The invention provides a compound-pendulum up-conversion wave energy harvesting apparatus, comprising a shell floating on the water surface and swinging with fluctuation of waves, a compound-pendulum mechanism rotatably arranged in the shell and rotating with its swinging, a driving gear rotatably arranged in the shell and rotating synchronously with the compound-pendulum mechanism, an electromagnetic power generation mechanism arranged in the shell and configured to be meshed with the driving gear for transmission to generate electricity through electromagnetic induction, and a piezoelectric power generation mechanism arranged in the shell and configured to be deformed during its rotation to generate electricity through piezoelectric effect. When the shell swings un-directionally with fluctuation of the waves, the compound-pendulum mechanism makes un-directional rotation that adapts to the dynamic changes of water surface wave energy. The electromagnetic power generation mechanism and the piezoelectric power generation mechanism convert energy through two different electromechanical coupling transduction mechanisms.

An outer rotor motor includes an inner stator and an outer rotor. The inner stator includes a stator frame and a stator unit mounted to the stator frame. The outer rotor includes a shaft and a rotor unit fixed to the shaft. The stator frame is integrally formed from plastic as an integral structure and comprises a base and a hub extending from the base, the hub forms a chamber therein, supporting components are installed in the chamber, and the shaft extends into the chamber and supported by the supporting components such that the shaft is rotatable relative to the stator frame. In the present invention, the stator frame has an integral structure made of plastic which simplifies the structure of the motor and reduces the cost of the motor. The present invention further provides a vacuum cleaner that employs the motor.

A rotating electric machine includes a field element and an armature. The field element includes a magnet portion that includes a plurality of magnets arranged in an array in a circumferential direction. In the magnet, an easy axis of magnetization is oriented in a circular arc shape such that, on a d-axis side closer to a d-axis that is a magnetic pole center, the orientation of the easy axis of magnetization is parallel to the d-axis compared to a q-axis side closer to a q-axis that is a magnetic pole boundary, and a circular-arc-shaped magnet magnetic path is formed along the easy axis of magnetization. The magnet is formed into a circular arc shape when viewed from an axial direction of the rotor, and is provided with a first reference surface that is a planar surface and a second reference surface that is parallel to the first reference surface.

An induction motor may include a stator assembly and a rotor assembly that revolves or rotates around the state assembly. Additionally, a pole pitch of the induction motor may be less than two inches. The stator assembly may also optionally include a fractional slot winding.

The present invention may provide a motor including a rotary shaft, a yoke coupled to the rotary shaft, a stator disposed between the rotary shaft and the yoke, a magnet disposed between the stator and the yoke, a bearing housing disposed between the stator and the rotary shaft, a first bearing disposed between the yoke and the bearing housing, and a second bearing disposed between the bearing housing and the rotary shaft, wherein the stator includes a stator core and a first insulator and a second insulator which are coupled to the stator core, a portion of the first insulator is disposed between the first bearing and the stator core, and a portion of the second insulator is in contact with the bearing housing.

The rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator winding and a rotor facing the stator in a radial direction. The rotor includes a carrier having a disk-shaped end plate section fixed to a rotating shaft and arranged coaxially with the rotating shaft, and an annular magnet unit arranged coaxially with the rotating shaft. The magnet has a cylindrical magnet holder whose one end in an axial direction is fixed to the end plate section, and a magnet fixed to a peripheral surface on a stator side in the radial direction in the magnet holder and having an alternating polarity in a circumferential direction. The magnet holder is made of a non-magnetic material. In the magnet, an orientation of an axis of easy magnetization on a q-axis is deviated from an orientation parallel to the q-axis.

A rotating electric machine includes a field system having a magnet section and an armature having a multi-phase armature coil. The magnet section has easy axes of magnetization oriented to be more parallel to a d-axis at locations closer to the d-axis than at locations closer to a q-axis. The magnet section has an intrinsic coercive force higher than or equal to 400 [kA/m] and a residual flux density higher than or equal to 1.0 [T]. There are no inter-conductor members provided between electrical conductor sections of the armature coil. The armature coil includes a plurality of phase windings each of which is constituted of a plurality of partial windings. Each of the partial windings is formed of an electrical conductor that is multiply wound in the electrical conductor sections of the same phase. In each of the phase windings, the partial windings are connected in parallel with each other.

A modular hybrid transmission that provides for an improved support of the rotor as well as an improved cooling layout for the stator. The modular hybrid transmission has a rotating assembly and a housing assembly. The rotating assembly includes a rotor assembly, a rotor carrier hub that supports the rotor, and an input shaft. The rotor carrier is rotationally fixed on the input shaft. The housing assembly houses the rotating assembly, and includes a housing having an outer wall, a stator assembly connected to the outer wall, and a radially extending stationary wall that extends from the outer wall toward the output shaft. The stationary wall includes an axially extending wall portion that extends parallel to an outer surface of the input shaft, and a radial ball bearing supports the input shaft on this axially extending wall portion. Two stator cooling paths are channeled in the housing.

A rotating electrical machine equipped with a magnet unit and a magnetic body. The magnet unit is also equipped with magnet covers wrapped about armature-facing peripheral surfaces of the magnets. Each of the magnets has recesses formed in portions of the armature-facing peripheral surface which are located close to q-axes each of which lies at a boundary between magnetic poles. Each of the magnet covers is recessed in the radial direction in accordance with the shape of the magnet recesses. If the armature-facing peripheral surface of the magnets is between a circumferentially adjacent two of the magnet recesses is defined as a main magnetic pole surface, and an angle representing a circumferential range occupied by the main magnetic pole surface is defined as a main magnetic pole angle θa, the main magnetic pole angle θa is selected to be 2π/5<θa<2π/3.

An electric motor assembly includes an outer housing with two sides open, an impeller provided in the outer housing, an inner housing disposed concentrically in the outer housing and spaced apart from the impeller, a stator provided in the inner housing, a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator, a first air flow path through which air flows in an axial direction between the inner housing and the outer housing based on rotation of the impeller, and a second air flow path through which air is joined with the air of the first air flow path via an inside of the inner housing and a gap between the impeller and the inner housing based on rotation of the impeller. Accordingly, cooling of the stator can be facilitated by the air flow paths.