Abstract: An electric arbor integrated with an induction motor (2), for frequencies up to and beyond 3000 Hz, is made up of a sleeve (3), made of two coaxial tubular parts (3' and 4") finished at the same time, assuring the identical distance (3"') achieving extreme precision of the arbor (1). The arbor shaft (23), supported by bearings (6, 6' and 6") is inserted into the sleeve (3). To the back end of the sleeve (3) is fastened the motor (2), whose stator core stack (4) is made with thin laminations and into said stator (4) is introduced insulating resin charged with substances improving the thermal conductivity. The rotor (5), mounted cantilevered on the arbor shaft (23), is made of thin condutive laminations, fastened by the damping resin, which, melted on the ends, form the short-circuit rings contained by the rings.

Abstract: In a rotary actuator including a voice coil motor having a coil fitted to the other end portion of a carriage fixed to a rotary shaft and having a load at one of the end portions thereof, the rotary actuator of the present invention is characterized in that the rotation on the coil side and the rotation on the load side with respect to the rotary shaft are balanced. The weight of the coil is adjusted by forming the coil by at least two kinds of coil wires having different specific gravities, and where a plurality of coils are disposed on the outer side of the rotary shaft, the weight of the coil on the load side is made smaller than that of the coil on the opposite side.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a fan attached to the end of a rotor shaft extending through an opening in an end shield of the motor housing. The fan forces air about the housing to cool the motor components. A motor protector including a temperature sensor is connected to the stator windings and is sensitive to winding temperatures to shut off the motor when the temperatures exceed a predetermined level. A performed strip of material is positioned over the protector in a tent-like form to block flow of cooling air around the protector. Thus, the protector is kept sensitive to the winding temperature, the material block preventing the protector being influenced by the flow of cooling air within the motor.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine has a rotor affixed to a shaft which is journaled at each end by a bearing assembly. These elements preferably are assembled in a housing. A simplified system for controlling end movement or end play of the shaft during transport of the motor and motor start-up and coast-down eliminates the need for end play washers normally associated with motor construction. The system includes a stop (3) molded into an endshield of the motor so as to be integrally formed in one end wall of the housing, while a spacer (7), which can bear against the bearing at the other end of the shaft restrains end play in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An assembly comprising an electric motor that is coupled to an operating machine by a belt in which the electric motor is fastened so that its shaft is parallel to the shaft of the operating machine. The motor is supported by a base plate that is mounted on a cantilever so as to be able to tilt horizontally when being adjusted with at least one adjusting bolt to aid in tightening the belt that connects the operating machine and the electric motor. A one piece intermediate part that has two side pieces that enclose an angle is fastened to the cantilever at the free ends of the side pieces. The base plate is fastened to the intermediate piece in the region where the side pieces join. One side piece extends in the direction of the base plate. The longitudinal extension of the other side piece between the joining region and the cantilever is dimensioned so that the strength and yield point of the material allows the required tilting motion of the base plate to occur.

Abstract: A trochoidal speed reduction mechanism forms an integral part of the stator and rotor of an electric motor so that a slow-speed high-torque output is produced without having any high speed rotating component in the motor. A rotor has an epitrochoidal contour with a predetermined number of lobes. Positioned around the rotor are two non-rotating orbiting stator-rings, phased 180 degrees apart, each provided with a number of rollers equal to the number of lobes on the rotor plus one. The rollers are rotatably mounted on the inner surface of the stator-ring and are in continuous contact with the epitrochoidal contour of the shaft rotor. The non-rotating orbital movement of the stator-rings is produced by magnetic forces from a series of stator windings arranged as magnetic poles around the stator-rings. This action causes the rotor to rotate at a speed equal to the orbiting speed of the stator-rings divided by the built-in speed reduction ratio.

Abstract: A power factor compensator (18) for a power converter (17) comprises an L-C circuit connected in series between the power converter and the converter's A.C. power source (13). The values of the inductor (30) and the capacitor (31) of the compensator circuit are selected to cause the L-C circuit to resonate at a frequency higher than the power source frequency, preferably at a frequency ranging between 1.4 and 3.5 times the power source frequency, in order to achieve a power factor within the range of about 0.65 to 0.95. A resonant frequency of about twice the power source frequency has been experimentally found to give particularly good performance.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a high voltage comprising a high voltage output means operating on a system common voltage, and a floating power supply means operating on the output voltage from the high voltage output means which is at a floating common potential.

Abstract: A power supply system for a camera supplies electrical power to a light measuring circuit, a display circuit and others. During a hold state before the camera turns into a standby state, the power supply system supplies a boosted electrical power intermittently to the light measuring circuit, the display circuit and others, so that photographic information such as shutter speed and aperture value based on the measurement of the light measuring circuit are displayed on a display and power consumption in the hold state can be made small.

