Abstract: A permanent-field armature for an electrical machine includes an armature body having internal magnet pockets, and a plurality of permanent magnets having a magnetization for generating a magnetic field and disposed in the magnetic pockets in one-to-one correspondence. The armature body guides the magnetic field between the magnet pockets and magnetic poles of the armature on an armature surface. Each magnet pocket is formed for guiding the magnetic field in a material which has at least one area having a magnetic anisotropy with an easy axis and a hard axis of magnetizing capability, with the easy axis being aligned in parallel relation to or at least at an angle of less than 25° to a magnetization direction of the magnetization of the permanent magnet disposed in the magnet pocket.

Abstract: The aim is to propose an individual-segment rotor that is simple to construct and suitable for series production. Therefore, an individual-segment rotor having a plurality of laminated core segments (2) arranged in a star shape and a permanent magnet (1) between each pair of adjacent laminated core segments (2) is provided, whereby the laminated core segments and the permanent magnets are arranged in a hollow cylindrical assembly. The laminated core segments each have a plurality of individual sheets, which are rigidly connected to one another. The hollow cylindrical assembly has a groove on each of two outer edges, into which groove a ring (11) is inserted in order to fasten the assembly.

Abstract: A reluctance armature includes a shaft received in a shaft hole in a torsion-proof manner. At least one carrier body is disposed around the shaft and has radial sides as viewed in a circumferential direction. Part segments are arranged on the radial sides of the carrier body and made of anisotropic soft-magnetic material to thereby establish an armature segment which, as viewed in an axial direction, is disposed between two edge elements and forms a central section.

Abstract: A magnetic radial bearing with low eddy current losses is made compact and easily actuable. For this purpose, a radial bearing with four coils (S1, S2, S3, S4) is proposed, said coils lying opposite one another in pairs on two axes (X, Y). The coils are controlled by a three-phase current (U, V and W). The amplitudes of the currents of the phases (U, V and W) are each evaluated using a sine function which is phase-shifted with respect to one another through 120 DEG. The control is performed by a control device at a variable operating point, which fixes the value for the evaluation of the amplitudes for the individual phases corresponding to the respective sine function.

Abstract: A rotor having a number of tangentially magnetized permanent magnets tangentially evenly distributed and arranged both in the center region and in the outer regions in the axial direction is disclosed. Flux-guiding elements between the permanent magnets guide the magnetic fields of the permanent magnets radially toward the center region of the stator. The flux-guiding elements comprise a plurality of sheets stacked on one another in the axial direction. The sheets in the outer regions are smaller than the sheets in the center region. The sheets arranged in the outer regions are surrounded on their radially outside end by a retaining apparatus. Form-fitting elements transmit centrifugal forces acting on the sheets arranged in the center region are transmitted to the sheets arranged in the outer regions.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine is mounted for rotation about an axis and includes a plurality of permanent magnets placed on a radial outer surface of the rotor for forming at least one magnetic pole pair. An anisotropically-soft sintered magnetic material having an easy direction and a hard direction is located in at least one section of the rotor radially further inward than the plurality of permanent magnets.

Abstract: A permanent magnet having end surfaces and an envelope curve shaped as a biconvex lens having first and second convex portions, magnetization running in an arcuate manner along the first convex portion between a north pole and a south poles. The permanent magnet runs along the second convex portion in an arcuate manner, and at least one of the magnet's end surfaces within the envelope curve has a connection surface adapted for connecting with a connection device by fusing or by positive engagement. The rotor is preferably pressed onto the shaft of the rotor after the connection device is formed around a connection surface of the permanent magnets by injection molding.

Abstract: A permanently-excited dynamoelectric machine includes a stator and a rotor supported for rotation about an axis. The stator has a winding system, which is embedded in grooves of a material forming a magnetic return path and interacts electromagnetically with permanent magnets of the rotor via an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The permanent magnets are disposed on the rotor, with each individual permanent magnet, on a side facing towards the air gap, having a North and South pole. The rotor, viewed in the circumferential direction, has a pole coverage by the permanent magnets of 100%, i.e. that the permanent magnets viewed in the circumferential direction, are arranged substantially without gaps.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide an electric motor which has a high torque at low rotation speeds and a high power at high rotation speeds. The invention therefore proposes an electric motor with permanent-magnet excitation having a first active part (10), which is fitted with permanent magnets (11), and a second active part (10), which can be moved in relation to the first active part (10) by magnetic force of the permanent magnets (11). The electric motor also has a heating device (12) with which the magnetic field of at least one of the permanent magnets (11) can be weakened by heating the permanent magnets as a function of a speed of the first active part (10) in relation to the second active part (8).

Abstract: An electric machine includes an outer stator having a plurality of windings, an inner stator having a plurality of permanent magnets and arranged within the outer stator in concentric relationship to the outer stator, and a rotor arranged between the outer stator and the inner stator in concentric relationship to the outer and inner stators and movable relative to the outer and inner stators. The rotor includes a mounting element which is made from a non-magnetic material and has a plurality of recesses, with a magnetically soft segment being arranged in each of the recesses. A first cooling device cools the permanent magnets of the inner stator.

