Abstract: A motor including a first part having an outer peripheral portion and a second part having an inner peripheral portion facing the outer peripheral portion, the first part and the second part being configured to rotate relative to each other, includes a plurality of coils on one of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion, and a plurality of magnets on the other of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion at positions facing the plurality of coils, wherein the plurality of magnets includes a first magnet portion configured to apply a thrust to at least one of the plurality of coils in a rotation direction and a second magnet portion configured to apply a thrust to at least one of the plurality of coils in a direction intersecting the rotation direction, when an electric current is applied to the plurality of coils.

Abstract: An electric drive unit having an electric motor, which has a rotor and a stator that includes a stator core and field windings, a housing assembly into which the electric motor is received, and a seal member. The stator core defines a plurality of stator cooling passages that extend longitudinally through the stator core. Each of the field windings has a protruding portion that extends from an axial end of the stator core. The protruding portions are encapsulated in a plastic material. The housing assembly has an annular wall member that defines a seal groove. The seal member is received in the seal groove and forms a seal between the annular wall member and the plastic encapsulation on the protruding portion of the field windings. A coolant is circulated through the stator cooling channels, and the seal member inhibits ingress of the coolant between the stator and the rotor.

Abstract: An energy storage and electricity generating system for alternately storing energy and producing electricity includes a framework, which is positionable proximate to a surface of a body of water and to which a motor and a turbine are attached. A cable is operationally engaged to the motor by a pair of guide pulleys. A pair of tanks is attached singly to opposed ends of the cable, positioning the motor to selectively raise one of the tanks while the other is being lowered. Actuated valves and release valves on the tanks allow pressurized air to be selectively generated within the tanks and pressurized water to be forced from the tanks, respectively, as the tanks are lowered and raised. The water is forced through a hose onto blades of the turbine to generate an electrical current.

Abstract: A stator for an electric machine, comprising a stator core and a stator winding, wherein the stator core has a plurality of slots, which are spaced apart in a circumferential direction and have a depth running in the radial direction, and allows the arrangement of slot sections of the stator winding in a plurality of radially spaced-apart radial positions, wherein the stator has a strip-like winding unit comprising a first and a second winding conductor, wherein the two winding conductors run in a first and a second layer of the winding unit and each comprises: a plurality of straight slot sections which run in a transverse direction of the winding unit and are arranged in parallel, a plurality of first bent end sections which each interconnect two slot sections of the associated winding conductor and are arranged on a first longitudinal side of the winding unit, a plurality of second bent end sections which each interconnect two slot sections of the associated winding conductor and are arranged on a second l

Abstract: The present invention discloses an underwater transmission device with a lead screw sliding block mechanism, and relates to the technical field of underwater transmission devices. The device comprises a watertight motor and a lead screw sliding block mechanism A detection device is arranged in the watertight motor and comprises a planetary reducer and a rotary transformer. The lead screw sliding block mechanism comprise a base, a lead screw threaded rod and a sliding block. The watertight motor and the lead screw sliding block mechanism of the underwater transmission device with a lead screw sliding block mechanism are integrally designed. Therefore, the device has a compact structure. The rotary transformer can detect the absolute position of the sliding block, and facilitates debugging of the control system of the watertight motor. An instrument device can be fixed to the sliding block to accurately and linearly reciprocate.

Abstract: A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft includes at least one electrical propulsion unit (EPU). An EPU of the at least one EPU includes a propeller or a fan and a transverse flux electric motor. The electric motor includes a stator having coils configured to carry current and a rotor arranged to interact with the stator, such that a torque for driving rotation of the propeller or the fan is generated. The rotor is configured to supply a flow of air to the coils, such that heat is removed from the coils. The coils are directly exposed to the flow of air, such that heat is exchanged directly from the coils to the flow of air. Each coil includes an effective cooling surface area directly exposed to the flow of air. An effective cooling surface area is at least 20% of a total surface area of the respective coil.

Abstract: A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.

Abstract: A portable power supply according to one or more embodiments includes a combustion device (20) and a heating container (30) that retains an object to be heated, wherein at least a part of a portion of the heating container, the portion being directly heated by the combustion device, is provided with a magnetic metal plate (32) that has spontaneous magnetization and that generates electromotive force due to an anomalous Nernst effect induced by the heating, and wherein electrodes (33a, 33b) for drawing power are provided. Thus, the heating container for generating electricity has a simple configuration, and furthermore the portable power supply is provided with both the heating container and the combustion device.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for reducing vibrations and loads in one or more rotor blades of a wind turbine when the rotor hub is locked against rotation, The method detects that the rotor blades are vibrating above a threshold limit, and determines one or more wind parameters for wind impacting the rotor blades. An initial orientation of the blades is also determined. Based on the wind parameters and initial blade orientation, a first angle of attack for the rotor blades is determined that will reduce the vibrations in the rotor blades. The method then determines if expected loads induced at one or more wind turbine components will exceed a threshold limit at the first angle of attack for the rotor blades. The first angle of attack is modified when the expected loads exceed the threshold limit to reduce the expected loads to below the threshold limit. A controller pitches the rotor blades to achieve the first angle of attack.

