Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a self-starting synchronous reluctance motor rotor, a motor and a compressor. The self-starting synchronous reluctance motor rotor includes a rotor core; the rotor core is provided with a plurality of slit grooves; both ends of each of the slit grooves are respectively provided with a filled groove; a first end of the filled groove is provided adjacent to each slit groove, and a second end of the filled groove extends outwards parallel to the d-axis of the rotor core; the second end of the filled groove is provided with at least one bevel edge, so that when the d-axis magnetic flux of the rotor core enters a stator along channels formed at the bevel edges, no abrupt change occurs to the magnetic flux.

Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor includes a rotor and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotator includes a rotatable shaft and magnetic flux barrier layers arranged radially. One of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the stator is filled with a conductor, and one of the magnetic flux barrier layers closest to the rotating shaft is a void.

Abstract: A brushless bi-directional electric machine comprises a housing mounting exciting coils, a rotor and a stator, the exciting coils and the stator being stationary with respect to the housing and the rotor mounted for rotation with respect to the housing. The electric machine comprises a controller configured to control an exciting current supplied to the exciting coils.

Abstract: A compound motor-generator system including a first motor-generator and a second motor-generator. The first motor generator includes a stator having a set of three-phase field windings and a first rotor disposed inside and coaxial with the stator and configured to rotate relative to the stator. The second motor-generator includes a rotational stator and a second rotor coupled to a common shaft with the rotor of the first motor-generator and disposed inside and coaxial to the rotational stator. The rotational stator is configured to rotate relative to the second rotor and at a higher rotational speed than the second rotor.

Abstract: A system for controlling an electric motor including a rotor supported by a lubricant upon a stator with a plurality of stator poles and stator windings includes monitoring a radial position and rotor angle of the rotor by a controller. The system includes generating adjustments by the controller to cause the stator poles to apply a net radial force to the rotor. This net radial force may be used, for example to cause the rotor to be centered upon a central axis of the electric motor and may be particularly advantageous for a lubricant supported rotor. A motor drive provides an AC current to the stator windings as well as phase current adjustments of the electrical current in one or more of the stator windings to apply the net radial force to the rotor in a direction perpendicular to the drive axis.

Abstract: A hybrid hysteresis motor is disclosed. The hybrid hysteresis motor includes a stator with, a plurality of axial slots on a first base-end and a plurality of radial slots on an inner surface. The motor further includes an output shaft, a first axial-flux rotor mounted on the output shaft and associated with the stator, and a radial-flux rotor mounted on the output shaft and disposed inside the stator.

Abstract: An electric machine has a stator having an array of electromagnetic elements. A rotor is mounted on bearings and has an array of rotor posts. The rotor posts each have a length defining opposed ends and the array of rotor posts extends along the rotor in a direction perpendicular to the length of each of the rotor posts. The rotor has electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles placed between the plurality of rotor posts. An airgap is formed between the rotor and the stator when they are in an operational position. A plurality of rotor flux restrictors are formed on the rotor, and each lies adjacent to one of the opposed ends of the rotor posts.

Abstract: A method for configuring a variable speed drive in charge of power supply of an electric motor. The method comprises the application of a sequence of motor voltages to the electric motor by the variable speed drive and the obtaining, in parallel, of measurements of motor current. The method then determines a feature of the electric motor on the basis of the measurements of motor current and determines a type of electric motor at least as a function of the feature. The variable speed drive is then set up on the basis of the determined type of electric motor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a line start synchronous reluctance motor and a rotor thereof. To this end, the present invention provides a line start synchronous reluctance motor including: a rotor; a plurality of conductor bars disposed on a side of an outer circumferential portion of the rotor; and flux barriers formed at an inner side of the rotor so as to be close to the conductor bars, wherein the flux barriers, which are formed in separate regions of a body of the rotor that are arranged to have opposite polarities, are formed to be asymmetrical to each other. Therefore, the present invention improves characteristics of the motor through the asymmetrical flux-barrier structure without changing the number of conductor bars, thereby allowing the initial starting of the motor to be smoothly performed, which is advantageous in terms of torque ripple characteristics and die casting.

Abstract: A linear flux switching permanent magnet (FSPM) motor includes a longitudinal linear stator with stator teeth facing an air gap and a mover including at least one armature with armature teeth, whereby at least some of said, preferably all of said armature teeth embed at least one permanent magnet, respectively, which armature teeth are spaced apart by slots for receiving an armature winding. The permanent magnets embedded in the corresponding armature teeth protrude by an overhang over the back of the armature in a direction facing away from the air gap.

Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor rotor, including: a rotor core, wherein the rotor core includes a plurality of magnetic-flux barrier groups, and each magnetic-flux barrier group includes at least two magnetic-flux barriers provided at an interval in a radial direction of the rotor core; the rotor core further includes magnetic bridges, the magnetic bridges are disposed within the magnetic-flux barriers and connect inner surfaces of the magnetic-flux barriers with outer surfaces of the magnetic-flux barriers, and a distance between the magnetic bridges and an outer edge of the rotor core is no less than a predetermined distance.

Abstract: Various embodiments may include a rotor for a reluctance machine comprising: an essentially disc-shaped rotor body mounted on a rotor axis running through a rotor center point; and an alternating sequence of barrier regions and pole regions arrayed along a circumferential direction of the rotor body. Each barrier region includes a multiplicity of magnetic flux barriers spatially and materially separated without overlap. Within at least one barrier region, at least one magnetic flux barrier is arranged with a q axis and/or a figure axis rotated with respect to a q axis and/or figure axis of another magnetic flux barrier of the same barrier region.

Abstract: A method for operating a permanent magnet electric machine of an engine includes determining a fault condition of the permanent magnet electric machine; and reducing a magnetism of one or more permanent magnets of the permanent magnet electric machine by increasing a temperature of the one or more permanent magnets in response to determining the fault condition of the permanent magnet electric machine.

Abstract: A multi-pole and multi-slot motor control apparatus includes a multi-pole and multi-slot motor including a stator and a rotor rotationally driven by the stator. The stator includes a core accommodating the rotor and winding poles protruding toward the rotor from the core and on which coils are wound, inverters connected to the coils wound around the winding poles and applying currents to the coils, and a controller shutting down the inverter connected to the failed coil or inverter and controlling the remaining inverters in a boost-up manner when at least one of the coils and the inverters is failed. Accordingly, output, which is the same as output before the inverters or the coils are failed through boost-up control of the remaining normal inverters even when the inverters or the coils are partially failed, may be provided, and the multi-pole and multi-slot motor may be stably driven regardless of a failure.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine in an embodiment includes a stator, and a rotor capable of rotating around a rotation center. The rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, and a magnet. The first rotor core includes first rotor magnetic poles that are arranged being spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction and that face first stator magnetic poles, and is annular. The second rotor core includes second rotor magnetic poles that are arranged being spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction and that face second stator magnetic poles, and is annular. The magnet is located between the first rotor core and the second rotor core and provided with a slit-like magnet separation portion that separates at least a part thereof in the circumferential direction, and is annular.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to control the lamination thickness of the laminated core of an axial gap rotating electric machine. The axial gap rotating electric machine is provided with: a stator comprising a plurality of core members arranged circularly about the rotational axis center, said core members each comprising a columnar-laminated core having a flux surface in a rotation axis direction, a coil disposed on the outer perimeter of the core in the radial direction, and a substantially cylindrical bobbin disposed between the core and the coil; and at least one rotor facing the flux surface with a predetermined gap interposed therebetween in the rotation axis direction. The bobbin has an inner cylinder facing the outer perimeter of the core in the radial direction, and at least part of the inner diameter of the inner cylinder becomes gradually smaller along the rotation axis direction and makes contact with the outer perimeter surface of the laminated core in the radial direction.

Abstract: A synchronous reluctance type rotary electric machine of an embodiment includes a shaft and a rotor core. The shaft rotates around a rotation axis. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft and includes multi-layered hollow parts having a convex shape toward a radially inward side formed for each pole in cross section. Then, when a center in a circumferential direction of one pole is a pole center, a hollow part closest to the shaft among the plurality of hollow parts is a first hollow part, a hollow part positioned next to the first hollow part is a second hollow part, and a hollow part positioned on a side opposite to the first hollow part with respect to the second hollow part is a third hollow part, a width W1 between the first hollow part and the second hollow part on the pole center and a width W2 between the second hollow part and the third hollow part on the pole center are set to satisfy W1?W2.

