Abstract: An electrical machine assembly including a housing, a shroud, and a terminal box coupled to the housing. The terminal box includes a base having an outer wall extending therefrom, wherein the outer wall includes a distal edge that is correspondingly shaped with the housing such that the outer wall engages with the housing and with the shroud to form a seal.

Abstract: Electrical connectors mountable on wheels are described. An electrical connector may include a sleeve sized for mounting on a barrel of a wheel. The sleeve defines one or more channels. The electrical connector may also include one or more hollow spokes mechanically coupled with the sleeve, and one or more electrical conductors. An electrical conductor extends from a portion of the sleeve corresponding to a bead seat region through the one or more channels and a hollow spoke for electrically coupling with an electrical module positioned on a tread region of a tire mounted on the wheel. Electrical devices including such electrical connectors and electrical devices including other electrical connectors are also described.

Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a bearing unit formed from a stationary bearing ring configured to be connected to a stationary component and a rotatable bearing ring configured to be connected to a rotatable component and a bearing carrier connected to the stationary bearing ring in a rotationally fixed manner, for example, by overmolding. The bearing carrier includes at least one notch that exposes at least one section of the stationary bearing ring.

Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a motor that has a motor shaft extending in an axial direction, a transmission mechanism that is connected on one side in the axial direction of the motor shaft, a lock mechanism that restricts driving of the transmission mechanism, a housing that houses the motor, the transmission mechanism, and the lock mechanism, an oil that is stored in the housing, and an oil passage that circulates the oil. The housing includes a motor room that houses the motor, a gear room that houses the transmission mechanism and the lock mechanism, and a partition that is provided between the motor room and the gear room. The oil passage includes a pump that pumps the oil in the oil passage, a first feed flow passage that feeds the oil to the motor, and a second feed flow passage that feeds the oil to the lock mechanism.

Abstract: An electric motor comprises a stator presenting a first surface. A rotor is rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor presents a rotor raceway disposed in spaced relationship with the first surface of the stator. The first surface of the stator defines a plurality of slots in spaced relationship with one another to define a plurality of spaced teeth between the slots. At least one electrical conductor is disposed in each of the slots and configured to selectively create a moving magnetic field for acting upon the rotor for providing rotational movement of the rotor. A portion of the at least one electrical conductor extends substantially into radial alignment with, or past the first surface of the stator to at least partially define a stator raceway of the stator for engaging the rotor raceway of the rotor during relative radial movement between the rotor and the stator.

Abstract: The present application provides a bump check tool for determining a clearance between a shim of a thrust bearing and a rotor flange of a rotor shaft within a casing of a gas turbine engine. The bump check tool includes a hydraulic cylinder, a connection plate attached to the hydraulic cylinder and positioned about the rotor shaft and a support frame supporting the hydraulic cylinder and attached to the casing. The hydraulic cylinder drives the connection plate and the rotor shaft to determine the clearance between the shim of the thrust bearing and the rotor flange of the rotor shaft.

Abstract: The example of the present application provides a motor and an electrical product. The motor includes a rotor that is arranged in a rotatable manner centered on a central axis, a stator arranged on an outer circumference of the rotor and facing the rotor in a radial direction, a bus bar holder arranged on one side of the rotor and the stator in an axial direction, and a housing that is cylindrical or substantially cylindrical. The rotor, the stator, and the bus bar holder are contained inside the housing. The bus bar holder has a protrusion on one side in the axial direction, and the protrusion is in contact with the bottom of the housing.

Abstract: A rotary-type series elastic actuator (SEA) for use in robotic applications. The SEA including a motor, gear transmission assembly, spring assembly, and sensors. In one example, a robotic joint may include the SEA as well as two links coupled with each other at the joint assembly. The two links may be designated as input and output links. Each link may have a joint housing body which may be concentrically connected via a joint bearing so that they freely rotate against each other. The housing frame of the SEA may be fixed at the joint housing body of the input link while the output mount of the spring assembly of the SEA may be concentrically coupled with the joint housing body of the output link. The rotation of the motor rotor causes the rotation of the output link with respect to the input link plus spring deflection of the spring assembly.

