A system for connecting individual coils of an electric machine. A plurality of coils each having a first connection node and a second connection node is provided in each of a plurality of stator slots and the plurality of coils are electrically connected as coil packs. For an N-phase electric machine there are 2N coil packs. The first connection node and the second connection node for each coil are accessible to implement a plurality of electric machine configurations.

An electric drive system for a three-phase PM electric machine. The drive system includes a split stator winding for each phase of the machine including a first winding section and a second winding section, and an inverter circuit including a pair of inverter switches for each phase, where the pair of inverter switches for each phase is electrically coupled to the first and second winding sections for that phase in the stator. The drive system also includes a switching system including a switch circuit, where the switch circuit includes a plurality of switch assemblies for switching between a full winding control mode and a half winding control mode, where each switch assembly includes a first AC switching device and a second AC switching device, and where each switch assembly is electrically coupled to the pair of inverter switches and the first and second winding sections for a particular phase.

A device comprises a motor/generator having an air gap and a plurality of windings, a plurality of power converter groups, and a control system. The windings are so configured that the number of phases in a pair of poles and the number of poles of the motor/generator can be dynamically adjusted. The power converter group comprises a plurality of power converters which is coupled between an input voltage source and a plurality of windings for controlling currents in the windings. The control system is so configured such that the number of poles of the motor/generator and the number of phases in a pair of poles are dynamically adjusted, and a synchronous speed of a moving magnetic field generated by winding currents within first pair of poles is approximately equal to a synchronous speed of a second moving magnetic field generated by currents in the windings within second pair of poles.

The present disclosure is directed to a system and a method for hydride generation. In some embodiments, the system includes an assembly for introducing hydride generation reagents into a mixing path or mixing container, where the assembly includes first chamber configured to contain a first hydride generation reagent and a second chamber configured to contain a second hydride generation reagent. A first plunger is configured to translate within the first chamber and cause a displacement of the first hydride generation reagent, and a second plunger is configured to translate within the second chamber and cause a displacement of the second hydride generation reagent. The assembly further includes base coupling the first plunger and the second plunger together.

Provided is an electric motor system for vehicles, which adjusts a coil winding number of a vehicle electric motor. The electric motor system for vehicles includes an inverter configured to include a power switching circuit connected to a vehicle battery in parallel and a coil switching circuit connected to the power switching circuit, wherein the coil switching circuit receives and outputs a driving current having different phases which is generated according to a switching operation of the power switching circuit, an electric motor configured to include a plurality of winding coils that receive the driving current and are wound at multi stages, and a controller configured to control a switching operation of the coil switching circuit to adjust a winding number of each of the plurality of winding coils to a maximum coil winding number by serially connecting all of the plurality of winding coils in a low speed driving mode and to adjust the winding number of each of the plurality of winding coils to a minimum coil winding number by serially connecting some of the plurality of winding coils in a high speed driving mode.

An electric motor drive device includes: a wire connection switching unit; an inverter; a control device controlling the wire connection switching unit and the inverter; and an overcurrent protection circuit preventing current exceeding a predetermined value from continuously flowing through the electric motor. The overcurrent protection circuit includes: determination circuits each correlated one-to-one with any one of possible wire connection states of a stator winding and determining whether current flowing through the inverter is abnormal; a combining circuit combining determination results; and an invalidation circuit invalidating a determination process by one or more of the determination circuits, and causing the combining circuit to output a determination result by the determination circuit correlated with a selected wire connection state of the stator winding. When the determination result output from the combining circuit indicates an abnormal value of the current flowing through the inverter, the control device stops the inverter.

A multiple-phase electric machine provided with multiple inverter power circuits is described herein. The present multiple-phase electric machine aim at performing configuration changes while reducing the loss of torque when machines are switched between configurations. This is done by forming groups of phases defining machine portions that are powered by a separate inverter power circuit and by switching the machine portions separately with controlled switching devices.

A power tool that includes an electric motor. The electric motor includes a plurality of stator windings, a plurality of switches for selectively coupling the plurality of stator windings in a first configuration or a second configuration, and a controller connected to the plurality of switches. The controller is configured to control the plurality of switches to configure the plurality of stator windings in the first configuration, monitor a condition of the power tool, and control the plurality of switches to configure the plurality of stator windings in the second configuration based on the condition of the power tool.

One or more variable configuration controller (VCC) systems may produce various combinations of series or parallel couplings of coils, winding or inductive elements of an electric machine such as a generator and/or electric motor. The VCC systems include a plurality of bridge rectifiers, and a first number of switches operated to selectively couple respective pairs of coils in series from parallel on an AC side of the bridge rectifiers. The bridge rectifiers provide for automatic electrical isolation of coils on occurrence of open circuit, low voltage or short circuit conditions. A second number of switches with different performance characteristics (e.g., speed, loss) than the first number of switches may be coupled in parallel with respective ones of the first number of switches. Power factor correction may be used.

The present disclosure is directed to an electric generator and motor transmission system that is capable of operating with high energy, wide operating range and extremely variable torque and RPM conditions. In accordance with various embodiments, the disclosed system is operable to: dynamically change the output “size” of the motor/generator by modularly engaging and disengaging rotor/stator sets as power demands increase or decrease; activate one stator or another within the rotor/stator sets as torque/RPM or amperage/voltage requirements change; and/or change from parallel to series winding configurations or the reverse through sets of 2, 4, 6 or more parallel, three-phase, non-twisted coil windings with switchable separated center tap to efficiently meet torque/RPM or amperage/voltage requirements.