An electric machine including a rotor shaft having an inner shaft core with a first composition and an outer shaft portion surrounding at least some of the inner shaft core. The outer shaft portion is fabricated from a material having a different composition than the inner shaft core. For example, the inner shaft core could be fabricated from a material having high thermal conductivity, such as copper, while the outer shaft portion is fabricated from a material with lesser thermal conductivity, but greater strength, for example steel. The two-material shaft with a highly thermally conductive core serves to conduct heat from the interior of the electric machine to the housing, or to an exterior apparatus or structure.

An electric machine including a shaft, a rotor back assembly surrounding a portion of the shaft, and two or more permanent magnets radially positioned around the perimeter of the rotor back assembly. The electric machine also includes a rotor fan with multiple fan blades formed in an exterior surface of the rotor back assembly and one or more ventilation channels extending through the rotor back assembly. Methods of exporting heat from an electric machine, wither from a machine housing or through the shaft is also disclosed. The heat exportation methods feature the circulation of a fluid with the rotor fan through the ventilation channels and into contact with the housing, or exporting heat from the rotor back assembly through the shaft.

An electric machine including a shaft, a rotor back assembly surrounding a portion of the shaft, and two or more permanent magnets radially positioned around the perimeter of the rotor back assembly. The electric machine also includes a rotor fan with multiple fan blades formed in an exterior surface of the rotor back assembly and one or more ventilation channels extending through the rotor back assembly. Methods of exporting heat from an electric machine, wither from a machine housing or through the shaft is also disclosed. The heat exportation methods feature the circulation of a fluid with the rotor fan through the ventilation channels and into contact with the housing, or exporting heat from the rotor back assembly through the shaft.

In a rotating electrical machine, an armature includes a filmy sheet member secured to one of an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of a base member to cover one of the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface of the base member. A sheet member is made of thermoplastic resin as non-magnetic material, and has a field-member side peripheral surface. Each conductive member has at least part embedded in the sheet member in a radial direction of the rotating electrical machine to thereby arrange a base-member side peripheral surface to be radially closer to the base member than the field-generator side peripheral surface of the sheet member is.

Provided is an armature including a plurality of coils that generate power according to a flowing current, and a covering member that covers the plurality of coils from an outside, insulates the plurality of coils from each other, and reduces outgas to the outside.

An electrically-propelled marine vehicle and method of making same, including providing a hull of the marine vehicle and mounting a submersible electric thruster to the hull. The thruster includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly forms an internal cavity with a plurality of magnets arranged radially outwardly of the internal cavity. The stator assembly includes electrical windings that are disposed within the internal cavity of the rotor assembly. The thruster is configured to allow the internal cavity to be flooded with water when the thruster is submerged, and the electrical windings are covered by a protective barrier that prevents the flooded water from contacting the windings. The thruster of the marine vehicle is thus water cooled, and the electromotive forces provided by the windings generate sufficient thrust to propel the marine vehicle through the water.

An electrically-propelled marine vehicle and method of making same, including providing a hull of the marine vehicle and mounting a submersible electric thruster to the hull. The thruster includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly forms an internal cavity with a plurality of magnets arranged radially outwardly of the internal cavity. The stator assembly includes electrical windings that are disposed within the internal cavity of the rotor assembly. The thruster is configured to allow the internal cavity to be flooded with water when the thruster is submerged, and the electrical windings are covered by a protective barrier that prevents the flooded water from contacting the windings. The thruster of the marine vehicle is thus water cooled, and the electromotive forces provided by the windings generate sufficient thrust to propel the marine vehicle through the water.

An electrical machine is provided which comprises: a stator; a rotor; and at least one of a rotor sleeve and a stator sleeve. The rotor sleeve and/or the stator sleeve extend between the stator and the rotor. At least one of the rotor sleeve and the stator sleeve is magnetically conductive. The magnetic permeability of the stator sleeve and/or the rotor sleeve is continuous along the circumference thereof.

A recirculation blower (17) for hydrogen recirculation in a fuel cell system is configured as an axial blower. The recirculation blower (17) includes a housing (27) having a gas inlet (23) and a gas outlet (25) and having an electric motor (29), which is arranged in the interior of the housing (27), and includes a stator unit (31) and a rotor (33) having at least one impeller (41). A flow path runs outside the stator unit (31) from the gas inlet (23) to the gas outlet (25).

A recirculation blower (17) for hydrogen recirculation in a fuel cell system is configured as an axial blower. The recirculation blower (17) includes a housing (27) having a gas inlet (23) and a gas outlet (25) and having an electric motor (29), which is arranged in the interior of the housing (27), and includes a stator unit (31) and a rotor (33) having at least one impeller (41). A flow path runs outside the stator unit (31) from the gas inlet (23) to the gas outlet (25).