Abstract: A fan comprises a fan frame, a motor, an impeller, a circuit board and an enclosing layer. The fan frame has a motor base disposed in a central portion thereof. The motor is mounted on the motor base and has a rotor, a stator and a bearing unit. The stator is disposed around the outer periphery of the bearing unit, and the rotor is sheathed on the stator and the bearing unit. The impeller is mounted on the motor. The circuit board is sheathed on the bearing unit and located between the stator and the motor base, and has a plurality of electronic components disposed on a first surface thereof. The stator and the circuit board are enclosed by the enclosing layer, and the plurality of electronic components are enclosed by the uniform enclosing layer with a specific thickness.

Abstract: Anti-rotation bearing assemblies for electric submersible pumps are provided. An electric submersible pump includes a plurality of centrifugal pump stages, each stage including a rotating impeller and a stationary diffuser mounted on a shaft coupled to a motor. In use, the motor rotates the shaft, which rotates the impeller within the stationary diffuser. A bearing assembly can include a bearing sleeve disposed about the shaft and a bushing disposed radially between the bearing sleeve and the diffuser. The bearing sleeve rotates with the shaft in operation, and the bushing remains stationary with the diffuser. The bushing can have an external key that is received in a key way or groove in the diffuser to act as an anti-rotation feature. In other variations, the bushing can have an eccentric or oblique profile, which can act as an anti-rotation feature.

Abstract: This application discloses a water pump with a suspension function, including: a pump casing, a pump cover, a motor, a pressing ring, a volute and a base. In this way, the water pump with the suspension function disclosed in this application has an upper part suspended on a water surface to clarify the position of the water pump, thus preventing the problem of being buried by underwater mud and sucking in underwater impurities, and protecting a sealing structure at the upper part of the pump casing.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft, a rotor core, and a permanent magnet, and a stator surrounding the rotor. The permanent magnet forms a magnet magnetic pole, a part of the rotor core forms a virtual magnetic pole. The motor includes first and second bearings support the shaft, and further includes first and second bearing support portions. Of the first and second bearings, the first bearing is located on the load side. A distance D1 from the center axis to the inner circumferential surface of the first bearing support portion, a distance D2 from the center axis to the inner circumferential surface of the second bearing support portion, a distance d1 from the center axis to the outer circumferential surface of the first bearing, and a distance d2 from the center axis to the outer circumferential surface of the second bearing satisfy D1?d1<D2?d2.

Abstract: A power transmission device, includes a motor; a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor; a pump that sucks oil through a pump inlet; and a box that includes a first chamber accommodating the gear mechanism and a second chamber provided with the pump inlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger having a hydrodynamic plain bearing or a hydrodynamic plain bearing, comprising a rotor (10) and a counter-bearing part (50) assigned to the rotor (10), wherein a rotor bearing surface of the rotor (10) and a counterface of the counter-bearing part (50) face each other to form the hydrodynamic plain bearing in the form of a combined journal—thrust bearing, having a continuous hydrodynamically load bearing gap formed between the rotor bearing surface and the counterface, wherein the rotor bearing surface and/or the counterface, when cut longitudinally and through the axis of rotation (R) in sectional view, form(s) a bearing contour forming merging contour sections (17.1 to 17.3; 44.1 to 44.3; 53.1 to 53.3) to generate hydrodynamic load capacities in both the radial and the axial direction, wherein a contour section (17.3; 44.3; 53.

Abstract: A power tool includes a housing and a brushless motor with a rotor and a stator assembly. The motor defines a motor envelope bounded by a rear plane at a rearmost point of the stator assembly and rotor, a front plane at a frontmost point of the stator assembly and rotor, and a generally cylindrical boundary surrounding a radially outermost portion of the stator assembly and rotor. A rotor shaft is rotatably driven by the rotor. A transmission includes an input member rotatably driven by the rotor shaft and an output member. A first bearing supporting the rotor shaft is at least partially received within the motor envelope. A second bearing supporting the rotor shaft or a component of the transmission is at least partially received within the motor envelope. A support plate supporting a component of the transmission may be at least partially received within the motor envelope.

