Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electric-motor rotor may include providing a magnet of sintered magnetic material, the magnet having a first diameter; providing a sheath of composite material, the sheath having an inner diameter smaller than the first diameter; reducing the first diameter to a second diameter; fitting the sheath onto the magnet when the magnet has the second diameter; and letting the magnet with the sheath fitted thereon to interfere, allowing the sheath to exert inward pressure on the magnet. An electric-motor rotor may include a magnet of sintered magnetic material, the magnet having a first diameter; and a sheath of composite material, the sheath having an inner diameter smaller than the first diameter. The sheath may be associated with the magnet in such a way that the magnet with the sheath fitted thereon interfere so that the sheath exerts inward pressure on the magnet.

Abstract: Generator rotor comprising a rotor rim and a plurality of permanent magnet modules and a plurality of anchors arranged at an outer or inner circumference of the rotor rim such that the anchors substantially fix the permanent magnet modules to the rotor, wherein the permanent magnet modules comprise a base having a bottom surface, two axially extending side surfaces and a top surface, and one or more rows of magnets mounted on said top surface, wherein the two side surfaces of the permanent magnet modules each comprise an axially extending groove, and wherein the anchors have a shape that substantially fits exactly in axially extending grooves of neighbouring permanent magnet modules.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor with permanent magnets may include providing a central core with a desired cross-section; providing a plurality of ferromagnetic discs having a hole shaped in a complementary manner to the cross-section of the central core; stacking up the ferromagnetic discs around the central core to form a cylindrical structure with a longitudinal cavity, wherein the longitudinal cavity is formed by the holes of the stacked-up ferromagnetic discs; integrally blocking together the stacked-up ferromagnetic discs; and removing the central core. A rotor may be manufactured by the method. The rotor may be used in an electric motor.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a stator including a stator core, slots provided in the stator core at equal intervals along the circumferential direction, and coils placed in the stator slots and configured to generate a rotating magnetic field; and a rotor rotatably provided with a predetermined rotation gap between the stator core and the rotor, wherein the rotating electric machine further comprising a first varnish applied between the slots in the stator core and the coils for impregnation, and a second varnish applied directly onto enamel coating of the coils outside of the slots in the axial direction, the first varnish is a thermosetting varnish having a shear bond strength of a flat wire between the coils and the varnish is higher than that of the second varnish, and the second varnish is a thermosetting varnish having a glass transition temperature of approximately 104° C.

Abstract: A disk drive apparatus includes a rotor hub including an outer surface with a hub screw groove and a hub information mark indicative of a start position of the hub screw groove. A method of manufacturing the disk drive apparatus includes the steps of preparing a spindle motor including the rotor hub, preparing a clamper including a clamper screw groove, and fitting a recording disk to the spindle motor. The method further includes the steps of detecting a position of the hub information mark and, based on the detected position of the hub information mark, positioning each of the clamper and the spindle motor in a circumferential direction, and screwing the clamper to the spindle motor.

Abstract: In a rotor assembly process for assembling rotors to a case main body where stators are fixed, lower portions of the rotor shafts are fitted into two bearings fixed to the case main body with two lower shafts being fitted into inner circumferential surfaces of the rotor shafts. In a cover assembly process for assembling a rear cover to the case main body, two bearings fixed to the rear cover are fitted into upper portions of the rotor shafts with the lower shafts being fitted into the inner circumferential surfaces of the rotor shafts. Central axes of the rotor shafts are prevented from inclining, and the rear cover can be easily assembled to the case main body without having to form large chamfers on the two bearings and the two rotor shafts.

Abstract: Method for assembling a rotor with permanent magnets, including the steps of introducing the magnets in 10 recesses of a non-ferromagnetic holder; combining the holder and the permanent magnets with a non-ferromagnetic support plate; attaching the permanent magnets to the support plate; and removing the holder and providing lamellae over the permanent magnets attached to the support plate. A holder and rotor obtained by the method are described.

Abstract: A rotor of an internal permanent magnet (IPM) electric machine includes a core having first and second axial ends, longitudinal channels extending between the ends, and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in the channels. A first conical spring washer having a circumferential edge is secured to the first axial end and a second conical spring washer having a circumferential edge is secured to the second axial end. Space between the first conical spring washer and the first axial end is in fluid communication, via the channels, with space between the second conical spring washer and the second axial end. A method includes stacking and aligning laminations on a shaft to thereby form a rotor core, placing a conical spring washer onto the shaft at each axial end of the lamination stack, and tightening the conical spring washers onto the shaft, whereby the conical spring washers compress the lamination stack.

Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has a central opening that is configured to receive the rotor. The rotor includes a generally cylindrical first section comprising a first material mounted on an axially extending shaft within the central opening. The rotor further includes a second section having a second material of a predetermined thickness that is coated directly on at least a portion of the first section. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity relative to the first material.

Abstract: An angle detection device of the present invention includes: a stator which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor which is made of a magnetic material and is provided rotatably relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation of the rotor about a rotational axis of the rotor. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.

Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of longitudinally extending magnet channels each containing a permanent magnet, and a plurality of moldable containers each containing a heat transfer material and each being contiguous with portions of the respective permanent magnet and its magnet channel. A method of thermal management of an internal permanent magnet (IPM) rotor includes installing, into at least one longitudinally extending magnet channel of a rotor core, a permanent magnet having opposite lateral ends. The method also includes installing a moldable container, enclosing a heat transfer material, into the magnet channel adjacent one of the lateral ends of the permanent magnet. The method further includes transferring heat from the magnet through the container into the rotor core.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a stator fixedly mounted relative to the housing, and a rotor assembly rotatably mounted relative to the stator. The rotor assembly includes a plurality of rotor laminations forming a rotor body, one or more permanent magnets provided in the rotor body, and a sleeve extending around the one or more permanent magnets. The sleeve provides a thermal interface between the one or more permanent magnets and the rotor body.

Abstract: An apparatus including a rotating member, a resolver and a mounting structure. The resolver includes a resolver stator and a resolver rotor fixedly mounted on the rotating member via a mounting structure. The mounting structure has a low magnetic relative permeability and isolates the resolver rotor from the rotating member by preventing direct contact between the rotating member and the resolver rotor. The disclosed apparatus may be an electric machine having a rotor fixed to the rotating member and be suitable for use in a hybrid vehicle. The mounting structure advantageously has a relative permeability of no greater than about 2 and may be formed out of stainless steel material. The rotating member may be a rotor hub formed out of steel material having a relative permeability of at least about 50.

Abstract: The disclosed method produces a stator or rotor having a distributed wave winding, in which the wires are associated in pairs lying with straight segments in the same slots. Head portions of two successive straight segments of each wire of a pair protrude from opposite ends of slots. For forming two wire groups, a plurality of coil windings are simultaneously created by winding up n parallel wires with intermediate spacing onto a striplike former that is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. From each of the parallel wires one straight segment and one end turn are doubled by being bent over with the wire length of a head portion, and then head portions are formed and the wires interlaced. Finally, the two wire groups are wound onto one another and thereby intertwined with one another, and then introduced as an entire intertwined wave winding strand into the stator or rotor slots.

Abstract: An angle detection system of the present invention includes: a stator 200 which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor 300 which is made of a magnetic material and is configured to be rotatable relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation thereof about a rotational axis thereof. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming an electromechanical device are disclosed. In some embodiments, an electromechanical device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a rotor movably disposed in the first and second substrates and having a plurality of first turbine blades disposed on a first side of the rotor and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on a second side of the rotor, wherein the plurality of permanent magnets are arranged about a central axis of the rotor, wherein adjacent permanent magnets have opposing magnetic poles; a channel disposed between the first and second substrates and a peripheral edge of the rotor; a plurality of microballs disposed in the channel to provide a bearing for the rotor; a third substrate disposed proximate the second side of the rotor and having a plurality of coils disposed therein such that rotation of the rotor induces current the plurality of coils.

Abstract: A twisting apparatus (30) of preformed bar conductors (25) for bar windings of electric machines comprising a twisting device (50) having at least a first (51) and a second body (52) coaxial to one another and extending around a twisting axis (Zt-Zt) defining an axial direction and respectively comprising a first (A1) and a second (A2) circular array of pockets. The twisting device (50) comprises a system for clamping bar conductors comprising at least one sliding clamping element (72, 92) movable in a radial direction with respect to the axial direction (Zt-Zt) to take up an advanced operative position in which it has an end portion (73, 74, 93, 94) that projects inside an associated pocket and a set-back operating position.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for the installation and removal of permanent magnets in a permanent magnet electromechanical machine, for example a wind turbine power unit generator. A magnet holder is mounted on a magnet carrying structure such as a rotor. Permanent magnets may be inserted into and removed from the magnet holder after the electromechanical machine is assembled. In this manner, permanent magnets may be installed on the magnet carrying structure by an interference fit, without using bolts or adhesives, to facilitate both assembly and removal for maintenance and repair.

Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet type motor capable of improving a demagnetization proof stress almost without lowering a generated torque, and reducing a torque ripple and a cogging torque by improving a gap magnetic flux density distribution. In manufacturing a permanent magnet type motor, portions having a low demagnetization proof stress of a plurality of permanent magnets incorporated into a rotor core are partially and equally demagnetized.

Abstract: Peak performance of an electric motor can be enhanced by effective cooling of windings of the stator to avoid overheating. A liquid coolant is effective at cooling the stator; but in high-speed motors, it is advisable to avoid allowing coolant on the rotor to avoid high frictional losses. A shield provided in the air gap between the rotor and the stator guides the coolant back to a sump without gaining access to the rotor. Furthermore, if the electric machine is proximate a high temperature component, the shield may further prevent radiative and conductive heat transfer to the electric machine.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnet stack for placement in a core member of a permanent magnet electric machine includes providing a plurality of magnet segments, each of the plurality of magnet segments including opposing axial faces having a first surface finish. The method further includes assembling the plurality of first magnet segments into a magnet stack, the magnet stack including a first end with a first axial face of a first magnet segment and an opposing second end with a second axial face of a second magnet segment. Additionally, the method includes finishing the opposing ends of the magnet stack such that the first axial face and the second axial face have a second surface finish that different than the first surface finish.

Abstract: An electrical machine has a stator-rotor configuration in which the rotor has at least two poles. The poles are configured to rotate in an angle and to electromagnetically interact with one or more teeth that is a part of a stator adjoined in a fixed position to the electrical machine. The configuration forms a gap in the lateral direction between the poles and the teeth. At least one of the poles is formed of a permanent magnet material and a magnetic flux intensifier is arranged relative to at least one of the poles and one of the teeth. The magnetic flux intensifier is configured to concentrate the magnetic field lines between a pole and the teeth.

Abstract: Advantageous machines, such as flux-switching machines (FSMs) are provided. An FSM can be yokeless and can have two rotors, which can be displaced from one another (e.g., by half a pole pitch). An FSM can be a flux-switching permanent magnet machine (FSPMM), and all magnets can be magnetized in the same circumferential direction. FSMs of the subject invention are cost-effective, have high torque density, and can operate well even under fault conditions.

Abstract: In a method for producing a motor rotor, a lamination stack made up of stacked thin steel sheets each formed with a through hole, the lamination stack having a shaft bore formed of the through holes aligned with one another, is retained as a rotor core in a thickness direction with a pair of jigs from both sides, and a shaft is inserted into the shaft bore and joined to the lamination stack by shrink fitting. Each jig includes a shaft hole, a radially inner peripheral portion for holding a peripheral edge of the shaft bore of the lamination stack at a position, in a radial direction of the shaft hole, surrounding the shaft hole radially inside; and a radially outer peripheral portion for holding the outer periphery of the lamination stack. The radially inner and outer peripheral portions are positioned at different heights in a jig height direction.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an electromagnetic machine includes a rotor element configured for movement relative to a stator. The rotor element includes a support member, a backing member, and a magnetic pole assembly. The support member includes a first coupling portion. The backing member is formed, at least in part, from a ferromagnetic material and the magnetic pole assembly is configured to be coupled to the backing member. The magnetic pole assembly and/or the backing member include a second coupling portion configured to removably couple the backing member and the magnetic pole assembly collectively to the first coupling portion of the support member.

Abstract: A permanent magnet electric machine includes a housing, a stator mounted within the housing, and a rotor assembly rotatably mounted within the housing relative to the stator. The rotor assembly includes a rotor body having a plurality of rotor laminations. A plurality of permanent magnets having axial end portions is mounted to the rotor body. An amount of thermal interface material (TIM) is arranged between the axial end portions of adjacent ones of the plurality of permanent magnets.

