Systems and methods are provided for an induction motor. An induction motor includes a spherical rotor and a plurality of curved inductors positioned around the spherical rotor. The plurality of curved inductors are configured to rotate the spherical rotor continuously through arbitrarily large angles among any combination of three independent axes.

An axial gap motor rotor opposes a stator in an axial direction. The axial gap motor rotor includes a rotor core and a magnet. The magnet is arranged on the rotor core. The magnet is configured so that one axial end includes magnetic poles that alternately change in a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes a base, which is located at a center in a radial direction, and radial extensions, which are extended from the base outward in the radial direction and arranged in the circumferential direction. The magnet is configured to at least partially overlap the radial extensions in the axial direction. The radial extensions are located to include a boundary of adjacent ones of the magnetic poles in the circumferential direction.

An axial gap motor rotor opposes a stator in an axial direction. The axial gap motor rotor includes a rotor core and a magnet. The magnet is arranged on the rotor core. The magnet is configured so that one axial end includes magnetic poles that alternately change in a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes a base, which is located at a center in a radial direction, and radial extensions, which are extended from the base outward in the radial direction and arranged in the circumferential direction. The magnet is configured to at least partially overlap the radial extensions in the axial direction. The radial extensions are located to include a boundary of adjacent ones of the magnetic poles in the circumferential direction.

An electric machine may include an stator and a rotatable rotor. At least one of the stator or the rotor may include a plurality of multi-part trapezoidal teeth with an electromagnetic coil disposed around each tooth.

A magnet structure comprising a plurality of individual magnets in the form of an elongate block (4) having a length (4a) extending beyond the thickness of the magnet structure. The elongate block (4) is cylindrical or polyhedral in shape with at least one flat longitudinal face (4b) orientated towards a working surface of the magnet structure, the elongate block (4) having a line of magnetisation extending along its length. The individual magnets (4) being positioned at a distance from each other in the magnet structure in order to be electrically isolated from each other, the length (4a) of each block (4) being greater than the diameter of the flat longitudinal face (4b) for a cylindrical block (4) or with a larger diagonal (4c) connecting two apexes of said longitudinal face (4b) for a block (4) in the form of a polyhedron.

A magnet structure comprising a plurality of individual magnets in the form of an elongate block (4) having a length (4a) extending beyond the thickness of the magnet structure. The elongate block (4) is cylindrical or polyhedral in shape with at least one flat longitudinal face (4b) orientated towards a working surface of the magnet structure, the elongate block (4) having a line of magnetisation extending along its length. The individual magnets (4) being positioned at a distance from each other in the magnet structure in order to be electrically isolated from each other, the length (4a) of each block (4) being greater than the diameter of the flat longitudinal face (4b) for a cylindrical block (4) or with a larger diagonal (4c) connecting two apexes of said longitudinal face (4b) for a block (4) in the form of a polyhedron.

A rotating electric machine integrated with a controller includes a rotating electric machine provided with a stator having three phase stator windings, a power converter configuring the control circuit of the rotating electric machine, a control board equipped with electronic components, and a plurality of modules provided with a plurality of switching elements controlled by the control circuit. At least one of the modules is provided with the switching elements controlling the two different sets of stator windings, and a detection element detecting a state of the module.

A stator for an electrical machine having a stator body which has radial stator teeth with windings. At least some of the windings are interconnected to form a circuit strand. At least two part-motors within the stator contain in each case a part of the circuit strand.

An electric motor comprising a rotor which has a plurality of permanent magnets arranged along a circumferential direction, a stator arrangement with a winding arrangement which surrounds, at least in parts, the permanent magnets. Said stator arrangement comprises a first stator having a plurality of windings and the stator arrangement comprises a second stator, the windings of the first and second stators being embodied, respectively as frame-shaped coils, said coils of the first stator being arranged in the radial direction on the outside of the permanent magnets, the coils of the second stator being arranged in the radial direction inside the permanent magnets, and the coils are arranged along the winding axis thereof in the radial direction and the permanent magnets are arranged along the magnetization direction thereof in the radial direction.

An electric motor comprising a rotor which has a plurality of permanent magnets arranged along a circumferential direction, a stator arrangement with a winding arrangement which surrounds, at least in parts, the permanent magnets. Said stator arrangement comprises a first stator having a plurality of windings and the stator arrangement comprises a second stator, the windings of the first and second stators being embodied, respectively as frame-shaped coils, said coils of the first stator being arranged in the radial direction on the outside of the permanent magnets, the coils of the second stator being arranged in the radial direction inside the permanent magnets, and the coils are arranged along the winding axis thereof in the radial direction and the permanent magnets are arranged along the magnetization direction thereof in the radial direction.