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公开(公告)号:US20250112580A1
公开(公告)日:2025-04-03
申请号:US18476723
申请日:2023-09-28
Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventor: Yilun Luo , Khorshed Mohammed Alam , Eric B. Gach , Chandra S. Namuduri , Rashmi Prasad , Mohammad F. Momen
IPC: H02P27/08 , B60L15/00 , H02M1/08 , H02M7/5395
Abstract: A slew rate controllable system for powering an electric machine. The system may include a plurality of power switches operable for converting a direct current (DC) input into an alternating current (AC) output suitable for electrically powering the electric machine. The system may include a gate drive system operable for controlling a slew rate associated with transitioning the switches between opened and closed states.
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公开(公告)号:US11496015B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-08
申请号:US16429828
申请日:2019-06-03
Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventor: Mohammad F. Momen , Khwaja M. Rahman
Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator has windings and teeth extending radially from a stator core. Each tooth is separated from an adjacent tooth by a stator slot that opens to a radial stator-rotor airgap via a slot opening. The windings are positioned within each slot. Each stator tooth has a tooth tip with a surface profile configured to guide rotor flux away from areas of the windings proximate the respective slot opening. The tip surface profile may be a concave region, e.g., a dent/chamfer, and/or a convex region, e.g., a bump/bulge, and is formed in a distal end surface of the tip proximate the opening. The stator-rotor airgap is smaller at the convex region and larger at the concave region than elsewhere along the distal end surface. An electrical system includes the machine, a battery, and a power inverter module.
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公开(公告)号:US20250119009A1
公开(公告)日:2025-04-10
申请号:US18483237
申请日:2023-10-09
Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventor: Mazharul Chowdhury , Cheongun Han , Michael C. Muir , Mohammad F. Momen , Edward L. Kaiser
Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine including a rotor core having a plurality of circumferentially spaced rotor poles. Each rotor pole may include a plurality of rotor slots arranged into one or more magnetic layers and one or more non-magnetic layers. The magnetic layers may include a magnet within one or more of the rotor slots thereof and the non-magnetic layers including no magnets within the rotor slots thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US20230018618A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-19
申请号:US17375101
申请日:2021-07-14
Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventor: Alireza Fatemi , Mohammad F. Momen , Thomas W. Nehl
Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor rotatably mounted to the housing, and a stator mounted to the housing about the rotor. The stator includes a stator body formed from a plurality of laminations. The plurality of laminations include an outer annular surface defining a radius, an inner annular surface spaced from the rotor, and a plurality of radially inwardly extending stator teeth spaced one from another by plurality of gaps. Each of the plurality of gaps extend along the radius and include an opening exposed at the inner annular surface. The opening has a first side portion and a second side portion each extending at an angle relative to the radius.
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公开(公告)号:US20250119033A1
公开(公告)日:2025-04-10
申请号:US18481708
申请日:2023-10-05
Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventor: Mazharul Chowdhury , Mohammad F. Momen , Khorshed Mohammed Alam , Alexander Forsyth , Yilun Luo
Abstract: A propulsion system for a vehicle includes an electric motor configured to generate torque to propel the vehicle. The electric motor has a stator assembly with a plurality of stator slots defining slot layers along a respective slot axis. A first plurality of conductors is at least partially positioned in the plurality of stator slots and forming a first winding set. A second plurality of conductors is at least partially positioned in the plurality of stator slots and forms a second winding set. A first inverter is adapted to drive the electric motor, the first winding set being coupled to the first inverter. A second inverter is adapted to drive the electric motor, the second winding set being coupled to the second inverter. The system includes a controller adapted to control operation of the first and second inverters based in part on a motor speed of the electric motor.