Abstract: A motor includes a stator and first and second electrical insulator assemblies at opposite ends of the stator. A crossover wire extends along an outer wall part of the second insulator. A cover for covering the crossover wire is mounted onto the second electrical insulator assembly via a mounting mechanism. The mounting mechanism includes an engagement recess formed in an inner peripheral surface of the outer wall part of the second electrical insulator assembly and an engagement piece formed within a recess of the cover which engagement piece has a claw configured to be locked to an engagement recess forming face that defines the engagement recess.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire has an inner annular body centered on a rotation axis portion, an outer annular body provided radially outward of the inner annular body, a wheel portion including a connecting member elastically deforming and for connecting the inner annular body and the outer annular body, and a tread portion provided radially outward of the outer annular body and in contact with a road. The non-pneumatic tire is provided with an electrode portion which is in contact with the tread portion and is provided on the radially inner side of tread portion, and a wiring portion which connects the electrode portion and the inner annular body and is formed of a conductor. A part of the wheel portion is formed of a nonmetallic material, and the electrode portion is formed of a conductor having a prescribed width in tire width direction and a prescribed length in tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: In a rotor of a motor or the like, in order to suppress scattering of a part of a magnet provided around a rotating shaft, the rotor has a cylindrical magnet through which the rotating shaft passes, a first holder which covers the magnet from one side in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and a second holder which covers the magnet from the other side in the axial direction. The magnet is press-fitted into a first body portion of the first holder and a second body portion of the second holder, and a first end of the first body portion and a second end of the second body portion are joined by welding or the like. An inner diameter of the first end and the inner diameter of the second end are larger than an outer diameter of the magnet.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stiffness enhancing mechanism for a magnetic suspension bearing, a magnetic suspension bearing including the stiffness enhancing mechanism, and a blood pump. The magnetic suspension bearing comprises a stator with stator teeth and a rotor disposed within the stator. The stiffness enhancing mechanism comprises: a rotor permanent magnet, a stator permanent magnet, and an axial driving body. The rotor permanent magnet and the rotor of the magnetic suspension bearing form a rotor assembly, which has an asymmetric structure with respect to the main plane (P) of the rotor. The stiffness enhancing mechanism is configured such that the stator permanent magnet generates a radial attractive force to the rotor permanent magnet, and the axial driving body generates an axial repulsive force to the rotor permanent magnet, wherein the magnitude of the axial repulsive force is variable with a change of an axial distance between the axial driving body and the rotor permanent magnet.

Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, at least two bearings supporting the shaft, a magnet supported by the shaft between the at least two bearings, a stator surrounding the magnet, and a magnetic member arranged between the magnet and at least one of the bearings in a longitudinal direction of the shaft. The magnetic member has a large outer diameter with respect to an outer diameter of the magnet.

Abstract: A drive motor for a suction device (400) or a machine tool in the form of a hand-held power tool (200, 300) or a semi-stationary machine tool. The drive motor (20, 120) has a stator (80) with an excitation coil assembly (86) and a rotor (40, 140) with a motor shaft (30, 130) which is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis (D) on the stator or relative to the stator (80) by means of a bearing assembly (24A) and which passes through a shaft through-opening (42, 142) of a laminated core (41, 141) held on the motor shaft (30, 130). The rotor (40, 140) has a magnet assembly (50) with at least one permanent magnet such that the rotor (40, 140) can be rotated about the rotational axis (D) by energizing the excitation coil assembly (86).

