Abstract: A multi-gap rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core has inner and outer core parts respectively located radially inside and outside of the rotor and each having partially or fully closed slots. The stator coil is formed of electric conductor segments each having a first leg portion inserted in one of the slots of the inner core part, a second leg portion inserted in one of the slots of the outer core part, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second leg portions on one axial side of the rotor. The first and second leg portions respectively have radially inner and outer coil end parts formed on the opposite axial side to the connecting portion. Corresponding radially inner coil end parts are joined to each other, and corresponding radially outer coil end parts are joined to each other.

Abstract: An armature assembly comprising an armature body and a number of armature ring segments mounted on the armature body, wherein the armature assembly comprises a number of insertion interface elements and a number of complementary receiving interface elements for mounting an armature ring segment onto the armature body; whereby an insertion interface element is realized to engage with a complementary receiving interface element in a direction essentially parallel to a rotation axis of the armature; and wherein an insertion interface element is formed as an integral part of the armature body or as an integral part of an armature ring segment. A method of assembling an armature is also described, and a wind turbine comprising such an armature assembly is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an easily mountable and highly dynamic radial bearing. According to the invention, a magnetic radial bearing for the rotatable mounting of a rotor (3) is provided, having a stator (2) that comprises several coil assemblies (6). The coil assemblies (6) are arranged around an axis (1) of the radial bearing in a circumferential direction. Each of the coil assemblies (6) has a laminated core (7) having single sheets. Each of the coil assemblies (6) further has an axial field coil (11) that is wound around the corresponding laminated core (7). The single sheets are stacked in the tangential direction in every laminated core (7).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radial and axial flux motor using integrated windings, which includes a rotor which includes a rotor core having a shape of a hollow cylindrical case, and permanent magnets for an inner lateral surface and permanent magnets for a ceiling surface that are coupled to the inner lateral surface and the ceiling surface of the rotor core respectively, and which is rotated about a shaft, and a stator which includes a stator core and windings coupled to the stator core and which is installed in the rotor. Therefore, a radial flux motor and an axial flux motor are integrated into one motor to be able to increase both efficiency and output.

Abstract: Provided is a stator of a motor which is capable of reducing an iron loss generated in a motor and thereby attaining a high-efficient motor. A stator of a motor comprises a yoke of a tubular shape; and teeth each of which includes an extending portion extending inward in a radial direction of the yoke from the yoke and an increased-width portion formed at a tip end of the extending portion so as to have a greater width than the extending portion in a circumferential direction of the yoke; wherein the extending portion has a narrower portion having a smaller width than a remaining portion of the extending portion.

Abstract: A vibrator includes a frame, a swing unit, and an elastic member. The swing unit is disposed within the frame and holds a magnet. The elastic member connects the swing unit and the frame. The swing unit is movable with respect to the frame while deforming the elastic member. The frame, the swing unit, and the elastic member are integrally molded with each other.

Abstract: A wheel-axle generator equipped with a rotor configured to rotate with rotation of a wheel and a stator arranged around the rotor. The rotor is fixed to a concave portion that opens toward a vehicle outside of a tire wheel of a wheel. An arm member that has one end attached to a wheel-axle housing or a steering knuckle), that extends so as to stride over a wheel, and that, on a side of an outer surface of the wheel, further extends parallel to the outer surface of the wheel up to a central portion of the wheel. The stator is annularly arranged so as to surround the rotor and is provided on the other end side of the arm member. This arrangement provides space for accommodating a generator without shortening a wheel axle etc. and attaching the generator easily.

Abstract: A fan includes a fan frame, a rotor, a stator module and a protection structure. The fan frame has a base seat and the stator module is disposed on the base seat. The stator module includes a silicon steel sheet assembly having multiple splits and multiple outer faces. The rotor is disposed in the fan frame corresponding to the outer faces of the silicon steel sheet assembly. The protection structure includes multiple posts corresponding to the splits of the silicon steel sheet assembly. The posts are welded with the splits by means of laser welding.

Abstract: A liquid-cooled rotary electric machine including jacket defining a heat transfer surface in conductive thermal communication with a stator and having an axial end portion partially enclosing an interior volume. A heat source is in conductive thermal communication with a wall of the jacket axial end portion. A fluid channel traverses the heat transfer surface between opposite axial ends of the jacket, and a fluid passage in fluid communication with the fluid channel is defined by jacket axial end portion walls. A flow path of liquid coolant through the machine is defined by the fluid channel and the fluid passage between a machine coolant inlet and outlet, whereby at least a portion of heat transferable between the heat source and the fluid passage is convectively transferable between the jacket axial end portion walls and liquid coolant along the flow path. Also a method for liquid-cooling a rotary electric machine.

Abstract: A device for cooling of electric motor, which has a stator with a jacket surface/stator back, wherein a housing is arranged to surround the stator, includes at least one cooling channel in which a liquid cooling medium streams for cooling of the electric motor, wherein the housing is arranged to run separated from the stator along a main part of the thermoset cased jacket surface of the stator for forming of said cooling channel between the housing and said jacket surface, wherein the stator winding of the stator is arranged to run along and axially project from and turn outside of said jacket surface, wherein the stator including the projecting stator winding is embedded with said thermoset, wherein said cooling channel also is formed between the housing and the thus projecting stator winding.

