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Granted Patent B2
US 12,500,496 · App. 17/798,317 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Stator-and-rotor structure and axial magnetic field motor

Inventors: Shengchuan Zhang (Wuxi, CN); Xuebo Xiong (Wuxi, CN); Liang Fang (Wuxi, CN); Tao Han (Wuxi, CN); Haisheng Yu (Wuxi, CN); Yanjun Tan (Wuxi, CN); Xiaozhe Lin (Wuxi, CN); Ruiping Wang (Wuxi, CN); Ingo Scholten (Wuxi, CN)
Assignee: WUXI INFIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
H02K16/00H02K1/16H02K1/2796H02K1/2798H02K2201/03
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Patent No.
US 12,500,496
App. No.
17/798,317
Granted
Dec 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A stator-and-rotor structure and an axial magnetic field motor are provided. The stator-and-rotor structure is a dual-stator and dual-rotor structure. Permanent magnets of the outer rotor is fixed on a rotor yoke portion, the inner rotor has no rotor yoke portion, permanent magnets of the inner rotor is fixed on a rotor support, the inner stator core has no stator yoke portion, and the outer stator core has a stator yoke portion.

Claims (31)

1 . A stator-and-rotor structure, sequentially comprising a first rotor, a first stator, a second rotor and a second stator disposed at intervals in an axial direction, enabling the first rotor to be located at one end of the stator-and-rotor structure and the second stator to be located at another end of the stator-and-rotor structure opposite to the one end, wherein the first rotor comprises a first rotor yoke portion and a plurality of first rotor permanent magnets disposed at circumferential intervals on a side of the first rotor yoke portion facing the first stator, the second rotor comprises a non-magnetic permeable second rotor support and a plurality of second rotor permanent magnets disposed at circumferential intervals on the second rotor support, the first stator comprises a first stator core comprising a plurality of first stator core tooth portions disposed at circumferential intervals, the second stator comprises a second stator core comprising a second stator core yoke portion and a plurality of second stator core tooth portions disposed at circumferential intervals on a side of the second stator core yoke portion facing the second rotor, and an axial closed-loop magnetic path is formed between the first rotor yoke portion of the first rotor and the second stator core yoke portion of the second stator;

wherein both of the plurality of first rotor permanent magnets and the plurality of second rotor permanent magnets are axially magnetized and are in one-to-one correspondence in the axial direction, the correspondingly disposed first rotor permanent magnets and the second rotor permanent magnets have a same magnetizing direction, two adjacent first rotor permanent magnets have opposite magnetizing directions, and two adjacent second rotor permanent magnets have opposite magnetizing directions; and

wherein an air gap between the first rotor and the first stator is a first air gap, an air gap between the first stator and the second rotor is a second air gap, and an air gap between the second rotor and the second stator is a third air gap;

a plurality of groups of axial closed-loop magnetic paths are provided, each group of the axial closed-loop magnetic paths starts from an N pole of one of the first rotor permanent magnets facing the first air gap, pass through the first air gap, a first stator core tooth portion, the second air gap, a second rotor permanent magnet corresponding to the first rotor permanent magnet, the third air gap and the second stator core tooth along the axial direction, and then returns from the second stator core yoke portion to both sides; after passing through a second stator core tooth portion, the third air gap, two second rotor permanent magnets adjacent to the corresponding second rotor permanent magnet, the second air gap, the first stator core tooth portion, the first air gap and two first rotor permanent magnets adjacent to the first rotor permanent magnet along the axial direction, the closed-loop magnetic paths return from the first rotor yoke portion to an S pole of the first rotor permanent magnet.

2 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first stator core is directly molded from a soft magnetic composite material.

3 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first stator further comprises a plurality of first stator insulating supports and a plurality of first stator windings, which are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of first stator core tooth portions; each first stator core tooth portion is provided with first stator core pole pieces at peripheries of two axial end faces, a first stator insulating support is sleeved in an annular groove formed by side walls of the first stator core tooth portions and the two first stator core pole pieces, and the first stator windings are wound on the first stator insulating supports.

4 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of first stator core tooth portions are sequentially spliced into a ring by a non-magnetic permeable material, or connected by a non-magnetic permeable annular support, or formed into a whole by injection molding.

5 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the second stator core is formed by punching and coiling a silicon steel sheet, or directly molded from a soft magnetic composite material.

6 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the second stator further comprises a plurality of second stator insulating supports and a plurality of second stator windings, which are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of second stator core tooth portions; the second stator insulating supports are sleeved on sidewalls of the second stator core tooth portions, and the second stator windings are wound on the second stator insulating supports.

7 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first rotor yoke portion is an annular magnetic disk with a plurality of locating slots at circumferential intervals on a side of the annular magnetic disk facing the first stator, and the plurality of first rotor permanent magnets are fixed in the plurality of locating slots in one-to-one correspondence.

8 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the second rotor support comprises a second rotor support inner ring, a second rotor support outer ring and a plurality of second rotor support connectors extended radially between the second rotor support inner ring and the second rotor support outer ring, and the plurality of second rotor support connectors divide an annular space between the second rotor support inner ring and the second rotor support outer ring into a plurality of sector-shaped through slots, and the plurality of second rotor permanent magnets are fixed in the plurality of through slots in one-to-one correspondence.

9 . An axial magnetic field motor comprising a casing, a rotating shaft, and the stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein the first rotor and the second rotor are sleeved on the rotating shaft, and the first stator and the second stator are fixedly connected with the casing.

10 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first stator core is directly molded from a soft magnetic composite material.

11 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first stator further comprises a plurality of first stator insulating supports and a plurality of first stator windings, which are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of first stator core tooth portions; each first stator core tooth portion is provided with first stator core pole pieces at peripheries of two axial end faces, a first stator insulating support is sleeved in an annular groove formed by side walls of the first stator core tooth portions and the two first stator core pole pieces, and the first stator windings are wound on the first stator insulating supports.

12 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of first stator core tooth portions are sequentially spliced into a ring by a non-magnetic permeable material, or connected by a non-magnetic permeable annular support, or formed into a whole by injection molding.

13 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the second stator core is formed by punching and coiling a silicon steel sheet, or directly molded from a soft magnetic composite material.

14 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the second stator further comprises a plurality of second stator insulating supports and a plurality of second stator windings, which are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of second stator core tooth portions; the second stator insulating supports are sleeved on sidewalls of the second stator core tooth portions, and the second stator windings are wound on the second stator insulating supports.

15 . The stator-and-rotor structure according to claim 1 , wherein:

the first rotor yoke portion is an annular magnetic disk with a plurality of locating slots at circumferential intervals on a side of the annular magnetic disk facing the first stator, and the plurality of first rotor permanent magnets are fixed in the plurality of locating slots in one-to-one correspondence.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 8, 2024
From: ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO., LTD.; WUXI INFIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: WUXI INFIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 068206/0747 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2022
From: ZHANG, SHENGCHUAN; XIONG, XUEBO; FANG, LIANG; HAN, TAO; YU, HAISHENG; TAN, YANJUN; LIN, XIAOZHE; WANG, RUIPING; SCHOLTEN, INGO
To: ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO.,LTD.; WUXI INFIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060961/0457 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202111105831.1 · Sep 22, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240186871A1 · Jun 6, 2024
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