A heater that inhibits the formation of ice in an air gap separating a stationary stator and a rotatable rotor of a rotating machine. The heater includes a plurality of stringers configured to be arranged in associated winding slots of the associated stator adjacent the air gap, and extending between two ends of the heater. Each of the stringers includes two electrical resistance heating traces arranged between two electrical insulation layers that are arranged between two thermal conduction layers. The traces extend along an entire length of each of the stringers between the two ends of the heater. The traces are electrically isolated from each other.

The present invention provides a stage driving apparatus for driving a stage, comprising: a linear motor including a stator which includes a coil array obtained by alternately arraying first phase coils and second phase coils, and a movable element placed on the stage; and a control unit configured to control the linear motor by controlling an energization state of the coil array, wherein in a stopping period during which the stage is stopped in a predetermined position, the control unit holds a position of the stage in the predetermined position by turning on the first phase coil among the coil array, and generates heat by turning on the second phase coil arranged in a position where no thrust is given to the movable element among the coil array.

A rotary electric machine system includes a rotary electric machine unit, a temperature adjustment unit, and a control unit. The rotary electric machine unit includes a rotary electric machine and a temperature detection unit. The rotary electric machine includes a stator core around which a coil is wound, and a rotor having a magnet.

The temperature adjustment unit increases the temperature of the stator core. When a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine is in a predetermined high-speed rotation state, in a case in which the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is less than a predetermined value, the control unit controls the temperature control unit to increase the temperature of the rotary electric machine.

A motor provided with: a resin sealing member that is made from a resin and that covers a stator; and a cover member that is fixed to the resin sealing member. The protrusions protruding radially outward are formed on the resin sealing member. A part of the cover member on a Z2 direction side thereof is configured as a cylindrical cover section covering the resin sealing member from the outer circumferential side. The cover section has formed therein notch sections, engagement grooves that extend toward one side in the circumferential direction from the ends of the notch sections on a Z1 direction side and with which the protrusions engage, and a stopper restricting movement of the cover member toward the other side in the circumferential direction. The widths of the notch sections are wider than the widths of the protrusions in the circumferential direction.

A method for sanitizing an electric motor is provided. The method includes setting operational parameters for the electric motor for destroying targeted microbes; and energizing the electric motor using the set operational parameters. Computer program products and an electric motor are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a method for the thermal treatment of a compressed strand, where the thermal treatment of the compressed strand is carried out in a state installed as intended in a component of an electric motor, to a method for producing an electric motor with at least one component having at least one compressed strand, the compressed strand being thermally treated according to the invention, and to a method for producing a motor vehicle with an electric motor, the electric motor being produced according to the invention.

A stator including, a stator core having a slot, a winding wire to be inserted into the slot; and an insulation sheet interposed between the slot and the winding wire and configured to electrically insulate an inner wall of the slot and the winding wire, wherein the insulation sheet includes an insulation paper, a first adhesive layer disposed on a front surface of the insulation paper facing the inner wall of the slot, and a second adhesive layer disposed on a back surface of the insulation paper facing the winding wire, a foaming adhesive to be thermally cured while foaming by heating is disposed on the first adhesive layer, and a non-foaming adhesive having lower viscosity than that of the foaming adhesive when unheated is disposed on the second adhesive layer.

A magnet embedded core is manufactured in a stable manner even when using a die clamping device having a large rated clamping force by preventing an excessive pressurizing force from being applied to a laminated iron core, performing the clamping with an appropriate pressurizing force so to minimize leakage of the resin out of magnet insertion holes, and suppressing a reduction in the geometric and dimensional precision of the laminated iron core. A die clamping device for driving a moveable platen in a direction toward and away from a fixed lower platen is configured to include a toggle link mechanism. In a fully extended state of the toggle link mechanism, an upper die abuts an end surface of the laminated iron core to close openings of the magnet insertion holes and pressurize the laminated iron core in a laminating direction.

Provided is a heat treatment furnace used to anneal a workpiece to be heat-treated, including a heating chamber configured to heat the workpiece, a first cooling chamber configured to cool the workpiece having passed through the heating chamber, a second cooling chamber that is located on a downstream side of the first cooling chamber in a conveying direction of the workpiece and that is configured to cool the workpiece having passed through the first cooling chamber, and an atmosphere gas supply device configured to supply, as an in-furnace atmosphere gas, an exothermic converted gas to each of the first cooling chamber and the second cooling chamber, the atmosphere gas supply device selectively supplying a first gas that is an exothermic converted gas and a second gas that is an exothermic converted gas and that has a dew point lower than a dew point of the first gas.

Provided is a heat treatment furnace used to anneal a workpiece to be heat-treated, including a heating chamber configured to heat the workpiece, a first cooling chamber and a second cooling chamber configured to cool the workpiece having passed through the heating chamber, and an atmosphere gas supply device configured to supply, as an in-furnace atmosphere gas, an exothermic converted gas to each of the first cooling chamber and the second cooling chamber, the first cooling chamber having a first cooling state of cooling the workpiece by using a first coolant and a second cooling state of cooling the workpiece by using not the first coolant but a second coolant different from the first coolant, and the second cooling chamber having a similar configuration to the first cooling chamber.