Outer-rotor electric motor having inner-stator formed by concentrically wrapping flattened stator elements on stator core

• US 6,081,059 A
• Filed: 04/21/1999
• Issued: 06/27/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chun-Pu Hsu
• Original Assignee: Chun-Pu Hsu
• Inventors: Hsu, Chun-Pu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Nestor
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tran N
• Application Number:
  US09/296,691
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: 310/254, 310/259, 310/41, 310/216, 310/218, 310/269, 310/156, 310/194, 29/596, 29/597, 29/598, 29/609, 29/605
• US Class Current: 310/179
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/148 Sectional cores H02K1/141 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/187 to inner stators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/2791 Surface mounted magnets; Inset magnets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/30 using intermediate parts, e.g. spiders
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/32 with channels or ducts for flow of cooling medium
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/022 with salient poles or claw-shaped poles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2203/12 Machines characterised by the bobbins for supporting the windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/325 for windings on salient poles, such as claw-shaped poles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/1737 radially supporting the rotor around a fixed spindle; radially supporting the rotor directly
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/22 Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups H02K5/06-H02K5/20, e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/083 radially supporting the rotary shaft at both ends of the rotor H02K7/086, H02K7/09 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/088 radially supporting the rotor directly
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49009 Dynamoelectric machine
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49011 Commutator or slip ring assembly
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49012 Rotor

Abstract

An electric motor of outer-rotor type includes: an inner stator mounted on a stator holder, an outer rotor rotatably circumferentially disposed around the inner stator, a shaft coaxially secured with the outer rotor, and a housing combined with the stator holder for encasing the outer rotor and the inner stator within the housing; with the inner stator including an annular core made of magnetic conductor, a plurality of fin arrays made of magnetic conductors and formed as a fin array assembly concentrically wrapped on the annular core, and a plurality of insulating coil bobbins each coil bobbin pre-wound with the coil windings thereon and jacketed on each fin array, thereby forming an inner stator having a stable construction, a higher winding capacity, higher magnetic flux density and higher output power, as well as a lower production cost.

Claims

1. An electric motor with outer rotor comprising:

an inner stator secured on a central stem of a stator holder having a longitudinal axis defined at a longitudinal center of the central stem of the stator holder;

an outer rotor circumferentially disposed around said inner stator and having a cylindrical magnetic conductor formed on an inside wall of said outer rotor operatively interacting with said inner stator when magnetized to cause rotation of said outer rotor due to armature reaction between said inner stator and said outer rotor;

a shaft coaxially secured with said outer rotor about said longitudinal axis;

said inner stator including;

an annular core including at least a central collar member and made of magnetic conductor secured on said central stem of said stator holder, having a plurality of recesses equally spaced and recessed in a core periphery of said collar member;

a fin array assembly including a plurality of fin arrays juxtapositionally linked to be a linear chain-like arrangement when flattened, each said fin array being a magnetic conductor and generally parallel to said longitudinal axis, said fin array assembly, having every two said fin arrays linked by a hinge portion therebetween having a folding line formed between said two fin arrays allowing a concentric curving of said fin arrays of said fin array assembly about said core, each fin array including at least a radial fin member having a cross section of T shape having a shank portion, and an engaging root portion formed on a bottom end of the shank portion to be engaged with each said recess in said collar member;

an insulating coil bobbin assembly embedded with said fin array assembly therein and including a plurality of insulating coil bobbins juxtapositionally linked to be a linear chain-like arrangement when flattened, each said coil bobbin made of electrically insulative material and being generally parallel to said longitudinal axis of said stator holder, each said bobbin including a reel portion formed with a central slot therein for inserting said shank portion of each said fin member through said central slot in said reel portion for winding magnetizing coil windings on said reel portion of each said bobbin, having a bobbin hinge portion formed between two said coil bobbins to define a bobbin folding line longitudinally in the bobbin hinge portion allowing a concentric curving of said coil bobbins to be concentrically wrapped on said core;

said coil bobbin assembly flattened for prewinding magnetizing coil windings, electrically connected to a power source, on said coil bobbins;

whereby upon embedding of said fin array assembly in said coil bobbin assembly prewound with said coil windings thereon and upon concentric curving of said fin array assembly and said coil bobbin assembly about said core to be concentrically wrapped on said core, said fin arrays are radially mounted on said core; and

a retaining disk capping an outer end portion of said core for stably fixing said core and said bobbins of said inner stator on said stator holder by a at least a bolt.

2. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said core is secured on said central stem of said stator holder by said retaining disk retained on an outer end portion of said core, having an axial bolt fixing said retaining disk on said central stem of said stator holder for retaining said core on said central stem.

3. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said core is secured to said central stem of said stator holder by passing at least a bolt through said retaining disk capped and retained on an end portion of said core and by passing said bolt through at least a bolt hole formed in said core for stably fixing said core on said stator holder.

4. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said collar member includes each said recess having an inner width adjacent to the axis wider than an outer width adjacent to said core periphery of the collar member for forming an embedding portion for engaging said root portion of each said fin member.

5. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said core and said fin array is each made of ferromagnetic materials including silicon steel plates which are laminated.

6. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said core and said fin array are each made by injection molding of magnetically conductive powder materials as blended with resin materials.

7. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said coil bobbins are linearly flattened for prewinding said coil windings thereon, and then said coil bobbins are embedded with said fin arrays in said bobbins.

8. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said coil bobbins are embedded with said fin arrays therein, and then said coil bobbins are prewound with coil windings thereon.

9. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein each said coil bobbin is independently prewound with coil windings thereon.

10. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said coil bobbin assembly is broken down to be a plurality of individnal coil bobbins, each said coil bobbin embedded with each said fin array therein.

11. An electric motor according to claim 1, wherein said core includes a polygonal core periphery to be engaged with the coil bobbin assembly formed as polygonal shape when concentrically wrapped on said core.