Abstract: An outer rotor type fan-motor includes: a rotational shaft; a bearing assembly that rotatably supports the rotational shaft; a stator installed at an outer side of the bearing assembly; a permanent magnet assembly that covers an outer side of the stator at a certain distance and is installed at the rotational shaft; and a fan that includes a shaft fixing part for fixing the rotational shaft, a hub for covering an outer side of the permanent magnet assembly at a certain distance and blades formed around the hub. An insulation space is formed between the permanent magnet assembly and the fan to prevent transfer of vibration and noise of the permanent magnet assembly to the fan, and vibration or noise of high frequency can be reduced.

Abstract: An electricity-generating device has a rotator unit has a rotator, multiple magnetic strips and a shaft and has a stator unit comprising multiple annular steel sheets, a positioning post, multiple dividing boards, multiple insulating sheets, an inner coil and an outer coil. The shaft is connected to a drive motor and receives power from the drive motor so that the rotator unit rotates inside the stator unit of energy-generating device. By continuously shearing to perform electromagnetic inducement interaction, induced current is generated to output and to supply battery charge and outside electrical consumption or to actuate multiple electricity-generating modules arranged in parallel.

Abstract: To provide a brushless AC generator for a vehicle, which is capable of improving a cooing performance for an excitation coil and increasing an output of electric power generation with a simple structure. An external fan 11 fixed to a shaft 10 outside the brackets 5 and 6 and an internal fan 34 fixed to a rotor assembled body 21 formed from a first rotor pole 22 and a second rotor pole 23 united into one body, the internal fan 34 having fan blade 34a provided in a valley part 22b between claw poles 22a of the first rotor pole 22, are provided. The external fan 11 and the internal fan 34 are used to generate an air flow for cooling a stator core 3, the rotor assembled body 21, an excitation core 31 and an excitation coil 33.

Abstract: A cooling system is provided for an electric motor having control circuitry and including a motor housing surrounding the motor. The motor drives at least one radial fan at one end thereof for directing airflow through the motor housing across the motor. A fan housing encloses the cooling fan and defines a diverter chamber radially outboard of the fan that is sized to divert a portion of the airflow away from the electric motor. A control box contains the control circuitry and includes a base having a heat sink for contacting the control circuitry. The base defines a plenum in communication with the diverter chamber and a channel in communication with the plenum and the heat sink to direct the diverted airflow across the heat sink.

Abstract: An electric machine is provided. The electric machine includes a stator, a rotor and a closed cooling channel through which a gaseous cooling medium circulates. The stator includes a stator lamination at least partially encasing several stator windings. The closed cooling channel is disposed in circumferential direction of the stator lamination. The stator lamination is at least partially formed as fins.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a housing with inlets and outlets. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core and a commutator. A fan is fixed to the rotor. An end cap is fitted to the housing to close a first end of the housing and support electrical components, including brush gear. The brush gear includes two brush assemblies, each comprising a brush for making sliding electrical contact with the commutator and a brush guidance mechanism for resiliently urging the brush into contact with the commutator. The brush assemblies are accommodated in compartments of the end cap. Each compartment has vents on an axially facing side thereof and openings in a transverse wall thereof. An air guide guides a part of the airflow generated by the fan exiting from at least one of the outlets of the housing to flow into the compartments via the openings and exit the compartments via the vents to cool the brushes.

Abstract: An external rotor for a direct current drive motor with a side wall, an end cover, a cavity, an opening, a base, a magnetic tile, a center hole, and a magnetic yoke shell. A method for producing an external rotor for a direct current drive motor by integrally forming by injection molding a magnetic yoke shell and multiple magnetic tiles; forming a side wall on said magnetic yoke shell and an end cover at the bottom of said side wall; forming a base at the center of said end cover; and integrally forming by injection molding said base and a rotating spline.

