Abstract: A stator of a three-phase generator, having a multi-strand stator winding in which each of the m phase windings (19) is comprised of a group (22), which has a first coil (24) with coil sides (28, 29), which are contained in grooves (16) that are spaced apart from one another by 180° electrically and the first coil (24) has a particular number of turns (zw), has a second coil (27) with coil sides (29, 30), which are contained in grooves (16) that are spaced apart from one another by 180° electrically and the second coil (27) has a particular number of turns (zw); the second coil (27) is offset from the first coil (24) in a first direction by 180°/m electrically, and in accordance with the predetermined number of pole pairs, a corresponding number of groups (22) that are offset from one another by 360° electrically are arranged one after another in the stator.

Abstract: The electric machine, particularly a three-phase generator, has an exciter machine (26) in the form of a claw pole machine which supplies the exciter current necessary for the generator. The exciter machine is located to the side of the generator and has substantially smaller dimensions than the latter. At claws (28, 29) of the stator (25) which face the armature (32) of the exciter machine, permanent magnets (39) are located in the leakage flux area between the claws. Unwanted leakage fields are contained in this way.

Abstract: The electrical machine, in particular a three-phase generator, has a stator (21) secured in a housing (10) and a claw pole rotor (23) which is secured on a shaft (13) and has an exciter winding (28). Between the claw pole rotor and a bearing plate (17) that closes off the housing, there is an electrical repeater (29) for exciting the exciter winding (28). The primary winding (30) is disposed along with the core (36, 41, 47) on the bearing plate (17). The primary and secondary windings (30, 31) of the repeater (29) are disposed between the bearing plate (17) and the claw pole rotor system (23); the primary winding (30) is disposed in a stationary core (36, 41, 47), and the secondary winding (31) is disposed in a rotating core (35, 42, 48), and the windings are coupled via an air gap (38).

Abstract: A synchronous machine formed as a generator for a motor vehicle has a stator, a rotor, an excitation system including a plurality of individual poles in the rotor formed as claw poles, a unit for compensation of stray flux in free spaces between the claw poles and including permanent magnets provided in pole plates arranged at axial ends of the rotor, a holder supporting the permanent magnets against centrifugal and axial forces, the holder being composed of two non-magnetic holding rings which centrally surround the excitation system, abut against one another and have an outer contour extending to a lower side of the claw poles, holding arms which are bent on the holding rings in correspondence with a number of poles and extend in the free spaces to the pole plates so as to support the permanent magnets, the holding arms having free ends, holding tongueslaps supported by the free ends of the holding arms in direction toward a rotor shaft, the holding tongues being fixed on inner sides of the pole plates.

Abstract: A synchronous machine formed as a generator for a motor vehicle has a stator, a rotor, an excitation system composed of a plurality of electrically excited individual poles provided in the stator and the rotor and formed as claw poles excited by a joint excitation coil, and a stray field compensation device arranged in free spaces between the claw poles, the stray field compensation device being formed as an additional winding through which current flows and which surrounds the claw poles so that an axial current direction changes from one free space to another free space and a current to neighboring claw poles produces an additional flux which supports a main flux and counteracts a stray flux.

Abstract: The claw pole generator includes a drive shaft, two field spider halves (30.1, 30.2) mounted on the drive shaft, each of which include a disk-shaped plate (15) and claw-shaped magnetic pole elements (17) mounted on the disk-shaped plate (15), so that the magnetic pole elements (17) of each field spider half are engaged with each other, and a number of permanently magnetic pieces (27), each of which is arranged between adjacent magnetic pole elements (17). The disk-shaped plate (15) of at least one field spider half (13.1,13.2) is provided with a number of grooves (21), each of which extend in the plate (15) in a longitudinal direction of the drive shaft (5) and have an undercut (25). Each permanently magnetic piece (27) has a section which corresponds in shape to or which fits into one of the grooves (21), so that the permanently magnetic pieces (27) are insertable in respective grooves (21) and radially securable therein.

Abstract: A claw pole generator has a drive shaft, two pole wheel halves arranged on the drive shaft and each having a disk-shaped plate and claw shaped magnet poles spaced from one another in a peripheral direction and having magnet pole tips, the magnet poles of one pole wheel half being inserted in intermediate spaces of the magnet poles of the other of the pole wheel halves, permanent magnet parts provided for a dissipation flux compensation and arranged in intermediate spaces of the plate, the magnet poles extending in a predetermined direction, and a mounting device connecting the magnet pole tips with a neighboring one of the plates, the magnet poles extending toward an outer edge of a neighboring one of the plates, the mounting device having vanes operating as an ventilation element.

Abstract: A synchronous machine, in particular a generator for a vehicle, has an excitation system with a plurality of electrically excited individual poles in a rotor, preferably in form of claw poles excited by at least one common excitation coil, in which for compensation of a magnetic stray flux, in the free spaces between the axially oriented claw poles permanent magnets are inserted at the axial ends of the pole plates of the rotor, so that the permanent magnets are supported by a holder against centrifugal forces and held by it, and therefore an especially simple and inexpensive holder is formed which considerably simplifies and facilitates the insertion of the permanent magnets.

Abstract: The electric machine, advantageously a generator, includes a machine housing with two end shields, a lamination bundle provided with a stator winding having winding heads and a rotor in the housing. To improve the cooling effect and reduce aerodynamic flow noise the machine housing is provided with at least one air guiding duct enclosing circularly at least one winding head on one side of the lamination bundle and the at least one air guiding duct is provided with at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening for cooling air to carry away heat dissipated during operation, and each of the at least one air guiding ducts is bounded exteriorly by one of the end shields of the machine housing and interiorly by one of the two annular walls inserted between the lamination bundle and the end shield bounding the at least one air guiding duct exteriorly.

