A rotor 14 includes a shaft having a coolant flow passage and a coolant supply port, a rotor core 24 fixed on the shaft and formed of laminated steel plates, and a magnet set 32 provided in the rotor core 24 to extend along an axial direction thereof. The rotor core 24 has a first flow passage 34 provided near the magnet to extend therealong and a second flow passage 36 that connects the coolant supply port 28 of the shaft 22 and the first flow passage 34, thereby constituting a coolant flow path. The second flow passage 36 is formed by overlapping second slits 37 formed in the respective steel plates at an axially intermediate region A of the rotor core 24, the formed position of the second slit 37 being different for each steel plate combined. The first flow passage 34 and the second flow passage 36 join at the axially intermediate region A of the rotor core 24.

A stator/rotor lamination sheet for a stator/rotor lamination of generators and electric motors has spacers, wherein the spacers are monolithic lamination sections that are bent out of a lamination sheet plane about a bending edge and create corresponding recesses in the lamination sheet, wherein the spacers transversely protrude from the lamination sheet plane. A method for manufacturing the stator/rotor lamination sheet provides that a stator/rotor lamination sheet is punched out of a metal sheet; lamination sections are partially punched out out of the metal sheet; and the partially punched-out lamination sections are bent out of a lamination sheet plane of the lamination sheet to form spacers of the lamination sheet.

The invention relates to an arrangement for an electrically excited machine (100), comprising: a machine rotor (10); and an exciter device (30) for the electrical excitation of the machine (100),
wherein
the exciter device (30) comprises at least one energy transfer system (20) integrated in the machine rotor (10).

Moreover, the invention relates to an electrically excited machine (100) comprising a machine stator (40) and an arrangement according to the invention.

A DC brushless motor includes a housing including a plurality of attachment portions each of which is arranged to extend toward an apparatus, a base portion joined to the attachment portions, and a bearing holding portion joined to the base portion; a bearing member held by the bearing holding portion; a shaft supported by the bearing member to be rotatable about a central axis, and including a portion on one axial side to which blades that perform stirring in a heating chamber are joinable; a rotor holder fixed to the shaft; a rotor magnet held on an inside of a cylindrical portion of the rotor holder; a stator arranged radially inside the rotor magnet; and a circuit board electrically connected with the stator, and arranged axially opposite the opening of the rotor holder.

A DC brushless motor includes a housing including a plurality of attachment portions each of which is arranged to extend toward an apparatus, a base portion joined to the attachment portions, and a bearing holding portion joined to the base portion; a bearing member held by the bearing holding portion; a shaft supported by the bearing member to be rotatable about a central axis, and including a portion on one axial side to which blades that perform stirring in a heating chamber are joinable; a rotor holder fixed to the shaft; a rotor magnet held on an inside of a cylindrical portion of the rotor holder; a stator arranged radially inside the rotor magnet; and a circuit board electrically connected with the stator, and arranged axially opposite the opening of the rotor holder.

A strain wave gearing with a built-in motor is provided with a motor, a wave gear mechanism enclosing the motor coaxially, and a heat-insulation spacing formed therebetween. The wave gear mechanism has a wave generator attached to the motor rotor so as to rotate integrally with the motor rotor. A wave generator plug of the wave generator is fixed to a rotor magnet back yoke of the motor rotor so as to enclose the rotor magnet back yoke. The spacing is formed in a contact surface portion between the rotor magnet back yoke and the wave generator back yoke, whereby heat transfer from the motor to the wave gear mechanism is suppressed.

A strain wave gearing with a built-in motor is provided with a motor, a wave gear mechanism enclosing the motor coaxially, and a heat-insulation spacing formed therebetween. The wave gear mechanism has a wave generator attached to the motor rotor so as to rotate integrally with the motor rotor. A wave generator plug of the wave generator is fixed to a rotor magnet back yoke of the motor rotor so as to enclose the rotor magnet back yoke. The spacing is formed in a contact surface portion between the rotor magnet back yoke and the wave generator back yoke, whereby heat transfer from the motor to the wave gear mechanism is suppressed.

An electric motor has a first carrier having an array of electromagnetic elements and a second carrier having electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles. The first and second carriers each define an axis. An airgap is formed between the first and second carriers when in an operational position. An inner thrust bearing connects the first and second carriers and is arranged to allow relative rotary motion of the carriers. An outer thrust bearing connects the first and second carriers and is arranged to allow relative rotary motion of the carriers. The electromagnetic elements of each of the first and second carriers are arranged radially inward of the outer thrust bearing and radially outward of the inner thrust bearing. The inner thrust bearing and the outer thrust bearing are arranged to maintain the airgap against a magnetic attraction of the electromagnetic elements of the first and second carriers.

A rotor related to the present invention is for a rotary electric machine. The rotor includes a rotor core and magnets. The rotor core has a plurality of core refrigerant passages. The core refrigerant passage each includes an inlet passage, a magnet cooling passage and an outlet passage. The inlet passage is configured such that a liquid refrigerant flows into the inlet passage from a shaft refrigerant passage. The magnet cooling passage is configured such that the liquid refrigerant flows into the magnet cooling passage from the inlet passage. The magnet cooling passage extends in an axial direction. The outlet passage is configured to flow the liquid refrigerant from the magnet cooling passage to a gap. An axial position of the outlet passage in the rotor core is at one place at a central position in the axial direction.

An electric motor having internal closed loop cooling includes a cooling chamber coupled to the stator cover of the electric motor. A fan is positioned to circulate air through the interior of the electric motor and the cooling chamber. A heat sink in the cooling chamber removes heat from the circulating air. The heat sink may be coupled to a fluid cooling jacket to transfer heat thereto or therefrom.