Abstract: A direct current drive motor with a stator core, an end insulator, and a coil winding forming a stator, and a housing, a magnetic yoke shell, and multiple magnetic tiles, forming a rotor. The magnetic yoke shell and the magnetic tiles are disposed on the housing. Multiple teeth protrude from a side wall of the stator core. A slot is formed between two adjacent teeth. The coil winding is disposed in the slot and wraps around the tooth.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine main body that includes: a housing that is constituted by a rear bracket and a front bracket; a rotor; a stator; and a fan, and a power supply unit that is mounted integrally onto the dynamoelectric machine main body are included, the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the rear bracket has: air discharge ports that are formed on portions that are positioned radially outside the fan; and air suction ports that have openings nearer to a bottom portion than the power supply unit, and includes a partitioning member for configuring a ventilation channel that extends from the air suction ports to the air discharge ports that is disposed between the power supply unit and the fan.

Abstract: An air cooling arrangement for an electric engine comprises a rotor, a stator disposed co-axially on the rotor, and a partition disposed between the rotor and the stator and extending along a complete axial length of the rotor and mounted on the rotor so as to be in co-rotational communication with the rotor, the partition providing a segregated cooling air flow so as to prevent a radial flow of cooling air from the rotor to the stator. The arrangement further comprises at least one fan configured to provide cooling air to the rotor and the stator, wherein the partition partitions and segregates the at least one fan and provides an inner fan and an outer fan and extends between the inner fan and the outer fan.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive electric motor-generator that can achieve sufficient cooling of a radiating plate by ensuring a sufficient cooling airflow ventilation channel within limited axial or radial dimensions. In the present invention, first and second radiating plates each form a fan shape, have N-channel power MOSFETs mounted thereto, and have a drain potential for the power MOSFETs. A first circuit board includes insert conductors that connect the power MOSFETs in series, and a second circuit board has insert conductors that are connected to source terminals of the power MOSFETs and that have negative potential. The first radiating plate, the second radiating plate, the first circuit board, and the second circuit board are disposed in a fan shape that is centered around a shaft so as to line up radially in a plane that is perpendicular to the shaft outside one axial end of a rear housing.

Abstract: An angle grinder is provided including a radial fan assembly. The radial fan assembly is configured to direct exhaust radially outwardly and axially away from a user of the angle grinder. Brush card assemblies for an angle grinder are also provided. The brush card assemblies provide for the securing of brush cards to a field case of the angle grinder by the interface between the field case and brush cards. Additionally, a spindle lock mechanism and a safety mechanism for an angle grinder are provided.

Abstract: An automotive alternator is provided that reduces exclusive circumferential space for a regulator assembly inside a rear bracket, and that also increases performance in cooling the regulator assembly and a rectifier by ensuring that flows of air that cool the regulator assembly and the rectifier do not interfere with each other. An approximately C-shaped rectifier is disposed in a vicinity of a rotating shaft, and a regulator assembly is disposed between two end portions of the approximate C shape of the rectifier. A brush holder portion, a regulator circuit housing portion, and a connector portion that constitute a regulator assembly are positioned such that respective center lines thereof are in a common plane that includes a central axis of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator including an annular stator core formed by helically stacking a plurality of core pieces that are connected to each other by connecting portions, the rotor being disposed inside an inner periphery of the stator core. The connecting portions are linearly arranged along a stacking direction of the stator core so that grooves that extend in the stacking direction of the stator core are formed in an outer peripheral surface of the stator core at positions where the connecting portions are provided.

Abstract: A cooling system is provided for an electric motor having control circuitry and including a motor housing surrounding the motor. The motor drives at least one radial fan at one end thereof for directing airflow through the motor housing across the motor. A fan housing encloses the cooling fan and defines a diverter chamber radially outboard of the fan that is sized to divert a portion of the airflow away from the electric motor. A control box contains the control circuitry and includes a base having a heat sink for contacting the control circuitry. The base defines a plenum in communication with the diverter chamber and a channel in communication with the plenum and the heat sink to direct the diverted airflow across the heat sink.

