Abstract: An apparatus for multi-user media collaboration includes a processor and memory storing executable computer program code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including generating a playlist including indications of media content responsive to requests from communication devices to include an item of media content in the playlist. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze an initial or subsequent item in the playlist to determine a communication device storing, or authorized to access, the item and to receive the item of media content from the communication device responsive to requesting the communication device to play the item. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to provide data of the item being streamed to enable users of communication devices, that are physically co-located, to listen to audio or view visible data corresponding to the item. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.

Abstract: A motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has 2P poles wherein P is an integer greater than one. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core and a commutator fixed to the shaft. The commutator has m segments where m is an even integer greater than P. Every two adjacent segments are electrically connected by a winding unit so that the rotor winding comprises m winding units with at least one of the winding units comprising P coils connected in series; and each coil of each winding unit is directly connected to a corresponding two segments.

Abstract: A motor has a stator having a stator core and field windings. The brush gear includes a plurality of brushes, a rotor including a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent the rotor core and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and connected to the commutator. The stator core has a yoke, 2P primary poles about which the field windings are wound, and 2P auxiliary poles. A control device controls the electrical connection of the field windings and the brushes so that 2P or 4P magnetic poles are selectively formed on the stator core when the field windings are electrified. P is an integer equal to or greater than 1.

Abstract: A universal motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has stator core and a stator winding. The stator core has a yoke with two ends and two equivalent salient poles formed at the ends of the yoke respectively. The stator winding is wound on the yoke.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator, a rotor and brush gear. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a commutator fixed to the shaft, and rotor windings wound on the rotor core and electrically connected to the commutator. The brush gear includes at least two arcuate brushes for making sliding contact with the commutator. The commutator and brush gear are disposed within a space formed in the rotor core to minimize the axial length of the motor.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator, a rotor and brush gear. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a commutator fixed to the shaft, and rotor windings wound on the rotor core and electrically connected to the commutator. The brush gear includes at least two arcuate brushes for making sliding contact with the commutator. The commutator and brush gear are disposed within a space formed in the rotor core to minimize the axial length of the motor.

Abstract: A subsea electronics module comprises a plurality of processors for controlling operations in a subsea hydrocarbon extraction well, the processors being coupled to a data highway and there being distributed software in the module for controlling the processors so that the function of at least one of the processors may be carried out at least in part by at least one of the other processors.

Abstract: A stator for an electric motor has a laminated stator core 10 formed from a plurality of stacked laminations, and a stator winding formed from a plurality of coils 20 wound on bobbins 30. The stator core 10 has a plurality of teeth 40 which extend radially and alternately spaced between and connected to circumferentially extending yokes 50. The yokes and the teeth are separately formed with each yoke 50 being a stack of yoke laminations 12 and each tooth 40 being a stack of tooth laminations 14. The teeth 40 are inserted through the bobbins 30 and arranged in a cylindrical form with each tooth 40 extending radially. Yokes 50 are then fixed between radially outer ends 144 of adjacent teeth to complete the radially outer portion of the stator core. Each tooth 40 has a radial location surface 144b which contacts an inner surface of the adjacent yokes 50. The yokes 50 and teeth 40 are fixed together by welding the yokes 50 to the outer ends 144 of the teeth 40.

Abstract: An automatic soldering apparatus and a soldering method thereof are provided. The soldering method has steps of: (S1) positioning a to-be-soldered part and an electronic component having a solder material; (S2) driving a hot press to firstly move, until the hot press is in contact with the part; (S3) heating the solder material by the hot press; and (S4) driving the hot press to secondly move to press the solder material after the solder material on the electronic component is melted, so as to connect the part to the melted solder material on the electronic component by soldering. When the automatic soldering apparatus and the soldering method of the present invention are used to execute a soldering process, a route of the hot press can be controlled to firstly melt the solder material and then deform it, so as to avoid the hot press from impacting and damaging the part.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a housing with inlets and outlets. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core and a commutator. A fan is fixed to the rotor. An end cap is fitted to the housing to close a first end of the housing and support electrical components, including brush gear. The brush gear includes two brush assemblies, each comprising a brush for making sliding electrical contact with the commutator and a brush guidance mechanism for resiliently urging the brush into contact with the commutator. The brush assemblies are accommodated in compartments of the end cap. Each compartment has vents on an axially facing side thereof and openings in a transverse wall thereof. An air guide guides a part of the airflow generated by the fan exiting from at least one of the outlets of the housing to flow into the compartments via the openings and exit the compartments via the vents to cool the brushes.

