An electromechanical flywheel machine includes a flywheel mass and a motor-generator having a rotor rotatable about a stationary inner stator having stator windings.

A method for manufacturing a rotor for a slip ring motor, including the steps of: a) arranging a plurality of electric cables inside a hollow shaft, wherein the electric cables are distributed over an inner circumference of the hollow shaft, b) filling a resin into an empty space defined between the hollow shaft and the electric cables, c) arranging a rod inside the hollow shaft thereby displacing the resin into an annular gap between the rod and the hollow shaft, wherein the electric cables are arranged in the annular gap, and d) curing of the resin to form the rotor.

A method of fabricating a curvilinear magnet includes forming at least one slot in a material billet. The slotted material billet is inserted into a mold having a curvilinear pocket. The mold is closed around the slotted material billet such that the slotted material billet conforms to the curvilinear pocket and forms a curvilinear billet. The curvilinear billet is arranged in a structure. The curvilinear billet arranged in the structure is then magnetized.

In a rotary electric machine that has excellent efficiency and light weight, a rotor (21) of a motor (23) includes a rotary shaft (24), a rotor core (61) that is fixed coaxially to the rotary shaft (24) and formed of electromagnetic steel, a first end plate (71) that is disposed to face a first end face (61a) of the rotor core (61), and a second end plate (72) that is disposed to face a second end face (61b) of the rotor core (61). The first end plate (71) and the second end plate (72) are formed of a bond magnet.

A system and method to reduce core loss in the stator of an electric motor by first preparing laminations of the stator and/or rotor in a water jetting operation, punching or stamping operation, laser cutting operation, or similar manufacturing operation, and then subjecting the laminations to a temperature treatment in a manner such that, upon assembly into a stator and/or rotor of an electric motor and operated within expected parameters, core loss is reduced. The system and method subjects the laminations to a cold bath preferably consisting of liquid nitrogen, after stamping but preferably prior to assembly, and then stacking the laminations together for assembly as a stator and/or rotor of an electric motor.

A permanent magnet rotor shaft assembly for a high speed electrical machine provides a permanent magnet cylindrical core having a longitudinal axis, the cylindrical core being axially compressed by first and second end shafts and being radially compressed by a sleeve made of a non-magnetic high strength metal. At least one of the first and second end shafts includes, facing the cylindrical core, a central shoulder head that cooperates with a mating central recess made in a central portion of a front face of the cylindrical core. An easy concentric alignment of the first and second end shafts with the permanent magnet cylindrical core is allowed while inserting the sleeve and the stiffness of the assembled set is enhanced.

A permanent magnet machine includes a rotor including a rotor hub and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor in a circumferential pattern. The rotor includes a respective bridge between each circumferentially adjacent pair of the permanent magnets. Each bridge is of a different material than that of the rotor hub, and the rotor hub and bridges are integral with one another.

It comprises a rotor and a stator that they both may be formed of a single piece or they may be formed of a number of sectors. The generator further comprises at least one active module unit as an independent unit from both the rotor and the stator. The active module unit includes at least one permanent magnet, a magnet support structure attached thereto, a first attaching mechanism to removably attach the magnet support structure to the rotor or the stator, at least one coil module comprising at least one coil winding and a magnetic core, and a second attaching mechanism to removably attach the coil module to the other of the rotor or the stator. The coil module is spaced apart from the permanent magnet a predetermined distance.

A method of manufacturing a rotational electric machine rotor includes: forming a rotor shaft having a non-circular sectional outer shape; forming a rotor core by stacking a predetermined number of magnetic body thin plates each including a center hole having a non-circular shape corresponding to the non-circular sectional outer shape of the rotor shaft; and forming a protruding part for fixing the rotor core and the rotor shaft to each other by inserting the rotor shaft into the non-circular center hole of the rotor core and squashing the rotor shaft extending out of an axial-direction end face of the rotor core by using a predetermined swaging jig to expand the rotor shaft outward beyond an outer periphery of the non-circular section along the axial-direction end face of the rotor core.

A manufacturing method of an iron core product includes: heating an iron core body attached to a jig together with the jig; removing the iron core body from the jig when the jig and the iron core body are heated to denote a first temperature; and separately cooling, after removing the iron core body from the jig, the iron core body and the jig such that the iron core body is at a second temperature lower than the first temperature and the jig is at a third temperature lower than the first temperature.