Abstract: A cooling fan includes an outer housing. A motor support is fixed to the outer housing and a motor is mounted to the motor support. A hub is coupled to the motor and, with the motor support, forms a motor enclosure that substantially surrounds the motor. Multiple blades extend radially from the hub and are arranged so as to generate a flow of air around the motor enclosure when the blades are rotated. The cooling fan also includes a motor cooler including a flow path through the motor enclosure, wherein the flow path has a first opening and a second opening, wherein the second opening is disposed within an area of lowered downstream pressure so as to develop a differential pressure between the first and second openings and generate a flow of air through the motor enclosure as the motor operates.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to an induction motor including a stator having a circular cross-section and an inner passage having a longitudinal axis defining a bore, a solid core steel rotor having a circular cross-section rotatably disposed within the bore of the stator, and an air gap disposed between the rotor and the stator. A copper conductive layer is disposed on the steel rotor to increase the electrical conductance of the rotor. Exemplary embodiments adhere the copper conductive layer to the steel rotor using Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP). The HIP process encloses the steel rotor and the copper conductive layer in a containment vessel, and adheres the conductive layer to the rotor by applying high temperature and high gas pressure to the outside of the containment vessel.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator. The rotor has a shaft and a fan mounted on the shaft. A air guide structure with an axial extension portion is arranged at one end of the stator adjacent the fan. The gap between the axial extension portion and the fan in the axial and/or radial direction of the motor is narrow in order to reduce air swirl generated by air flowing from the outlet of the fan to the inlet of the fan through the gap. Preferably, the width of the gap is larger than 0.05 mm and smaller than 2.0 mm. The cooling efficiency of the fan is increased and the performance of the motor is improved.

Abstract: A rotor (24) for a rotary electric machine (20), mainly for the automotive industry, that comprises a front polar wheel (46N) and a rear polar wheel (46S), each polar wheel (46N, 46S) including claws (52) extending axially towards the other polar wheel (46N, 46S), each claw (52) of a polar wheel (46N, 46S) being circumferentially interleaved between two claws (52) of the other polar wheel (46N, 46S), at least two interpolar gaps (62) being provided between the side faces (60) opposite two consecutive claws (52), and at least two members (68) defining a magnetic barrier being provided in two interpolar gaps (62) associated on either side of a predetermined claw (52D). The front longitudinal ends (72) of the two members (68) are connected by a connector (82) in order to define an open chain (80).

Abstract: The invention concerns a ventilation system for a rotary electrical machine of the type comprising a rotor mounted so as to rotate in a stator and a device for cooling by forced flow of a cooling fluid, such as air, provided with at least one fan fixed to the rotor and an independent fan disposed so as to be decisive for cooling at relatively low speeds of rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A housing for an external rotor with a side wall; an end cover directly connected to the side wall; a cavity formed between the side wall and the end cover; a plurality of openings formed in the side wall; a plurality of wind wheels; a plurality of air inlets, each of the air inlets disposed one between adjacent wind wheels; a base disposed at the center of the end cover and connected to the side wall via the wind wheels; and a center hole disposed at the center of the base, the center hole for forming connection to a drive shaft of the external rotor. An external rotor with the housing, a magnetic conductive housing; and a plurality of magnetic tiles.

