Abstract: A D.C. excited rotor winding arrangement for a dynamoelectric machine comprises at least one closed loop (1,2,3) of three or more series-connected winding sections (10,11,12,13,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23) with at least three current-supply terminals (ABCD) at their interconnections. At least one pair of adjacent winding sections (10,13; 11,12) generate opposite magnetic poles when fed in parallel with current from their common supply terminal (such terminals are designated "odd", as opposed to "even" terminals which are each associated with two poles of the same sense) and the pole number is varied by switching the current supply from "odd" to "even" terminals or vice versa. Preferably the winding arrangement comprises a plurality of series-connected closed loops (1) of four winding sections interconnected at two odd (B5, D5) and two even (A5, C5) terminals. Preferably the winding arrangement is fed with current from one of a plurality of rotating rectifiers (4,6,7) according to the pole number required.

Abstract: Difficulties in cooling the rotor (28) of a dynamoelectric machine carrying a rotating rectifier (54) are avoided by providing a coolant inlet 68 extending to the interior of a rectifier housing 50 through which the coolant may flow to emerge from a port 66 in the housing 50 and flow via an annulus 52 within the rotor shaft 30 to conduits 98 to cool the rotor windings 48. The coolant is returned to the interior of the rotor shaft 30 and ultimately to a coolant outlet 84.

Abstract: A synchronous electrical machine including a fixed superconducting field winding to provide D.C. magnetic field when a D.C. current circulates through the winding. A fixed normally conducting armature is provided with a plurality of spaced-apart disks. Each disk is made from insulating material and is provided with flat windings for circulation of A.C. currents. A plurality of rotor disks is axially interleaved with the disks of the armature. Each rotor disk produces A.C. electromagnetic forces in the flat windings upon rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine such as a brushless generator including a housing, a stator within the housing and a rotor journalled within the housing. A stationary element is affixed to the housing and extends axially into a cavity in the rotor and a barrier is provided in the air gap between the stator and the rotor. The barrier serves to isolate the flow of coolant to the stator from the air gap and the stationary element serves as a means for mounting, within the rotor, components of a permanent magnet generator and an exciter which may be wholly contained within the rotor. The stationary element is also provided with a conduit for conducting coolant to the various components of the rotor.

Abstract: An electrical machine comprising a cylindrical housing accommodating a rotor made in the form of at least two pole systems having pole projections and interconnected through a magnetic circuit, a stator having at least two stacks of laminations, and an excitation system. The excitation system is mounted on the outside of the housing and composed of magnetically conductive and nonmagnetic portions arranged alternately in an axial direction, with a respective stator stack secured to each of the magnetically conductive portions of the housing.

Abstract: In the disclosed motor, a stator and a rotor are movable relative to each other about a common axis. The stator has stator poles with radially directed stator teeth arranged in a circle around the axis and the rotor includes a first axial portion and a second axial portion with a permanent magnet located between them. The first portion has a plurality of rotor teeth extending axially along the periphery of the first portion and the second portion has a substantially cylindrical surface.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with the construction of a connection portion between the generator shaft and the exciter shaft of a rotary electric machine of the type having a liquid-cooled rotor such as a turbine generator. Construction of the connection portion consists of; a junction portion between the generator shaft and the exciter shaft, a junction portion between a coolant path in the generator shaft and a coolant path in the exciter shaft, and a connection portion of electric circuits therein, which are located at places deviated in the axial direction, in order to enhance the reliability thereof.

Abstract: A self-cooled rotating electrical machine is provided with multiple axial and radial coolant passages. Wedges within the interpolar spaces of a salient pole rotor provide an axial coolant path which receives coolant deflected by vanes on the end of the wedges. Coolant expelled at the center of the wedges passes through axial passages in the stator and through a gap between the rotor and stator. Impeller tabs on the ends of the wedges force coolant around stator windings. Recirculation of coolant is prevented by shrouds attached to the ends of the wedges.

Abstract: In a turbogenerator rotor, a winding support cylinder coaxially mounted on the rotor and formed with axially extending slots distributed about the periphery thereof, the slots having a radial extending cross section, and a superconductive exciter winding having coils formed of a multiplicity of directly cooled mutually superimposed conductors fixed in the slots, the conductors of a respective coil located at the radially inner part of the slot having a greater cross section than the conductors disposed in the radially outer part of the slot; and method of producing the superconductive exciter winding.

