Patent ID: 10574099

Abstract:
An electric motor/generator includes a stator-core enclosing a rotor-core, which are each formed from stacked annular laminates. The stator-core laminates are configured to reduce vibration, and each have teeth extending radially inward from a root of an annular stator yoke/back-iron, to a flux-cap. Each tooth is formed to have opposite, lateral-edges spaced a distance-apart that changes between the root to the flux-cap, to establish a variable tooth-stiffness and a predetermined mechanical-resonance of the tooth. The opposite lateral-edges may each be configured with either a linear or a non-linear, curved edge-profile, and to have the variable tooth-stiffness and the lateral-edge distance-apart changing or decreasing between the root and the flux-cap. Each tooth may also have an edge-profile that is different from at least one adjacent tooth, and which is configured with a variable tooth-stiffness and a predetermined mechanical resonance that is different from the at least one adjacent tooth.