Abstract: An automotive power control system which delivers a regulated voltage to a load circuit during normal operation and which delivers maximum power when the demand exceeds the alternator's ability to supply adequate current to the load. A duty-cycle- controlled DC-to-DC voltage converter reduces the alternator voltage to a level appropriate for charging the system battery and supplying low voltage loads. When the rotational speed of the alternator is adequate to generate sufficient load current, the voltage converter operates under the control of a first feedback circuit which compares the converter's output load voltage with a reference potential to generate an error signal which regulates the output voltage to a desired level.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine having a large magnetic gap between the rotor and the stator includes a slotless stator windings located within the large magnetic gap, and a mgnetic assembly consisting of radially aligned permanent magnets separated by non-magnetic material. The magnetic pole circumferential length and the radial gap length are proportioned such that the permanent magnets are operated at or near their maximum energy product.

Abstract: A method of making an electric motor with the stator winding inside a slotless cylindrical stator shell.

Abstract: A method of making an electric motor with the stator winding inside a slotless cylindrical stator shell.

Abstract: In a permanent magnet commutator type D.C. servomotor having a wound iron core armature and a permanent magnet stator, the stator includes a uniquely formed annular yoke. The unique yoke includes a central opening and a plurality of permanent magnet pole pieces, which are securely held to arcuate magnetic material projecting into the opening and which are spaced equally from and about the axis of the yoke. The magnets and arcuate magnetic material form boundaries to accommodate the armature and also form a relieved area between the magnets designed for reduced field distortion. The radial thickness of the magnet pole pieces, the arcuate members of magnetic material and the radial thickness of the yoke are proportioned relative to each other and to the I.D. of the pole pieces at prescribed values to maximize the motor performance.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine, of the direct current type, with a circumferentially segmented stationary magnetic field structure providing magnetic poles including diametrically opposed pairs of north and south poles, with intervening poles of alternating polarity; rotor conductors extending longitudinally and selectively interconnected in sets providing a plurality of series current paths each traversing a plurality of stator active pole regions; and a pair of brushes for current collection at one or both machine ends.

Abstract: A switching circuit electrically connected to a brush and collector bar of a DC dynamoelectric machine utilizing a high current rectifier and a source of electromotive source which produces a current in the circuit which is generally equal to the current flowing between the brush and the collector bar and which can be forced to zero as the brush separates from the collector bar to reduce degradation of the trailing edges of the brushes and collector bars and improve the machine efficiency.