A stator assembly for a brushless DC motor includes a stator core including stator poles and an outer surface, at least one magnet wire wound on the poles forming stator windings, and a bus bar including a non-conductive mount arranged on the outer surface and conductive terminals. Each conductive terminal includes: a main portion mounted on the non-conductive mount substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the motor, a tang portion folded over the main portion from a first longitudinal end of the main portion, and a connection tab at a second longitudinal end of the main portion. At least a contact portion of the at least one magnet wire is wrapped around the tang portion and fused to make an electric connection to the conductive terminal, and the connection tab makes electric contact with a wire supplying electric power to the motor.

A stepping motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatably supported by the stator, and an auxiliary magnetic member. The auxiliary magnetic member has a body, side edge parts at both circumferential ends of the body, and an opening between the side edge parts. The auxiliary magnetic member is elastically mounted around a flange of the stator. The auxiliary magnetic member includes, at one of the side edge parts, a projecting part protruding radially inward from a projected inner circumferential surface of the body across the opening.

An angular position sensing device for detecting angular position of a rotor of a motor includes a first resolver that includes an annular rotor, an annular stator, a plurality of excitation coils and four induction coils. The annular stator has a stator annular body, and a plurality of stator magnetic poles. One of the annular rotor and the annular stator surrounds the other one of the annular rotor and the annular stator. The excitation coils are respectively wound on the stator magnetic poles of the annular stator. The induction coils are respectively wound on four of the stator magnetic poles.

A method of manufacturing a stacked stator core comprises forming a stack that comprises an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, and a plurality of slots. The method further comprises inserting a mold core member of the plurality of mold core members into a slot of the plurality of slots, the mold core member comprising a body portion and a closing portion connected to the body portion, the body portion extending along a longitudinal direction of the slot and spaced apart from an inner wall surface of the slot, the closing portion being positioned on a slot opening side of the slot and closing an open end portion of the slot on the slot opening side. Additionally, the method comprises forming a resin portion by charging a melted resin into a filling space between the slot and the mold core member.

A linear motor heat dissipation structure including multiple teeth arranged linearly at predetermined intervals each with coil wound around rectangular tube-shaped bobbin, and heat dissipation member provided between adjacent coils that dissipates heat generated coils by transmitting the heat to an external section. Heat dissipation member is sandwiched by bowed sections of coils that are curved outwards within edges of rectangular tube-shaped bobbin due to elastic force of coils. Accordingly, even when there are component tolerances and assembly tolerances, those tolerances are absorbed by the elastic deformation of the bowed section of coils such that the variance in the contact state between coil and heat dissipation member is made smaller so that stable and high heat dissipation performance is achieved.

A stator includes a stator core having slots, a stator coil comprised of three phase windings, phase busbars each electrically connecting a corresponding one of the phase windings to an inverter, and a neutral busbar star-connecting the phase windings to define a neutral point therebetween. In each of the slots of the stator core, there are arranged K in-slot portions of the phase windings of the stator coil in K layers so as to be radially aligned with each other, where K is an even number. The phase and neutral busbars are electrically connected with those in-slot portions of the phase windings of the stator coil which are arranged at the radially outermost layer or the radially innermost layer in the respective slots of the stator core so as to be circumferentially spaced from one another by M slot-pitches or more, where M is a slot multiplier number.

A contact ring arrangable on a stator of an electronically commutated electric motor includes at least two pairs of identical, part-annular, metallic elements. Each of the pairs is connected to a terminal lug for attaching to a voltage source. A first one of the two elements of a pair extends from the terminal lug in a first circumferential direction of the stator in a first normal position, and a second one of the two elements extends from the terminal lug in a second circumferential direction of the stator in a second position turned with respect to the first normal position. The identical, part-annular, metallic elements each have an offset 8, configured such that two elements of the contact ring that face one another of two adjacent terminal lugs overlap in the region of the offset without coming into contact.

Provided is a motor including a shaft; two rotors attached to the shaft and spaced from each other in an axial direction by a predetermined distance; a stator arranged between the two rotors; a busbar unit arranged on one axial side of at least one of the two rotors, and arranged to hold a busbar; and a housing arranged to hold the stator and house the two rotors therein. The stator includes a plurality of cores arranged in a circumferential direction, and coils wound around the cores. A lead wire drawn out from the coils is arranged to extend, radially outside of the one of the rotors, from the corresponding core to a position on the one axial side of the one of the rotors, and is connected to the busbar at the position. The busbar unit is housed in the housing.

Described herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods for a solar car. The exterior of the solar car is comprised of smoothly curved and continuous photovoltaic cells. The exterior car parts, e.g., roof, doors, hood, trunk and so forth, may include integrated photovoltaic cells, all manufactured in the shape of the corresponding car parts. The photovoltaic cells are meta-encapsulated in an edgeless manner, and may utilize superconducting anodes. A first encapsulate may be polychlorotrifluoroethylene, an extreme water barrier. A second encapsulate, e.g., silicone, may be a water barrier and shock absorber. A third encapsulate may be UV stabilized polycarbonate or low iron glass. A street legal solar car may be constructed upon an electric car chassis. A competition solar car has one or more hyper-efficient electric motors, that may utilize superconducting wire in their armatures. Superconducting wire may also be used in the vehicle chassis.

A shrouded bladed-rotor for use as a rotor of an electrical generator incorporates a plurality of blades and an annular magnetically-permeable yoke concentric with an associated axis of revolution. An even-numbered plurality of permanent magnets are operatively coupled to an outer surface of the annular magnetically-permeable rotor yoke, the latter of which comprises either a shroud of the shrouded bladed-rotor or a ring of magnetically-permeable material encircling the shroud. The North-South axis of each permanent magnet is substantially radially oriented with respect to the axis of rotation, and North-South orientations of every pair of circumferentially-adjacent permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are opposite to one another. A non-magnetic magnet-retaining-ring encircling the plurality of permanent magnets has sufficient hoop strength to retain the plurality of permanent magnets on the annular magnetically-permeable rotor yoke during intended operation of the electrical generator.