# US 10,371,144 B2 · Linear motor, compressor equipped with linear motor and equipment equipped with linear motor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,371,144 B2 - Document ID: US10371144B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/884,189 - Filed: 2015-10-15 - Published: 2016-05-12 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-11-07 - Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd. - Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd. - Inventors: Eri Maruyama; Yasuaki Aoyama; Takahiro Suzuki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10371144B2 ## CPC - F04B 53/14: Pistons, piston-rods or piston-rod connections - F04B 35/045: {using solenoids} - F04B 49/06: Control using electricity (regulating by means of floats actuating electric switches F04B49/04) - H02K 41/031: {of the permanent magnet type} - F04B 2203/0401: Current - F04B 2203/0402: Voltage - H02K 3/28: Layout of windings or of connections between windings (windings for pole-changing H02K17/06, H02K17/14, H02K19/12, H02K19/32) - H02K 11/225: Detecting coils - F04B: POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F) - H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53}) ## Abstract There is provided a linear motor that can detect the displacement of a moving member or the inclination of the moving member in a direction in which two windings are opposed to each other and equipment equipped with the linear motor. A linear motor includes: a first armature having an upper winding and a lower winding opposed to the upper winding through a gap in a vertical direction; a moving member having a permanent magnet and enabled to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction with respect to the first armature; and a current detecting unit that detects an electric current carried through the first armature. The upper winding and the lower winding are in parallel connection. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A linear motor comprising: a moving member having a permanent magnet; a first armature having an upper winding and a lower winding opposed to the upper winding through a gap in a vertical direction, and configured to apply thrust and reciprocate the moving member in a longitudinal direction; two second armatures configured to apply a levitation force to the moving member; a current detecting unit that detects an electric current carried through the first armature; and a controller configured to apply respective electric currents to the first armature and the two second armatures, wherein the upper winding and the lower winding are in parallel connection, wherein the two second armatures are provided in the longitudinal direction, and one of the two second armatures is provided at a front of a center of gravity of the moving member and the other of the two second armatures is provided at a rear of the center of gravity of the moving member, and wherein the controller is configured to magnetize each of the two second armatures to have a same polarity as the permanent magnet respectively opposed thereto. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the current detecting unit includes two current sensors that detect an electric current carried through the upper winding and an electric current carried through the lower winding. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the current detecting unit includes a current transformer disposed to detect a difference between an electric current carried through the upper winding and an electric current carried through the lower winding. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the first armature includes two sets of the upper winding and the lower winding opposed to the upper winding through the gap in the vertical direction; the two upper windings are in series connection; and the two lower windings are in series connection. ### Claim 5 A linear motor comprising: a first armature having two sets of an upper winding and a lower winding opposed to the upper winding through a gap in a vertical direction; a moving member having a permanent magnet and enabled to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction with respect to the first armature; a current detecting unit that detects an electric current carried through the first armature; and a resistor, a coil, or a capacitor, or two or more resistors, coils, or capacitors connected between the two upper windings or between the two lower windings, wherein the two upper windings are in series connection, wherein the two lower windings are in series connection, wherein the sets of the upper winding and the lower winding are in parallel connection, and wherein the current detecting unit includes a current sensor that detects an electric current carried through one of the resistor, the coil, or the capacitor, or an electric current carried through the two or more resistors, coils, or capacitors. ### Claim 6 A linear motor comprising: a first armature having two sets of an upper winding and a lower winding opposed to the upper winding through a gap in a vertical direction; a moving member having a permanent magnet and enabled to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction with respect to the first armature; and a current detecting unit that detects an electric current carried through the first armature, wherein the two upper windings are in parallel connection, wherein the two lower windings are in parallel connection, and wherein the sets of the upper winding and the lower winding are in parallel connection. ### Claim 7 A compressor comprising: a moving member having a permanent magnet; a first armature having an upper winding and a lower winding opposed to the upper winding through a gap in a vertical direction, and configured to apply thrust and reciprocate the moving member in a longitudinal direction; a second armature configured to apply a levitation force to the moving member; a current detecting unit that detects an electric current carried through the first armature; a controller configured to apply respective electric currents to the first armature and the two second armatures; a piston connected to one end of the moving member; and a cylinder on which the piston is slid, wherein the upper winding and the lower winding are in parallel connection, wherein the two second armatures are provided in the longitudinal direction, and one of the two second armatures is provided at a front of a center of gravity of the moving member and the other of the two second armatures is provided at a rear of the center of gravity of the moving member, and wherein the controller is configured to magnetize each of the two second armatures to have a same polarity as the permanent magnet respectively opposed thereto. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) Equipment comprising the linear motor according to claim 1.