Permanent magnet rotary electric machine

• US 9,515,528 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2014
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Maeda, Yoshiki, Yamaguchi, Shinichi, Ando, Kazuaki, Naka, Koki, Harakawa, Masaya
• Primary Examiner(s): Lam, Thanh
• Application Number:
  US15/033,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20160254713A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,065 Days
• Field of Search: 31015612-15613, 31015638-15639, 310/156.28, 31015644-15646
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/2781 Magnets shaped to vary the mechanical air gap between the magnets and the stator
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/14 with magnets rotating within the armatures
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2201/03 Machines characterised by aspects of the air-gap between rotor and stator
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2213/03 Machines characterised by numerical values, ranges, mathematical expressions or similar information
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 29/03 with a magnetic circuit specially adapted for avoiding torque ripples or self-starting problems

Abstract

A permanent magnet rotary electric machine includes: a stator in which a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots are formed on an inner periphery of a cylindrical stator core, and a winding wire is wound around the teeth so as to be disposed in the slots; and a rotor disposed in a hollow portion of the stator with an air gap between the rotor and the stator. In the rotor, 2n or more (n is a natural number equal to or larger than 1) radial projections are provided on an outer periphery of a rotor core, and a ferrite magnet is disposed between adjacent projections. A radial height of the projection is less than a thickness of middle of the ferrite magnet.

Claims

1. A permanent magnet rotary electric machine comprising:

a stator in which a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots are formed on an inner periphery of a cylindrical stator core, and a winding wire is wound around the teeth so as to be disposed in the slots; and

a rotor disposed in a hollow portion of the stator with an air gap between the rotor and the stator,

wherein in the rotor, a radial projection is provided on an outer periphery of a rotor core, a number of the projection is 2n or more (n is a natural number equal to or larger than

     1), and a ferrite magnet is disposed between adjacent projections,

wherein a lateral of the projection perpendicular to a projecting direction of the projection and an edge of the ferrite magnet have a shape along the projecting direction,

wherein a radial height of the projection is less than a thickness of middle of the ferrite magnet and greater than a thickness of the edge of the ferrite magnet, and

wherein when the thickness of the middle of the ferrite magnet is Lm, the radial height of the projection is Lt, and the thickness of the edge of the ferrite magnet is Lme, a relation of Lm>

Lt>

Lme is satisfied.

2. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein a projection width of the projection in a circumferential direction is in a range from 5% to 11% of a magnetic pole pitch (=π

×

rotor outer diameter/number or poles).

3. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein the thickness of the middle of the ferrite magnet is 10 or more times larger than a length of the air gap between the stator and the rotor.

4. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein a curvature radius of an outer periphery of the ferrite magnet is in a range from 60% to 100% of a radius of the rotor.

5. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein when a curvature radius of an R-shape of a corner of a tip of the projection is R₂, a curvature radius of an R-shape of a stator-core-side corner of the ferrite magnet is R₃, and a curvature radius of an R-shape of a rotor-core-side corner of the ferrite magnet is R₄, a relation of R₂<

R₃<

R₄ is satisfied.

6. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein the rotor core is formed by stacking a plurality of magnetic steel sheets, the projection is formed from a block iron core, and then the rotor core and the projection are assembled,

or the rotor core and the projection are formed from a block iron core, and then assembled by means of bolting.

7. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein an outer periphery of the rotor core and an inner periphery of the ferrite magnet have a planar shape.

8. The permanent magnet rotary electric machine according to claim 1,

wherein the permanent magnet rotary electric machine is driven without using a position sensor that detects a rotational position of the rotor.