Abstract:
A laminated stack having a lamina layer comprised of a plurality of discrete lamina segments and which may also have laminas which define a plurality of outer perimeter configurations. The invention provides a method and apparatus for manufacturing such stacks. Lamina layers comprising a plurality of discrete lamina segments are automatically stacked by positioning the uppermost lamina in a choke barrel near the lower die bed surface and engaging the interlock tabs of the discrete lamina segments with the interlock slots of an uppermost lamina layer in the choke barrel prior to the complete separation of the discrete lamina segments from the remaining portion of the strip stock material. Each of the outer perimeter configurations has at least one common choke surface. The common choke surfaces form, when the laminas are stacked, a choke contacting surface on the outer perimeter surface of the lamina stack which extends continuously in the axial direction from the top lamina to the bottom lamina. A die assembly having selectively actuated punches is used to stamp the laminas with a plurality of outer perimeter configurations and the laminas are stacked in a choke barrel with an alignment surface which cooperates with the common choke surface and securely holds the stamped laminas in position while the stack is being formed. Rotation of the choke barrel compensates for strip thickness variations.
Abstract:
A magnet is provided on the inner circumferential surface of a hub rotatable about a central axis C of the motor, and a stator is arranged inside the inner circumferential surface of the hub to oppose the magnet. The stator core of the stator is formed by stacking substantially annular, plate-shaped core forming members, and has an annular portion arranged to be coaxial with the central axis, a plurality of winding portions projecting from the annular portion radially, and pole portions formed on the extending ends of the respective winding portions and opposing the magnet. Each winding portion is squeezed in the stacking direction by plastic formation such that its thickness is smaller than those of the annular portion and pole portion. A coil is wound on each squeezed winding portion.
Abstract:
A permanent magnetic rotor is disclosed, which comprises a rotor iron core constructed of a large number of steel plates being layered, each of the steel plates peripherally defining a plurality of sector-shaped blanked holes, and sector-shaped permanent magnetic pieces inserted into the blanked holes, wherein each of the steel plates comprises an outer peripheral ring portion formed on an outer side of the blanked hole, a yoke portion formed on an inner side of the blanked hole, a connect portion formed between the outer peripheral ring portion and the yoke portion, and thin and long fitting protrusions formed at corner portions of the blanked hole in the vicinity of the connect portion, the fitting protrusions protruding to the magnet insertion hole, the fitting protrusions being fitted to the permanent magnetic piece so as to pressure and fix the permanent magnetic piece.
Abstract:
A voice coil motor including (a) an E-shaped yoke having a center yoke portion and side yoke portions and constituted by a plurality of thin plates having the same configuration and stacked together; (b) a counter yoke member secured to an open end of the yoke; (c) permanent magnets secured to inner sides of the side yoke portions such that the same magnetic poles are opposed; (d) a hollow, cylindrical, movable coil supported for movements along the center yoke portion; and (e) a covering made of a corrosion-resistant material and provided integrally on outer surfaces of the yoke and the permanent magnets.
Abstract:
Elongated thin strip stock is blanked to form interlocking laminas for electric motor or generator rotors or stators at successive blanking stations. At a final assembly station the laminas are stacked and pressed into interlocking relationship. In response to an operator input a predetermined number of reversals, or half turns about the stack axis of the previously stacked lamina are provided in order to compensate for nonuniform strip thickness to obtain a rotor or stator of substantially uniform height. Alternatively the thickness of the strip stock is gauged at transversely spaced points on the strip to determine cross feed thickness variation in the strip whereupon the stacked laminas are automatically provided with a number of reversals about the stack axis in response to a thickness differential that would result in a parallelism error in the stack that exceeds a predetermined amount. Rotor conductor slots are formed in the stacked laminas and are skewed to the stack axis by providing arcuate indexing of each lamina relative to the next preceding lamina in the stack by an arcuate increment that is automatically determined in response to operator entered inputs relative to the stack height, the skew angle, nominal lamina thickness and skew direction.
