A rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor core having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart rotor poles. Windings are seated in gaps between circumferentially adjacent pairs of the rotor poles. A wedge secures the windings in each gap. The wedge includes a first member made of a first material and at least one second member made of a second material. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity than the first material. The wedge is configured to supply Q-axis damping. A pair of end plates is connected electrically to the at least one second member at opposing longitudinal ends thereof thereby completing a Q-axis winding circuit for each wedge.

Provided is an arrangement for an electrical machine having fractional slot topology, including: plural stator segments, each stator segment having plural teeth alternating with plural slots in a circumferential direction, each stator segment having at both circumferential ends a tooth portion; for each phase of plural phases a conductor wound in coils around teeth of the plural teeth, wherein the number of coils of any phase in any stator segment is the same as the number of coils of any other phase in this stator segment.

Provided is an arrangement for an electrical machine having fractional slot topology, including: plural stator segments, each stator segment having plural teeth alternating with plural slots in a circumferential direction, each stator segment having at both circumferential ends a tooth portion; for each phase of plural phases a conductor wound in coils around teeth of the plural teeth, wherein the number of coils of any phase in any stator segment is the same as the number of coils of any other phase in this stator segment.

A stator for an electric machine includes a generally cylindrical stator core having a plurality of circumferentially-spaced and axially-extending core teeth that define a plurality of circumferentially-spaced and axially-extending core slots in a surface thereof, a main winding having a plurality of coils, each of the coils including a plurality of turns occupying the plurality of slots in the stator core, and a tertiary excitation winding having a plurality of coils, each of the coils including a single turn occupying at least a subset of the plurality of slots in the stator core. The coils of the main winding are unevenly arranged in the plurality of slots.

The present invention is a structure of an electrical connection portion formed by thermal bonding of a terminal 53 of a current-carrying component 50 of a motor and a winding wire 30. The terminal 53 includes a lock portion 53a positioned on a base end side and a fusion portion 53b positioned on a distal end side. The winding wire 30 includes a binding portion 31 wound around the lock portion 53a and has a one end portion 36 coupled to a molten ball 55 generated at the fusion portion 53b; and a coupling wire portion 33 tightly stretched from a main winding wire portion 34 of the motor disposed in a wound state and continuous to the other end portion of the binding portion 31. The one end portion 36 of the binding portion 31 is in a state where tension pulling the coupling wire portion 33 to the main winding wire portion 34 side does not act.

The present invention is a structure of an electrical connection portion formed by thermal bonding of a terminal 53 of a current-carrying component 50 of a motor and a winding wire 30. The terminal 53 includes a lock portion 53a positioned on a base end side and a fusion portion 53b positioned on a distal end side. The winding wire 30 includes a binding portion 31 wound around the lock portion 53a and has a one end portion 36 coupled to a molten ball 55 generated at the fusion portion 53b; and a coupling wire portion 33 tightly stretched from a main winding wire portion 34 of the motor disposed in a wound state and continuous to the other end portion of the binding portion 31. The one end portion 36 of the binding portion 31 is in a state where tension pulling the coupling wire portion 33 to the main winding wire portion 34 side does not act.

Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of an exciterless synchronous generator are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is an exciterless synchronous generator comprising a stator, a rotor, and a startup excitation system. The stator includes a set of stator windings. The rotor includes an energy harvest winding, a DC power supply including a DC bus and coupled to the energy harvest winding, and a field winding coupled to the DC power supply. The startup excitation system comprises one of a magnetic field generation system structured to generate a magnetic field received by the energy harvest winding in response to a rotation of the rotor, wherein the magnetic field is converted to DC power with the DC power supply and transmitted to the field winding; or a rotor DC power source including and diode coupled in series across the DC bus.

Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of an exciterless synchronous generator are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is an exciterless synchronous generator comprising a stator, a rotor, and a startup excitation system. The stator includes a set of stator windings. The rotor includes an energy harvest winding, a DC power supply including a DC bus and coupled to the energy harvest winding, and a field winding coupled to the DC power supply. The startup excitation system comprises one of a magnetic field generation system structured to generate a magnetic field received by the energy harvest winding in response to a rotation of the rotor, wherein the magnetic field is converted to DC power with the DC power supply and transmitted to the field winding; or a rotor DC power source including and diode coupled in series across the DC bus.

Provided is an armature structure of a three-phase motor which includes: 6N (N is a natural number) slots; 3N coils per phase; 3N main poles; and 3N auxiliary poles. In the armature structure of a three-phase motor, a coil wound around a winding bobbin inserted into the slot is wound around the main pole, the coil is not wound around the auxiliary pole, the main poles and the auxiliary poles are alternately placed, the winding bobbin includes a barrel portion and a flange portion, the barrel portion is in contact with a side surface in a circumferential direction of the main pole in the slot, the flange portion rises in the slot from the barrel portion along a first outer peripheral bottom portion of the slot, a side surface in the circumferential direction of the auxiliary pole, an outer peripheral surface of the coil, and a second outer peripheral bottom portion of the slot define a gap area that is not occupied by the coil, in the slot, and the second outer peripheral bottom portion is continuous to the first outer peripheral bottom portion, and extends in a direction intersecting the first outer peripheral bottom portion.

Provided is an armature structure of a three-phase motor which includes: 6N (N is a natural number) slots; 3N coils per phase; 3N main poles; and 3N auxiliary poles. In the armature structure of a three-phase motor, a coil wound around a winding bobbin inserted into the slot is wound around the main pole, the coil is not wound around the auxiliary pole, the main poles and the auxiliary poles are alternately placed, the winding bobbin includes a barrel portion and a flange portion, the barrel portion is in contact with a side surface in a circumferential direction of the main pole in the slot, the flange portion rises in the slot from the barrel portion along a first outer peripheral bottom portion of the slot, a side surface in the circumferential direction of the auxiliary pole, an outer peripheral surface of the coil, and a second outer peripheral bottom portion of the slot define a gap area that is not occupied by the coil, in the slot, and the second outer peripheral bottom portion is continuous to the first outer peripheral bottom portion, and extends in a direction intersecting the first outer peripheral bottom portion.