Abstract: A small sized drive motor that achieves both high output including high-speed rotation and weight reduction is realized. Provided is a drive motor rotating in a predetermined direction. The drive motor includes a rotor having no magnet and including a plurality of salient poles. A stator core includes a plurality of element cores and a plurality of magnets. The salient poles are formed with a slit or a void (e.g., a second air gap)). The salient poles include a large magnetic circuit (a first magnetic circuit) on a front side of the slit in the rotational direction and having a large cross-sectional area and a small magnetic circuit a second magnetic circuit) on a rear side of the slit in the rotational direction and having a small cross-sectional area.

Abstract: Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.

Abstract: In a first control state, it is determined which one of a first failure pattern (FP1) and a second failure pattern (FP2) is a failure pattern (FT), and in a second control state, it is determined which one of a first lower-stage-side failure pattern (LF1) and a second lower-stage-side failure pattern (LF2) is a lower-stage-side failure pattern (LF), and it is determined which one of a set of upper-stage-side arms of a first inverter (11), a set of lower-stage-side arms of the first inverter (12), a set of upper-stage-side arms of a second inverter (12), and a set of lower-stage-side arms of the second inverter (12) is failure-side arms, based on a result of the determination in the first control state and a result of the determination in the second control state.

Abstract: Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, and a stator facing the rotor with a predetermined gap interposed between the rotor and stator. The stator has a stator core formed in a substantially circular annular shape and provided with an armature slot and a field slot alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, an armature winding housed in the armature slot, and a field winding and a first field magnet housed in the field slot. The armature winding generates a rotating magnetic field to rotate the rotor by being supplied with an alternating current armature current. The field winding generates a field flux by being supplied with a direct current field current. The first field magnet changes a magnetic force by the field flux.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine control apparatus (1) suitably controls two inverters (10) connected to associated ends of open windings (8). The rotary electric machine control apparatus (1) performs target control involving: controlling a first one of the inverters (10), which is selected from a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by rectangular wave control; and controlling a second one of the inverters (10) by special pulse width modulation control that is one type of pulse width modulation control. The special pulse width modulation control is a control method to produce a switching pattern (Su2+) that is based on a difference between a switching pattern resulting from the pulse width modulation control and a switching pattern (Su1+) resulting from the rectangular wave control when a target voltage is to be generated in the open windings (8).

Abstract: A small sized drive motor that achieves both high output including high-speed rotation and weight reduction is realized. Provided is a drive motor rotating in a predetermined direction. The drive motor includes a rotor having no magnet and including a plurality of salient poles. A stator core includes a plurality of element cores and a plurality of magnets. The salient poles are formed with a slit or a void (e.g., a second air gap)). The salient poles include a large magnetic circuit (a first magnetic circuit) on a front side of the slit in the rotational direction and having a large cross-sectional area and a small magnetic circuit a second magnetic circuit) on a rear side of the slit in the rotational direction and having a small cross-sectional area.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flux switching motor capable of realizing all a high output, a miniaturization, and an extremely light weight. In the flux switching motor, a stator is provided such that a length thereof in an axial direction in which a rotating shaft extends is shorter than a length of each magnet in the axial direction, and a rotor is provided such that a length thereof in the axial direction is less than or equal to the length of the stator in the axial direction.

Abstract: A stator core including field slots housing field windings and armature slots housing armature windings is provided. Permanent magnets are housed in the respective armature slots. Field windings face to the permanent magnets directly or via the stator core on the outer and inner circumferential sides. A coil end of one of the armature windings straddles the predetermined one of the field slots and passes over the axial end face of each of the permanent magnets in the corresponding one of the field slots over which the coil end straddles.

Abstract: A stator core including field slots housing field windings and armature slots housing armature windings is provided. Permanent magnets are housed in the respective armature slots. The armature windings are configured by a first winding and at least one second winding. The field winding passes over the permanent magnet. The second windings each have a part embedded between a coil end of the field winding and teeth around which the field winding is around.

Abstract: A stator core including field slots housing field windings and armature slots housing armature windings is provided. Permanent magnets are housed in the respective armature slots. Field windings face to the permanent magnets directly or via the stator core on the outer and inner circumferential sides. A coil end of one of the armature windings straddles the predetermined one of the field slots and passes over the axial end face of each of the permanent magnets in the corresponding one of the field slots over which the coil end straddles.

