A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, and a stator facing the rotor with a predetermined gap interposed between the rotor and stator. The stator has a stator core formed in a substantially circular annular shape and provided with an armature slot and a field slot alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, an armature winding housed in the armature slot, and a field winding and a first field magnet housed in the field slot. The armature winding generates a rotating magnetic field to rotate the rotor by being supplied with an alternating current armature current. The field winding generates a field flux by being supplied with a direct current field current. The first field magnet changes a magnetic force by the field flux.

A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, and a stator facing the rotor with a predetermined gap interposed between the rotor and stator. The stator has a stator core formed in a substantially circular annular shape and provided with an armature slot and a field slot alternately arranged in a circumferential direction, an armature winding housed in the armature slot, and a field winding and a first field magnet housed in the field slot. The armature winding generates a rotating magnetic field to rotate the rotor by being supplied with an alternating current armature current. The field winding generates a field flux by being supplied with a direct current field current. The first field magnet changes a magnetic force by the field flux.

An apparatus has a plurality of poles facing an air gap, and the poles are configured to generate a magnetic field in the air gap. The poles include a group of unchanged poles and a group of reversible poles, where a polarity of each reversible pole is configured to be changed during an operation mode, and after the polarity has been changed, each reversible pole and at least an adjacent unchanged pole in effect merged into one augmented pole, such that the pole number of the magnetic field in the air gap is changed.

A rotary electric machine comprises a two-pole rotor, a three-phase armature winding, and a stator core having fifty-four slots. An armature winding is stored as a top coil piece and a bottom coil piece in two layers in the slot of the stator core and has three parallel circuits and two phase belts per one phase. Each phase belt includes two parallel circuits. When a sequence of the first and second parallel circuits of one phase belt is viewed from a side closer to a phase belt center, those parallel circuits are arranged in a sequence of the first, second, first, first, second, first, first, first, and second parallel circuits in the top coil pieces and in a sequence of the first, second, first, first, second, first, first, first, and second parallel circuits in the bottom coil pieces to be connected to the top coil pieces. For a sequence of the second and third parallel circuits of the other the phase belt, those parallel circuits are arranged in a sequence of the third, second, third, third, second, third, third, third, and second parallel circuits in the top coil pieces and in a sequence of the third, second, third, third, second, third, third, third, and second parallel circuits in the bottom coil pieces to be connected to the top coil pieces.

Rotor for an electrical machine has a rotor core with a plurality of radially outwardly extending rotor legs, a number of exciter windings corresponding to the number of rotor legs, each wound around one of the rotor legs, and a separating device, having a number of separating portions corresponding to the number of rotor legs, which are arranged between a respective pair of adjacent exciter windings and extend axially between two opposing end faces of the rotor, a first annular connecting portion which connects together the separating portions at one of the end faces, and a second annular connecting portion which connects together the separating portions at the other of the end faces. The separating device is formed by a first part and by a second part which are joined together by means of a form-fit and/or force-fit connection, wherein the first part comprises at least the first connecting portion and at least partially the separating portions, and the second part comprises at least the second connecting portion.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a rotating machine drive system comprising a winding switching device, wherein the rotating machine drive system has a relatively simple configuration, allows wear of electrical contacts during switching and sliding to be minimized, and is highly reliable. The present invention is characterized in comprising a rotating machine having a plurality of windings, an inverter device for operating the rotating machine at variable speed, and a winding switching device for switching connection of the plurality of windings; the winding switching device having winding terminals, a semi-moving element having a short-circuit part that faces the winding terminals and also having a sliding part provided with first protrusions on the surface thereof opposite from the surface having the short-circuit part, and a moving element facing the sliding part of the semi-moving element and having a sliding part provided with second protrusions on the surface facing the sliding part of the semi-moving element; the moving element being made to slide relative to the semi-moving element, whereby the connection between the winding terminals and the short-circuit part is changed and the connection of the plurality of windings is switched.

AC motor rotates independent from power frequency gives advantages in size and controllability. Oscillating and rotating magnetic field is created across airgap by using Amplitude Modulated input. Higher frequency (Carrier) is the power input and the lower frequency (Signal) determines speed of the motor. Stator and Rotor work as primary and secondary of transformer, rotor windings are arranged to keep resultant EMF generated within the winding as zero when rotor aligned with stator magnetic field and increase when deviates. The current generated on deviated rotor winding creates a push back torque keeping the rotor aligned with magnetic field. This interlocks magnetic field and the rotor. Two different frequencies are applied at either end of the stator windings so that the current flow through each winding become amplitude modulated, average of the two frequencies become carrier frequency and control frequency is half of the difference between two frequencies.

An electric vehicle is disclosed herein which includes an electric motor switchable between a first mode with a first number of poles and a second mode with a second number of poles less than the first number of poles, a plurality of inverters coupled to the motor, and a control module coupled to the plurality of inverters. The control module receives current vehicle information, determines that a mode switch is required between the first and second modes of the motor based on the current vehicle information, wherein the first mode achieves higher torque than the second mode, and performs the mode switch by controlling the plurality of inverters

An electric vehicle is disclosed herein which includes an electric motor switchable between a first mode with a first number of poles and a second mode with a second number of poles less than the first number of poles, a plurality of inverters coupled to the motor, and a control module coupled to the plurality of inverters. The control module receives current vehicle information, determines that a mode switch is required between the first and second modes of the motor based on the current vehicle information, wherein the first mode achieves higher torque than the second mode, and performs the mode switch by controlling the plurality of inverters

A homopolar multi-core energy conversion device is an apparatus that uses magnetic flux commutation instead of a combination of electrical current commutation and brushes. The apparatus includes a first discontinuous annular stator core, a second discontinuous annular stator core, and a rotor core. The first discontinuous annular stator core is configured to generate a circumferentially-segmented clockwise magnetic flux around the rotor core, while second discontinuous annular stator core is configured to generate a circumferentially-segmented counter-clockwise magnetic flux around the rotor core. The rotor core is configured to radially partition a traversing magnetic flux. The circumferentially-segmented clockwise magnetic flux, the circumferentially-segmented counter-clockwise magnetic flux, and the traversing magnetic flux interact with each other so that the apparatus can function either as a motor or as a generator. The aforementioned components of the apparatus can be configured into different embodiment to achieve the same function.