Disclosed are various embodiments for a new and improved electric motor/generator including a toroidal magnetic cylinder centered on the longitudinal axis, and a coil assembly including a first coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder, and a second coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder.

A brush motor includes: a rotor core provided in a rotor; s teeth provided in the rotor core; s concentrated-winding coils with electric wires being respectively wound around the teeth; a commutator provided on the rotor in a relatively non-rotatable manner; c commutator pieces provided in the commutator and connected to the coils; p pairs of magnet magnetic poles provided on a stator and arranged to face the teeth; and a brush that is brought into sliding contact with the commutator pieces to supply a current to the coils, in which 0.5<p/s<1 and s<c.

A brush motor includes: a rotor core provided in a rotor; s teeth provided in the rotor core; s concentrated-winding coils with electric wires being respectively wound around the teeth; a commutator provided on the rotor in a relatively non-rotatable manner; c commutator pieces provided in the commutator and connected to the coils; p pairs of magnet magnetic poles provided on a stator and arranged to face the teeth; and a brush that is brought into sliding contact with the commutator pieces to supply a current to the coils, in which 0.5<p/s<1 and s<c.

A rotor for an electrically excited drive machine includes: a coil per rotor pole with, in each case, one first energizable coil unit, and a rotor core for holding the coils of the rotor poles. The coils have, in each case, at least one second energizable coil unit per rotor pole. The rotor has an interconnecting unit which is designed to interconnect the at least two coil units per coil in a manner which is dependent on an operating point of the electric drive machine in order to set the number of windings of the coil, and in order to electrically connect the coils of the rotor poles for configuring a rotor winding with an overall number of windings which is dependent on the numbers of windings of the coils.

A cooling fan module includes a fan and a PMDC motor. The PMDC motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has 2P magnetic poles. The rotor includes a rotary shaft, a rotary core, a commutator, and a winding. The rotor core includes m×P pole teeth. The commutator includes k×m×P commutator segments. Adjacent pole teeth define therebetween winding slots for receiving the winding. The winding includes winding units each having P coils. Each of two ends of each winding unit includes a lead-out line connected to the commutator segment. Any two lead-out lines extending out of different winding slots are spaced from each other at locations outside the commutator segments.

A cooling fan module includes a fan and a PMDC motor. The PMDC motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has 2P magnetic poles. The rotor includes a rotary shaft, a rotary core, a commutator, and a winding. The rotor core includes m×P pole teeth. The commutator includes k×m×P commutator segments. Adjacent pole teeth define therebetween winding slots for receiving the winding. The winding includes winding units each having P coils. Each of two ends of each winding unit includes a lead-out line connected to the commutator segment. Any two lead-out lines extending out of different winding slots are spaced from each other at locations outside the commutator segments.

A permanent magnet DC motor with 2P magnetic poles, where P is an integer greater than 1, comprising a stator (100) with a plurality of magnetic components, and a rotor (104) configured to rotate relative to the stator. The rotor may comprise a commutator and a rotor core with a plurality of rotor teeth (106) defining a plurality of rotor grooves (108), wherein the rotor grooves accommodate a plurality rotor windings. In some embodiments, the commutator comprises a plurality m of commutator bars (Z), wherein m is an even number greater than 2. The rotor windings comprises a plurality of coil elements (W), wherein a coil element comprises two ends connecting a pair of commutator bars, such that a first pair of adjacent commutator bars is connected through P−1 serially connected coil elements, and a second pair of adjacent commutator bars is connected through P+1 serially connected coil elements.

A permanent magnet DC motor with 2P magnetic poles, where P is an integer greater than 1, comprising a stator (100) with a plurality of magnetic components, and a rotor (104) configured to rotate relative to the stator. The rotor may comprise a commutator and a rotor core with a plurality of rotor teeth (106) defining a plurality of rotor grooves (108), wherein the rotor grooves accommodate a plurality rotor windings. In some embodiments, the commutator comprises a plurality m of commutator bars (Z), wherein m is an even number greater than 2. The rotor windings comprises a plurality of coil elements (W), wherein a coil element comprises two ends connecting a pair of commutator bars, such that a first pair of adjacent commutator bars is connected through P−1 serially connected coil elements, and a second pair of adjacent commutator bars is connected through P+1 serially connected coil elements.

The invention relates to a commutator motor (10), particularly as part of a windscreen-wiper motor (100), having at least four magnet elements (11 to 14) which are arranged on a reference-circle diameter around an axis of rotation of an armature shaft (2) with polarity that alternates in the circumferential direction, and having an armature (15) with armature slots (N1 to N18) and armature teeth (Z1 to Z18), wherein winding wires (20) having a multiplicity of windings (27, 28) in each case for constructing coils (C1 to C9) are arranged in the armature slots (N1 to N18), wherein a start (21) and an end (22) of a winding wire (20) is electrically conductively connected to a commutator hook (H1 to H18) in each case, wherein a winding wire (20) has two winding-wire sections (25, 26), which are arranged in the region of different magnet elements (11 to 14) in such a manner that a first winding-wire section (25) with a first number of windings (27) in a first winding direction is assigned to a first magnet element (11 to 14) and is located in two armature slots (N1 to N18), and that a second winding-wire section (26) with a second number of windings (28) in a second winding direction, opposite to the first winding direction, is assigned to a second magnet element (11 to 14) and is located in two armature slots (N1 to N18), and wherein the two magnet elements (11 to 14) have different polarities.

The invention relates to a commutator motor (10), particularly as part of a windscreen-wiper motor (100), having at least four magnet elements (11 to 14) which are arranged on a reference-circle diameter around an axis of rotation of an armature shaft (2) with polarity that alternates in the circumferential direction, and having an armature (15) with armature slots (N1 to N18) and armature teeth (Z1 to Z18), wherein winding wires (20) having a multiplicity of windings (27, 28) in each case for constructing coils (C1 to C9) are arranged in the armature slots (N1 to N18), wherein a start (21) and an end (22) of a winding wire (20) is electrically conductively connected to a commutator hook (H1 to H18) in each case, wherein a winding wire (20) has two winding-wire sections (25, 26), which are arranged in the region of different magnet elements (11 to 14) in such a manner that a first winding-wire section (25) with a first number of windings (27) in a first winding direction is assigned to a first magnet element (11 to 14) and is located in two armature slots (N1 to N18), and that a second winding-wire section (26) with a second number of windings (28) in a second winding direction, opposite to the first winding direction, is assigned to a second magnet element (11 to 14) and is located in two armature slots (N1 to N18), and wherein the two magnet elements (11 to 14) have different polarities.