Abstract: A fan includes a fan frame, a rotor, a stator module and a protection structure. The fan frame has a base seat and the stator module is disposed on the base seat. The stator module includes a silicon steel sheet assembly having multiple splits and multiple outer faces. The rotor is disposed in the fan frame corresponding to the outer faces of the silicon steel sheet assembly. The protection structure includes multiple posts corresponding to the splits of the silicon steel sheet assembly. The posts are welded with the splits by means of laser welding.

Abstract: A plurality of circumferential fins 22g are formed on an outer peripheral surface of a motor casing 22a, and a plurality of fins 22f are formed on an outer surface of a motor rear cover 22d. Lubricant circulates in a motor-casing oil passage 55 provided in the motor casing 22a, a motor-rear-cover oil passage 56 provided in the motor rear cover 22d, and a speed reduction portion B. This lubricant is cooled when flowing in the motor-casing oil passage 55 and the motor-rear-cover oil passage 56. Thus, an in-wheel motor drive device 21 is efficiently cooled.

Abstract: A commutator includes a first body and a second body which are separately made of electrically insulating material, a plurality of commutator segments fixed on an outer surface of the first body and a plurality of commutator terminals. The first body is a hollow cylinder with two opposite ends. Each terminal has a contact area for contacting a corresponding one of the commutator segments. The second body has a base and a ring wall extending from the base, and one end of the first body is received in a space defined by the base and the ring wall, with the contact area of each terminal being in tight contact with the corresponding commutator segment at the inner side of the ring wall.

Abstract: Provided is an inverter module for use in an inverter-integrated motor, the inverter module being arranged at an axial end portion of a motor, the inverter module including trapezoidal power modules, each of which has a single-phase inverter circuit mounted thereon, and includes an electrical connection terminal for a power supply arranged on a short side thereof and an electrical connection terminal for the motor arranged on a long side thereof. A plurality of the trapezoidal power modules are arranged in an annular pattern so that the long side of the each of the plurality of the trapezoidal power modules faces toward an outer periphery, to thereby construct a polyphase inverter circuit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stator of an EPS motor, the stator including a stator core including a plurality of teeth protrusively formed toward a center of an inner circumferential surface, a plurality of coils wound on the teeth at a predetermined counts, an insulator coupled to an upper surface and a bottom surface of the stator core to insulate the coil from the stator core, and an insulation tube situated nearest to a coil wound on an adjacent stator core and inserted into a coil wound on an outmost side of the teeth.

Abstract: Provided is a rotor core of a motor, the rotor core, the rotor core including: a thin disk-shaped rotor core member; a shaft hole penetratively formed at a center of the rotor core member; a shaft press-fitted into the shaft hole; a plurality of magnet insertion holes penetratively formed at a position near to a periphery of the rotor core member for inserted coupling by a magnet; and a magnet support rotor core member in which a magnet support member tightly contacting a magnet inserted into the magnet insertion hole to a radial direction of the rotor core member is protrusively formed at the magnet insertion hole, wherein the rotor core members are stacked each at a predetermined height, and the magnet support rotor core members are arranged at an upper surface and a bottom surface of the plurality of stacked rotor core members, and the shaft is press-fitted into the shaft hole.

Abstract: Provided is a segmented armature motor, which includes a plurality of armature coils which enclose a rotor having a rotary shaft, an armature which houses the armature coil and which is coupled in a segmented form, a motor frame which is coupled to the armature so as to enclose the armature, and motor covers coupled to the front and rear faces of the motor frame. The segmented armature motor is formed so that the armature coils completely enclose a pole portion of the rotor and are formed into a horseshoe shape or U shape, thereby minimizing magnetic losses of the armature and of the rotor.

Abstract: A motor for a cooling fan of a vehicle has a rotor including a driving shaft mounted so as to be rotatable in a stator and a bowl-shaped metal case, having a lateral skirt wall which extends around the stator, and having a bottom wall in which there is constructed a tubular fixing formation through which the shaft extends and which is fixed to the shaft. The tubular fixing formation of the rotor case has an internal diameter which is greater than the diameter of the driving shaft. The motor further has an intermediate insert including a tubular portion which is fixed to the shaft and on which there is fixed the tubular formation of the rotor case, and a transverse connecting portion which extends adjacent to the external surface of the bottom wall of the rotor case, and which is connected or connectable to the impeller.

Abstract: A vibration motor includes a housing, a coil, a moving portion, an elastic member and a roller member. The housing has a top surface, a bottom surface, and first to fourth side surfaces joining the top surface to the bottom surface, the first to fourth surfaces defining an inner circumferential surface of the housing. The coil is provided in the housing. The moving portion provided in the housing and the moving portion is configured to reciprocate between the first and third sides arranged opposite to each other. The elastic member is provided between the moving portion and the housing. The roller member is provided in the housing and arranged to come into rolling contact with the top or bottom surface of the housing.

Abstract: In an inner-rotor motor, an armature includes a stator core including an annular core back and magnetic pole teeth projecting from the core back; an insulator covering an upper and lower surface of each magnetic pole tooth of the stator core; and coils defined by a conducting wire wound around a separate one of the magnetic pole teeth with the insulator intervening therebetween. The insulator includes at least one protruding portion. An upper end of each protruding portion is arranged at an axial level higher than an axial level of a lower surface of a circuit board. The circuit board includes at least one penetration portion each of which is defined by a cut or a hole, and in each of which a corresponding one of the at least one protruding portion is arranged.