Dynamoelectric machine with permanent magnet and magnet mounting surface arrangement

• US 4,642,502 A
• Filed: 04/24/1986
• Issued: 02/10/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Inventors: Murphy, John W., Carpenter, Keith H., Miller, Jon E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Salce, Patrick R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): REBSCH, DONALD
• Application Number:
  US06/855,344
• Time in Patent Office: 292 Days
• Field of Search: 310/42, 310/154, 310/156, 310/216, 310/217, 310/218, 310/254, 310/261
• US Class Current: 310/156.12
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/2781 Magnets shaped to vary the mechanical air gap between the magnets and the stator
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2201/06 Magnetic cores, or permanent magnets characterised by their skew

Abstract

A dynamoelectric machine has a rotor or stator which comprises a core with axial groups of flat, rectangular magnet mounting surfaces, each successive magnet mounting surface of a group being circumferentially offset by a common angle of axial rotation from the previous magnet mounting surface. A magnet is mounted on each magnet mounting surface; and each magnet has a flat surface for mounting and an opposing arcuate surface to help form a cylindrical surface. Each of the magnets has the shape, when viewed radially, of a parallelogram forming a skew angle with the axis corresponding with the rotational offset of the magnet mounting surfaces to define skewed slots between skewed magnetic poles extending the substantial axial length of the core. The core may comprise polygonal lamina with the flat polygon sides grouped to form the magnet mounting surfaces; or it may comprise circular lamina with a non-magnetic sleeve having the magnet mounting surfaces. The latter provides a larger but more even air gap.

Claims

1. A dynamoelectric machine having a rotor and a stator, one of the rotor and stator comprising a plurality of wound electromagnetic poles, the other of the rotor and stator comprising, in combination:

a core at least a portion of which is laminated of a magnetic material, the core having an axis and a plurality of flat, rectangular magnet mounting surfaces parallel to the axis, the magnet mounting surfaces being grouped in axial groups with each successive magnet mounting surface of each axial group, proceeding from one axial end of the core, circumferentially offset by a common angle of rotation about the axis from the previous magnet mounting surface of the axial group; and

a plurality of identically shaped permanent magnets mounted one on each of the magnet mounting surfaces, the magnets having flat surfaces adjacent the magnet mounting surfaces and arcuate surfaces opposite the flat surfaces, the arcuate surfaces of the magnets together forming a generally cylindrical surface adjacent the wound electromagnetic poles, each of the magnets further having the shape, when viewed radially, of a parallelogram forming a skew angle with the axis corresponding with the rotational offset of the magnet mounting surfaces to define skewed slots between skewed magnetic poles extending the substantial axial length of the core.

2. A dynamoelectric machine having a rotor and a stator, one of the rotor and stator comprising a plurality of wound electromagnetic poles, the other of the rotor and stator comprising, in combination:

a core comprising a plurality of substantially identical lamina of a magnetic material each having a polygonal circumference, the lamina being axially stacked in groups with the lamina of each group forming flat, rectangular, magnet mounting surfaces, each group of lamina, proceeding from one axial end of the core, being rotationally offset about the common axis by a common angle of rotation from the previous group of lamina; and

a plurality of identically shaped permanent magnets mounted one on each of the magnet mounting surfaces, the magnets having flat surfaces adjacent the magnet mounting surfaces and arcuate surfaces opposite the flat surfaces, the arcuate surfaces forming a generally cylindrical surface adjacent the wound electromagnetic poles, each of the magnets further having the shape, when viewed radially, of a parallelogram forming a skew angle with the axis corresponding with the rotational offset of the magnet mounting surfaces to define skewed slots between skewed magnetic poles extending the substantial axial length of the core.

3. A dynamoelectric machine having a rotor and a stator, one of the rotor and stator comprising a plurality of wound electromagnetic poles, the other of the rotor and stator comprising, in combination:

a core comprising a plurality of substantially identical lamina of a magnetic material, the lamina having a circular circumference and being axially stacked to form a cylindrical surface;

a sleeve made of a non-magnetic material and having a cylindrical surface adjacent the cylindrical surface of the core, the sleeve having an opposing surface comprising a plurality of flat, rectangular, magnet mounting surfaces, the magnet mounting surfaces being grouped in axial groups with each successive magnet mounting surface of each axial group, proceeding from one axial end of the core, rotationally offset about the common axis by a common angle from the previous magnet mounting surface of the axial group; and

a plurality of identically shaped permanent magnets mounted one on each of the magnet mounting surfaces, the magnets having flat surfaces adjacent the magnet mounting surfaces and arcuate surfaces opposite the flat surfaces, the arcuate surfaces forming a generally cylindrical surface adjacent the stationary poles, each of the magnets further having the shape, when viewed radially, of a parallelogram forming a skew angle with the axis corresponding with the rotational offset of the magnet mounting surfaces to define skewed slots between skewed magnetic poles extending the substantial axial length of the core.

4. A dynamoelectric machine according to claim 3 in which the non-magnetic material of the sleeve is a metallic material such as stainless steel.

5. A dynamoelectric machine according to claim 3 in which the non-magnetic material of the sleeve is a thermoplastic resin.