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Homopolar machine with shaft axial thrust compensation for reduced thrust bearing wear and noise

A homopolar machine produces an axial counter force on the rotating shaft to compensate for the load on the shaft's thrust bearing to reduce wear and noise and prolong bearing life. The counter force is produced through magnetic interaction between the shaft and the machine's field coils and is created by changing the current excitation of the field coils, which results in a magnetic flux asymmetry in an inner flux return coupled to the shaft. The homopolar machine may also have a configuration that uses current collectors that maintain substantially constant contact pressure in the presence of high magnetic fields to improve current collector performance. The current collectors are flexible and may be made from either electrically conductive fibers or stacked strips such that they bear up against the armature so that the pressure is maintained by the spring constant of the current collector material. The homopolar machine may also have a configuration where the brushes are oriented so that the current is aligned as much as is practical with the local magnetic field lines so as to reduce the lateral electromagnetic forces on the brushes.
Owner:GENERAL ATOMICS

Brushless DC motor system and method of controlling the same

A brushless DC (BLDC) motor system and a method of controlling the same are provided. The BLDC motor system comprises a BLDC motor including a rotator and a stator, a plurality of switches, a DC current sensor, a position detector and a controller. The stator has a plurality of coils to which currents having different phase are applied. The switches are driven with switching pulses for switching the currents applied to the coils. The position detector detects a position change of the rotator to thereby generate a counter-electromotive force and the DC current sensor senses currents when the currents are applied from the switches to the coils. Based on a magnitude of the counter electromotive force, the controller generates a compensation voltage in order to control the switches during the commutation interval. Further, a duty ratio of the switching pulse is controlled based on the differences between the currents applied to the coils and a reference current.
Owner:KOREA INST OF SCI & TECH

Light-weight high-power electrical machine

InactiveUS6891302B1High energyMotor/generator magnetic lossHybrid vehiclesWindingsAlternatorElectrical polarity
A brushless electrical machine, usable as a motor, generator, or alternator, has a rotor that is comprised of a rim portion and a substantially open center portion. The rim portion has a partially hollow core in which a stationary field coil is supported. Current to the field coil generates magnetic flux that circulates in a poloidal flux path in the rim, crossing a single magnetic air gap formed by the rim. Protrusions in the rim located around the circumference form poles all having the same polarity. As the rotor rotates, the flux exiting the poles passes through multiple stationary armature windings around the circumference that are located in the single air gap. An AC voltage is induced in the armature windings from rotation.
Owner:REVOLUTION ELECTRIC MOTOR

Stator of outer rotor type motor for drum type washing machine

The present invention provides an outer rotor type motor for a drum type washing machine to reduce material and weight for fabrication, simplify fabrication process, provide stable assembly of a stator to a fixing side, such as a tub or a bearing housing, prevent unwinding of stacked steel plates in assembling a helical core, and reduce stress on the steel plates of the core. The present invention includes a helical core having multiple layers formed by winding steel plates in a helix starting from a bottom layer to a top layer, the steel plate having a base portion with teeth projected from the base portion, an upper insulator of an electric insulating material covered on an upper side of the helical core in a shape complementary to a shape of the helical core, a lower insulator of an electric insulating material covered on a lower side of the helical core at the time of assembly with the upper insulator having a shape complementary to a shape of a helical core, and a fastening means for at least two steel plates wound in a helix to prevent unwinding of any two adjacently stacked steel plates and prevent gaps between any two adjacent layers of the stacked steel plates.
Owner:LG ELECTRONICS INC

DC electric motor/generator with enhanced permanent magnet flux densities

ActiveUS20130249343A1Reduces and eliminates undesired effect and lossMagnetic circuit rotating partsSynchronous machinesMagnetic tension forceEngineering
This disclosure relates in general to a new and improved electric motor / generator, and in particular to an improved system and method for producing rotary motion from a electro-magnetic motor or generating electrical power from a rotary motion input by concentrating magnetic forces due to electromagnetism or geometric configurations.
Owner:LINEAR LABS

