Abstract: A segmented secondary part of a linear motor includes at least two segments, each having a plurality of magnets attached to a yoke plate, having alternating polarity, and having a direction of magnetization perpendicular to the yoke plate. The yoke plates include an overlapping region, in which the yoke plates of adjacent segments are superposed in the direction of magnetization but do not touch each other in the overlapping region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for electrically contact-connecting a winding (40) of an electrical machine (1) to a printed circuit board (92), wherein the electrical machine (1) has an armature (10) with a large number of teeth (20), wherein at least one winding (40), which is formed by an electrical conductor (42), is formed on one of the teeth (20).

Abstract: An element 1 includes a pair of electrodes 2 and 3, and an intermediate layer 4 having deformability, arranged between the pair of electrodes 2 and 3, and containing, as a material, a silicon compound including an unpaired electron. The intermediate layer 4 may contain a particle including the unpaired electron. The intermediate layer 4 may have rubber elasticity. The intermediate layer 4 may have at least one peak at a g value between 2.070 and 2.001 when being measured at an environment temperature of ?150° C. by using an electron spin resonance (ESR) device. The intermediate layer 4 may have at least one peak at a g value between 2.070 and 2.001 when being measured at an environment temperature of ?150° C. by using the electron spin resonance (ESR) device.

Abstract: The electric linear motion actuator includes an electric motor, a linear motion mechanism configured to convert rotary motion of the electric motor to linear motion of a linear motion part via a rotation input-output shaft, and a housing holding the linear motion mechanism. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor which are arranged such that the directions of magnetic poles that generate interlinkage flux contributing to a motor torque are parallel with a rotation axis of the electric motor. The stator is arranged so as to be coupled with an axial end surface of the housing. The rotor is arranged so as to have a space, in the axial direction, from the torque generating surface of the stator, and the rotor is fixed to the rotation input-output shaft of the linear motion mechanism.

Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a rotor, a stator and windings. The rotor includes a magnetically effective core. The rotor is contactlessly magnetically drivable about an axis of rotation and the rotor is contactlessly magnetically levitatable. The stator has coil cores, each with a longitudinal limb parallel with the axis and a transverse limb extending radially, the transverse limb being perpendicular to the axis. The windings generate an electromagnetic rotational field, each winding surrounding one longitudinal limb, such that the stator is free of permanent magnets. The rotor is ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic with one preferential magnetic direction extending radially, and the core of the rotor has a magnetic resistance in the preferential magnetic direction, the magnetic resistance at most half as large as the magnetic resistance in a direction, which is perpendicular to the preferential magnetic direction and perpendicular to the axial direction.

Abstract: One embodiment relates to a cover assembly and a motor including the same, the cover assembly comprising: a cover body; and a plurality of grooves formed on the upper surface of the cover body so as to guide coils, wherein a hole is formed at one side of the groove so as to penetrate the cover body. Therefore, the motor guides the coils to the outside by using the hole formed in the cover assembly such that assemblability is improved.

Abstract: There are presented various embodiments disclosed in this application, including methods and systems of arranging permanent magnets to switch from a first configuration designed for a first torque output to a second configuration designed for a second torque output.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nested winding for a slotless motor. The nested winding is formed by inner and outer windings which are nested together and have different inner and outer diameters, wherein the number of the inner and outer windings is n, same-phase coils are connected in parallel or in series, and the number n of the nested inner and outer windings is equal to or greater than two. Compared with the prior art, the nested winding has the following advantages: a potential difference between the coils connected in parallel can be effectively reduced, and accordingly, the loss of the winding is reduced, and the high-speed operating performance of the motor is improved.

Abstract: Noise caused by a gap between a rotor and a plate can be suppressed even when there are dimensional variations in members or assembly states. In a configuration of a stepping motor including front side and end side stator assemblies (200, 300), a rotor (400) provided with a rotor member (402) and a shaft (403) that are accommodated in the stator assemblies (200, 300), and a front plate (210) and an end plate (310) that are arranged on both sides of the stator assemblies (200, 300) in an axial direction, and are configured to couple the stator assemblies (200, 300), a projection (700) in an annular shape is provided on a surface of the front plate (210) facing the rotor member (402) to protrude toward the rotor member (402), a coil spring (800) that is interposed between the front plate (210) and the rotor member (402) is accommodated in the inner side of the projection (700), and the rotor (400) is urged toward the end plate (310) by the coil spring to be elastically pressed against the end plate (310).

Abstract: To cool field winding from its inner peripheral side and increase an insulation performance, salient-pole rotor (3) has rotor yoke (12) provided along rotation shaft (11), magnetic cores (13) protruding outward in radial direction from outer peripheral portion of rotor yoke (12) and arranged at regular intervals in circumferential direction, magnetic head (14) provided at radial direction outer side of magnetic core (13), and field winding (15) wound around outer peripheral surface of magnetic core (13) between rotor yoke (12) and magnetic head (14). And, insulating structure of ventilation path of salient-pole rotor (3) has ventilation groove (15a) opening to inner peripheral surface of field winding (15) and penetrating field winding (15) in radial direction, ventilation hole (14a) penetrating magnetic head (14) in radial direction and communicating with ventilation groove (15a), and stepped portion (15b) formed at portion, at magnetic head (14) side, of ventilation groove (15a).

