An improved system for handling delicate linear media and in particular to a method and apparatus for winding delicate linear media such as superconducting wire or tape or optical fibers onto a spool or former, and electric machines produced thereby. A combination of direct closed loop control and media routing design facilitates the handling of the delicate media without causing damage. The axial tension in the linear media may be closely controlled during winding by means of feedback control loop using tension measurements to control the rotation speeds of the wind-from and wind-to spools. Further, during winding, the delicate linear media is only exposed to large radius bends with no reverse bending. Finally, output devices and features, commercial or otherwise, made possible by delicate linear media handling are revealed. This includes advanced SC devices and features.

It is disclosed a screening system (72) for a magnetic rotary-encoder sensor system (22) in an environment (12) of a machine (16) including a magnetic noise field (14), wherein the rotary-encoder sensor system (22) comprises a magnetic sensor (24), a pole wheel (26), and preferably a pole-wheel carrier (32), wherein the pole wheel (26) comprises in a circumferential direction (U) a plurality of permanent magnets (28) of alternating magnetic polarity generating a useful field, wherein the pole-wheel carrier (32) is configured to be mounted in a rotationally-fixed manner to a rotating machine shaft (30) extending axially, rotational speed and/or angular position of which is to be determined by means of the rotary-encoder sensor system (22), wherein the magnetic sensor (24) is positioned, in a mounted state of the rotary-encoder sensor system (22) relative to the machine shaft (30), in a rotational plane (36) of the pole wheel (26), which can affect the noise field, and directly opposite to the pole wheel (26), wherein the screening system (72) comprises at least one magnetically conducting, preferably machine-fixed, deflection element (74) being formed and dimensioned such that in the mounted state a measuring volume (76), which is substantially free of the noise field, is established, to which the magnetic sensor (24) and such ones of the permanent magnets (28) are at least adjacent which are required for generating an evaluable useful field (38), when the noise field (14) is active.

The prevent invention provides a motor control apparatus and a power steering apparatus capable of preventing or reducing deterioration of a detection accuracy of a magnetic sensor. A magnet holder configured to rotate integrally with a magnet and made from a magnetic material is provided on an outer peripheral side of the magnet provided so as to face a magnetic sensor.

A heating device for induction-heating a rotor core of an electric motor includes an induction heating coil disposed in a central hole of the rotor core, an alternating current power supply for supplying an alternating current to the induction heating coil, and a first magnetic flux shielding plate disposed on a first end face of the rotor core and having a first opposing surface opposed to the first end face of the rotor core. The first opposing surface of the first magnetic flux shielding plate has a first inner region and a first outer region located radially outward of the first inner region. The first inner region protrudes more toward the first end face than the first outer region. Clearance is formed between the first outer region and the first end face of the rotor core when the first inner region abuts the first end face of the rotor core.

A magnetic drive enhancement is provided to offset kinetic forces found in a rotational system to improve the mechanical efficiency of the rotational system. A housing includes rotationally biased magnetic fields in which a central axle or driveshaft may rotate. The magnetic fields are generated, shaped, and rotationally biased by a plurality of driving magnets and magnetic shields. Attached to the driveshaft are magnetic receivers, which are influenced by the rotationally biased magnetic fields at varying strengths as they orbit within the housing. The magnetic fields are shaped to provide increasing and decreasing strength of flux to counteract the physical forces experienced by the driveshaft to thereby increase the efficiency of the rotational system.

The rotor includes an annular permanent magnet, an annular first iron core situated on the inner diameter side of the magnet, an annular second iron core situated on the inner diameter side of the first iron core, an insulating member situated between the first iron core and the second iron core, and a shaft provided along a central axis of the second iron core, the first iron core is provided with a plurality of outer periphery side convex portions protruding from an inner periphery toward the inner diameter side, the second iron core is provided with a plurality of inner periphery side convex portions protruding from an outer periphery toward the outer diameter side, and the outer periphery side convex portions and the inner periphery side convex portions are disposed in positions not overlapping each other when viewed in the radial direction from the axis of the second iron core.

An inner rotor lamination for a permanent magnet direct current motor includes a yoke and a plurality of teeth connected to the yoke. Each of the teeth has a tooth body connected to the yoke and a tooth tip connected to a distal end of the tooth body. A winding slot is formed between each two adjacent tooth bodies. One tooth tip defines one or more first through holes adjacent to a radial end thereof, and one or more second through holes. Each of the one or more second through holes is located adjacent to one circumferential end of the at least one tooth tip.

A high temperature superconductor (HTS) rotating machine having a longitudinal axis and having a first rotational inertia. There is a cylindrical stator assembly disposed about the longitudinal axis and a cylindrical rotor assembly disposed within the stator assembly. The rotor assembly is configured to rotate within the stator assembly about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly includes at least one HTS winding assembly which, in operation, generates a magnetic flux linking the stator assembly. There is a cylindrical electromagnetic shield disposed about the at least one HTS winding assembly having a second rotational inertia. There is a cryogenic cooling system for cooling the at least one superconducting winding assembly of the rotor assembly. The second rotational inertia is at least eighty percent (80%) of the first rotational inertia.

Disclosed are an electric motor and a simplified variable speed drive system which renders the use of filtering components in a motor drive circuit unnecessary and increases torque transfer from permanent magnets of the rotor to the output shaft. The motor includes a fluid gap between the rotor and the stator configured to receive a cooling fluid, such a refrigerant. A plurality of radially-abutting, bread loaf-shaped magnets having a flat base are respectively fixed to a plurality of longitudinally oriented mounting facets provided on the shaft to provide maximum torque transfer from the magnets to the shaft. An eddy shield disposed between the faceted shaft and the magnets thermally shunts high frequency harmonics from the magnets to the shaft and cooling fluid. The rotor components are mechanically secured by a sleeve disposed around the rotor.

Provided is a rotor that enables reduction in iron loss due to harmonics. One magnetic pole is formed by arranging three or more magnetic-pole layers each having a pair of V-shaped magnet slots and permanent magnets. An angle between a q axis and a line parallel to a magnetic-flux output surface of the permanent magnet is defined as a magnetic-pole-layer angle. The magnetic-pole-layer angles in one magnetic pole become smaller as the magnetic-pole layers become closer to a rotary shaft. A shortest distance from the magnet slot to the outer circumferential surface of a rotor core is defined as a bridge width and a shortest distance between the adjacent magnetic-pole layers is defined as a magnetic-pole-layer interval. The magnetic-pole-layer interval is set to be smaller than a sum of the bridge widths of the adjacent magnetic-pole layers.