Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.

Abstract: An axial flux motor having reduced spatial harmonics including a rotor with a plurality of magnets. A rotor shaft is coupled to the rotor. A stator faces the rotor and an air gap defined between the rotor and the stator. The stator includes a plurality of electromagnetic components defining a plurality of magnetic poles. The electromagnetic components include a plurality of posts, a plurality of slots, and a plurality of distributed electrically conductive windings disposed in and spanning across nonadjacent slots of the plurality of slots. At least one electrically conductive winding has a winding pitch span of greater than or equal to about 3 to less than or equal to about 20. The axial flux motor may include two rotors and one stator or alternatively two stators and one rotor. Such axial flux motors have short pitch provide desirable reduced spatial harmonics to enhance motor performance.

Abstract: A liquid-cooled rotating electric machine may include an inner stator and outer rotor configured to rotate about the stator. A hub may be disposed within the inner stator and a heat exchanger may be disposed in the hub. The heat exchanger may be configured to enable the flow a liquid through it to dissipate heat from the stator.

Abstract: One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a rotor including magnetic elements within a body. The system also includes a stator including coil assemblies arranged about the rotor. Each coil assembly includes an outer hook element and an inner hook element. The outer hook element extends across a first axial face and an outer radial surface of the rotor. The inner hook element: extends across a second axial face of the rotor; extends partially across the inner radial surface of the rotor; and is coupled to the outer hook element to define a throat configured to locate the rotor within the coil assembly. The system includes a shaft coupled to the inner radial surface of the rotor. Furthermore, the system includes a controller configured to drive current through the coil assemblies to generate a toroidal magnetic field configured to couple the magnetic elements to rotate the rotor.

Abstract: This application provides a motor cooling system of an electric vehicle. In the cooling system, a coil cooling oil passage includes a first oil outlet that is at an end portion of a stator core. A core cooling oil passage and the coil cooling oil passage are sequentially connected. In this case, cooling oil first enters the core cooling oil passage, and then enters the coil cooling oil passage. The core cooling oil passage extends in a circumferential direction of the stator core. The coil cooling oil passage extends in an axial direction of the stator core. A power apparatus drives the cooling oil to enter the core cooling oil passage from an oil inlet, flow through the core cooling oil passage, and enters the coil cooling oil passage from an oil through port. The cooling oil flows back to an oil return groove from the first oil outlet.

Abstract: A rotary transformer is provided. The transformer has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator core and the rotor has a rotor core sleeved in the stator core. An air gap is defined between an inner side wall of the stator core and an outer side wall of the rotor core. During rotation of the rotor, a length S of the air gap along a circumferential direction of the transformer and a mechanical rotation angle ? of the rotor satisfy a sinusoidal function relationship containing third-harmonic components, and the length changes periodically according to the functional relationship to define a shape of the rotor core. As a result, the output signal amplitude and measurement accuracy of the position of the rotary transformer can be improved under the same maximum and minimum air gaps.

Abstract: Coil segments of the same phase are inserted into each group of circumferentially consecutive three slots. Assuming that the grouped three slots are A, B, and C, and six groups are U1 to U6, respectively, and that slot y of group Ux are slot Uxy, a coil starting from the slot U1A is wired to pass through one turn of a stator in the order of slots U1A?U2B?U3B?U4C?U5C?U6A, and connected to slot U1A of the next turn. In this turn, coil segments with a wide straddle width are used for the connections of U1A?U2B and U3B?U4C, and a coil segment with a narrow straddle width is used for the connection of U5C?U6A.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator core and a hairpin winding. The stator core defines slots that are circumferentially arranged between an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the stator core. Each slot has a plurality of pin positions that is arranged in a direction that extends from the inner diameter toward the outer diameter. The hairpin winding has a plurality of paths of interconnected hairpins that correspond to a first electrical phase of the electric machine. The hairpins are arranged to occupy a portion of the pin positions according to a pattern that repeats at angular intervals along a circumference of the stator core. The pattern includes hairpins occupying each pin position within a first of the slots, harpins occupying exactly half the pin positions within a second of the slots, and harpins occupying exactly half the pin positions within a third of the slots.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine wiring member is configured to connect coil ends of a stator and associated electrodes of a terminal block in a rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine wiring member includes a plurality of electrical conducting wires, and a holding portion configured to hold the plurality of electrical conducting wires together. The holding portion includes a holder, which is provided to cover all respective peripheries of the plurality of electrical conducting wires in respective one parts in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of electrical conducting wires together, and a molded resin section made of a molded resin to cover one part of the holder. Exposed parts of the holder uncovered with the molded resin section are arranged to surround a peripheral edge of the molded resin section.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a motor in which a structure of an insulator is improved. The motor includes an insulator module coupled to a top face of a stator core. The insulator module includes: each power terminal unit connected to each of 3-phases power lead wires; a neutral terminal unit connected to a neutral point of a coil; and an insulator body for achieving insulations between the power and neutral terminal units and the stator core, and between the power and neutral terminal units, wherein the power terminal unit and the neutral terminal unit are positioned at different vertical levels.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of printed layers arranged to form a stator having an outer periphery and teeth extending radially inward from the outer periphery. Each of the printed layers includes discrete portions of metal and discrete portions of insulation. The discrete portions of insulation define a contiguous network of insulative boundaries separating discrete cells formed by the discrete portions of the metal. A volume of the discrete cells within the outer periphery is greater than a volume of the discrete cells within the teeth such that a reluctance of the teeth is greater than a reluctance of the outer periphery.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.

