Abstract: A stator for use in a two rotor single stator type electric motor includes a stator core including a plurality of stator teeth that are circumferentially arranged around a common axis leaving a plurality of identical spaces each being defined between adjacent two of the stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of flat magnetic steel plates that are aligned along the common axis. A plurality of coils are put around the stator teeth respectively. Bolts extend through identical spaces of the stator core for combining the flat magnetic steel plates to have a fixed structure of the stator core. A molded plastic fills the identical spaces of the stator core. A plurality of elongate plate bars extend in the identical spaces through the molded plastic respectively. Each elongate plate bar extends in parallel with the common axis and is constructed of a magnetic material that has an electric resistance higher than the bolts.

Abstract: A stator for use in a two rotor single stator type electric motor comprises a stator core including a plurality of stator teeth that are circumferentially arranged around a common axis leaving a plurality of identical spaces each being defined between adjacent two of the stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of flat magnetic steel plates that are aligned along the common axis. A plurality of coils are put around the stator teeth respectively. Bolts extend through identical spaces of the stator core for combining the flat magnetic steel plates to have a fixed structure of the stator core. A molded plastic fills the identical spaces of the stator core. A plurality of elongate plate bars extend in the identical spaces through the molded plastic respectively. Each elongate plate bar extends in parallel with the common axis and is constructed of a magnetic material that has an electric resistance higher than the bolts.

Abstract: A stator for a two rotor single stator type electric motor is described. The electric motor has inner and outer rotors that are rotated independently within and around a stator upon application of current to the stator. The stator comprises a stator core including a plurality of stator teeth that are circumferentially arranged around a common axis. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of flat magnetic steel plates that are aligned along the common axis while intimately and closely contacting to one another. The stator further comprises at least one connecting ring plate that is coaxially installed in the stator core in such a manner that the ring plate is intimately put between adjacent two of the flat magnetic steel plates of each stator tooth. The ring plate is of an endless annular member.

Abstract: A motor/generator comprises a stator (2) having plural coils (C1-C14), and plural rotors (3, 4) disposed coaxially with the above-mentioned stator and driven by a compound current. The phase difference between the currents (70, 71) driving the rotors (3, 4) is arranged to be other than 180 degrees. Thereby, the utilization factor of the voltage of the direct current power supply (10) is improved.

Abstract: A multi-shaft, multi-layer motor has a stator coaxially disposed between inner and outer rotors which are driven independently by a compound current. For cooling stator coils, first through last branch coolant passages are arranged around the axis. The upstream ends of the first through last branch passages are arranged in sequence circumferentially along a distributing circumferential passage in a direction away from a common introduction port for introducing the coolant into the distributing circumferential passage, and the downstream ends of the first through last branch passages are distributed in sequence circumferentially along a collecting circumferential passage in a direction toward a common discharge port for discharging the coolant from the collecting circumferential passage.

Abstract: A rotary electric motor is provided which comprises an annular first rotor, an annular stator disposed concentric with and radially outside the first rotor, and an annular second rotor disposed concentric with and radially outside the stator, the stator including a stator core made up of a plurality of stator pieces that are arranged in a circular array and electrically independently from each other, coils wound around the respective stator pieces, annular first and second brackets disposed on opposite axial ends of the stator core, a fastening device passing through holes of the first and second brackets and fixedly holding the stator core between the first and second brackets, and an induction current suppressing device suppressing an induction current that is produced in response to a variation of magnetic flux of each of the coils and flows through the fastening device.

Abstract: A control system for controlling a hybrid transmission including a two-degree-of-freedom differential mechanism is arranged to change a target prime-mover revolution speed of a prime mover so as to decrease an electric power output of first and second motor/generators when a temperature of one of the first and second motor/generators and a power device for the first and second motor/generators is higher than a predetermined temperature, wherein a target driving force of the hybrid vehicle is achieved by a demand prime-mover output generated when an output revolution speed of the hybrid transmission is kept constant and when the target prime-mover revolution speed is determined.

Abstract: A control device for a rotating electrical machine system having a plurality of rotating electrical machines is provided with a single current control circuit and a controller. The controller sets an operating point of at least one rotating electrical machine of the plurality of rotating electrical machines, and sets the current for each rotating electrical machine so that one of the efficiency of the current control circuit and the overall efficiency with respect to all the rotating electrical machines. The controller controls the current control circuit so that the current control circuit supplies a composite current to all rotating electrical machines, the composite current combining the set current for each rotating electrical machine.

Abstract: In driving method and system for an electrical rotating machine, the electrical rotating machine comprising two rotors, each rotor being independently driven by means of a compound current generated by a multi-phase inverter, and a stator on which a plurality of stator coils are wound, the respective stator coils are divided into a plurality of groups thereof, a total current sum of each group thereof being zeroed and neutral points of the stators belonging to the respective groups being interconnected and drive pulses are supplied to a plurality of inverter arms of the inverter associated with one group of the stator coils independently of those supplied to other inverter arms of the inverter associated with the other group of the stator coils.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine having a plurality of rotors is driven by a compound current. A voltage to be applied to a stator of the rotary electric machine is in the form of a compound rectangular or stepwise voltage composed of a plurality of superposed components each of which is a rectangular or stepwise wave having a frequency corresponding to the revolution speed of a unique one of the rotors.

