A rotor of a rotating electrical machine includes a field core having a boss portion, multiple disc portions, and multiple claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a field winding wound around an outer peripheral side of the boss portion to generate magnetomotive force by power application; and a tubular member arranged so as to cover the outer periphery of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. The tubular member includes multiple steel plates stacked in an axial direction, and is configured such that an inner diameter in a steady state is smaller than the outer diameter of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions.

A slip ring device includes an insulating molded body in which a pair of slip rings and a pair of connecting conductors are provided. The insulating molded body includes a molded body main body portion disposed in a position further from a rotor main body than a bearing provided on a shaft, the slip rings being provided in the molded body main body portion, an opposing portion disposed between the bearing and the rotor main body, and a pair of beam portions that connect the molded body main body portion to the opposing portion, the connecting conductors being provided respectively in the beam portions. A pair of shaft grooves respectively accommodating the pair of beam portions are provided in the shaft. A spreading suppression portion for preventing resin with which a field coil is impregnated from spreading into the shaft grooves is provided in the opposing portion.

A slip ring device includes an insulating molded body in which a pair of slip rings and a pair of connecting conductors are provided. The insulating molded body includes a molded body main body portion disposed in a position further from a rotor main body than a bearing provided on a shaft, the slip rings being provided in the molded body main body portion, an opposing portion disposed between the bearing and the rotor main body, and a pair of beam portions that connect the molded body main body portion to the opposing portion, the connecting conductors being provided respectively in the beam portions. A pair of shaft grooves respectively accommodating the pair of beam portions are provided in the shaft. A spreading suppression portion for preventing resin with which a field coil is impregnated from spreading into the shaft grooves is provided in the opposing portion.

In a rotary electric machine, a first pole core body and a second pole core body are produced using solid cores, and first slits are formed on outer circumferential surfaces of a first boss portion and a second boss portion at a uniform pitch in a circumferential direction so as to have groove directions oriented in an axial direction to disrupt pathways of eddy currents that flow on the outer circumferential surfaces of the first boss portion and the second boss portion.

The rotary electrical machine having a homopolar structure includes a number Npe of electrical phases. The machine includes a juxtaposition, along the rotational axis of the rotary electrical machine, of at least one pair of armatures having a number of poles Np, placed on both sides of at least one inductive coil wound around the rotational axis, two adjacent armatures being angularly offset by any electrical angle s, preferably between 0 and 180/Npe, and at least one passive inductor of ferromagnetic material, separated from the armatures by an air gap. Either the armatures form the rotor, or the inductor and the other element form the stator.

The rotary electrical machine having a homopolar structure includes a number Npe of electrical phases. The machine includes a juxtaposition, along the rotational axis of the rotary electrical machine, of at least one pair of armatures having a number of poles Np, placed on both sides of at least one inductive coil wound around the rotational axis, two adjacent armatures being angularly offset by any electrical angle s, preferably between 0 and 180/Npe, and at least one passive inductor of ferromagnetic material, separated from the armatures by an air gap. Either the armatures form the rotor, or the inductor and the other element form the stator.

First side surfaces 22bb of first magnetic pole portions 22b and second side surfaces 23bb of second magnetic pole portions 23b that face each other in a circumferential direction are configured into parallel flat surfaces, first circumferentially tapered portions 25b are formed on circumferential shoulder portions of the first magnetic pole portions 22b, second circumferentially tapered portions 26b are formed on circumferential shoulder portions of the second magnetic pole portions 23b, and portions of the first and second circumferentially tapered portions 25b and 26b enter a region 24 in which the first side surfaces 22bb and the second side surfaces 23bb that face each other in the circumferential direction overlap when viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to the first side surfaces 22bb and the second side surfaces 23bb.

Provided is a so-called Lundell-type generator capable of avoiding generation of eddy current in rotor iron-cores without complicated structure. The generator includes a stator, a rotary shaft, first and second rotor iron-cores, and a rotor coil. Each rotor iron-core includes a base and rotor magnetic-pole portions extending axially from the base, the rotor coil disposed on the inside thereof. Each rotor iron-core is formed of a plurality of unit plates stacked axially. The unit plates integrally include respective basal plate portions stacked to form the bases and a plurality of magnetic-pole plate portions stacked to form the rotor magnetic-pole plate portions stacked to form the rotor magnetic-pole portions.

Provided is a so-called Lundell-type generator capable of avoiding generation of eddy current in rotor iron-cores without complicated structure. The generator includes a stator, a rotary shaft, first and second rotor iron-cores, and a rotor coil. Each rotor iron-core includes a base and rotor magnetic-pole portions extending axially from the base, the rotor coil disposed on the inside thereof. Each rotor iron-core is formed of a plurality of unit plates stacked axially. The unit plates integrally include respective basal plate portions stacked to form the bases and a plurality of magnetic-pole plate portions stacked to form the rotor magnetic-pole plate portions stacked to form the rotor magnetic-pole portions.

An electromagnetic device is provided. It includes a plurality of input magnetic field generating devices, which will induce magnetic fields in output current generating devices. In one construction, the electromagnetic device can be operably coupled to a work input device wherein the electromagnetic device can be used as a generator set in combination with the energy input device. The input and output magnetic devices are arranged in radial arrays about a work input shaft. The output magnetic devices each include a core and a respective coil with the cores each having a longitudinal axis generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the shaft. The input devices and the output devices are mounted in respective carriers with the output device carrier being movable relative to the input device carrier.