1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a slotless winding for a rotating electric machine and a manufacturing method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a slotless winding for a rotating electric machine and formed on a flexible printed circuit board and a manufacturing method thereof.
2. Description of the Related Art
a-1d show schematic views of four kinds of conventional motors. In the four conventional motors, the same elements are labeled with the same reference numbers. In
In
c, the elements of a third kind of conventional motor 1C are substantially the same as elements of the first kind of conventional motor 1A, except that the arrangement thereof is different. The third kind of conventional motor 1C includes a housing 11, a winding 12, a first magnet 131, a second magnet 132, a shaft 14, a first gap 151, and a second gap 152. The first magnet 131 is fixed on the housing 11, the second magnet 132 is fixed on the shaft 14, the first gap 151 exists between the winding 12 and the first magnet 131, and the second gap 152 exists between the winding 12 and the second magnet 132.
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In the four kinds of conventional motors 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D, the windings (including the winding 12, the first winding 121, and the second winding 122) are coil windings, as shown in
Another manufacturing method is that a purpose made winding machine is directly used to fabricate the coil with the slotless winding design on special mold and jig. The processes of the above two methods are quite complex and require the matching of special jig and mold holder, and if the copper wire used for winding is slim, it is necessary for the winding machine to have corresponding tension controlling device to prevent the wires from breaking. After the winding is finished, it is still necessary to perform plastic compression, shaping, and curing procedures, so it is disadvantageous for mass production assembly.
Therefore, it is necessary to provide an innovative and progressive slotless winding for a rotating electric machine and a manufacturing method thereof, so as to solve the above problems.
The present invention is mainly directed to a slotless winding for a rotating electric machine, which includes at least one flexible printed circuit board having at least one circuit. One piece of flexible printed circuit board(s) is curved or wound, or a plurality of pieces of flexible printed circuit board(s) are mutually combined to form a barrel shape.
The present invention is further directed to a method of manufacturing a slotless winding for a rotating electric machine, which includes the following steps: (a) providing at least one flexible printed circuit board; (b) forming at least one circuit on a surface of or inside each flexible printed circuit board; and (c) making the flexible printed circuit board(s) form a barrel shape.
The advantage of the present invention is that the procedure of manufacturing the slotless winding is simplified, and production speed and reliability are enhanced. Further, the winding can be designed in various ways to meet the demand of motor or generator, so as to increase the applicability of coil copper wire and to greatly improve the performance. In addition, the coil is manufactured through a semiconductor process, and thus the industrial value and technical threshold of the motor are increased. Finally, it is not necessary for the coil to be cured for assembling, thus enhancing the assembling yield.
a is a schematic view of a first kind of conventional motor;
b is a schematic view of a second kind of conventional motor;
c is a schematic view of a third kind of conventional motor;
d is a schematic view of a fourth kind of conventional motor;
a is a schematic top view of a flexible printed circuit board according to a first embodiment of the present invention, in which only a first circuit is shown;
b is a schematic top view of the flexible printed circuit board according to a first embodiment of the present invention, in which only a second circuit is shown;
a is a schematic top view of the flexible printed circuit board according to a third embodiment of the present invention, in which only a first circuit is shown;
b is a schematic top view of the flexible printed circuit board according to a third embodiment of the present invention, in which only a second circuit is shown;
The slotless winding of the present invention can be for a rotating electric machine including but not limited to motor, generator, etc. The slotless winding of the present invention includes at least one flexible printed circuit board, the flexible printed circuit board has at least one circuit, and one piece of flexible printed circuit board(s) is curved and wound or a plurality of pieces of flexible printed circuit board(s) are mutually combined to form a barrel shape. In application, the present invention uses the slotless winding with the barrel shape formed by the flexible printed circuit board(s) to replace the conventional coil windings (including the winding 12 (
In the present invention, the forming method of the circuit is selected from electrocasting, imprinting, screen printing, photolithography, ink-jet printing, and other semiconductor processes, and is preferably electrocasing. The circuit can be formed on two surfaces of or inside the flexible printed circuit board. Preferably, the circuit comprises a plurality of parallel wires. In an embodiment, in order to increase the layout density, the circuit has a first circuit and a second circuit, the first circuit and the second circuit are respectively located on different layers of the flexible printed circuit, that is, the first circuit and the second circuit can be located on two surfaces of the flexible printed circuit, or can be located on different layers in the flexible printed circuit board. In this case, the flexible printed circuit board must have a plurality of vias for connecting the first circuit and the second circuit.
a and 3b show schematic top views of the flexible printed circuit board according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
The circuit has a first circuit 22 and a second circuit 23, the first circuit 22 is located on the first surface 21, and the second circuit 23 is located on the second surface and is shown by dashed circuit. The first circuit 22 includes three first winding coils 221, and each first winding coil 221 is located in each first winding region 211. The first winding coil 221 comprises a plurality of mutually parallel coils wound by a wire, and in this embodiment, the first winding coil 221 is octagonal. However, in other application, the first winding coil 221 can also be triangular, rhombic, hexagonal, polygonal, oval, round, or composed of a plurality of circular arcs.