Semiconducting oxide nanostructures

Briefly described, new types of nanostructures and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. A representative nanostructure includes a free-standing, helical semiconductor oxide nanostructure. The free-standing, helical semiconductor oxide nanostructure includes a nanobelt having a substantially rectangular cross-section. The the nanobelt is about 5 nanometers to about 200 nanometers in width and about 3 nanometers to about 50 nanometers in height, and the radius of the helical semiconductor oxide nanostructure is about 200 to 5000 nanometers.
Owner:GEORGIA TECH RES CORP

Superconducting rotating machines with stationary field coils

A machine includes a stator assembly that includes a stator yoke, a pair of armature coils mechanically coupled to the stator yoke, and a stationary superconducting field coil. The stator yoke comprises a magnetic material. The machine further includes a shaft rotatably mounted in the stator yoke, the shaft comprising a non-magnetic material. The machine further includes a rotor assembly rotationally engaged with the shaft. The rotor assembly includes a rotor disk extending between the armature coils, the rotor disk having an inner portion and an outer portion. The outer portion of the rotor disk includes a number of circumferentially-spaced, magnetic poles. The rotor disk is coupled to the shaft for rotation about the shaft and generation of a rotating permeance wave. The stationary superconducting field coil is disposed between the stator yoke and the rotor disk, and the stationary superconducting field coil is configured as a stationary magneto-motive force (MMF) source for the rotating permeance wave produced by the rotor assembly to produce a rotating magnetic field.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Vehicular steering system

A vehicular steering system can suppress steering of steerable road wheels in a direction not intended by a driver. A steering mechanism steers the steerable road wheels in accordance with a steering wheel and an auxiliary steering angle superposition mechanism. A calculation section calculates a target auxiliary steering angle corresponding to a steering wheel angle of the steering wheel. A detection section accurately detects the auxiliary steering angle based on detection signals of a rotation angle sensor that detects a rotation angle of a rotational member. A driving section controls the auxiliary steering angle superposition mechanism so as to make the auxiliary steering angle coincide with the target auxiliary steering angle. An auxiliary steering angle detection abnormality monitoring section detects abnormality of the auxiliary steering angle detection section. The auxiliary steering angle detection section includes a counting section that counts the number of revolutions per minute of the rotational member.
Owner:MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP

Superconducting rotating machines with stationary field coils

A machine includes a rotatable rotor assembly having a number of salient poles. The machine further includes a stationary stator assembly having concentric inner and outer stators, at least one stationary superconducting field coil and at least one stator coil. The stationary superconducting field coil is disposed between the inner and outer stators and is mounted on at least one of the inner and outer stators. The stationary superconducting field coil and the salient poles are configured relative to each other, such that when the rotor assembly is rotated relative to the stator assembly around a predetermined axis, a rotating magnetic field is produced with an airgap flux direction substantially along the predetermined axis. The interaction between the stationary superconducting field coil and the rotating poles provides the only source of a time varying magnetic flux supplied to the stator coil.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Electric drive

The invention refers to magnetoelectric machines and comprises a rotor made in the form of at least two disks, the magnetized disks have circumferential arrayed like poles and an axially magnetized polygon or cylindrical magnet placed between the disks. The stator comprises a winding selected from the group consisting of a coil winding and a wave winding coils that are distributed over the circumference and are installed predominantly in the space between the rotor poles provides for the possibility of the end face interaction with the rotor poles. Each of at least two disks could be made of a non-ferrous material with embedded magnets, and rotor further comprises ferrous metal plates, each of the plates is attached on an outer surface of each disk and comprises a ferrous metal cylinder for interconnecting a magnetic flux between ferrous metal plates. The rotor could be made as a multi-sectional unit. The disks could be made integral with a magnet in such a manner that they serve as magnet's poles. It becomes possible to reduce the radial size of the device. A plate-like shape of the disks makes it possible to optimize the size of the device depending on the magnet and stator used, required power and the size of a device, in which this electric drive is supposed to be mounted.
Owner:ADVANCED ROTARY SYST

