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US 11,901,766 B2Granted
Carbon composite rotor for electric motors
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsIwona Wrobel, Lara Naomi Huapaya Rojas, Tod Policandriotes
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Abstract
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a method of making a carbon rotor includes, providing a quantity of material, densifying the quantity of material, and forming the densified material into a disk shape.
Claims10
A method of making a carbon rotor, comprising:
- providing a first quantity of a first material;
- forming the first quantity of material into a second quantity of a second material, wherein the second quantity of the second material includes a quantity of open carbon fiber fabric;
- densifying the quantity of material;
- forming the densified material into a disk shape after densifying the quantity of material;
- forming a central bore in the disk configured to accept a rotor shaft;
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- forming two or more apertures in the disk, radially outward from the central bore and circumferentially spaced from one another, configured to accept two or more rotor magnets.
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