Abstract: A voice coil motor includes a housing, a first lens holder, a second lens holder, a first electromagnetic drive assembly, and a second electromagnetic drive assembly. The first electromagnetic drive assembly generates a first electromagnetic force to drive the second lens holder to move in a moving direction. The second electromagnetic drive assembly is adapted to drive the first lens holder to move along the moving direction. The first magnetic steel portion includes a first magnet and a second magnet. The first coil includes a first wire portion and a second wire portion. When the first coil is conducted, a direction of current in the first wire portion and a direction of current in the second wire portion have at least components in opposite directions. The present disclosure can solve the jam problem when zooming, and also increase the zoom stroke.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and stator windings. The stator winding has a plurality of slot conductor groups having a plurality of slot conductors of the same phase. A plurality of slot conductors of the slot conductor group are inserted into a predetermined number (Ns) of slots continuously arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core such that the slot and the layer are adjacent to each other. The predetermined number (Ns) is set to “Ns=NSPP+1,” where “NSPP” denotes the number of slots per pole per phase.

Abstract: A magnet temperature information output device is disposed on a rotating electrical machine including a stator and a rotor with a permanent magnet, and is arranged to output temperature information regarding a temperature of the permanent magnet. The magnet temperature information output device includes an element arranged to detect a magnetic flux and output an electrical signal responding to the detected magnetic flux as the temperature information. The element is disposed on the stator.

Abstract: A voice coil motor with extended and stabilized travelling distance for lens-focusing includes a housing, a first spring, a carrier, a second spring, and a base. The first and second springs, diametrically apart, are connected between an inner surface of the housing and a side of the carrier. The base includes an insulating base plate on the second spring and coupled to the housing, and a metal connecting member on a side of the insulating base plate and welded to the second spring, providing a reliable connection to the base. The risk of the second spring accidentally falling off is reduced.

Abstract: This disclosure enables an assembly for driving an arm of a windshield wiper of a vehicle. The assembly includes a support structure in a housing that is secured against rotation relative to the housing. The support structure has an opening with a bearing surface, where the opening is configured to receive a boss of a worm wheel such that the bearing surface faces the boss of the worm wheel.

Abstract: An electric motor adapted to apply torque to a drive shaft rotatable about an axis, the electric motor includes a stator, a rotor adapted to rotate relative to the stator, a primary bearing interoperably coupled to the stator and adapted to provide bearing support between the stator and the rotor, an auxiliary bearing interoperably coupled to the drive shaft, an annular shear adapter connected to the primary bearing and the auxiliary bearing, and a shear pin interoperably coupled to the primary bearing via the annular shear adapter and configured to break responsive to torque between the annular shear adapter and the drive shaft exceeding a predetermined torque threshold.

Abstract: An electromagnetic coupling device includes an electromagnetic coil, a field core including a recessed portion containing the electromagnetic coil, and a terminal block inserted in a hole passing through the wall of the recessed portion. The terminal block includes a terminal portion projecting outside the field core, a pair of terminals provided at the terminal portion, and a pair of through holes passing through the terminal block via the pair of terminals. The winding start end and winding termination end of the electromagnetic coil pass through the pair of through holes, project from the pair of terminals, and are soldered to the pair of terminals together with a pair of external connection lead wires.

Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device has a PCB stator panel assembly between rotors with an axis of rotation. Each rotor has a magnet. The PCB stator panel assembly includes PCB panels. Each PCB panel can have layers, and each layer can have conductive coils. The PCB stator panel assembly can have a thermally conductive layer that extends from an inner diameter portion to an outer diameter portion thereof. Each PCB panel comprises discrete, PCB radial segments that are mechanically and electrically coupled together to form the respective PCB panels.

Abstract: An electromagnetic generating transformer comprises one or more flux assembly having one or more magnetic field source having a positive pole and a negative pole and a magnetic field passing in a path between the positive pole and the negative pole and a conductor magnetically coupled with the one or more magnetic field source, the magnetic field source and the conductor being fixed relative to one another; a shunt is coupled with a motive source and configured to move the shunt into a primary position and a secondary position, wherein the magnitude of the magnetic field passing between the positive pole and the negative pole varies when the shunt is moved between the primary position and the secondary position.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine comprises a two-pole rotor, a three-phase armature winding, and a stator core having fifty-four slots. An armature winding is stored as a top coil piece and a bottom coil piece in two layers in the slot of the stator core and has three parallel circuits and two phase belts per one phase. Each phase belt includes two parallel circuits. When a sequence of the first and second parallel circuits of one phase belt is viewed from a side closer to a phase belt center, those parallel circuits are arranged in a sequence of the first, second, first, first, second, first, first, first, and second parallel circuits in the top coil pieces and in a sequence of the first, second, first, first, second, first, first, first, and second parallel circuits in the bottom coil pieces to be connected to the top coil pieces.

Abstract: An electric magnetic resistance control structure for an exercise machine includes a base; a flywheel, pivotally connected to the base through a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft defining an axial direction, the flywheel, a non-magnetically sensitive layer being coupled to a circumference of the flywheel; a power unit, fixed to the base; a magnetic resistance unit, including a coupling portion corresponding to an arc of the non-magnetically sensitive layer, at least one magnetic member being provided on the coupling portion and kept at a distance from the non-magnetically sensitive layer to generate a magnetic resistance effect; a control unit, configured to control a current applied to the power unit to drive the magnetic resistance unit to move along the axial direction, thereby changing an overlapping area of the magnetic member and the non-magnetically sensitive layer in the axial direction, so as to adjust a magnetic resistance of the flywheel.

