Abstract: In an electrical rotating machine, two rotors are provided, each rotor has a plurality of permanent magnets along its peripheral direction thereof, arranged coaxially with the other rotor, and is driven by means of a compound current supplied to stator coils and a single stator has a plurality of stator coils through which the compound current is caused to flow, one of the rotors exhibiting a forward saliency characteristic and the other rotor exhibits a reverse saliency characteristic.

Abstract: An electric rotating machine including inner and outer rotors coaxially disposed and driven by a compound current, and a stator disposed between the rotors. Each of the rotors includes a plurality of permanent magnets circumferentially arranged. The stator includes a stator core and a coil to which the compound current is applied. The stator core includes a plurality of circumferentially arranged stator pieces with the coils. The stator pieces have a same shape and are formed by plates laminated in axial alignment with each other. Each stator piece includes inner and outer yokes disposed radially inside and outside, respectively, and a coil area defined between the yokes. The stator pieces adjacent to one another include a first air gap circumferentially formed between the adjacent outer yokes, a second air gap circumferentially formed between the adjacent inner yokes and mutual contact portions circumferentially contacted at the inner yokes.

Abstract: In an electrical rotating machine, two rotors are provided, each rotor has a plurality of permanent magnets along its peripheral direction thereof, arranged coaxially with the other rotor, and is driven by means of a compound current supplied to stator coils and a single stator has a plurality of stator coils through which the compound current is caused to flow, one of the rotors exhibiting a forward saliency characteristic and the other rotor exhibits a reverse saliency characteristic.

Abstract: In a coaxial multiplex position detecting apparatus for a rotating machine, a stator includes stator pieces, each stator piece individually being split in a circumferential direction of the stator, an exciting current winding, and a detection winding, the exciting current winding and the detection winding being wound on the respective stator pieces, and a plurality of rotors are disposed on outside and inside positions of the stator in a radial direction of the stator, the respective rotors having convex and recess portions in accordance with the number of poles that the respective rotors have and having different numbers of poles according to the inside and outside positions of the rotors from each other, revolution positions of the respective rotors being determined according to an output signal of the detection winding of the stator.

Abstract: In control apparatus and method for at least one electrical rotating machine, two rotors are disposed in the electrical rotating machine on the same axis of rotation and being driven independently of each other by means of a generated compound current and are associated with at least one stator and a position of at least one of the rotors is controlled in such a manner that a maximum value of the compound current is reduced as low as possible.