Abstract: A starter for an internal combustion engine is provided which includes a pair of angular contact ball bearings used to support an armature shaft. The bearings are disposed close to opposed ends of a core of an armature. The core has disposed thereon coils which define a commutator on one of the ends of the core. One of the bearings is disposed within an inner periphery of the commutator. This structure results in a decreased interval between the bearings, thus ensuring stability in supporting the armature shaft during rotation, which results in decreased mechanical vibrations, magnetic noises, and wear of the bearings.

Abstract: A technique is provided for manufacturing a stator of an electrical machine, such as a motor. The stator is formed by using thin end plates or laminations that are attached to each other by rods around a group of laminations. The end plates maintain pressure on the laminations. Within the laminations, slots extend thru the length of the stator. A slot liner is placed within each slot as an insulating layer between coils and the laminations. Furthermore, an insulating end piece or lamination is positioned within each end plate and adjacent to the laminations to provide support to the slot liners that extend beyond the laminations. The insulating end lamination supports the slot liners during the winding processes to prevent the slot liners from damage. In addition to providing support, the insulating end lamination is able to provide extra insulation between the coils, laminations, and the end plate.

Abstract: A downhole pumping system includes a downhole pump that is coupled to a downhole motor. The downhole motor includes a motor protector that utilizes one or more retractable and extensible bellows, instead of an elastomeric bag, to accommodate motor oil contraction and expansion.

Abstract: A transversal flux machine having a stator arrangement with a stator housing and at least one pole system arranged inside the stator housing and extending in the rotating direction. The pole system has an essentially U-shaped cross-section, and a ring winding received in the recess between the legs of the U-shaped cross-section and extending in the rotating direction, as well as having at least one rotor arrangement with at least one row of alternatingly arranged permanent magnets and soft-iron reflux elements. On the stator side, one retaining ring is provided on the rotor side of each ring winding respectively. The retaining ring has on both edge areas equidistantly spaced recesses for receiving radially inwardly projecting teeth of the pole rings and is used for stabilizing the pole system and the ring coil.

Abstract: In a compact low-cost brushless D.C. motor, a measuring magnetization zone (24) is provided near the rotational axis (7) whose division into magnetic poles (14, 15) is aligned to that of the driving magnetization zone (6) of the rotor (4). The measuring magnetization zone (24) is essentially annular in design and its diameter is so small that the Hall elements (16) necessary for the detection of a complete north/south magnetization period can be integrated on a semiconductor chip of presently current size. The assembly of the sensor (13) containing such a chip necessarily involves a number of error sources on account of manufacturing conditions (sensitivity tolerances of Hall elements 16), on one hand, and of the limited adjusting possibilities. However, the resulting deviations from the ideal signal can be compensated by corresponding corrections in the evaluating electronics and by providing a number of redundant Hall elements (18).

Abstract: Accomodations for a magnetically levitated rotating system in an RTP chamber are provided. The system includes a magnetically permeable rotor; a cylindrical thin wall concentric with and surrounding the rotor; and a magnetic stator assembly adjacent the cylindrical thin wall. The radial distance between the rotor and the magnetic stator assembly is small enough that a magnetic field created by the stator assembly magnetically levitates the rotor but is great enough that the rotor does not physically contact the thin wall upon thermal expansion. The system is such that the relative positions of a plurality of sensors which determine the position of a rotating frame is maintained upon dismantling. Thermal isolation of the area including the rotor is accomplished from the reactive gases in a processing area of the RTP chamber. The rotor may be cooled by a number of cooling chambers formed within the chamber.

Abstract: An electric motor housing including a metal internal hub and composite material reduces weight, reduces motor vibration transmission, increases mechanical damping, improves corrosion resistance and improves electrical performance.

Abstract: The movement has a rectangular section case for accommodating a magnet rotor so as to turnably support the magnet rotor engaged with a pointer spindle. A pair of inner core bobbins wound by an electrical wire each are slidingly engaged with the case through the rectangular opening so as to be opposed to each other. A pair of outer bobbins wound by an electrical wire each are slidingly engaged with the pair of inner core bobbins through a rectangular opening of each outer bobbin so as to be opposed to each other. Each of inner and outer bobbins may have an outer frame plate which has a pair of electrical terminals at the middle thereof. The pair of terminals may consist of upper and lower terminals. The outer frame plate may be provided with a terminal retainer for securing the pair of terminals.

Abstract: A bicycle dynamo having enhanced power dynamics by having a large number of magnets 63 in alternate polarity lined up at a fixed interval along the inner circumference of the rotating mechanism 60. A circular lining 70 is outfitted and anchored around the perimeter of the main axle 20 with a transformer strapped to it. The transformer container a coil unit 81 and tow core parts; with the two core units sandwiching the coil unit 81 at its two sides. Each of the core unit is a stack having two or more core discs 82a, 82b. At an even interval around the circumference of the core disks 82a, 82b, fixed number of raised anchors 821a, 821b are formed that interconnect with different core disk anchors 821a, 821b to form a fixed set of the claw unit. Furthermore, each of the claw unit from the two core components 82 are extended out between the coil unit 81 and the magnets 63.