Abstract: An electric motor has a stator bushing in which components that generate heat are disposed. A rotor housing that has at least one air conveying element is rotatably connected to the stator bushing. The air conveying element has a top side that is facing the stator bushing and that is at least basically smooth. The air conveying element has an annular disk that is provided with the basically smooth top side. The air conveying element has flow guiding elements that are radially extending ribs provided on the bottom side of the annular disk.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive electric motor-generator that can achieve sufficient cooling of a radiating plate by ensuring a sufficient cooling airflow ventilation channel within limited axial or radial dimensions. In the present invention, first and second radiating plates each form a fan shape, have N-channel power MOSFETs mounted thereto, and have a drain potential for the power MOSFETs. A first circuit board includes insert conductors that connect the power MOSFETs in series, and a second circuit board has insert conductors that are connected to source terminals of the power MOSFETs and that have negative potential. The first radiating plate, the second radiating plate, the first circuit board, and the second circuit board are disposed in a fan shape that is centered around a shaft so as to line up radially in a plane that is perpendicular to the shaft outside one axial end of a rear housing.

Abstract: Provided is a brushless AC generator for a vehicle, with improved cooling performance for an exiting core and an exciting coil. In the brushless AC generator for the vehicle, a rotor includes: magnetic-pole cores fixed to a shaft; a cylindrical exciting core fixed to a rear bracket, the exciting core being inserted into one of the magnetic-pole cores; and an exciting coil formed by winding a conductor around a minor-diameter portion of the exciting core. The rear bracket includes: vent holes for the rotor, through which cooling air generated by rotation of a cooling fin passes, the vent holes for the rotor being formed around a bearing housing portion for housing a rear bearing therein; and a guiding portion including an air duct for guiding the cooling air, which has passed through the vent holes for the rotor, to the exciting core.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine (1) having a stator (4) and a rotor (3), with the rotor (3) having a plurality of axially arranged cooling channels (8) and a first (5a) and a second (5b) end face, and a fan unit (6) being arranged adjacent to each end face and comprising at least two 10 fan segments (7), with one fan segment (7) in each case being associated with one cooling channel (8) and being arranged alternately adjacent to the first (5a) and the second (5b) end face, and with the fan segment (7) having at least one air guide channel (7a) and at least one air guide wall (7b).

Abstract: An electric motor assembly. A stator includes a set of windings and has a first end, a second end, and an outer radial surface. A rotor includes a shaft having an axis. A first frame supports the shaft at a first axial position. A canopy substantially surrounds the first frame. The canopy includes a fluid inlet and a fluid discharge. A second frame supports the shaft at a second axial position and includes at least one fluid outlet. A chute is positioned downstream of the canopy fluid discharge. The chute directs fluid flow along the outer radial surface of the stator towards the fluid outlet. A fan is coupled to the shaft downstream of the fluid outlet for rotation with the shaft.

Abstract: An inverter-integrated rotating electric machine includes an enclosure in which a vent hole is formed, an AC motor accommodated in the enclosure, the AC motor including a rotor and a fan whose rotation introduces external air into the enclosure from outside through the vent hole, the fan being fixed to the rotor, and an inverter unit accommodated in the enclosure and disposed in the vent hole. The inverter unit includes a power circuit portion and a control circuit portion whose control board is housed in a case which thermally isolates the control board from the power circuit portion. The power circuit portion is located at a position facing the fan and the control circuit portion is located upstream of the power circuit portion with respect to an inflow of the external air. Signal lines from the power circuit portion are connected to signal lines from the control circuit portion through holes formed in the case.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an open rotary electric machine having a rotor mounted to rotate relative to at least one stator and co-operating with the stator to define at least one airgap, the rotor being suitable for rotating at least one fan having at least two channels, said fan including a first channel generating a first cooling air stream passing through the stator, and a second channel generating a second cooling air stream passing through the rotor, the fan including a solid web separating the first and second air streams.

Abstract: A belt-driven electric machine for a vehicle includes a front housing including at least one front housing opening and a rear housing including at least one rear housing opening. The electric machine further includes at least one fan capable of urging cooling air into the electric machine through the at least one front housing opening and out of the electric machine through the at least one rear housing opening. A method for cooling a belt-driven electric machine for a vehicle includes urging cooling air into the electric machine at substantially the front of the electric machine. The cooling air is flowed substantially rearward in the electric machine, and heat is radiated from the electric machine into the cooling air. At least a first portion of the cooling air is expelled from the rear of the electric machine in a substantially axial direction.

