Switched reluctance motor manufacture with variable wire twist rate
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsCarlos E. Nino Baron, Yash Bharat Bhatia, Bradford Allyn Kough, Andrew A. Friebohle
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Abstract
An assembly for an electric motor includes a stator including a plurality of stator poles, each stator pole including a base end and a rotor end opposite the base end, and an electromagnetic coil around each stator pole. The coil around each stator pole includes at least two electrically conductive wires wound into multiple wire turns around the stator pole that extend from the base end of the stator pole to the rotor end of the stator pole. Wire turns of the coil closer to the rotor end of the stator pole are twisted and wire turns of the coil closer to the base end of the stator pole are not twisted.
Claims20
An assembly for an electric motor, the assembly comprising:
- a stator including a plurality of stator poles, each stator pole including a base end and a rotor end opposite the base end;
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- an electromagnetic coil around each stator pole, the coil around each stator pole including:
- at least two electrically conductive wires wound into multiple wire turns around the stator pole that extend between the base end of the stator pole to the rotor end of the stator pole;
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- wherein wire turns of the coil closer to the rotor end of the stator pole are twisted and wire turns of the coil closer to the base end of the stator pole are not twisted.
A method of making an assembly for an electric motor, the method comprising:
- forming an electromagnetic coil by winding at least two electrically conductive wires into multiple wire turns that are wound lateral to a coil center, wherein the coil has a first side and a second side;
- twisting wire turns of the coil closer to the first side of the coil and not twisting wire turns of the coil closer to the second side of the coil;
- forming a plurality of the electromagnetic coils;
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- disposing each coil of the plurality of coils onto a stator pole of a stator having multiple stator poles, each stator pole having a rotor end and a base end, and each coil disposed to have the first side of the coil closer to the rotor end of the stator pole and the second side of the coil closer to the base end of the stator pole.
An electric motor of a work machine, the electric motor comprising:
- a stator including a plurality of stator poles and a plurality of stator slots, each stator pole including a base end and a rotor end opposite the base end and each stator slot positioned between two stator poles;
- a rotor positioned with in the stator and including a plurality of rotor poles extending toward the stator poles;
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- a plurality of electromagnetic coils, each coil arranged around a stator pole and including:
- at least two electrically conductive wires wound into multiple wire turns of a coil arranged around the stator pole that extend from the base end of the stator pole to the rotor end of the stator pole, wherein the multiple wire turns of the coil include wire turns closer to the rotor end of the stator pole that are twisted and wire turns closer to the base end of the stator pole that are not twisted.
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