Abstract: A motor includes a first, second, and third motor unit. First, second and third rotors each including a first and second rotor core and a field magnet. The first and second rotor cores include respectively first and second rotor core bases and a plurality of first and second claw magnetic poles that are arranged alternately along a circumferential direction of the motor. The field magnet causes the plurality of first claw magnetic poles and the plurality of second claw magnetic poles to function as different magnetic poles. Each of first and second stators including pluralities of first claw magnetic poles and second claw magnetic poles alternately arranged along the circumferential direction of the motor. The second stator core having a coil section.

Abstract: A motor core component (10) comprising a plurality of poles (12) and an annular or ring-shaped yoke (16). The yoke (16) is manufacturing by bending or folding a belt component (26) comprising a plurality of yoke portions (14), allowing for greater material utilization during production. At least a portion of the poles (20) are a separate component from the yoke portions (14), such that field coils may be wound around the pole bodies (18) prior to assembling the poles (12) and yoke (16) together, thereby allowing for more convenient winding and a higher slot fill ratio.

Abstract: The rotor includes a rotor core in which the pore is shaped in the center and the magnet is arranged on the circumference of the pore, and a shaft, in which, by means of a knurling tool being partially shaped on the peripheral surface, the knurling tool shaping part with the knurling tool shaped and the non-knurling tool shaping part without the knurling tool shaped are arranged on the peripheral surface and closely inserted into the pore such that the knurling tool shaping part and the non-knurling tool shaping part are present inside the pore.

Abstract: The invention concerns a rotatable transverse flux electrical machine (TFEM) comprising a stator portion; and a rotor portion rotatably located in respect with the stator portion, the rotor portion including an alternate sequence of magnets and concentrators radially disposed about a rotation axis thereof; the stator portion including at least one phase, the at least one phase including a plurality of cores cooperating with a coil disposed about the rotation axis, each core including a skewed pair of poles to progressively electromagnetically engage an electromagnetic field of respective cooperating concentrators. The invention is also concerned with a plurality of elements located in desired positions in the TFEM and also with a linear TFEM.

Abstract: The invention concerns a windmill including a rotatable transverse flux electrical machine (TFEM) comprising a stator portion; and a rotor portion rotatably located in respect with the stator portion, the rotor portion including an alternate sequence of magnets and concentrators radially disposed about a rotation axis thereof; the stator portion including at least one phase, the at least one phase including a plurality of cores cooperating with a coil disposed about the rotation axis, each core including a skewed pair of poles to progressively electromagnetically engage an electromagnetic field of respective cooperating concentrators. The invention is also concerned with a plurality of elements located in desired positions in the TFEM.

Abstract: A stator manufacturing method for a motor includes an assembling step coupling a magnetic driving assembly onto an outer circumferential wall of a shaft tube, a mold combining step disposing the shaft tube and the magnetic driving assembly in an intra-cavity of a fixture unit, a glue injecting and forming step injecting a filling glue into the intra-cavity, with the filling glue solidifying into a protective glue coating with which the shaft tube and magnetic driving assembly are coated, a mold removing step removing the fixture unit from the shaft tube, magnetic driving assembly and protective glue coating, and a shaft tube seat coupling step providing a shaft tube seat having an engaging portion and coupling the engaging portion with the shaft tube, allowing the shaft tube, the magnetic driving assembly, the protective glue coating and the shaft tube seat to be coupled together to form a stator for the motor.

Abstract: A thin base member for use in a disk drive apparatus in which a bearing mechanism and an actuator are arranged includes a plurality of lower recess portions, a C-shaped smooth surface, and a fan-shaped recess portion. The C-shaped smooth surface is arranged in a region of an upper surface of the base member around the region where the bearing mechanism is arranged and the C-shaped smooth surface has a height constant or substantially constant in a circumferential direction. At least a portion of each of the lower recess portions is provided below the C-shaped smooth surface, in which the C-shaped smooth surface has a cross section positioned at the lower recess portions to protrude in a direction toward which the upper surface of the base member faces or in a direction toward which the lower surface of the base member faces.