Abstract: A counter-rotating axial-flow fan is provided that is capable of increasing effect of cooling a stator. One or more through-holes 83 penetrating support frame bodies (21, 75) in the axial direction are formed in support frame bodies 21 and 75. One or more vent holes 57a for introducing air, sucked from a suction port 19, into a cup-like member 51 are formed in a bottom wall portion 57 of a cup-like member 51 of a first impeller 9. One or more vent holes 111a for discharging air, introduced into an internal space of a second motor 61, to the outside are formed in a bottom wall portion 111 of a cup-like member 105 of a second impeller 63.

Abstract: An electric machine with improved cooling efficiency includes a stator, a rotor operating as a rotor fan and comprising a shaft defining an axial direction and having radial and axial cooling channels, and an axial fan configured as a twin axial fan and arranged coaxially with the shaft and supplying a coolant to the axial cooling channels. The axial fan has first and second blade rings and a funnel-shaped tube with a smaller opening directly connected to the axial cooling channels of the rotor to deliver coolant to the axial cooling channels of the rotor, and a larger opening, which is non-rotatably connected to and encloses the first blade ring. The second blade ring is firmly attached at an outer circumference of the funnel-shaped tube to deliver the coolant to the stator. Both the stator and the rotor can be cooled using an efficient coolant flow.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for a washing machine includes an electric motor, a drive shaft connected to the electric motor for rotary drive purposes and electronics for controlling operation of the electric motor. In order to achieve a compact construction, the electric motor and the electronics are integrated in a common unit. In order to increase operational reliability of the drive apparatus together with a simple construction, the common unit has a wall which is thermally coupled both to the electric motor and to the electronics and serves to dissipate heat. The electronics have a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the wall. Both the temperature of the electric motor and the temperature of the electronics can be monitored with this one temperature sensor.

Abstract: To provide a brushless AC generator for a vehicle, which is capable of improving a cooing performance for an excitation coil and increasing an output of electric power generation with a simple structure. An external fan 11 fixed to a shaft 10 outside the brackets 5 and 6 and an internal fan 34 fixed to a rotor assembled body 21 formed from a first rotor pole 22 and a second rotor pole 23 united into one body, the internal fan 34 having fan blade 34a provided in a valley part 22b between claw poles 22a of the first rotor pole 22, are provided. The external fan 11 and the internal fan 34 are used to generate an air flow for cooling a stator core 3, the rotor assembled body 21, an excitation core 31 and an excitation coil 33.

Abstract: A stator (16) is proposed for a polyphase electric machine, having a core body (17), which is provided with slots (114), which are situated in the radial direction with respect to an axis of rotation of the electric machine on one side of the core body (17) parallel to the longitudinal axis of the core body (17), having a slot width (bn1, bn2) and a stator yoke (122) being provided on the opposite side, with two slots (114) each being separated from one another by a tooth (116) having a tooth width (bz1, bz2) and extending from a slot base (120) to a tooth head (118), these slots (114) being provided to receive at least one coil winding having a plurality of coils that is electrically connected in series and are manufactured from at least one continuous wire (124) without interruption, the ratio (bz2/hj) of the tooth width (bz2) to the yoke height (hj) at the tooth head (118) being between 0.3 and 0.

Abstract: A vehicle alternator is disclosed as having a rotor including magnetic pole pieces, each having claw-like magnetic pole fingers, a field coil wound on boss portions of the magnetic pole pieces, and cooling fans fixedly mounted on the magnetic pole pieces, respectively. Each cooling fan includes a central disc portion, a plurality of fan base portions formed on the central disc portion, and fan blades standing upright from the fan base portions in an axially outward direction, respectively. The central disc portion has an outer circumferential periphery formed with a plurality of cutout portions to be contiguous with roots of the fan base portions, respectively, and placed in areas radially inward of the fan blades, respectively. Each cutout portion is so placed to be perpendicular to the radial direction on which each claw-like magnetic pole finger is oriented.

