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.

A generator including a stator winding, a rotor positioned radially inside the stator winding, including multiple coil assemblies each using a flat wire, a primary termination plate residing radially inside the rotor configured to connect a wire of a coil assembly to an adjacent wound coil and a secondary termination plate residing radially inside the rotor configured to connect a wound coil to an adjacent wound coil and connect the wound coil to a terminus connection.

A guiding device is for the winding of electrically conductive wires about a plurality of poles of a rotor of an electric machine that are distributed about a shaft extending axially in the rotor. The device includes a guide head that is able to be mounted on the shaft. The guide head includes a metallic basic structure provided with a plurality of arms that extend radially from an inner part of the metallic basic structure provided with a central orifice, and a plastics structure overmoulded on the metallic basic structure, in a set-back manner with respect to an internal cylindrical surface of the central orifice, such that the internal cylindrical surface of the central orifice of the metallic basic structure is designed to be in direct contact with the shaft of the rotor for mounting on the shaft of the rotor with an interference fit.

A rotary electric machine includes: a stator; and a rotor that face the stator and that rotates together with a rotation shaft, the rotor including: a rotor core including rotor salient poles and a slot formed between adjacent rotor salient poles, and a rotor coil wound around each of the rotor salient poles via an insulating member through the slot. Further, the rotor coil includes: a slot coil portion; and a coil end portion protruding from an end surface of the rotor core in an axial direction, the insulating member includes: a slot insulating portion; and an end insulating portion, and the slot insulating portion and the end insulating portion are integrated.

A method for manufacturing a rotor for an electric machine with a contactless power transmission system, wherein an end winding cover is arranged on one end face of a laminated core of the rotor. The invention provides that a secondary unit (SEC) of the power transmission system is integrated in the end winding cover and, as a result, after the end winding cover has been arranged, the secondary unit (SEC) is held on the rotor indirectly via the end winding cover.

A rotor having multiple poles is provided and includes at each pole an end winding support forming a channel, a bus bar disposed in the channel and edge-wound coils disposed to extend around the end-winding support and the bus bar. The edge-wound coils are stacked radially and include an inner diameter coil routed to an adjacent pole and brazed to an inner diameter coil of the adjacent pole and an outer diameter coil brazed to the bus bar.

An electric machine comprising a rotor having a rotor body. The rotor body has multiple poles each carrying at least one rotor winding formed from multiple conductor loops. The poles extend in a radial direction of the rotor and the conductor loops pass through slots each formed between two adjacent poles. A support element extending in the radial direction is arranged in each of the slots between the rotor windings of the adjacent poles. The support element applies pressure to the conductor loops when the rotor rotates and/or heats up. A pressure distribution element extending at least in portions in the radial direction along the support element and the adjacent rotor winding is arranged between the support element and the rotor windings, which pressure distribution element distributes the pressure applied by the support element onto the adjacent rotor winding.

A rotor includes an assembly of laminations including a plurality of radially-projecting poles, a winding of electrically conductive wires to be wound around each pole by means of wire-guiding heads arranged axially on either side of the lamination assembly. A guiding head support is inserted between the lamination assembly and each guiding head such that: an internal radial face of the support abuts against an external radial face at an axial end of the lamination assembly; and a peripheral surface of the support, which projects axially outward from the internal radial face of the support, is in contact with a contact face of the guiding head that is orientated radially outward from same, the guiding head abutting against the peripheral surface of the support.

A moving member of a machine can include a cold plate that serves as a primary structural member for the moving member. The cold plate can have one or more cooling channels formed within the cold plate. A plurality of armature windings can be fixed to the cold plate. One or more field windings can be fixed to the cold plate. A plurality of ferromagnetic cores can be fixed to the cold plate, each ferromagnetic core positioned within a loop of at least one of the plurality of armature windings. Other embodiments are described.

A rotor, in particular for a current-excited synchronous machine, is at least partly embedded in a potting compound. The rotor is equipped with at least one conductor element, which forms a winding and is connected to a current collecting element, wherein potting compound is provided at least between the current collecting element and the winding, and a connection section of the conductor element, the connection section extending between the winding and the current collecting element, is shielded from the potting compound by a decoupling element arranged at the connection section.