# US 10,873,226 B2 · Rotary electric machine

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- Number: US 10,873,226 B2
- Document ID: US10873226B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/879,843
- Filed: 2018-01-25
- Published: 2018-08-02
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2017-01-27
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Masafumi Namba; Shinya Urata; Hideo Nakai; Hiroyuki Hattori; Shinji Wakamatsu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10873226B2

## CPC

- H02K 1/2766: {having a flux concentration effect}
- H02K 1/16: Stator cores with slots for windings
- H02K 1/18: Means for mounting or fastening magnetic stationary parts on to, or to, the stator structures
- H02K 3/12: arranged in slots
- H02K 3/28: Layout of windings or of connections between windings (windings for pole-changing H02K17/06, H02K17/14, H02K19/12, H02K19/32)
- H02K 16/02: Machines with one stator and two {or more} rotors
- H02K 19/10: for multi-phase current
- H02K 21/145: {having an annular armature coil (with homopolar co-operation H02K21/20)}
- H02K 2213/03: Machines characterised by numerical values, ranges, mathematical expressions or similar information
- H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53})

## Abstract

A rotary electric machine includes an annular stator, an inner rotor, an outer rotor and a toroidal coil. The annular stator includes inner teeth protruding radially inward and outer teeth protruding radially outward. The inner rotor faces a radially inner side of the annular stator. The outer rotor faces a radially outer side of the annular stator. The toroidal coils are arranged in each inner slot between any adjacent two of the inner teeth and a corresponding one outer slot between adjacent two of the outer teeth. The total number of the plurality of outer slots is larger than the total number of the plurality of inner slots. The number of the coils arranged in all the outer slots is larger than or equal to the number of the coils arranged in all the inner slots.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A rotary electric machine comprising:
an annular stator including a plurality of inner teeth and a plurality of outer teeth, the plurality of inner teeth protruding radially inward, the plurality of outer teeth protruding radially outward;
an inner rotor facing a radially inner side of the annular stator;
an outer rotor facing a radially outer side of the annular stator; and
a toroidal coil arranged in each inner slot between any adjacent inner teeth and at least part of a plurality of outer slots, each outer slot is between adjacent two of the outer teeth,
the total number of the plurality of outer slots is larger than the total number of the plurality of inner slots,
the plurality of outer slots are configured such that a first outer slot and a second outer slot are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, and the ratio of the total number of the plurality of outer slots to the total number of the plurality of inner slots is two to one,
only the toroidal coil is arranged in each of the plurality of inner slots and the first outer slots, the first outer slots being the at least part of the plurality of outer slots,
only a distributed coil is arranged in each of the second outer slots, and
the number of the toroidal coils and the distributed coils arranged in all the outer slots is larger than the number of the toroidal coils arranged in all the inner slots.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The rotary electric machine according to claim 1, wherein
each first outer slot is arranged at the same position in the circumferential direction as a corresponding one of the inner slots, and
each second outer slot is arranged at a different position in the circumferential direction with respect to a corresponding one of the inner slots.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The rotary electric machine according to claim 2, wherein
a flat wire coil having a rectangular cross section is arranged in each first outer slot as the toroidal coil, and
a round wire coil having a circular cross section is arranged in each second outer slot as the distributed coil.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The rotary electric machine according to claim 1, wherein
the first outer slots and the second outer slots are configured such that two of the first outer slots and two of the second outer slots are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction at the radially outer side of the annular stator.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The rotary electric machine according to claim 4, wherein
the distributed coil arranged in each second outer slot is wound around a plurality of the outer teeth between the second outer slot and another one of the second outer slots.