Abstract: In a threephase generator, it is suggested, for the purpose of supporting the stator plates, to provide the latter with a decoupling ring which is held securely at the stator plates on the one hand and, on the other hand, by means of clamping in a fit of the housing parts of the threephase generator on both sides. The decoupling ring can consist of two decoupling ring portions which embrace the stator plates and, at a distance from the latter, form a common clamping place for the end shields of the housing; or a radial ring can be formed, which is securely connected along the circumference alternately with the surface of the stator plates on the one hand, and, on the other hand, with certain clamping places in the housing by means of coupling segments. The half-shells of the decoupling ring and the radial ring can be formed directly by the laminations of the stator plates by means of a corresponding shaping.

Abstract: Operating noise of a dynamo electric machine, and particularly a three-phase vehicular-type alternator, can be reduced by changing the reluctance or permeability of the magnetic path between rotor and stator of adjacent stator teeth by splitting the stator teeth to introduce additional radially extending gaps in the stator teeth or by distributing, non-uniformly or uniformly, ferromagnetic slot closers about the circumference of the stator slots while leaving, adjacent a stator slot with a magnetic closer, open stator slots or slots covered only with non-magnetic slot cover elements, such as treated paper, cardboard, or the like.

Abstract: To facilitate manufacture and increase the lifetime of a speed-dependent coupling between the ventilation or fan wheel (23) and drive shaft (18, 21) of the alternator, an inner race (25) is secured to the drive shaft, formed with two parallel running grooves (26, 27) in which two rows of balls (28, 29) are rolling. A pair of outer races is formed as ring-shaped elements (30, 31), of part-circular cross section, surrounding opposite, at least approximately quarter-circular zones of the balls, the outer races being axially biased towards each other by a pair of disk-shaped membranes (34, 35) to which the ventilation fan wheel (23) is attached, the membranes being biased towards each other by a biasing force (F), for example exerted by axial screws, securing the disk-shaped membranes together for resiliently biasing the ring-shaped elements towards each other and exerting axial pressure on the balls (28, 29) running in the grooves of the inner race and beneath the outer races.

Abstract: A wire conductor embedded in a circuit board for interconnecting rectifier diodes passes through a cut-out of the circuit board and is bent out of the cut-out beyond the surface of the circuit board so as to provide a U-shaped connection piece in which the end of a generator winding wire can be laid and clamped until it is soldered. The U-shaped connection piece can also be provided by a clip affixed to the embedded wire where it is accessible in a cut-out of the circuit board.

Abstract: A three-phase alternator having a fan wheel (23) mounted with ball bearing (17) on the rotor shaft (18,21). The fan wheel, which is free to rotate about the rotor shaft, is coupled to it by a coupling between the V-belt pulley (22) and the fan wheel, which employs a few spaced ball bearings (24,25,26;27,28,29) and support a spring washer (32,36,39,40) which presses against outer races of the bearings and the fan wheel.

Abstract: A normally lubricated bearing, typically a ball bearing, serves to transmit torque from a drive shaft for the fan wheel of an alternator. The driving and driven bearing surfaces form the coupling parts respectively on the drive side and the delivery side of the coupling. A cup spring is useful to control the bearing friction that must be overcome at a limiting speed at which the drive shaft begins to turn faster than the driven device. Such couplings are useful for engine fans, pumps, or other similar auxilary devices in motor vehicles.

Abstract: To improve the stability and robustness of a rectifier and to protect it against atmospheric influences, two plate-like, series-connected semiconductor diodes are soldered to a common tap electrode between them. An external lead wire is soldered to each of the remaining sides of the diodes. The entire soldered structure is embedded in a single mass of resin or plastic, the ends of the electrodes being configured to serve as anchoring elements in the plastic mass.

Abstract: A semiconductor element, either a diode or a controlled rectifier, is electrically insulated relative to the heat sink on which it is mounted by either an insulating layer or an insulating diode of high thermal conductivity. A single unit including the heat sink with a plurality of diodes is used as a bridge rectifier in single phase or polyphase circuits.

Abstract: To provide for improved starting and rapid supply of power from a generator coupled to an internal combustion engine, typically an automotive-type engine, a connection is provided between the starter network and the field of the generator coupled to the internal combustion engine to supply power from the on-board battery network of the vehicle to the field winding of the generator upon starting so that the field will be externally excited during starting, the generator thereby being provided immediately with field current and not relying on remanent magnetism for supply of power therefrom.

Abstract: To simplify connection of a starter motor to a 24V supply with a normal on-board network of 12V, an auxiliary rectifier and an auxiliary battery are connected in parallel to the output of an automotive alternator. The starter relay switch contacts are so arranged that, only upon operation of the starter switch, the two batteries are connected in series and then to the starter motor. The supply connections to the batteries are left undisturbed, feedback being prevented by the rectifiers which are connected to the output of the alternator.

Abstract: A three-phase alternator has tapped armature windings, the tap points being connected to provide 12 V output and to a main battery. The end terminals of the armature windings are connected to an auxiliary rectifier, the output of which is connected to an auxiliary battery which is serially connected to the main battery, so that the two batteries are serially connected like the serial connection of the armature winding portions. A single voltage regulator, which may be connected to the auxiliary rectifier, or can be separately supplied by separately rectified current controls current flow through the field. The voltage regulator can be connected to the end terminals of the armature windings so that the field will be energized at the higher voltage level corresponding to the series voltages of both batteries, and permitting use of the auxiliary rectifier also as a field rectifier.