Abstract: The invention concerns a ventilation system for a rotary electrical machine of the type comprising a rotor mounted so as to rotate in a stator and a device for cooling by forced flow of a cooling fluid, such as air, provided with at least one fan fixed to the rotor and an independent fan (10) disposed so as to be decisive for cooling at relatively low speeds of rotation of the rotor. The invention can be used for rotary electrical machines.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine tool, particularly an angle grinder, having an electric motor that can be forcibly cooled by a cooling air flow. The electric motor includes an armature and a field iron package disposed concentrically to the armature which are disposed in a cooling air flow. The invention proposes that the armature and the field iron package be disposed in series in the cooling air flow.

Abstract: A machine has a rotor, that can be rotated about an axis, with a superconductive winding that is coupled in a heat-conducting manner to a central coolant area of a fixed heat conducting body proturding into a hollow of the rotor via a winding carrier and a heat contact gas. The coolant area forms a line system with the line parts thereof, that are laterally connected thereto, and a condenser area of a cold unit, in which a coolant circulates in the line system as result of a thermosiphon effect. To maintain the supply of coolant to the central coolant area, even when the rotor encounters difficulties, the coolant area is provided with a lining of a porous material, preferably a sinter material, having high thermal conductivity.

Abstract: By reviewing a material of a forcer housing and an assembly structure of a coil member with respect to the forcer housing, a thrust force is increased, an optimum shape can be easily given to the forcer housing depending on a purpose of use, and a linear motor can be manufactured at low cost. The linear motor includes a magnet rod composed of a large number of magnetic poles arranged with predetermined pitches along an axial direction and a forcer having a through-hole into which the magnet rod is loosely inserted and reciprocatable relatively to the magnet rod according to an applied electric signal. The forcer is composed of a forcer housing in which the through-hole is defined and a coil member which is arranged on an inner peripheral surface of the through-hole of the forcer housing and to which the electric signal is applied. The forcer housing is formed by mold forming with an insulating nonmetal inorganic material.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a power tool including: a housing having a suction port formed thereon to introduce an cooling air from an outside of the housing; and a brushless motor that is housed in the housing and has an electric circuit, the electric circuit having a heat radiating surface, wherein the heat radiating surface is disposed in a neighborhood of the suction port.

Abstract: A high speed electric motor for use in a variety of applications. The electric motor an electric motor including a motor housing or stator, a rotor having a commutator and brushes for contacting the commutator at a predefined area known as the contact area. Additionally, the motor includes a forced air cooling assembly. The forced air cooling assembly includes a centrifugal fan for creating air flow, a manifold for accelerating the air flow. The manifold having exit ports and the exit ports being positioned directly over the contact area for directing the accelerated air flow at the contact area and the motor housing having at least one opening aligned with the contact area and at least a second opening defining an exit vent. Additionally, a method of cooling the motor in accordance with the invention is also disclosed.

Abstract: A servo motor includes an enclosure defining airflow passages in the outer surface thereof, an end cover attached to the enclosure, a rotor shaft accommodated in the enclosure and having an end protruding out of the end cover, an encoder attached to the protruding end of the rotor shaft, an encoder cover attached to the end cover and covering the encoder, a fan duct covering the end cover, and a fan attached to the fan duct. The end cover, the encoder cover, and the fan duct cooperatively define an airflow space communicating with the airflow passages of the enclosure. The encoder cover includes a guiding portion gradually shrinking toward a small end which is away from the end cover. The fan duct includes a guiding portion gradually shrinking toward an end to which the fan is attached, thereby to guide the airflow smoothly flow toward the fan.

