The arrangement directed to a generator, which contains a rotor and a stator us disclosed. The stator contains at least two stator segments. At least one of the stator segments contains a number of stacked laminate plates. The stacked laminate plates contain a number of slots at a first side, while the first side of the stacked laminate plates is aligned to the rotor. The slots support a metal-winding of a stator coil. At least one hollow cooling-pipe is partly integrated into the stacked laminate plates of the stator segment to cool its laminate plates by a cooling-medium, which is located into the cooling-pipes.

The present invention relates to a doubly salient permanent magnet electric machine that has a winding structure in which series-connected windings are included in the phase windings of a mover, and that has a stator implemented as an iron core having a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of stator salient poles neighboring the permanent magnets, thus reducing the number of permanent magnets by half. An electric machine is configured such that a mover moves while facing a stator and includes an N (a number of power phases) multiple number of teeth and phase windings wound around the teeth, and one or more pairs of phase windings of the mover mutually having a phase difference of 180 are connected in series, and the stator includes permanent magnets in depressions between individual stator salient poles of an iron core in which the stator salient poles are formed.

A method for fabricating a rotor for an electric motor is provided. The method includes the steps of fabricating a first set of rotor parts for use in a motor having a first frame size and fabricating a second set of rotor parts for use in a motor having a second frame size. The second frame size is substantially different from the first frame size. The method further includes the steps of fabricating a third set of rotor parts for use in the motor having the first frame size and for use in the motor having the second frame size, ascertaining the desired motor frame size, and selecting one of the first set of rotor parts and the second set of rotor parts in accordance with desired motor frame size. The method also includes the steps of selecting the third set of rotor parts and assembling a rotor with one of the first set of rotor parts and the second set of rotor parts and with the third set of rotor parts, such that a rotor for use with the desired motor frame size is substantially provided.

Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for wind power generation. In one aspect, a wind power generator includes a support base; inductors positioned over the support base in a circular array; an annulus ring track fixed to the base support and providing a circular track around which the inductors are located; an annulus ring rotor placed on the annulus ring track and engaged to rollers in the circular track so that the annulus ring rotor can rotate relative to the an annulus ring track, in which the annulus ring rotor include separate magnets to move through the circular array of inductors to cause generation of electric currents; and a wind rotor assembly coupled to the annulus ring rotor and including wind-deflecting blades that rotate with the rotor and a hollow central interior for containing a wind vortex formed from deflecting wind by the blades to convert into the electric energy.

A method for producing an annular active part of an electric machine, where the active part has ring segment-shaped sections with grooves for receiving electric conductors, an electric machine with the ring segment-shaped section, a mill with the electric machine, and a service method for such an electric machine or such a mill, and where the goal is to assembly the electric machine inexpensively.

A field winding synchronous machine drive system includes a field winding synchronous machine having a stator and a rotor and a drive apparatus configured to drive the field winding synchronous machine. The stator has N m-phase stator coils wound on a stator core to create a rotating magnetic field, where N is an integer not less than 2 and m is an integer not less than 3. The rotor has at least one main field winding wound on a rotor core to create field magnetic flux. The drive apparatus includes N inverters each of which supplies m-phase alternating current to a corresponding one of the N m-phase stator coils. Specifically, each of the inverters supplies the corresponding m-phase stator coil with the m-phase alternating current which includes a fundamental-wave current and a time-harmonic current superimposed on the fundamental-wave current; the time-harmonic current has a shorter period than the fundamental-wave current.

A rotating electromagnetic machine has a tubular axle with mounting rings, a common ring, a coil input ring, and at least one bearing set mounted on it. A fitting is secured at a distal end of the tubular axle, and a commutator is secured at the proximal end. A housing is mounted on the bearing sets through adaptors. Connecting bars extend axially within the axle with lateral rods joined to the connecting bars at their distal ends, the bars commuting between segments of the commutator electromagnetic coils. A plurality of the electromagnetic coils are secured to the coil input ring. The coils are formed of spiral turns of a single flat strip electrically conductive material. A plurality of peripheral and sector magnets are mounted adjacent to the electromagnetic coils with electromagnetic interaction when relative motion occurs between the coils and the magnets.

The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device that can reduce the number of steps and enhance mechanical strength, a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging device includes a laminate including a first semiconductor substrate having a pixel region and at least one second semiconductor substrate having a logic circuit, the at least one second semiconductor substrate being bonded to the first semiconductor substrate such that the first semiconductor substrate becomes an uppermost layer, and a penetration connecting portion that penetrates from the first semiconductor substrate into the second semiconductor substrate and connects a first wiring layer formed in the first semiconductor substrate to a second wiring layer formed in the second semiconductor substrate. The first wiring layer is formed with Al or Cu. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor.

A rotor having rotation salient poles, a stator having fixed salient poles with a plurality of field winding sets, K control signal output sections outputting signals by detecting a plurality of sections to be formed on a cylindrical body or a disk pivoted to the rotor by a plurality of sensors installed to correspond to the fixed salient poles with the plurality of sections to be detected are opposed to a track formed in a circumferential direction, and a power-feeding control section having control circuits operating according to control signals, controlling directions and intensities of excitation currents, where the rotation salient poles are opposed to at least two salient poles, and the excitation currents are controlled with magnetic fields in the same direction occur in rotation salient poles of the salient poles advanced by at least one and magnetic fields disappear in rotation salient poles.

An electric machine has a multiplicity of windings having a first terminal and a second terminal. At least one node exists to which one of the two terminals of a respective winding from the multiplicity of windings is electrically connected. The corresponding other terminal of a respective winding from the multiplicity of windings is electrically connected to a phase terminal, and to a modular multilevel converter that has a multiplicity of individual modules that are connected up in series to form a ring. At least one tap can be arranged between two respective adjacent individual modules and provides a phase terminal to which the first or the second terminal of a winding from the multiplicity of windings of the electric machine is electrically connected. A number of taps of the modular multilevel converter corresponds exactly to a number of windings from the multiplicity of windings of the electric machine.