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a motor including: a rotor configured to rotate about a central axis; a stator disposed radially opposite the rotor with a clearance defined between the stator and the rotor; a housing accommodating the rotor and the stator; a bearing supporting the rotor in a rotatable manner; a bearing holder holding the bearing, the bearing holder being fixed to the housing; a rotation sensor configured to detect rotation of the rotor; and a sensor holder disposed in the bearing holder to hold the rotation sensor. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the motor includes a position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a circumferential position of the rotation sensor by integrally rotating the bearing holder and the sensor holder relative to the housing in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes an outer housing, an impeller rotatably disposed in the outer housing, an inner housing that is disposed in the outer housing and defines an air flow path at an outside of the inner housing, a stator disposed in the inner housing, a rotor disposed in the inner housing, the rotor comprising a rotating shaft coupled to the impeller, a first bearing that is disposed in the inner housing and supports a first side of the rotating shaft, a second bearing that disposed in the inner housing and supports a second side of the rotating shaft, and a bracket that is disposed at the second bearing and that is in contact with an end of the stator. The bracket is coupled to the inner housing in an axial direction of the inner housing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bearing assembly capable of preventing a lubricant from being thrown out. A bearing and a wire plate are fixedly mounted via a fixed portion and an inner ring which can prevent the lubricant from being thrown out during use, and the lubricant can be directly added to the bearing in use. The present disclosure is mounted on a motor via a first raised ring and a second raised ring, and the first raised ring and the second raised ring can prevent dust from entering the bearing. The present disclosure has simple structure and reasonable design. A wire frame for a bearing is provided. The bearing is mounted in a bearing mounting portion. With the inner ring, the sealability between the bearing and the wire plate is better, so as to prevent the lubricant in the bearing from being thrown out during the rotation of the bearing.

Abstract: A bearing oil replenishing structure for fan includes a base of a fan and at least one oil reservoir member. The base includes a hollow shaft barrel upward extended from a central area thereof. The shaft barrel internally defines a bearing receiving hole for receiving a self-oiling bearing therein and is provided on its inner wall surface with at least one sidewall recess. The fan also includes an impeller having a shaft, which is pivotally fitted in the self-oiling bearing. The oil reservoir member is correspondingly fitted in the sidewall recess in the shaft barrel for absorbing extra lubricant oil thrown out of the self-oiling bearing due to a centrifugal force produced by the rotating shaft to therefore always store a proper amount of oil. The stored lubricant oil can be released to replenish the self-oiling bearing timely, enabling the latter to have extended service life.

Abstract: An electric motor having a frame, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly has a magnet, a bearing assembly, an impeller, and a shaft. The bearing assembly has a first bearing, a second bearing, and a biasing element between the first and second bearings. The first bearing is mounted to the frame by an o-ring, and the second bearing is mounted to the frame by adhesive.

Abstract: The hollow shaft motor according to the present invention comprises: a motor housing 11 having a cylindrical shape; a housing cover assembly 12 coupled to an upper portion of the motor housing 11; a rear cover 15 coupled to a lower portion of the motor housing 11; a stator assembly 20 located in the motor housing 11 and in a lower portion of the housing cover assembly 12; and a rotor assembly 30 located in the stator assembly 20 to rotate, wherein the housing cover assembly 12 comprises a housing cover 121, and the housing cover 121 is formed by insert injection molding while placing a press ring 122, a bus bar 123 and a sleeve 124 in a mold.

Abstract: A magnetic suspension bearing device, a compressor and a method for adjusting catcher bearing gap. The magnetic suspension bearing device includes: a housing; a rotor in the housing; a magnetic bearing assembly between the housing and the rotor; a catcher bearing bracket mounted axially to an end of the housing, with a catcher bearing mounted at a radially inner side of the catcher bearing bracket; and a washer between the catcher bearing bracket and the end of the housing; wherein the washer includes a plurality of sub-washer portions, such that when the catcher bearing bracket is moved axially relative to the end of the housing to separate from the washer while still being supported by the end of the housing, the plurality of sub-washer portions can be radially removed and mounted.

Abstract: A ventilation fan includes a shaft, a rotor, a motor housing, a bearing housing, and an air bearing. The shaft has a shaft body that extends between a first shaft end and a second shaft end. The shaft body defines a first port and a bore. The rotor is disposed about the shaft. The motor housing is disposed about the shaft and is axially spaced apart from the rotor. The bearing housing is disposed about the shaft. The air bearing is disposed proximate the second shaft end and is disposed between the bearing arm and the second shaft end.