Abstract: The losses in a magnetic radial bearing are intended to be reduced. For this purpose, a magnetic radial bearing is provided with a stator and a rotor which is mounted rotatably in the stator, wherein the rotor has a shaft (7), the shaft (7) is surrounded by an annular laminate stack arrangement (5), and the laminate stack arrangement has individual laminates (6). The individual laminates (6) of the laminate stack arrangement (5) are arranged in a star-shaped manner with respect to the axis of the shaft (7).

Abstract: A reluctance rotor of a dynamoelectric rotary machine has an even number of poles constructed of a material having structural magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic anisotropy of the material is characterized by a first magnetic resistance, a magnetic permeability of ?r>20 and a saturation polarization of >1T in a first spatial direction, and by a second magnetic resistance which is greater than the first magnetic resistance with a magnetic permeability of ?r<1.6 in spatial directions perpendicular to the first spatial direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator (1) of an electrical machine (10), the electrical machine (10) itself, and a manufacturing method. The stator (1) has a meandering cooling channel (18), wherein the meandering cooling channel (18) is embedded in an element (22), wherein the element (22) comprises a material which is influenced thermally so as to form a shape of the element (22), wherein an iron-containing body (3), for guiding a magnetic field of the stator, is embedded in the element (22).

Abstract: The invention relates to an easily mountable and highly dynamic radial bearing. According to the invention, a magnetic radial bearing for the rotatable mounting of a rotor (3) is provided, having a stator (2) that comprises several coil assemblies (6). The coil assemblies (6) are arranged around an axis (1) of the radial bearing in a circumferential direction. Each of the coil assemblies (6) has a laminated core (7) having single sheets. Each of the coil assemblies (6) further has an axial field coil (11) that is wound around the corresponding laminated core (7). The single sheets are stacked in the tangential direction in every laminated core (7).

Abstract: Cogging forces of a cylindrical linear motor are reduced with a linear motor having a rotor with eight poles and a stator with 36 toroidal coils (optionally multiples of eighteen toroidal coils) inserted into slots (N1 to N36) (or a multiple of 36 slots). The toroidal coils extend in the circumferential direction of the stator, are of equal size, and are arranged axially one behind the other. All the terminals of the toroidal coils are located in an axially extending connector channel. The two terminals of each coil are connected according to a specific connection scheme.

Abstract: A magnetic radial bearing with low eddy current losses is made compact and easily actuable. For this purpose, a radial bearing with four coils (S1, S2, S3, S4) is proposed, said coils lying opposite one another in pairs on two axes (X, Y). The coils are controlled by a three-phase current (U, V and W). The amplitudes of the currents of the phases (U, V and W) are each evaluated using a sine function which is phase-shifted with respect to one another through 120 DEG. The control is performed by a control device at a variable operating point, which fixes the value for the evaluation of the amplitudes for the individual phases corresponding to the respective sine function.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a cost-effective, easily regulated rotary-linear drive. Therefore, the invention provides for the rotary-linear drive to connect a rotary drive (10) to a linear drive module (11). The linear drive module (11) comprises a rotatable drive-side receiving device for receiving a torque from the rotary drive (10). Additionally, the linear drive module has a linear motor, the armature (15) of which is rotatable, is rotated by a stator (14), and comprises an output element for the purpose of driving the shaft (12) in a rotary-linear fashion. To this end, the linear drive module (11) also comprises a coupling device (16) that couples the receiving device and the armature (15) in a rotationally secure but not linear fashion.

Abstract: A permanently excited synchronous machine includes a stator; a winding system arranged in grooves of a laminated core of the stator and forming winding overhangs on end faces of the laminated core, and a rotor connected in fixed rotative engagement to the shaft and having ferrite magnets which extend axially beyond the end faces of the laminated core. The rotor electromagnetically interacts with the stator across an air gap there between during operation of the permanently excited synchronous machine to cause a rotation about an axis of rotation. A flux concentration element is provided radially across each of the ferrite magnets of a magnetic pole and bundles magnetic field lines of the ferrite magnet onto an axial length of the laminated core of the stator. The flux concentration elements and held by a fixing element on the ferrite magnets of a magnetic pole.

Abstract: A rotor of a permanently excited synchronous machine includes a shaft capable of rotating about an axis and a laminated core having an axial layering arrangement defined by planes which are aligned perpendicular to the axis. The laminated core has at least two layers of different geometry. A first layer has a plate with a closed outer contour at least at an outer periphery, and a second layer has plural plate segments. The first and second layers of the laminated core are arranged in an axial direction to form axial pockets in interspaces between the plate segments of the second layer and recesses formed radially within the outer contour of the first layer for receiving permanent magnets. An adhesive is provided in radial gaps formed at least in axial sections of the second layer between adjacent plate segments and the permanent magnets.

Abstract: An axial bearing device includes an annular electrical sheet arrangement having individual sheets which protrude radially outward. In addition, an electrical coil is provided in the axial bearing device and is inserted into the electrical sheet arrangement to generate a magnetic field in the electrical sheet arrangement. The electric sheet arrangement includes at least two concentric electrical sheet rings. All adjacent electrical sheets of each electrical sheet ring substantially abut at the inner circumference of the respective electrical sheet ring.