Aspects of the present invention relate to a method and to a control system for controlling movement of a vehicle to provide vehicle creep, the vehicle comprising an engine and an electric traction motor, the control system comprising one or more controllers, wherein the control system is configured to: while a torque path between the engine and a first set of vehicle wheels is disconnected, control the electric traction motor to provide tractive torque to a second set of vehicle wheels to automatically move the vehicle to provide electric vehicle creep, wherein the electric vehicle creep is controlled by a mathematical model of engine creep torque that would be provided by the engine when the torque path between the engine and the first set of vehicle wheels is connected.

A device estimates the electromagnetic torque of a three-phase synchronous electric machine including permanent magnets. The device includes: a first flux estimator including two integrators of electromotive force for estimating the respective components of the flux in a fixed two-phase coordinate system tied to the stator, an estimator for estimating the torque from the respective estimated-flux components, a second flux estimator that uses currents expressed in a rotating two-phase coordinate system tied to the rotor, with an observer for determining variables that characterize magnetic uncertainties of the machine with a view to correcting the flux estimation of the second estimator, and a detector for generating a signal for resetting initial flux conditions of the two integrators based on the flux estimation delivered by the second estimator, when the discrepancy between the estimated torque and a setpoint torque is higher than a predefined threshold.

The present disclosure relates to the field of vehicle technology and provides an energy recovery control method, a system, and a vehicle. The method is applied in a vehicle, and the vehicle comprises a drive motor and a battery electrically connected to the drive motor; a first energy recovery torque curve with respect to the drive motor is pre-configured in the vehicle, and the first energy recovery torque curve is used to indicate a correspondence relationship between vehicle speed and energy recovery torque of the drive motor. The present disclosure performs reduction on a first energy recovery torque curve by means of utilizing a reduction ratio, allowing energy recovery in accordance with a relatively low torque strength when a usable charge power of the battery is unable to satisfy a preset power requirement corresponding to the first energy recovery torque curve.

A powertrain is provided, including: a motor control unit (1) including a housing (11) and a first functional unit (12) disposed in the housing (11) and capable of generating heat during operation; and a heat exchanger (2) disposed in the housing (11), where the heat exchanger (2) includes a first circulation channel (21) for a first cooling medium to circulate and a second circulation channel (22) for a second cooling medium to circulate. The first circulation channel (21) has a first external cooling surface (P1), and the first circulation channel (21) conducts heat with the first functional unit (12) at the first external cooling surface (P1); and/or the first circulation channel (21) has a second external cooling surface (P2), and the first circulation channel (21) conducts heat with an inner surface of the housing (11) at the second external cooling surface (P2).

A motor, a reduction gear, a differential gear, and a housing having a cylindrical shape are included. The motor has a rotor and a stator. The rotor rotates around a motor axis. The stator faces the rotor in a radial direction with a gap interposed between them. The reduction gear includes a planetary gear mechanism, and can increase rotational power output from the motor according to a reduction ratio. The differential gear distributes and outputs the rotational power from the reduction gear. The housing houses the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential gear arranged in an axial direction with the motor axis as a common rotation axis. The housing includes a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion arranged on an outer peripheral surface. The first attachment portion and the second attachment portion are arranged on the opposite sides in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction with respect to the motor axis.

Reliability of a rotating electrical machine is enhanced. A stator of a rotating electrical machine includes: a stator core being provided with teeth and slots on a cylindrical inner side surface of the stator core; a plurality of winding wires being each arranged inside each of the slots; and slot liners being each arranged respectively between an inner wall of each of the slots and each of the plurality of winding wires, each of the slot liners has a sheet-like first insulating substrate, a second insulating material layer being disposed on at least one surface of each of the slot liners, and an adhesive layer which expands between the first insulating substrate and the second insulating material layer by processing, the second insulating material layer is provided with a through-hole which communicates a side of the first insulating substrate with the inner wall of each of the slots, and each of the slot liners is disposed inside each of the slots in such a way that the second insulating material layer is provided on a side closer to the inner wall of each of the slots than the first insulating substrate.

A power transmission device includes a motor, a gear mechanism connected downstream of the motor and lubricated by oil, and a box. The box has a wall part that covers an outer circumference of the gear mechanism, and a jacket part that covers an outer circumference of the wall part. A cooling chamber, in which cooling liquid is introduced, is formed between the wall part and the jacket part. The cooling chamber includes a portion that overlaps with the gear mechanism when seen from a radial direction, and a portion that overlaps the gear mechanism when seen from an axial direction.

A fluid moving apparatus includes an electric motor having a rotor and a stator and a propeller. The rotor rotates relative to the stator on an axis to generate a rotational output. The rotational output is provided to the propeller to power the marine propulsion apparatus. The stator includes one or more coils configured to power rotation of the rotor. The one or more coils extend circumferentially around and can be coaxial on the axis. A portion of a housing of the motor extends into the aquatic environment to facilitate heat dissipation.

A stator includes a stator core and a stator winding installed in the stator core. The stator winding has multiple conductor segments in which a conductor is coated with an insulating film 35. The conductor segment includes an exposed portion in which the conductor is exposed at its leading end, and a covered portion in which the conductor remains coated with the insulating film. At a coil end section of the stator winding, the exposed portions of different conductor segments are engaged with each other. A depression as a plastic deformation formed by crushing at least a part of the insulating film is provided at an edge of the covered portion of the conductor segment, located closer to the leading end of the conducting wire, thereby Providing a stator capable of suppressing peeling off of the insulating film and ensuring insulation reliability of the stator winding.

A stator and a manufacturing method thereof is enabled to easily determine the quality of welding produced between conductors. The stator includes a stator core and a stator winding installed in the stator core. The stator winding is configured by including multiple flat conductor segments in which conductors 34 are coated with insulating films 35, respectively. At a leading end of each of the conductor segment, an exposed portion 33 is formed in which the conductor is exposed. At a coil end section of the stator winding, a pair of exposed portions of different conductor segments are joined together by laser welding. A collective conductor width in a joining direction in which exposed portions join with each other is smaller at a laser irradiation incidence side, which is a side of the exposed portions receiving laser irradiation than that at a side opposite to the laser irradiation incidence side.