An electric motor and a compressor having an electric motor are disclosed herein. The electric motor may include a stator having a stator core and a stator coil, and a rotor provided with a rotational shaft and rotatably disposed with respect to the stator. The stator coil may include a main winding and an auxiliary winding connected to each other with a phase difference. The main winding may be divided into a plurality of main windings so as to be connected to each other and disconnected from each other, and the stator coil may further include a winding changeover switch configured to provide connection and disconnection between the plurality of main windings. Such a configuration may allow operating efficiency at a low load to be increased.

An electric motor and a compressor having an electric motor are disclosed herein. The electric motor may include a stator having a stator core and a stator coil, and a rotor provided with a rotational shaft and rotatably disposed with respect to the stator. The stator coil may include a main winding and an auxiliary winding connected to each other with a phase difference. The main winding may be divided into a plurality of main windings so as to be connected to each other and disconnected from each other, and the stator coil may further include a winding changeover switch configured to provide connection and disconnection between the plurality of main windings. Such a configuration may allow operating efficiency at a low load to be increased.

A laundry appliance includes a blower that selectively delivers process air through an airflow path. A rotating drum defines a portion of the airflow path. The rotating drum is attached to a drive shaft that rotates the rotating drum about a rotational axis. The blower and the drive shaft are operated by a common motor. A heater selectively delivers heat to the airflow path. The heater defines an energizing state when a motor current delivered to the common motor is within a predetermined motor current range that is indicative of the common motor operating. The heater defines an idle state when the motor current is outside of the predetermined motor current range.

A laundry appliance includes a blower that selectively delivers process air through an airflow path. A rotating drum defines a portion of the airflow path. The rotating drum is attached to a drive shaft that rotates the rotating drum about a rotational axis. The blower and the drive shaft are operated by a common motor. A heater selectively delivers heat to the airflow path. The heater defines an energizing state when a motor current delivered to the common motor is within a predetermined motor current range that is indicative of the common motor operating. The heater defines an idle state when the motor current is outside of the predetermined motor current range.

A motor winding and energizing system using a “Three pulse, odd-even motor winding” wherein first, all odd numbered coils and then all even numbered coils, are wound on a motor stator, and a rotor having alternate polarity magnetic poles, with the rotor rotatably journaled inside the stator. The rotor is having the same number of poles as the total number of coil poles. When an original power pulse is connected to odd coils, out-of-phase induction pulses also occur into adjacent even-numbered coils. thereby diminishing the original power pulse, and the wattage associated with it, causing the rotor, to rotate by the said three pulses, but at a diminished wattage. The motor can have only one, or two or more semiconductors to drive the coils. The motor can have a “magnetic start “position” Alternators and generators can also be altered to benefit by this new winding system. Motors, which can be fractions of HP, can also designed for hundreds of HP.

A motor winding and energizing system using a “Three pulse, odd-even motor winding” wherein first, all odd numbered coils and then all even numbered coils, are wound on a motor stator, and a rotor having alternate polarity magnetic poles, with the rotor rotatably journaled inside the stator. The rotor is having the same number of poles as the total number of coil poles. When an original power pulse is connected to odd coils, out-of-phase induction pulses also occur into adjacent even-numbered coils. thereby diminishing the original power pulse, and the wattage associated with it, causing the rotor, to rotate by the said three pulses, but at a diminished wattage. The motor can have only one, or two or more semiconductors to drive the coils. The motor can have a “magnetic start “position” Alternators and generators can also be altered to benefit by this new winding system. Motors, which can be fractions of HP, can also designed for hundreds of HP.

A tool comprising a drive-in element, transferring a fastening element into a substrate along setting axis by a setting energy E.sub.kin, a drive for driving the drive-in element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor, and a coil, wherein current flows through the coil generating a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein a current intensity A.sub.coil of current flowing through the excitation coil while discharging the capacitor has a time profile with a rising edge, a maximum current intensity A.sub.max and a falling edge, A.sub.coil rising during current rise time Δt.sub.rise from 0.1 to 0.8 times A.sub.max and during impact time Δt.sub.impact is more than 0.5 times the A.sub.max, wherein Δt.sub.rise is at least 0.020 ms and at most 0.275 ms and/or the impact time Δt.sub.impact is at least 0.15 ms and at most 2.0 ms.

A laundry appliance includes a blower that selectively delivers process air through an airflow path. A rotating drum defines a portion of the airflow path. The rotating drum is attached to a drive shaft that rotates the rotating drum about a rotational axis. The blower and the drive shaft are operated by a common motor. A heater selectively delivers heat to the airflow path. The heater defines an energizing state when a motor current delivered to the common motor is within a predetermined motor current range that is indicative of the common motor operating. The heater defines an idle state when the motor current is outside of the predetermined motor current range.

A laundry appliance includes a blower that selectively delivers process air through an airflow path. A rotating drum defines a portion of the airflow path. The rotating drum is attached to a drive shaft that rotates the rotating drum about a rotational axis. The blower and the drive shaft are operated by a common motor. A heater selectively delivers heat to the airflow path. The heater defines an energizing state when a motor current delivered to the common motor is within a predetermined motor current range that is indicative of the common motor operating. The heater defines an idle state when the motor current is outside of the predetermined motor current range.

A laundry appliance includes a blower that selectively delivers process air through an airflow path. A rotating drum defines a portion of the airflow path. The rotating drum is attached to a drive shaft that rotates the rotating drum about a rotational axis. The blower and the drive shaft are operated by a common motor. A heater selectively delivers heat to the airflow path. The heater defines an energizing state when a motor current delivered to the common motor is within a predetermined motor current range that is indicative of the common motor operating. The heater defines an idle state when the motor current is outside of the predetermined motor current range.