Abstract: An in vivo apparatus includes a flexible shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and a length sufficient to access a patient's renal artery relative to a percutaneous access location. An energy guide apparatus is provided at the distal end of the shaft and dimensioned for deployment within the renal artery. An ex vivo apparatus includes an arrangement configured to localize the energy guide apparatus within the renal artery, and an energy source configured to direct ablative energy to target tissue located a predetermined distance from the localized energy guide apparatus. The target tissue includes perivascular renal nerve tissue adjacent the renal artery.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine comprising a stator and a rotor moveable relative to the stator. The stator has slots for accommodating electrical windings, wherein teeth of the stator are formed between adjacent slots. During operation of the machine, an operating wave of the magnetomotive force is different from a fundamental wave of the magnetic flux. The stator comprises at least one recess which is arranged in the tooth region and extends substantially in the radial direction.

Abstract: A stack of a rotor comprises a plurality of stack elements which include material of first magnetic conductance. The rotor includes sectorial sections distributed round a rotational axis of the rotor. Each of the stack elements has an aperture of second magnetic conductance in each of the sectorial sections. Outer ends of the apertures are located at a rim of the stack elements or at a bridge of the rim. The apertures form channels through the stack in a direction of a rotational axis of the rotor. At least two of the apertures of a common channel of the channels have the outer ends at different radial distances from the rotational axis of the rotor.

Abstract: A disc rotor motor is demonstrated, having at least one stator that has at least one electrical stator winding and stator teeth, which have a tooth neck composed of a soft magnetic powder composite, and having at least one disc-shaped rotor, which has permanent magnetic poles composed exclusively of ferrite magnets at least for producing torque, with the rotor and stator oriented parallel to each other and spaced apart from each other by an axial gap. In order to find an optimum between costs, weight, and overall size as well as power and torque density, the invention proposes that the stator teeth each end in a tooth end that adjoins their tooth neck and is composed of a soft magnetic powdered composite, which tooth end widens out in its cross-sectional area in comparison to the tooth neck.

Abstract: Various embodiments are described herein for switched reluctance machine configurations. In at least one embodiment, a switched reluctance machine configured according to the teachings herein comprises a stator including a predetermined number of salient stator poles (Ns), a rotor rotatably mounted with respect to the stator, with the rotor comprising a plurality of salient rotor poles, and a plurality of coils provided around the predetermined number of stator poles to form at least one phase of the switched reluctance machine, where the rotor poles and the stator poles are symmetrically disposed, and a number of rotor poles is related to 0? and a number of phases according to: i) (Ns/m)k ceil (mod(k,m)/m) number of phases, and ii) (Ns/m)k ceil (mod(k,m/2)/m/2) for an even number of phases, where m is the number of phases, and k is a configuration index based on Ns and m.

Abstract: A core of a transverse flux machine a stator pole. The stator pole includes a plurality of laminations, where laminations of the plurality of laminations are in a stacked configuration. Further, each of the plurality of laminations includes at least one of a magnetic region and a non-magnetic region, where individual shapes of magnetic regions of the plurality of laminations are such that the magnetic regions of the plurality of laminations at least a portion of a three-dimensional magnetic circuit.

Abstract: A wobble plate motor includes a wobble plate and a stator. The wobble plate is made of magnetically susceptible material and has a wobble axis. The stator includes a permanent magnet and a set of electromagnetic coils and has a stator axis. The wobble plate is configured to nutate around the stator with the wobble axis precessing around the stator axis. The wobble plate has a mobile point of closest approach with respect to the stator. The mobile point of closest approach moves around the stator axis as the wobble plate nutates. The permanent magnet and the set of electromagnetic coils are configured to create a magnetic field having a flux density between the stator and the wobble plate with a highest flux density at a mobile location ahead of the mobile point of closest approach in an angular direction around the stator axis as the wobble plate nutates.

Abstract: This interior magnet rotary electric machine (1) is provided with a rotor (2) that has a rotor core (11) having two sets of permanent magnets (12, 13) embedded therein, and with a stator (3) that is disposed facing the rotor (2). The two sets of permanent magnets (12, 13) each comprise a pair of magnets (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) of like polarity disposed adjacently along the circumferential direction of the rotor 2. In the rotor core (11), magnet embedding holes (11b), which accommodate the magnets (12a, 12b, 13a, 13b) of like polarity, are formed for each of the magnets of like polarity. The thickness (a), in the rotor (2) circumferential direction, of the portions (18) of the rotor core (11) between like poles is less than the thickness (b) of the portions (19) of the rotor core (11) between unlike poles.

Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart rotor poles. Windings are seated in gaps between circumferentially adjacent pairs of the rotor poles. A wedge secures the windings in each gap. The wedge includes a first member made of a first material and at least one second member made of a second material. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity than the first material. The wedge is configured to supply Q-axis damping. A pair of end plates is connected electrically to the at least one second member at opposing longitudinal ends thereof thereby completing a Q-axis winding circuit for each wedge.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, wherein the rotor comprises a plurality of stack elements and each of the stack elements includes material of first magnetic conductance. Each of the stack elements includes a plurality of sectorial sections distributed round a rotational axis of the rotor. Each of the sectorial sections includes one or more flux barriers. At least one of the one or more flux barriers has a difference associated with filing of an electrically conductive material of third magnetic conductance in different sectorial halves of a common sectorial section, the first magnetic conductance being larger than the third magnetic conductance.

Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator core, windings, and a permanent magnet rotor. The stator core includes an end portion and two spaced arm portions each including a connecting arm and a pole claw. Each pole claw has a long pole tip and a short pole tip, and forms a pole surface. The long pole tip of each pole claw corresponds to the short pole tip of the other pole claw with a slot opening formed there between. The slot opening causes the arc pole surface to be discontinued along a circumferential direction, and the arc pole surface is recessed inwardly to form a startup groove.

Abstract: A motor includes a magnet and a coil. ?2=[{(Br2?Br1)/Br1}/(T2?T1)]×100?0.11 and ?3=[{(Br3?Br1)/Br1}/(T3?T1)]×100?0.13 are satisfied. In the magnet, Br1 (mT) is a residual magnetic flux density at T1 (° C.), Br2 (mT) is a residual magnetic flux density at T2 (° C.), and Br3 (mT) is a residual magnetic flux density at T3 (° C.), and ?2 (%/° C.) is a temperature coefficient at a target temperature of T2 (° C.) with respect to a reference temperature of T1 (° C.), and ?3 (%/° C.) is a temperature coefficient at a target temperature of T3 (° C.) with respect to a reference temperature of T1 (° C.) in conditions of T1=20, T2=100, and T3=220.

Abstract: A motor includes a magnet and a coil. ?2=[{(Br2?Br1)/Br1}/(T2?T1)]×100??0.10 and ?3=[{(Br3?Br1)/Br1}/(T3?T1)]×100??0.12 are satisfied. In the magnet, Br1 (mT) is a residual magnetic flux density at T1 (° C.), Br2 (mT) is a residual magnetic flux density at T2 (° C.), and Br3 (mT) is a residual magnetic flux density at T3 (° C.), and ?2 (%/° C.) is a temperature coefficient at a target temperature of T2 (° C.) with respect to a reference temperature of T1 (° C.), and ?3 (%/° C.) is a temperature coefficient at a target temperature of T3 (° C.) with respect to a reference temperature of T1 (° C.) in conditions of T1=23, T2=60, and T3=180.

Abstract: An electric power supply system configured to supply electric power to an electrical load device in accordance with a current requirement. The electric power supply system includes an engine configured to output rotational power, a generator configured to receive the rotational power and to supply a current to the electrical load device. The generator includes a rotor, and a stator including a winding and a stator core with the winding wound thereon, a magnetic circuit for the winding passing through the stator core, and a supply current adjustment device configured to adjust magnetic resistance of the magnetic circuit for the winding, to thereby change an inductance of the winding to adjust the supplied current. The electric power supply system further includes a control device configured to control the engine to adjust the output rotational power and to control the supply current adjustment device to adjust the inductance of the winding.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes an annular winding, L (L is an arbitrary integer) stator magnetic poles, and L rotor magnetic poles having the same polarity. The L stator magnetic poles are disposed apart from each other in a rotational direction and facing the winding. The L rotor magnetic poles have the same polarity as each other. The L rotor magnetic poles are disposed apart from each other in the rotational direction and configured to face the L stator magnetic poles If an order of the fundamental wave component of a torque pulsation is N, M (M?L) distances between centers of the adjacent poles between pole centers in one set of either the L stator magnetic poles or the L rotor magnetic poles are combinations of (?, ?+?1/M, ?+?1×2/M, . . . , and ?+1×(M?1)/M), and ?1 satisfies the relationship (180°/N)<?1<(540°/N) in the notation of electrical angle.