Abstract: The invention relates to a brush module (10) for a rotating electric machine, in particular for a current-excited synchronous machine, the brush module (10) having at least two brushes (12) for establishing electrical contact with slip rings (11) of the machine, the brush module (10) having a housing device (13) and brush holders (14) for accommodating and supporting the brushes (12), wherein the housing device (13) has a collecting device (21) for collecting brush dust of the brushes (12). Alternatively, the housing device (13) is configured in such a manner that the brush holders (14) are spaced apart from each other, the housing device (13) at least partially forming an air gap between the brush holders (14) on a housing portion of the housing device (13) that faces slip rings (11).

Abstract: A motor electronics unit includes a printed circuit board having a first and a second side. An electrical conductor is connected to the printed circuit board. A heat sink is positioned proximate to the printed circuit board. A housing of a polymeric material includes: an endcap encapsulating the printed circuit board and covering an outer edge of the heat sink defining a heat sink first portion, with a second portion of the heat sink not covered by the polymeric material and extending through and outward from the endcap to transfer heat from the printed circuit board. A first section of the electrical conductor extends through and is partially encapsulated by the endcap. A connector body is integrally connected to the housing. A second section of the electrical conductor is exposed within a cavity of the connector body to electrically connect the printed circuit board to another component.

Abstract: A system includes a shaft body defining a longitudinal axis. A first internal fluid channel extends axially within the shaft body and includes an inlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of external fluid into the first internal fluid channel and an outlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of fluid from the first internal fluid channel to an area external of the shaft body. A second internal fluid channel extends axially within the shaft body and includes an inlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of external fluid into the second internal fluid channel and an outlet opening through the shaft body for fluid communication of fluid from the second internal fluid channel to an area external of the shaft body. The first and second internal fluid channels are in fluid isolation from one another within the shaft body.

Abstract: A printed circuit board and an electric filter. The printed circuit board is arranged to accommodate an electric circuitry on one side, and an electrically conductive material on the other side which forms a common ground point with the electric circuitry and a device contacting the conductive material. The electric filter for filtering electric signals of a DC motor includes a freewheeling diode coupled in parallel to the motor, a capacitor coupled in parallel to the motor, where a ground terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a chassis of the motor, a low pass filter including a ferrite bead and another capacitor is connected to each motor terminal (M+, M?), and a resistor-capacitor filter is coupled in parallel to the motor.

Abstract: A discharging device for discharging electrical interference, in particular currents, from a rotor part of a machine, said rotor part in particular being a shaft, into a stator part (17) of the machine, the discharging device having a contact device (11) comprising a contact element (13) which is accommodated in an axially displaceable manner in a guide and which is acted on by a contact force device (15) for generating a shaft contact force (FW) in order to establish electrical contact between a shaft contact surface (19) of the contact element (13) and a rotor contact surface (20) of the shaft (18), wherein the guide has a stator contact surface (25) for forming an electrical connection with the stator part (17) and the discharging device has a guide contact force device (21) for generating a guide contact force (FF) between a guide contact surface (24) of the contact element (13) and the stator contact surface (25) electrically connected to the stator part (17).

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about an axis, a housing defining a motor chamber receiving at least a portion of the rotor, and a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the rotor on the housing. The housing includes a pair of axially spaced apart endshields. The bearing assembly includes a bearing and lubricant collection structure associated with the bearing. The lubricant collection structure defines a collection chamber configured to collect lubricant from the motor chamber and direct the lubricant to the bearing.

Abstract: An actuator may include a movable body; a support body; a connecting body; and a magnetic driving circuit. The magnetic driving circuit may include an air-core coil provided in a first member, and a first permanent magnet provided in a second member so as to face the coil on a first side in a first direction. The magnetic driving circuit may cause the movable body to vibrate with respect to the support body in a second direction which intersects with the first direction. The first member may include a coil holder comprising a plate part in which a coil placement hole is formed, a first plate that overlaps the coil placement hole and the plate part, and an adhesive layer. The coil may face the first permanent magnet via the first plate.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator with a core having an end face and a plurality of conductors forming windings that extend adjacent to the end face defining end turns having a toroidal outline. The end turns are formed to define at least one channel in the end turns that traverses the end turns for increasing a surface area for fluid contact and directing a flow of fluid along the toroidal surface.

Abstract: An actuator may include a movable body; a support body; a connecting body disposed in contact with both the movable body and the support body in a position in which the movable body and the support body face each other; and a magnetic driving circuit including a coil in the support body and a permanent magnet in the movable body. The magnetic driving circuit may cause the movable body to vibrate. The support body may include a coil holder that holds the coil, a case that covers a circumference of the movable body and the coil holder, and a power supply board held by the coil holder in a position exposed from the case and to which a coil wire forming the coil is connected.

Abstract: A self-propelling method includes providing an impulse to a first magnet, the first magnet having angular momentum about a first point subsequent to the impulse, and inducing a change in angular momentum of a second magnet in response to magnetic attraction with the first magnet, the second magnet rotating about a second point, so that the first and second magnets are rotatably coupled to a rigid vehicle platform at the first and second points, and the inducing a change in angular momentum of the second magnet results in a transferred linear impulse of rigid vehicle platform in a first direction.