Abstract: A radial gap type rotating electrical machine using amorphous metal that can realize high efficiency and is excellent in productivity is provided. The radial gap type rotating electrical machine according to the present invention includes a rotor including a rotary shaft and a rotor iron core that rotates around the rotary shaft, and a stator including a stator iron core that is disposed to face the rotor iron core. The stator iron core has an annular shape and has a back yoke (4) having a plurality of recesses provided along inner periphery, and a tooth (3) having one end fitted to the recess and the other end protruding toward the rotor iron core, the tooth (3) has a laminate in which amorphous metal foil strips are laminated in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and an insulating member (2) that holds the laminate, and a magnetic material (1) is provided in an end portion on a side facing the rotor of the insulating member (2).

Abstract: A method for generating and controlling power by means of at least one controlled permanent magnet machine (PMM) with a permanent magnet (PM) rotor and a stator with a magnetic flux diverter circuit for controlling the output of the PMM, comprises the steps of: rotating the PM rotor at a velocity sufficient to develop a high frequency alternating current (HFAC) power output from the stator; transforming the HFAC output to produce a desired non-HFAC power output; sensing desired power output parameters; generating a control signal responsive to the sensed parameters; and applying the control signal to the magnetic flux diverter circuit to control the desired power output.

Abstract: A permanent-magnet electrical machine is disclosed in which the rotor has a fixed back iron and movable back iron segments. When the movable back iron segments are in a first position, such as in contact with the fixed back iron, the field strength is high. When the movable back iron segments are in a second position in which the movable back iron segments are displaced away from the fixed back iron, the field strength is low. The ability to weaken the field strength causes the constant-power, speed ratio to be increased and thereby increases the utility of the motor for applications in which a wide speed range is desired. The disclosure applies to both permanent-magnet motors and generators. In an alternative embodiment, the stator ring is provided with a fixed portion and at least one movable stator segment.

Abstract: A single phase AC generator uses a rotor contained within a stator. The stator has an armature winding and a control winding which is capable of having its magnetic permeability adjusted, thereby limiting the output voltage of the armature winding. The stator additionally has two core sections.

Abstract: A permanent magnet starter/generator subsystem configured in a fault tolerant architecture is described herein for small engine applications. The system allows for lighter system weight, improved system reliability, higher performance capability and reduced maintenance.

Abstract: Control system for electromechanical arrangements having open-loop instability. The system includes a control unit that processes sensing signals and provides control signals to maintain a movable member, such as a rotor or shaft, in the desired position. The control unit according to the invention includes a unifying plant compensation filter, which isolates the open-loop instability characteristics so that the shaft is treated as a mass having substantially no open-loop structural properties. In magnetic bearings, the open-loop instability is manifested as negative stiffness. The invention isolates the negative stiffness thus providing for better positive stiffness and improved bandwidth. Various filters, summers, and other operators required to carry out the invention are preferably implemented on a programmed processing platform such as a digital signal processor (DSP) or an arrangement of multiple digital signal processors.

Abstract: An induction generator having one or more energy windings and one or more auxiliary windings where the auxiliary windings have fixed and switched capacitors which are used to control the induction generator output under variable load conditions. The auxiliary windings are electrically and magnetically isolated from the energy windings. The fixed capacitors are used under minimum load condition and the switched capacitors added in response to controls signals. The control signals are determined by analyzing the load voltage and current and the voltage across the particular capacitor being added. The induction generator is included in systems where the generator is rotationally driven by an engine and which couples the energy windings to a power grid and/or to a variable load. The engine may also employ a controller that receives the load current and voltage signals to determine engine speed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control device of a permanent magnet electric motor which makes it possible to synchronously control the permanent magnet electric motor even when the magnetic pole logarithm of the permanent magnet electric motor is not an integral multiple of the number of repeats of a rotation phase signal during one rotation.

Abstract: An inside notch (37) serving as an adjusting section is provided for a magnetic balancing adjustment between stators (31 and 32) and a rotor (12). The inside notch acts to reduce cogging torque, thereby allowing the rotor to rotate using a slight torque. Therefore, the rotor can be more readily started without using a complicated structure, can be prevented from easily stopping due to an external disturbance, and can be made more reliable. In reducing the cogging torque, it is not necessary to reduce the number of magnetic flux lines by, for example, making a rotor magnet (12b) smaller, making it possible to maintain the efficiency with which electrical power is produced.

Abstract: Control system for electromechanical arrangements having open-loop instability. The system is built around a control unit that processes sensing signals and provides control signals to maintain a movable member, such as a rotor or shaft, in the desired position. The control unit according to the invention includes a specially designed compensation filter, which isolates the open-loop instability so that the shaft is treated as a pure mass. In magnetic bearings, the open-loop instability is manifested as negative stiffness. The invention isolates the negative stiffness thus providing for better positive stiffness and improved bandwidth. Various filters, summers, and other operators required to carry out the invention are preferably implemented on a programmed processing platform such as a digital signal processor (DSP) or an arrangement of multiple digital signal processors.

