A radial magnetic bearing having an inner rotor including a central shaft having a ferromagnetic armature mounted on the shaft and an outer stator providing a plurality of electromagnets including poles made of ferromagnetic material which project radially inwardly towards the rotor is provided. As such, air-gaps (e) are left between end faces of the poles and the ferromagnetic armature, and coils wound around the poles. The poles are extended through outer portions attached to a supporting member. Each pole and the corresponding outer portion are included in an angularly segmented module providing a stack of laminations made of ferromagnetic material. The outer portion defines shoulders with respect to the corresponding pole, the outer portion contacting outer portions of neighboring segmented modules and the outer portions of all segmented modules being assembled by clamping rings, wherein the coils located in free spaces around the poles are mounted in a string.

An integrated journal bearing (IJB) includes a shaft extending in an axial direction, a housing through which the shaft extends in the axial direction, the housing surrounding the shaft in a radial direction, an active magnetic bearing (AMB) arranged within the housing and surrounding the shaft in the radial direction, and at least a first fluid film journal bearing (JB) arranged within the housing and surrounding the shaft in the radial direction. The first JB is axially adjacent to the AMB such that first JB and the AMB do not share a common radial clearance, while both are commonly flooded with oil. A controller in signal communication with the AMB can be variously configured to supply current thereto to operate the AMB by controlling a magnetic force generated thereby.

A system for storing electrical energy generated by an external energy source that includes a ring for storing kinetic energy of rotation, an assembly a control system, and at least two motors/generators. The assembly includes a plurality of independent supports, each releasably attachable to a levitation electromagnet such that pole faces of the levitation electromagnet oppose a top protruding surface of a levitation rail of the ring and each releasably attachable to a centering electromagnet such that pole faces of the centering electromagnet oppose a surface of the centering rail of the ring. The control system supplies current to each levitation electromagnet to generate vertical forces to levitate and vertically stabilize the ring and to each centering electromagnet to generate radial forces to center and horizontally stabilize the ring. At least two of motor/generators electromagnetically engage a reaction rail of the ring and impose a reversible torque on the ring to enable bi-directional transfer of electrical energy from the energy source to the ring in the form of kinetic energy of rotation of the ring, and subsequent recovery of electrical energy from the kinetic energy of rotation of the ring.

An active part of an electrical machine includes teeth, each having a tooth base, a tooth height, open or closed grooves between the teeth, and windings introduced into the grooves. Each winding encloses at least one of the teeth. The active part has a thickness, starting from the outer surface of the respective tooth bases and extending along the teeth, that is greater than the tooth height. The active part, starting from the respective tooth base up to a limit depth, which is not more than equal the tooth height, has a first material with a first magnetic permeability and starting from the limit depth a second material with a second magnetic permeability. The first magnetic permeability is greater than the second magnetic permeability. The limit depth is essentially half as great as the tooth height.

An assembly includes a rotating shaft supported with respect to a stationary housing by at least one active magnetic bearing presenting a mean radial air gap and at least one auxiliary bearing having first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces is provided. One of the first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces defines a clearance (E2) with one of the stationary housing and the rotating shaft, the clearance (E2) being less than the mean radial air gap and the other of the first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces being integral with the other one of the stationary housing and the rotating shaft. The auxiliary bearing provides a first ball bearing and a second ball bearing having a misalignment with respect to each other in order to increase the starting torque.

One embodiment describes a rotary machine system, which includes a stator with a first tooth, a second tooth, a third tooth, and a fourth tooth; a first electromagnet that includes a first electromagnet wire wrapped around the second tooth and the third tooth and that generates a first magnetic field to attract a drive shaft; a first integrated position sensor, which includes a first sensor wire that carries a first current wrapped around the first tooth and the second tooth; a second integrated sensor, which includes a second sensor wire that carries a second current wrapped around the third tooth and the fourth tooth; and a controller that determines current position of the drive shaft based at least on change of inductance of the first sensor wire and the second sensor wire, and that instructs the first electromagnet to adjust magnitude of the first magnetic field based at least in part on the current position.

A magnetic bearing includes a controller dividing a control region in two regions based on an individual difference between electromagnets regarding a correlation between two or more parameters among a current flowing through the electromagnets, a number of flux linkages, a gap width, magnetic energy, magnetic co-energy, electromagnetic force, and a parameter derived using these parameters. In a first control region with a small individual difference, the controller uses a control model common for all of the electromagnets. In a second control region with a large individual difference, the controller performs position control of a drive shaft using control models provided one for each of the electromagnets or one for each of a predetermined number of electromagnet groups.

In a state where part of a plurality of electromagnets (27) is controlled based on a control model built in advanced for a first control region (A1), and where position control of a drive shaft (13) is performed by controlling one or a group of the electromagnets (27) in a second control region (A2), an electromagnetic force of the electromagnets (27) controlled within the second control region (A2) is calculated based on an electromagnetic force of the electromagnets (27) controlled within the first control region (A1).

A pump includes: a rotor; a magnetic bearing supporting the rotor by a magnetic force; a drive mechanism rotationally driving the rotor; a pump mechanism including an impeller attached to the rotor; and a control unit controlling the magnetic bearing which includes: a bearing rotor member in the rotor formed from a magnetic material; and a bearing stator member facing the bearing rotor member, the bearing stator member has: a core formed from a magnetic material; and a coil wound around the core, the drive mechanism includes: a driven member adjacent in a radial direction to the bearing rotor member; and a drive portion facing the driven member in the radial direction, and magnetically coupled to the driven member to drive the rotor, and the control unit corrects rotational position of the rotor based on a detection signal from a first sensor portion capable of detecting displacement of the rotor.

In an electric motor, a magnetic bearing generates an electromagnetic force between multiple permanent magnets and a coil and rotatably supports an other side of a rotation shaft in an axis line direction. The rotation shaft is configured to be capable of being inclined with a rotation center line using a bearing side of the rotation shaft as a fulcrum. An electronic control device controls a current that flows to the coil such that an axis line of the rotation shaft approaches the rotation center line due to a supporting force which is the electromagnetic force between the multiple permanent magnets and the coil. Accordingly, the rotation shaft is rotatably supported to be freely rotatable by a magnetic bearing and the bearing.