Abstract: A supply end plate apparatus includes a supply end plate with an aperture therethrough configured to be mounted at a first axial end of the rotor core for supplying fluid to the rotor core. The supply end plate defines a plurality of end plate passages therein extending outward from an inward portion of the supply end plate toward an outward portion of the supply end plate. Each of the plurality of end plate passages includes: a radial section extending in a radial direction from an inlet in the inward portion of the supply end plate toward the outward portion; a transition section extending obliquely from the radial section; and a circumferential section extending circumferentially from the transition section to an outlet of the supply end plate.

Abstract: A process for making a continuous bar winding (4) for an electric machine is described, comprising: a) a step of providing a template (10) having a template axis (X) and a circular array of slots (11) extended about said template axis (X), said circular array of slots having a number of slots equal to a number of slots of the stator or of the rotor of said electric machine, each slot (11) of said circular array having a first and a second open end face (11A, 11B) which are axially spaced from one another and a third open end face (11C), said third face (11C) being a longitudinal face extended between said first and second end faces (11A, 11B) b) a step of providing a conductive bar (20); c) a step of locking a locking portion (21) of said conductive bar; d) a step of inserting the conductive bar (20) into the slots (11) of said array and shaping the conductive bar (20) so that such conductive bar (20) repeatedly passes through the slots (11) of said array from the side of the first open end faces (11A) to the

Abstract: A method for producing a squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine includes the following steps: providing a main body, which is magnetically conductive at least in parts and has substantially axially extending grooves; inserting electrical conductors into the grooves in such a way that the conductors protrude from the axial ends of the magnetically conductive main body; positioning electrically conductive end rings, which have a plurality of openings for receiving the respective conductors; and establishing electrical contact between the conductors and the end rings by way of one or more additive manufacturing processes.

Abstract: A permanent magnet motor and a compressor are provided. The motor has a rotor, a stator core, and a stator winding. A plurality of coupled coils are disposed on the stator core. The coil includes a first type coil and a second type coil. The stator winding is a three-phase stator winding. Each phase of the stator winding is provided with three joints In each phase, a first joint and a second joint are disposed on the first type coil, a third joint in the stator winding of each phase is disposed on the second type coil. The permanent magnet motor provided by the present disclosure can improve the efficiency of the motor and reduce noise.

Abstract: A winding head arrangement for an electric rotating machine includes a base body including an electrically conductive material having an electrically insulating coating, and a plurality of conductors made from a first metal material and connected to the base body via the electrically insulating coating by a first additive production method.

Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a housing that accommodates the motor, an inverter electrically connected to the motor, an inverter case that accommodates the inverter, an auxiliary device provided in a lower portion of the housing to oppose a road surface, a wire harness that includes a first connector connected to a connector provided in the inverter case, a second connector connected to a connector provided in the auxiliary device, and an electric wire connecting the first connector and the second connector, and a lower connector cover provided in the lower portion of the housing and covering the second connector from a lower side.

Abstract: A stator of an electric motor comprises a pole chain, which is made of a stack of a plurality of straight transformer sheets and rounded to a circular configuration by bending the stacked transformer sheets, wherein the pole chain has a plurality of pole portions each comprising a pole tooth; a plurality of winding cores attached to the respective pole teeth for accommodating coils of a three-phase winding comprising wires; wherein the wires of respective phases of the three-phase winding are routed spatially separated from each other and without mutual contact at an axial end surface of the pole chain between and along adjacent winding cores around the pole chain; and wherein the wires are supported and guided such that their positions relative to the pole chain are substantially maintained when the pole chain is rounded from its straight configuration to its circular configuration.

Abstract: A permanent magnet electric motor includes a shaft extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the shaft defines a shaft jacket extending along a first direction, a rotor mounted on the shaft, a stator disposed about the rotor. The rotor defines a plurality of longitudinal channels each with the shaft jacket. The longitudinal channels are part of a rotor jacket. The rotor jacket includes a plurality of inlets fluidly interconnecting the shaft jacket and the plurality of the longitudinal channels. The rotor jacket includes an inner edge and an outer edge opposite the inner edge. The rotor jacket includes a plurality of outlets each in fluid communication with the plurality of longitudinal channels. Each of the outlets is closer to the inner edge than to the outer edge of the rotor jacket.