DC Electric Motor/Generator with Enhanced Permanent Magnet Flux Densities

This disclosure relates in general to a new and improved method for producing electric energy or mechanical power, and in particular to an improved system and method for producing rotary motion from a electro-magnetic motor or generating electrical power from a rotary motion input by concentrating magnetic forces due to electromagnetism or geometric configurations.
Owner:LINEAR LABS

Bipolar machine

A novel homopolar machine with at least one electrically conductive rotatable rotor having at least one predetermined current path, a plurality of current channel insulation layers, and a magnetic field source configured to apply a magnetic field penetrating the rotor and intersecting the current channels when the rotor rotates. The current channel insulation layers are configured for anisotropic current flow both to inhibit eddy currents and to channel current flow between predetermined correlated brush pairs. Two particular configurations are proposed, wherein the source of magnetization generates in the rotor two separate zones with magnetic flux in opposite directions, while the current channel insulation layers guide the current consecutively through these so as to generate the same rotation-sense of Lorentz force.
Owner:WILSDORF DORIS

Control of synchronous electrical machines

A synchronous motor having phase windings which are split or tapped and in which the conduction angle of the applied alternating current is varied at one or more taps to allow the motor to start in a controlled direction and be torque controlled to synchronous speed.
Owner:WELLINGTON DRIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Pulsed-inertial electric motor

The invention relates to electric motors, particularly to low-voltage gearless commutator motors, and can be used as motor-wheels in transportation vehicles and in other technologies. The aim of the present invention is to provide an electric motor with increased performance characteristics, relatively simple design, and high reliability. A pulsed inertial electric motor according to the invention comprises: (i) a stator with circular magnetic conductor on which an even number of permanent magnets are uniformly arranged with a certain pitch; (ii) a rotor separated from the stator by air gap and bearing an even number of electromagnets, each electromagnet consisting of two coils with opposite winding directions connected in series, which are arranged over the circle in pairs one opposite to another; (iii) a collector distributor mounted on the stator body, containing circularly arranged current-conducting plates separated by insulating spacers and connected with alternating polarity to a dc current source, and (iv) current collectors-brushes mounted on the rotor and capable of contacting with plates of the collector distributor, whereby all brushes are connected to identical (beginning or end) terminals of the windings of said electromagnets and interconnected so that the coils in the opposite electromagnets are connected to each other via one identical terminal and to the opposite brushes via another identical terminal, with the number n of permanent magnets in the stator and the number m of electromagnets in the rotor selected so as to obey the relationsn=10+4k,m=4+2l,where k is an arbitrary integer (k=0, 1, 2, . . . ) and l is any integer such that 0≦l≦k.
Owner:ULTRA MOTOR CO LTD

Superconducting rotating machines with stationary field coils

A machine includes a stator assembly that includes a stator yoke, a pair of armature coils mechanically coupled to the stator yoke, and a stationary superconducting field coil. The stator yoke comprises a magnetic material. The machine further includes a shaft rotatably mounted in the stator yoke, the shaft comprising a non-magnetic material. The machine further includes a rotor assembly rotationally engaged with the shaft. The rotor assembly includes a rotor disk extending between the armature coils, the rotor disk having an inner portion and an outer portion. The outer portion of the rotor disk includes a number of circumferentially-spaced, magnetic poles. The rotor disk is coupled to the shaft for rotation about the shaft and generation of a rotating permeance wave. The stationary superconducting field coil is disposed between the stator yoke and the rotor disk, and the stationary superconducting field coil is configured as a stationary magneto-motive force (MMF) source for the rotating permeance wave produced by the rotor assembly to produce a rotating magnetic field.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Magnetic rotating motor generator

A magnetic rotating motor generator of the present invention comprises a rotating portion which is made of a non-magnetic substance whose periphery is provided with a group of permanent magnets tilted at a predetermined angle in an embedded manner; a group of electromagnets that are disposed adjacently to the rotating portion so as to oppose the group of permanent magnets; a positional sensor for detecting positions of the group of permanent magnets; a controller for applying an electric current to the electromagnet on the basis of a detected signal from the positional sensor; and a power generating section for obtaining power from a coil of the electromagnet. A rotation mode and a power generation mode are repeated, so that power generation is performed while a function as a motor is exhibited.
Owner:FOREST PINE ELECTRIC

