Abstract: A dc brushless vibrator motor employs a cylindrical coreless stator winding unit having at least three stator coils arranged at about an even pitch angle and a rotor that includes an axially extended eccentrically-weighted permanent field magnet that is magnetized so as to have alternate north and south poles about the rotational axis of the rotor. A cross-section of the field magnet in a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis has generally an arcuate or sectorial shape which is within an angular range of 180.degree. to 270.degree. about the rotational axis. The center of mass of the rotor, therefore, is off the rotational axis, thereby causing vibrations.

Abstract: A biased securement system for the end winding conductors of a turbine generator includes a support ring with a biased wedge system located between the end windings to compress them in both a radial and circumferential direction. A triangular shaped wedge is secured to the support ring between a pair of confronting spacer blocks having angular surfaces converging in the direction of the support ring. Belleville washers are disposed in a recess in one of the spacer blocks, with a slide plate therebetween which is held in place by a lock plate to retain the same in position.

Abstract: The non-contact positioning device is composed of a driven body formed by a magnetic substance which is the subject of positioning, and driving means constructed with electromagnets which support the driven body without contact. The driven body is formed as a simple polyhedron. The electromagnets are arranged facing each of the multiple faces of the simple polyhedron. This non-contact positioning device is constructed to adjust the position of the simple polyhedron by controlling the supply of current to the electromagnets.

Abstract: An improved alternating current machine having interdispersed armature windings is disclosed. The AC machine comprises an armature core having a plurality of generally longitudinal slots and a plurality of winding groups. Each of the winding groups comprises a plurality of one-turn coil windings which are series connected to electrically adjacent windings of the winding group. Each winding has two generally parallel side portions disposed in non-adjacent ones of the slots. The side portions are joined at one end by an end turn which extends axially outward from one end of the armature core and each of the side portions have an end connection extending a distance axially outward from the other end of the armature core for connecting to a respective electrically adjacent end connection of its electrically adjacent winding. The winding groups are interdispersed about the armature core such that there are a plurality of fixed distances between the electrically adjacent windings.

Abstract: There is disclosed a rotor for an electrical machine, the rotor having a current-carrying winding comprising a plurality of circumferentially distributed winding portions which lie in at least one plane perpendicular to the rotor axis, and extend from a radially inner region to a radially outer region. A commutator is provided by surfaces of the winding portions at the inner region, and the winding is formed from a plurality of conductive sections, each having ends which lie at said outer region, interconnections between the winding sections being made only by way of those ends. Thus, soldered connections made between the winding sections will be remote from the commutator, which is the main source of heat for overheating, and moreover will be at positions where air cooling due to rotor movement is greatest. Air gaps between the winding portions at the outer region aid this cooling affect even further.

Abstract: A bearing structure, preferably for supporting a rotary table (4) in metrological apparatus, includes both a journal bearing (34,36,38) and a thrust bearing (56,66). The journal bearing is made up of three dry pads (34,36,38), one (38) of which is radially adjustable, and the thrust bearing (56,66) comprises first and second air bearings. The axis of rotation of the bearing is vertical, and the lower (66) of the air bearings is less stiff than the upper one (56).

Abstract: A magnetic suspension system for a rotary machine including two magnetic actuators spaced from each other. Each actuator includes a stator which has a support shell with a plurality of coil windings, and a rotor which has an inclined annular gap for rotatably receiving the shell and a device for providing a magnetic field in the gap. The system selectively excites the coils to interact with the magnetic field in each gap and produce Lorentz forces for suspending the rotor of each actuator.

Abstract: A rotating electric motor has a permanent magnet member of a circular form and an armature core made of a magnetic material. The permanent magnet member has a plurality of N and S poles positioned alternately around the rotary shaft of the motor, and the number of the poles is P which is an even number. The armature core has a plurality of teeth formed between two adjacent winding slots of the armature core, and the number of the teeth is T which is an integer not less than 2P. Overlapping winding coils of polyphase winding groups are wound in the winding slots of the armature core, and the number of the phases of the polyphase winding groups is H which is an integer not less than 2. The armature core has at least a pair of short-blocks and long-blocks, each of which is a group of teeth having at least one tooth and positioned sequentially.

Abstract: A structure flywheel energy-storage device is disclosed comprising a rotatable flywheel mounted on a vertical shaft and provided with a bearing. The flywheel is in the form of a magnetic ring structure with a spacing element disposed between the ring structure and the shaft and with magnetic supporting structure to support the rotary magnetic ring structure. The use of the magnetic supporting structure enables the flywheel, once set in rotation with a given quantity of delivered energy, to rotate much longer than if purely mechanically supported.

Abstract: A hammer brush holder assembly can be easily fabricated and assembled by robot automation using only a few simple steps. The brush holder has at least two brush support arms swivel-mounted at one end in a brush rocker and pressed against a commutator by a tension spring via the brushes which are held at the other end of the brush rocker. The brush support arms with sleeve-shaped ends can be slipped axially onto lugs molded in an axial fashion to the brush rocker and locked in place. Both brush support arms are connected as parts of a single-piece plastic injection-molded component with an integral breakaway bridge segment which holds both brush support arms to a preselected mutual spacing. The breakaway bridge segment can be eliminated after installation of the hammer brush support assembly in the commutator motor.

Abstract: A compact motor arrangement having at least three equi-angularly-spaced motors having coplanar rotational axes intersecting at a common point. Each motor has an exterior shape of a frustrum of a cone, and a conical air gap, the exterior surfaces of adjoining motors being tangential.

Abstract: A stator comprises a one-piece U-shaped stator sheet having a pair of elongate parallel legs. The legs form pole shoe bridges at their front ends for their reception of a driven motor. At least one of the pole shoe bridges interconnects the legs adjacent their front ends. A coil-carrying bobbin is mounted on one of the legs, the length of the wound coil being longer than its diameter. A separate yoke sheet is fastened to the legs adjacent rear ends thereof to secure the bobbin on the leg. The stator is formed by first stamping-out a stamping which includes the parallel legs and the yoke, with the yoke being integrally attached to the legs by means of webs. After the stamping undergoes the usual pretreatment, the yoke sheet is separated from the legs, whereupon the coil bobbin is slipped onto the leg from the rear. Then, the yoke sheet is secured to the rear ends of the legs to prevent removal of the coil bobbin.

Abstract: A miniature electric motor is disclosed wherein a synthetic bobbin or frame has a rotor inside of a central cylindrical cavity, the rotor being supported in bearings which include large diameter flanges bonded to the bobbin. The windings are disposed around the bearing flanges and in grooves whose bottom surfaces are tangential to the cylindrical cavity. The windings thus assist in holding the bearing flanges to the bobbin and form part of the motor framework. The angular bottom surfaces effect increase in the number of turns in the windings and effects an increase in the rotor diameter and thus in the motor torque.A ring yoke of high permeability and low remanence surrounds and is bonded to the bobbin. Attached to the inside wall of the yoke are two diametrically opposed soft iron pins located at an angle to the normal of axis of the field created by the windings to create poles for stopping the rotor at a predetermined position.