Abstract:
Elongated thin strip stock is blanked to form interlocking laminas for electric motor or generator rotors or stators at successive blanking stations. At a final assembly station the laminas are stacked and pressed into interlocking relationship. In response to an operator input a predetermined number of reversals, or half turns about the stack axis of the previously stacked lamina are provided in order to compensate for nonuniform strip thickness to obtain a rotor or stator of substantially uniform height. Alternatively the thickness of the strip stock is gauged at transversely spaced points on the strip to determine cross feed thickness variation in the strip whereupon the stacked laminas are automatically provided with a number of reversals about the stack axis in response to a thickness differential that would result in a parallelism error in the stack that exceeds a predetermined amount. Rotor conductor slots are formed in the stacked laminas and are skewed to the stack axis by providing arcuate indexing of each lamina relative to the next preceding lamina in the stack by an arcuate increment that is automatically determined in response to operator entered inputs relative to the stack height, the skew angle, nominal lamina thickness and skew direction.
Abstract:
Energy efficiency of electric motors and transformer, inductor and ballast apparatus is increased through use of amorphous ferromagnetic materials and thin section electrical steels by methods using folding of lamination stock, forming of lamination stock after folding or punching, and stacking to form substantially solid flux-conducting structures. Such apparatus may employ multiple ferromagnetic materials to conduct major portions of the magnetic flux in the apparatus magnetic circuit. Apparatus is also described in which magnetic and mechanical support functions reside in differing ferromagnetic or structural plastic materials in composite structures.
Abstract:
An apparatus for forming a stack of interlocked laminations (disks) that can be used as a rotor in an electric motor. Each disk is severed from a metal sheet that is passed horizontally through a die apparatus. The severed disks are sequentially driven downwardly into a vertical die opening having an upper diameter chosen to grip the disk edges, as a stack is being formed. The lower end of the stack advances into an expandable rotatable collet. When the stack has passed below the upper end of the die opening, the collet is opened to drop the completed stack to a conveyor.A sensor device detects the lowest disk in the descending stack. A signal generated by the sensor device is used to determine the number of disks necessary to finish the stack by dividing the unfinished height of the stack by the thickness of the advancing metal sheet.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for manufacturing laminated assemblies having ridges formed on projections which interlock with recesses of adjacent laminations. The improvement to the laminated assembly is a projection with a smaller cross-sectional area than the recess and with a plurality of exterior longitudinal ridges protruding from the projection surface for securing adjacent laminations together by compressive interference fit between the ridges and the recess in interlocking relationship throughout the laminated assembly. An improvement in the method for the manufacture of a pack of metal laminae by use of a multistation progressive die operation on a strip of material, during the step of punching the recesses and simultaneously forming interlocking projections in a lower die, the improvement being forming the projection with a smaller cross-sectional area than the recess and with a plurality of exterior longitudinal ridges protruding from the projection surface for securing adjacent laminations together by compressive interference fit between the ridges and the wall of the recess. The projection is formed in a lower die of the multistation progressive die apparatus, wherein the lower die has a plurality of longitudinal grooves on the interior surface of the lower die to produce the ridges protruding from the circumferential surface of the projection simultaneously as the punch produces the recess in the upper portion of the plate.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for manufacturing laminated assemblies having ridges formed on projections which interlock with recesses of adjacent laminations. The improvement to the laminated assembly is a projection with a smaller cross-sectional area than the recess and with a plurality of exterior longitudinal ridges protruding from the projection surface for securing adjacent laminations together by compressive interference fit between the ridges and the recess in interlocking relationship throughout the laminated assembly. An improvement in the method for the manufacture of a pack of metal laminae by use of a multistation progressive die operation on a strip of material, during the step of punching the recesses and simultaneously forming interlocking projections in a lower die, the improvement being forming the projection with a smaller cross-sectional area than the recess and with a plurality of exterior longitudinal ridges protruding from the projection surface for securing adjacent laminations together by compressive interference fit between the ridges and the wall of the recess. The projection is formed in a lower die of the multistation progressive die apparatus, wherein the lower die has a plurality of longitudinal grooves on the interior surface of the lower die to produce the ridges protruding from the circumferential surface of the projection simultaneously as the punch produces the recess in the upper portion of the plate.