Abstract: A control device for a plurality of rotating electrical machines has a single current control device with an inverter, gate driver, and a motor controller, which supplies a control current to each rotating electrical machine allowing rotation control in response to the rotational phase of the rotor. In this control device, the current control device determines the control current of each rotating electrical machine based on the target torques and rotational angular velocities of all rotating electrical machines, and supplies a composite current obtained by combining the determined control currents for each rotating electrical machine to all rotating electrical machine. In this control device for a plurality of rotating electrical machines, the required voltage does not exceed the voltage of the power source and the peak value of the composite current does not exceed the permitted range of the inverter.

Abstract: A control system for controlling a hybrid transmission including a two-degree-of-freedom differential mechanism is arranged to change a target prime-mover revolution speed of a prime mover so as to decrease an electric power output of first and second motor/generators when a temperature of one of the first and second motor/generators and a power device for the first and second motor/generators is higher than a predetermined temperature, wherein a target driving force of the hybrid vehicle is achieved by a demand prime-mover output generated when an output revolution speed of the hybrid transmission is kept constant and when the target prime-mover revolution speed is determined.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a motor/generator, having a first rotating electrical machine which is mainly used as a motor and a second rotating electrical machine which is mainly used as a generator, is characterized in that a booster circuit is disposed at a position where the current for rotating the first rotating electrical motor cancels out with the current generated by the second rotating electrical machine. In this manner, the booster circuit comprising small capacity elements can be used in the drive circuit for the motor/generator.

Abstract: In method and apparatus for controlling a current of an electrical rotating machine, at least one high-order higher harmonic wave current is superposed on a fundamental wave current, the high-order higher harmonic wave current having current components one phase of which is different by 90 [el. deg] from a high-order high harmonic wave component included in a magnetic flux distribution generated by at least one magnet of the rotating machine and the other phase of which is the same as that of the high-order higher harmonic wave component included therein and the high-order harmonic wave current component is superposed on the fundamental wave current to the rotating machine.

Abstract: In a method of connecting an electric rotating machine, a second predetermined number of feeders on each of which a total sum of a current flow is zeroed is selected when the second predetermined number of the feeders are interconnected at a neutral point by a third predetermined number of groups from among a first predetermined number of the feeders and each coil of the rotating machine is connected between a corresponding one of the first predetermined number of the feeders and a corresponding one of the second predetermined number of the feeders for each of the third predetermined number of the groups, a product between the second predetermined number and the third predetermined number corresponding to that between a number of current phases in the compound current for driving a corresponding one of rotors and a number of pole pairs of the corresponding one of the rotors.

Abstract: A motor/generator comprises a stator (2) having plural coils (C1-C14), and plural rotors (3, 4) disposed coaxially with the above-mentioned stator and driven by a compound current. The phase difference between the currents (70, 71) driving the rotors (3, 4) is arranged to be other than 180 degrees. Thereby, the utilization factor of the voltage of the direct current power supply (10) is improved.

Abstract: A current detection device used for a plurality of rotating electric machines is provided. The rotating electric machines are supplied with a composite current containing a plurality of frequency components from an single inverter and the frequency is set in response to the rotational angular velocity of one rotating electric machine. The current detection device is provided with a current sensor which detects only current components at a single frequency in the composite current. The current sensor detects the currents in a set of supply lines, the supply lines of which being collected and passing through the current sensor so that the current components of the frequency different from the single frequency cancel out to zero in the set of supply lines.

Abstract: A control device for a rotating electrical machine system having a plurality of rotating electrical machines is provided with a single current control circuit and a controller. The controller sets an operating point of at least one rotating electrical machine of the plurality of rotating electrical machines, and sets the current for each rotating electrical machine so that one of the efficiency of the current control circuit and the overall efficiency with respect to all the rotating electrical machines. The controller controls the current control circuit so that the current control circuit supplies a composite current to all rotating electrical machines, the composite current combining the set current for each rotating electrical machine.

Abstract: An inverter (23) generates a composite current comprising an electrical current for a first rotor (4) and an electrical current for a second rotor (3). A microprocessor (22) controls the inverter (23) so that the average value of the composite current is smaller than the sum of the average values of the respective currents.

Abstract: A first motor/generator unit (10A comprises a first rotor (42) and a first stator (40) with a plurality of coils. A second motor/generator unit (10B) comprises a second rotor (43) and a second stator (41) with a plurality of coils. By properly determining the number of coils S1, S2 in the stators (40, 41), the number of pairs of magnetic poles P1, P2 in the magnet of the rotors (42, 43), and the number of phases M1, M2 in alternating currents driving the rotors (42, 43), and connecting a coil with a coil number j in a group number i of the first stator (40) with a coil with a coil number i in a group number j of the second stator (41), it is possible to suppress an ineffectual current generated when two motor/generator units (10A, 10B) are independently driven by the same inverter (32).