A brushless DC motor may include an annular rotor including a plurality of annular sectors. Each exemplary annular sector includes a respective array of permanent magnets embedded in and equally spaced circumferentially around each respective annular sector. The motor may further include an annular stator coaxially disposed within the annular rotor. An exemplary annular stator may include a plurality of coils mounted on and equally spaced circumferentially around the annular stator, where each coil may be energized with a current based at least in part on the rotor position. The motor may further include a position sensor that may generate an output signal indicative of the rotational position of the annular rotor, and a controller that may be configured to receive the output signal from the position sensor and utilize a power source to energize each coil of the plurality of coils based on the received output signal.

A process and process apparatus for forming a protective coating on a magnetic pole of a permanent magnet motor. The process for forming a protective coating on a magnetic pole of a permanent magnet motor includes: horizontally placing a motor rotor, and controlling to perform, at positions of an inlet and an outlet operating on a vacuum bag in a current state, vacuumization and adhesive injection only on an arc section located at the bottom of the motor rotor; and driving the motor rotor to rotate by a predetermined angle after the adhesive in the arc section is initially cured so as to rotate the next arc section in which no adhesive is injected to the bottom, until all arc sections in the circumferential direction of the motor rotor are injected with the adhesive.

An electric machine is provided which includes a rotor disk extending along a radial direction and having a rotor flange attached to or formed integrally with the rotor disk and extending substantially along the axial direction. A plurality of rotor magnets are mounted on the rotor disk and supported by the rotor flange such that the rotor flange absorbs centrifugal loads exerted on the magnets and enables high speeds of operation.

A rotating electric machine includes a field system, which includes a magnet section, and an armature. The magnet section includes a plurality of magnets that are arranged at predetermined intervals and in alignment with each other in a circumferential direction. The magnets have easy axes of magnetization oriented such that at locations closer to a d-axis, the directions of the easy axes of magnetization are more parallel to the d-axis than at locations closer to a q-axis. In the magnets, magnet magnetic paths are formed along the easy axes of magnetization. The field system further includes a field-system core that is formed of a soft-magnetic material. The field-system core has protrusions protruding to the armature side. Each of the protrusions is located closer to the q-axis than to the d-axis in the circumferential direction. Circumferential end surfaces of the protrusions respectively abut circumferential end surfaces of the magnets.

Object: To provide a polyphase AC electric motor whereby partial discharge can be suppressed. Resolution Means: The winding of each phase includes a first partial conductor that is an input side partial conductor; an nth partial conductor connected to a neutral point; and second to n-1th partial conductors. Moreover, a partial conductor disposed within the stator adjacent to the first partial conductor of each phase, or a partial conductor including a coil end portion disposed adjacent to a coil end portion where the first partial conductor extends out of the slot, is any of the following: (1) of the intermediate partial conductors, an ath (where a is a natural number greater than or equal to 2) partial conductor of the same phase or a different phase where voltage takes an extreme value when AC voltage is applied from the inverter; (2) any of an a-3th to a-1th partial conductors of the same phase or a different phase, or any of an a+1th to a+3th partial conductors of the same phase or a different phase connected to the intermediate partial conductor taking the extreme value; (3) any of a n-3th to nth partial conductors of the same phase or a different phase.

A rotor of a generator includes a plurality of permanent magnets and at least one magnetic band. The plurality of permanent magnets is arranged about an axis such that magnetic poles of the plurality of permanent magnets are radially oriented in regard to the rotor. The at least one magnetic band is disposed on a surface of the rotor such that magnetic poles of the magnetic band are between 1 degree and 90 degrees from being axially oriented in regard to the rotor.

A rotating electric machine according to the present disclosure is a rotating electric machine including a stator and a rotor, in which the rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in a circumferential direction of a rotation axis and a plurality of protrusions arranged in the circumferential direction, the stator includes a plurality of teeth, an armature winding wound around the plurality of teeth, and a field winding wound around the plurality of teeth, a field pole is formed in the plurality of protrusions by energization to the field winding and the plurality of permanent magnets, the plurality of permanent magnets and the plurality of teeth are alternately arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction to form the field pole, all the permanent magnets have the same polarity, wherein, |P.sub.aP.sub.f|1, |P.sub.rP.sub.f|1, and |P.sub.aP.sub.r|1, and P.sub.r is even.

A rotating electric machine according to the present disclosure is a rotating electric machine including a stator and a rotor, in which the rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in a circumferential direction of a rotation axis and a plurality of protrusions arranged in the circumferential direction, the stator includes a plurality of teeth, an armature winding wound around the plurality of teeth, and a field winding wound around the plurality of teeth, a field pole is formed in the plurality of protrusions by energization to the field winding and the plurality of permanent magnets, the plurality of permanent magnets and the plurality of teeth are alternately arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction to form the field pole, all the permanent magnets have the same polarity, wherein, |P.sub.aP.sub.f|1, |P.sub.rP.sub.f|1, and |P.sub.aP.sub.r|1, and P.sub.r is even.

A rotating electric machine comprises a rotor having a plurality of magnetic pole parts in a peripheral direction, and at least one stator arranged coaxially with the rotor and on at least one of an outer peripheral side and an inner peripheral side of the magnetic pole parts. The stator comprises a stator core having a plurality of slots in the peripheral direction, and a stator winding wound around the slots. The stator core comprises an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth extending in a radial direction from the yoke toward the magnetic pole parts, and the teeth are configured such that their width in the peripheral direction becomes narrower and their thickness in an axial direction becomes thicker toward a radially inner side from a radially outer side.

The described technology relates to a motor using a complex magnetic flux, which uses a radial magnetic flux and an axial magnetic flux together, thereby generating a larger torque in the same volume. The motor can also use a radial magnetic flux, an axial magnetic flux, and an oblique magnetic flux together, thereby generating a larger torque in the same volume.