Abstract: A reverse rotation preventing mechanism for synchronous motors includes a stopper interposed between a frame of a synchronous motor and a suitable stationary member, the stopper, including a stopping portion having elasticity and a rotating member fixed to a rotor shaft of the synchronous motor, and the rotating member, including a metallic flywheel and a gear disposed on the central portion of the flywheel, the flywheel having an engagement portion. The engagement portion of the flywheel of the rotating member is engaged with the stopping portion of the stopper when the synchronous motor is rotated in the direction opposite to a predetermined direction.

Abstract: A rotary machine having a machine body and a cover covering an opening of the body. The cover is fixed to the body by an improved vibration-absorbent structure. A peripheral edge of the cover which is adjacent to the body has plate-spring-shaped mounting brackets whose distal ends project from the edge. The end of the machine body which is adjacent to the cover has mounting portions that are grooves or holes. The bracket distal ends are inserted into the mounting portions through rubber vibration insulating members. With the structure, the cover is assembled at improved efficiency and is restrained from vibration.

Abstract: The reduction gear (6) is fastened to the body (1) of an electric motor including a gear, and the motor stator is fastened to the removable electronics part (13) of the body. The motor rotor (7) is connected to the gear with an input shaft (15), the output shaft (20) extending concentrically through the input shaft. The output shaft (20) is carried in bearings (3, 4) essentially near the end faces of the housing (1, 13). One end of the output shaft constitutes a flange-shaped cover (2) of the gear, the flange being carried in a bearing (3) close to the outer periphery of the housing. The gear can be realized as a friction gear with several stages.

Abstract: A switching mechanism energizes a motor in response to selective actuation of switches in order to rotate an output shaft of the motor by an angle dependent upon the particular switch which is actuated. A base body connected to an output shaft of the motor carries slide terminals that slide on conductor paths of a stationary circuit board when the motor is energized. The conductor paths are connected to respective ones of the switches so that the motor is energized in response to the contact of a slide terminal with the conductor path associated with an actuated switch, and is de-energized when that slide terminal reaches an end edge portion of that conductor path. The end edge portions of the conductor paths are arranged substantially on the same circumference relative to the axis of rotation of the output shaft.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator driver apparatus having a bobbin with an electrical coil wound around the central portion thereof and positioned within a permanent magnetic generated flux field structure. A drive arm is engaged by bobbin fingers at the input end of the drive arm to deflect the output end of the drive arm by a predetermined amount in response to a control signal which is applied to the electrical coil.

Abstract: In horizontal-axis electrical machine, a laminated stator core is provided with a stator frame consisting of support rings and axial support bars. The frame is suspended in a housing by means of a bolt arrangement. In this arrangement, the construction is suspended in such a manner that the stator is held in place elastically in the axial direction, and rigidly in the radial and circumferential directions.

Abstract: A flexible circuit board (5) electrically connects an external circuit and a motor and is loosely wound around an outer surface of the motor. The body of the motor must be rotated at a time of adjusting a setting position. The flexible circuit board includes a first connection on one end of the flexible circuit board, a second connection on the other end of the flexible circuit board, the second connection being connected to the external circuit and a coupling provided between the first connection and the second connection, the coupling being loosely wound around the outer surface of the motor. The first connection includes a first portion fixed to a terminal block of the motor and a second portion integrated with the coupling and connecting the first portion and the coupling. The second portion is bent according to bending of the coupling when the first portion is fixed to the terminal block of the motor.

Abstract: The stator laminations for a dynamoelectric machine may be first stacked in a concentric orientation and then skewed in a controlled manner after the stator is wound, with a pair of elliptically shaped alignment slots in each lamination holding a pair of alignment bolts of generally circular cross-section, such that the laminations may be first stacked onto the alignment bolts and then skewed by pivoting the alignment bolts, thereby causing relative radial movement between the laminations and the bolts as the bolts are permitted to slide within the elliptical alignment slots. In a second embodiment, a pair of radial projections on the stator laminations and a pair of channel members which surround the radial projections permit relative radial movement and canting of the projections with respect to the channel member as the channel members are pivoted to skew the stator lamination stack.

Abstract: A magnetic bearing rotating structure includes a rotor magnetically supported in a housing by a magnetic bearing. A back-up bearing arrangement is used to resist impact on the rotor, including a fixed bumper bearing for resisting a sudden impact, and an auxiliary bearing for rotatably supporting the rotor while the magnetic bearing resumes operation.

Abstract: An engine starter includes a motor having a tubular armature rotation shaft, and a rotation output shaft arranged on one axial end side of the motor coaxially therewith to be axially slidably supported. A clutch mechanism is included for transmitting torque from the armature rotation shaft to a rotation output shaft and an electromagnetic switch which has a shifting member to push the aforementioned rotation output shaft by an electromagnetic force in the axial direction to slidably move it. The switch also brings movable contacts in touch with fixed contacts to supply power to the aforementioned motor. A rear part of the rotation output shaft and the front part of the shifting member are inserted into the armature rotation shaft tube from opposite directions. The shifting member of the electromagnetic switch, the armature rotation shaft and the rotation output shaft are all coaxially arranged to reduce the length of the starter.

