An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and an air gap formed between a magnetic device of the rotor and the stator. For the selective setting of the air gap, movement devices implemented by piezoelectric stacks are provided on the rotor and/or on the stator. The movement devices may influence radial positions of the respective magnetic device and thus set the radial air gap width. It is thereby possible to exert open-loop and/or closed-loop control over a power or torque of the electric machine without adjusting stator currents. Vibration or unbalance of the rotor may also be counteracted quickly and effectively during operation of the machine.

An axial or radial flux electric motor or generator consisting of a housing, a stator assembly(s), and rotor(s) where the stator assembly and rotor are aligned with each other while allowing an air gap between the stator and rotor, with electromagnetic forces being applied between the two when the rotor rotates within the stator. Stator coils are connected by one or more conductive bus bars integrated into the motor housing where the stator coils are affixed to the bus bars to create individual stator phases. The stator assembly is enclosed within a cooling jacket where cooling channels flow a coolant media directly over the stator coils during operation. The flow of coolant is controlled by a set of permeable dividers that direct coolant over the surface area of the coil evenly.

An energy storage device for storing energy generated from operation of a work vehicle includes a ballast providing ballast weight to the work vehicle, a stator of an electric machine mounted on the work vehicle, a rotor of the electric machine fixed for rotation with the ballast, spaced from the stator by a gap, and configured for rotation relative to the stator such that the electric machine is configured to generate electrical current from rotation of the rotor and the ballast relative to the stator and to rotate the rotor and the ballast from electrical current received by the electric machine, and a gap modulator coupled to at least one of the stator and the rotor and configured to selectively adjust the gap between the rotor and the stator based on an operation of the electric machine.

A motor and a coreless stator coil winding unit thereof are disclosed. The coreless stator coil winding unit includes an overlapping coil winding assembly and a non-overlapping coil winding assembly. The overlapping coil winding assembly includes a plurality of first coils arranged annularly and a plurality of second coils arranged annularly. The first coils and the second coils overlap with a phase difference. The non-overlapping coil winding assembly includes a plurality of third coils arranged annularly. The third coils are each located between an adjacent one of the first coils and an adjacent one of the second coils. Thus, the back electromotive force constant and torque constant of the motor have a better performance.

Electrical machines as provided herein can include a shaftless rotor with an annular array of permanent magnets; and a stator with an annular ferromagnetic core and a plurality of electromagnetic inductors about the ferromagnetic core. The stator is located adjacent to and substantially co-axial with the shaftless rotor; and a fluid thrust bearing located in an axially planar gap between the stator and the shaftless rotor.

A generator comprising at least one annular stator, the annular stator comprising: an annular plate having an inner circumference and an outer circumference with a series of hollow bosses projecting from a first planar surface of the plate and arranged within and around the outer circumference; and a plurality of coils each located so that a portion is around an associated boss; wherein each hollow boss has an associated recess in a second planar surface of the plate; wherein the generator is constructed and arranged such that the recesses of the hollow bosses are receptive to the induction and passage of cooling fluid in and around the recess.

Disclosed are axial-gap electrical machines which magnetic core elements are made of wound magnetic ribbons to provide relatively lightweight and small size implementations that can be operated in a wide range of operational modes with minimized magnetic and electrical losses. The axial-gap electrical machine includes a cylindrically-shaped stator assembly having a central passage passing therealong, a rotatable shaft passing within the central passage of the stator assembly coaxial to the axis of rotations of the electric machine, and one or two annular rotor assemblies concentrically attached to the shaft and magnetically coupled to the at least one cylindrically-shaped stator assembly. The stator assembly can have a plurality of prism-shaped magnetic core elements made from a plurality of magnetic ribbon layers extending along its length, and a primary winding comprising a plurality of coils mounted over the prism-shaped magnetic core elements.

An axial gap motor stator core includes a yoke portion made up of a metallic plate member or the like and including a lock portion and a tooth portion constituting a dust core including a lower surface which is a locking target to be locked on the lock portion. An axial gap motor stator core manufacturing method includes forming a yoke portion including a plurality of lock portions, which are projecting portions, by pressing, for example, a metallic plate member and fixing the tooth portion to the yoke portion by inserting the lock portions into the tooth portion.

An electrical machine with a winding support is provided, which comprises a cylindrical base body and support teeth projecting radially from the base body and has grooves bounded by the base body and in each case two of the support teeth, and at least one winding supported by the winding support, which winding is formed by conductively connected conductor sections, which are each guided through at least one of the grooves of the winding support and project beyond the winding support at the axial end faces of the winding support, wherein a respective clamping ring is arranged at each axial end face of the winding support, wherein each clamping ring forms support sections that each extend radially along a respective axial end face of a respective one of the support teeth and mechanically contact at least parts of the conductor sections guided through the grooves adjacent to the respective support tooth, wherein the respective support section contacts the axial end face of the respective support tooth in a contact region, which is spaced apart from the adjacent grooves.

Disclosed is a rotating electrical machine with axial air gap, comprising two rotors, each provided with superconducting axial magnetic flux barrier elements around an axis of rotation and having, between them, axial magnetic flux passage areas, at least one armature, comprising windings and a superconducting field coil surrounding the elements and the armature and capable of inducing an axial magnetic field. Each armature is positioned between two of the rotors. The superconducting elements of the rotors are coaxial with one another and also the flux passage areas. A first annular cryogenic enclosure encloses the field coil and a second cryogenic enclosure encloses the two rotors and the armature or only one rotor, with a third cryogenic enclosure around the other rotor without the armature.