Abstract: Electrical machine, in particular an alternator for a motor vehicle, with a housing (4) and a rotor (10) that is supported, in the housing (4), in a manner that allows it to rotate around a rotation axis (12), the rotor having at least one rotor winding (14), a plurality of claw poles (17) disposed circumferentially, whereby adjacent claw poles (17) have axial claw overlap LÜ and permanent magnets (28) have axial magnet length LM, whereby at least one permanent magnet (28) is located between every two adjacent claw poles (17) and is magnetized so as to suppress leakage flux between the claw poles (17), wherein the following applies for the ratio of axial magnet length LM to axial claw overlap LÜ: LM/LÜ?0.81.

Abstract: Electrical machine, in particular an alternator for a motor vehicle, with a housing (4) and a rotor (10) that is supported, in the housing (4), in a manner that allows it to rotate around a rotation axis (12), the rotor having at least one rotor winding (14), a plurality of claw poles (17) disposed circumferentially, whereby adjacent claw poles (17) have axial claw overlap LÜ and permanent magnets (28) have axial magnet length LM, whereby at least one permanent magnet (28) is located between every two adjacent claw poles (17) and is magnetized so as to suppress leakage flux between the claw poles (17), wherein the following applies for the ratio of axial magnet length LM to axial claw overlap LÜ:LM/LÜ≧0.81.

Abstract: An electrical machine with a rotor (10), in particular a claw pole rotor, is proposed. The rotor (10) has an exciter system of electrically excited individual poles in the rotor (10), in the form of electromagnetically excited poles (28) and counterpart poles (34). A pole gap closure (55) is placed between the poles (28) and counterpart poles (34), which alternate on the circumference of the rotor (10), and at least partly fills the open spaces. The pole gap closure (55) is characterized in that it is braced by at least one of its axial end regions (61), via projections (64), on pole roots (37; 31).

Abstract: An electric machine is proposed, in particular a generator for a motor vehicle, having an excitation system comprised of a number of electrically excited individual poles in the stator or rotor. The stator (40) or rotor (39) is embodied in the form of electromagnetically excited poles (37, 38) which are oriented axially along the circumference and whose polarity alternates in the circumferential direction, in which permanent magnets (43) are inserted into intermediary spaces (42) between the alternating poles (37, 38) in order to reduce the magnetic leakage flux.