Abstract: An alternating current generation system is provided. In the system, in a rotor, a plurality of detection subject portions are arrayed along a circumferential direction in correspondence to reversal states of the magnetic poles in a plurality of magnetized portions. A detecting unit is disposed opposing the rotor so as to generate an output signal corresponding to passage state of the detection subject portions. A phase control unit outputs, to a power converter, a control signal to perform phase control of switching elements depending on the rotation phase of the rotor, based on the output signal from the detecting unit.

Abstract: An alternating current generation system is provided. In the system, in a rotor, a plurality of detection subject portions are arrayed along a circumferential direction in correspondence to reversal states of the magnetic poles in a plurality of magnetized portions. A detecting unit is disposed opposing the rotor so as to generate an output signal corresponding to passage state of the detection subject portions. A phase control unit outputs, to a power converter, a control signal to perform phase control of switching elements depending on the rotation phase of the rotor, based on the output signal from the detecting unit.

Abstract: An actuating device comprises a cylinder of hollow cylindrical form a plurality of pistons respectively of different operational strokes slidably fitted within the cylinder and undergoing sliding displacements in a mutually unitary manner in regions where their strokes overlap and in a separate manner in regions where their strokes differ under driving force due to a working fluid supplied into and discharged from the cylinder interior through ports provided in the cylinder, a working fluid system for supplying the working fluid and having at least one changeover valve for controlling the working fluid supply into and discharge from the cylinder, the piston of longest stroke among the pistons being a driving piston, and a driven shaft coupled to the driving piston thereby to be driven by the sliding displacement thereof. The driving piston undergoes sliding displacement in a noncontinuous manner in multiple stages, whereby the driven shaft is driven in multiple stages.