Superconducting rotating machines with stationary field coils and axial airgap flux

A machine, such as a motor or generator, includes a rotatable rotor assembly comprising a plurality of salient poles and a stationary stator assembly comprising a superconducting field coil. The superconducting field coil and the salient poles are configured relative to each other such when the rotor assembly is rotated relative to the stator assembly around a predetermined axis, a rotating magnetic field is produced with an airgap flux direction substantially along the predetermined axis.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Mp-a and Mp-t Machines, Multipolar Machines for Alternating and Three-Phase Currents

A machine (FIG. 3B) includes inner and outer stator (5 and 6) and a rotor (2) located therebetween. The rotor includes a wall with a constant thickness and an elongates S-ribbon (172) overlapping the gaps in the wall of the rotor.
Owner:KUHLMANN WILSDORF MOTORS

Electromechanical device having three-dimensional stator laminations

In certain embodiments, an electromechanical device includes a rotor having a rotational axis, and a stator disposed about the rotor. The stator may include a circumferentially laminated section comprising a plurality of circumferential segments disposed one after another in a circumferential direction relative to the rotational axis. The stator also may include a radially laminated section comprising a plurality of radial segments disposed one after another in a radial direction relative to the rotational axis. In addition, the stator may include an axially laminated section comprising a plurality of axial segments disposed one after another in an axial direction relative to the rotational axis.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Superconducting rotating machines with stationary field coils

A machine includes a shaft adapted to rotate about a longitudinal axis and formed of a magnetic material and a rotor assembly rotationally engaged with the shaft The rotor assembly includes a pair of rotor disks comprising a magnetic material, each of the rotor disks having a number of magnetic poles, the magnetic poles being spaced apart circumferentially. The rotor disks are coupled to the shaft for rotation about the shaft and generation of a rotating permeance wave. The machine further includes a stator assembly that includes a magnetic core stator disposed between the rotor disks, a number of armature windings supported on the magnetic core stator, and a stationary superconducting field coil disposed between the magnetic core stator and the shaft. The stationary superconducting field coil is configured as a stationary magneto-motive force (MMF) source for the rotating permeance wave produced by the rotor assembly to produce a rotating magnetic field.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Tangential induction dynamoelectric machines

Novel class dynamoelectric machines utilizing “tangential induction” phenomenon—the specific e.m.f. induction, which appears in tangential conductors—is introduced. Alternating-current dynamoelectric machines of this invention house an axially-polarized multi-polar permanent magnet rotor and stator winding having tangentially arranged semi-ring conductors. The rotating permanent-magnet rotor induces current in tangential semi-ring conductors, which, according to Ampere law, could not produce a resistance moment applied to the rotor because the vector of conductor-field velocity is directed along the conductor, and, therefore, such vector orientation does not produce any tangential force. The invention has been successfully embodied in number of “tangential-induction dynamoelectric machines” including multi-phase ones. These dynamoelectric machines can be inverted and work as alternating-current asynchronic electric motors.
Owner:IVTSENKOV GENNADII

DC Homopolar Generator with Drum Wound Air Coil Cage and Radial Flux Focusing

An improved air core homopolar generator is provided. The improved homopolar generator employs a stator having an outer ring for bifurcating magnetic flux flow and multiple flux focusing magnets arranged around a common axis. The improved homopolar generator also includes an inner flux transmitter coaxial with the common axis.
Owner:MANDES ROBERT T

Homopolar machine with improved brush lifetime

A homopolar machine which exhibits reduced wear and prolonged brush life. Current collectors or brushes are mounted so as to maintain substantially constant contact pressure and so that all of them are polarized negative. Brush holders are provided which facilitate the application of precise and constant contact pressure in a region of very high magnetic forces.
Owner:GENERAL ATOMICS
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