A modular device that can operate as an electrical generator. First and second coil support plates are arranged in parallel orientation relative to each other forming a gap between the first and second coil support plates. Removable C-cores, each having wire coils, are removably attached to the first and second coil support plates. A rotor disc having selectively arranged magnets is disposed in the gap between the first and second coil support plates and is permitted to rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotor disc and the parallel first and second coil support plates; a drive motor can power rotation of the rotor disc. As the disc rotates, electrical current is generated. The C-core assemblies can be interchanged, checked, removed and/or replaced while the electrical generator remains in operation without requiring cessation of such operation.

Disclosed is an element with magnetic poles for the rotor of an axial flux electric machine, including an assembly of several individual magnets and a flange, at least a first part of which surrounds the assembly in order to immobilise the individual magnets in position. At least one part of the flange is made from a material including a mixture of polymer and magnet powder.

A radial flux electric machine comprising: a housing; an inner carrier having an inner surface; and an outer carrier spaced apart from the inner carrier by an airgap; wherein the inner carrier is one of: a stator fixedly attached to the housing, and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator about an axis, and the outer carrier is the other of: a stator fixedly attached to the housing, and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator about an axis; a plurality of electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles, disposed on the rotor or stator so as to generate a radial flux between the rotor and stator as the rotor rotates; and at least one bearing having an outer bearing surface; wherein the outer bearing surface has a diameter that is at least as large as the inner diameter of the inner carrier.

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 radial flux electric machine comprises an outer carrier assembly comprising an outer carrier; an inner carrier assembly comprising an inner carrier, the inner carrier assembly being movable relative to the outer carrier assembly about an axis; a bearing arrangement coupled between the inner carrier assembly and the outer carrier assembly; one or more auxiliary modules arranged radially inside of the inner carrier assembly, and coupled to the inner carrier assembly and the outer carrier assembly; an outer auxiliary member coupled between, and arranged to transfer rotation and/or torque between, the outer carrier assembly and the at least one auxiliary module wherein the inner carrier is a rotor and the outer carrier is a stator, or wherein the inner carrier is a stator and the outer carrier is a rotor.

A wind power generator has a nacelle; a hub rotatable about an axis of rotation with respect to the nacelle; at least two blades fitted to the hub; an electric machine which is fitted to the nacelle, is bounded by an inner surface extending about the axis of rotation, and has a rotor and a stator; and a cooling system for airflow cooling the electric machine, and which has a deflector body for defining a gap between the deflector body and the electric machine and guiding the airflow into the gap.

A motor control method comprises providing a machine comprising a plurality of windings, a rotor and a stator magnetically coupled to the rotor, coupling a plurality of power converters to the plurality of windings, configuring the plurality of power converters so as to adjust the number of poles of the machine in a low-stress operating mode according to a plurality of operating parameters and after a fault occurs in the machine, configuring the plurality of power converters such that the machine enters a fault tolerant operating mode.

A brushless electric motorsystem having integrated power stages, said electric motor system comprising a rotor, a stator, a plurality of power stages, and a cooling system comprising a substantially flat hollow main cool body arranged to support the flowing of a cooling medium inside said hollow main cool body for cooling said main cool body, a base cooling plate connected to a first flat surface of said hollow main cool body and to said plurality of power stages for transferring heat between said plurality of power stages and said base cool plate, heat resistance inserts connected to said base cooling plate and said plurality of electrically excitable coils for transferring heat between said plurality of coils and said base cooling plate wherein said heat resistance inserts provide for a thermal conductivity, thereby creating a thermal buffer such that said electrically excitable coils are cooled less compared to said power stages, by said cooling system.

A method of constructing an electrical machine by assembling a first structure (one of a rotor and stator structure) and a second structure (the other of the rotor and stator structure), along with a plurality of first elements (one of a plurality of permanent magnet elements and a plurality of winding elements) and a plurality of second elements (the other plurality of the permanent magnet elements and winding elements). The first elements are attached to a rim of the first structure, and the second elements are attached to the first elements, this attachment being caused by a magnetic attraction. The first structure is assembled with the second structure such that the second elements are positioned for a posterior attachment to a rim of the second structure, and the second elements are attached to the rim of the second structure.

Disclosed is an electric machine and a traction machine utilizing the electric machine. The electric traction chain includes an electric machine, a plurality of power converters configured to generate AC power signals associated with the various phases of the electric machine, and a plurality of DC power sources. The electric machine includes a rotor and a stator, the stator including at least one winding made from coilings of an insulated conductive material, each winding being associated with one phase of the electric machine, and including a plurality of independently powered coils. Each DC power source of the electric machine is associated with a separate power converter, the coils of a same winding are powered by power signals associated with a same phase generated by the separate power converters.