Abstract: A high power density generator includes a rotor assembly, a rectifier assembly, and a cooling assembly configured in such a way so as to provide high electrical output power while retaining a small profile. The rotor assembly includes one or more rings configured to secure the main rotor windings to the main rotor poles by imparting a clamping force therebetween while conforming to the windings' profile allowing for operation at high RPM and high levels of shock and vibration. The rotor assembly may further include a rotating rectifier assembly positioned so as to reduce the moment arm between the mass centers of the rotor assembly and the drive-end bearing. The rectifier assembly comprises a rectifier housing and one or more rectifiers which are placed radially so as to dissipate heat directly into the airstream. The cooling assembly, comprising a fan and a shroud, is placed adjacent to the rectifier assembly providing immediate cooling of the rectifier.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor with a stator and an external rotor, comprised of a rotor bell and a rotor cover that acts as a fan wheel. The rotor bell has several apertures in its bell floor. The rotor cover has several exhaust ports. The rotor cover is shaped like a plate and consists of a plate base and an annular wall. The exhaust ports are preferably evenly distributed in the annular wall. The inside of the plate base of the rotor cover that faces the rotor bell has several radially extending interior blades that are fixedly connected to it.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle AC generator in which the contact face of at least one of a pair of cases that make contact with the respective axis-direction end faces of a stator core is provided with a cooling air path that connects the outer circumferential surface of a coil end portion with the outer circumferential surface of the stator core and has an opening in the axis direction at the outer circumferential surface of the stator core so that the coolability of the coil end portions of the stator coil is raised, and the amount of cooling air is increased so that the overall coolability of the AC generator is improved.

Abstract: A compact, rugged, variable reluctance, variable speed, electric motor capable of producing high torque at high electrical energy conversion efficiencies is provided. The present invention provides for a multi-stage motor design having a number of discreet rotor and stator elements on a common shaft. This configuration provides for the simplest of magnetic structures and produces a powerful magnetic flux modelling design technique that is used to further optimize the motor design and subsequent control logic. Thermal mapping of the magnetic mass provides for advanced cooling techniques that are used to ensure long in-service life in the most extreme of industrial applications. The electric motor inherently provides low vibration thereby greatly reducing noise; low turn to turn voltage potentials thereby eliminating costly phase to phase shorting potential; efficient motor operation through the reduction in switching and copper losses in both the machine and its control system.

Abstract: A cooling system for a wind turbine is provided. The cooling system includes at least one generator having a plurality of external fins disposed around at least a portion of the periphery of the generator. A shroud is disposed around at least a portion of the generator, and is configured to guide air across the external fins so that said air cools the generator.

Abstract: A housing for an electric motor, the housing including a substantially cylindrical shaped frame having a first and second opposing ends and a longitudinal axis running between the first and second opposing ends, and a plurality of air flow outlets each having a longitudinal axis, the plurality of air flow outlets being radially disposed about a circumference of the frame such that the longitudinal axis of each of the plurality of air flow outlets is located in a plane that is substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the frame.

Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a power tool has an electric motor having a stator disposed in a field case. The stator has field coils having opposed axial ends that extend axially outwardly from opposed axial ends of a lamination stack of the stator. An armature is disposed in the stator and has a shaft on which a fan is disposed. There are gaps between the opposed axial ends of the respective field coils. The fan baffle includes an air direction member that extends into one of the gaps to direct air flow between the armature and the stator. In an aspect, the fan baffle includes a plurality of such members, one for each gap.

Abstract: A radiator for a linear or curved mobile motor for removing the thermal distortion of a mover and a transporting member of a linear or curved mobile motor, and a high-accuracy, high-reliability linear or curved mobile motor using it. The linear or curved mobile motor includes a field pole having a plurality of permanent magnets with different magnetic poles arranged alternately along a field yoke, and an armature arranged opposite to the field pole via a magnetic gap and formed by winding a single or a plurality of coils around a core. The field pole is used as a stator and the armature being used as a mover that is relatively moved along the longitudinal direction of the stator.