The second circuit 23 includes three second winding coils 231, and each second winding coil 231 is located in each second winding region 241. The second winding coil 231 comprises a plurality of mutually parallel coils wound by a wire, and in this embodiment, the second winding coil 231 is octagonal. However, in other application, the first winding coil 231 can also be triangular, rhombic, hexagonal, polygonal, oval, round, or composed of a plurality of circular arcs. In this embodiment, the pattern of the first circuit 22 is the same as the pattern of the second circuit 23, that is, the pattern of the first winding coil 221 is the same as the pattern of the second winding coil 231, and they are mirror images of each other. In addition, the flexible printed circuit board 2 further has a plurality of vias 25 for connecting the first circuit 22 and the second circuit 23.
In this embodiment, the pattern of the first circuit 32 is the same as the pattern of the second circuit 33, that is, the pattern of the first wires 321 is the same as the pattern of the second wires 331, and they are mirror images of each other. In addition, the flexible printed circuit board 3 further has a plurality of vias (not shown) for connecting the first circuit 32 and the second circuit 33, so as to form a plurality of mutually parallel octagonal coils.
a and 5b show schematic top views of the flexible printed circuit board according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
In this embodiment, the pattern of the first circuit 42 is the same as the pattern of the second circuit 43, that is, the pattern of the first wires 421 is the same as the pattern of the second wires 431, and they are mirror images of each other. In addition, the flexible printed circuit board 4 further has a plurality of vias (not shown) for connecting the first circuit 42 and the second circuit 43.
In this embodiment, the pattern of the first circuit 52 is the same as the pattern of the second circuit 53, that is, the pattern of the first wires 521 is the same as the pattern of the second wires 531, and they are mirror images of each other. In addition, the flexible printed circuit board 5 further has a plurality of vias (not shown) for connecting the first circuit 52 and the second circuit 53.
For convenience of illustration, the circuit of each embodiment includes a first circuit and a second circuit disposed on different layers of the flexible printed circuit board. In practical application, the circuit can further include a third circuit, a fourth circuit, etc. disposed on different layers of the flexible printed circuit board, and the number of circuits can be increased as desired.
As used herein, the term “wire group” refers to a set of wires in the circuit of the same layer. Therefore, one winding coil of
In the embodiment of the present invention, the circuit has a first circuit and a second circuit, the first circuit and the second circuit are respectively located on different layers of the flexible printed circuit board. Preferably, the first circuit is located on a first surface, and the second circuit is located on a second surface. The flexible printed circuit board further has a plurality of vias for connecting the first circuit and the second circuit. Preferably, the pattern of the first circuit is the same as the pattern of the second circuit, and the pattern of the first circuit and the pattern of the second circuit are mirror images of each other.
The patterns of the first circuit and the second circuit include but are not limited to the three following types.
In a first type, the first surface includes at least one first winding region, the second surface includes at least one second winding region, the circuit includes at least one first winding coil and at least one second winding coil, each first winding coil is located in each first winding region, each second winding coil is located in each second winding region, each first winding coil comprises a plurality of mutually parallel coils wound by a wire, and each second winding coil comprises a plurality of mutually parallel coils wound by a wire, as shown in
In a second type, the pattern of the first circuit comprises a plurality of wave-shaped or oblique first wires, and the first wires are mutually parallel; the pattern of the second circuit comprises a plurality of wave-shaped or oblique second wires, and the second wires are mutually parallel, as shown in
In a third type, the pattern of the first circuit comprises a plurality of mutually parallel first wires, and the first wires are quasi-U-shaped with openings in the horizontal direction; the pattern of the second circuit comprises a plurality of mutually parallel second wires, and the second wires are quasi-U-shaped with openings in the horizontal direction, as shown in
In step S103, the flexible printed circuit board(s) form(s) a barrel shape. The method of forming the barrel shape includes but is not limited to the three following types.
In a first method, each flexible printed circuit board is joined end to end to form a barrel shape, and a plurality of flexible printed circuit board are stacked together to form a multi-layer structure, as shown in
The present invention has the following advantages. 1. The flexible printed circuit board is used to fabricate the winding without iron core, winding types corresponding to motor or generator rotor magnet can be directly drawn on the printed circuit board, and winding is wound or curled to be round or of various shapes to serve as motor or generator stator coil, so as to simplify the process of fabricating the slotless winding. 2. The conductor is patterned on the flexible printed circuit board directly, which is not limited by the conventional method of fabricating the winding, so as to generate various winding types suitable for different motor or generator designs. 3. Wires of different sizes can be directly fabricated, so the thickness of the winding can be controlled to reduce loss of copper, and the windings are mutually stacked in an offset manner with multi-layer layout technique, so as to suit various designs, and to effectively downsize the motor or the generator. 4. After being wound and shaped, the winding fabricated by using flexible printed circuit board has certain strength, so it is not necessary to add the resin for curing. As a result, the procedure is simplified and the subsequent assembling is made convenient, which is helpful to the assembling automatization process after the downsizing of the motor or the generator.
While several embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, various modifications and improvements can be made by those skilled in the art. The embodiments of the present invention are therefore described in an illustrative but not restrictive sense. It is intended that the present invention should not be limited to the particular forms as illustrated, and that all modifications which maintain the spirit and scope of the present invention are within the scope defined in the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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096134263 | Sep 2007 | TW | national |