Abstract: An electric motor comprises a shaft, an interior magnet rotor core comprising a central bore and a pair of opposing ends faces, and at least one resilient structure inserted within the central bore between the pair of opposing end faces. The at least one resilient component is inserted within the central bore between the pair of opposing end faces such that the at least one resilient component does not extend beyond one of the opposing end faces. The resilient component comprises an outer rigid structure inserted within the central bore, a resilient component inserted within the outer rigid structure, and an inner rigid structure inserted within the resilient component, wherein the shaft is inserted through the inner rigid structure.

Abstract: A permanent magnet electric machine including a housing, a stator mounted within the housing, and a rotor assembly rotatably mounted within the housing relative to the stator. The rotor assembly includes a plurality of laminations. Each of the plurality of laminations includes a plurality of slots and one or more permanent magnets mounted within respective ones of the plurality of slots. Each of the plurality of permanent magnets includes a sacrificial coating formed from a thermal interface material (TIM).

Abstract: A generator for a wind turbine is proposed. The generator has a stator, a rotor having a rotor housing surrounding the stator, and a main bearing to support the rotor housing such that the rotor housing is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The stator has a plurality of cylindrical elements extending in parallel with the axis of rotation, and the rotor has a front element having a plurality of holes at positions alignable with the cylindrical elements, such that the rotor is fixable to the stator by inserting a fastening member through a cylindrical element and a hole aligned with the cylindrical element.

Abstract: A method of assembling an induction rotor includes inserting a plurality of conductor bars into a stack of disks, placing first and second end rings onto respective axial ends of the stack, thereby inserting ends of the conductor bars into corresponding slots in the respective end rings, compressing the slots against the conductor bars by impacting the end rings, and applying an electric current through the end rings and conductor bars. The compressing and the applying of current bond end rings and conductor bars together by simultaneous mechanical and electrical heat.

Abstract: A method for cleaving a plate-shaped workpiece formed with two or more linear recesses into three or more parts includes: a first positioning step of holding the workpiece by a positioning unit in place to position a first linear recess; a first clamping step of clamping one side of the first linear recess by a fixing clamp and the other side by a rotating clamp; a first cleaving step of moving back the positioning unit and rotationally separating the rotating clamp; a second positioning step of releasing the clamps and causing the positioning unit to position a second linear recess; a second clamping step of clamping one side of the second linear recess by the fixing clamp and the other side by the rotating clamp, and a second cleaving step of moving back the positioning unit and rotationally separating the rotating clamp.

Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous motor of a draining pump is disclosed. It includes a permanent-magnet rotor for driving an impeller to rotate, a pump body for supporting the permanent-magnet rotor, a stator core and a stator coil. Among which, the stator coil is constructed with an enamelled aluminum wire winding which is coiled by an enamelled aluminum wire and sealed in a container. The invention applies the enamelled aluminum wire to the permanent-magnet synchronous motor of a draining pump. The winding of the stator coil and a welding part of its lead-out wire are sealed with plastic or epoxy resin which effectively isolate them from outside air, especially damp air. Therefore, the invention prevent the enamelled aluminum wire winding of the stator coil and the welding part of its lead-out wire from being oxidized in air and being corroded by the moisture, acid or alkaline matter in damp air.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for an electric motor that includes producing a generally flat metal strip, bending one section of the strip relative to another section, and rolling the strip to form a cup-shaped shell.

Abstract: A rotor core is manufactured by forming thin plate-like core pieces including holes, forming a lamination body including insertion holes by laminating the core pieces, and inserting and embedding a permanent magnet in each of the insertion holes of the lamination body. The holes of each core piece include one or more first holes, in each of which a position determining portion for determining the position of the permanent magnet is formed, and one or more second holes, in which a position determining portion is not formed. Each insertion hole of the lamination body is formed by overlapping first holes of some of the core pieces and second holes of the remaining core pieces.

Abstract: A plurality of lamination steel sheets that form a rotor core are stacked so that the lamination steel sheets are angularly shifted from each other, and a plurality of cavities are formed. Permanent magnets are molded and disposed in the cavities by injection molding. Each permanent magnet has a uniform plate thickness, and is bent with respect to an axial direction so as to have a triangular wave shape or an S shape. The permanent magnets are magnetized after being disposed in the cavities. The paired magnet pieces have poles of the same polarity, which face each other in the circumferential direction of a rotor, and each of the magnet pieces is magnetized in directions of normals to a surface of the magnet piece, the surface having a linear sectional shape.