Abstract: A lubricant supported electric motor includes a stator and a rotor and a drive hub. The rotor is moveable relative to the stator and a gap is defined between the rotor and the stator. A lubricant is disposed within the gap to support the rotor relative to the stator and provide a bearing mechanism. The drive hub is coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor causes rotation of the drive hub. The drive hub may be connected to the rotor via a coupler member that is torsionally stiff and axially and radially compliant. The stator may be fixed relative to a connection structure that extends radially within the stator. The connection member may support the drive hub for rotation. Lubricant is supplied via a passageway extending through the connection member into a chamber that includes the gap.

Abstract: An embodiment may provide a sensing device including a stator including a stator tooth and a rotor including a magnet, wherein the stator tooth includes a first stator tooth and a second stator tooth disposed inside the first stator tooth, the first stator tooth includes a plurality of first teeth, the second stator tooth includes a plurality of second teeth, the first tooth overlaps the second tooth in a radial direction from a center of the stator, the stator includes a stator holder and a stator body which is coupled to the stator holder and on which the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth are disposed, the stator body includes a protrusion, and the protrusion is in contact with a lower end of the first stator tooth or a lower end of the second stator tooth.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a rotation shaft and a bearing mounted to the rotation shaft, a stator surrounding the rotor, a heat dissipation member provided on one side of the rotor in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and a resin portion covering the stator and at least a part of the heat dissipation member. The heat dissipation member has a first concave portion surrounding the bearing from an outer side in a radial direction about the rotation shaft, and a second concave portion famed on an inner side of the first concave portion in the radial direction.

Abstract: An in-wheel motor for an electric vehicle is provided, including a motor body (1) including a wheel hub (11) on one side, and a sealing apparatus (2) mounted to the motor body (1) on the opposite side to the wheel hub (11), in which the sealing apparatus (2) includes a first support (510) fixedly coupled to a motor shaft (14) of the motor body (1), a second support (520) fixedly coupled to the motor shaft (14) and disposed outside the first support (520), a third support (530) covering an outer surface of the first support (510) and an outer circumferential surface of the second support (520), and rotated when the motor is operated, and a fourth support (540) coupled to an outer surface of the second support (520) and rotated when the motor is operated.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor having a rotating shaft, first and second bearings each having an outer ring, balls, and an inner ring, and spaced apart axially from each other, a preload washer including a shaft section having a preset fixed length in the axial direction, and an elastically-deformable portion extending from one end portion of the shaft section to be elastically deformable, the preload washer applying a preset intensity of preload to the inner ring of the first or second bearing, and a coupling member screwed into an end portion of the rotating shaft and elastically deforming the preload washer in the axial direction. This structure may result in preventing an excessive preload from being applied to the bearing and allowing a preset preload to be stably maintained when thrust is applied.

Abstract: An iron-core linear motor forcer (100) with integrated aerostatic bearing guidance is disclosed. The motor forcer (100) comprises (i) an iron-core (10) enclosed within an enclosure (13) having an upper surface (11) and a bottom surface (12), wherein the iron-core (10) is mounted with a plurality of coil windings (16), and a plurality of air supply channels (50) are provided substantially in vertical from the upper surface (11) to the bottom surface (12) of the enclosure (13), and each of the air supply channels (50) is terminated at the bottom surface (12) with one or more orifices (32); and (ii) a linear motor stator (20) having a stator surface (22). The iron-core linear motor forcer (100) is frictionless moving on the motor stator (20).

Abstract: A rotary electric machine system of a combined power system includes a rotary electric machine, a rotary electric machine housing in which the rotary electric machine is accommodated, and a rotation parameter detector that detects a rotation parameter of a rotating shaft constituting the rotary electric machine. The rotating shaft includes a first end part and a second end part, a first bearing is provided between the first end part and the housing, and a second bearing is provided between the second end part and the housing. The first end part includes a protruding distal end that passes through the first bearing and protrudes to an exterior of the housing. The rotation parameter detector is disposed on the protruding distal end.