Abstract: A folding wave-energy-harvesting mechanism for an underwater vehicle includes an underwater-vehicle main body and a wave-energy-harvesting-device main body. The wave-energy-harvesting-device main body includes a hydrofoil assembly and a yaw assembly. The first state of the hydrofoil assembly is a folding state, and the second state is an unfolding state. The first state of the yaw assembly is the folding state, and the second state is the unfolding state. The wave-energy-harvesting-device main body further includes a driving assembly and an energy-storage assembly. The driving assembly is configured to switch the hydrofoil assembly and the yaw assembly in the first state and the second state to each other. The energy-storage assembly is configured to store the wave energy harvested by the hydrofoil assembly. When the hydrofoil assembly and the yaw assembly unfold, the hydrofoil assembly increases the efficient area for wave-energy harvesting.

Abstract: An inverter unit, provided in a motor unit that rotates an axle of a vehicle, includes an inverter, and an inverter case that houses the inverter therein. The inverter case includes an inverter case body that opens to one side in a predetermined direction, and a plate-shaped cover that closes an opening of the inverter case body. The cover has a raised portion raised in the predetermined direction. The raised portion has a hollow curved shape protruding in the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A cooling jacket surrounding the stator of an electric machine, having an inlet and a plurality of outlets disposed at ends of the cooling jacket, distributed in circumferential direction and configured to create liquid jets exiting the cooling jacket in a radial direction towards end windings at the axial ends of the machine. Coolant liquid flow guiding elements within the cooling jacket are configured so as to create a circumferentially homogeneous or more homogenous axial liquid flow towards the liquid outlets and/or towards the liquid jet devices.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator extending along an axis and having teeth arranged about the axis. The teeth are circumferentially spaced apart by slots. Conductors extend around the teeth and through the slots. The conductors are electrically connected to one another to form phases. Cooling devices are provided in the slots. Each cooling device is fluidly connected to an inlet tube for supplying cooling fluid to the cooling device and an outlet tube for removing cooling fluid from the cooling device. A manifold includes a first cooling channel fluidly connected to each inlet tube and a second cooling channel fluidly connected to each outlet tube such that all the cooling devices in the machine are fluidly connected in parallel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to controlling a wind turbine with a scaled power coefficient where the scaled power coefficient is determined in an adjustment process. In particular is disclosed control of a wind turbine in a partial load operation mode based on a tip-speed ratio (TSR) tracking scheme which based on an estimated wind speed determines a power setpoint. The disclosed adjustment process comprises setting a scaled power coefficient as a predetermined power coefficient multiplied by a scaling factor; adding a time-varying perturbation signal to the power setpoint; determining a transfer function from the perturbation signal to a power error; evaluate the frequency response of the transfer function over a time period to determine the scaling factor which minimizes the gain of the transfer function; and setting the operating power coefficient as the scaled power coefficient.

Abstract: An electric motor cooling jacket enclosing a surface of an electric motor stator and having protuberances adapted for contact with the surface of the stator, with fluid passageways formed by the cooling jacket body, the protuberances, and the surface of the electric motor stator, wherein the fluid passageways are arranged to permit a cooling fluid to flow in a serpentine path across the surface of the stator to remove heat from the stator. Spray rings are fluidly coupled with the fluid passageways so as to permit the cooling fluid to flow into the fluid passageways, across the outer circumference of the electric motor stator, and out from orifices in the spray rings to cool the windings of the stator. The protuberances are formable using a pair of mold halves aligned anti-symmetrically with one another so that a serpentine fluid path is formed when casting the cooling jacket body.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for coordinated braking of a plurality of geographically-associated fluid turbines.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a superconducting power generation device and a power generation method. The device includes a superconductor, a conductive coil, a permanent magnet and a cooling medium. When ambient temperature is lower than its superconducting critical temperature, the superconductor, made of the second-type superconducting material, is capable of generating a magnetic levitation force to an outer permanent magnet and levitate it. When an external force is applied to the permanent magnet, its position changes compared to the conductive coil, which affects the magnetic flux passing through the coil and induces the generation of electromotive force in the coil, thereby converting mechanical energy to electric energy.

Abstract: In a generator including an engine, a rotating electric machine, and a cooling fan that rotates integrally with a rotor of the rotating electric machine, the cooling fan includes a plurality of fans disposed at an interval in an axial direction of the fan, and a cylindrical body that extends in the axial direction of the cooling fan with a cylindrical cross section in an inner peripheral space of an upstream fan and is disposed more on the upstream side than a downstream fan.

Abstract: A DC motor is configured so that, while either one of a pair of power feeding brushes makes contact with two commutator segments, the other makes contact with only one of two commutator segments. The DC motor is further provided with: a plurality of coils; a filter unit; and a calculation unit. The number of turns of a predetermined coil among the plurality of coils is different from the numbers of turns of the other coils. The filter unit allows the passing of the waveform of current generated on the basis of the fact that the numbers of turns are different from each other, and interrupts the waveform of current generated at the switching of the states of the contacts of the power feeding brushes to the commutator segments. The calculation unit calculates a rotational speed from the waveform passed through the filter unit.

Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a propeller assembly, a controller, and a pump system. The propeller assembly includes a propeller and a power system, the power system including an electric motor and a motor converter. The controller is connected to the power system and configured to switch the power system into a power-off arrangement in response to a temperature of the motor converter being greater than a threshold temperature. The pump system includes a pump and a coolant circuit that cools the motor converter. The pump is coupled to the propeller and to the motor such that rotation of either drives the pump.