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公开(公告)号:US20250119002A1
公开(公告)日:2025-04-10
申请号:US18483181
申请日:2023-10-09
Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventor: Mohammad F. Momen , Mazharul Chowdhury , Alexander Forsyth , Yilun Luo
Abstract: Presented are electric machines with both bar and wire conductors, methods for making/using such machines, and vehicles equipped with such machines. An electric machine, such as a traction motor or electric generator, includes an outer housing, a stator fixedly mounted to the housing, and a rotor movably mounted to the housing and spaced across an airgap from the stator. Multiple magnets, such as permanent magnet blocks, are mounted on or in slots of the rotor (or the stator). A set of electromagnetic conductors extends through each radially elongated slot of the stator (or the rotor). Each conductor set includes a group of solid-wire or multistrand-wire conductors that is located adjacent the airgap. A group of hairpin or I-pin bar conductors is radially spaced from the airgap and located adjacent the wire conductors. The bar conductors have a cross-sectional area/shape that is distinct from a cross-sectional area/shape of the wire conductors.
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公开(公告)号:US20250038595A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-30
申请号:US18361289
申请日:2023-07-28
Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventor: Mazharul Chowdhury , Le Chang , William Robert Jensen , Mohammad F. Momen , Alan Del Rio
Abstract: An interior permanent magnet electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor features a rotor core with slots extending between its opposite ends. These slots contain a segmented magnet assembly, which includes magnet segments of different magnetic materials. The segmented magnet assembly may be divided radially, axially, circumferentially or combinations thereof and may include outer magnet segments made of the first magnetic material and inner magnet segments made of the second magnetic material. Additionally, the segmented magnet assembly includes magnetic poles that are aligned in radial, axial, or circumferential directions.
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公开(公告)号:US11722043B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-08
申请号:US17038757
申请日:2020-09-30
Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventor: Alireza Fatemi , Shawn H. Swales , Mohammad F. Momen , Derek F. Lahr
IPC: H02K21/04 , H02K1/276 , H02K21/14 , H02K1/2706
CPC classification number: H02K21/042 , H02K1/2706 , H02K1/2766 , H02K21/046 , H02K21/14
Abstract: A synchronous machine having a hybrid rotor excitation. The synchronous machine includes a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and electromagnets embedded within a rotor body. The permanent magnets produces a constant magnet field having a magnetic axis along a direct axis (D-axis). The electromagnets produces a variable magnetic field along a magnetic axis offset from the D-axis, preferable substantially orthogonal to the D-axis. The plurality of permanent magnets are separated from the electromagnets by a rotor air-gap. The plurality of permanent magnets includes inner pairs and outer pairs of permanent magnets nested in a V-shaped configuration. In another embodiment, the outer pairs of permanent magnets are replaced with outer radius electromagnets.
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公开(公告)号:US20230208216A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-29
申请号:US17560404
申请日:2021-12-23
Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventor: Mohammad F. Momen , Edward L. Kaiser
Abstract: Presented are electric machines with optimized stator tooth geometries and multi-gauge stator conductors, methods for making/using such electric machines, and motor vehicles equipped with such electric machines. An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor assembly rotatably attached to the housing, and a stator assembly coaxial with and separated by an airgap from the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes one or more magnets mounted to a rotor core. The stator assembly includes a stator core with multiple axially elongated, circumferentially spaced stator slots, multiple radially aligned stator teeth interleaved between and separating the slots, and multiple electromagnetic windings wound through the slots. Each stator tooth has an elongated tooth body with a tooth head at a radial end of a tooth root, which attaches to a cylindrical hub of the stator core. The tooth head has an axial cross-section with a trapezoidal crown integral with a rectangular tip.
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公开(公告)号:US20220103049A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-31
申请号:US17038757
申请日:2020-09-30
Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Inventor: Alireza Fatemi , Shawn H. Swales , Mohammad F. Momen , Derek F. Lahr
Abstract: A synchronous machine having a hybrid rotor excitation. The synchronous machine includes a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and electromagnets embedded within a rotor body. The permanent magnets produces a constant magnet field having a magnetic axis along a direct axis (D-axis). The electromagnets produces a variable magnetic field along a magnetic axis offset from the D-axis, preferable substantially orthogonal to the D-axis. The plurality of permanent magnets are separated from the electromagnets by a rotor air-gap. The plurality of permanent magnets includes inner pairs and outer pairs of permanent magnets nested in a V-shaped configuration. In another embodiment, the outer pairs of permanent magnets are replaced with outer radius electromagnets.
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