Abstract: A stator core including field slots housing field windings and armature slots housing armature windings is provided. Permanent magnets are housed in the respective armature slots. The armature windings are configured by a first winding and at least one second winding. The field winding passes over the permanent magnet. The second windings each have a part embedded between a coil end of the field winding and teeth around which the field winding is around.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of, when a photometry is performed using an output of an image sensor, performing the photometry without being affected by a diaphragm of an image pickup optical system is provided. A mode is switched between a display mode in which an image according to the image signal which is an output of the image sensor is displayed as a live image and a non-display mode in which the live image is not displayed. In the display mode, a lower limit value of an accumulation time during which an electric charge is accumulated in the image sensor at a time of photometry is controlled to a first lower limit value. In the non-display mode, the lower limit value of the accumulation time is controlled to a second lower limit value lower than the first lower limit value.

Abstract: An exposure control apparatus prevents exposure from being influenced by false detection and instability of face detection and prevents exposure from being influenced by an object that has cut across in front of a subject. Detection results are obtained by detecting at least one specific region, which is predetermined in advance, in a taken image of the subject. When at least one specific region is detected, one of detection results is selected based on selecting conditions determined in advance to obtain a selected detection result. When it is judged that exposure is not being controlled using the selected detection result, whether or not the selected detection result has changed in a predetermined period is judged. When the selected detection result has not changed, a latest detection result is regarded as the selected detection result, and when the selected detection result has changed, the selected detection result is not changed.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator including a stator core, a plurality of armature windings, a plurality of field windings, and a plurality of bonded magnets. The stator core has a plurality of teeth alternately defining field slots and armature slots along a circumferential direction, and a stator yoke magnetically coupling the plurality of teeth opposite the rotor. Each armature winding is wound around two of the teeth sandwiched between an adjacent pair of the armature slots. Each field winding is wound around two of the teeth sandwiched between an adjacent pair of the field slots. The magnets are individually located in the field slots while opposing the field windings in the radial direction. Each adjacent pair of the magnets along the circumferential direction respectively has an adjacent pair of pole surfaces, with the adjacent pair of pole surfaces having a same polarity.

Abstract: A stator core and a rotor core are provided. The stator core includes field windings receiving a direct current, and armature windings receiving an alternating current. Permanent magnets, each housed in one of the slots together with ones of the field windings, and in contact with the ones of the field windings, are provided. The field windings are provided on both of inner and outer circumferential sides of the permanent magnets.

Abstract: A stator core and a rotor core are provided. The stator core includes field windings receiving a direct current, and armature windings receiving an alternating current. Permanent magnets, each housed in one of the slots together with ones of the field windings, and in contact with the ones of the field windings, are provided. The field windings are provided on both of inner and outer circumferential sides of the permanent magnets.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of, when a photometry is performed using an output of an image sensor, performing the photometry without being affected by a diaphragm of an image pickup optical system is provided. A mode is switched between a display mode in which an image according to the image signal which is an output of the image sensor is displayed as a live image and a non-display mode in which the live image is not displayed. In the display mode, a lower limit value of an accumulation time during which an electric charge is accumulated in the image sensor at a time of photometry is controlled to a first lower limit value. In the non-display mode, the lower limit value of the accumulation time is controlled to a second lower limit value lower than the first lower limit value.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit; a division photometry unit that detects a brightness of an object in each of a plurality of divided areas; a weighting unit that weights a photometric value of each of the divided areas; an exposure determination unit that determines exposure based on weighting; and a control unit that performs control such that a degree of reflection of the condition of the object on weighting is different between a case where object image capture is performed intermittently by the image capturing unit in order to generate a time-lapse movie, and a case where object image capture is performed by the image capturing unit in order to generate a movie whose ratio of playback time to image capture time is larger than the time-lapse movie.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit; a division photometry unit that detects a brightness of an object in each of a plurality of divided areas; a weighting unit that weights a photometric value of each of the divided areas; an exposure determination unit that determines exposure based on weighting; and a control unit that performs control such that a degree of reflection of the condition of the object on weighting is different between a case where object image capture is performed intermittently by the image capturing unit in order to generate a time-lapse movie, and a case where object image capture is performed by the image capturing unit in order to generate a movie whose ratio of playback time to image capture time is larger than the time-lapse movie.