Patent classifications
H02K11/049
FIELD-WINDING-TYPE ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE
In a rotating electric machine, a stator includes a stator winding, a field winding includes a series-connection body including a plurality of winding portions, and a rotor includes main pole portions protruding from a rotor core in a radial direction. A harmonic current for inducing a field current in the field winding flows to the stator winding. A rectifying element is connected in series to the field winding, configures a closed circuit with the field winding, and rectifies the field current that flows to the field winding to flow in one direction. In a capacitor, a first end is connected to a connection point between adjacent winding portions and a second end is connected to either of both ends of the rectifying element. A partitioning portion is disposed between at least a single set of adjacent winding portions among the plurality of winding portions and includes a magnetic material.
FIELD-WINDING-TYPE ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE
In a rotating electric machine, a stator includes a stator winding, a field winding includes a series-connection body including a plurality of winding portions, and a rotor includes main pole portions protruding from a rotor core in a radial direction. A harmonic current for inducing a field current in the field winding flows to the stator winding. A rectifying element is connected in series to the field winding, configures a closed circuit with the field winding, and rectifies the field current that flows to the field winding to flow in one direction. In a capacitor, a first end is connected to a connection point between adjacent winding portions and a second end is connected to either of both ends of the rectifying element. A partitioning portion is disposed between at least a single set of adjacent winding portions among the plurality of winding portions and includes a magnetic material.
ELECTRIC CAMSHAFT PHASER MOTOR - GENERATOR
A cam phaser is described for selectively engaging in a torque transmitting mode or an angle control mode. In the torque transmitting mode mode, torque from a camshaft is transmitted to an e-motor, which functions as a generator and provides electrical energy.
DIRECT WIND ENERGY GENERATION
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.
DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FLUID MASS POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS
A fluid mass movement electrical energy generation device and system may comprise a modular and scalable array of stationary tube-shaped modules containing small rotating turbines. Tube-shaped modules may be easily installed by anyone, almost anywhere fluid mass flow is present (including many locations not suited to conventional wind turbines) and may efficiently, safely and quietly capture energy from turbulent and inconsistent fluid flow patterns.
SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
A superconducting electrical power distribution system has a superconducting bus bar and one or more bus bar thermal conductor lines extending in thermal proximity along the bus bar to receive heat from the bus bar over the length of the bus bar. The system further has superconducting cables electrically connected to the bus bar at respective electrical joints distributed along the bus bar. The system further has a cryogenic cooling sub-system. The system further has a network comprising first and second thermal conductor lines, each line comprising a cold end which is cooled by the cryogenic cooling sub-system, and an opposite hot end, whereby heat received by each line is normally conducted along the line in a direction from its hot end to its cold end.
Enhanced efficiency motor and drive circuit
Improved apparatuses and methods of returning magnetic energy of a motor to the motor system. Improved battery systems and configurations are disclosed to enhance recovery of magnetic energy of a motor, to enhance motor efficiency. A power source has a first pole and a second pole. A phase coil is configured to receive electrical energy from the power source to form a magnetic field for imparting motion to a rotor. A battery has a first pole and a second pole, the first pole of the battery configured to receive energy of the magnetic field of the phase coil, the second pole of the battery being coupled to the first pole of the power source and having a polarity that is opposite a polarity of the first pole of the power source.
Enhanced efficiency motor and drive circuit
Improved apparatuses and methods of returning magnetic energy of a motor to the motor system. Improved battery systems and configurations are disclosed to enhance recovery of magnetic energy of a motor, to enhance motor efficiency. A power source has a first pole and a second pole. A phase coil is configured to receive electrical energy from the power source to form a magnetic field for imparting motion to a rotor. A battery has a first pole and a second pole, the first pole of the battery configured to receive energy of the magnetic field of the phase coil, the second pole of the battery being coupled to the first pole of the power source and having a polarity that is opposite a polarity of the first pole of the power source.
ROTARY CLEANING NOZZLE, AND CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING SURFACES IN A BEVERAGE BOTTLING INSTALLATION
A rotary cleaning nozzle for cleaning surfaces of a beverage bottling installation using a fluid, comprising a nozzle assembly which has a feed duct for the fluid, and a nozzle head which is mounted rotatably on the nozzle assembly and has at least one nozzle outlet opening from which, during operation, fluid flowing through the feed duct and the nozzle head emerges in the form of a cleaning jet. The rotary cleaning nozzle furthermore comprises an electrical generator for the induction of electrical energy by way of rotation of the nozzle head, and a control unit for indicating a rotation of the nozzle head in dependence on the induced electrical energy.
Generator
An axial flux rotary generator comprising: two magnetic annuli; a coil annulus; the magnetic annuli and coil annulus having a common axis; the two magnetic annuli defining a plurality of magnetic fields around the common axis extending across a gap between the two magnetic annuli and the coil annulus having a sequence of coils attached around the common axis in the gap such that lines of magnetic flux from the magnetic fields cut the turns of the coils and thus induce electric current in the coils as the magnetic annuli are caused to rotate relative to the coil annulus; wherein a relative positioning of individual magnetic fields and a relative positioning of centers and sizing of individual coils in the sequence of coils is such that (i) the electric currents in the individual coils of the sequence of coils are in excess of three phases relative to one another, and (ii) the number of common factors other than one between the number of coils in the sequence of coils and the number of individual magnetic fields around the common axis is one or zero.