Abstract: The invention relates to a housing (10) of an electric drive having a stator (29) and a rotor for an electric axle module of an electrically driven vehicle, comprising a cooling duct (56) through which a cooling medium flows. The cooling duct (56) is formed by a first duct geometry (16) on an inner side (13) of a sleeve-shaped extension (11) of the housing (10) and by a second duct geometry (24) configured on a casing (54) of a sleeve (28).

Abstract: An electric drive for use in an electrohydraulic brake system, including a housing, a stator-rotor unit received by the housing for displacing a piston of a cylinder-piston arrangement to generate a brake pressure and a separate housing insert made of a plastic, which is joined to the housing and is electrically contacted with a stator of the stator-rotor unit. The housing insert encloses a contact arrangement of spaced-apart electrically conducting contact elements for the electrical supply of phases of a coil of the stator, wherein the contact elements are electrically insulated from one other by the plastic.

Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a base portion, a stator, and a rotor. The shaft extends along a central axis extending in an axial direction. The base portion extends in a radial direction on one axial direction side of the shaft. The stator is located in another axial direction with respect to the base portion and surrounds the shaft. The rotor is rotatable around the central axis. The rotor includes a rotor tube portion, a magnet, and a rotor flange portion. The rotor tube portion surrounds the stator. The magnet is opposed to the stator in the radial direction. The rotor flange portion extends in a radially outer direction from one axial end portion of the rotor tube portion. The rotor tube portion includes a yoke tube portion and a hub tube portion. The yoke tube portion is located on a radially inside surface of the hub tube portion.

Abstract: An electrical machine including a stator, a rotor and a bearing arrangement having a first bearing and a second bearing on opposite sides of the stator as well as a shielding arrangement comprising a first shielding unit and a second shielding unit. The rotor is rotatably supported around a rotation axis by means of bearings. The shielding units are electrically conductive and comprise a ring part in each case that extends originating from a radial inner end to a radial outer end away from the rotation axis. Preferably each shielding unit has a circumferential part on its radial outer end that extends in a continuous ring-shaped manner around rotation axis and is arranged in overlapping manner with the adjacent axial end of stator winding in axial direction. The circumferential parts are preferably completely closed, whereas the ring parts can comprise through holes.

Abstract: Proposed is an air gap adjustment apparatus. The apparatus is for enabling an air gap between the inner surface of a stator and the outer surface of a rotor, which are installed in an inner space of a housing, to be uniform overall. A plurality of fastening holes are formed so as to surround a shaft through hole of an end plate constituting the housing. A fastener, which has passed through a bearing housing of a bearing, is fastened to each fastening hole so as to mount the bearing to the end plate. An adjusting member body of an adjusting member, which has passed through the bearing housing, is positioned in an adjusting member seating part which is formed at the entrance of each fastening hole. The adjusting member rotates about the adjusting member body so that a head part may adjust the position of the bearing.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor shaft that is rotatable relative to the stator assembly about a rotation axis. The motor also includes an endshield, a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the rotor shaft on the endshield, a shaft ground assembly electrically coupled to the rotor shaft, and a bearing lockplate. The bearing lockplate is fixedly coupled to the endshield. The shaft ground assembly is supported by the bearing lockplate on the endshield.

Abstract: A motor-integrated fan having an intake port and a blow-out port comprises a rotary part 12 that is rotatably supported by a shaft, and a motor 14 that rotates the rotary part 12. The motor 14 is an outer periphery drive motor that rotates the rotary part 12 by supplying motive power from a duct provided on the outer peripheral side of the shaft. The motor 14 includes: a permanent magnet 45 provided on a rotary support ring 33 connected to the outer peripheral side of blades 32 of the rotary part 12; and a coil 46 provided opposite the permanent magnet 45 in the axial direction of the axis of rotation. Among the plurality of blades 32, a first blade 32a and a second blade 32b are located at different positions in the axial direction.

