO (US);
Alan D. Crapo, Florissant, MO (US);
Assignee:
Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K 2/112 ; H02K 2/114 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K 2/112 ; H02K 2/114 ;
Abstract
An interior permanent magnet machine is disclosed that, in one exemplary embodiment, includes a stator defining a number of stator poles, a rotor, a number of permanent magnets positioned within the interior of the rotor and at least two impedance reduction slits associated with each permanent magnet where the impedance reduction slits are positioned radially outward of the permanent magnets. In further embodiments, each impedance reduction slit is positioned such that at least a portion of the slit is within a defined region.