Presented are oleophobic surface treatments for electric machines, methods for making/using such electric machines, and vehicles employing traction motors having oleophobic treatments on select “non-target” surfaces. An electric machine includes a direct-cooling thermal management system that circulates a coolant fluid to the electric machine's outer housing. A stator assembly, which is attached to the housing, includes a stator core with one or more electromagnetic windings mounted to the stator core. A rotor assembly is rotatably mounted to the hosing adjacent the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core with one or more magnets mounted to the rotor core and spaced across an air gap from the winding(s). Select components of the outer housing, rotor assembly, and/or stator assembly have a target surface with an oleophobic surface treatment that reduces the non-target surface's wetted area and decreases the mass of coolant fluid contacting the non-target surface.

A rotary transformer is provided. The transformer has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator core and the rotor has a rotor core sleeved in the stator core. An air gap is defined between an inner side wall of the stator core and an outer side wall of the rotor core. During rotation of the rotor, a length S of the air gap along a circumferential direction of the transformer and a mechanical rotation angle θ of the rotor satisfy a sinusoidal function relationship containing third-harmonic components, and the length changes periodically according to the functional relationship to define a shape of the rotor core. As a result, the output signal amplitude and measurement accuracy of the position of the rotary transformer can be improved under the same maximum and minimum air gaps.

A motor capable of increasing cogging torque is provided. A motor includes a shaft; a magnetic member including a core including an annular portion and a plurality of spokes and a coil; and a magnet, wherein one of the magnetic member and the magnet is disposed at an inner side of the other; an end portion of each of the spokes and the magnet oppose one another in radial directions nm; the core includes a pair of magnetic pole portions at the end portion of each of the spokes, the a pair of magnetic pole portions extending in both directions of circumferential directions xy; and of the pair of magnetic pole portions of at least one spoke from among the plurality of spokes, the magnetic pole portion at an x side has a larger magnetic resistance than the magnetic pole portion at a y side.

An electric motor comprises a stator presenting a first surface. A rotor is rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor presents a rotor raceway disposed in spaced relationship with the first surface of the stator. The first surface of the stator defines a plurality of slots in spaced relationship with one another to define a plurality of spaced teeth between the slots. At least one electrical conductor is disposed in each of the slots and configured to selectively create a moving magnetic field for acting upon the rotor for providing rotational movement of the rotor. A portion of the at least one electrical conductor extends substantially into radial alignment with, or past the first surface of the stator to at least partially define a stator raceway of the stator for engaging the rotor raceway of the rotor during relative radial movement between the rotor and the stator.

A lubricant supported electric motor includes a stator extending along an axis, and a rotor rotatably disposed around the stator in radially surrounding and spaced relationship to define at least one support chamber. A lubricant is disposed in the support chamber for supporting the rotor around the stator. A wheel rim is fixedly attached to the rotor and is disposed in surrounding relationship with the rotor and the stator. Thus, in a first aspect, rotation of the rotor is directly transferred to the wheel rim such that the wheel rim rotates in accordance with the rotation of the rotor. In accordance with another aspect, the rotor is rotatably disposed within the stator, and a planetary gear reduction mechanism is operably interconnected to the rotor, the stator, and the wheel rim and configured to rotate the wheel rim in response to rotation of the rotor within the stator.

The invention relates to a rotating electrical machine with an external rotor having a permanent magnet assembly. The invention also relates to a stator of a rotating electric machine of this type. In order to increase the performance and/or reduce the weight and/or installation space, a permanent magnet assembly is provided having segments with changing magnetisation directions in such a way that the magnetic flow is increased over the inner casing surface of the hollow cylinder facing the stator and therefore in the air gap and it is reduced over the opposing outer casing surface. For the stator of a drive unit of this type, stator teeth of a trapezoidal shape are proposed, having an outwardly increasing tooth width, wherein a respective coil winding is arranged on the stator teeth.

The present invention is a variable air gap in a rotary electric machine, notably a permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance electric machine.

A rotating electrical machine including a stator and a rotor having a rotor mass and permanent magnets, which are arranged on the surface of the rotor mass. The permanent magnets include a face which is directed towards the stator and is of a generally concave form. The permanent magnets of the rotor form poles of the rotor, in which the permanent magnet(s) of a same pole have an angular offset (a) between two longitudinal ends of the machine.

Increase in weight of a rotary electric machine including a low-speed rotor in which a spacer made of metal is provided between a plurality of magnetic pole pieces, can be suppressed. The rotary electric machine includes a stator, a first rotor provided so as to be rotatable with respect to the stator, and a second rotor provided coaxially with the first rotor. The first rotor includes a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed so as to be arranged in the circumferential direction, a plurality of spacers respectively disposed between the plurality of magnetic pole pieces, two dampers respectively disposed at both end portions in the axial direction, and a fastening tool for fastening each spacer to a corresponding clamper. The spacer has a cavity portion. The spacer and the fastening tool are electrically insulated from each other.

A salient pole type hybrid excitation motor, belonging to the field of motors, and including a rotor assembly, where the rotor assembly includes: an electromagnetic rotor with radial salient poles and constructed in an annular shape and sleeving a magnetic yoke; a permanent magnet rotor installed on one side of the electromagnetic rotor; and axial salient pole blocks installed on one side of the permanent magnet rotor away from the electromagnetic rotor and arranged alternately with the radial salient poles, a plurality of axial salient pole blocks being matched with a plurality of radial salient poles of the electromagnetic rotor, and a polarity of the axial salient pole blocks being opposite to that of permanent magnet steels corresponding to the radial salient poles of the electromagnetic rotor. Electric excitation and permanent magnet excitation are combined to adjust an air gap magnetic field of a motor.