Abstract: A method of monitoring quality of a control circuit in a power plant is provided. The quality of the control circuit is continuously assessed by determining characteristic quantities describing the quality by applying a plurality of testing methods suitable for describing dynamic properties of the control circuit to current operating data originating from the instrumentation and control equipment of the power plant, and by evaluating the characteristic quantities.

Abstract: The present invention reduces contamination on a hard disk by adopting a new structural design for a motor. The motor of the present invention includes an adsorption plate portion in a magnetic space of the motor at a radially inward location relative to a disk placing portion on which hard disks are installed. The magnetic space of the motor is defined by a ceiling portion of a rotor hub and the adsorption plate portion. A liquid surface of lubricant of the fluid dynamic bearing mechanism is arranged radially inwardly relative to the adsorption plate portion, and a gap to which the liquid surface is exposed is connected to the magnetic space. The adsorption plate portion is preferably made of stainless steel. At least a portion of the surface of the adsorption plate portion is not covered with paint or other material so as to be utilized as an adsorption area.

Abstract: A cover is configured into a tubular form and is fitted to a radially outer surface of each of projections of a rotor core and a radially outer surface of each of permanent magnets. A circumferential center portion of the radially outer surface of each projection contacts a radially inner surface of the cover. Circumferential end portions of the radially outer surface of each projection are radially inwardly spaced from the radially inner surface of the cover.

Abstract: Methods are provided for forming/inserting a magnet in a rotor. One method includes coating a plurality of magnetizable particles with a non-metallic material, inserting the coated particles in a rotor, and magnetizing the coated particles. Another method includes inserting a plurality of magnetizable particles into a rotor, submersing the rotor in motor varnish or another viscous, non-metallic material to coat the particles, and magnetizing the particles. Yet another method includes inserting a plurality of magnetizable particles in a rotor, inserting a non-metallic material into the rotor, mixing the particles and non-metallic material to form a mixture, curing the mixture to coat each particle with non-metallic material, and magnetizing the particles.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine includes a hollow cylindrical rotor core and a plurality of magnets. The rotor core has a plurality of magnet-receiving holes formed therein. Each of the magnet-receiving holes has a plurality of wall surfaces including a radially innermost wall surface which is positioned radially innermost among the plurality of wall surfaces. Each of the magnets is received in a corresponding one of the magnet-receiving holes of the rotor core. Further, each of the magnets is arranged in the corresponding magnet-receiving hole so that among the thermal resistances between the magnet and the plurality of wall surfaces of the corresponding magnet-receiving hole, the thermal resistance between the magnet and the radially innermost wall surface of the corresponding magnet-receiving hole is lowest.

Abstract: The method for extraction or introduction of a rotor (4) from or into a stator (2) of an electric machine (1) includes removing the fan blades (20) from the seats (19) of the rotor shaft (26), connecting a first guide (16) into the seats (19) of the removed fan blades (20), connecting a second guide (23) to the stator or to an element fixed to the stator (2), extracting or inserting the rotor (4) by sliding the first guide (16) on the second guide (23).

Abstract: In a rotor mechanism of a rotating electrical machine, a crimp groove is formed, in a circumferential direction, in an outer circumferential portion of any one of the end plates of a rotor shaft on an outside in the axial direction. The one end plate is located in the axial direction by an inside end of a crimp retainer in the axial direction that is ring-shaped, that covers the crimp groove of the rotor shaft to fit to the rotor shaft, that is fitted into the crimp groove of the rotor shaft by crimping an outside portion in the axial direction from an outer circumferential side and that engages with a wall surface of the crimp groove on the outside in the axial direction.

Abstract: An energy harvesting device (EHD) and method including a hollow outer envelope (201) having an inner wall (200) with a first predetermined magnetic field distributed on an inner surface of the inner wall, at least one inner core (202), free to move in the hollow envelope (200) characterized by a second predetermined magnetic field distributed on an inner surface of the at least inner core, the inner core being characterized by one or more convex projections of magnetically active material, at least one conducting loop (203) disposed at locations selected from the group consisting of the outer envelope and the at least inner core, so as to be suffused with magnetic flux due to the magnetic field distributions of the at least one inner core and the at least one outer envelope and generating an alternating current due to movement of the inner core within the outer envelope and a rectifying circuit in electrical connection with the at least one conducting loop (203) rectifying the alternating current into a curre