Abstract: A levelling machine includes a pair of spaced apart rail assemblies, a gantry assembly and a face mill assembly. The spaced apart rail assemblies define an x axis. The gantry assembly is moveably attached to the pair of spaced apart rail assemblies whereby the gantry assembly defines a y axis. The gantry assembly is moveable in the x axis along the pair of spaced apart rail assemblies. The face mill assembly is moveably attached to the gantry assembly and is moveable in the y axis along the gantry assembly. The face mill assembly has a plurality of saw blades, the saw blades being generally in an x-y plane defined by the x axis and y axis. The saw blades have a plurality of teeth that extend downwardly generally in a z axis. The face mill assembly is moveable in the z axis.

Abstract: A vacuum pump and a washer which can reduce vibration of a rotor and the rotor which can reduce the vibration are provided. When an inertia moment ratio which is a ratio between the inertia moment around a z-axis and the inertia moment around an x-axis or a y-axis is larger than 1, a natural frequency ?2 does not match a rotational frequency ?z but goes away from that. When the natural frequency ?2 matches the rotational frequency ?z, the rotor vibrates and thus, a fatigue failure occurs in a rotor blade. When the rotor is to be made larger in a radial direction of a rotating shaft, a value of the inertia moment ratio is set to a value larger than 1.

Abstract: A shaft grounding arrangement (X) includes a housing (GG), a shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) supported in the housing (GG), a shaft grounding device (E) for establishing an electrically conductive contact (SK) between the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) and the housing (GG), and a covering element (C) fixedly connected to the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) for protecting the shaft grounding device (E) against environmental influences. The covering element (C) at least partially surrounds the shaft grounding device (E). The shaft grounding device (E) is fixedly connected to the housing (GG). The electrically conductive contact (SK) is formed by a sliding contact between contact elements (EK) of the shaft grounding device (E) and a surface of the covering element (C). A transmission (G) may include the shaft grounding arrangement (X) of this type, and an electric axle drive (EA) may include the transmission (G).

Abstract: A blower includes a moving blade rotatable about a central axis, a motor to rotate the moving blade, a housing, and a substrate. The housing includes a holding portion below the moving blade to hold the motor, and a peripheral wall portion having a cylindrical shape extending upward from a radially outer end portion of the holding portion. The peripheral wall portion includes a peripheral wall recess recessed downward from an upper end of the peripheral wall portion and connecting a space radially inside and a space radially outside of the peripheral wall portion. The peripheral wall recess includes a first peripheral surface that opposes one circumferential direction opposite to a rotation direction of the moving blade, the first peripheral surface extending from an upper end of the peripheral wall recess toward a lower side of the peripheral wall portion.

Abstract: An electrical machine includes a non-rotating part, a rotating part, at least one bearing that includes a rotating ring and a non-rotating ring and supports the rotating part, a grounding brush fixed and secured to the non-rotating part, and having a free end extending towards the rotating ring of the bearing, and a conductive layer covering a portion of a surface of the rotating ring of the bearing such that the free end of the grounding brush is in contact with the conductive layer.

Abstract: A hydraulically actuated working device having a hydraulic cylinder, a hydraulic piston that can be displaced in the hydraulic cylinder, a drive unit part which has a motor and a pump, and a hydraulic line leading to the hydraulic cylinder. The drive unit part is designed in an electrically insulating manner, to provide an electrically insulating separating layer, which passes through the working device in a crossing manner for electrical separation from the working device part with respect to an end of the hydraulic piston facing the drive unit part. The hydraulic line is guided through the separating layer, thereby also forming a partial region of the hydraulic line made of an electrically insulating material.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a brushless direct drive linear servo actuator, comprising: a stator, a mover and a housing, wherein the stator is a pair of armatures arranged in mirror symmetry at both sides of the mover, the housing integrally encapsulates the stator and forms a cavity for the mover at the mover, and the mover has an output end protruding out of the housing and is linearly movable along a direction of the output end. A displacement signal emitter is provided at a side of the mover, and a signal receiver is provided within a cover arranged outside the housing on said side for detecting a displacement signal emitted by the emitter of the mover. The actuator of the present disclosure is characterized by high reliability, high accuracy and low cost.