US1390192A - Electric commutator - Google Patents

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US1390192A
US1390192A US201939A US20193917A US1390192A US 1390192 A US1390192 A US 1390192A US 201939 A US201939 A US 201939A US 20193917 A US20193917 A US 20193917A US 1390192 A US1390192 A US 1390192A
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Bossu Pierre
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/06—Manufacture of commutators
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K13/00—Structural associations of current collectors with motors or generators, e.g. brush mounting plates or connections to windings; Disposition of current collectors in motors or generators; Arrangements for improving commutation
    • H02K13/006—Structural associations of commutators
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49002—Electrical device making
    • Y10T29/49009—Dynamoelectric machine
    • Y10T29/49011—Commutator or slip ring assembly

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  • This invention relates to electric commutators and it concerns more particularly commutators which are used with brushes ⁇ which bear on their internal cylindrical surface.
  • the invention has mainly for its object to obtain commutators of great strength, which can be easily manufactured and mounted on the electric machines.
  • These ⁇ commutators are of the class wherein the current passes through .the internal cylindrical surfaces or through the side surface fand not through the external cylindrical surface .of the commutator.
  • the invention consists mainly in inserting the commutatorsegments, whichvhave been insulated from each other, into a malleable f cover, from whichl they are insulatedby suitable matter; and in subjecting the said malleable cover to arstrong radial pressure i which produces apermanent reduction of :its diameter.
  • Figure l shows in end View a commutator v*made according to one method of carrying Outthe invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows, in longitudinal section, during its manufacture, ⁇ a commutator made according to another method of carrying out the invention.
  • the insulating ring b is preferably made of micanite, and the desired Or proper thickness ofv the ring is either Obtained with several thin strips with alternate joints, or with a singlethin ⁇ strip-rolled up on itself.
  • Vmalleable ring a a comparatively thin ring ⁇ rather than" a ring of 'suitable thickness to maintain its form when the radial pressure is no longer exerted on it.
  • the malleable ring could not keep its exact Aform and the segments would be vlikely to become slightly loosened; furthermore if the ring a is of a great thickness, the external part of the ring is subjected, during the pressure operation, to a greater compression than the in- ⁇ ternal part, and the segments would be maintained under compression only in consequence'of the hardening by hammering or drawing out of the external ring, and if afterward a portion of the external surface is removed, a portion of its hardened part is, in consequence, taken away and the segments would become loosened.
  • the ring a is made very thin, of a metal having anti-friction properties, for instance from yellow brass; and preferably the said ring has a head a0 in one of the ends, as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the insulating ring b, and the segments c insulated from each other by means of insulating sheets (l are inserted in the ⁇ said ring a as hereinbefore eXplained, ⁇ but preferably a 4disk e having a suitable thickness and ofa diameter less than the 1 internal diameter of the ring a, is introduced in the'said ring against its head do, before they ring o, and the segments c are introduced into the said ring a; and preferably, the kdisk e has its edge e", between its periphery and the face which is applied against the head a0, rounded; and if it is desired that the sheets Z should project beyond the segments o, the disk e is provided with suitable grooves to receive the ends of the sheets d.
  • the internal surface of this ring comprisesI a cylindrical part ,to and a conical part f1.
  • the part of greater diameter of the said conical part has a diameter slightly greater than the external diameter of the ring a, and the diameter of the cylindrical part fo is equal to the external diameter which must be given to the said ring a.
  • a ring g having the same internal diameter' as the cylindrical part fo of the ring f and any suitable external form, as the said ring can take the place of a part of the machine on which the commutator is to be mounted.
  • the ring a is introduced, its bottom oomon, in the conical part f1 of the ring f; it is then pressed into the ring f by means of a suitable device, such as a piston acting on the front edges of the segments c, so that it is progressively brought into the cylindrical part fo of the ring f.
  • a suitable device such as a piston acting on the front edges of the segments c, so that it is progressively brought into the cylindrical part fo of the ring f.
  • the ringa passes directly from the ring ,t into the ring g, this ring g serving to prevent breakage or enlargement of the ring a, under the pressure exerted by the segments c, which would happen if the ring a were left free upon reaching the outletl of the ring f.
  • the ring g is mounted so that its internal surface is a continuation of the cylindrical internal surface fo of thering f.
  • the invention is not limited to the peculiar method of carrying it out, which has been more particularly described, it comprising all modifications
  • the ring g, the ring a and the ring b could be cut away in the part Where the brushes must bear on the segments; the said segments being then maintained firmly in proper relation by the remaining parts of the said rings.
  • a commutator for electric machines of the class wherein the current passes through an internal surface but not through the external surface of the commutator, said commutator comprising an annular series of segments, a ring of insulating material. surrounding the segments on their outer cylindrical surface, a comparatively thin ring of metal having anti-friction properties and covering the said insulating ring, and a relatively strong outer binding ⁇ ring which exerts permanently a force on the said thin ring, which force is transmitted through the said thin ring to the insulating ring and in turn is transmitted through the linsulating ring to the segients, whereby the latter are maintained under compression and in proper relation.
  • the method of making commutators for electric machines whichcomprises assembling an outer ring, an intermediate insultating ring and an inner annular series of segments. ⁇ subjecting the assembled structure to a radially-contracting pressure which will produce a permanent contraction of the outer ring upon the insulating ring and segments, and forcing a ring of highly resistive material over said outer ring While the assembled structure is under the influence of said contracting pressure.
  • the method of making commutators forelectric machines which comprises assembling a comparatively thin ring of ductile metal havingl anti.- friction properties and having a flat head, an intermediate ring of insulating material, and an inner annular series of segments,-then forcing the thus assembled structure through a substantially rigid annular tool, vthe inner diameter of which is smaller than the outer diameter of the said thin ring, into an outer ring so located as to receive the assembled structure from the opening in said tool and to cause the head of the said thin ring to be lirst presented to said outer ring which latter possesses suflicient rigidity to maintain at least a part of the compression which the tool imposed upon the assembled structure and has the same diameter as the smallest diameter of the rigid annular tool, whereby forcing of said assembled structure into the outer ring produces a permanent compression upon the assembled structure to maintain the segments in proper relation.
  • the method of making commutators which comprises assembling a comparatively thin ring of ductile metal possessing anti-friction properties and having a flat ⁇ head, a disk Within said thin ring and located against its flat head, a cylindrical ring of insulating material Within said thin ring and an inner annular series of segments Within the insulating ring and abutting against said disk, then forcing the said assembled structure with the head of said thin ring foremost, through a substantially rigid annular tool having an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the thin ring, into an outer ring so located as to receive the assembled structure from the tool, said outer ring having sufficient rigidity to maintain at least a part of the compression imposed upon the assembled structure by the tool, then cutting off the head of the thin ring and removing the disk.

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