Abstract: A claw pole generator has a drive shaft, two pole wheel halves arranged on the drive shaft and each having a disk-shaped plate and claw shaped magnet poles spaced from one another in a peripheral direction and having magnet pole tips, the magnet poles of one pole wheel half being inserted in intermediate spaces of the magnet poles of the other of the pole wheel halves, permanent magnet parts provided for a dissipation flux compensation and arranged in intermediate spaces of the plate, the magnet poles extending in a predetermined direction, and a mounting device connecting the magnet pole tips with a neighboring one of the plates, the magnet poles extending toward an outer edge of a neighboring one of the plates, the mounting device having vanes operating as an ventilation element.

Abstract: A housing member for an actuator assembly for adjusting the orientation of a mirror element in a mirror assembly provides integral weather seals and noise dampeners. The weather seals and noise dampeners are injection molded with or onto a base wall of the housing member to thereby form seals and dampeners that have superior adhesion or mechanical retention to the housing member and, therefore, are not subject to degradation from noise. In addition, the integral seals and dampeners reduce the time and cost of assembling and servicing the actuator assembly. The housing member includes a base wall, and a sidewall which connects to the base wall and extends around the perimeter of the base wall. The side wall includes connectors for securing the first housing to the second housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement for the vibration-isolating mounting of an electric motor (2) on a support part (6) via an essentially disk-shaped support element (12). The support element (12) has a motor-holding section (24) for connection to the electric motor (2) and a support-holding section (26) for connection to the support part (6), and the two holding sections (24, 26) are connected via elastic, web-like connecting pieces (28). The connecting pieces (28) are designed such that the two holding sections (24, 26) are elastically movable relative to each other three-dimensionally in all directions in space, specifically axially, radially and tangentially, over a certain movement play. The support element (12) has integrated stop means for the three-dimensional limiting of the elastic relative movements of the holding sections (24, 26) and/or an additional mass (110) to influence the vibration behavior.

Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a compact high-power alternator for a vehicle. An alternator for a vehicle includes a stator serving as an armature, and a rotor serving to generate a magnetic field. The rotor includes a pole core having a cylindrical portion, a yoke portion, and a claw-like magnetic pole portion. The stator includes a stator iron core, an armature coil, and an insulator. A ratio L1/L2 of an axial-direction length L1 of the stator iron core to an axial-direction length L2 of the pole core is in a range of 0.7 to 1.0.

Abstract: A collector ring for transferring electrical current between a non-rotatable member and a rotatable member. The collector ring comprises a first support which is fixed to the non-rotatable member and which has at least one conductive metal ring member mounted thereon which is electrically insulated from the non-rotatable member. An input terminal is electrically connected to each of the ring members for connection to a source of electrical energy. A second support is rotatably mounted on the first support with the second support being adapted to operatively mechanically connected to the rotatable member whereby rotation of the rotatable member with respect to the non-rotatable member will cause the second support to rotate with respect to the first support.

Abstract: A rotary motor and a rotary magnetic bearing are integrated in a compact assembly that is contact-less. A stator assembly surrounds a ferromagnetic rotor with an annular air gap which can accommodate a cylindrical wall, e.g. of a chamber for semiconductor wafer processing. The stator assembly has a permanent magnet or magnets sandwiched between vertically spaced magnetic stator plates with plural pole segments. The rotor is preferably a ring of a magnetic stainless steel with complementary pole teeth. The stator assembly (i) levitates and passively centers the rotor along a vertical axis and against tilt about either horizontal axis, (ii) provides a radial position bias for the rotor, and (iii) establishes a motor flux field at the rotor poles. Polyphase coils wound on the stator plates produce a rotating flux field that drives the rotor as a synchronous homopolar motor. A rotor without pole teeth allows operation with an asynchronous inductive drive.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a rotor core for use with a permanent ring magnet in an electric motor which serves to minimize and evenly distribute thermal stresses in the rotor without undermining the efficiency of the motor by distorting the flux return to the ring magnet. According to one embodiment, the rotor core comprises a plurality of laminated plates. Each of the plates has a rim with a circular outer perimeter, a hub concentric with the outer perimeter of the rim, and first and second sets of curved spokes coupling the hub to the rim. Each spoke of the first set of curved spokes is concave in a clockwise direction and each spoke of the second set of curved spokes is concave in a counter-clockwise direction. According to another embodiment, the rotor core comprises a plurality of laminated structurally-identical perforated plates having obverse and reverse sides such that the obverse side of each plate faces the obverse side of an adjacent plate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a Segmented Coil Array (“SCA”) for use in rotary electromotive devices, such as motors and generators, which employ multiple coils operating within an axial gap magnetic structure. Individual conductor coils have offset circumferentially extending portions so as to allow interlocking of adjacent coils radially extending portions to form a circular array in which all of the coils' working conductors, which are those in the axial magnetic field, can be oriented in the same plane. This construction allows minimum magnet gap spacing, thus, maximizing the available magnetic flux. The resulting SCA may easily be commuted as a three-phase motor, actuator, or generator. The invention also provides a structure whereby multiple coil arrays and associated magnetic rotors may be alternately stacked in layers so as to further increase the total coil working area within a motor or generator of a given diameter.