Abstract: A regulating device for a brushless excitation system for supplying at least one excitation coil of a rotor of a synchronous machine with excitation current, having a detection device to detect a strength of a magnetic flux; a regulating unit to generate an auxiliary excitation DC current supplied to the main excitation machine by rectifying an auxiliary excitation three-phase current, and to regulate the current strength of the auxiliary excitation DC current such that a magnetic flux generated between the rotor and the stator of the main excitation machine is kept constant independently of the current strength of the excitation current; and an adjusting unit rotationally fixed to a rotor shaft of the synchronous machine to generate the excitation current by rectifying an excitation three-phase voltage generated by the main excitation machine and to regulate the current strength of the excitation current supplied to the rotor of the synchronous machine.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a switched reluctance motor and the reduction of motor torque output ripple by inclusion of flux barriers. The inclusion of flux barriers running parallel to the motor shaft axis located in the appropriate places in either or the rotor and stator can modify the torque profile output of the motor markedly reducing potential vibration problems in a vehicle driveline.

Abstract: A plurality of flux barriers in each of flux barrier groups include arcuate portions formed in a polygonal region. The arcuate center of the arcuate portions in each of the flux barrier groups is set to the circumferential center point of the flux barrier group on the outer peripheral edge of a rotor. When regions of the rotor interposed between two flux barriers that are adjacent to each other in the flux barrier groups are defined as ribs, and portions of the rotor that are close to the outer periphery of the rotor in the regions of the rotor interposed between flux barrier groups that are adjacent to each other are defined as connecting portions, the ratio of the width of the connecting portions to the width of the ribs is 0.53 or more and 0.8 or less.

Abstract: A treble quantum dot strip array comprising a red, a green and a blue photon transparent stationary colloidal epoxy suspension volume strip segment each including a plurality of red photon emitting quantum dots responsive to an electrical signal applied thereon to provide a photon emission in the red wavelength and a uV attenuating filter, wherein each of said red, blue and green segments are disposed to form a parallel treble array of segments are disposed to provide a photon path from a photon source through said uV attenuating filter. Alternate embodiments provide a quantum dot colour electrically conductive strip to emit a selected colour in response to a corresponding electric said signal applied thereacross, and including a COB (chip on board) LED (Light Emitting Diode) array apparatus.

Abstract: A single phase brushless motor and a power tool are provided. The single phase brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and windings wound around the stator core. The stator core includes a yoke and at least two teeth. The tooth includes a tooth body and a tooth tip. The tooth tip includes first and second pole shoes. The two pole shoes of each tooth are symmetrical about a center line of the tooth body. Each tooth defines a positioning groove facing the rotor between the two pole shoes. Pole shoes of adjacent two of the at least two teeth are spaced apart by a slot opening. A width of the positioning groove is greater than a width of the slot opening. The peak value of the cogging torque of the motor is increased, and the motor has a large startup torque.

Abstract: A stepping motor includes a one-piece stator integrally molded by using a Fe—Ni alloy plate through machining, a rotor accommodating through-hole, and in which a magnetic path is disposed around the rotor accommodating through-hole. A rotor is rotatably arranged inside the rotor accommodating through-hole. A magnetic core is connected to the stator, and a coil is wound on the magnetic core. A Cr-diffusion region having a molten-solidified portion of Cr is diffused in the Fe—Ni alloy stator in a portion of the magnetic path.

Abstract: A stepper motor includes: a rotor including a rotor core and a permanent magnet, the rotor core including a plurality of teeth; and a stator arranged around the rotor while being spaced apart from the rotor and including a plurality of magnetic pole teeth, the magnetic pole teeth including a plurality of teeth and projecting toward the rotor. A winding is wound around every other magnetic pole tooth. A phase of the teeth of the magnetic pole teeth with no winding therearound is shifted from a phase of the teeth of the other magnetic pole teeth.

Abstract: Disclosed is a motor. The motor is electrically connected to a control module. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a first stator module and a second stator module. The first stator module is configured beside the second stator module. A mechanical phase converting line is defined as a center position between the first stator module and the second stator module. The rotor is configured around the stator. The first phase detector is configured at one side of the mechanical phase converting line, and the first phase detector and the first stator module are configured at the same side of the mechanical phase converting line.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator core, a first frame and a second frame, which are arranged on two axial sides of the stator core, a coupling member, which couples the first and second frames at a radially outer side of the stator while applying a holding load to the first and second frames in the axial direction, and a rotor, which is arranged at a radially inner side of the stator. The stator core includes a held portion that projects toward a radially outer side from a main circumferential portion of the stator core. The first and second frames hold, in between, at least the held portion of the stator core in the axial direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an outer-rotator-type switched reluctance motor that may provide a shortest magnetic path by configuring a magnetic circuit in stator salient poles and rotor salient poles with circumferential-directional slots formed in the stator salient poles and coils passing through the slots and wound along the circumferential direction of the stator core, may thus minimize magnetic loss in the cores to maximize use efficiency of magnetic energy, and may provide a sturdy structure while simplifying coil winding work.

