Fault-tolerant electric drive systems including a machine having a rotor and a stator having coils arranged in pairs. Each coil in each pair separated by 180 degrees, a first phase (ϕA) having one of the coil pairs and a phase drive circuit connected therewith, a second phase (ϕB) having a second one of the coil pairs and a second phase drive circuit connected therewith, a third phase (ϕC) having a third one of the coil pairs and a third phase drive circuit connected therewith, and a fourth phase having a fourth one of the coil pairs and a fourth phase drive circuit connected therewith. Further included is a controller connected with the first, second, third and fourth phase drive circuits to control operation thereof.

An axial flux electric can include a motor assembly including a motor shaft, a stator assembly, and a rotor assembly. The stator assembly can include a plurality of stator cores about which a wire coil is wound, wherein one or more of the stator cores includes a stator body with an internal fluid passageway for receiving a cooling fluid.

An axial flux electric can include a motor assembly including a motor shaft, a stator assembly, and a rotor assembly. The stator assembly can include a plurality of stator cores about which a wire coil is wound, wherein one or more of the stator cores includes a stator body with an internal fluid passageway for receiving a cooling fluid.

An insulating body for an electric machine includes outer walls of a plastic, which delimit a body interior. In the body interior, at least one winding zone for receiving a stator winding and at least one passage zone for receiving a cooling passage are provided.

An armature is presented. The armature includes an armature winding having a plurality of coils, wherein each coil of the plurality of coils is spaced apart from adjacent coils and comprise includes a first side portion and a second side portion. The armature further includes a first electrically insulating winding enclosure. Furthermore, the armature includes a second electrically insulating winding enclosure disposed at a radial distance from the first electrically insulating winding enclosure, wherein the armature winding is disposed between the first electrically insulating winding enclosure and the second electrically insulating winding enclosure. Moreover, the armature includes an electrically insulating coil side separator disposed between the first side portion and the second side portion of the plurality of coils of the armature winding. A superconducting generator including the armature and a wind turbine having such superconducting generator are also presented.

An electric machine, for example for a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation that defines an axial direction of the electric machine, and a stator including stator windings. A coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber are provided, and arranged with an axial spacing to one another. The coolant distributor chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collector chamber for cooling the stator windings via at least one cooling channel that can be flowed through by a coolant. At least one of the stator windings is embedded into a plastics compound composed of an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling.

An electric machine, for example for a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation that defines an axial direction of the electric machine, and a stator including stator windings. A coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber are provided, and arranged with an axial spacing to one another. The coolant distributor chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collector chamber for cooling the stator windings via at least one cooling channel that can be flowed through by a coolant. At least one of the stator windings is embedded into a plastics compound composed of an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling.

The present disclosure provides a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor comprising: a double rotor comprising: an inner rotor and outer rotor secured to a rotor housing having a plurality of N-pole and S-pole magnets, a stator comprising: a stator base portion, a plurality of cooling structures distributed around the stator base portion, a plurality of stator teeth, each of the plurality of stator teeth being disposed in a slot and having a plurality of windings wound around the stator tooth; and a liquid distribution comprising: a liquid introduction module comprising: a liquid introduction base portion, and a plurality of fluid channels being secured to the liquid introduction top surface, and housed within the plurality of cooling structures, and a liquid injection portion configured to channel liquid into the cavity and the plurality of cooling structures; a liquid egress module comprising: a liquid egress base portion secured to the stator.

A hollow rotor shaft for an electric machine rotor rotating about a longitudinal axis includes: a cylinder shell surrounding a shaft cavity; and end flanges on both shell ends transitioning into respective shaft journals. One end flange has an inlet for leading a cooling medium into the cavity and onto the shell inner surface. Inside the cavity, guides distribute cooling medium entering via the inlet over the inner surface, the shell having at least one cooling-medium outlet opening. The shaft is formed in one piece from a tubular initial body. The guides are raised contours formed from the inner surface and protruding into the cavity. The shaft is flow formed by pressing the raised contour out of the inner surface. The end flanges with respective shaft journals are formed by pressing the two initial body ends. The at least one cooling-medium outlet opening is formed in the raised contour.

An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a housing. A slot in a stator core of the stator includes a coil housing and a slot opening that opens the coil housing radially inward. A coil includes a coil end that protrudes in an axial direction from an axial end surface of the stator core. A plastic portion that is integral with the stator core includes a blocking portion that extends in the axial direction so as to block the slot opening, and a cylindrical wall that is coupled with the blocking portion. The cylindrical wall protrudes in the axial direction from the axial end surface of the stator core. The housing defines a coil end cooling channel in which a cooling liquid flows to cool the coil end, at a location radially outward from the cylindrical wall.