Abstract: A coil substrate includes a flexible substrate, and coils formed on the flexible substrate such that the coils are positioned substantially in a raw and that each coil has a center space and wirings surrounding the center space. The coils are formed such that each coil includes first wirings on a first surface of the flexible substrate, second wirings on a second surface of the flexible substrate on the opposite side with respect to the first surface, and via conductors penetrating through the flexible substrate and connecting the first and second wirings, and the coils are positioned such that a m-th coil has the second wirings positioned below the center space of a (m+1)-th coil and that a (m+2)-th coil has the first coils positioned on the center space of a (m+1)-th coil, where in is an integer equal to or greater than 1.

Abstract: The invention is a motor/generator that includes a motor/generator housing that encloses a rotor assembly, which rotates a shaft, and a stator assembly that remains stationary, and where the motor/generator is inside a vacuum chamber, which, during normal operation, is evacuated of gas and operates at a lower air pressure than atomospheric air pressure, and a cylindrical vacuum barrier between the rotor assembly and the stator assembly that together with the motor generator housing partitions the motor/generator into an interior rotor volume and an exterior stator volume, enabling the rotor volume and stator volume to operate at different atmospheric pressures.

Abstract: The power transmission mechanism includes a non-contact power transmission mechanism and a mechanical power transmission mechanism, both of which are provided in parallel on a power unit side or a rear wheel side. The mechanical power transmission mechanism has a crown gear and a pinion that are meshed at the time of low-speed rotation of the engine and are separated at the time of medium-high speed rotation thereof.

Abstract: An actuator has a first stator with four first poles, a second stator with four second poles aligned with the four first poles, at least one permanent magnet between the first stator and the second stator, four armatures positioned at terminal ends of the aligned four first poles and four second poles and coils wrapped around the first stator and the second stator. A controller selectively applies current to the coils to cause flux created by the at least one permanent magnet to traverse through selective poles of the first stator and the second stator to selectively alter air gap sizes associated with the four armatures.

Abstract: A magnetic coupling device includes a driving magnet array having multiple annular sector-shaped, circumferentially arranged first permanent magnets, and a driven magnet array having multiple circular sector-shaped, circumferentially arranged second permanent magnets with pole surfaces facing pole surfaces of the first permanent magnets. The driven magnet array is rotated by the driving magnet array being rotated. A repulsion zone where a repulsive force acts is designed to have an area that is 5% to 15% of that of an attraction zone where an attractive force acts between a specific first permanent magnet and a specific second permanent magnet, with a radial first centerline of the specific first permanent magnet overlapping a radial second centerline of the specific second permanent magnet so that opposite poles face each other, including between first and second permanent magnets respectively adjacent the specific first and second permanent magnets with overlapping the centerlines.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine unit includes a rotary electric machine, where a protruding portion extending in an axial direction from a one end side cover portion toward the rotary electric machine is formed at a position below a rotation axis of the rotary electric machine and overlapping with the rotary electric machine. A refrigerant flow lower surface formed on a tip end side of the protruding portion and extending in the axial direction, and a recessed surface adjacent to a base side end portion of the refrigerant flow lower surface and extending in the axial direction at a position recessed upward than the refrigerant flow lower surface are formed below a center of the protruding portion in the upper-lower direction. The refrigerant flow lower surface of the protruding portion is arranged such that an axial central portion overlaps the rotary electric machine in the axial direction.

Abstract: A coil substrate includes a flexible substrate having first and second ends, a first coil formed on first surface of the substrate such that the first coil has center space and first wiring surrounding the space, and an second coil formed on second surface of the substrate such that the second coil has center space and second wiring surrounding the space and is positioned directly below the first coil. Each of the first and second wirings has outer and inner ends such that each wiring is formed in spiral shape between the outer and inner ends, a number of turns in the first coil is greater than a number of turns in the second coil, a width of the first wiring is substantially constant from the outer end to the inner end, and a width of the second wiring is not constant from the outer end to the inner end.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor operated compressor, including a housing, a compressor provided in the housing, a motor connected to the compressor to drive the compressor, an inverter coupled to one side of the housing, and connected to the motor unit in an electrically conductive manner. The motor operated compressor includes a hermetic terminal assembly, one side of which extends into the inverter unit, and an opposite side of which extends into the housing. A plurality of busbars have one end of each busbar connected to the opposite side of the hermetic terminal assembly, and the other end of each busbar connected to the motor unit. A first insulating cover portion encloses and seals the hermetic terminal assembly and the plurality of busbars inside the housing, such that a conductive body connecting the motor unit and the inverter unit in the main housing is sealed from refrigerant.

Abstract: An electrical machine with a winding support is provided, which comprises a cylindrical base body and support teeth projecting radially from the base body and has grooves bounded by the base body and in each case two of the support teeth, and at least one winding supported by the winding support, which winding is formed by conductively connected conductor sections, which are each guided through at least one of the grooves of the winding support and project beyond the winding support at the axial end faces of the winding support, wherein a respective clamping ring is arranged at each axial end face of the winding support, wherein each clamping ring forms support sections that each extend radially along a respective axial end face of a respective one of the support teeth and mechanically contact at least parts of the conductor sections guided through the grooves adjacent to the respective support tooth, wherein the respective support section contacts the axial end face of the respective support tooth in a conta