Abstract: A retaining ring system for a rotating electrical device such as a generator, motor, or condenser, including an auxiliary ring adapted to be removably mounted around the end portion of the rotor of the rotating electrical device bridging the rotor winding slots, and a retaining ring removably mounted around the first ring. The retaining ring supports the amortisseur and the field end windings of the rotating electrical device. An external first taper defined by the auxiliary ring and an internal second taper defined by the retaining ring provide mating, continuous first and second tapered surfaces. The assembly process is begun by sliding or jacking the auxiliary ring onto the rotor. A high pressure feed fluid line defined in the auxiliary ring includes an inlet port and an outlet port opening at a circumferential groove between the mating first and second tapered surfaces between O-ring seals.

Abstract: A voltage regulator for producing first and second reference voltages. The regulator includes first and second transistors, of a first polarity, having coupled emitters, and third and fourth transistors, of a second polarity, having coupled emitters. A first amplifier is driven by the collectors of the second and third transistors, and provides a signal to the bases of the third and fourth transistors. A fifth transistor, of the first polarity, has its collector interconnected to the base of the second transistor, and the emitter of which is interconnected to the emitter of the first and second transistors. A second amplifier is driven by the collectors of the first and fourth transistors, and provides a signal to the bases of the first and fifth transistors. The wiper arm of a variable resistance whose end terminals are connected between the base and collector of the fifth transistor provides an adjustable reference voltage output over the range of the first and second reference voltages.

Abstract: A control circuit for a full bridge switching converter including power FET switching devices. The control circuit including a gate driver with a voltage sensor circuit which senses the precise instant to gate the power FET on in order to achieve substantially lossless switching by the converter.

Abstract: A DIY (Do It Yourself) electric hand tool is provided to include a front segment and a rear segment which may be pivotably coupled to each other at one respective end thereof. A latching mechanism is provided between the coupled respective ends of the front and rear segments so that one of the front and rear segments may selectively be pivoted relative to the other of the front and rear segments to and be latched in one of a first position and a second position which endows the DIY electric hand tool with a configuration which fits the DIY tool to a specific working environment.

Abstract: A current limiting circuit wherein a first transistor has an input terminal coupled to a power source, an output terminal coupled to a node which supplies current to the rest of the system, and a control terminal coupled to a source of clock pulses for flowing current from the power source into the node in response to the clock pulses. A second transistor has an input terminal coupled to the power source, an output terminal coupled to the node, and a control terminal coupled to the clock supply and to a current control signal circuit for flowing a second current into the node in response to the clock pulses when a prescribed current control signal is applied to the control terminal. The current which flows through the first transistor is significantly less than the current which flows through the second transistor.

Abstract: With respect to an armature for use in an electric motor of an engine starter, or the like, an annular steel-plate ring (11) is fitted on the outer circumference of commutator segments (2) through insulating paper (12) for the purpose of stably maintaining strength in the connection between each of the commutator segments (2) to which armature coils (6) are connected and a resinmolding member (3) fixed to an armature rotary shaft (5).

Abstract: An improved electromagnetic actuator assembly is described. The assembly comprises a magnetic circuit for defining radially directed flux both in an inward and outward direction, and a coil disposed in the flux paths and connect to receive a control signal so that a current can be applied in one direction through those portions of the coil disposed in the inward radially directed flux, and applied in the opposite direction through those portions of the coil disposed in the outwardly directed flux so that the flux/current products of the coil portions and associated flux are additive.

Abstract: A P-bar excitation system employs a generator having means for adjusting the voltage and current available from the P-bars. In some installations, the direct output of the P-bars can be connected directly to the rectifier and control circuit for development of dc excitation power. This permits elimination of the conventional excitation transformer and overall simplification of the excitation system. The voltage and current are adjusted using paired P-bars per phase, wherein each pair of P-bars is connected in series, and angularly displaced from each other about the inner circumference of the armature to attain a vector sum of voltages yielding and desired voltage per phase. In another embodiment, the generator magnetic flux, or equivalently, the number of armature turns is adjusted to yield the desired P-bar voltage and current.

Abstract: Efficient high frequency operation of magnetic devices is achieved by utilizing ferrites that have a low power dissipation hysteresis characteristic and by designing these magnetic devices to operate within an operational range where all applied magnetic forces to the magnetic core have a substantially linear constant permeability response. Within this operational range the hysteresis loop of the selected ferrite material approximates an ellipse with very little area encompassed between the increasing and decreasing B-H locus of the hysteresis loop. The cyclic energy dissipation is significantly reduced as compared to conventional magnetic operations and high frequency operation can be achieved with very high efficiencies.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine comprises a housing (H), a rotatable shaft (S) installed in the housing and a bearing (B) in which the shaft is journaled. The bearing is installed in the housing adjacent each end wall (W) thereof. A bearing retainer (3) fits over the bearing and contacts an inner portion (7) of the end wall to hold the bearing in position. The retainer includes fingers (21) for self-aligning the retainer with the bearing and for maximum control and flow of lubricant along each end and outer surface of the bearing.

Abstract: An electromagnetic device such as an electromagnetic brake or an electromagnetic coupling comprises an electromagnet, at least two parts arranged so that, when the electromagnet is switched on, a magnetic flux extends through the parts. Formations reducing residual magnetism in the parts, including a plurality of gaps formed as slots, are provided in at least one of the parts, such that this part remains a one-piece member.