A motor includes a rotor fixed to a rotary shaft, a stator arranged so as to surround the rotor with a gap from the rotor in a radial direction orthogonal to an axis direction of the rotary shaft, and a case accommodating the rotor and the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores made from a soft magnetic material, and a rotor fixing member that fixes the rotor cores. The stator includes a plurality of stator cores made from a soft magnetic material, a stator fixing member that fixes the stator cores, and coils wound around the stator cores, respectively. The motor includes at least two sets of the rotor and the stator, and the sets are stacked in an axis direction of the rotary shaft.

A radial-flux rotary electric machine having a first end at one axial extreme and a second end at another axial extreme, comprising: a fluid input for receiving coolant at the first end of the machine; a rotor comprising a radial impeller at the first end of the machine in fluid communication with the fluid input, and a plurality of permanent magnets with a helical fluid conduit thereunder in fluid communication with the impeller; a stator having a plurality of slots with a fill factor of between zero and unity to define axial fluid channels in the slots, the fluid channels being in fluid communication with the helical fluid conduit at the second end of the machine; a fluid output in fluid communication with the fluid channels.

A homopolar multi-core energy conversion device is an apparatus that uses magnetic flux commutation instead of a combination of electrical current commutation and brushes. The apparatus includes a first discontinuous annular stator core, a second discontinuous annular stator core, and a rotor core. The first discontinuous annular stator core is configured to generate a circumferentially-segmented clockwise magnetic flux around the rotor core, while second discontinuous annular stator core is configured to generate a circumferentially-segmented counter-clockwise magnetic flux around the rotor core. The rotor core is configured to radially partition a traversing magnetic flux. The circumferentially-segmented clockwise magnetic flux, the circumferentially-segmented counter-clockwise magnetic flux, and the traversing magnetic flux interact with each other so that the apparatus can function either as a motor or as a generator. The aforementioned components of the apparatus can be configured into different embodiment to achieve the same function.

A rotor for a synchronous machine is described. The rotor includes a central axis; a bore being centrally positioned and extending axially relative to the central axis. Poles are arranged around the bore and poles extend axially in a direction parallel to the central axis. An air gap surface is configured to face an air gap and slots mutually angularly spaced relative to the central axis wherein each slot extends axially in a direction parallel to the central axis and wherein each slot is adjacent the air gap surface.

An interior permanent magnet rotor, for a drive unit disposed in the interior of a hermetically sealed housing of a refrigerant compressor, whereas the rotor includes a first axial section with permanent magnets, followed by a second axial section without permanent magnets. In order to reduce the risk of a magnetic short-circuit it is provided that the second axial section, adjacent to the first axial section, includes a first axial subsection with a reduced radial dimension not going beyond the permanent magnets in the first axial section, whereas the axial length of the first axial subsection is smaller than the axial length of the first axial section, and the second axial section, adjacent to its first axial subsection, includes a second axial subsection with a radial dimension larger than the reduced radial dimension of the first axial subsection.

A field coil type rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core, stator teeth arranged in a circumferential direction and each radially protruding from the stator core, and a stator coil wound on the stator teeth. The rotor includes a rotor core, main poles arranged in the circumferential direction and each radially protruding from the rotor core, and a field coil wound on the main poles. Each of the stator teeth and the main poles extends in an axial direction. Each of the main poles has a pair of main-pole end portions located respectively at circumferential ends of the main pole and both radially facing the stator. For each of the main poles, in at least one of the main-pole end portions of the main pole, there is formed at least one cut for part of an axial length of the main pole.

A modular stator-inverter assembly for an electric machine includes a stator and a traction power inverter module (“TPIM”). The stator includes a stator core having a center axis, an inner diameter (“ID”), an outer diameter (“OD”), and electrical conductors forming stator windings. Stator teeth extending radially toward the center axis from the ID collectively define stator slots occupied by the stator windings. Each adjacent pair of stator teeth defines a respective stator slot. The TPIM delivers a polyphase voltage to the stator windings to generate a predetermined number of stator poles, such that the stator has either two, three, or four of the stator slots per electric phase per stator pole. The stator defines a center cavity and is configured to receive a selected rotor from an inventory of preconfigured machine rotors. The inventory includes multiple synchronous reluctance machine rotors and an induction machine rotor.

An electric machine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an electric machine including a rotor having a sleeve radially outside a permanent magnet. Further, the sleeve includes at least one magnetic arc segment and at least one non-magnetic arc segment.

A method includes forming elongated magnetic flux carrier portions in magnetically conductive sheets by cutting elongated magnetic flux barriers including one or more relief features into the magnetically conductive sheets, such that the magnetic flux barriers are separated from each other in radial directions of the magnetically conductive sheets. The method includes inserting or forming non-magnetic posts into the magnetic flux barriers such that each of the non-magnetic posts is elongated in a different radial direction of the radial directions from a first magnetic flux carrier portion to a second magnetic flux carrier portion of the magnetic flux carrier portions on opposite sides of at least one magnetic flux barrier; and forming at least part of a rotor for an electric machine assembly using the magnetically conductive sheets having the magnetic flux carrier portions, the non-magnetic posts, and the magnetic flux barriers.

Exchangeable stator components are selected and exchangeable rotor components are selected to transform a motor from one motor class to another motor class. A motor comprises at least two stator rings, at least two outer rotor rings, a first input, and a second input. The first input comprises an exchangeable stator component selected from a stator component group consisting of a stator spacer ring and an axially magnetized stator magnet ring, the axially magnetized stator magnet ring comprising a solid axially magnetized ring magnet. The second input comprises an exchangeable rotor component selected from a rotor component group consisting of a rotor spacer ring and an axially magnetized rotor magnet ring. The first input and the second input determine a motor class for the motor, the exchangeable stator component being exchangeable for a different exchangeable stator component from the stator component group to manufacture another motor having a different motor class, the exchangeable rotor component being exchangeable for a different exchangeable rotor component from the rotor component group to manufacture another motor having another different motor class.