Abstract: A single phase brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and stator windings wound on the stator core. The stator core includes a yoke portion, and first and second pole portions extending inwardly from the yoke portion. An end surface of the first pole portion includes a first arc surface having a first groove. An end surface of the second pole portion includes a second arc surface having a second groove. The first and second arc surfaces are opposed to each other and define a receiving space therebetween. The rotor includes a rotary shaft and permanent magnetic poles fixed to the rotary shaft. The permanent magnetic poles are received in the receiving space. A substantially uniform gap is formed between the first arc surface and the second arc surface and the permanent magnetic poles.

Abstract: An improved hybrid drive apparatus with a switched reluctance hub motor. The switched reluctance motor eliminates any drag caused by the existing magnetic fields of the motors used in the prior art by turning off the magnetic fields when not being used. It also is cleaner and more efficient to operate, as any magnetic road dust or debris attracted during operation is dropped or repelled when the magnetic fields are turned off. An improved switched reluctance motor may be used, with a stator ring and rotor ring designed so that the low reluctance flux path does not pass through the full diameter of the rotor or rotor bars.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator that generates a rotating magnetic field; a rotor supported rotatably by a shaft within the stator; an outermost peripheral permanent magnet that is a permanent magnet embedded inside the rotor in an arced shape forming a convexity at the inner surface of the rotor; and an inner permanent magnet that is a permanent magnet embedded at the inside of the rotor in parallel to the outermost peripheral permanent magnet. The arc angle of the permanent magnets is greater than 90°, the thickness at the center of both inner permanent magnets is thinner than the thickness at the center of the outermost peripheral permanent magnet, and the thickness at the ends of both inner permanent magnets is thicker than the thickness at the ends of the outermost peripheral permanent magnet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a rotor for performing a magnetizing process of magnetizing a plurality of magnet materials that are assembled in a rotor core. A magnetization device is used which has a coil group configured of a plurality of coils that are disposed side by side in a manner that winding directions of adjacent coils are opposite to each other, the coil group is configured of sub coils at both ends and two or more main coils between the sub coils, and all of the coils are connected in series. Further, in the magnetizing process, a partial magnetization of magnetizing the magnet material among the plurality of magnet materials to which magnetic flux interlinking with two adjacent main coils is applied is performed a plurality of times, so as to magnetize all the plurality of magnet materials.

Abstract: Actuator bracket having a sensor is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a bracket having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side is to couple to a first surface of an actuator. The second side is to couple to a controller. The apparatus also includes a first sensor coupled to the first side of the bracket. When the bracket is coupled to the first surface of the actuator, the first sensor is adjacent the first surface to measure a characteristic of the first surface of the actuator.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of rotor sheets (RS1), each of the plurality of rotor sheets including a plurality of flux guide sections, each of the plurality of flux guide sections having a plurality of flux paths and a plurality of flux barriers. The plurality of flux guide sections having a first flux guide section in which a first number of the plurality of flux barriers has a bridge interrupting the flux barrier, and a second flux guide section in which a second number of the plurality of flux barriers has a bridge interrupting the flux barrier. Each bridge is made of a material of high permeance, and the first number of the first flux guide section is different than the second number of the second flux guide section.

Abstract: There is described a synchronous reluctance machine having a plurality of poles and comprising a stator with a plurality of spaced slots and a rotor. The rotor has one direct axis and one quadrature axis for each pole and comprises a plurality of flux barriers, each extending to a circumference thereof at least one barrier point. Successive angular separations between barrier points around the circumference of the rotor increase or decrease when moving around half a pole pitch from an initial axis to an adjacent finishing axis, the initial axis being one of a direct axis or a quadrature axis and the finishing axis being the other of a direct axis and a quadrature axis. The increase or decrease in size may be governed by a systematic progressive series.

Abstract: A rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine wherein a torque ripple behaviour of the machine is optimized by altering the geometry of insulating barriers of the rotor. A q-axis pitch angle is used as a design variable instead of setting its value equal to the rest of the rotor slot pitches or binding its value to the stator slot pitch. The resulting rotor has a non-regular slot pitch across the q-axis and substantially regular slot pitch otherwise. Synchronous reluctance machines that employ rotor discs and rotor assemblies in accordance with the present invention may exhibit low torque ripple without sacrificing high torque values.