A permanent magnet rotor (1) with a magnetically conductive magnetic core (2), which has a plurality of magnet retainers (3, 4) for radially arranged and essentially tangentially magnetized permanent magnet parts (9), and a method for the production thereof. With a common permanent magnet rotor, the object of the present invention is to ensure a simple installation for a low number of components to be installed, very good magnetizability, high strength of the mechanical connection of the permanent magnet parts in the magnet retainers, and a compact size.

A permanent magnet electrical machine has a rotor supporting a circumferential row of permanent magnets and a stator coaxial with the rotor and having a circumferential row of teeth carrying respective coil windings. The teeth provide paths for magnetic flux from the magnets, thereby electromagnetically linking the magnets and coils when the rotor rotates. The teeth have respective core portions on which the coil windings are mounted, and respective tip portions located between the core portions and the rotor. The tip portions are controllably rotatable between a first position where the tip portion and the core portion are angularly aligned to enhance magnetic flux linkage between the magnets and the coils, and a second position in which the tip portion is rotated out of angular alignment with its core portion to reduce magnetic flux linkage between the magnets and the coils. The tip portions are biased to the second position.

A magnetic spring assembly that uses the bistable magnetic nature of permanent magnets mediated by a spring material to allow one or more attached vibrating masses to take on the damping characteristics of the magnetic spring assembly includes a permanent magnet body with an attach point 15 for a first vibrating mass, two spring materials, and two magnetic disks firmly attached to a shaft having an attach point 23 for a second vibrating mass to manufacture a mass damper 20 for damping vibrations on at least one of the attached masses. The spring materials can be an elastic material or a spring that is placed between the magnetic disks and the magnetic body to allow the magnetic disks to vibrate in a spring like manner. Passive tuning of the damping characteristics of the magnetic spring assembly is achievable through selected force tuning between the magnetic force from the permanent magnet and the compression force of the spring materials, and active tuning of the magnetic spring assembly is achievable by adding control coils in the magnet body to alter the magnetic force or having spring materials with characteristics that are electrically control to alter the compression force.

A generator includes a stator that has permanent magnets that complete a magnetic circuit across a series of gaps and through a generator coil. The rotor also includes permanent magnets that complete a magnetic circuit across a gap and through a rotor coil. When the rotor poles align with the stator poles, the stator and rotor magnetic circuits are broken, and new magnetic circuits are completed between the stator and rotor permanent magnets that cross the gap between the stator and rotor poles. A rotor coil can be used to boost the attraction/repulsion between to rotor and stator magnets. Alternating between these magnetic circuits as the prime mover rotates the rotor generates electricity.

A generator includes a stator that has permanent magnets that complete a magnetic circuit across a series of gaps and through a generator coil. The rotor also includes permanent magnets that complete a magnetic circuit across a gap and through a rotor coil. When the rotor poles align with the stator poles, the stator and rotor magnetic circuits are broken, and new magnetic circuits are completed between the stator and rotor permanent magnets that cross the gap between the stator and rotor poles. A rotor coil can be used to boost the attraction/repulsion between to rotor and stator magnets. Alternating between these magnetic circuits as the prime mover rotates the rotor generates electricity.

A hybrid electrical machine containing surface mounted magnets which includes a magnetically permeable cylindrically shaped stator assembly having at least one stator winding formed about a plurality of stator teeth, a rotor assembly concentrically disposed within the stator assembly, including a magnetically permeable rotor backiron, a rotational drive mechanism coupled to the rotor backiron, and a plurality of protruding rotor poles, each including a magnetically permeable pole support assembly, a winding provided around the pole support assembly, and a radially magnetized permanent magnet assembly disposed about the pole support assembly.

An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a stator. The electric machine further includes rotor disposed adjacent to the stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in contact with the rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in contact with the rotor core to modulate torque exerted on the rotor.

An axial flux machine includes a modulated stator, a rotor, and a plurality of spacers. The modulated stator includes plural stator units. Each stator unit includes a magnetic core and at least one winding. The magnetic core has first plate, a second plate, and a sidewall connecting the first plate to the second plate, and the winding is disposed on the magnetic core. The stator units construct the modulated stator. By modulating the stator, the slot fill factor and the cogging torque performance can be improved. The spacers are disposed to isolate the magnetic cores. The rotor is disposed in the modulated stator and includes plural first magnetic pieces and second magnetic pieces arranged alternately, and the magnetic flux lines of the first and second magnetic pieces respectively pass through sidewalls of the magnetic cores to construct C-type magnetic loops of opposite directions thereby improving power density.

Embodiments herein relate to a permanent magnet (PM) dynamoelectric machine. The machine includes a drive shaft, a stator assembly having a ferromagnetic stator core, a plurality stator teeth mounted to the stator core with distal ends proximate the inner radial periphery of the stator assembly and a plurality of stator coils mounted between the stator teeth, and a PM rotor assembly with multiple PMs, a ferromagnetic rotor core, a plurality of ferromagnetic rotor teeth mounted to the rotor core with distal ends proximate an inner periphery of the stator assembly separated by an air gap, and at least one control coil, the at least one control coil wrapped about a saturable region of each the rotor teeth. Each saturable region of the rotor teeth is operable to divert air gap magnetic flux (g) generated by the PMs across the air gap through the distal ends of the rotor teeth.

A synchronous machine is disclosed which includes a stator defined by an annular stator yoke having a central axis, and a rotor axially supported within the stator and defined by a central rotor yoke having a plurality of radially extending rotor pole cores, each rotor pole core having a radially outer arcuate rotor pole shoe, wherein a permanent magnet is positioned between each circumferentially adjacent pair of rotor pole shoes and a field excitation winding is associated with each rotor pole core.