Abstract: In a power generator unit composed of a generator and a piston internal combustion engine as the drive, the rotor is driven by the crankshaft of the diesel engine, and carries permanent magnets to excite the generator while the stator of the generator is arranged within the rotor and carries the rotor winding of the generator. The stator of the generator is divided, for the purpose of voltage regulation, into an outside stator part that forms an air gap with the rotor, and an inside stator part that forms a control air gap with the outside stator part that surrounds it, and is mounted to rotate, relative to the outside stator part, in such a manner that the geometry of the control air gap changes with the rotational position, and that the rotation takes place as a function of the variations in the terminal voltage of the generator.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a downhole apparatus for quickly generating and regulating variable output electric power by varying the alignment of a pair of axially adjacent permanent magnets rotating within an armature having electrically conductive windings. Each of the permanent magnets comprises a plurality of permanent magnetic segments having circumferentially alternating magnetizations. One of the permanent magnets is fixed to the drive shaft, and the other permanent magnet is movably mounted on the drive shaft to enable the alignment or misalignment, as desired, of the magnetizations of the respective magnetic segments on the pair of permanent magnets. When the magnetizations are completely aligned, the maximum electrical power is generated in the windings of the main armature; conversely, when the magnetizations are completely misaligned, zero electrical power is generated.

Abstract: A hybrid alternator includes a stator winding and a rotor winding. The stator winding includes a neutral point having a neutral point voltage and is preferably arranged as a three phase winding with the neutral point being located at the center junction of three stator winding portions arranged in a "Y" configuration. The rotor winding is mounted on a rotor which also includes permanent magnets. The rotor winding has a first end connected to the neutral point on the stator winding and a second end connected to a switching circuit. The rotor winding produces a magnetic flux field that additively combines with the permanent magnetic flux field from the permanent magnets when the switching circuit connects the second end of the rotor winding to a voltage greater than the neutral point voltage and produces a magnetic flux field that subtractively combines with the permanent magnetic flux field when the switching circuit connects the second end to a voltage less than the neutral point voltage.

Abstract: An alternating electric current generator comprises an armature rotatably carried by a drive shaft and positioned between stabilized, non-moving magnetic elements. The armature has first and second magnetic field transmitting sections with a magnetized section sandwiched therebetween. As electric load is applied to the generator, a countermagnetic field is generated through the armature to increase speed of the drive shaft and thereby lessen torque required to rotate the drive shaft.

Abstract: A generating system including a permanent magnet generator having a stator, a rotor journalled for rotation in proximity to the stator and normally separated therefrom by a small air gap. Permanent magnets and windings are provided on the stator and the rotor respectively, or the reverse as desired and a detector is provided for sensing the development of an electrical fault in the winding and for moving the stator away from the rotor to increase the air gap thereby reducing the magneto motive force available to induce current in the winding to prevent burn out of the winding.

Abstract: The electric generator of the present invention has a plural-section main nding; and it uses uni-directional devices to permit current to flow through various sections of that winding as the rotor poles move away from various of the stator poles of that generator but to prevent current flow through those various sections as those rotor poles approach those stator poles. By preventing current flow through those various sections, as those rotor poles approach those stator poles, the present invention relieves the field winding of all need of overcoming the magnetomotive force of that main winding. As a result, fewer ampere turns are needed to enable that field winding to provide the magnetomotive force for that main winding.In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, an exciting winding has sections thereof that are wound on poles which have turns of the field winding wound thereon.

Abstract: An electrical generator comprises a stationary permanent magnet for establishing a magnetic field, one or more sensing coils responsive to the magnetic field, and a diamagnetic blocking element movable between the magnet and the sensing coils for periodically interrupting the magnetic field to produce electrical energy in the coils. A preferred embodiment includes a pair of semi-circular coils arranged side-by-side in the magnetic field and a rotatable blocking disc interposed between the magnet and the coils. The disc includes a semi-circular portion of superconductive material rendered impermeable to the magnetic field at temperatures near absolute zero and a semi-circular portion of magnetically inert material to alternately block and pass the magnetic field to the coils upon rotation of the disc.

Abstract: A non-contact signal generator which is adapted for the conduction signal source for the semi-conductor ignition system of so-called current-breaking type or induced-energy accumulating type and which is of the permanent-magnet-energization, variable magnetic reluctance type with one or more than two stationary pole number for generating one conduction signal for each pole in each rotation is disclosed.

Abstract: An electrical generator comprises a stationary permanent magnet for establishing a magnetic field, one or more sensing coils responsive to the magnetic field, and a diamagnetic blocking element movable between the magnet and the sensing coils for periodically interrupting the magnetic field to produce electrical energy in the coils. A preferred embodiment includes a pair of semi-circular coils arranged side-by-side in the magnetic field and a rotatable blocking disc interposed between the magnet and the coils. The disc includes a semi-circular portion of superconductive material rendered impermeable to the magnetic field at temeperatures near absolute zero and a semi-circular portion of magnetically inert material to alternately block and pass the magnetic field to the coils upon rotation of the disc.This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 566,090, filed Apr. 8, 1975 now abandoned.

Abstract: Alternator having a pulsed excitation. Means are provided to supply short current pulses into the pick-up coils at a suitable time so to magnetize the circuit. As a consequence the shape of the magnetic circuit can be simplified and the weight of iron and copper can be reduced.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a simple arrangement for adjusting the output power of one or more selected windings of a multiple winding, single phase Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG) without changing the magnetization of the rotor and without modifying the main stator magnetics. Magnetic shims are inserted selectively into one or more of the stator slots and shunt increasing amounts of flux as load current increases, thereby reducing the output of the selected windings without in any way affecting the output of the remaining windings. Alternatively, such magnetic shims may be used to adjust the output of single phase, single winding PMG's that have rotors made of Rare Earth Cobalt permanent magnets which, unlike conventional magnets, cannot be demagnetized.