An apparatus for manufacturing a rotor includes a magnetizer. The magnetizer is configured to magnetize a permanent magnet in a rotor from outside the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole. The permanent magnet is provided in an embedded state in the magnet insertion hole and has a bent-back shape protruding radially inward. The magnetizer includes a first yoke portion, a second yoke portion, and a magnetization coil. The first yoke portion has an opposing portion facing an outer peripheral surface of the rotor. The second yoke portion forms a magnetic path together with the first yoke portion. The magnetization coil is disposed on the magnetic path of the first and second yoke portions. The magnetizer magnetizes the permanent magnet by energizing the magnetization coil to apply a magnetizing magnetic flux at least through the rotor between the first yoke portion and the second yoke portion, which are located opposed to each other in a radial direction of the rotor.

An electric machine includes a plurality of printed layers arranged to form a stator having an outer periphery and teeth extending radially inward from the outer periphery. Each of the printed layers includes discrete portions of metal and discrete portions of insulation. The discrete portions of insulation define a contiguous network of insulative boundaries separating discrete cells formed by the discrete portions of the metal. A volume of the discrete cells within the outer periphery is greater than a volume of the discrete cells within the teeth such that a reluctance of the teeth is greater than a reluctance of the outer periphery.

An electromagnetic generating transformer comprises one or more flux assembly having one or more magnetic field source having a positive pole and a negative pole and a magnetic field passing in a path between the positive pole and the negative pole and a conductor magnetically coupled with the one or more magnetic field source, the magnetic field source and the conductor being fixed relative to one another; a shunt is coupled with a motive source and configured to move the shunt into a primary position and a secondary position, wherein the magnitude of the magnetic field passing between the positive pole and the negative pole varies when the shunt is moved between the primary position and the secondary position.

A method for manufacturing an electro-mechanical device includes creating a plurality of substrates using a first additive manufacturing process. Each of the substrates includes a polymeric material. The substrates include a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first main body and defines a protrusion extending from the first main body. The second substrate includes a second main body and a recess defined in the second main body. The method includes coupling the first substrate to the second substrate by inserting the protrusion into the recess such that the protrusion elastically deforms to an elastically averaged configuration. The protrusion and the recess together form an elastic averaging coupling. The method includes creating a plurality of electrically conductive components using a second additive manufacturing process and then coupling the electrically conductive components to at least one of the substrates.

A first elastic member is interposed between an outer peripheral surface of the circular core back portion and an inner wall surface of the second motor housing in a radial direction, both outer peripheral ends of the core back portion in the axial direction of the rotor are covered with the first elastic member, the first elastic member is assembled by being pinched between end surfaces of the first motor housing and the second motor housing which faces each other, and a second elastic member is assembled by being stacked between the bearing assembled in one of the pair of bearing housings and the bearing housing.

An axial flux 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 around the common axis in the gap such that the lines of magnetic flux from the magnetic fields cut the turns of the coils and this induces electric current in the coils as the magnetic annuli are caused to rotate relative to the coil annulus; wherein each coil has a shape in a plane perpendicular to the common axis where a first position and a second position on the shape are at a radial distance from the common axis that is greater than the radial distance from the common axis of a radially innermost position of the shape by an amount that is at least 60% of the difference in radial distance from the common axis between the radially innermost position and a radially outermost position of the shape and the first position and second position are on opposite sides of the shape at a radial location where the shape has a maximum dimension in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction, and a portion of the shape that is radially outward from the first and second positions is within an area bounded by an inner line and an outer line between the first and second positions, the inner line and the outer line both being radially outward from the first and second positions and having a radius that is 0.625 times the maximum dimension of the shape in the direction perpendicular to the radial direction, and the outer line being longer than the inner line.

An electric motor includes: a rotor configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis and to which a fluid drive unit is fixed; a stator that is disposed inward of the rotor and includes claw pole stator units, the claw pole stator units each including a winding that is wound in an annular shape around the rotation axis and an iron core that surrounds the winding; a hole that is provided in one end portion of the rotor so as to penetrate from inside to outside of the rotor, the stator being provided in the inside and the fluid drive unit being fixed to the outside of the rotor; and an inflow path configured to cause a surrounding fluid to flow into inside of a stator unit, the stator unit being provided at one other end portion opposite to the one end portion in an axial direction.

In a first aspect, a method for removing an electromagnetic module from an electrical machine is provided. The electrical machine comprises a plurality of electromagnetic modules having an electromagnetic material. The electromagnetic modules comprise base and a support extending from the base and supporting the electromagnetic material. The base comprises a bottom surface and a first side surface. The first side surface comprises an axially extending groove defining a cooling channel with an axially extending groove of a first side surface of an adjacent electromagnetic module. The method comprises inserting a rod in a cooling channel formed by the groove of the electromagnetic module to be removed and a groove of an adjacent electromagnetic module; releasing the electromagnetic module to be removed from a structure of the electrical machine; and sliding the electromagnetic module to be removed along the rod.

A stator assembly, an electrical motor having the stator assembly, a wind power generator set and a method for cooling a stator assembly are provided. The stator assembly includes a stator support and a stator core mounted on the stator support, wherein the stator support includes a support enclosure plate, a first axial air flow channel is formed between the support enclosure plate of the stator support and a radial side surface of the stator core, and the first axial air flow channel is used for receiving a first cold air flow, so that the cold air flow can flow in the axial direction. The stator assembly can introduce a cold air flow from the other side, opposite an air gap, of a stator during the operation of an electrical motor, so that two radial sides of the stator can be cooled at the same time.

A stator assembly, an electrical motor having the stator assembly, a wind power generator set and a method for cooling a stator assembly are provided. The stator assembly includes a stator support and a stator core mounted on the stator support, wherein the stator support includes a support enclosure plate, a first axial air flow channel is formed between the support enclosure plate of the stator support and a radial side surface of the stator core, and the first axial air flow channel is used for receiving a first cold air flow, so that the cold air flow can flow in the axial direction. The stator assembly can introduce a cold air flow from the other side, opposite an air gap, of a stator during the operation of an electrical motor, so that two radial sides of the stator can be cooled at the same time.