Abstract: An electric motor has a rotor, a stator and brushes. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and having a plurality of teeth, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent the rotor core and having a plurality of segments, and rotor winding units wound about the teeth and connected to the commutator segments. Each of the rotor winding units is connected to a pair of adjacent commutator segments. At least one of the rotor winding units has at least two coils connected in series. Each coil has at least two subcoils directly connected in series and separated from each other by at least one tooth. An initial subcoil and a final subcoil of each coil are respectively connected to a pair of segments.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor magnetically coupled to the stator. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and having a plurality of teeth, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent the rotor core and having a plurality of segments, and rotor winding units wound about the teeth and connected to the segments. Brushes arranged in sliding electrical contact with the commutator transfer power to the rotor. Each of the rotor winding units has at least two subcoils directly connected in series to each other and separated from each other by at least one tooth. An initial subcoil and a final subcoil of each rotor winding unit are respectively directly connected to two adjacent segments.

Abstract: A servo motor, comprising a stator and a rotor disposed within the stator. The rotor has a core and magnets, covering the periphery of the core, forming a plurality of axially extending rotor poles. The rotor poles comprise a plurality of the magnets arranged axially, and the centers of adjacent magnets of a rotor pole are staggered by a mechanical angle in the circumferential direction of the rotor.

Abstract: A motor comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises 2P poles wherein P is an integer greater than one. The rotor comprises a shaft, a rotor core and a commutator fixed to the shaft. The commutator comprises m segments where m is an even integer greater than P. Every two adjacent segments are electrically connected by a winding unit so that the rotor winding comprises m winding units with at least one of the winding units comprising P coils connected in series; and each coil of each winding unit is directly connected to a corresponding two segments.

Abstract: A motor comprises: a stator having a stator core and field windings; brush gear including a plurality of brushes, a rotor comprising a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent the rotor core and rotor windings wound about teeth of the rotor core and connected to the commutator. The stator core comprises a yoke, 2P primary poles about which the field windings are wound, and 2P auxiliary poles. A control device controls the electrical connecting state of the field windings and the brushes so that 2P or 4P magnetic poles are selectively formed on the stator when the field windings are electrified. P is an integer equal to or greater than 1.

Abstract: A universal motor comprises a stator and a rotor rotatably installed in the stator. The stator comprises a stator core having a yoke, n primary poles with windings wound thereon and n auxiliary poles. The primary poles and auxiliary poles being alternately arranged on the radially inner side of the yoke in a circumferential direction thereof. When the windings are electrified, n primary magnetic poles and n auxiliary magnetic poles are formed at the primary poles and auxiliary poles respectively, n being an integer greater than 1. All the primary magnetic poles have the same polarity and the polarity of each auxiliary magnetic poles is opposite the polarity of the primary magnetic poles.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a housing with inlets and outlets. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core and a commutator. A fan is fixed to the rotor. An end cap is fitted to the housing to close a first end of the housing and support electrical components, including brush gear. The brush gear includes two brush assemblies, each comprising a brush for making sliding electrical contact with the commutator and a brush guidance mechanism for resiliently urging the brush into contact with the commutator. The brush assemblies are accommodated in compartments of the end cap. Each compartment has vents on an axially facing side thereof and openings in a transverse wall thereof. An air guide guides a part of the airflow generated by the fan exiting from at least one of the outlets of the housing to flow into the compartments via the openings and exit the compartments via the vents to cool the brushes.

Abstract: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp connecting structure for a backlight module includes a cold cathode fluorescent lamp connecting unit having a cold cathode fluorescent lamp insertion end and a wire inlet. At least one cold cathode fluorescent lamp socket communicable with the wire inlet is formed at the cold cathode fluorescent lamp insertion end to extend into the cold cathode fluorescent lamp connecting unit in a extending predetermined direction for a cold cathode fluorescent lamp to insert into the cold cathode fluorescent lamp socket. The cold cathode fluorescent lamp connecting unit is characterized in that at least one slit is formed on the cold cathode fluorescent lamp connecting unit to extend in the same extending direction as the cold cathode fluorescent lamp insertion socket by a predetermined length and communicate with the cold cathode fluorescent lamp socket.

Abstract: A universal motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has stator core and a stator winding. The stator core has a yoke with two ends and two equivalent salient poles formed at the ends of the yoke respectively. The stator winding is wound on the yoke.

Abstract: A servo motor, comprising a stator and a rotor disposed within the stator. The rotor has a core and magnets, covering the periphery of the core, forming a plurality of axially extending rotor poles. The rotor poles comprise a plurality of the magnets arranged axially, and the centers of adjacent magnets of a rotor pole are staggered by a mechanical angle in the circumferential direction of the rotor.