Abstract: A self-pressurizing gas supported bearing includes a cylindrical bearing sleeve having a longitudinal axis and a cylindrical inner surface forming a first bearing surface with a random surface texture having a first R.sub.a roughness profile. A cylindrical bearing shaft is positioned coaxially within the bearing sleeve and includes a cylindrical outer surface forming a second bearing surface with a random surface texture having a second R.sub.a roughness profile. The sum of the first and second R.sub.a roughness profiles falls within the range of from about eighteen to sixty. A drive system establishes a relative rotational velocity between the bearing sleeve and the bearing shaft, generating a bearing stiffness force which causes the overlapping bearing surfaces to lift off and break contact. The bearing sleeve and shaft are dimensioned to maintain a predetermined means spacing between the sleeve and shaft. The bearing may also take the form of a linear bearing or other cylindrical configurations.

Abstract: A displacement armature motor is formed such that the deformation element allows a larger axial shifting and displacement path of the displacement armature while requiring a lower construction precision. The deformation element includes two frames (17, 17a). The frame (17a) is connected via two of its corner attachment positions (17b) to an attachment plate (19). The attachment plate (19) is connected to an extension (31) of the displacement armature. The frame (17) is connected with two of its attachment positions to the carrier arms (15a) of the support ring (15). The two frames (17, 17a) are connected to each other with their respective remaining corner attachment positions (17c) via a transfer element (18).

Abstract: An operating voltage change and motor rotation reversal device for a dynamoelectric machine in the form of an induction motor has simplified structure and improved operational features. For single phase operation, a pre-configured jumper plug having four electrically conductive jumpers interconnects a multi-receptacle connector socket to complete winding and power connections for any one of four unique circuit combinations. For three-phase applications, a different and separate jumper plug having six electrically conductive jumpers provides two different mating relationships with six pairs of electrical receptacles in the connector socket so as to provide two unique circuit combinations.

Abstract: A multiphase, synchronous, electrical machine with a permanent magnet incorporates a stator winding that is supplied with power through a static converter in such a way that, apart from the primary excitation field produced by the permanent magnets, there is an additional magnetic longitudinal field that is generated by the armature winding through which current flows, this additional longitudinal field being added to or subtracted from the primary excitation field in the longitudinal axis of the pole, and in which there are permanent magnets arranged within the winding-free rotor, as well as soft magnetic materials with intervening spaces of non-magnetic material which form loops that lie within each other and that are open towards the air gap, enclosing the air gap.

Abstract: A drive motor (1) with a shaft (3) drives a power takeoff shaft (5) via a planetary differential gear (2). The second input shaft (4) of the gear (2) is connected to a servo motor (10) via a worm gear (6). The worm (7) of the worm gear (6) is at least half as large as the worm gear (8). The pitch angle of the thread of the worm gear (20) lies between 5.degree. and 9.degree.. The rotational speed of the servo motor is controlled by a control (9). As a result of this design, a large controllable range of rotational speed is achieved with a lower power output from the servo motor. In this way, a large output power can be precisely regulated with little regulation effort. The drive has a high dynamic ratio and is suitable, for example, for cranes and elevators.

Abstract: An electromagnetic switch device for a starter motor has a plunger 21 defining a cylindrical body 22 slidably fitted in a sleeve 8, and a trumpet shaped intermediate plate 23 which generally extends in a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the cylindrical body. At least part of the cylindrical body has a thin-walled portion which extends in a direction opposite the extension direction of a cylindrical rod 24 driven by the plunger, from a junction 21a to the radially outer portion of the intermediate plate.

Abstract: A motor structure for driving discs includes a motor having a frame wall and a hollow holding cylinder extending generally perpendicular from the frame wall, a rotor shaft coaxially disposed in the hollow holding cylinder, and bearings mounted on the hollow holding cylinder for rotatably supporting the rotor shaft. The holding cylinder has an outer part, and a coil is mounted on the outer part. A cup-shaped rotor is mounted on the rotor shaft, the cup-shaped rotor having an end wall, a first cylinder portion extending coaxially from the end wall, and a second cylindrical portion juxtaposed to the first cylindrical portion. The first cylindrical portion has a diameter which is less than the diameter of the second cylindrical portion, the coil being generally axially aligned with and being disposed radially inwardly of the second cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A motor structure and energization scheme provides a high efficiency electronically commutated reluctance motor that is characterized by less iron loss than conventional switched reluctance motors. The motor operates without the reversal of the flow of flux in the stator. Also, the flux switching frequency in the stator is minimized. By eliminating flux reversals and minimizing the flux switching frequency, the electronically commutated reluctance motor is operable over a wide range of speeds with improved efficiency. Structurally, the stator includes unevenly spaced poles which are grouped into pairs separated by a space related to the even spacing of the poles on the rotor. Adjacent pairs of poles on the stator are separated by a spacing which is not equal to the spacing between the poles of a pair. To provide for rotation of the rotor, each pair of poles on the stator is polarized to form poles of opposite polarity such that a magnetic circuit joins the two adjacent poles of the pair.

Abstract: A small-sized electric motor includes a terminal with a positioner, complementary to a positioner on a brush holder equipped with a brush, for fastening the brush holder to the terminal by deformation of one positioner relative to the other, and a projection with a bendable piece for securing the terminal to a holder base by bending the bendable piece after it is inserted into a terminal hole.

Abstract: A coaxial type starter comprises a motor having a tubular armature rotary shaft, an electromagnetic switch located at the rear part of the motor and having an operating shaft arranged in the same axial line as the armature shaft, an overrunning clutch for transmitting a rotating force only in one direction, and a pinion shaft which is disposed in the armature shaft to receive the rotating force thereof through the overrunning clutch. The front end portion of a clutch inner member in the overrunning clutch device is supported by a bearing which is fitted to a front bracket; the pinion shaft is so arranged that it is engaged with the inner circumference of the clutch inner member through a spline, and pinion teeth formed at the front end of the pinion shaft are radially overlapped by the bearing.