Dehlsen Associates, LLC

Gerald R Shannon, Jr

Patrick McCleer

Alan L McCall

A Vernier permanent magnet linear generator employs a translator having a plurality of translator modules oriented in a vertical array. At least a portion of the plurality of translator modules has permanent magnets. Supports at lateral edges of the plurality of translator modules and a rod connected to the supports attach the translator to a driving element. The driving element reciprocating the translator in a longitudinal direction. Two stators are supported on a reaction body oppositely spaced from the vertical array of translator modules by an air gap and offset by one half slot pitch. The stators have three phase integral-slot stator windings magnetically interacting with a magnetic field induced by the permanent magnets. A slot depth of the stators is configured such that an 11harmonic component of the magnetic field is saturated at a multiple value of a 1harmonic component.

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Jackson, MI, United States of America

Gerald R Shannon, Jr