Abstract: The system described herein is particularly adapted to convert mechanical energy from a wind or hydraulic driven turbine into electric energy and comprises: an exciter generator and a main generator in a housing traversed by a rotatable shaft; the exciter generator consists of permanent magnet mounted to the housing envelope and of a rotor mounted to the shaft and having a one-phase winding, the rotor being made of non-magnetic material to eliminate cogging and static torque associated with permanent magnet excitation; the main generator consists of a three-phase stator winding on a magnetic core mounted to the housing envelope and of a pole-type rotor mounted to the shaft, the rotor having a winding wound on a magnetic core; a rectifying bridge is rotatably mounted to the shaft and is connected to the one-phase winding of the rotor of the exciter generator and to the winding of the main generator rotor so that the rotation of the shaft as a result of mechanical energy generates a three-phase electric energy

Abstract: A brushless exciter rotor mounting of a sleeveless design directed to a rotor core which is mounted on the shaft of an AC generator so that the rotor core can be rotated by the generator to provide direct current to the generator. The shaft has a stepped construction providing a larger diameter of the shaft at the inner end portion and a lesser diameter portion of the shaft extending outwardly therefrom. The rotor core has a slightly larger inner diameter than the lesser diameter portion of the shaft for a predetermined length to provide a radial clearance therebetween. At the inner end of the shaft the rotor core pilots to the larger diameter end portion of the shaft and at the outer end portion of the shaft a standoff casting pilots to the shaft. The shaft is keyed to the rotor core to prevent rotation of the shaft within the rotor core.

Abstract: In an a.c. generating means exciting method, the exciting windings are wound on the stationary core on which the armature winding has been wound, in such a manner that the exciting windings are delta-connected to one another with the two ends open, and the zero phase current obtained from the two open ends of the delta-connected exciting windings and the phase current obtained from the exciting windings are combined and subjected to rectification to provide a direct current which is utilized to excite the field winding, whereby the field control is carried out in response to the increasing load current and the transient characteristic of the a.c. generating means is improved.

Abstract: A current supplying device comprises a slip ring mounted on a rotor shaft with an electrically insulating layer interposed therebetween, and contacting the brushes of the current collecting bus bars of the brush contact device of an electric machine. At least on one end of the slip ring a distribution ring is mounted to which a current supplying bus bar electrically connected with the rotor winding is secured and which contacts the slip ring through an additional electrically conductive layer formed of a material with a lower specific electric resistance than that of the material of the slip ring. Both the slip ring and the distribution ring are provided with through holes arranged around the circumference of these rings and having longitudinal axes parallel to longitudinal axes of these rings. Each one of the through holes of the slip ring corresponds to one of the through holes of the distribution ring and is coaxial therewith, so that they form an integral ventilating channel.

Abstract: A permanent magnet generator is provided which is intended for use in close physical relation to an associated main generator, such as an aircraft generator. To prevent severe modulation of the output voltage of the permanent magnet generator due to stray magnetic fields from the main generator, short-circuited windings are provided encircling the magnetic circuit of the permanent magnet generator in a manner to minimize the effect of such stray magnetic fields.

Abstract: An assembly is provided for mutually coupling a generator rotor which has a superconductive exciter winding, and a shaft, which carries exciter current leads. Disconnectible electrical, hydraulic and mechanical connections are located in the vicinity of the coupling assembly and extend in axial direction of the rotor and the shaft. The coupling assembly includes a pair of coupling halves in the interior of which a hollow chamber, which is gas-tightly sealed against the outer atmosphere, is defined.The disconnectible connections are located in the hollow chamber and include axially movable and releasable telescoping socket-like plug members for a coolant circulatory system and for the exciter current leads. The telescoping socket-like plug members are displaceable in axial direction thereof relative to one another upon insertion thereof in and disconnection thereof from one another and upon thermal expansion thereof.

Abstract: The device to electrically connect the rotor winding of a synchronous electrical machine to an exciter comprises at least two pairs of conductors constructed in the form of current-conducting rods, one of the pairs extending from the rotor winding of the synchronous electrical machine towards the exciter, the current-conducting rods of this pair being bent at a right angle and forming plate-like contact surfaces, the other pair of current-conducting rods extending from the exciter towards the rotor of the synchronous electrical machine. The proposed device further includes two current-conducting wedges which are in contact with the bent current-conducting rods, two flexible buses which connect the current-conducting wedges to the unbent pair of current-conducting rods, and two insulation spacers, each supporting a respective current-conducting wedge on the side of its connection to each of said flexible buses.

Abstract: A cryogen-cooled synchronous compensator, comprising a fixed armature winding and a rotor with a field winding arranged thereon, said windings being made of superconducting materials and located, together with the rotor, within a fixed cryostat, characterized in that the rotor carrying the field winding is enclosed within the cryostat in the airtight housing, adapted to prevent cryogen fluid from contacting the rotary members of the machine.