The present disclosure in some embodiment provides a hybrid induction motor including dual stators. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a hybrid induction motor including a hollow rotor including a single conductor bar which is annularly disposed and spaced apart from a rotation axis by a predetermined distance, an outer stator having an outer stator winding disposed in parallel with an outer circumferential surface of the hollow rotor, and an inner stator having an inner stator winding disposed in parallel with an inner circumferential surface of the hollow rotor.

The present disclosure in some embodiment provides a hybrid induction motor including dual stators. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a hybrid induction motor including a hollow rotor including a single conductor bar which is annularly disposed and spaced apart from a rotation axis by a predetermined distance, an outer stator having an outer stator winding disposed in parallel with an outer circumferential surface of the hollow rotor, and an inner stator having an inner stator winding disposed in parallel with an inner circumferential surface of the hollow rotor.

In induction motors, efficiency is improved and a maximum torque is increased. For a magnetic flux density of the stator pole for each phase of an induction motor, a circumferential magnetic flux density distribution is controlled to any distribution state, from a trapezoidal wave-like distribution close to a square wave to a sinusoidal distribution. In particular, motor efficiency in a range of low to medium rotations is improved. The motor structure is designed to reduce the leakage inductance of the rotor windings, and the motor and control thereof are optimized for each other. This increases the maximum torque of the motor more effectively. In addition, the high efficiency of the motor makes it possible to reduce the size of the drive circuit.

A modular stator-inverter assembly for an electric machine includes a stator and a traction power inverter module (“TPIM”). The stator includes a stator core having a center axis, an inner diameter (“ID”), an outer diameter (“OD”), and electrical conductors forming stator windings. Stator teeth extending radially toward the center axis from the ID collectively define stator slots occupied by the stator windings. Each adjacent pair of stator teeth defines a respective stator slot. The TPIM delivers a polyphase voltage to the stator windings to generate a predetermined number of stator poles, such that the stator has either two, three, or four of the stator slots per electric phase per stator pole. The stator defines a center cavity and is configured to receive a selected rotor from an inventory of preconfigured machine rotors. The inventory includes multiple synchronous reluctance machine rotors and an induction machine rotor.

A modular stator-inverter assembly for an electric machine includes a stator and a traction power inverter module (“TPIM”). The stator includes a stator core having a center axis, an inner diameter (“ID”), an outer diameter (“OD”), and electrical conductors forming stator windings. Stator teeth extending radially toward the center axis from the ID collectively define stator slots occupied by the stator windings. Each adjacent pair of stator teeth defines a respective stator slot. The TPIM delivers a polyphase voltage to the stator windings to generate a predetermined number of stator poles, such that the stator has either two, three, or four of the stator slots per electric phase per stator pole. The stator defines a center cavity and is configured to receive a selected rotor from an inventory of preconfigured machine rotors. The inventory includes multiple synchronous reluctance machine rotors and an induction machine rotor.

A motor system of the present disclosure includes a permanent magnet motor including a stator having N-phase windings and a rotor having a permanent magnet, N being a natural number greater than or equal to three, an inverter that supplies N-phase drive currents for generating a rotating magnetic field to the stator, and a zero-phase current supply unit that supplies a zero-phase current to the N-phase windings of the stator. The motor system applies the zero-phase current to the N-phase windings in response to an inter-terminal voltage of the permanent magnet motor reaching a predetermined value of the inter-terminal voltage.

A motor system of the present disclosure includes a permanent magnet motor including a stator having N-phase windings and a rotor having a permanent magnet, N being a natural number greater than or equal to three, an inverter that supplies N-phase drive currents for generating a rotating magnetic field to the stator, and a zero-phase current supply unit that supplies a zero-phase current to the N-phase windings of the stator. The motor system applies the zero-phase current to the N-phase windings in response to an inter-terminal voltage of the permanent magnet motor reaching a predetermined value of the inter-terminal voltage.

Disclosed are axial-gap electrical machines which magnetic core elements are made of wound magnetic ribbons to provide relatively lightweight and small size implementations that can be operated in a wide range of operational modes with minimized magnetic and electrical losses. The axial-gap electrical machine includes a cylindrically-shaped stator assembly having a central passage passing therealong, a rotatable shaft passing within the central passage of the stator assembly coaxial to the axis of rotations of the electric machine, and one or two annular rotor assemblies concentrically attached to the shaft and magnetically coupled to the at least one cylindrically-shaped stator assembly. The stator assembly can have a plurality of prism-shaped magnetic core elements made from a plurality of magnetic ribbon layers extending along its length, and a primary winding comprising a plurality of coils mounted over the prism-shaped magnetic core elements.

Disclosed are axial-gap electrical machines which magnetic core elements are made of wound magnetic ribbons to provide relatively lightweight and small size implementations that can be operated in a wide range of operational modes with minimized magnetic and electrical losses. The axial-gap electrical machine includes a cylindrically-shaped stator assembly having a central passage passing therealong, a rotatable shaft passing within the central passage of the stator assembly coaxial to the axis of rotations of the electric machine, and one or two annular rotor assemblies concentrically attached to the shaft and magnetically coupled to the at least one cylindrically-shaped stator assembly. The stator assembly can have a plurality of prism-shaped magnetic core elements made from a plurality of magnetic ribbon layers extending along its length, and a primary winding comprising a plurality of coils mounted over the prism-shaped magnetic core elements.

The present invention relates to an electrical aircraft engine. The engine includes a stator with windings for generating a rotating magnetic field. The engine further includes a rotor for rotating inside or outside the stator. The rotor has a fan or propeller including thrust blades. The fan or propeller defines a closed-loop conductor. Advantageously, the thrust blades may generate direct thrust by moving fluid (i.e. gas or liquid), instead of driving a drive shaft, in turn, coupled to thrust blades.