MALCOLM W WAITE
Engineers in Erie, PA
License number
Pennsylvania PE005779E
Category
Engineers
Type
Professional Engineer
Address
Address
Erie, PA 16511
Professional information
Electric Wheel With Removable Motor
US Patent:
4389586, Jun 21, 1983
Filed:
Feb 22, 1982
Appl. No.:
6/350832
Inventors:
David L. Foster - North East PA
John F. Haupt - Erie PA
Malcolm W. Waite - Erie PA
John F. Haupt - Erie PA
Malcolm W. Waite - Erie PA
Assignee:
General Electric Company - Erie PA
International Classification:
H02K 700, B60K 700
US Classification:
310 67R
Abstract:
The magnet frame of a dynamoelectric machine comprises a removable, generally cylindrical inner member concentrically disposed inside a cylindrical outer member. The inner member is supported in a cantilever fashion at only one of its ends, and most of its outside surface is normally separated by a relatively small circumferential gap from the cooperating inside surface of the outer member. The outer member of the frame rotatably supports the hub of a motorized wheel, which hub is coupled via a torque tube and gearing to a rotor inside the inner member. Conventional means is provided in the inner member for producing a field of magnetic flux in both the magnet frame and the rotor, and the path of this flux will include parallel branches in the inner and outer frame members.